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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

ON November 20th Pentagon officials traveled to Kyiv to present Volodymyr Zelensky with a much-ballyhooed peace proposal,
hatched mostly in secret in the preceding weeks.
A flurry of briefings and leaks has yet to clarify what the document actually represents:
a comprehensive plan,
a roadmap for further discussions
or a preliminary brainstorming sheet.
An American official in Kyiv nonetheless said it would be pursued “aggressively”,
and some have s…

Looking for a book on the rules of baseball in Mi'kmawi'simk (the language of the Mi'kmaq)? This one was written by a Capuchin missionary born and raised in France. In the words of one scholar, baseball was, at least in the 20th century, "the great Mi'kmaw passtime."
[Pacifique de Valigny], Altjematimgeoel (1912)
https://w…

This reminds me of how truth is just whatever monster people decide to follow.
#Fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Télépopmusik:
🎵 Breathe
#Télépopmusik
https://telepopmusik.bandcamp.com/album/breathe-ep-20th-anniversary
https://open.spotify.com/track/0uKrhHBDUQ4w5fv4qwOubP

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

Anthropic launched Claude Code for web 20th October 2025
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/claude-code-for-web/
It’s an asynchronous coding agent
—their answer to
OpenAI’s Codex Cloud

Claude Code for web—a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic
Anthropic launched Claude Code for web this morning. It’s an asynchronous coding agent—their answer to OpenAI’s Codex Cloud and Google’s Jules, and has a very similar shape. I had preview …

Q&A with former Xbox boss Peter Moore on the Xbox 360 launch, his new book Game Changer, competition with Sony, the origins of the modern console war, and more (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-was-af

"Microsoft was afraid Sony was going to own the living room" - Xbox 360 boss Peter Moore sheds new light on its fierce battle with PlayStation and the origins of the modern console war
To celebrate the Xbox 360's 20th anniversary, Eurogamer sits down with former Xbox boss Peter Moore to reflect on the console's creation and puglistic launch.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- A Very Christmas Radical: Jonathan Harvey
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Kate and Gillian explore radical music for the festive season.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ngbd

Today is #WorldStatisticsDay, and the 20th anniversary of the European Statistics Code of Practice (CoP). This is a code of conduct that ensures that official statistics in Europe are produced and made available independently, with high data quality and according to the same standards:

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band open a 2-night superbill at winterland, their only time playing there, along with the keith & donna band & weir’s kingfish. all dead members present minus lesh & hart, though the only sit-ins happen on the 20th.
soundboard: https://archive.org/de…

Korsukov Appointed Commander of 20th Army Corps: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/17/korsukov-appointed-commander-of-th.html

When it's observable that the very rich are steadily growing richer while the vast majority of people are growing poorer, it's obvious that the tax system is not neutral: it is actively redistributing wealth upwards. For the tax system to be neutral, it MUST tax the very rich much more. To do so is not redistributive, at least until it actively causes a net movement of wealth towards the poor: rather it is simply neutral.

How Has Inequality Changed? - Equality Trust
Levels of inequality changed dramatically over the course of the 20th century. Overall income inequality fell from a high point in the 1930s, remained fairly static until 1979, and then increased dramatically from 1979 to 1991. Since 1991, the trend has been more volatile, affected by Great Recession of the late 2000s and the Covid-19 […]

Marcedes Lewis, 41-year-old tight end, signing with Broncos' practice squad in 20th NFL season https://www.nfl.com/news/marcedes-lewis-broncos-practice-squad-41-year-old-tight-end-20th-nfl-season

The programme returns LIVE this Monday, October 20th at 8pm EDT! Tune in over at UncertainFM

Moody Urbanity - Odes III 🎵
情绪化城市 - 颂 III 🎵
📷 Zeiss Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Good Morning #Canada
Did you know that Interac, the Big Brother organization that knows if you're naughty or nice based on your shopping habits, tracks the busiest shopping day of the year? According to their data, Canadians are apparently getting smarter. A decade ago, December 23rd was traditionally the busiest day of the year for retailers based on how many debit and credit cards they swiped. About 5 years ago it began to shift to earlier in the month and in 2025 December 19th was forecasted to be the pinnacle of purchasing. Maybe we ran out of money 4 days earlier.
How prepared are you for #Christmas? Not including food prep, how organized are you for choosing gifts and getting them wrapped and ready? Please take part in our highly scientific survey below and please boost for a larger data sample.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ReadyOrNot
#POLL - My Christmas gifts are selected, wrapped, and ready for Santa to take credit by this date:
Always before December 1st (Liar)
By December 15th at least
December 20th at the latest
Can't think right now... busy wrapping...

✊🏿 How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
#politics

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the 20th century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

#TimeTraveler has an iPhone?

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Télépopmusik:
🎵 Breathe
#NowPlaying #Télépopmusik
https://telepopmusik.bandcamp.com/album/breathe-ep-20th-anniversary
https://open.spotify.com/track/0uKrhHBDUQ4w5fv4qwOubP

“there is no law, there is just power”
This right-wing philosopher's 20th century playbook explains everything Donald Trump does - Alternet.org
https://archive.ph/wl92W#selection-885.23-885.61

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- Harry Partch: Ancient Greece, carpentry and hearing between the lines
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Kate explores the homemade instruments and microtonal sounds of Harry Partch.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kqbw

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

this soundtrack of the 1967 dudley moore flick "bedazzled" is not only great, it's amazing: the music is written and performed by dudley moore, so now i absolutely have to see this movie

Upcoming #SanFrancisco appearance of #Enshittification author Cory Doctorow announced at Public Works in #SFMission with Jenny Odell of The Booksmith, Monday Oct 20th 7p

I made connections between Frantz Fanon's idea of "psychic alienation" and Rollo May's view of the potentialities of power before realizing that they were contemporaries, both psychiatrists, and probably communicated with each other at some point in their lives
Then I remembered that Hannah Arendt and Isaac Asimov were ALSO contemporaries in the mid 20th century.
Of the four, it is wild to see how Asimov is so clearly outclassed in his understanding of human int…

Metaplectic time-frequency representations
Gianluca Giacchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09322 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09322

Metaplectic time-frequency representations
Time-frequency representations stemmed in 1932 with the introduction of the Wigner distribution. For most of the 20th century, research in this area primarily focused on defining joint probability distributions for position and momentum in quantum mechanics. Applications to electrical engineering were soon established with the seminal works of Gabor and the researchers at Bell Labs. In 2012, Bai, Li and Cheng used for the first time metaplectic operators, defined in the middle of 20th century b…

Proceedings Twentieth International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice
Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria, France), Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho (Imperial College, UK)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11199

Proceedings Twentieth International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice
These are the contributed papers presented at the 20th International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP 2025), at Birmingham, UK on 19 July as a satellite event of the FSCD conference. The program committee for this edition of LFMTP was chaired by Kaustuv Chaudhuri and Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho. More information about LFMTP can be found on https://lfmtp.org.

displays his 62 cream-colored ceramic English pudding molds from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Reminder that the words “moron” and “imbecile” have direct roots in the 20th century eugenicist movement, so maybe don’t use them

Schools, Skills and Community: Education in Northampton, 1913–1924 https://edintone.com/schools-education/ In the early 20th century, the increasing demands for a skilled workforce required investment. @…

Schools, Skills and Community: Education in Northampton, 1913–1924 - Miscellanea Edintone
In the early 20th century, the increasing demands for a skilled workforce required investment in education, both formal iinformal, in Northampton.

Did I mention IC reversing is absolute crack for AuDHD brains?
I should probably put down the EEPROM, at least for a while, and move on to other stuff. But I'm having too much fun.
This is the dangerous part, and the part I have the most trouble with... the problem is so big you'll *never* be done (especially doing it manually without any automation, figuring out what each cell is by hand, etc).
There's always more to discover. Nerd sniping to the 20th power.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
T. Rex:
🎵 20th Century Boy
#TRex
https://cantautorepsicopatico.bandcamp.com/track/t-rex-20th-century-boy-oncoming-martian-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/1y5LL9dpLXbCXNKKqw5wCJ

"If there is one magic ingredient for Switzerland’s enduring economic success, I found, it is that its businesses often combine blue-collar know-how with white-collar innovation. Switzerland, like Germany, built its 20th-century industrial economy on training and valuing all types of workers—those that work with their hands and those that work at a desk."

20TH PACKAGE OF SANCTIONS! Will Ukraine receive Russia's FROZEN ASSETS?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/th-package-of-sanctions-will.html

"Scientists shocked to find marine life thriving on World War II explosives in the Baltic Sea"
#BalticSea #Oceans #Environment

Marine life found thriving on WWII explosives in the Baltic Sea
German waters alone contain about 1.5 million metric tonnes of dumped weapons, mostly from the two world wars in the 20th century.

Frank Gehry,
one of the most influential architects of the 20th century,
has died aged 96.
Renowned for his deconstructivist style,
Gehry designed many iconic structures such as L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall and the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.
He died at his Santa Monica home after a brief respiratory illness, Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP, said in a statement.

Frank Gehry Dead At 96: Renowned Architect Dies At Home After Brief Illness
Frank Gehry, one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, has died aged 96.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Télépopmusik:
🎵 Breathe
#NowPlaying #Télépopmusik
https://telepopmusik.bandcamp.com/album/breathe-ep-20th-anniversary
https://open.spotify.com/track/0uKrhHBDUQ4w5fv4qwOubP

'Bound to browsable' - love this detailed overview of the work that goes into making specific formats (like magazines) more findable in online catalogues https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/09/unlocking-historical-media-publications/

Bound to Browsable: Unlocking the Historical Media Publications Collection | The Signal
This post details the exciting transformation of the Historical Media Publications Collection, a challenging digital collection of historical media industry magazines spanning the late 19th to mid-20th century. Expanding online presentation from dense bound volumes into searchable, issue-level resources, this collaborative project improved discoverability and usability of this collection and set a foundation for working with other serialized content though innovative new workflows and next-gene…

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: [V.O.] Make sure we stay that way.
GAN: I'll try not to drop off.
JENNA: Well, that's all right, assuming they haven't got a fix on us from the ground by now.
BLAKE: No, it'd be raining plasma bolts if they had.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/140

Kim Munro has written a short report on the screenwriting & filmmaking event I was just at in Adelaide! It gives you a glimpse of the experience and what I spoke about. 🙂
Report for The International Journal of Creative Media Research: https://ijcmr.online/2/announcement/view/6

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead open their 20th anniversary fall tour, their 1st trip to #florida in 3 years & final visit to @thoughtsonGD@twitter.com’s beloved hollywood sportatorium.
soundboard:

The second album by the Darkness is a criminally underrated masterpiece, and a monument to the grandiosity of Rock.
20th anniversary special edition is out!
#music #rock #classic

Not really newsworthy, but this announcement from Leaseweb feels a bit 20th century:
[...] an upcoming update to the Customer Portal Secret Management page. We have introduced a new feature that restricts the use of certain special characters in key names for improved security.
Allowed special characters: ,_ . / - ? & =
(Alphanumeric characters remain fully supported.)
Examples:
* Allowed: Key&123
* Not allowed: Key@123
* Not allowed: Key#123

In 1988, Vienna had its lowest population in the 20th century and threatened to sink into gray-beige provinciality.

EU's 20th sanctions package against Russia to be prepared 'within a month,' Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/eus-th-sanctions-package-against.html

New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies - BACLS Grad Conference 2026 (University of Leeds, 20th May 2026)
https://ift.tt/MSNZY9d
updated: Friday, November 7, 2025 - 3:34pmfull name / name of organization: British Association for…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Happy 20th Anniversary, “Truthiness”
It’s probably even more relevant to this decade’s technology than last decade’s politics
#colbert #truthiness #ai

What day is the peak of birth in France?
Nathalie Blanpain (INSEE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06234

What day is the peak of birth in France?
Over the last ten years, from 2015 to 2024, the day with the highest average number of births was on the 20th of July, while Christmas Day recorded the fewest. Apart from July, a noticeable concentration of births occurred in late September, reflecting conceptions that took place during the end of year holidays. Births tended to be less frequent on weekends and public holidays. Since the 1970s, France's ``baby season'' shifted from spring to summer. From 1975 to 2010, heat waves were most often…

During much of the 20th century, the town’s residents were forced to fan out across Europe in search of work, said Venancio Cuenca Lopéz, the head of a local retiree association.
“Some of them had papers, but some had no papers, no job offers, nothing,” he said
“We can’t say: ‘Well we did it, but now we’re against it.’ We’re all human beings, we need to have some empathy.”

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Brian Jackson:
🎵 It's Your World (6 Music Session, 20th July 2025)
#BrianJackson
https://chrisbaxtermusic.bandcamp.com/track/brian-jackson-its-your-world-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0iRopWFR87lMESKFtcs3Md

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:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- György Ligeti: Complexity, alienation, horror
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. In this episode, Gillian finds tangled webs, humour and terror in music by György Ligeti.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kdh9

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

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

Moody Urbanity - Old & New V 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 V 🔆
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Proceedings Twentieth International Symposium on Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications
Haniel Barbosa, Christophe Ringeissen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23739 https:/…

Proceedings Twentieth International Symposium on Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications
This volume contains the proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2025), which was held in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, from October 7 to October 8, 2025. The aim of the LSFA series of workshops is bringing together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, from the theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and use of such techniques and results, from the practical side. LSFA includes areas such as …

New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies - BACLS Grad Conference 2026 (University of Leeds, 20th May 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/07/new-work-in-contemporary-literary-studies-bacls-g…

Happy 20th Anniversary, “Truthiness”
It’s probably even more relevant to this decade’s technology than last decade’s politics
#colbert #truthiness #ai

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Sources: Lewis, 41, signs with TE-thin Broncos https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46770337/broncos-sign-te-marcedes-lewis-41-practice-squad

#OTD in 1993 I recall I caught Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys with the BarnStompers from Holland at an after hours warehouse party decorated with haybales at 21st an Harrison in SF. I recall the door man was a sketchy white supremacist redneck, who objected to letting in a person of color I came with.... The more things change, the more things do stay the same in this country.

Evolution du Principe d'Exclusion Comp\'etitive : Le r\^ole des math\'ematiques
Claude Lobry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03158 https://arxiv.org…

Evolution du Principe d'Exclusion Compétitive : Le rôle des mathématiques
Everyone can see that over the last 150 years, theoretical ecology has become considerably more mathematical. But what is the nature of this phenomenon? Are mathematics applied, as in the use of statistical tests, for example, or are they involved, as in physics, where laws cannot be expressed without them? Through the history of the {\em Competitive Exclusion Principle} formulated at the very beginning of the 20th century by the naturalist Grinnell concerning the distribution of brown-backed c…

Between February 12th and 15th, the U.S. sent 299 people—from countries such as Afghanistan, Cameroon, Somalia, and Iran—to Panama. On February 20th and 25th, the U.S. sent an additional 200 people, including 81 children, to Costa Rica. Soon afterward came third-country-deportation flights to Uzbekistan and El Salvador, where more than 250 non-Salvadoran immigrants were detained in the brutal Terrorism Confinement Center.

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries such as South Sudan, Ghana, and Eswatini, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.



Both Quikscript and Shavian were essentially the results of a design competition,
sponsored--posthumously--by playwright George Bernard Shaw,
who laid out the terms in his will.
Shaw wanted someone to create an ideal phonetic alphabet for English that trumped Pitman shorthand.
British designer Ronald Kingsley Read, a finalist in the 1960s competition, designed both Quikscript and Shavian, the latter being named in Shaw's honor

Here are 50 Different Written Languages. Can You Tell Which are Fake? - Core77
Below are examples of 50 different written languages. Unless you're Indiana Jones, I doubt you'll recognize more than a handful. However, of these 50 scripts, five of them are contrived 20th Century creations. Two of them are shorthand-style phonetic alphabets designed for English; one of them is an ideographic writing

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- Anthony Braxton: Agency and ancestry
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Kate explores the underground, complex, systematic music of Anthony Braxton.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mk25

International Colloquium “The history of the Society of Jesus in the ‘writing of history’”
https://ift.tt/25F0Opr
Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
via Input 4 RELCFP

International Colloquium “The history of the Society of Jesus in the ‘writing of history’”
https://ift.tt/JkcfSwI
Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
via Input 4 RELCFP

International Colloquium “The history of the Society of Jesus in the ‘writing of history’” https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20126730/international-colloquium-history-society-jesus-writing-history

International Colloquium “The history of the Society of Jesus in the ‘writing of history’” https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20126729/international-colloquium-history-society-jesus-writing-history