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#TIL that blowing vs sucking the same spot on a harmonica produces notes that are roughly a half-step apart, while adjacent blown/sucked notes are roughly a whole step apart. I always wondered why I couldn't play any melodies on harmonicas because there would always be some notes I just couldn't find no matter how hard I tried, and now I know the answer isn't some tricky block-holes-with-your-tongue technique like I used to think.
I always knew blowing vs sucking produced different tones, but I thought that they were whole-step transpositions of each other such that any note in one modality would appear somewhere in the other.
My wife showed me this fact and when I asked where she learned it, she said she just figured it out herself...

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: Complaining of some sort of noise.
AVON: A sort of tone, he said.
CALLY: Oscillating. It was there again just now.
AVON: As a part of his nightmare?
CALLY: Yes, I think so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/85

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A profile of London-based CloudNC, a leading provider of AI-powered CNC software that is helping US manufacturers overcome a shortage of trained operators (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/26/ai-manufacturing-parts-cnc-machines…

Can AI help America make stuff again? 
A British startup, CloudNC, is reshaping American manufacturing one precision part at a time.

A Note on Edge Coalitions in Graphs
Nazli Besharati, Azam Sadat Emadi, Iman Masoumi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19871 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19871

A Note on Edge Coalitions in Graphs
Haynes et al. (2020) introduced and investigated the concept of coalition in graphs \cite{hhhmm1}. Their study examined this concept from a vertex-based perspective, whereas in this paper, we extend the investigation to an edge-based perspective of graphs. \\ An edge coalition in a graph $G=(V,E)$ consists of two disjoint sets of edges $E_1$ and $E_2$, neither of which individually forms an edge dominating set, but whose union $E_1\cup E_2$ is an edge dominating set. An edge coalition partition…

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.
The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.
As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon
to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget,
the number of deaths on Nichols’…

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths — most of them children
Elon Musk’s tenure running Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has, according to the academic Brooke Nichols, caused thousands of ‘preventable deaths’

[disclaimer: not a political scientist, just riffing here]
Plurality voting forces a two-party system. There will always be two parties (or if a third forms, the system will rapidly collapse back to two; this happened twice in US history).
The role of the two parties can change, however. Parties are coalitions, and coalitions are heterogeneous. There are lots of ways to draw lines through the myriad political interests to form two coalitions of roughly equal size. And those lines can shift.
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The collapse of the volume of cars in London is pretty boggling, but even moreso to me, a person who was in London recently and couldn’t get over how jammed the streets were with cars.
What must it have been like before the reduction?
https://masto.ai/@bovine3dom/114590440884405052

A coalition of European writers, publishers, and others warns that Europe's AI Act is not properly protecting copyrights and is selling out the creative sector (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

European Creators Slam AI Act Implementation, Warn Copyright Protections Are Failing
Europe’s writers, actors, musicians and producers accuse the EU of selling out creative industries in favor of GenAI giants and demand urgent reforms to safeguard IP rights.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: Complaining of some sort of noise.
AVON: A sort of tone, he said.
CALLY: Oscillating. It was there again just now.
AVON: As a part of his nightmare?
CALLY: Yes, I think so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/85

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