Did you realize all of the adverse impacts have on health? We keep discovering more, as this report shows:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/29/air-pollution-slows-lung-growth-childhood-uk-study?CMP=shar…
Did you realize all of the adverse impacts have on health? We keep discovering more, as this report shows:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/29/air-pollution-slows-lung-growth-childhood-uk-study?CMP=shar…
Just ran across this article on the perpetrator's history with law enforcement:
#AbolishThePolice #PoliceAbolition #Anarchy
60 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in #SanFrancisco at the fillmore auditorium with the mothers of invention & quicksilver messenger service. the #bbc films properly absurd black & white segment. last known version of lesh’s “mindbender,” aka “confusion’s prince.”
Emergent topological structure in spontaneous brain-organoid activity
Eve Bodnia, Margaux Basart, Sofie Hai, Lenzie Ford, Nina Miolane, Kenneth S. Kosik, Dirk Bouwmeester, Lincoln D. Carr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16517 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16517 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16517
arXiv:2607.16517v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural activity is widely held to organize on low-dimensional structure embedded in a high-dimensional state space. Persistent homology reads such structure directly from the pattern of pairwise correlations, without assuming in advance which variables are relevant. We apply persistent homology to microelectrode-array (MEA) recordings of spontaneous activity from human (Lancaster) and mouse (Pa\c{s}ca) cortical organoids, spanning $26$--$234$ simultaneously sorted units, and ask whether topological data analysis resolves structure at the node counts that neural recordings actually deliver. Building weighted networks in correlation space and characterizing them by Vietoris--Rips filtration, we find that the first homology ($H_1$, loops) rises significantly above a rate- and population-preserving null in $14$ of $18$ datasets. This loop structure occupies a non-redundant core: it is robust to random removal of units yet disrupted by targeted removal of the units that carry it. Topological richness grows with network size, and second homology ($H_2$) emerges significantly above the null only in the larger networks. These results show that persistent homology resolves structured topology in neural recordings at the scale experiments actually deliver.
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Starmer is doing a thing about election results. Is he resigning?
He says the elections were tough, he lost brilliant representatives. He feels the hurt and takes responsibility. Not just for the results, but also for explaining how they'll do better in the years ahead.
Times are dangerous, opponents are very dangerous, if we don't get it right the country will be on a very dark path.
He takes responsibility for navigation in this dangerous world and for not walking away.
Oh right, he's not resigning then. 😦
He says he'll prove his doubters wrong. He's learned a lot! And realizes now we need a bigger response to this unordinary times.
Times demand serious progressive leadership he says, and Zack or Nigel can't provide that. [Citation needed] Only Labour can [Really, come on, citation needed]
He's pleased to be reducing NHS waiting lists and crime, and for some reason is pleased migration is coming down too.
He says he realizes that people don't think Labour cares about them. So that's something.
So his plan to fix things after this election is to talk more about why he's doing things instead of just saying what he's doing.
Right. Sure. That'll help.
He admits millions of people, like his sister, don't get respect or help and are held back because the status quo doesn't work.
He says he's fighting for them but, eh, perhaps he should be doing that thing where he says more about why and how?
He says we need a complete break to take control of energy and defense and fairness (he isn't resigning though, not THAT complete a break)
"Strength Through Fairness, Hope and Urgency" is his plan.
Three concrete examples of the plan:
Sure, about time, not like the Greens are against that.
Doesn't sound like he wants a re-join though, so not really sure what this means. The EU don't allow partial memberships or cherry picking benefits. Some kind of external heart I guess, an outside-body heart pump?
No. He's going to guarantee training or work placements to school leavers.
So in response to likely being unelected next time, he'll nationalize steel (now he's failed to find a corporate buyer anyway), is going to renegotiate with Europe (again, they have no better offers to give), and offer apprenticeships to education-leavers (who are still going to be mostly in debt by then).
Right.
Oh, and he's going to ban more marches too. Almost forgot that.
What a cock.
He did sound a bit passionate at least for a change.
#ukpol #starmer