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AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (Physical Intelligence)
https://www.physicalintelligence.company/research/human_to_robot

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
Exploring how transfer from human videos to robotic tasks emerges in robotic foundation models as they scale.

“My oldest daughter had a lot of trauma as a child,” Andreatta said.
“Something really terrible happened to her when she was very young that I would hope never would happen to any other child.
And as a result of it, she's a lesbian.
She's gay, and she's married to a woman.
And sometimes that's a little bit of [an] internal struggle for me
because I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
After the speech, Andreatta opened the …

California Turning Point USA club in jeopardy after city councilwoman's controversial comments
Comments by Lincoln City Councilmember Holly Andreatta at a Club America meeting at Twelve Bridges High School have drawn attention to the emergence of Turni...

👁️ Very glad to present our Art/Perception collaboration with Etienne Rey today!
🔗 https://laurentperrinet.github.io/talk/2026-01-19-art-and-science
What happens today:
We will discuss with Etienne about the emergence of our collaboration, discover th…

A New Look for Convolutional Deep Networks | Next-generation neural computations
By construction, deep convolutional networks treat all pixels equally. Result: they are energy-hungry, fragile to rotations or zooms, and poor at object localization. This contrasts sharply with biological vision, which demonstrates remarkable efficiency. Think of an eagle spotting prey from kilometers away or a human recognizing a face within an eye blink time. We propose that by using a mechanism concentrating processing at the center of gaze, biological vision is optimally suited for object …

With the emergence of more processors with 64 cores or more, I'm thinking more about whether it makes sense to implement a hypercube virtualised on a single chip with a single vector of memory, or as a literal hypercube of 64 (say) RP2350s. I understand the problems of transferring data across a hypercube, but I don't have a good feeling of how the bus contention on a multicore processor scales. What should I read?

Implementing post scarcity hardware
Prototype work towards building a post-scarcity software system

Panthers' Dave Canales 'cannot ignore' Rico Dowdle's emergence, hints at bigger workload

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/panther

Misplaced neurons reveal the brain's adaptability https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/ns01162601.html Position-independent emergence of neocortical neuron molecular identity, connectivity and function

Misplaced Neurons Reveal the Brain’s Adaptability
Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes?

The emergence and proliferation of “influencers” reminds me of when the LaserWriter first appeared, and everybody went nuts with the fonts and formatting and printing all kinds of bullshit because now they could, cheaply, and then gradually it all died down and became just another useful tool, except the influencers are still shitting out their crap because they all see the few who are making bank at it and dream of being the next superstar. Humans are so fucking gullible. Oooh, shiny!

Drawing from a training with the Climate Psychology Alliance, I've been reflecting on the role of changemakers in our world.
Before, I saw activists as Sisyphus, straining to push the world uphill.
But what if we saw them as keeping the world steady?
https://www.brichapman.com/p/what-is-…

The Elephants Remember: On Activism, Memory, and Holding the World Steady
Not all activism is about pushing forward. Sometimes it’s about remembering, holding, and steadying what’s worth saving. A reflection on emergence, tenderness, and what the elephants can teach us about endurance.

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy/

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergence.

Had a lovely jam chat with Sarah Heneghan and Zebedee Budworth of Emergence Collective for this month's @… radio show on Resonance FM https://www.

♨️ Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-underwater-thermal-vents-molecular-precursors.html

Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
A study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has recreated in the laboratory chemical reactions that may have occurred on Earth about four billion years ago, producing the first molecular precursors for the emergence of life.

Raiders drop AFC West matchup to Broncos but the youth movement advances https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/09/raiders-drop-afc-west-matchup-to-broncos-but-the-youth-movement-advances/

Sources: Netflix ramps up a charm offensive in its pitch to WBD and is sowing doubts about the inevitability of Paramount's bid from an antitrust standpoint (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/2…

Exclusive | Netflix steps up charm offensive to buy Warner Bros. Discovery even after Trump favors rival bid from Paramount
The emergence of Netflix as a serious contender comes as the bidding war enters its next stage.

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
ZEN: Emergence from matter belt in thirty-nine point zero one seconds.
TARRANT: Any damage yet?
ZEN: Hull sensors appear temporarily impaired. All other systems continue on full function.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/139 B7B2

Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain
Linnea Evanson, Christine Bulteau, Mathilde Chipaux, Georg Dorfm\"uller, Sarah Ferrand-Sorbets, Emmanuel Raffo, Sarah Rosenberg, Pierre Bourdillon, Jean-R\'emi King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05718

I’m reading Civilization Before Greece and Rome, by H. W. F. Saggs. Published in ‘89 so some interpretations are outdated, but a section on the emergence and rise of the god king in Mesopotamia for instance shows how the evangelical butt kissing of 🍊💩 and their efforts to sanctify him have been a part of human behavior for the past 5KY that we have written records of, and likely for a long while before that. Our constitution tries to buck the trend, but the odds for success look slim.

Compost and Stardust — #leadership

The Ecology of Imagination: Seeds, Mystery, and Emergent Change
Imagination is not escape—it’s emergence. This essay explores how attention, intimacy, and mystery nurture new worlds quietly forming in the dark.

😾 Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
#computing

Dante Moore vs. Fernando Mendoza: Who should be the Raiders pick? https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/02/dante-moore-vs-fernando-mendoza-who-should-be-the-raiders-pick/

State and Parameter Estimation for a Neural Model of Local Field Potentials
Daniele Avitabile, Gabriel J. Lord, Khadija Meddouni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07842 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07842 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07842
arXiv:2512.07842v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The study of cortical dynamics during different states such as decision making, sleep and movement, is an important topic in Neuroscience. Modelling efforts aim to relate the neural rhythms present in cortical recordings to the underlying dynamics responsible for their emergence. We present an effort to characterize the neural activity from the cortex of a mouse during natural sleep, captured through local field potential measurements. Our approach relies on using a discretized Wilson--Cowan Amari neural field model for neural activity, along with a data assimilation method that allows the Bayesian joint estimation of the state and parameters. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach on synthetic measurements before applying it to a dataset available in literature. Our findings suggest the potential of our approach to characterize the stimulus received by the cortex from other brain regions, while simultaneously inferring a state that aligns with the observed signal.
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Sharing my findings from a recent workshop with the Climate Psychology Alliance: https://www.brichapman.com/p/what-is-emerging-what-is-in-the-way?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Elephants Remember: On Activism, Memory, and Holding the World Steady
Not all activism is about pushing forward. Sometimes it’s about remembering, holding, and steadying what’s worth saving. A reflection on emergence, tenderness, and what the elephants can teach us about endurance.