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It's Friday, and that means it's time for #LetterboxdFriday. Watched a bunch this week, but my #Last4Watched here is a mix.. free to watch on YouTube stuff - some short, some not - some strange 70s stuff, etc. Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds is super weird, man 😂 And finally, the making of Wil…

I just opened the #Xbox app on my tablet and was stopped by a full-screen notification about CoPilot for gaming being in there. I'm sure that will divert attention from how leadership completely bungled the last couple of generations and current slow strangulation of the platform.
I just realized today that if I wanted to play Mass Effect Legendary Edition I could either play on Game …

100 of the ~280 linden trees of #Mäkelänkatu in #Helsinki have been cut. Some of the last trunks are being removed right now.
Judging from the growth rings, some of these trees were about 50 years old and had their best days a few decades ago, but also some good summers recently. Trees rarely…

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Day 20: bell hooks.
Despite having decided to continue to 30, number 20 feels important, and hooks gets the spot in part because I haven't yet included a non-fiction feminist author, which feels like an obvious thing to include on such a list. The one category of author being bumped out of the first 20 here is anime writers, but I'll follow up with one of them, along with more academics and mangaka who I've been itching to include.
In any case, hooks is absolutely legendary as a feminist writer for good reason, and as a teacher I've especially appreciated her writing on pedagogy like "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom". These have challenged me to teach at a higher level, and while I'm not sure I've completely succeeded, they're important to me. They also pair well with Paolo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", but hooks always seems to be focused on very practical advice and it's incredibly direct in her writing, even though her advice isn't always straightforward to implement. In fact, that's one of the things I value about her writing: when the truth is complicated or the real work is messy interpersonal relationships that need to be negotiated with each student, she's not afraid to say so and give good advice for navigating those waters instead of trying to dispense simple-seeming platitudes or formulas for success that paper over the deeper issues. Her concern has always been truth, rather than simplicity or audience comfort and the popularity it might seem to entail, which I think is part of why her legacy endures so well.
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In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

Replaced article(s) found for math.SG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.SG/new
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- Non-decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian knots
Roman Golovko, Daniel Kom\'arek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08731 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathSG_bot/115541377678336506
- Spaces of Legendrian cables and Seifert fibered links
Eduardo Fern\'andez, Hyunki Min
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12385 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathGT_bot/111265563434686287
- Almost Hermitian structures on virtual moduli spaces of non-Abelian monopoles and applications to...
Paul M. N. Feehan, Thomas G. Leness
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13809 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/113327305560976416
- Quantum cohomology, shift operators, and Coulomb branches
Ki Fung Chan, Kwokwai Chan, Chin Hang Eddie Lam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23340 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAG_bot/114595582234065991
- One application of Duistermaat-Heckman measure in quantum information theory
Lin Zhang, Xiaohan Jiang, Bing Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02369 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114794376818737255
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