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Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts
-- under fire for a video he posted defending Tucker Carlson for his friendly interview with white supremacist talker Nick Fuentes
-- has reassigned his chief of staff to another position.
In an email to the conservative think tank’s staff on Friday,
Roberts announced that Heritage’s executive vice president, Derrick Morgan, had been tapped to replace Ryan Neuhaus as chief of staff.
In the controversial video posted on X …

Exclusive: Heritage Reassigns Chief of Staff Following Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes Fallout
The conservative think tank’s executive vice president, Derrick Morgan, has been tapped to replace Ryan Neuhaus as chief of staff.

Tonight I'll be doing a bit of ambient sounds djing at the opening of a Ruth Orkin exhibition at Künstlerhaus Nürnberg, 7-10pm and today you got the chance to see her intense photography for free.
https://independent-photo.com/news/ruth-orkin/

Ruth Orkin | The Independent Photographer
One of the finest photographers of her time, Ruth Orkin was an award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker, whose deeply absorbing images capture the charm and intrigue of quotidian life.

that was a really fun night
#deltron3030

this is worth reading, even if you have no interest in hearing about Ezra Klein (I sure didn't): it's only using him as a paradigmatic case in how a lot of us are feeling lost.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-have-to-swallow-frogs…

Sources: after earlier suing CBS over 60 Minutes, Trump is set to be interviewed for the show by Norah O'Donnell, following David Ellison's Paramount purchase (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/31/2025/trump-to…

Trump to sit with CBS News in first interview after lawsuit
The US president is set to sit down with CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell on Friday afternoon, Semafor has learned.

Better Than "Better Than Nothing": Design Strategies for Enculturated Empathetic AI Robot Companions for Older Adults
Isabel Pedersen, Andrea Slane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01192

Better Than "Better Than Nothing": Design Strategies for Enculturated Empathetic AI Robot Companions for Older Adults
The paper asserts that emulating empathy in human-robot interaction is a key component to achieve satisfying social, trustworthy, and ethical robot interaction with older people. Following comments from older adult study participants, the paper identifies a gap. Despite the acceptance of robot care scenarios, participants expressed the poor quality of the social aspect. Current human-robot designs, to a certain extent, neglect to include empathy as a theorized design pathway. Using rhetorical t…

Getting noise in the right channel of my amp. I assumed it was a failing tube, but no such luck. It's got to be one of the electrolytics. Going in. #tubeamp

This is a minor annoyance and I’m interested in identifying it as well as exploring solutions.
I frequently mistype (or write) double letters by doubling an adjacent letter & singularizing the should be double letter.
examples:
Booby for Bobby (my pal Bob HATES this)
noddle for noodle
felling for feeling
Could be Dysgraphia or related to Dyslexia.
I'd appreciate pointers to articles / tests, and any other help.
cc/ @…

Hybrid pipe dreams for the lower-upper scheme
Allen Knutson, Paul Zinn-Justin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01857 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01857

Hybrid pipe dreams for the lower-upper scheme
In [KU23] were introduced hybrid pipe dreams interpolating between classic and bumpless pipe dreams, each hybridization giving a different formula for double Schubert polynomials. A bijective proof was given (following [GH23]) of the independence of hybridization, but only for nonequivariant Schubert polynomials. In this paper we further generalize to hybrid generic pipe dreams, replacing the bijective proof of hybridization-independence with a Yang-Baxter-based proof that allows one to maintai…

An interview with Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman on movies that inspired him, too-short theatrical windows, Letterboxd's influence, and more (Mia Lee Vicino/Letterboxd)
https://letterboxd.com/journal/tom-rothman-sony-interview/

Executive Decisions: Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman tells us why the future of film is on Letterboxd • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman talks to Mia Lee Vicino about his scrappy indie roots, championing visionary filmmakers like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino, and why Letterboxd is the way of the future.