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The dedication from the first edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, by Charles Silverstein and Edmund White. Love the contrast here: Charles dedicates it to his partner, White "to all my tricks"

Niedawno popełniłem byłem błąd, i wziąłem się za tarcie czekolady na tarce. Pierwotny plan był taki, żeby zetrzeć całą tabliczkę, na zapas. Skończyło się na niewielkim odcinku.
Następnym razem zmądrzałem i użyłem po prostu dużego noża. Trochę boli nadgarstek, ale cała tabliczka jest teraz w pojemniku.

The origins of large-scale structure in family networks
Lasse Mohr, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Sune Lehmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02336 https://arxiv.org…

The origins of large-scale structure in family networks
Family relations are the most fundamental of all social networks and encompass everyone. Family networks grow as individuals have children, creating connections between families, which over time creates large and complex structures. While partner-choice homophily has been proposed as a key driver in this growth process, little is known about the connection between individual behavior and the emergent large-scale structure of family networks. Here, we analyze a unique population-complete family …

Calamus 19 Mind you the timid models of the rest, the majority?
A declaration of intellectual independence and a celebration of brotherly love. Honestly this poem feels a little clumsy to me, I can see why Whitman struck the awkward introducing lines in later editions.
As always, looking for the gay content:
Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting, kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love.
And I, in the public room, or on the crossing of the street, or on the ship's deck, kiss him in return
We observe that salute of American comrades
But I can't in all honestly read this use of "kissing" as erotic. Here the public kissing and the "salute of comrades" makes me think it's more of a fraternal kiss.
Which doesn't exclude a romantic kiss as well, or an erotic one. What's so vital about Calamus is how Whitman blends masculine sexual love with the love of comrades. I think both meanings are latent in every poem.

Multimodal, Multi-Disease Medical Imaging Foundation Model (MerMED-FM)
Yang Zhou, Chrystie Wan Ning Quek, Jun Zhou, Yan Wang, Yang Bai, Yuhe Ke, Jie Yao, Laura Gutierrez, Zhen Ling Teo, Darren Shu Jeng Ting, Brian T. Soetikno, Christopher S. Nielsen, Tobias Elze, Zengxiang Li, Linh Le Dinh, Lionel Tim-Ee Cheng, Tran Nguyen Tuan Anh, Chee Leong Cheng, Tien Yin Wong, Nan Liu, Iain Beehuat Tan, Tony Kiat Hon Lim, Rick Siow Mong Goh, Yong Liu, Daniel Shu Wei Ting

Multimodal, Multi-Disease Medical Imaging Foundation Model (MerMED-FM)
Current artificial intelligence models for medical imaging are predominantly single modality and single disease. Attempts to create multimodal and multi-disease models have resulted in inconsistent clinical accuracy. Furthermore, training these models typically requires large, labour-intensive, well-labelled datasets. We developed MerMED-FM, a state-of-the-art multimodal, multi-specialty foundation model trained using self-supervised learning and a memory module. MerMED-FM was trained on 3.3 mi…

Latent-X: An Atom-level Frontier Model for De Novo Protein Binder Design
Latent Labs Team, Alex Bridgland, Jonathan Crabb\'e, Henry Kenlay, Daniella Pretorius, Sebastian M. Schmon, Agrin Hilmkil, Rebecca Bartke-Croughan, Robin Rombach, Michael Flashman, Tomas Matteson, Simon Mathis, Alexander W. R. Nelson, David Yuan, Annette Obika, Simon A. A. Kohl
https:/…

Latent-X: An Atom-level Frontier Model for De Novo Protein Binder Design
Traditional drug discovery relies on rounds of screening millions of candidate molecules with low success rates, making drug discovery time and resource intensive. To overcome this screening bottleneck, we introduce Latent-X, an all-atom protein design model that enables a new paradigm of precision AI design. Given a target protein epitope, Latent-X jointly generates the all atom structure and sequence of the protein binder and target, directly modelling the non-covalent interactions essential …

Spin-charge bound states and emerging fermions in a quantum spin liquid
Jens H. Nyhegn, Kristian Knakkergaard Nielsen, Leon Balents, Georg M. Bruun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02508

Spin-charge bound states and emerging fermions in a quantum spin liquid
The complex interplay between charge and spin dynamics lies at the heart of strongly correlated quantum materials, and it is a fundamental topic in basic research with far reaching technological perspectives. We explore in this paper the dynamics of holes in a single band extended $t-J$ model where the background spins form a $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ quantum spin liquid (QSL). Using a field theory approach based on a parton construction, we show that while the electrons for most momenta fractionalize i…

The Teacher's Dilemma: Balancing Trade-Offs in Programming Education for Emergent Bilingual Students
Emma R. Dodoo, Tamara Nelson-Fromm, Mark Guzdial
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14147

The Teacher's Dilemma: Balancing Trade-Offs in Programming Education for Emergent Bilingual Students
K-12 computing teachers must navigate complex trade-offs when selecting programming languages and instructional materials for classrooms with emergent bilingual students. While they aim to foster an inclusive learning environment by addressing language barriers that impact student engagement, they must also align with K-12 computer science curricular guidelines and prepare students for industry-standard programming tools. Because programming languages predominantly use English keywords and most…

A friend of mine last night told me about how his lover died of AIDS in 1994. And before he died, he had a port installed to more easily administer medication directly to his heart. Another friend also had a port installed in 1994 for AIDS treatment. That friend survived another year until the antiretrovirals became available and he is still alive today. My friend's partner died.

Calamus 32 What think you...
A funny gotcha of a poem: Whitman starts by suggesting he is going to write about battleships, or cities, or "splendors". But then he switches gears:
two simple men I saw to-day ... parting the parting of dear friends
And then goes into fully romantic
The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and passionately kissed him,
While the one to depart, tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.
Hot, right? A passionate kiss, a tight embrace, never wanting to let go.
Again I am astonished that a poem this gay would be published in 1860. Or that generations of bloodless scholars would sputter and say "they were just pals".