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Finished reading "Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal El-Mohtar.
A short story collection — fairy tales, fantasy, and poems centering women's resilience and identity, gathered from years of El-Mohtar's commissioned work.
"John Hollowback and the Witch" is a delightful slow burn: a man guilty of wronging women, yet innocent in having no memory of it. "The Truth About Owls" handles displacement better than most novels.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories
Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales w…

Integrative neurocybernetic modeling in the era of large-scale neuroscience
Il Memming Park, Ayesha Vermani, Gonzalo G. de Polavieja, Juan \'Alvaro Gallego, Kathleen Esfahany, Shreya Saxena, Michael Orger, Auke Ijspeert, Matthew Dowling, Daniel McNamee, Srinivas C. Turaga, Zachary Mainen, Joseph J. Paton, Alfonso Renart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23903 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23903 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.23903
arXiv:2604.23903v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large-scale neuroscience is generating rich datasets across animals, brain areas and behavioral contexts, yet our modeling efforts remains fragmented across isolated experiments. We argue that understanding behavior requires integrative neurocybernetic models: understandable dynamical models that capture the closed-loop coupling of brain, body and environment, treat the brain as a controller pursuing latent objectives, represent structured variation across scales, and scale to heterogeneous datasets. Such models shift the goal from predicting neural recordings in isolation to inferring the organizing principles that govern neural and behavioral dynamics. We outline a practical route toward this goal by combining nonlinear state-space models and meta-dynamical extensions with scalable inference, knowledge distillation, mixed open- and closed-loop training, and connectomics-informed architectures. By pooling complementary constraints from recordings, behavior, perturbations and anatomy, integrative neurocybernetic models can provide statistical amplification, few-shot generalization, and mechanistic insight into shared dynamical structure, individual variation, and the control objectives that govern behavior. This agenda offers a model-centric path from fragmented data to a mechanistic science of how brains produce behavior.
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New Marquette Law School national survey finds high approval of Iran cease-fire, low support for the war, and few who think U.S. goals have been achieved (Charles Franklin/Homepage)
https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2026/04/22/new-marquette-law-school-national-survey-finds-high-approval-of-iran-cease-fire-low-support-for-the-war-and-few-who-think-u-s-goals-have-been-achieved/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p43#a260422p43

No entiendo cual es el problema de la gente a la que no le gustó Mario Galaxy. Yo salí completamente satisfecho. Es una película muy entretenida para niños y adultos con un fan service brutal. No encuentro que esté tan lejos de la primera.
3½★ 👉🏻 https://boxd.it/etSPzn

Automating Computational Chemistry Workflows via OpenClaw and Domain-Specific Skills
Mingwei Ding, Chen Huang, Yibo Hu, Yifan Li, Zitian Lu, Xingtai Yu, Duo Zhang, Wenxi Zhai, Tong Zhu, Qiangqiang Gu, Jinzhe Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25522 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25522 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25522
arXiv:2603.25522v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automating multistep computational chemistry tasks remains challenging because reasoning, workflow specification, software execution, and high-performance computing (HPC) execution are often tightly coupled. We demonstrate a decoupled agent-skill design for computational chemistry automation leveraging OpenClaw. Specifically, OpenClaw provides centralized control and supervision; schema-defined planning skills translate scientific goals into executable task specifications; domain skills encapsulate specific computational chemistry procedures; and DPDispatcher manages job execution across heterogeneous HPC environments. In a molecular dynamics (MD) case study of methane oxidation, the system completed cross-tool execution, bounded recovery from runtime failures, and reaction network extraction, illustrating a scalable and maintainable approach to multistep computational chemistry automation.
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In other news, my first 15x11" (roughly DIN A3) print came out with only minor issues, none of them show stoppers and I know what needs to be done to improve. So this is just a test print and it's a bit hard to capture, but the overall presence & level of detail is so amazing at this size! Hard to go back to smaller sizes now :)
To get here, I've been doing countless tests of different recipes and hardware (e.g. I had to disassemble my UV light to create a more uniform/unfocused li…

Mundane Things 🌀
普通物件 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
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Morgen soll Cem Özdemir in Stuttgart zum Ministerpräsidenten gewählt werden. Rückblende in einen Wahlkampf, der eigentlich unmöglich zu gewinnen war:
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/cem-oezdemir-gruene-wahlkamp…

Grüne starten in Landtagswahlkampf: Zuschnitt auf Polit-Promi Özdemir und Wirtschaft im Fokus
Zum Wahlkampfauftakt der Grünen in Baden-Württemberg gilt: Cem Özdemir ist das Programm. Überzeugen will er vor allem mit dem Thema Wirtschaft.

LinkedIn badly needs to understand that (1) given that I'm British, the University of Glasgow is not my "school" and (2) the fact that a small handful of Glasgow Uni graduates now work at a potential job does not mean I can wander up to them in the pub we all go to and ask them to do me a solid. It's been 30 years since I graduated, and about 10,000 new folks get their sheepskin every year. This is not an exclusive club!