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Laura Ingraham Scolded for Using Binoculars at Trump Trial (The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingraham-scolded-for-using-binoculars-at-trump-trial
http://www.memeorandum.com/240514/p58#a240514p58

I love a post (or article) on the long history of crowdsourcing / citizen science.
A new-to-me early modern example from Laura Sangha:
'parts of John Foxe’s Elizabethan history of the English Reformation, Actes and Monuments, were written by the very people who were to be its readers'

"A couple of hungry Proud Boys, Laura Loomer, and some people from Queens."
Trump Wanted to See Crowd Outside Trial. He Got 50 Randos.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wanted-to-see-crowd-outside-trial-he-got-50-randos

Trump Wanted to See Crowd Outside Trial. He Got 50 Randos.
A couple of hungry Proud Boys, Laura Loomer, and some people from Queens.

Laura Ingraham Apologizes for Graphic of Wrong Black Lawyer (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingraham-apologizes-for-graphic-of-wrong-black-lawyer
http://www.memeorandum.com/240315/p71#a240315p71

#CommonplaceBook notes, including the internet grey goo and whether things are permanent online, and the wide-ranging great work of Ross Anderson
https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2024/0…

Notes: grey goo, permanence or otherwise, perspectives on Ross Anderson
The metaphors we use change how we think about things. Benjamin Santos Genta writes for Aeon about this, and in particular how many of our ...

ViCAR: Visualizing Categories with Automated Rewriting in Coq
Bhakti Shah, William Spencer, Laura Zielinski, Ben Caldwell, Adrian Lehmann, Robert Rand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08163

ViCAR: Visualizing Categories with Automated Rewriting in Coq
We present ViCAR, a library for working with monoidal categories in the Coq proof assistant. ViCAR provides definitions for categorical structures that users can instantiate with their own verification projects. Upon verifying relevant coherence conditions, ViCAR gives a set of lemmas and tactics for manipulating categorical structures. We also provide a visualizer that can display any composition and tensor product of morphisms as a string diagram, showing its categorical structure. This enabl…

How bullyable would a twin be if their geologist/paleo nerd parent named them Laurasia and Gondwana? In what age would the twins start insisting to be called something like
"Laura" and "Ana" instead?

Beautiful song, almost painfully pure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JuXMLiltZc
Laura Itandehui is Mexican - her surname is of Zapotec origin.

Effect of external characteristics of a virtual human being during the use of a computer-assisted therapy tool
Navid Ashrafi, Vanessa Neuhaus, Francesco Vona, Nicolina Laura Peperkorn, Youssef Shiban, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09544

Effect of external characteristics of a virtual human being during the use of a computer-assisted therapy tool
Identification within media, whether with real or fictional characters, significantly impacts users, shaping their behavior and enriching their social and emotional experiences. Immersive media, like video games, utilize virtual entities such as agents, avatars, or NPCs to connect users with virtual worlds, fostering a heightened sense of immersion and identification. However, challenges arise in visually representing these entities, with design decisions crucial for enhancing user interaction.…

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor train line closure stays me from being at the Now Play This opening day at Somerset House