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Cybernetic Marionette: Channeling Collective Agency Through a Wearable Robot in a Live Dancer-Robot Duet
Anup Sathya, Jiasheng Li, Zeyu Yan, Adriane Fang, Bill Kules, Jonathan David Martin, Huaishu Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10079

Cybernetic Marionette: Channeling Collective Agency Through a Wearable Robot in a Live Dancer-Robot Duet
We describe DANCE^2, an interactive dance performance in which audience members channel their collective agency into a dancer-robot duet by voting on the behavior of a wearable robot affixed to the dancer's body. At key moments during the performance, the audience is invited to either continue the choreography or override it, shaping the unfolding interaction through real-time collective input. While post-performance surveys revealed that participants felt their choices meaningfully influenced …

Once again, the fucking suits ruined what could have been a perfectly fine game, and the devs and players are the ones that got blamed for its "poor performance".
Report: Veilguard's late pivot from live service spelled doom for Dragon Age sequel sales
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#SlyStone was a good lifelong pal of one of my late friends, and the stories I could tell... but we'll skip those for now :)
I was gifted a rare DVD archive of all the footage Sly had collected a couple decades ago... and I posted some excerpts online, like this performance at The Metromedia West broadcast facility in #Hollywood

Sly Stone with Little Sister at Metromedia Square in Hollywood –...
If You Want Me To Stay! performed live on national TV for the first time by Sly Stone and Little Sister!

This week’s edition of my @… newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today.
We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again.
Naturally, there are some live demo nuggets in the post to help bring it all to life:
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The Model Context Protocol: Bridging Generational Computing Experiences
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as a transformative force in computing, with its significance uniquely appreciated across generational lines. This new protocol serves as crucial middleware for LLM-powered productivity tools, addressing needs that previous computing paradigms couldn't fu

merci, mercy — I Bet She's Really Nice (Live Performance Video) #music

#NowPlaying - traveling the spaceways with a 20 arkestra in summer '76. sounds from the outer territories but also the start of their terrestrial rebound, featuring their earliest known performance of "take the a-train" according to the "earthly recordings..." discography. @…

This is my ocassional reminder that this live performance from 2009 of a song released in 1977 slaps extremely hard and has never been topped by anything so far!*
* Don't at me.
https://youtu.be/QMvE0yFnR0I