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#WritersCoffeeClub 21 Jul
Do your works contain erotic elements? How far do you go?
Interesting question: what counts as 'erotic'?. I'm interested in relationships, often power relationships, between people. That they have sex and how they have sex is important character and narrative information.
So yes, almost all my stories have scenes in which people have…

httpx2 has proper API docs and intersphinx 🥲
now they just need to start using it themselves in their narrative docs 😅
https://github.com/hynek/stamina/commit/63663956d99aea06b8350293c0a7b12353793d12

docs: httpx2 has intersphinx 🥲 · hynek/stamina@6366395
Production-grade retries for Python. Contribute to hynek/stamina development by creating an account on GitHub.

‘Last year, the online magazine 972 revealed the existence of a specialised military intelligence unit known as the “legitimisation cell”. Its mandate is narrative management. “Whenever criticism of Israel in the media intensified on a particular issue,” the report said, the cell combed through intercepted calls and fragments of intelligence from Gaza to identify material that could be deployed to defend Israel on the international stage.
“If the global media is talking about Israel ki…

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

International Symposium America at 250: Narratives of Resistance and Change
https://ift.tt/3dBOJuE
updated: Friday, May 22, 2026 - 8:16amfull name / name of organization: CETAPS - Faculty of Social…
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Parameter mapping and physical reconstruction of Akhmediev breathers at the interface of two fluid half-spaces
Olga Avramenko, Volodymyr Naradovyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20193 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20193 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20193
arXiv:2607.20193v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A methodology combining parameter mapping and physical reconstruction of Akhmediev breathers at the interface between two fluid half-spaces is developed on the basis of the Nayfeh model. Parameter maps are constructed to characterize the breather modulation period, the modulational instability growth rate, and the relative contribution of the bound second harmonic to the reconstructed interfacial profile. Their combined analysis provides a physically meaningful classification of breather regimes beyond the conventional focusing condition of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Reconstruction of the physical interfacial profile establishes a quantitative relation between nonlinear wave deformation and the contribution of the bound second harmonic, making it possible to identify the range of applicability of the weakly nonlinear approximation. Representative regimes from different modulational instability regions are analyzed to demonstrate the influence of resonance and focusing boundaries on breather characteristics and interfacial wave profiles. The proposed approach provides a direct link between the mathematical description of Akhmediev breathers and their physical interpretation and can be extended to other localized solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and to a broad class of stratified hydrodynamic systems.
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Acoustic stimulation in pain management: neurobiological mechanisms and clinical applications—a narrative review https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1861265/full

Frontiers | Acoustic stimulation in pain management: neurobiological mechanisms and clinical applications—a narrative review
Pain affects over 30% of the global population, with an underlying pathogenesis involving a complex interplay of biopsychosocial factors. Despite the availab...

The declassified documents Trump just released to “prove” the 2020 election was “rigged”
actually show that Russia tried to interfere to hurt Biden and help Trump.
https://x.com/tvietor08/status/2077943979656851489?s=12&t=JIzXmAfBKPksn8uWZp4aaA

Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) on X
Trump released documents that confirm Russia tried to interfere in the 2020 election to hurt Biden. It says Russia tried to "orchestrate a high-profile corruption scandal" and push narratives about "voter fraud resulting from mail-in balloting"

Just noticed the (Computing Within) LIMITS 2026 workshop papers are on arXiv already. A selection:
Narratives That Limit the Possible: Interrupting Narrative Closure in Computing Practice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17360
Modest, artistic, and radical solutions to the environmental impact of ima…

Narratives That Limit the Possible: Interrupting Narrative Closure in Computing Practice
Computing's dominant concepts - innovation, efficiency, resilience, professionalism - often migrate from reflective ideals to instruments that limit behaviour, redirect responsibility, and foreclose critique. We call this drift weaponisation: the discursive repurposing of professional concepts so that they stabilise business-as-usual while making structural alternatives appear unreasonable, illegible, or out of scope. Using collective autoethnography across education, justice, public administra…

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY26eBIk253/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

New York Times Opinion on Instagram: "The historian and philosopher @yuval_noah_harari is interested in how stories shape societies. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” he describes the dominant storylines of fascism, communism and liberalism, and why the liberal narrative is struggling to hold. #theezrakleinshow #nytopinion"
16K likes, 411 comments - nytopinion on May 27, 2026: "The historian and philosopher @yuval_noah_harari is interested in how stories shape societies. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” he describes the dominant storylines of fascism, communism and liberalism, and why the liberal narrative is struggling to hold. #theezrakleinshow #nytopinion".