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🥱 Study shows that social interaction boosts emotional vitality—but leads to delayed fatigue
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-social-interaction-boosts-emotional-vitality.html

Study shows that social interaction boosts emotional vitality—but leads to delayed fatigue
Social contact can lift our mood but later leave us drained. A new study has tracked this full emotional sequence in everyday life. Researchers found that being around others boosts emotional energy at the moment, yet contributes to rising fatigue a few hours later.

As one of the few people who read Vineland before Paul Thomas Anderson made it cool, I'll say I loved One Battle After Another. It matches the emotional energy of its inspiration, with the main characters of father, daughter and villain true to their Pynchonian analogs. Feels like a remix

ProMode: A Speech Prosody Model Conditioned on Acoustic and Textual Inputs
Eray Eren, Qingju Liu, Hyeongwoo Kim, Pablo Garrido, Abeer Alwan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09389 http…

ProMode: A Speech Prosody Model Conditioned on Acoustic and Textual Inputs
Prosody conveys rich emotional and semantic information of the speech signal as well as individual idiosyncrasies. We propose a stand-alone model that maps text-to-prosodic features such as F0 and energy and can be used in downstream tasks such as TTS. The ProMode encoder takes as input acoustic features and time-aligned textual content, both are partially masked, and obtains a fixed-length latent prosodic embedding. The decoder predicts acoustics in the masked region using both the encoded pro…