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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...

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.

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…

"there are limits to the comparison [between South Africa and Israel]. For one thing, it’s unfair to South Africa... Pretoria at least pretended that the Bantustans were independent, while the Palestinian Authority is accused of 'diplomatic terrorism' whenever it engages with international bodies."

What I Learned From Reading Apartheid Propaganda
The narratives people used to defend South Africa and Rhodesia in the 20th century sound a lot like the ones that are deployed to defend Israel today.

A Pizza Delivery (PC, PS5, Xbox) "B" is making her final delivery of the day, but it turns into a surreal journey through a strange world.
So I don't really want to describe this game more than the line above, I feel this is one of those ones it's best to just experience. One of those "artsy" type games. It's introspective at times. You interact with odd characters. There's things to collect and read.
The graphics are pretty simple s…

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".

Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts
Tianrui Wang, Ziyang Ma, Yizhou Peng, Haoyu Wang, Zhikang Niu, Zikang Huang, Yihao Wu, Yi-Wen Chao, Yu Jiang, Yuheng Lu, Guanrou Yang, Xuanchen Li, Hexin Liu, Chunyu Qiang, Cheng Gong, Yifan Yang, Tianchi Liu, Junyu Wang, Nana Hou, Meng Ge, Fuming You, Wei Yang, Zhongqian Sun, Haifeng Hu, Xiaobao Wang, Eng Siong Chng, Xie Chen, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09413 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.09413 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.09413
arXiv:2605.09413v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Evaluating expressive speech remains challenging, as existing methods mainly assess emotional intensity and overlook whether a speech sample is expressively appropriate for its contextual setting. This limitation hinders reliable evaluation of speech systems used in narrative-driven and interactive applications, such as audiobooks and conversational agents. We introduce CEAEval, a Context-rich framework for Evaluating Expressive Appropriateness in speech, which assesses whether a speech sample expressively aligns with the underlying communicative intent implied by its discourse-level narrative context. To support this task, we construct CEAEval-D, the first context-rich speech dataset with real human performances in Mandarin conversational speech, providing narrative descriptions together with fifteen dimensions of human annotations covering expressive attributes and expressive appropriateness. We further develop CEAEval-M, a model that integrates knowledge distillation, planner-based multi-model collaboration, adaptive audio attention bias, and reinforcement learning to perform context-rich expressive appropriateness evaluation. Experiments on a human-annotated test set demonstrate that CEAEval-M substantially outperforms existing speech evaluation and analysis systems.
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With Trump in the White House,
it is easy to see that the big anniversary ahead will pass over the fact that the US’s revolutionaries instituted one of the world’s richest, most powerful slave societies,
which their descendants overthrew.
Showcased instead will be paeans to the pioneer spirit, military power and business civilization as the embodiment of the country’s perfect, flawless revolution,
perhaps with a little plantation nostalgia on the side.
Andrew …

The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed
The main pillars of the founding narrative have fallen on hard times. Today, its meaning is up for grabs