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Fascinating how so many people in the retrocomputing community seem butthurt about those new Commodore products.
Just don’t buy them if you don’t like it—but for the love of Jack Tramiel stop with the shit-flinging.
Don’t you want more people to join the hobby? See more modern games and software for old platforms? More spare parts and mods for both old hardware and new?
What’s with this weird gatekeeping?

This is me (playing bass) with my first band ever called Rapa Nui. This was officially our first gig, although the first one happened a few months before this one, in Sarajevo, in front of the then-demolished Youth House.
Back then, I hated melodic punk, feeling the buzz from bands like Motorhead and different extreme metal and grindcore artists.
However, in 2016, I rediscovered an old favorite.
This is a story of how Bad Religion made me start listening to punk rock, an…

How I Started Believing in Bad Religion
For almost a decade, after their song You, made me fall in love with punk rock, I hated the band called Bad Religion. And then they turned out to be one of my favorites ever.

Ryan Flynn’s documentary “You’re No Indian”, about
"tribal disenrollment",
the controversial practice of removing Indigenous people from tribal roles, will debut at the "Dances With Films Festival" on June 28.
In the film, Flynn explores how tribal disenrollment has stripped over 11,000 Native American people of their tribal membership,
thereby erasing their identities, rights and connections to their communities.
Fueled by casino profits, p…

'You’re No Indian' Doc Exposes Tribal Disenrollment
You’re No Indian' Doc that Exposes the Human Rights Crisis Behind Tribal Disenrollment to Debut at Dances With Films

Bipedal Balance Control with Whole-body Musculoskeletal Standing and Falling Simulations
Chengtian Ma, Yunyue Wei, Chenhui Zuo, Chen Zhang, Yanan Sui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09383

Bipedal Balance Control with Whole-body Musculoskeletal Standing and Falling Simulations
Balance control is important for human and bipedal robotic systems. While dynamic balance during locomotion has received considerable attention, quantitative understanding of static balance and falling remains limited. This work presents a hierarchical control pipeline for simulating human balance via a comprehensive whole-body musculoskeletal system. We identified spatiotemporal dynamics of balancing during stable standing, revealed the impact of muscle injury on balancing behavior, and genera…

Amazon reorganizes its healthcare business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure, following executive departures and its struggles in the market (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/amazon-reorganizes-i…

Amazon reorganizes health-care business in latest bid to crack multitrillion-dollar market
Amazon is reorganizing its health-care business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure in a market where it's spent billions of dollars on acquisitions.

Tubi announces plans to distribute 20 films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684374/tubi-kickstarter-initiative

Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi
Tubi and Kickstarter are partnering to bring a selection of crowdfunded movies to the upstart streamer.

Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing across Russian border, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/former-wagner-fighter-seeks-asylum.html

In a way, the Titanic is like the Flying Dutchman of real life, a legendary ship doomed to tragedy, forever remembered in history and myth.
#Titanic #FlyingDutchman #POTC

Failure of Bott vanishing for (co)adjoint partial flag varieties
Pieter Belmans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09811 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Failure of Bott vanishing for (co)adjoint partial flag varieties
Bott vanishing is a strong vanishing result for the cohomology of exterior powers of the cotangent bundle twisted by ample line bundles. Buch-Thomsen-Lauritzen-Mehta conjectured that partial flag varieties (which are not products of projective spaces) do not satisfy Bott vanishing, despite all their other nice properties. The cominuscule case is an easy application of the Borel-Weil-Bott theorem, following results of Snow. We show that the (co)adjoint partial flag varieties of all classical and…

Hey Irish banks hows it goin?