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A profile of South Korea's Galaxy, which is trying to disrupt K-pop's traditional idol system by blending AI characters and life-size robots, as it plans an IPO (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

My sixth level cleric, Ned, likes to sell swag.
He already has tees and stickers and notebooks:
https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/ned
But now he’s handing out autographed Woodford Reserve bourbon (signed “N€D #6”).
He ships it in church caravans and will use Det…

An award for the Divinity School's Living Village, in recognition of the starring role played by glass "not just as an aesthetic feature, but also as a key contributor to energy goals and comfort," in the words of the judges.
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Die Öffnung der Straße von Hormuz https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10391

Sonnet 022 - XXII
My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth cover thee,
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
How can I then be elder than thou art?
O! therefore love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee wil…

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116052642108873770
“…what we’re witnessing is the express repetition of a project on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps in the People’s Republic of China. The administration is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political and cultural preferences for generations to come.
This is not just a fantasy. It is something for which the administration has acquired the funding and a path forward. It lacks only the personnel and enough detention spaces.”

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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Sonnet 126 - CXXVI
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
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