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Officially an engraver and accorded the lowly status thereof,
William Blake devoted his labors to realizing his elaborately idiosyncratic visions using images and words together in ways that no artist had done before.
Blake swam against the current “of modern human understanding, whose bedrock is the principle of specialization.”
Today, nearly two centuries after his death, that principle still obtains -- and in some ways more rigidly than ever.
But his work remains,

The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake
William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a printmaker, at least insofar as he wrote poetry, painted paintings, and made prints.

Staged publishing for npm! Finally 🙏
I'm only just starting to test it now, but in theory at least this trusted publishing could very significantly tighten up the security posture for lots of packages. Would be fantastic to see the current wave of attacks slow down a bit.
https://docs.npmjs.com/staged-publishi…

Staged publishing for npm packages | npm Docs
Documentation for the npm registry, website, and command-line interface

What is the Source?
To the painter Remedios Varo, and possibly to Thomas Cole (founder of the Hudson River school), the Source was an overflowing chalice set in a mysterious landscape.
The Source is magical and inexhaustible (like a fairy-tale soup pot), hidden and yet waiting to be found, ready to be discovered not once but endlessly.

Lake Tear of the Clouds
What is the Source? On Thomas Cole, Remedios Varo, Verplank, Colvin, Lake Tear of the Clouds, and the Hudson, the river that flows both ways.

The people have moved on.
Americans are not just fed up with pandering to Israel by politicians beholden to funding from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The people have moved on from this notion that things need to move slowly or worse yet, nothing can be done at all.
The current fear-mongering about democratic socialists overshadows the fact it started in the early 1980s,
a time when Americans struggled to make ends meet.
And the current scare f…

Granderson: Voters want what the Democrats' left wing offers
The emergence of democratic socialists has caused some soul-searching, but the answers aren't mysterious. Just ask the public.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Teddy Pendergrass:
🎵 Close the Door
#TeddyPendergrass
https://open.spotify.com/track/53m3UkzcaQVbB2DENsrJiK

Replaced article(s) found for eess.AS. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.AS/new
[1/1]:
- Unifying Diarization, Separation, and ASR with Multi-Speaker Encoder
Muhammad Shakeel, Yui Sudo, Yifan Peng, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20474 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/115110974009150613
- CALM: Joint Contextual Acoustic-Linguistic Modeling for Personalization of Multi-Speaker ASR
Muhammad Shakeel, Yosuke Fukumoto, Chikara Maeda, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22792 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116000207024295325
- How Much Does Machine Identity Matter in Anomalous Sound Detection at Test Time?
Kevin Wilkinghoff, Keisuke Imoto, Zheng-Hua Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16253 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116096185732811365
- LMU-Based Sequential Learning and Posterior Ensemble Fusion for Cross-Domain Infant Cry Classific...
Niloofar Jazaeri, Hilmi R. Dajani, Marco Janeczek, Martin Bouchard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02245 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116169771215037748
- Adapting a Text-to-Audio Model for Room Impulse Response Generation
Kirak Kim, Sungyoung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09708 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116209762413602825
- Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for Training-Free Music Style Transfer on Mel-spectrograms
Heehwan Wang, Joonwoo Kwon, Sooyoung Kim, Jungwoo Seo, Shinjae Yoo, Yuewei Lin, Jiook Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15913 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/113548024475383386
- DeePen: Penetration Testing for Audio Deepfake Detection
M\"uller, Kawa, Stan, Doan, Jung, Choong, Sperl, B\"ottinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20427 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/114097333876265997
- Re-evaluating Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Automatic Speech Recognition
Yuu Jinnai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19471 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115422969877240889
- Aliasing-Free Neural Audio Synthesis
Yicheng Gu, Junan Zhang, Chaoren Wang, Jerry Li, Zhizheng Wu, Lauri Juvela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20211 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115773521971327576
- TiCo: Time-Controllable Spoken Dialogue Model
Kai-Wei Chang, Wei-Chih Chen, En-Pei Hu, Hung-yi Lee, James Glass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22267 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283643505371784
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I always wanted a remote for PowerPoint that would allow me to use the phone as the laser pointer. So, I've made one! (macOS only, sorry)
#macOS #opensource #swift

Here's somebody's blog post about grackles' fondness for dropping feces in water, written from the perspective of an annoyed koi-pond owner. The author gives the usual explanation that behavior reduces nest predation (presumably because fecal smell is attractant). I couldn't find support for this hypothesis in the primary literature, however. Nor could I find support for the idea that a clean nest reduces parasites such as flesh-eating flies. But I'm not a birdologist so I could have missed the definitive paper. https://www.pondtrademag.com/blackbird-gift-sacs-the-airmail-no-pond-keeper-wants/

West Oakland,
a California neighborhood known for its rich history of Black activism
from the Pullman Porters’ union to the Black Panthers,
might not seem like the site of the country’s next great coal project.
But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is pushing for
– with the injection of $75m to build a sprawling coal export terminal in the nearby port of Oakland.
Last week, Donald Trump announced he was using wartime powers to hand $700m to coal…