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Nova Scotia miniatures.
#Photography #NovaScotia

People who entered the US legally
and have no criminal charges
are being held in the Everglades camp,
according to records obtained by the Miami Herald.
Maybe that’s why the government won’t release the names of those being detained.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/…

Debris – Flowerpot Records Sessions #26: Debris
#alternative

comiCSS #190: Sheriff
https://comicss.art/comics/190
> cartoon with two panels. The first one shows a sheriff with a curly mustache, curly cowboy hat, curly eyebrows, and additional shadows that make it 'fancy'; it is titled Sheriff. The second one is the same sheriff, but the …

It's been years since I've bought anything from them (so yes I've contributed to the problem) but eBuyer used to be my go-to supplier of computer equipment. Looks like they've fallen on hard times & been bought out by Mike Ashley's Fraser Group, likely to become an online retailer of general stuff.
#eBuyer #eBuyerUK #FraserGroup
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/uk_tech_retailer_ebuyer_heads/

Affordances of Sketched Notations for Multimodal UI Design and Development Tools
Sam H. Ross, Yunseo Lee, Coco K. Lee, Jayne Everson, R. Benjamin Shapiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09342

Affordances of Sketched Notations for Multimodal UI Design and Development Tools
Multimodal UI design and development tools that interpret sketches or natural language descriptions of UIs inherently have notations: the inputs they can understand. In AI-based systems, notations are implicitly defined by the data used to train these systems. In order to create usable and intuitive notations for interactive design systems, we must regard, design, and evaluate these training datasets as notation specifications. To better understand the design space of notational possibilities f…

At a topline glance, Trump's Big Budget Bill is an outrage:
large tax cuts for the rich and millions kicked off health insurance,
almost a parody of what an apparently fragile coalition of contemporary conservatives might abide
(if also a bill that raised the eyebrows of a few debt scolds, including Musk).
But because it is also a one-stop legislative omnibus,
rushed so quickly through the House that Republican representatives are now protesting they didn…

Opinion | Trump’s Budget Tells Three Unhappy Truths About America
Features of the budget: A supercharged ICE, school vouchers and no relief for a warming planet.

Arnold Strangeness of Surface Immersions
Noboru Ito, Hiroki Mizuno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10457 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10457

Arnold Strangeness of Surface Immersions
For any smooth sphere eversion, the number of quadruple point jumps is always odd. In this paper, we introduce a function that detects the first quadruple point jump as the eversion starts. The invariant is a higher-dimensional analogue of Arnold strangeness invariant for plane curves.

This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,”
-- the makeshift immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called the conditions
“disturbing and vile,”
a description Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem challenged
…

A look at the controversy around ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center
This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,” the makeshift immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called the conditions “disturbing and vile,” a description Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem challenged. John Yang speaks with Miami Herald reporter Ana Ceballos about the controversy surrounding the facility.

Two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams spoke at the event,
denouncing efforts by the Trump administration to strip the names of activists from Navy vessels, including possibly Medgar Evers.
“They want to take his name off a boat because they don’t want us to have a reminder of how far he sailed us forward,” Abrams told the conference crowd.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has undertaken an effort to change the names of ships a…

Activists honor assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers' birthday
Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963. The 2025 Democracy in Action Convening, a four-day conference, celebrated Evers last week. Former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams headlined the four-day conference. Abrams, also a voting rights activist, railed against recent actions by President Donald Trump’s administration and denoun…