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A proud achievement of my half-century IT career happened in 1996 consulting to the #UNDP toward the first published edition of the Humanity Development Library.
It seemed easy enough: "It can be fairly estimated that 1/3, or about 20 million pages of UN, and as much University and NGO material are very useful. Those 20 million pages useful UN publications probably contain about 50% of solutions for major World problems. This information must be released in digital format for non-profit redistribution in all countries."
also portable and accessible to all platforms, everywhere.
Happily, not only did the project live on, but thanks to @… our once-intractable problem of global delivery is now globally solved!
So, whether or not this is timely, I don't know, but should you need to suddenly rebuild some semblance of civilization from scratch…
Humanity Development Library 2.0 CD-ROM 1998 : #HumanityLibrariesProject : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/humanity-development-library-2.0

Netherlands Scientific Climate Council warns: under pressure from climate change, forests and soils are now taking up less CO2 from the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
https://www.wkr.nl/adviezen/overige-publicaties/bossen-en-bodems

Signalering Bossen en bodems | Wetenschappelijke Klimaatraad
Op 14 oktober 2025 heeft de WKR de signalering ‘Bossen en bodems in zwaar weer’ [/documenten/2025/10/13/signalering-wkr-001-bossen-en-bodems] gepubliceerd. In deze signalering zet de WKR uiteen wat er aan de hand is met bossen en bodems, zowel in...

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

Central Ohio city invests **$50K** to join the Midwest passenger rail push, capping a decade of planning and signaling strong local support for connecting Columbus to the national network. 🚆 #OhioRail #PassengerRail

Sadie T.M. Alexander, caught in the crossfire of a war to control America's past (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn-sadie-alexander-scholarship-cancelled-20250814.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p128#a250814p128

Judge *schooled* him: 'Defendants are not entitled to “deference” on the issue of what constitutes a rebellion for purposes of the Act, nor what it means to be “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws.” **Those are matters of statutory interpretation, a function committed to the courts**. … Defendants must support their position by pointing the Court to some of the facts upon which it bases its conclusions'
It Turns Out, Americans Don't Want a Police State
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/it-turns-out-americans-dont-want

In August I visited four parks with my daughter on a cross-country trip: Zion, Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Badlands.
It was clear that staffing has taken a serious hit.
Experienced rangers were noticeably absent. Many hikes had been canceled,
and the few rangers we did encounter were young, primarily park interpreters;
even they were in short supply.
In contrast, the visitor centers and gift shops seemed well staffed.

Opinion | Trump’s Painful Cuts to National Parks
Readers discuss the damage to America’s parks. Also: Racial profiling in immigrant sweeps; the 9/11 memorial; phones in the classroom.

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
INTERCEPTOR LEADER: [V.O.] Interceptor Leader to Control. Request instructions!
SERVALAN: Hold position, Interceptor Leader, and wait for instructions from Assault Leader One. We will attack when the Liberator breaks out of Alpha Sector. Four should do it nicely. Well, Dastor, I think it's time we had a little strategic counsel. Bring this - Jarvik to me.

Prime Implicant Explanations for Reaction Feasibility Prediction
Klaus Weinbauer, Tieu-Long Phan, Peter F. Stadler, Thomas G\"artner, Sagar Malhotra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09226

Prime Implicant Explanations for Reaction Feasibility Prediction
Machine learning models that predict the feasibility of chemical reactions have become central to automated synthesis planning. Despite their predictive success, these models often lack transparency and interpretability. We introduce a novel formulation of prime implicant explanations--also known as minimally sufficient reasons--tailored to this domain, and propose an algorithm for computing such explanations in small-scale reaction prediction tasks. Preliminary experiments demonstrate that our…

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