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 …
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/
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…
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 
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
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/