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‘Who Can I Talk to That Has a Human Heart?’: New York Times doubles down on harming trans people — Assigned
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/new-york-times-plays-hardball-with-devastated-mom

Towards Perception-Informed Latent HRTF Representations
You Zhang, Andrew Francl, Ruohan Gao, Paul Calamia, Zhiyao Duan, Ishwarya Ananthabhotla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02815

Towards Perception-Informed Latent HRTF Representations
Personalized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are essential for ensuring a realistic auditory experience over headphones, because they take into account individual anatomical differences that affect listening. Most machine learning approaches to HRTF personalization rely on a learned low-dimensional latent space to generate or select custom HRTFs for a listener. However, these latent representations are typically learned in a manner that optimizes for spectral reconstruction but not for …

heartbreaking: worst person you know makes a good point

It’s truly remarkable that we exist at all. Each of us breaks free from the chains of history and authority to experience life anew. Today, countless souls will awaken to their first love, their first union, or the birth of new life. Others will face heartbreak or part ways.
This moment, this very act of being alive and conscious, is a quiet act of rebellion against the forces that seek to suppress our humanity. To exist freely for the first time is the most radical and beautiful thing…

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers:
🎵 Learning to Fly
#TomPettyandtheHeartbreakers
https://djeddyredrums.bandcamp.com/track/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-learning-to-fly-dj-eddy-rockdrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lGE5bsOeh1Zpf20fdcqmY

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Self-Supervised Autoencoder Network for Robust Heart Rate Extraction from Noisy Photoplethysmogram: Applying Blind Source Separation to Biosignal Analysis
Biosignals can be viewed as mixtures measuring particular physiological events, and blind source separation (BSS) aims to extract underlying source signals from mixtures. This paper proposes a self-supervised multi-encoder autoencoder (MEAE) to separate heartbeat-related source signals from photoplethysmogram (PPG), enhancing heart rate (HR) detection in noisy PPG data. The MEAE is trained on PPG signals from a large open polysomnography database without any pre-processing or data selection. Th…

Recognizing Cowboys who not only wore The Star, but The Stripes as well https://insidethestar.com/recognizing-cowboys-who-not-only-wore-the-star-but-the-stripes-as-well

#SittingWithDogsBonus Huddled Together in Hope: The Heartfelt Tale of Two Shelter Dogs - Rocky Kanaka

Huddled Together in Hope: The Heartfelt Tale of Two Shelter Dogs - Rocky Kanaka
When I walked into the shelter when I walked into the shelter, two little pups caught my attention immediately. They huddled close together...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers:
🎵 Into the Great Wide Open
#TomPettyandtheHeartbreakers
https://beatricehaus.bandcamp.com/track/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-into-the-great-wide-open-sickmix-intro-clean-82
https://open.spotify.com/track/63xBnyUVKIupzjHno4wFs3

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Kyle Craft:
🎵 Heartbreak Junky
#KyleCraft
https://kylecraft.bandcamp.com/track/heartbreak-junky
https://open.spotify.com/track/7nu8vnMZTtPv346WZU0PgA