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Seeing Around Corners
The phrase "seeing around corners" gets tossed around boardrooms and strategy meetings as though it were a compliment, a kind of secular beatification for the executive or thinker who got there first. But the phrase deserves closer scrutiny, because what it actually describes is a discipline, and one that most people refuse to practice because the conclusions it produces are uncomfortable.

Seeing Around Corners | David Boles, Blogs
The phrase “seeing around corners” gets tossed around boardrooms and strategy meetings as though it were a compliment, a kind of secular beatification for the executive or thinker who g…

aus der spaziergehforschung:
"Walking as Embodied Research: Drift, Pause, Indirection"
https://www.routledge.com/Walking-as-Embodied-Research-Drift-Pause-Indirection/Ernsten-Shepherd/p/book/9781032039688

Around the NFC East: A.J. Brown Is Gone, Giants Add Receivers, Minicamp Arrives https://www.si.com/nfl/commanders/onsi/around-nfc-east-aj-brown-trade-giants-receivers--cowboys-commanders-minicamp-6-14-2026

Armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank
have carried out a number of attacks in recent days
targeting local Palestinians and foreign journalists,
as well as detaining U.S. Congressmember Ro Khanna
during a fact-finding trip.
Khanna said that when Israeli forces arrived, they sided with the settlers.
“The U.S. government just merrily goes along funding these atrocities against American citizens,
not to speak of atrocities against Palestinia…

Came home late last night to find a hail storm had passed through our area seemingly just minutes before. The hailstones were the largest I've ever seen so far (~3 cm), but not as large as northern parts of Germany had last night (some tennis ball sized). Shredded tree branches, garden plants/veg destroyed, heaps of ice around the houses, roads steaming...
#Hail

OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act and Illinois SB 315, an AI safety bill to create requirements around transparency, incident reporting, and more (OpenAI Global Affairs)
https://openaiglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/intelligence-as-a-utility

Intelligence as a Utility
And, why we’re endorsing the Kids Online Safety Act

duolingo been doing some wild worldbuilding lately

Amy Langenberg outlines a research agenda using Mahāsāmghika-lokottaravādin nun's Vinaya texts in order to document women's roles as health practitioners in South Asia. This looks like amazing research - "peering around the archival bulge" of patriarchal sources and conclusions.
https://

The luxury resort planned by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner faces a new challenge from villagers who say their land was wrongfully sold by an accused gangster.
The president’s daughter and her husband plan to develop a $1.4 billion resort on the uninhabited island of Sazan in Albania, as well as a wider hotel development along the Zvërnec coastline worth around $4.7 billion.
Weeks of protests have raised concerns that the wildlife-rich area, with its flamingos and sea turtles, co…

Ivanka and Jared Project Ensnared by Fresh Scandal Involving Accused Mobster
A dozen villagers say their land was wrongfully sold for the development by a Miami man with alleged mobster ties.

University of California’s frontline workers have canceled the
system-wide strike originally planned to begin on Thursday after reaching a tentative agreement with the UC on Wednesday night. 
These 42,000 service and patient care workers
— represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 (AFSCME)
— have worked without a ratified contract since 2024, due to “stalled” negotiations with the UC, according to union leadership.