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Enough Stuff is a free thrift store based in East Peoria, Illinois,
which is stocked with donated items and give away those items for free to customers.
They aim to meet the needs for those who are without the basic necessities of adequate clothing, home goods and food items.
But the shop is for all, whoever is in need of items but also if people just want to change up their wardrobe.

Enough Stuff

#Apple has totlally screwed #Photos... just like they did with #iTunes
STOP improving anything that works!

Fashion-AlterEval: A Dataset for Improved Evaluation of Conversational Recommendation Systems with Alternative Relevant Items
Maria Vlachou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18017 http…

Fashion-AlterEval: A Dataset for Improved Evaluation of Conversational Recommendation Systems with Alternative Relevant Items
In Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS), a user provides feedback on recommended items at each turn, leading the CRS towards improved recommendations. Due to the need for a large amount of data, a user simulator is employed for both training and evaluation. Such user simulators critique the current retrieved item based on knowledge of a single target item. However, system evaluation in offline settings with simulators is limited by the focus on a single target item and their unlimited pa…

How Walmart, seeking to compete with e-commerce rivals like Amazon, built a multibillion-dollar HQ in Bentonville, aiming to attract workers and woo shoppers (Kevin Draper/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/business/walmart-rebrand-hea…

Walmart Tries to Shed a Stodgy Vibe to Battle Digital-Native Rivals
The retailing giant is spending billions to attract workers to a new headquarters and woo shoppers with drone delivery and a broader range of items (like Louis Vuitton handbags).

Negotiations in Istanbul: will expectations meet reality?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/negotiations-in-istanbul-will-expectations.html

A Principled Approach to Randomized Selection under Uncertainty
Alexander Goldberg, Giulia Fanti, Nihar B. Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19083 https://…

A Principled Approach to Randomized Selection under Uncertainty
Many decision-making processes involve evaluating and then selecting items; examples include scientific peer review, job hiring, school admissions, and investment decisions. The eventual selection is performed by applying rules or deliberations to the raw evaluations, and then deterministically selecting the items deemed to be the best. These domains feature error-prone evaluations and uncertainty about future outcomes, which undermine the reliability of such deterministic selection rules. As a…

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Mastodon UK #GLAM hive mind:
Do non-museum collections need some sort of #Ivory register?
Not selling, advertising, etc. just checking about necessary due diligence and documentation for items with historic provenance later than 1918.
I've checked the UK government website and I…

Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/googles-new-ai-feature-lets-…

Google's new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes | TechCrunch
The feature is launching in the United States today, letting users try on apparel items in Google's Shopping Graph across Search, Google Shopping and product results on Google Images.

Negotiations in ISTANBUL: the meeting of the Ukrainian and Russian delegations HAS ENDED #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/negotiations-in-istanbul-the-meeting.html…