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I couldn't care less about a bunch of rich people in Brooklyn, I just read the article for the delicious drama. However, about halfway through the article, I started to see so many #FreeSoftware parallels.
1) Volunteers spend countless unpaid hours creating/maintaining something to better their community.
2) For-profit business packages it up as part of their offering.

Both my immigrant parents (Lithuania relocated to Germany during WWII, and India) were not citizens when I was born in the US. My spouse's parents (Iceland) also not. All of them became naturalized. I still remember the day my mom proudly came home from her ceremony.

Monochrome thi.ng (2022)
An old exploration using only circles and the SDF-based fully parametric typeface I created as part of the work on my S-TRACE piece...
See here for other related WIP of this perpetually unfinished project:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/STRACE

The Dogma of Meat #AnimalRights

The Dogma of Meat
From Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s food pyramid to online influencers, beef has become more than just a source of protein.

Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood,
according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings.
The report published Monday estimates more than 100,000 U.S. citizen children have had a parent detained since Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign began last year.
The analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on the detention of parents, which can often lead to family se…

More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting.

RE: https://climatejustice.global/@parents4future/116629209663860393
Well how else are billionaires supposed to become trillionaires?
Some of you only ever think about yourselves…

two weekends ago, I pruned and staked this blueblossom ceanothus pretty aggressively. so far, it’s handling it fine! also collecting far less trash than it was before I did this. shoutout @…’s “cues to care”

Over decades, people began to embrace new media (like film and television), sports, and an ever-quickening pace of life. Books were abridged or degraded to accommodate shorter attention spans.
— Wikipedia article on Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
— a direct quote from Frank Her…

On Agentic Behavioral Modeling
Dirk Ostwald, Rasmus Bruckner, Franziska Us\'ee, Belinda Fleischmann, Joram Soch, Sean Mulready
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27894 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.27894 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.27894
arXiv:2604.27894v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Integrating theoretical neuroscience, decision theory, and probabilistic inference offers a promising route to understanding human cognition, yet concrete methodological bridges between agentic AI models and behavioral data analysis remain formally underdeveloped. We advance this synthesis under the framework of agentic behavioral modeling (ABM), which treats artificial agents as latent, generative hypotheses about cognitive mechanisms and evaluates them by their statistical adequacy in explaining human behavior. After outlining its conceptual foundations, we apply the framework to two minimal laboratory paradigms: a binary perceptual contrast-discrimination task and a symmetric two-armed bandit learning task. We formalize each task-agent-data system as a joint probability model, derive explicit conditional log-likelihoods for behavioral inference, validate different model variants using model and parameter recovery simulations, and evaluate them in light of empirical data. Using these minimal examples, we provide an agent-centric interpretation of the psychometric function, derive optimal policies for both tasks, and show the equivalence between Rescorla-Wagner learning and Bayesian inference in symmetric bandits. More broadly, this work may serve as a conceptual and practical foundation for applying ABM to cognitive behavioral science.
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Kaleeshabi Mahaboob and Mahaboob Subhani are from Naadaswaram families. He stopped playing to work but resumed after seeing her concerts. Married, she helped him prep for a concert and they played together (only) for 25 years, until his death (2026).
https://www-thehindu-com.translate.goog/society/padma-shri-winners-sheik-mahaboob-subhani-and-kaleeshabi-mahaboobs-tryst-with-the-nadaswaram-padma-bhushan-awardee-krishnammal-jagannathans-efforts-to-promote-social-equality-through-land-reforms/article30703019.ece?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=te&_x_tr_hl=te&_x_tr_pto=tc