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Friday essay: Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-project-2025-th…

Friday essay: Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world
Project 2025 is iconoclastic and dystopian. Those who wish to understand Trump and the movement behind him, and the active threat they pose to American democracy, are obliged to take it seriously.

catching up on the newest proceedings of the #GratefulDead studies association, covering a year i missed, & learned that the inspiration for the fabulous furry freak brothers #comix character norbert the nark was norbert currie, one of the

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/jezebel-and-the-question-of-womens-anger - Jezebel and the question of women’s anger.

This short essay by @… is spot on. He talks about the need to seek out those who disagree with you, a cornerstone to learning and growing, and
The Columbia faculty along with those of Yale, NYU, and other campuses now engulfed in protests against what is occurring in Gaza should do everything in their power to use the resulting provocations, inconveniences, and discomforts as occasions for learning rather than repression.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-important-thing-i-teach-555

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09216 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

AutoTutor meets Large Language Models: A Language Model Tutor with Rich Pedagogy and Guardrails
Large Language Models (LLMs) have found several use cases in education, ranging from automatic question generation to essay evaluation. In this paper, we explore the potential of using Large Language Models (LLMs) to author Intelligent Tutoring Systems. A common pitfall of LLMs is their straying from desired pedagogical strategies such as leaking the answer to the student, and in general, providing no guarantees. We posit that while LLMs with certain guardrails can take the place of subject exp…

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/jezebel-and-the-question-of-womens-anger - Jezebel and the question of women’s anger.

Epic cowardice at NPR
NPR last month succumbed to authoritarian pressure
One of its own editors, Uri Berliner, had published an attack essay in the Free Press claiming that his colleagues pushed liberal “advocacy” and failed to promote viewpoint diversity in their ranks.

Then NPR Editor in Chief Edith Chapin responded in the fashion of a leader, crafting an assertive statement about the organization’s “exceptional work.”
💥Cowardice has now supplanted defiance: 💥

Epic cowardice at NPR
The broadcaster dismissed a high-profile critique from within its ranks. Then it crumbled.

🐉 The monsters that made me: Growing up disabled, all of my heroes were villains
https://www.polygon.com/entertainment/24128340/horror-movie-monsters-disability-relationship-essay

The monsters that made me: Growing up as a disabled horror movie fan
Horror movies have a complicated relationship with disability, but this disabled author talks about his love for them and how it changed his relationship with himself.

Who but a white Christian man could tell those graduating women, unashamedly, “I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother,” https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-if-h

Essay: If Harrison Butker Was a Muslim
Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker giving a commencement speech to 2024 graduates of Benedictine College.Benedictine College / YouTube Who but a white Christian man could tell a class of graduating women in 2024 that they were probably most excited about becoming mothers and wives, only to have other white people in the United States (of White Supremacist Patriarchy) act shocked?

My weekly photo-essay contribution to the blog Balloon Juice.
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/06/17/on-the-road-albatrossity-costa-rica-week-3-flowers-and-butterflies/

Balloon Juice - On The Road - Albatrossity - Costa Rica — Week 3, Flowers and Butterflies
It’s Albatrossity Monday!  No birbs, but we do get flowers!  Then we have the last of frosty’s 2022 national park trips from 2022 – pssst, frost, is it time to move into 2023?  Anyway, it’s the end of the frosty series for 2022, and the beginning of a series from PaulB.  Endings and beginnings this …

"Unsere Online-Räume sind keine Ökosysteme, auch wenn die Technologie-Unternehmen dieses Wort lieben. Sie sind Plantagen – hochkonzentrierte und kontrollierte Umgebungen, die eher mit industriellen Rindermastanlagen oder Hühnerbatterien zu vergleichen sind, die die darin gefangenen Lebewesen in den Wahnsinn treiben."
Lesenswertes Essay von Maria Farrell und Robin Berjon auf @…

Essay: Wir müssen zurück zum wilden Internet
Das Internet ist zu einer ausbeuterischen und fragilen Monokultur geworden. Aber wir können es renaturieren, indem wir die Lehren von Ökologen nutzen.

This Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a wonderful opportunity to read (or reread!) this incredible essay on disability dongles from Liz Jackson, @…, and @….

Disability Dongle | Platypus

"Would you, in an essay, write 'Einstein were a right clever lad, 'e were', just because that's the way people speak where you come from?"
Well, NOW I want to write it this way.

An Essay concerning machine understanding
Herbert L. Roitblat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01840 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.01840

An Essay concerning machine understanding
Artificial intelligence systems exhibit many useful capabilities, but they appear to lack understanding. This essay describes how we could go about constructing a machine capable of understanding. As John Locke (1689) pointed out words are signs for ideas, which we can paraphrase as thoughts and concepts. To understand a word is to know and be able to work with the underlying concepts for which it is an indicator. Understanding between a speaker and a listener occurs when the speaker casts his …

"The birds are coming, look up rejoice".
Another beautiful essay by @… , read sitting out in the sun listening to the chorus of birds here in Copenhagen. I highly recommend checking out the 2 linked pieces too
https://open.substack.com/pub/chasingnature/p/the-gentle-rain-of-songbirds

Longish essay by @… explaining why #iPadOS may just be fine as it is, finishing with a short footnote describing exactly why it isn‘t.

Last night I watched a 28 minute YouTube video essay about the origins of the sparkles ✨ emoji and how AI has "stolen" this emoji.
There's always a YouTube video essay for anything. My YT Premium subscription has probably the biggest value per euro for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-pG79L…

who needs overpowered fire units when you can deploy your OTP to ransack bosses: an essay by yours truly #clae_ae

“Anyone who finds themselves rolling their eyes at any young person willing to put their own future into jeopardy for an ethical principle should ask themselves where the limits of their own commitments lie.”
☝🏻
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/shibb

Nice to read good news for once 😜
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112592623503791440

My school has a required class, "Global Perspectives in Sustainability". I just turned in an essay about sustainability, interconnectedness and Godzilla...

Tired of endlessly sifting through multiple documents and resources when studying or researching? 🔍 NotebookLM, Google's AI-powered tool, can revolutionise your workflow when it comes to analysing all this data. 🚀
NotebookLM can summarise complex information, answer your questions, and even analyse images and charts! 🤯 It can even help with generating study guides with short form and essay style questions for you!
And the best part is that you can have separate, saved noteboo…

Good short essay on the absurdity of describing the US political scene as dominated by “polarization”: https://kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/polarization-or-radicalization

Polarization or Radicalization?
This post is a little unusual for CAMPAIGN TRAILS, but we’re heading into a long holiday weekend, so … why not. This morning I woke up to an email from a columnist at a major newspaper, asking for my input on a topic they were considering for an upcoming piece about “a phenomenon that could be a consequence of polarization: that both the left and right are increasingly driven internally towards self-destructive policies.”

When an American writes “Zeitgeist” into their essay it's impressive and shows great skill, even with complex words, but when I do it, it's “lazy writing” and “confusing English and German words”
I will never forget, Ms. Gannon

#Requiescat One last nugget, I promise. In 2009, #SteveAlbini wrote this for Record Store Day and the #ChicagoReader published it as an ad for

"Unsere Online-Räume sind keine Ökosysteme, auch wenn die Technologie-Unternehmen dieses Wort lieben. Sie sind Plantagen – hochkonzentrierte und kontrollierte Umgebungen, die eher mit industriellen Rindermastanlagen oder Hühnerbatterien zu vergleichen sind, die die darin gefangenen Lebewesen in den Wahnsinn treiben."
Lesenswertes Essay von Maria Farrell und Robin Berjon auf @…

Essay: Wir müssen zurück zum wilden Internet
Das Internet ist zu einer ausbeuterischen und fragilen Monokultur geworden. Aber wir können es renaturieren, indem wir die Lehren von Ökologen nutzen.

This Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a wonderful opportunity to read (or reread!) this incredible essay on disability dongles from Liz Jackson, @…, and @….

Disability Dongle | Platypus

"Anatomie der Gewalt" ist ein wirklich guter Text zum Israel/Palästina-Konflikt. Insbesondere dröselt er wunderbar auf, warum der Begriff des "Siedlerkolonialismus" angemessen und hilfreich sein könnte, aber was seine derzeitige Verwendung verflacht und dadurch mitunter zur menschenverachtenden Konfliktverschärfung beiträgt.

Anatomie der Gewalt – MERKUR
Ein Essay von Avner Ofrath. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.

"Sensory distortions aside, I was mentally cognizant & emotionally aware. I remembered the relationship & its demise, but with calm acceptance & no trace of grief or confusion. At times my mind wandered to other topics, like my brain was getting a 'spring cleaning' by reworking other memories." #KetamineTherapy

I Did Ketamine Therapy to Heal My Heartbreak
Can ketamine therapy help heal heartbreak by way of regular IV infusions? One writer puts the theory to the test.

Patriarchy According To The Barbie Movie : Jonathan McIntosh / Pop Culture Detective
https://archive.org/details/patriarchy-according-to-the-barbie-movie
This video essay uses the Barbie Movie as a primer to help explain what patriarchy actual…

Adam Serwer’s essay “The Cruelty Is the Point” changed the way I inhabit the world. I already had the pieces. I already understood them, sort of. Yet when I read his writing, something clicked for me. I see the world differently after reading it.
It’s a piece that is worth rereading now, all the way to its powerful final paragraph:

The Cruelty Is the Point
President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.

My weekly photo-essay at the blog Balloon Juice
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/05/13/on-the-road-albatrossity-spring-in-the-heartland-3/

Balloon Juice - On The Road - Albatrossity - Spring in the Heartland - 3
Happy Monday! We’ve got a great mix of things this week.  Should be fun! (click on the schedule below for a bigger, non-blurry version) Albatrossity The rush of migrant birds increases after Tax Day, and each day usually brings species that have not been seen since last year. Birders have acronyms for lots of things, …

An excellent essay on Albert Memmi and the problems with postcolonialism.
https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/albert-memmi-and-the-problem-with-postcolonialism/

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
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A great essay that explains a lot about our current political moment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/24/trump-tyranny-christian-nationalist-democracy/

We have a radical democracy. Will Trump voters destroy it?
The Founding Fathers feared that Americans would someday reject their many freedoms. That’s what the 2024 election is really about.

A great question:
"When we speak of resistance against murderous oppression and the fight for survival and freedom, do we only bother about the past? Are we happy with it when it is so comfortably distant as to be amenable to kitsch? We have the Black Panthers in photo books and Malcolm X on our walls – then why not also the PFLP and Abu Obeida? Is revolutionary politics a posturing about the past, or about real struggles that happen as we speak?"

Beautiful little essay by an anaesthesiologist on death, organ donation, dignity, and AI: https://aeon.co/essays/the-tenderness-of-medical-care-in-an-organ-donors-last-hours
(One of the photos may be disturbing to some)

The tenderness of medical care in an organ donor’s last hours | Aeon Essays
In the liminal time when the brain is dead but organs are kept alive, there is an urgent tenderness to medical care

@… we’re gonna need the rest of that batdance essay

Really a terrific essay by a guy with a studied and thoughtful perspective on history.
We have a radical #democracy. Will #Trump voters destroy it? https://

We have a radical democracy. Will Trump voters destroy it?
The Founding Fathers feared that Americans would someday reject their many freedoms. That’s what the 2024 election is really about.

"Fifty years in an office
will be found shrivelled up to a dot, and a few days in in the wilds will expand into the whole essay."
- Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

Wenn der Erhalt der menschlichen Lebensgrundlagen der freien wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung und dem wirtschaftlichen Wachstum im Wege steht, müssen wir die Notwendigkeit menschlicher Lebensgrundlagen überwinden. Fortschritte in der KI erlauben schon sehr bald eine post-biologische Wirtschaft, frei von den Zwängen von Lebensgrundlagen. In diesem Essay möchte ich …

26-year-old marshall allen, bottom left in sunglasses, watching charlie parker (& art simmons & kenny clarke) in #paris at club saint-germain, november 1950, from val wilmer's wire story on marshall allen's post-war years. excited to celebrate marshall's 100th with @…

Marshall Allen 100th birthday reading - The Wire
To mark the 100th birthday of saxophonist Marshall Allen on 25 May, we have made three articles featuring the Sun Ra Arkestra bandleader free to read in our online library: Allen’s Invisible Jukebox from 2004, a 2015 interview by David Keenan, and Val Wilmer’s 2014 essay on Allen's formative time in Paris during the 1940s.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02008 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Bethe Ansatz
The term Bethe Ansatz stands for a multitude of methods in the theory of integrable models in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory that were designed to study the spectra, the thermodynamic properties and the correlation functions of these models non-perturbatively. This essay attempts to a give a brief overview of some of these methods and their development, mostly based on the example of the Heisenberg model and the corresponding six-vertex model.

On Ambiguity and the Expressive Function of Law: The Role of Pragmatics in Smart Legal Ecosystems
Pompeu Casanovas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05084 https:/…

On Ambiguity and the Expressive Function of Law: The Role of Pragmatics in Smart Legal Ecosystems
This is a long paper, an essay, on ambiguity, pragmatics, legal ecosystems, and the expressive function of law. It is divided into two parts and fifteen sections. The first part (Pragmatics) addresses ambiguity from the perspective of linguistic and cognitive pragmatics in the legal field. The second part (Computing) deals with this issue from the point of view of human-centered design and artificial intelligence, specifically focusing on the notion and modelling of rules and what it means to c…

Quantum sensing with atomic, molecular, and optical platforms for fundamental physics
Jun Ye, Peter Zoller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04665 https://…

Quantum sensing with atomic, molecular, and optical platforms for fundamental physics
Atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics has been at the forefront of the development of quantum science while laying the foundation for modern technology. With the growing capabilities of quantum control of many atoms for engineered many-body states and quantum entanglement, a key question emerges: what critical impact will the second quantum revolution with ubiquitous applications of entanglement bring to bear on fundamental physics? In this Essay, we argue that a compelling long-term v…

Jonathan Howard:
I can’t stop thinking about the essay
"No, Young Adults Should Not Live in Fear from Coronavirus" by Drs. John Mandrola and Andrew Foy,
two so-called “medical conservatives”.
It was written on December 29th, 2020 in response to a research letter titled "All-Cause Excess Mortality and COVID-19–Related Mortality Among US Adults Aged 25-44 Years, March-July 2020",
which found that 4,535 COVID deaths were recorded among young ad…

Once a Doctor Has Minimized Literal Death for Young People, Should We Value Their Opinion on Any Topic Less Consequential Than Literal Death?
Is potential death worse than real death?

My weekly photo-essay at the blog Balloon Juice
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/05/06/on-the-road-albatrossity-spring-in-the-heartland-2/

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Aunt Sally:
🎵 Essay
#AuntSally
#Bandcamp

Really a terrific essay by a guy with a studied and thoughtful perspective on history.
We have a radical #democracy. Will #Trump voters destroy it? https://

We have a radical democracy. Will Trump voters destroy it?
The Founding Fathers feared that Americans would someday reject their many freedoms. That’s what the 2024 election is really about.

Advancing Mathematical Epidemic Modeling via synergies with Chemical Reaction Network Theory and Lagrange-Hamilton Geometry
Florin Avram, Rim Adenane, Mircea Neagu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03269

Advancing Mathematical Epidemic Modeling via synergies with Chemical Reaction Network Theory and Lagrange-Hamilton Geometry
This essay reviews some key concepts in mathematical epidemiology and examines the intersection of this field with related scientific disciplines, such as chemical reaction network theory and Lagrange-Hamilton geometry. Through a synthesis of theoretical insights and practical perspectives, we underscore the significance of essentially non-negative kinetic systems in the development and implementation of robust epidemiological models. Our purpose is to make the case that currently mathematical …

"Fifty years in an office
will be found shrivelled up to a dot, and a few days in in the wilds will expand into the whole essay."
- Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/doing-is-normally-distributed-learning-is-log-normal/ - Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal.

My weekly photo-essay at the blog Balloon Juice.
#Nature

Balloon Juice - On The Road - Albatrossity - Costa Rica, week 1 — Hummingbirds!
It’s Albatrossity Monday, and we get hummingbirds!  We must have been very good to deserve this. Costa Rica to California, California to Illinois, then Illinois to Arizona.  I am not good with geography, but even I know that whoever planned the itinerary for this week did not plan the most efficient routes! (click the image below …

Kant’s essay on perpetual peace is often cited as an inspiration for the European Union: a project born out of the ashes of the second world war that saw former mortal enemies come together in a shared commitment to peaceful institutions.
For all its limitations, it has been crucial not just to steer western European politics away from fratricidal nationalism but also for disillusioned states struggling to reconcile with their communist past. 
Europe has recently become a place …

After the interview I did just now with journalist and author Simeon Gasparov for Troubadours Magazine's @… podcast.
We talked about his life in Chicago for the last 30 years and his honest observations on the US and Bulgarian life and politics. And of course, about his newest essay collection in Bulgarian, The Lake Effect (Ефектът на езерото).

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02008 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Bethe Ansatz
The term Bethe Ansatz stands for a multitude of methods in the theory of integrable models in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory that were designed to study the spectra, the thermodynamic properties and the correlation functions of these models non-perturbatively. This essay attempts to a give a brief overview of some of these methods and their development, mostly based on the example of the Heisenberg model and the corresponding six-vertex model.

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/doing-is-normally-distributed-learning-is-log-normal/ - Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal.

I face hard choices every single night.
I could try to get some sleep. Or I could overthink my entire life, shitpost and watch the umpteenth video essay on obscure Russian videogames on Youtube.
Decisions. Decisions everywhere.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11456 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

The Arrow of Time is Alive and Well but Forbidden Under the Received View of Physics
This essay offers a meta-level analysis in the sociology and history of physics in the context of the so-called "Arrow of Time Problem" or "Two Times Problem," which asserts that the empirically observed directionality of time is in conflict with physical theory. I argue that there is actually no necessary conflict between physics and the arrow of time, and that the observed directionality of time is perfectly consistent with physics unconstrained by certain optional metaphysical, epistemologic…

What's So Hard about the Monty Hall Problem?
Rafael C. Alvarado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00884…

What's So Hard about the Monty Hall Problem?
The Monty Hall problem is notorious for its deceptive simplicity. Although today it is widely used as a provocative thought experiment to introduce Bayesian thinking to students of probability, in the not so distant past it was rejected by established mathematicians. This essay provides some historical background to the problem and explains why it is considered so counter-intuitive to many. It is argued that the main barrier to understanding the problem is the back-grounding of the concept of d…

Large Language Models as Partners in Student Essay Evaluation
Toru Ishida, Tongxi Liu, Hailong Wang, William K. Cheung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18632 htt…

Melinda French Gates says she will donate $1 billion over the next two years
to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally,
including on reproductive rights in the United States.
It’s the second billion-dollar commitment French Gates has personally made in the past five years.
In 2019, she pledged over ten years to expand women’s power and influence.
Earlier this month, French Gates announced she would step down from the Bill…

Melinda French Gates to donate $1B over next 2 years in support of women's rights
Melinda French Gates says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally, including on reproductive rights in the United States. French Gates, who is known as one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the U.S., said in a guest essay for The New York Times on Tuesday that she’s been frustrated over the years by people who say it’s not the right time to talk about gender equality.

Great interview with #Columbia #Barnard faculty member on #encampment for #Palestine

Storm Over Columbia | Nadia Abu El-Haj
On December 24, 2023, the NYR Online published an essay by Nadia Abu El-Haj about the crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech at Columbia University and

Great interview with #Columbia #Barnard faculty member on #encampment for #Palestine

Storm Over Columbia | Nadia Abu El-Haj
On December 24, 2023, the NYR Online published an essay by Nadia Abu El-Haj about the crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech at Columbia University and

If you are an advanced learner of French looking for prose on current events worth your effort, both for style and for content… you can choose worse than Frédéric Lordon.
E.g. the essay above on the Western reaction to Gaza.
#learningFrench #verse #alexandrine #subprimeMortgageCrisis