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Women's Running Collective
For all women who run. Any pace and at any point in their running journey...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/womens-running-collective/

Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier.
https://www.…

The Shared Delusion: Both doomers and dreamers assume current technology leads to AGI. They’re both wrong
Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier. The reason for this shift is the "2-to-5-year" horizon. For decades,

Singing Resistance Ventura:
ICE Out of Home Depot!
Advocacy Event · Volunteer organized for National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Saturday, February 28
2 – 3pm PST
Esplanade Shopping Center
381 W Esplanade Dr.
Oxnard, CA 93036
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/911

Singing Resistance Ventura: ICE Out of Home Depot! · Mobilize
On the morning of February 28th, Singing Resistance Ventura will join the Singing Resistance national movement, and will take part in a coordinated action at Home Depot in Oxnard. Participants will gather on a public corner near Home Depot for singing and solidarity before approaching the store to sing and take in a letter of concerns. This is a collective, peaceful action to stand up for our neighbors and show the strength of community solidarity. Join us and make your voice count.

Ich würde es mir anschauen, das Rhinozeros im Raum von Itamar Gov in #Magdeburg
Ist leider nur ein bisschen weit weg.
https://www.itamargov.com/projects/the-rhi

The Rhinoceros in the Room. Or: A Tale of Banality and Evil | itamar gov
Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist play 'Rhinoceros' from 1959 depicts a sleepy French town whose inhabitants gradually metamorphose into rhinoceroses and come to peacefully accept the destruction and violence that this collective transformation entails. The piece was a response to the rise of authoritarian ideologies in the period leading up to WWII, and it explored broader themes of conformity, collective and individual responsibility, mass movements, mob mentality, and morality. The concept of �…

Okay I know everyone hates this article but there's a nugget of truth in it. One of the possible futures we can gun for is this.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
Make things. Make _personal scale_ things. The tools help bridge the truly high barriers we've managed to put in in the tech industry.
This will have a lot of problems! We don't have collective knowledge for this yet / again. The people with Sysadmin Mindset have been burned out or subsumed into the Cloud Computing machine.
But there's a chance here to take the web better places. We should take it.
(If you're worried about everything turning into paying to rent access to a digital landlord, I have bad news about where we've been since 2012.)

The reason tanking has suddenly become an matter worth discussing is one word: *GAMBLING*
▶️ NBA TO FIX TANKING? How NBA's THREE Anti-Tanking ideas are causing a stir | The Hoop Collective
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t9k5a_6MDSM&si=_Xrvo_2K70eFoUxX

This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece. Will we chose the ease of compliance or the friction of engagement as AI becomes increasingly prevalent also in our democratic institutions?
For me, I chose friction, as compliance has never been my nature. But my fear is I am in a minority, and the majority is quite happy to outsource decisions and cognitive work to AI.
How To Save Democracy From AI

Arianna Pera @… defends her PhD: The Language of Collective Action in the Social Web
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/02/27/ariann

NFL could hire replacement officials as soon as May as labor dispute intensifies: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7156933/2026/03/29/nfl-replacement-officials-preseason-games/

How To Save Democracy From AI https://www.noemamag.com/rescuing-democracy-from-the-quiet-rule-of-ai/?utm_source=noemalinkedin&utm_medium=noemasocial

Podcast-Empfehlung: Nach der Idee des Studio d'Essai in Paris und dem Studio für Elektronische Musik in Köln startete die BBC in den späten 1950ern den Radiophonic Workshop, um Elektronik mit Musik zu verbinden. Bekanntest Produktion dürfte die Sound- und Musikwelt der BBC-Serie Dr. Who sein. Bei Twenty Thousand Hertz gibt es eine schöne Podcastfolge über die Entstehung und das Wirken des BBC Radiophonic Workshop, enjoy:

Doctor Who & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
What does a time machine sound like? Or a magic carpet? For the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, that was just another day at the office. For 40 years, this oddball collective of engineers and composers pushed the boundaries of sound design, crafting eerie atmospheres, quirky jingles, and the iconic audio

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Schumann, Holloway and Brahms
Robin Holloway's new piano quartet receives its first London outing in this concert from Wigmore Hall. It's followed by Brahms' rich and ever-changing 1st Piano Quartet.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rhh4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Animal Collective:
🎵 My Girls
#AnimalCollective
https://beatmass.bandcamp.com/track/animal-collective-my-girls-beatma-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jZBPuJmkOsfPkwFD30dAA

Anonymous Content, the production company whose lead investor is Emerson Collective, names Ford Foundation ex-president Darren Walker as president and CEO (Robin Pogrebin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/arts/design/darren-walker-anonymou…

For His Next Act, Darren Walker Is Heading to Hollywood
Anonymous Content, a production company whose top investor is Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective, has named Darren Walker as president and chief executive.

Gutierrez: 3 takeaways from Combine week https://www.raiders.com/news/gutierrez-3-takeaways-from-2026-nfl-combine-john-spytek-klint-kubiak-maxx-crosby

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/17/claudette-colvin-collective-resistance-civil-rights-ros…

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Gelukkig hebben ze ook nog een lekker stukje muziek in t archief zitten...
Bardentreffen Nürnberg: London Afrobeat Collective beim Bardentreffen 2023
#nowPlaying

Today in #guerrillaUrbanism news: The SF Bay Area Bench Collective has installed its first community bus bench on the Peninsula, at the El Camino Real/Maple stop on the SamTrans ECR line in Redwood City!
https://sfbabc.org/140

El Camino Real & Maple St - SFBA Bench Collective
The San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective

Donald Trump despises collective struggle, the organized working class, and especially those fighting to dismantle capitalism in favor of worker self-managed industries and federations of free associations.
#USPol #America

I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

Kyiv groans a collective ‘WTF?’ to Trump’s latest Putin comments: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/04/kyiv-groans-a-collective-wtf.html

Collective Electronic Polarization Drives Charge Asymmetry at Oil-Water Interfaces
Gabriele Amante, Klaudia Mrazikova, Gabriele Centi, Sylvie Roke, Ali Hassanali, Giuseppe Cassone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24142 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24142 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.24142
arXiv:2603.24142v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Why kinetically stable oil droplets in water spontaneously acquire a negative charge remains one of the most vigorously debated questions in interfacial science. Here, we combine neural-network based deep potential molecular dynamics with a data-driven and information theory approach to probe the real-space electron density at an extended decane-water interface. While decane-water clusters show nearly symmetric forward and backward charge transfer (CT) and thus negligible net CT, the extended interface displays a systematic electronic asymmetry, yielding a net CT from water to the hydrocarbon phase producing an average surface charge density of $\sim0.006~e^{-}\,\mathrm{nm}^{-2}$ on the oil phase. This imbalance is accompanied by much larger intra-phase self-polarization, particularly within the hydrocarbon phase, demonstrating that collective many-body polarization dominates the interfacial electronic response. Structural analysis reveals an asymmetry between forward C--H$\cdots$O and backward O--H$\cdots$C motifs, providing a microscopic origin for a net CT from one phase to the other. Curiously, both the water O--H and decane C--H covalent bonds incur subtle contractions which originate from a response to the charge-separation layers at the interface. These features are fully consistent with the weak improper hydrogen-bonds forming at the oil-water interface that results in blue-shifts of the C-H modes.
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Open Gaming Collective: Entwickler wollen Gaming unter Linux voranbringen
Mehrere Linux-Entwickler schließen sich zusammen, um Gaming-Probleme im Ökosystem zu lösen. Ziel ist eine Vereinheitlichung von Gaming-Features unter Linux.

A minimal wake-vortex model explains formation flight of flapping birds
Olivia Pomerenk, Kenneth S. Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22043
arXiv:2602.22043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Collective patterns of motion emerge across biological taxa: insects swarm, fish school, and birds flock. In particular, large migratory birds form strikingly ordered V-shaped formations, which experiments and direct numerical simulations have demonstrated provide substantial energetic benefits during long-distance flight. However, the precise aerodynamic and morphological mechanisms underlying these benefits remain unclear. In this work, we develop a reduced-order model of the wake-vortex interactions between two flapping birds flying in tandem. The model retains essential unsteady flapping dynamics while remaining computationally tractable. By optimizing over a six-dimensional state space, which comprises the follower's three-dimensional relative position and three independent flapping parameters, we identify the energetically optimal leader-follower configuration of northern bald ibises. The predicted optimum agrees quantitatively with live-bird measurements. Because of its simplicity, the model allows for direct interrogation of the physical mechanisms responsible for this optimum. In particular, it isolates precisely how the follower's wing kinematics interact with the leader's wake to enhance aerodynamic efficiency. The model predicts an 11% reduction in total mechanical power for a follower in formation flight -- consistent with experimental estimates -- and shows that this saving arises from reductions in both induced and profile power, dominated by decreased profile power enabled primarily through reduced flapping amplitude and, secondarily, reduced upstroke flexion. These results provide a mechanistic explanation for the structure of V-formations and offer new insight into the aerodynamic principles governing collective flight.
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RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/116119118572185085
We need collective not individual action to overcome systemic injustice and all that, but having an income of $10M a year and using it to help others can help a ton of people and it shames the bil…

The UK has offered to host an international security summit to draw up
a “viable, collective plan” to reopen the strait of Hormuz
as economic fallout from the Iranconflict continues.
Defence chiefs have been discussing how they could unblock the vital shipping lane,
through which about 20% of global oil supplies usually pass,
amid the Middle East crisis unleashed by the US and Israel.
The Ministry of Defence has already sent military planners to US Central…

ISTA - "Gods In Heat" (2026)
New one from this Brooklyn-based, 7-piece psychedelic post-punk disco collective. I really enjoy their LP from 2023, but they keep dropping new singles on BC and they seem to improve with each release.
#music #alternative

While I mostly agree, it's worth noting that, while "Eighty-five percent of San Francisco is zoned so that it’s illegal to build apartments.", developers are not building them where they are not only allowed, but also approved - because it "doesn't pencil out."
The arguments about homelessness ignore the problem of expecting the market to solve a problem of profit margins.
Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disi…

Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disinformation — Streetsblog USA
The Three Tenors of Urbanism explain their latest effort: The Urban Truth Collective.

While I mostly agree, it's worth noting that, while "Eighty-five percent of San Francisco is zoned so that it’s illegal to build apartments.", developers are not building them where they are not only allowed, but also approved - because it "doesn't pencil out."
The arguments about homelessness ignore the problem of expecting the market to solve a problem of profit margins.
Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disi…

Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disinformation — Streetsblog USA
The Three Tenors of Urbanism explain their latest effort: The Urban Truth Collective.

Volvamos a los estrenos musicales.
Kim Gordon vuelve como solista después del tremendo The Collective (2024) con un disco que parece continuar el mismo camino, pero sin perder originalidad. Muy buen trabajo de la ex Sonic Youth.
«PLAY ME»
https://album.link/s/04tCM2W8CvOXQBy4bBHlXk

we had front row mezzanine seats at hill auditorium to hear terence blanchard and ravi coltrane play the music of john coltrane and miles davis
#jazz #terenceblanchard #ravicoltrane

TIL that while the collective noun for crows is murder, the collective noun for ravens is a conspiracy.
But my favorite still is the improbability of puffins.

Yet more proof that our collective resources are being spent on the wrong things. #climatechange #inequality

Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk says creators on the platform are generating nearly $5M in collective annual earnings from subscriptions and its ad network (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/beehiiv-ceo-tyler-…

CEO sets out the case for Beehiiv versus Substack
Interview with Beehiiv CEO and co-founder Tyler Denk about the newsletter platform's support for journalists and how it differs from Substack

19v Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138762/19v-seminar-series-winter-spring-2026

The Great Migration — #mentalhealth

Trust and the Flock: What Geese Teach Us About Collective Leadership and Sustainable Action
Inspired by the migration of geese, this essay explores trust, connection, and distributed leadership in times of change. Sustainable impact doesn’t come from doing everything—it comes from knowing your place in the flock and leading together with purpose.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/116275621455306024
"We are a sad, wounded, grieving planet in a dark night of our collective soul."
"In order to live in the world I now inhabit I’ve learned some intentional forgetting is necessary. …

The Cultural Competence Collective
We lead and cultivate critical conversations about belonging and dignity that equip people to implement culturally responsive changes in themselves, their organisations, and communities...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustrali…

Mark Carney on the rupturing world order in Davos. This is an important call to collective action.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7052901

This is like a collective frisson, isn’t it?
I’ve heard the word “psychosis” tossed about but I don’t think that’s it. Delirium? #HeatedRivalry

"Venezuela, my homeland, actually won something. I have never seen it happen; the last time Venezuela claimed a major international trophy was in 1945 and, of course, it was in baseball... our sport, the one we actually care about and that truly runs vinotinto red in the country's collective bloodstream... And it probably had to come against the US, the geopolitical bully that has idly shoved Venezuela around for generations"

Viva Venezuela, A Champion At Last
For almost my entire life, Venezuela has been a punching bag, a nasty joke couched in fake concern. I used to participate in some of that punching, to be clear. But as I grew into political consciousness, I struggled to reconcile, both within myself and whenever I was asked about the country where I was…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #IndieForeverDiscoWithBethDitto
Animal Collective:
🎵 Floridada
#AnimalCollective
https://anmlcollectve.bandcamp.com/track/floridada-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/26WNKAgxNfg1MkhpBrx8UV

Xavier Tytelman: l'intelligence collective contre la propagande du Kremlin - YouTube
#interview

Sources: Labor talks stop amid NFL-ref impasse https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48306490/sources-nfl-referees-break-labor-talks-amid-impasse

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Animal Collective:
🎵 Daily Routine
#AnimalCollective
https://wdymusic.bandcamp.com/track/animal-collective-daily-routine-wdy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6xaADO75WqH7ysM0EjtdSL

Seeing posts gasping that US DHS used a podium with a slogan that alludes to collective punishment. As though collective punishment hasn't been their operational effect for the past year.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Caerwen Martin & ACO Collective:
🎵 Stars Come Out in a Midnight Sky
#CaerwenMartin #ACOCollective
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IGrQ5AlwAvroXdhvmPjyW

Best talk so far on day 2 at #LaraconEU was Pete Heslop on how to apply real world UX from restaurants, airports, and hospitals to create better software.
Pete runs this great agency: https://steadfastcollective.com

End fracking and LNG expansion
Beyond a petition — become part of a community for change.
The B.C. government needs to end fracking and liquified natural gas (LNG) expansion now. We know that consistent, concerted pressure from as many people as possible moves decision-makers, and our aim is to make it easy for tens of thousands of people to raise their voices together.
Sign the petition and join the collective people-powered movement to end fracking and LNG in B.C.

End fracking and LNG expansion | Wilderness Committee
Sign our petition and call on B.C. to protect communities from climate disasters by ending fracking in the province!

Wenn man den Nordatlantikvertrag¹ (aka NATO) so liest, wird schnell klar, daß angefangen von Artikel 1 ganz vieles darin Trump nicht gefallen kann – und vor allem aber nicht nur die USA sich nie wirklich daran gehalten haben…
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¹https://www.

I've mentioned it before, and I'm sure I will again, but, as much as there's a reason why I reject Christianity, there were also a lot of good things. Churches have governing bodies (with varying degrees of democratic representation) that guide the ministry (preaching and actions) as well as managing logistics (building maintenance, accounting, etc). This provides opportunities for self-governed collective action.
Quakers are the most radical in terms of this, and are basically anarchists. Quaker circles often meet at people's houses and can be as small as 3 people. There is often no leadership. A Quaker service could easily just be everyone sitting in a circle and someone talking at one point.
I grew up in a Presbyterian church, and one of my first jobs (at 11 or 12) was landscaping there. Within the church there were a lot of different trades, which meant that you could volunteer time and learn basically any kind of maintenance. Basically everything that needed to be done was done in-house. This also meant that if you needed a plumber, an electrician, etc, that you could pick one from within the church.
I remember painting the church, learning how to paint, with a bunch of other members of the congregation at a work party. I also remember being volunteered for child care during choir. There were a few rooms around that were used for different things, such as music practice. But these rooms could be made available for any type of community activity. This can actually include community organizing. In fact, Seattle GDC was offered an occasional space for organizing in a church (we didn't take it, but appreciated the offer), and that same church hosted a lot of other community events. I actually went to a queer relationships skills class once hosted in a church, which was great.
What I'm saying is that churches often act as a kind of parallel society up-to-and-including acting as dual power structures....

Trump Doesn’t Want Legal Immigrants Either - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-legal-immigration/685649/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3mf0GxxWISlQQCHvppqliIM

Trump Doesn’t Want Legal Immigrants Either
New limits reflect sloppy reasoning and a desire for collective punishment.

Facts didn’t build this collective delusion, and facts won’t puncture it.
So yeah, I’m trying to stay diligent about facts where facts matter. I’m trying to stay clear in my own head about what we •know• with high confidence as distinct from what merely seems •likely•.
And I’m also studying — with careful attention, as a serious matter — what popular imagination is doing to the “100% vibes” foundation of Trumpism. Popular imagination. Not the facts. The vibes.
/end

Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive".
And no one in the media said a thing.
☑️ Musk Endorsed White Nationalism | Religion Dispatches
https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/musk-endorsed-white-nationalism…

Musk Endorsed White Nationalism
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they will be 1000x times [sic] more hostile and cruel when they are a majority over whites. White solidarity is the only way to survive. Again, because so many are insistent that “retweet does not equal endorsement,” it’s important to note that Mu…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Open Gaming Collective: Entwickler wollen Gaming unter Linux voranbringen

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/big-techs-usd1-1-trillion-cloud-computing-backl…

Big Tech’s $1.1 trillion cloud computing backlog
White-hot demand for cloud computing has created a backlog of revenue that Big Cloud can’t fulfill due to infrastructure constraints.

Collective Electronic Polarization Drives Charge Asymmetry at Oil-Water Interfaces
Gabriele Amante, Klaudia Mrazikova, Gabriele Centi, Sylvie Roke, Ali Hassanali, Giuseppe Cassone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24142

Gotta talk about this new record while it's on my mind. LOVE finding things like this. This is new LP 'Chapter 1' by British collective SAULT. It has R&B, jazz, funk, disco, soul, gospel & house vibes all over, vibes of Sade or Marvin Gaye maybe, in spots.
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/album

My art, but not my video[1] for #Genuary9 #Genuary2026: Crazy Automata
C-SCAPE (2022), a piece of multiple co-evolving cellular automata, running as a massive projection as part of the ALGORYTHMS group exhibition at Collective, Oslo (August 2023).

@… @… The Open Collective will continue, and we’ll continue to use the funds for the open source project and community expenses. I’ll post more about this on the 11ty Blog soon

From @… at that other site.
https://bsky.app/profile/ericwbailey.website/post/3mgidriwhq22g

Eric Bailey (@ericwbailey.website)
View transitions, anchor positioning, ​@scope, focusgroup, invokers, popovers, container queries, grid, relative colors, style-able selects, and more. The web feels like it’s getting so good at exactly the moment our collective worst practices are getting calcified as the default.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Animal Collective:
🎵 My Girls
#AnimalCollective
https://beatmass.bandcamp.com/track/animal-collective-my-girls-beatma-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jZBPuJmkOsfPkwFD30dAA

"Science Ltd. – Research Enterprise in the Age of Machines"
https://www.routledge.com/Science-Ltd-Research-Enterprise-in-the-Age-of-Machines/Borghini-Severini/p/book/9781041131069
[erscheint (wen…

NFL to consider rule tweaks for replacement refs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48298693/nfl-consider-rule-proposals-case-ref-work-stoppage

19v Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2026
https://ift.tt/Wn12PZS
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

A decade into our collective Donald Trump nightmare,
most of the reality-based population has given up on hoping MAGA voters will wake up and see the light.
We’ve come to realize that he could eat a live kitten on TV and they, unwilling to admit his critics were right all along,
would argue that kitten was “antifa” and liberals are the ones who are stupid for not seeing the threat the kitten posed to our safety.
I predicted this miserable state of affairs back in 201…

Some Trump voters are sneaking away
They'll never admit they're wrong, but polling reveals quiet GOP regret

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Linux-Entwickler kooperieren für besseres Linux-Gaming

Deep learning of committor and explainable artificial intelligence analysis for identifying reaction coordinates
Toshifumi Mori, Kei-ichi Okazaki, Kang Kim, Nobuyuki Matubayasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25237 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25237 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25237
arXiv:2603.25237v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In complex molecular systems, the reaction coordinate (RC) that characterizes transition pathways is essential to understand underlying molecular mechanisms. This review surveys a framework for identifying the RC by applying deep learning to the committor, which provides the most reliable measure of the progress along a transition path. The inputs to the neural network are collective variables (CVs) expressed as functions of atomic coordinates of the system, and the corresponding RC is predicted as the output by training the network on the committor as the learning target. Because deep learning models typically operate in a black-box manner, it is difficult to determine which input variables govern the predictions. The incorporation of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques enables quantitative assessment of the contributions of individual input variables to the predictions. This approach allows the identification of CVs that play dominant roles and demonstrates that the committor distribution on the surface using important CVs is separated by well-defined boundaries. The framework provides an explainable deep learning strategy for assigning a molecular mechanism from the RC and is applicable to a wide range of complex molecular systems.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Animal Collective:
🎵 What Would I Want? Sky
#AnimalCollective
https://d-m-y.bandcamp.com/track/animal-collective-what-would-i-want-sky-dmy-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0CLex45IpTEpI0bnqdP51H

The working class is the fundamental force that produces the material conditions necessary for the reproduction of society, and through our collective labor we not only create food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, and communication networks, but we also sustain and reproduce the conditions that allow every aspect of social life to continue functioning, so that even those who do not work, whether they are managers, bureaucrats, or capitalists, depend entirely on our labor for …

So the collective trauma reaction against the Church, so deep for those of us coming from the tradition of the European Left, alienates us from those indigenous comrades of ours who refused to let their identities be erased. It alienates us from Black and Latin American comrades who, in some cases, have subverted that same religion from a tool of oppression to a tool of resistance.
It also alienates us from our pagan, Jewish, and even Christian ancestors. Rather than a rejection of the genocides, crusades, and pogroms carried out to solidify the hegemony of the Church, a chauvinistic atheism affirms it under another name. Likewise it affirms the patriarchs who burned witches and destroyed midwifery to shift power over to male doctors.
The "Enlightenment" paradigm of "Reason," that led through secularism to the anti-religious antagonism of Bill Maher and the New Atheists, is laced with an Islamophobia and anti-Semitism rooted in the same church they claim to reject. And anyone who has been paying attention can see that it opens the door to the far right anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that also grows from that same root...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Animal Collective:
🎵 Floridada
#AnimalCollective
https://anmlcollectve.bandcamp.com/track/floridada-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/26WNKAgxNfg1MkhpBrx8UV

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Louise Héritte-Viardot & Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective:
🎵 Piano Quartet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 9 "Im Sommer": II. Fliegen und Schmetterling
#LouiseHéritteViardot
https://open.spotify.com/track/1omm7DsxkbfYLlJhvXYdo2

The political empire of Trump has always been built on vibes, not facts. He was never a successful businessman — he sucked at it, actually — but he •played• one on TV. People voted for the character on The Apprentice, the character in the QAnon posts, the collectively imagined Second Coming cult leader with ripped muscles, the generic racist whose granting of permission to indulge in collective cruelty offered a kind of euphoric bonding.
The facts are never what gave him power.
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Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will
garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months.
“It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,”
says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
To student debtors fac…

Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options
Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months. “It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,” says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To student debtors facing financial hards…

Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith joins The Atlantic as a managing director overseeing events; he will remain senior adviser at Emerson Collective (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/2026/01/evan-smith-managing-director-e…

Evan Smith Managing Director for Events
Smith created the Texas Tribune Festival and has advised dozens of newsrooms on their editorial-events businesses.

@… A fair question and I wish it were possible! Unfortunately our fiscal sponsor on Open Collective would not allow Kickstarter contributions as expenses (as Kickstarter by definition is prepayments), per the documentation:

Rosie McGee,
handcuffed to Bob Weir, front,
with other members of the 710 Ashbury collective being led out of the house after being arrested by police following a drug raid on the famous Grateful Dead house in Haight Ashbury on OCTOBER 2, 1967.
"By the time a paddy wagon arrived to take us down to the Hall of Justice, a crowd had gathered across the street.
Bob Weir and I were handcuffed together and as we came down the stairs, the crowd cheered.
A broad…

Management calls it ‘disruptive.’ We call it Tuesday lunch with collective bargaining.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #ANarchoSyndicalism

19v Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2026
https://ift.tt/sfEHwhM
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Queenstown Collective:
🎵 City Lights (feat. Plumm)
#QueenstownCollective
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hHsY6Atyb5geXcEj9Qk7J

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Animal Collective:
🎵 Peacebone
#AnimalCollective
https://anmlcollectve.bandcamp.com/album/peacebone
https://open.spotify.com/track/3bTyUD39OY8Xu4yOTom383

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
Animal Collective:
🎵 My Girls
#AnimalCollective
https://beatmass.bandcamp.com/track/animal-collective-my-girls-beatma-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jZBPuJmkOsfPkwFD30dAA

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Queenstown Collective:
🎵 Grapefruit (feat. JSPHYNX)
#QueenstownCollective
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mfVMgJOO5JQ4FPZ2z0mdn

NFL laying groundwork to hire replacement refs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48243257/nfl-seeks-list-possible-replacement-refs-cba-not-reached

19v Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138762/19v-seminar-series-winter-spring-2026

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Animal Collective:
🎵 My Girls
#AnimalCollective
https://beatmass.bandcamp.com/track/animal-collective-my-girls-beatma-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jZBPuJmkOsfPkwFD30dAA

Communities have changed how resistance is conducted
— away from the myth of the solitary activist hero
and toward
shared capacity.
As Grace Lee Boggs taught us,
“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.”
Political exhaustion took on new meaning.
It was no longer treated as a personal struggle, but as shared terrain
— produced by oppressive systems and requiring collective response.
The question shifted from…

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care
Rapid-response networks and mutual aid are not charity. They’re shared infrastructure for collective care and survival.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Robin Holloway & Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective:
🎵 Piano Quartet, Op. 143
#RobinHolloway #KaleidoscopeChamberCollective

19v Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138762/19v-seminar-series-winter-spring-2026

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Johannes Brahms & Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective:
🎵 Piano Quartet no 1 in G minor, Op 25
#JohannesBrahms #KaleidoscopeChamberCollective

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Afro Yaqui Music Collective:
🎵 Insurrealista
#AfroYaquiMusicCollective
https://afroyaquimusiccollective.bandcamp.com/track/insurrealista
https://open.spotify.com/track/5HFL2fNXAsEESRdP29iyvg

The Karpeles Museum,
a true hidden gem of downtown Santa Barbara
and an important free museum for all to visit,
is set to close because the building is being sold.
Perhaps some local collective or organization could buy the building and continue to lease the collection of documents and artifacts from the Karpeles family?
The building has an upstairs and courtyard that would be a perfect venue for all sorts of live events
— in the not-so-distant past the …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Clara Schumann, Tom Poster & Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective:
🎵 Ihr Bildnis Op. 13 No. 1
#ClaraSchumann #TomPoster #KaleidoscopeChamberCollective

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Deaf Club:
🎵 Biblical Loophole
#DeafClub
https://threeoneg.bandcamp.com/track/deaf-club-feat-hirs-collective-biblical-loophole