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@… it's so good to see you here 😊 sorry I am not managing to follow or support you much these days 😔 I do want to send you my hugs and gratitude 🤗 even though I already follow XOXO and have them all on queue ⏳ the Cabel Sasser talk you put at the top of your email today truly has life-changing potential ☀️ At the very least it is a bright ray of sunshin…

Classifying Bicycle Infrastructure Using On-Bike Street-Level Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19194v1

Classifying Bicycle Infrastructure Using On-Bike Street-Level Images
While cycling offers an attractive option for sustainable transportation, many potential cyclists are discouraged from taking up cycling due to the lack of suitable and safe infrastructure. Efficiently mapping cycling infrastructure across entire cities is necessary to advance our understanding of how to provide connected networks of high-quality infrastructure. Therefore we propose a system capable of classifying available cycling infrastructure from on-bike smartphone camera data. The system …

The "going out of business" signs have gone up at our local Big Lots discount shop.
#BigLots #Retail #Ohio

A new picture of the Evilstick (#Evilstick

Evilstick - Chinafake Wiki
Evilstick is a battery operated toy wand that was made by an unknown company. It gained infamy in November of 2014 after it was found that some versions contained...

[ July 9, 2025 - July 11, 2025] Conference or similar: Workshop on Walter Benjamin’s “theory of fascism” https://philevents.org/event/show/127314

Workshop on Walter Benjamin’s “theory of fascism”
The aim of this workshop is to schematize what we might call Walter Benjamin’s “theory of fascism.” The name “Walter Benjamin” may not necessarily call to mind an explicit theorization of fascism. While Benjamin is well-loved for his aesthetic theory, his critique of historical and technical “progress,” and his theorization of juridical violence, none of these necessarily indicate a unifying or even detailed theory of fascism such as we find in the work of his contemporaries, such…

Kuvat näyttävät: Espan hinnakkaat palmut hylättiin joutomaalle Helsingissä https://www.hs.fi/helsinki/art-2000010843345.html
Kaupunki vei joutomaalle hylätyt Espan puut suojaan: ”Tuollaiset puut kestävät pientä pakkasta”

Kuvat näyttävät: Espan hinnakkaat palmut hylättiin joutomaalle Helsingissä
Miljoonakokeilun arvokalusteet ja eksoottiset kasvit makaavat joutomaalla Jätkäsaaressa sään armoilla.

Just discovered a cool #magit feature: When you write a new commit and mention an issue using the usual hash-notation, it immediately becomes a hyperlink to that issue on GitHub.
Wow! #Emacs

"…Carter often struggled to implement key parts of his agenda, and disability rights was no exception. So disabled people had to step in to do the work that the non-disabled simply couldn't get done on their own."
https://www.salon.com/2022/05/01/jimmy-…