Now ICE is anywhere and everywhere, embedded in all corners of everyday life.
A Cuban man in Miami who stepped outside his house to take out the trash was detained moments after he had dropped the garbage bag into the bin.
An Ecuadorian father was arrested in Danbury, Connecticut, just after seeing his six-year-old son on to the school bus.
People have been arrested while pumping gas, leaving behind their empty cars.
They are arrested on their way to work, or on their …
Ready To Wear By SZN Of Style
The everyday fashion podcast for Australian girls presented by SZN Of Style. Covering the latest trends, new collections reviews, our current obsessions and reccs and industry news...
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"Government needs to get serious about changing the way we travel – not simply making the vehicles we use cleaner. Electric cars have an important role, but electrification alone cannot solve the transport problem. We need better public transport, more walking and cycling, and genuine alternatives to the car for everyday journeys."
From London to Portugal by train: what I learnt about transport and climate - Campaign for Better Transport
Ok, so here’s a Friday quiz;
What’ a song lyric that you use in everyday life? I mean, you know you’re quoiting the song when you use it.
For me:
“That don't befront me - Long as I get my money next Friday" = fine with me/I don’t care
“One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” by George Thorogood
I realized I have only 4 days left for my car's APK but need it everyday (no time for APK)...
And it has some minor defects while I don't even know if it'll pass after fixing those, so I can't just drop it off and pick it up again in the evening.
Also, I don't even know a good place to do it without getting ripped off... :blobono:
Ofc this shit happens not when I can just part with my car for days but exactly the crucial moments when I need it every day a…
San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.
Tiny Tales Podcast
Sharing incredible stories from everyday Joe's to amazing humans because every person has a story...
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Every zipper is manufactured to a specification that balances precision against cost.
A zipper with teeth machined to tolerances of plus or minus 0.02 millimetres will last thousands of cycles without splitting.
A zipper with tolerances of plus or minus 0.08 millimetres will function adequately for hundreds of cycles before wear accumulates to the failure threshold.
The first costs more to produce.
The second costs more to replace.
The decision between them …
Who Is Jesus to You? Cecile Mentor Interviews the Christian Philosopher Andreas Saugstad
By Cecile Mentor in collaboration with Andreas Saugstad Andreas Saugstad is a Norwegian thinker who connects Christian mysticism, everyday experience, and philosophy in a personal way....
"Microsoft updated its #Surface buying guide to describe 8GB #RAM as “great for everyday use like browsing, streaming, schoolwork, and productivity apps.” A companion FAQ adds that 16GB or more is what unlocks #Copilot
I don’t know who needs to hear this but you don’t have to be a saint to oppose injustice.
You can be a regular, everyday person – flaws and all – and still oppose genocide.
It’s amazing to me that a rapist, war criminal paedophile is president of the US and we’re ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths and yet anyone who opposes fascism has to have never made a mistake their entire lives or it’s a gotcha moment.
You can fuck right off with that bullshit.
What is an extreme positive thing?
It's easy for me to think about what a negative extreme thing is. Negative as in anti-social, and extreme as in the worst, mass.
For instance, rape and murder are the extreme end of a rape joke. Genocide is the extreme end of an everyday slur.
What is positively extreme? I can think of positive things turned bad. Which means, to me, that extremes are inherently negative?
Are there extreme positives?
A regenerative feedback…
Love isn’t destiny or fate or some kind of cosmic force. Love is a choice. It’s a choice everyday, and you can… you can lean towards it or away from it…
—Sarah Nelson, Heartstopper Forever
https://akidnamedseanc.com/2026/08/29/heartstopper-forever/
From my upcoming review of The End of Oak Street:
"This is a movie about what happens when the past comes uninvited to intrude in everyday life. At the symbolic level, surviving a horde of ravenous dinosaurs *is* surviving Reaganism."
Retail traders are shifting from Big Tech to stocks boosted by AI like SK Hynix and Marvell; five of the Magnificent Seven stocks trail the market this year (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/everyda
Ground-Hog Day.
(observed by millions everyday without even acknowledging it)
#LesserKnownFestivals #HashTagGames
✅ Weekly errands done (our trailer was quite packed this time)
✅ Physical exercise after an office day
✅ Avoided afterwork traffic jams
✅ Fresh air
✅ Saved fuel / car cost
✅ Got some Interested looks from ppl around 😀
If you wonder if buying such a trailer pays off. I would say: absolutely!
Especially the exercise is priceless!
#cycling
Everyday, Fat Loser comes up with an even more corrupt way to use the US Presidency to make money for himself.
Unbelievable that America elected such a blatant criminal.
✅ Trump Media Slapped With Lawsuit For Charging To Access #Trump Posts | HuffPost Latest News
Which item of everyday life has generally improved compared to when you were younger?
For example: I find scissors in general have gotten a lot better. ✂️
#AskFedi
Switchable selective backscatter modulation via the Kerker effect
K. J. Cowan, C. M. Hooper, C. P. Gallagher, S. J. Berry, A. P. Hibbins, A. W. Powell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18900 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18900 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18900
arXiv:2607.18900v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We design a reflective scatterer that operates only in the backscatter direction using modulation of the Kerker effect. This being a phenomena where the resonant modes of a scattering object produce total destructive interference in the backscatter direction. Our design consists of a dielectric shell and an interior metal element that provide the required dipolar contributions for Kerker interference with angular stability. By incorporating a PIN diode, we obtain a scatterer that exhibits strong amplitude modulation in the backscattering direction that is weaker at other bistatic angles. Backscatter modulation is a key technology to connect everyday objects but can be vulnerable to eavesdropping, the device presented in this work may help guard against such flaws.
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Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist painter known for his depictions of everyday life, landscapes, and urban scenes. His paintings are celebrated for their natural light, atmospheric perspective, and harmonious use of color.
#art #painting
Orientation Reading by Production Vision-Language Models on Optotype Charts: A Controlled Multi-Model Evaluation Across Reasoning Modes, Prompts, and Access Modalities
Shahryar Wasif, Avneek Sandhu, Bin Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16595 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16595 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16595
arXiv:2607.16595v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Vision-language models are increasingly used to interpret medical and everyday images through consumer chat interfaces, yet their ability to read orientation - the single perceptual operation tested by the tumbling-E acuity optotype - is poorly characterized on the surfaces through which they are actually used. METHODS: We evaluated four production vision-language models (referred to as Claude, GPT, GROK, and Gemini) through their consumer chat interfaces on a locked set of seven optotype charts: four uniform tumbling-E charts (one per cardinal orientation), two mixed-orientation tumbling-E charts, and one Snellen letter chart as a specificity control. Each model was run in two reasoning modes (Fast and Thinking) under two prompt variants (with and without an explicit orientation-decoding rule) by up to three operators. The corpus comprised 920 scoreable trials and 50,420 glyph judgements. The primary outcome was glyph-level accuracy against the chart's designed orientation, summarized with Wilson 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: Accuracy ranged from 43.0% to 97.0% across models on identical charts, and the strongest model depended on reasoning mode (GPT 97.0% in Fast mode; GROK 96.6% in Thinking mode). Errors were not random but collapsed onto a model-specific attractor direction. Models were 96-100% internally self-consistent yet ranged widely in accuracy, dissociating reliability from validity. An answer-key-free ensemble-consensus estimate tracked accuracy closely (r = 0.998). For one model, consumer-interface accuracy fell 25-27 points below programmatic access, almost entirely on a single orientation. CONCLUSIONS: A single accuracy figure conceals clinically relevant, orientation-specific failure modes; vision-language models should be evaluated along multiple axes and on the deployment surface before image-interpretation outputs are trusted.
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Please help Aya if you can. She helps other Gazans everyday by volunteering with Gaza Verified.
The Question Of Education
Hosted by Ben Lawless, education's mascot, and Tom Mahoney, a philosopher of education, the podcast asks the questions that sit beneath everyday conversations about schools, teaching and learning...
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I had an electrician come fix my fire alarms (tbd if it worked), and I had a "future echo" moment (obvs, not literally), so I wrote it down!
2036: https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2026/08/09/2036.html
How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech…
“But the intellectual muscle that’s exercised in everyday writing is the same one used for the writing that matters. We become better writers by the constant effort that mundane writing demands.”
Some good perspectives here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04…
Maya glyphic texts from the Classic period (250–900 CE)
typically chronicle the exploits of historical or divine characters;
everyday or functional records are rare.
Here, the authors offer a reconstruction and transcription of a ‘microtext’
painted on an interior wall of Structure 10K-2 at the site of Xultun, Guatemala.
The text records a unique astronomical formula that concludes with a name,
attributing the work to an individual named Sak Tahn Waax …
Dieser Link sollte in euren Lesezeichen/Favouriten nicht fehlen!
Immer wieder decken Max Schrems und die NOYB Datenschutz-Schmutzeleien der EU und anderer BigTech-Player auf und wehren sich juristisch.
Freilich dürft ihr auch spenden! :-)
#eu #dsgvo
And we were naïve enough to think, from the headline, that this was the end to the EVERYDAY chaos and mayhem on the roads.
But the car is inviolate.
The scenes of mayhem in Greater Manchester that has sparked new police powers - Manchester Evening News
https://www.
15 years ago #OTD the #SpaceShuttle flew for the last time. The most elegant ship that ever carried humans to the cosmos.. and I miss her everyday.
But it's a good opportunity to remember that Atlantis namesake, the ship RV Atlantis, is still alive and working in Argentina!
It isn't everyday you can make a screenfetch like this.
And yes, I did need to modify the script to work with a system as old as this lol
#screenfetch #neofetch #linux
"We had 111 missiles shot at us by the Islamic Republic of Japan." - Trump
If this was a one time thing, it'd be a funny haha anomaly, but everyday, this senile old fool publicly babbles similar random stupidity.
This clown srsly has America's nuclear codes?
#trump
Four sources of pleasure associated with the experience of groove
Music, in both perception and production, is a uniquely powerful source of pleasure, engaging cognitive, bodily, psychological, and social processes. This paper focuses on groove, an everyday, effortless form of sensorimotor musical experience. While previous studies have solely examined groove as pleasurable urge to move, this paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding groove as a multidimensional source ……
LowPowAR: Power-Constrained Tone Mapping for Augmented Reality
Weikai Lin, Sheng Zhao, Ian Ross, Carl Marshall, Sushant Kondguli, Yuhao Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19509 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19509 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19509
arXiv:2607.19509v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Everyday-wearable Augmented Reality (AR) glasses must meet strict power limits, making displays a key target for optimization. We cast display power optimization as a power-constrained tone-mapping problem and propose a human-vision-grounded, learning-based framework that maximizes perceptual quality under a given power budget. We introduce an optimization-friendly tone-mapping operator (TMO) parameterization along with a progressive optimization strategy to effectively navigate the quality-vs-power landscape. We distill the iterative optimization into a lightweight feed-forward neural network for real-time deployment. Subjective experiments show that our method yields better perceptual quality than prior work at the same power budget. Project page: https://horizon-lab.org/lowpowar/.
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Brian Schottenheimer: We Try To Throw Good Practices Everyday | Press Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsYlkqcGz4
“We believe physics is the third modality for AI models,
after text and pixels,”
says MIT PhD student and CSAIL researcher Minghao Guo,
a co-lead author on a paper introducing GeoPT.
“Our general-purpose model has the versatility to help build a world model for physics.
Many models, such as those that generate robotics data and videos, are already well-versed in textual and visual data,
but with physical accuracy, they’ll get more-realistic results.”
…
Healthy Banter's Podcast
A podcast by women, about women, for women. Honest conversations that blend clinical insights with everyday life...
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Review: GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal's autonomous MetaHuman characters (Matt Shumer/Something Big Is Happening)
https://somethingbig.ai/astra-review
Stories Of Coming Out And Coming Home
We share everyday stories of families from our culturally and linguistically diverse communities that embrace their LGBTQ loved ones...
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Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-tokens-consumer-reward…
Australian School Library Day
Australian School Library Day is celebrated on the Wednesday of Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Children's Book Week®, so this year it will be celebrated on 26 August.
Book Week is a busy time for school libraries but it is also just the right time for school communities to pause for a moment and recognise how essential school libraries are in ensuring that reading is a part of everyday life and that students have access to fabul…
Trump’s $2.2 billion in personal earnings during his presidency has been met largely with silence from his MAGA base,
which has been increasingly willing to revolt against policies they view as an abandonment of his promises to put everyday Americans first.
Far-right members of Congress, prominent media pundits and grass-roots activists have criticized Trump’s war with Iran
and openly broken ranks to demand the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
They have accused hi…
Several international law firms are seeking to build bespoke AI tools to gain an edge and protect their IP, while using off-the-shelf AI for everyday tasks (Nick Huber/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c0c8ae73-27fd-4828-aa48-72cdae6613ff
Since 2017, ESA’s #SpaceDebris Office has published an annual Space Environment Report to provide a transparent overview of global space activities and determine how well international debris-reduction measures are improving the long-term sustainability of spaceflight: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/ESA_Space_Environment_Report_2026 -> "The number and scale of commercial satellite constellations continue to increase each year. Not enough satellites leave heavily congested orbits at the end of their lives, creating a growing collision risk. More than three intact satellites or rocket bodies are reentering the Earth’s atmosphere every day on average. At the same time, ten new payloads are launched daily. A new trend has constellations change altitude significantly year-on-year. New report metric added in 2026: on-ground casualty risk of reentries. Even though the numbers are low compared to everyday risks in life, the chance of a casualty increased in recent years due to increased traffic."
PiP Cast: Perspectives In Paeds
Join Melbourne-based OTs Jackie Sikic and Caitlin Smith as they explore best practices, unpack the latest evidence, and chat about the everyday challenges faced by clinicians in paediatrics...
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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, with performance close to Opus 4.8 at a lower price and substantially better agentic performance than Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5
America is celebrating its 250th anniversary of independence
and Ukraine recently marked its Constitution Day, 30 years after shedding its Soviet past.
America’s and Ukraine’s breaks from foreign occupiers — centuries apart – are reminders of how everyday citizens who embrace their civic duties and fight for freedom can bring about lasting security for themselves and the allies supporting their struggle.
Fast forward to 2026,
five years since Ukrainian democracy’s own…
Courageous Me
Imagine what's possible if courage wasn't reserved for heroic moments but became part of your everyday life...
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'On Friday, the commissioner of Hamburg’s data protection authority (DPA), Thomas Fuchs, warned in an interview with German broadcaster ARD that smart glasses are disguised cameras, saying he believes they could be banned under German law which prohibits recording devices hidden in everyday objects.'
Daar is maar moeilijk een speld tussen te krijgen... (Zou je denken) 😇
“I don’t know what things are coming to,”
Babe Ruth sighed during spring training in 1931.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball,”
he elaborated to reporters.
“Of course, they will never make good.
Why?
Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball everyday.”
👉 The next day, Ruth and Lou Gehrig were struck out back-to-back by a 17-year-old girl.
Making their way home from preseason in Florid…
Asian Law Voices
Presents interviews with an array of expert voices on legal issues throughout Asia, covering the law and its myriad connections with politics, culture, art, society and the everyday...
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Raise The Bar
Sit down with world-class experts and everyday high performers to discuss the latest research, hard-won lessons, and the difficult realities of transformation...
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The Toy Library Effect
A podcast from Toy Libraries Australia exploring play, inclusion and practical ways to support children and families through everyday play experiences...
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What's The Point? With Richard Denniss
Richard Denniss cuts through the spin to explain the political and economic decisions shaping the lives of everyday Australians...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/whats-the-point/…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
C C Music Factory featuring Zelma Davis:
🎵 Just a Touch of Love (Everyday)
#C CMusicFactory #ZelmaDavis
https://open.spotify.com/track/12ivWHaFhaQBqWavvSERQi
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Jules Buckley Orchestra & Jules Buckley:
🎵 Everyday
#JulesBuckleyOrchestra #JulesBuckley
@cdarwin@c.im
