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🔥Trump said that he’s considering invoking the Insurrection Act,
a 19th-century law which would allow him to federalize the national guard, on the grounds of an “invasion” or “rebellion”.
🔥On Monday, a federal judge did not immediately block the president’s move to deploy national guard troops, including hundreds from Texas, to Chicago.
Instead, the judge set a hearing for Thursday,
leaving room for the military to make their way to the windy city as soon as today.

In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/blpl

blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs
Search for, view and download 300 years of theatre posters from Great Britain and Ireland, 1600–1902.

Ahh, the Orange Order, living in the 19th century but fervently hoping for a quick return the the 17th.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/11/06/orange-order-sends-letter-of-complaint-to-king-charles-a…

Orange Order sends letter of complaint to King Charles after he prayed with Pope Leo
Vatican visit marked first joint worship with a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since Henry VIII’s rule

The US supreme court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of Donald Trump’s executive order to heavily restrict the right to birthright citizenship,
the long-held constitutional principle that individuals born on US soil are automatically United States citizens.
The order was a contentious part of the administration’s bigoted immigration crackdown
– and a step that would transform the interpretation of a 19th-century constitutional provision.
Multiple judges across…

Hot take: "AI in everything" belongs to the same trend as using radioactive materials, mercury and arsenic in skin care products instead of reactors, thermometers and chemistry.
Programmers with "mandatory workplace AI" are the new Radium girls.
#IT

The dawn of alchemical free-energy methods in biomolecular simulations
Daniele Macuglia, Giovanni Ciccotti, Beno\^it Roux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04917 https://

The dawn of alchemical free-energy methods in biomolecular simulations
From the onset of fundamental statistical mechanical constructs formulated in the late 19th century, alchemical free-energy methods slowly emerged and transitioned to become operational tools of biomolecular simulation applicable to a wide range of problems including protein-ligand binding for drug discovery research. This article reconstructs how statistical mechanical approaches such as thermodynamic integration and free-energy perturbation were reconfigured in the early 1980's to address the…

found a website about 17th to 19th century dance patterns
https://danceinhistory.com/tag/marie-therese-de-subligny/

No joke I’ve read multiple documents that argued the Roman Empire was too tolerant and allowed for too much ethnic mixing, which was why they thought Italians in the late 19th / early 20th century were a threat to white purity….
They were literally justifying their prejudice with history that was many centuries old. (Also how did none of them consider that the Roman Empire reached territories that would become Britain and France and Germany too? It’s not like their ancestors were somehow exempt from this supposed ethnic mixing.)

This week's #Halloween special episoode of @… radio revisits Dr. Carmel Raz on 19th Century Spiritualists summoning up Ghostly #Accordion players! 👻
Al…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-22: Dr. Carmel Raz Seances, Sperrits, and Ghostly Accordions Halloween 2025 Remix
NOTE SPECIAL EARLY SHOW NEXT WEEK: WED. OCT 29, 9 PM-MID.Accordion Noir: Squeeze into the Long Nights: Drone & Experimental AccordionShould just roll out on your podcast as an extra-long 3-hour…

#TimeTraveler has an iPhone?

There are arguably discrete acts of hypocrisy by earlier presidents, who claimed exceptions from international laws in the pursuit of US interests, but mostly embraced global norms in the knowledge that the “rules-based system” overwhelmingly favoured America.
Trump has complete disdain for that system. He looks at the world through the eyes of a 19th-century imperialist, but with 21st-century weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Looking forward to reading this! “Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction”, Journal of Computational Literary Studies4(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4164
By Guhr, S., Monaco, J., Sherman, A., Warner, M. & Algee-Hewitt, M

Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction
We introduce a novel approach to detecting domestic space in literary texts beyond explicit spatial markers like “home” or “house.” Using a pre-trained English BERT model fine-tuned on manually annotated passages from a corpus of 19th-century British and Irish novels, we develop a method to operationalize and quantify domesticity in fiction. Our model captures the nuances of domestic space by analyzing contextual and relational cues rather than relying solely on toponymic and other expl…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMap
- A journey to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1
Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps the musical landscape surrounding JS Bach's Cello Suite No.1, including the junk shops of late 19th century Barcelona where the score was 'rediscovered'.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mcn9

A lovely day touring around central Aberdeen. Here is Marischal College, an enormous 19th century granite building. The stonework is quite delicate, almost lacey albeit with simpler shapes.

Introduction to quantitative De Giorgi methods
Giovanni Brigati, Cl\'ement Mouhot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11481 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11481

Introduction to quantitative De Giorgi methods
The theory of De Giorgi (1958) and Nash (1959) solves Hilbert's 19th problem and constitutes a major advance in the analysis of PDEs in the 20th century. This theory concerns the Hölder regularity of solutions to elliptic and parabolic equations with non-regular coefficients, and it was extended by Moser (1960) to include the Harnack inequality. This course reviews the classical De Giorgi method in the elliptic and parabolic cases and introduces its recent extension to hypoelliptic equations w…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Icons of British Light Music
Donald Macleod explores how light music emerged from the theatre pits of late-19th-century Britain and began to find audiences in concert halls, music halls and at home.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pv1g

This week's #Halloween special episoode of @… radio revisits Dr. Carmel Raz on 19th Century Spiritualists summoning up Ghostly #Accordion players! 👻
Also note next week's Oct 29th 3-hr #Drone #ExperimentalMusic 🪗 fundraiser show starts early from 9PM–Mid
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/accordion-noir-2025-10-22-dr-carmel-raz-seances-sperrits-and-ghostly-accordions-halloween-2025-remix/