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#072 Introducing Creativity Diagrams https://diagramclub.substack.com/p/072-introducing-creativity-diagrams

#072 Introducing Creativity Diagrams
A storyteller at The Cafe / A cartoon you can print

Claude: Anthropic führt interaktive Diagramme und Visualisierungen ein
Anthropic macht Claude multimodaler: Der KI-Chatbot kann komplexe Antworten nun mit interaktiven Diagrammen, Zeitstrahlen und Modellen direkt im Chat ergänzen.

New Jersey mayor told cops to keep Black people out of his town, according to lawsuit from the state | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-jersey-mayor-discrimination-lawsuit-b2902451.html

Our cat is getting famous! Modeling for a local cat salon.
#cat

Liva’s Beauty DOG&CAT Pflegestudio on Instagram: "Zahnpflege wie ein Profi! 😺🪥 Stressfrei zu sauberen Zähnchen mit @emmi_pet.de x Liva‘s Beauty ✨🦷 #zahnpflege #stressfrei #emmipetteethcleaning #cargroomer #doggroomer"
11 likes, 2 comments - livas.beauty.dogcat on January 16, 2026: "Zahnpflege wie ein Profi! 😺🪥 Stressfrei zu sauberen Zähnchen mit @emmi_pet.de x Liva‘s Beauty ✨🦷 #zahnpflege #stressfrei #emmipetteethcleaning #cargroomer #doggroomer".

Another #Brexit bonus. British-born dual citizen cannot enter the UK on their non-UK passport. Unlike foreigners they cannot travel to Britain on a visa or an ETA, but they must have a UK passport. Yet lapsed UK passports may not be renewed in case of name change, particularly for women (e.g. married vs. maiden name). It's a fine mess.

New UK border rules for dual nationals are discriminatory against women, campaigners say
British women in Spain and Greece face ‘huge problems’ entering UK because of differing surname rules

1.7x speedup on the 100baseT1 decode from doing the PAM3 demodulation (but not the descrambling) in a shader.
Now the whole baseT1 demo is running at about 8 WFM/s, with a roughly 125ms filter graph execution time (on 80ms of waveform data, so real time would be 12.5 WFM/s)
This breaks down (roughly, not exact due to parallel execution) to:
* 1.3 ms subtract diffpair legs
* 10.6 ms de-embed directional coupler
* 0.6 ms equalization
* 7.5 ms upsample
* 14…

Reverse drafting club!
"Reverse drafting is the process of unraveling fabric swatches and diagramming their construction using weave draft notation. It’s really fun! So fun that we started a Reverse Drafting Club to work remotely on this practice with friends near and far. In 2022, we had nearly 400 members in this exclusive club, scattered across the globe.* You don’t have to be a weaver to get in on this. If you like puzzles of any kind, we think you’ll enjoy it."

"Hours before California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed landmark legislation to outlaw caste discrimination, Ramesh V. Kapur, a Massachusetts entrepreneur with deep ties to affluent Indian American donors, said Newsom personally emailed him to let him know it was about to happen."
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Veteran tech investor Roger McNamee, recalled asking "Silicon Valley" creator Mike Judge what he was really going for.
Judge answered, “I think Silicon Valley is immersed in a titanic battle between the hippie value system of the Steve Jobs generation and the Ayn Randian libertarian values of the Peter Thiel generation.”
McNamee’s own read on things was less diplomatic:
“Some of us actually, as naïve as it sounds, came here to make the world a better place.
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The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out | TechCrunch
In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world's

Discriminating vibrotactile signals: the relative roles of amplitude and frequency https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/15/3/164 "basic constraints on vibrotactile perception that are relevant for the design of wearable tactile interfaces and sensory substitution devices"