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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces that it is shutting down following the loss of federal funding (CPB)
https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding…

Gary White, the #Buffalo custom hatter who made hats for Indiana Jones, The Untouchables, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and other films (and two for me), has died:
https://www.

Hats Off to Gary White, who Outfitted the stars with Custom Hats for Upwards of 50 Years - Buffalo Rising
Buffalo’s legendary custom hatter, Gary White, has passed away. White, who made hats for upwards of 50 years, was widely known for creating spec hats for the film industry, including notable films such as Dick Tracy, The Untouchables, Tombstone, and Indiana Jones. In a world where the art of making custom hats is becoming more and more obscure, Buffalo was certainly lucky to have Gary and his business – The Custom Hatter – around for so long. For decades, Gary

as a fairly literal child of public television, i'm definitely having some feelings about the destruction of the corporation for public broadcasting! (unlike many of my dad's films, i don't think this particular project was paid for by PBS/CFB but believe it aired there at least once.) #cfb #pbs

The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program.
During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,”
adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out
https://news.bloombe…

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding (CPB)
https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p72#a250801p72

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

The impact of the following vehicles behaviors on the car following behaviors of the ego-vehicle
Yang Liu, Jiahao Zhang, Yuxuan Ouyang, Huan Yu, Dengbo He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00452

The impact of the following vehicles behaviors on the car following behaviors of the ego-vehicle
Among all types of crashes, rear-end crashes dominate, which are closely related to the car-following (CF) behaviors. Traditional CF behavior models focused on the influence of the vehicle in front, but usually ignored the peer pressure from the surrounding road users, including the following vehicle (FV). Based on an open dataset, the highD dataset, we investigated whether the FV's states can affect the CF behavior of the ego-vehicle in CF events. Two types of CF events were extracted from hig…

#book2read: Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
https://a.co/d/fLuNixl
via Unabashed Faith: Resisting Anti-Spiritual Influences in the Modern World…

Whenever I find myself falling out of love with New York, or with life (virtually the same thing), I slip a copy of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems into my back pocket.
Today, I invite you see the world through Frank O’Hara’s New York eyes.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/way

Ways of Seeing: New York
An exercise in seeing inspired by poet Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems and the city of New York.

Wee one had gone home to his mam this afternoon. Out of the last 10 day he was here for eight of them. So husband and I decided to celebrate with a leisurely roundabout walk with a plan to have coffee on the way back.
Well, we were almost at the cafe when we saw a big gorgeously ecstatic dog bounding up to us. We then heard a man, who we couldn't see, calling the dog back. Man came out of a house and dog eagerly started following us so we stopped and waited.
Every time the m…