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"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has presented the Ataturk International Peace Award to Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, during a ceremony in Ankara."
Und Guterres hat nichts besseres zu tun, als unterwürfig den Preis aus dem Händen eines möchtegern-Diktators anzunehmen?
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Türkiye's Erdogan awards UN chief Guterres Ataturk International Peace Prize
Turkish president highlights diplomacy to prevent a wider regional conflict and calls for a more inclusive United Nations.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
At the Drive‐In:
🎵 One Armed Scissor
#AttheDriveIn
https://open.spotify.com/track/5UTYRC4IQLc7Jxc1sJapMl

An audit says USAGM failed to provide information for a required annual review of its 2025 finances, and auditors declined to express an opinion on its numbers (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/politics/voice-of-america-audit.html

As Kari Lake Sought to Shutter Voice of America, Parent Agency Rebuffed Auditors
A new report says the lack of information provided for a required annual examination was so “pervasive” that auditors declined to opine on the agency’s financial numbers.

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in evanston, on ronnie tutt’s 38th. spring ’76, show #4.
early show: https://archive.org/details/jg76-03-12.020700.jgb.partial.fob.unknown.shriver-weiner.sbeok.t-flac16
late show:

vOICe Depth: companion program to The vOICe for Windows visual-to-auditory sensory substitution program for the blind #AI

What will blind recipients of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant be able to do that they cannot do with smartglasses performing visual-to-auditory sensory substitution, talking OCR and AI scene description?
Grok AI: https://x.com/i/grok/share/e7e93359abb5491aa0f76a802da2461e

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gurr:
🎵 She Says
#NowPlaying #Gurr
https://audiotree.bandcamp.com/track/she-says
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Hb5NwLVSM02pLpUksLDtN

I'm looking for quantifiable measures of effective information bandwidth from auditory to visual areas in the human brain. Has anyone tried that using what is now known about the human connectome? Next question will be how sensory experience may affect this bandwidth through functional re-routing (non-physical "rewiring").
#blindness

When sounds control sight: Associative learning modifies perceptual transitions in binocular rivalry https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2811578 "These results offer new insights into how auditory signals might be incorporated into predictive models that…

Rapid sequential activation from A1 to V1 in congenitally blind and sighted subjects https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361923026001784 on primary visual cortex activation by auditory stimuli;