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Interesting essay on the Latin American "post new left". A bit dewy eyed re Lula and Boric but some great points taking inspiration from Zapatists, piqueteros and the Landless Workers Movement (MST).
De la conquista a la imaginación colectiva: apologética colonial y la nueva izquierda latinoamericana

De la conquista a la imaginación colectiva: apologética colonial y la nueva izquierda latinoamericana
Ahí donde la derecha extrema vende miedo, la izquierda ensaya utopías concretas: democracia participativa, derechos colectivos, economías solidarias.

As the Pentagon, particularly the Army, cozies up to Silicon Valley
four big tech executives with no military background, were directly commissioned to be lieutenant colonels, in the Army
-- and they will not recuse themselves from business dealings with the Department of Defense.
Earlier this month, the Army announced Detachment 201,
the name being a reference to HTTP code,
for the newly commissioned executives
from Palantir, Meta and OpenAI.
The ne…

Tech Executives Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings
The new formation is set to recruit tech executives to work on major Army challenges, but the service has not articulated exactly what those individuals would do -- instead focusing on recruiting talent and creating jobs around them.

Important for discussions about agency and free will:
Hermida M, Ladyman J (2025): Physical Explanation and the Autonomy of Biology. Philosophy of Science :1–18.
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2025.10115
#neuroscience #consciousness

LightSwitch: Multi-view Relighting with Material-guided Diffusion
Yehonathan Litman, Fernando De la Torre, Shubham Tulsiani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06494 https://

LightSwitch: Multi-view Relighting with Material-guided Diffusion
Recent approaches for 3D relighting have shown promise in integrating 2D image relighting generative priors to alter the appearance of a 3D representation while preserving the underlying structure. Nevertheless, generative priors used for 2D relighting that directly relight from an input image do not take advantage of intrinsic properties of the subject that can be inferred or cannot consider multi-view data at scale, leading to subpar relighting. In this paper, we propose Lightswitch, a novel …

Dutch, Lithuanian prime ministers visit Kyiv as security concerns grow across Europe: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/dutch-lithuanian-prime-ministers-visit.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Lata Mangeshkar:
🎵 Chalte Chalte
#LataMangeshkar
https://open.spotify.com/track/1KpTS270MT96OszvcFVdlk

#Konzert-Tipp:
Trio Latineando
Musikalische Reise durch #Lateinamerika
am Samstag, 6. September, 19 Uhr, Reformationskirche Bad Schwalbach
Das Trio Latineando bringt die rhythmische Vielfalt Lateinamerikas auf die Bühne – mit Tango, Samba, Cumbia, Boleros und mehr.
Wei…

"It's also a two-lane road, with a posted speed limit of 80 km/hr that does have a designated bike lane". If you think an unconnected 100m strip of green paint on an 80 km/h road (which, practically, is a 90­–100 km/h road) is a "designated bike lane", take your 5-year-old out there for a ride. #LdnOnt

SDLC stands for Software Delivery Lithuanian Commonwealth

Ukraine assassinates Russian lieutenant colonel far from front lines, intelligence claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/30/ukraine-assassinates-russian-lieutenant-colonel.html