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Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith discusses the gift of failure, making small moves, and the enduring wisdom of Sun Ra.

Latvian prime minister on Trump's NATO deal and new Russia sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/latvian-prime-minister-on-trumps.html

Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (Li Yuan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/busines

‘Who Killed Love?’ A Video Game Plays to Male Resentment in China.
A popular and contentious game, Revenge on Gold Diggers, sheds light on misogyny, inequality and the feeling among many men that they are economic victims.

The UK's Channel 4 purchases a majority stake in a production company, Firecrest Films, for the first time; it will now be able to own British IP (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/channel-4-buys-firecrest-films-first-majorit…

Channel 4 Makes History By Taking First Ever Majority Stake In A Production Company
Channel 4 has bought Firecrest Films, the producer of 'Murder Trial' and its first ever majority stake in a production company.

HCOMC: A Hierarchical Cooperative On-Ramp Merging Control Framework in Mixed Traffic Environment on Two-Lane Highways
Tianyi Wang, Yangyang Wang, Jie Pan, Junfeng Jiao, Christian Claudel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11621

HCOMC: A Hierarchical Cooperative On-Ramp Merging Control Framework in Mixed Traffic Environment on Two-Lane Highways
Highway on-ramp merging areas are common bottlenecks to traffic congestion and accidents. Currently, a cooperative control strategy based on connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is a fundamental solution to this problem. While CAVs are not fully widespread, it is necessary to propose a hierarchical cooperative on-ramp merging control (HCOMC) framework for heterogeneous traffic flow on two-lane highways to address this gap. This paper extends longitudinal car-following models based on the int…

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/?utm_source=newsletter

Coworker 1: "I'll have you know there ARE normal people who graduated from HSG."
Me: "Never met any of 'em."
Coworker: "You met me! I'm here! Am I not normal?"
Me: "You are working in this department. If you were too normal, you wouldn't have been accepted here."
Coworker 2 and 3:
"Gooble Gobble one of us! Gooble Gobble one of us!"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
TOPS:
🎵 Falling on my Sword
#TOPS
https://tops.bandcamp.com/track/falling-on-my-sword
https://open.spotify.com/track/3t6xrRUy8FmhH7XH86RO1O

US officials provide contradictory statements on security guarantees, fueling uncertainty ahead of Trump-Zelensky meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/us-officials-provide-contradictory-statements.html

Sen. Josh Hawley launches a probe of Meta following a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids, tells Zuckerberg to produce docs by September 19 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/meta-ai-bot-child-investigation.html

Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI bot policies for children following damning report
Sen. Josh Hawley called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to preserve relevant materials, including emails.