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The Conservative Media Ecosystem Is Coddling Amy Coney Barrett (Jay Willis/Balls and Strikes)
https://ballsandstrikes.org/legal-culture/amy-coney-barrett-book-tour-conservative-media-free-press-bari-weiss/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p87#a250904p87

"The two were honored for cofounding the preeminent biomedical preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv."
Totally deserved, if you ask me. Also if you don't ask me.
https://www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-sever-earn-royal-society-research-culture-awa…

Inglis and Sever earn Royal Society Research Culture Award | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL’s) John Inglis and Richard Sever have earned The Royal Society’s 2025 Research Culture Award. The two were honored for cofounding the preeminent biomedical preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv. Established in 2013 and 2019 respectively, these online repositories empower scientists worldwide to share their research fast, fairly, and free of charge....

This excellent piece by Ken White is long, but worth your time to read if you want to understand how and why public discourse in America is broken.
https://www.popehat.com/p/how-free-speech-culture-is-killing-free-speech-part-one

How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One
Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression

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You know what was released on the #InternetArchive yesterday?
Johannes Grenzfurthner‘s documentary movie “Hacking at Leaves” about US history and the racism that built it, the Navajo Nation, hackerspaces and hacker culture, COVID-19, and much more.
It’s now free to watch, share, and talk about!

Trump is now conducting the most punishing government crackdown against major American media institutions in modern times,
using what seems like every tool at his disposal to eradicate reporting and commentary with which he disagrees.
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What Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Says About the Trump Administration’s Crackdown Against Mainstream Media
ABC’s decision to “indefinitely” suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show illuminates the administration’s efficacy so far.

"But articulating a left alternative is just the start. Success means winning mass working-class support for socialist politics, possible only through readiness to learn from past mistakes, free and open debate — a call-out culture based on denouncing heretical views breeds a bubble mentality — and an outward, alliance-building approach to local labour movements and grassroots campaigns."
To defeat the far right, build a class-conscious left | MS

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Australian culture brand Broadsheet launches a London edition, including a website, newsletters, and a free quarterly print magazine, to compete with Time Out (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/broadsheet-london-launch/

Culture brand Broadsheet marks London launch with first print edition
Australian culture brand Broadsheet has officially gone live in London after eight weeks under soft launch.

Career suicide (or residual revenue suicide) example.
(Seinfeld has made me laugh - he is a master of contrived absurdity. But I've never found him humorous on the basis of intellectual wit like George Carlin and Jon Stewart, or even of brain-involved context switching like Gracie Allen, Robin Williams, or Noel Coward.)
"Jerry Seinfeld compares Free Palestine movement to Ku Klux Klan"

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Behind the Blog: 'Free Speech' and Open Dialogue https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-free-speech-and-open-dialogue/

Introduction to a Low-Cost AI-Powered GUI for Unstained Cell Culture Analysis
Surajit Das, Pavel Zun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11354 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Introduction to a Low-Cost AI-Powered GUI for Unstained Cell Culture Analysis
This article presents a novel microscopy image analysis framework designed for low-budget labs equipped with a standard CPU desktop. The Python-based program enables cytometric analysis of live, unstained cells in culture through an advanced computer vision and machine learning pipeline. Crucially, the framework operates on label-free data, requiring no manually annotated training data or training phase. It is accessible via a user-friendly, cross-platform GUI that requires no programming skill…

Great article by Michal Ganzarcik for Shiftmag explaining the nuances of "Just say no" in a career space (Software Development theme, but I believe it applies to work in general).
I especially love the last line under "What's the solution?":
> **Don’t reward or idolize overwork.** Encourage a culture that values balance and sustainable effort over relentless hustle.

ALIGN: Word Association Learning for Cross-Cultural Generalization in Large Language Models
Chunhua Liu, Kabir Manandhar Shrestha, Sukai Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13426 h…

ALIGN: Word Association Learning for Cross-Cultural Generalization in Large Language Models
As large language models (LLMs) increasingly mediate cross-cultural communication, their behavior still reflects the distributional bias of the languages and viewpoints that are over-represented in their pre-training corpora. Yet, it remains a challenge to model and align culture due to limited cultural knowledge and a lack of exploration into effective learning approaches. We introduce a cost-efficient, cognitively grounded remedy: parameter-efficient fine-tuning on native speakers' free word-…

The Senator Will Not Yield -- REVIEW: 'Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation' by Zaakir Tameez (H.W. Brands/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/culture/the-senator-will-not-yield/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p18#a250810p18

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