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I’m a trains woman. I vastly prefer trains to flying or driving.
#trans #joke

A pitch deck from Palantir CTO and another Palantir exec has been circulated for Founders Films, a "patriotic" content production company aiming to raise money (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/20/2025

‘Founders Films’ aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand
The company’s proposed projects celebrate American military action, push for confrontation with China, and elevate heroes of the right from Ayn Rand to Elon Musk.

Novel Feelings
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Filling the Gap for Uzbek: Creating Translation Resources for Southern Uzbek
Mukhammadsaid Mamasaidov, Azizullah Aral, Abror Shopulatov, Mironshoh Inomjonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14586

Filling the Gap for Uzbek: Creating Translation Resources for Southern Uzbek
Southern Uzbek (uzs) is a Turkic language variety spoken by around 5 million people in Afghanistan and differs significantly from Northern Uzbek (uzn) in phonology, lexicon, and orthography. Despite the large number of speakers, Southern Uzbek is underrepresented in natural language processing. We present new resources for Southern Uzbek machine translation, including a 997-sentence FLORES+ dev set, 39,994 parallel sentences from dictionary, literary, and web sources, and a fine-tuned NLLB-200 …

BREAKTHROUGH: Belgian Authorities Arrest and Interrogate Israeli War Crimes Suspects Following Complaint by Hind Rajab Foundation and GLAN - THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
https://www.hindr…

Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness (in opossums) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651847v1 "underscoring the role of experience in directing compensatory plasticity following early s…

Experts: Felony rioting charges for journalists covering protests are rare, troubling (Quinlan Bentley/Cincinnati.com)
https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/07/22/reporters-face-felonies-after-roebling-bridge-protest/85322385007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p124#a250722p124

Just had a video call with @… from Gaza. Like every family there, they need your help to survive.
Our governments have failed us, we are the only ones who can help. Your donations go directly to keeping families like Aseel’s alive as they struggle to survive Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
Please help Aseel and her family if you can.

Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza. I'm creating this Chuffed campaign for the family to help afford these things and hopefully help them get out of Gaza when the opportunity arises. Here's Aseel's writing:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Ozzy Osbourne:
🎵 Flying High Again
#OzzyOsbourne
https://masterslosey.bandcamp.com/track/flying-high-again-ozzy-osbourne-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VPcxdwwo9TcjAOYZa5ZrP

The Texans takeover on downs following Kaitlyn Reynolds' key PBU https://www.nfl.com/videos/the-texans-takeover-on-downs-following-kaitlyn-reynolds-key-pbu