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Ashley King went to a bar on a Bali vacation in 2011, and woke up blind just a few days later
— a result of drinks spiked with methanol.
"I woke up in my hostel and I wasn't able to breathe. And shortly after I wasn't able to see,"
said King, a 32-year-old Calgary woman who is sharing her story in a new podcast called Static: A Party Girl's Memoir.
King was 19 at the time, on her last night in Bali before flying to New Zealand the next day.
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This woman went blind after a night out in Bali. She's warning other tourists about methanol in their drinks | CBC Radio
Ashley King woke up blind after her drinks were tainted with methanol during a vacation in Bali. She’s warning others of the fatal consequences of methanol poisoning.

Historically, it makes sense that absurdism is the logical reaction to a climate of oppression and hostility. Dada and Bauhaus for WW I, the "theatre of the absurd" (Esslin) for WW II, or anti-Vietnam war happenings in the 60s.
Somewhat surprisingly, it seems that this role of absurdist relief has today fallen to Tim Robinson and his sketch comedy show "I think you should leave", and the online community around it.
The protagonists change from sketch to sketch…

Russian Attacks Kill 14 in Ukraine, Hours Before Zelensky Visits White House.
Ukrainian officials said the deadly strikes were a further sign that Russia had no intention of halting hostilities.
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Russian Attacks Kill 10 in Ukraine, Hours Before Trump-Zelensky Meeting
Ukrainian officials said the deadly strikes were a further sign that Russia had no intention of halting hostilities.

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"Microsoft ♥️ Linux" so much they are going way out of their way to get people to ditch Windows for Linux. It's not just the TPM requirement. Here's someone already on Windows 11 discovering just how hostile Windows can be towards users.
https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-p…

Quantitative Stain Mapping in X-ray Virtual Histology
Dominik John, David M. Paganin, Marie-Christine Zdora, Lisa Marie Petzold, Patrick Ilg, Junan Chen, Sara Baggio, Johannes B. Thalhammer, Sami Wirtensohn, Julian Moosmann, J\"org U. Hammel, Felix Beckmann, Samantha J. Alloo, Jannis Ahlers, Madleen Busse, Julia Herzen, Kaye S. Morgan
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Quantitative Stain Mapping in X-ray Virtual Histology
Virtual histology is an emerging field in biomedicine that enables three-dimensional tissue visualization using X-ray micro-computed tomography. However, the method still lacks the specificity of conventional histology, in which parts of the tissue are selectively highlighted using targeted stains. Though some first X-ray stains have been developed to address this issue, their precise location and quantity inside the tissue volume remain largely unknown. In this work, we present a novel approac…

I don't know how #MacOS can be so popular with #developers given how actively hostile it is to being able to generate core dumps or attach #debuggers. I guess most people are using it to shell t…

Robot Control Stack: A Lean Ecosystem for Robot Learning at Scale
Tobias J\"ulg, Pierre Krack, Seongjin Bien, Yannik Blei, Khaled Gamal, Ken Nakahara, Johannes Hechtl, Roberto Calandra, Wolfram Burgard, Florian Walter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14932

Robot Control Stack: A Lean Ecosystem for Robot Learning at Scale
Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) mark a major shift in robot learning. They replace specialized architectures and task-tailored components of expert policies with large-scale data collection and setup-specific fine-tuning. In this machine learning-focused workflow that is centered around models and scalable training, traditional robotics software frameworks become a bottleneck, while robot simulations offer only limited support for transitioning from and to real-world experiments. In this w…

Fully Automated Segmentation of Fiber Bundles in Anatomic Tracing Data
Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi, Ya\"el Balbastre, Jingjing Wu, Julia F. Lehman, Suzanne N. Haber, Anastasia Yendiki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12942

Fully Automated Segmentation of Fiber Bundles in Anatomic Tracing Data
Anatomic tracer studies are critical for validating and improving diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography. However, large-scale analysis of data from such studies is hampered by the labor-intensive process of annotating fiber bundles manually on histological slides. Existing automated methods often miss sparse bundles or require complex post-processing across consecutive sections, limiting their flexibility and generalizability. We present a streamlined, fully automated framework for fiber bundle seg…

DC sues over Pam Bondi's "hostile takeover" of the police - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/15/dc-sues-over-pam-bondis-hostile-takeover-of-the-police/