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"Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to personal information on millions of Americans."
Gift link.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by G Zevin
Was captivated by the people, the changing narrative style and a new world for me, gaming.
New York Times "100 Best Books of the 21st Century"
#bookstodon

Browns WR Diontae Johnson out to 'change that narrative' on his career after disastrous 2024 https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-wr-diontae-johnson-change-that-narrative-career-after-2024

Dak Prescott nixes narrative about Pickens', restates endgame: 'I wanna win a championship' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-nixes-narrative-about-pickens-character-restates-en…

"Anyone you’re talking to has had decreased funding, or lost almost all of their funding, or is having trouble continuing their funding...
That, along with the pretty pervasive and growing anti-science establishment narrative … have been strong motivators to look elsewhere,” Eric Schuster said.
Schuster is one of many budding academics reflecting what could become a significant American brain drain,
sending the brightest minds in the country to flee the US and take their…

Browns WR Johnson hoping to change 'narrative' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45493241/browns-wr-johnson-form-hopes-change-narrative

Structured Graph Representations for Visual Narrative Reasoning: A Hierarchical Framework for Comics
Yi-Chun Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10008 https://…

Structured Graph Representations for Visual Narrative Reasoning: A Hierarchical Framework for Comics
This paper presents a hierarchical knowledge graph framework for the structured understanding of visual narratives, focusing on multimodal media such as comics. The proposed method decomposes narrative content into multiple levels, from macro-level story arcs to fine-grained event segments. It represents them through integrated knowledge graphs that capture semantic, spatial, and temporal relationships. At the panel level, we construct multimodal graphs that link visual elements such as charact…

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Tomas Peterka, Matyas Bohacek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09847 https://

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Out-of-context and misattributed imagery is the leading form of media manipulation in today's misinformation and disinformation landscape. The existing methods attempting to detect this practice often only consider whether the semantics of the imagery corresponds to the text narrative, missing manipulation so long as the depicted objects or scenes somewhat correspond to the narrative at hand. To tackle this, we introduce News Media Provenance Dataset, a dataset of news articles with provenance-…

Check out my new post for #HealOurCulture: “Healing the Broken Narrative”
https://healourculture.org/2025/06/03/healing-the-broken-narrative/
Also on Subst…

Reporting on Sam Altman blog posts without the addendum that he needs to keep the narrative of "AGI soon" going for his house of cards to hold is irresponsible. (Acknowledging that most of the things he said about AI were just false would also help.)

Jouez avec Nous Š Warhammer 40K: Space Marines vs Tau (Campagne Narrative Live) - YouTube
#warhammer

Moki Mcfly – Divin(e)tion: Music in the key of zero
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/05/13/moki-mcfly-divinetion-music-in-the-key-of-zero/

A Narrative Review on Large AI Models in Lung Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Planning
Jiachen Zhong, Yiting Wang, Di Zhu, Ziwei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07236

A Narrative Review on Large AI Models in Lung Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Planning
Lung cancer remains one of the most prevalent and fatal diseases worldwide, demanding accurate and timely diagnosis and treatment. Recent advancements in large AI models have significantly enhanced medical image understanding and clinical decision-making. This review systematically surveys the state-of-the-art in applying large AI models to lung cancer screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. We categorize existing models into modality-specific encoders, encoder-decoder frameworks, and j…

In this video, I discuss the rumors of an upcoming Russian spring offensive in #Ukraine. It seems likely that they will throw significant resources into this because Putin's war narrative demands that the Russian army continues to make progress almost regardless of the costs.

Early Modern Narrative Theory (RSA2026)
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Früher stand das Silicon Valley für Innovation und Freiheit, heute zerstören Tech-Giganten die Demokratie. Die ehemalige EU-Abgeordnete Marietje Schaake kämpft gegen den zunehmenden Einfluss der Tech-Konzerne auf Politik. Sie warnt Medien davor, sich von Big Tech abhängig zu machen – und hofft auf einen Journalismus, der nicht länger auf die Narrative der Tech-Giganten hereinfällt.

Marietje Schaake: „Medien machen sich von mächtigen…
Marietje Schaake warnt im journalist-Interview Medien davor, sich von großen Tech Unternehmen abhängig zu machen.

“…leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.”
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Matthew 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

"As I've mentioned before, I'm working (with a group of other volunteers) on producing a Local Place Plan for Auchencairn, and, in the process of doing that, we're using the Place Standard Tool. Data from the Place Standard Tool is delivered as an unwieldy CSV file with 53 columns, most of which contain narrative data.
This is pretty hard to analyse... so I've written a tool to automate summarising the data. And, actually, I'm quite pleased with it." -- m…

Place Standard Tool Summariser: Full Test Run

Self-driving technologies need the help of the public: A narrative review of the evidence
Jonathan Smith, Siddartha Khastgir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23472

Self-driving technologies need the help of the public: A narrative review of the evidence
If public trust is lot in a new technology early in its life cycle it can take much more time for the benefits of that technology to be realised. Eventually tens-of-millions of people will collectively have the power to determine self-driving technology success of failure driven by their perception of risk, data handling, safety, governance, accountability, benefits to their life and more. This paper reviews the evidence on safety critical technology covering trust, engagement, and acceptance. …

Die gefährliche Verniedlichung Putins: @… kritisiert Intellektuelle und Politiker, die russische Narrative bedienen und damit Putins imperialen Krieg verharmlosen. Wer nicht klar benennt, was geschieht, wird zum Komplizen der Zerstörung #Russland

Die gefährliche Verniedlichung Putins – Vom Verdrängen zur Verblendung - ichsagmal.com
Es gehört zur deutschen Krankheit, das Offensichtliche nicht sehen zu wollen – zumindest dann, wenn es unbequem ist. Und was könnte unbequemer sein als das Eingeständnis, jahrzehntelang einem Diktator aufgesessen zu sein, der seine geopolitischen Ambitionen nie wirklich verborgen hat? Stattdessen erleben wir in Talkshows, Feuilletons und sogar auf Regierungsebene eine paradoxe Allianz aus Besserwisserei … Die gefährliche Verniedlichung Putins – Vom Verdrängen zur Verblendung weiterle…

Trump's ego pushes the narrative that he's somehow a good negotiator & 'gets the best deals' from other countries.
Problem: 6 bankruptcies & no one's left that will lend him money. He only knows how to negotiate w/ dumb blunt instruments: Bribes & Tariffs.
Result: Zero actual trade agreements.

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21729

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented information ecosystem. Reconstructing social graphs and information diffusion networks is challenging, and available strategies typically depend on platform-specific features and behavioral signals which are often incompatible across systems and increasingly restricted. To address these challenges, we present a platform…

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Verbose ListOps (VLO): Beyond Long Context -- Unmasking LLM's Reasoning Blind Spots
Large Language Models (LLMs), whilst great at extracting facts from text, struggle with nested narrative reasoning. Existing long context and multi-hop QA benchmarks inadequately test this, lacking realistic distractors or failing to decouple context length from reasoning complexity, masking a fundamental LLM limitation. We introduce Verbose ListOps, a novel benchmark that programmatically transposes ListOps computations into lengthy, coherent stories. This uniquely forces internal computation …

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Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

Moebius: The Artist Who Pushed the Boundaries of Our Imagination | TheCollector https://www.thecollector.com/moebius-artist-pushed-boundaries-our-imagination/

Moebius: The Artist Who Pushed the Boundaries of Our Imagination | TheCollector
The world of comic books, nowadays greatly respected for its artistic and narrative values, owes so much to the artistry, the imagination, and the uniqueness of Moebius.

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
Yerin Doh, Joonhyung Bae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10013

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
This study introduces the media artwork Dear Passenger, Please Wear a Mask, designed to offer a layered exploration of single-use mask waste, which escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece reframes underappreciated ecological concerns by interweaving digital nostalgia and airline travel recollections of Millennials and Gen Z with a unique fantasy narrative. Via a point-and-click game and an immersive exhibition, participants traverse both virtual and real domains, facing ethical and en…

The idea that Musk’s time in Washington is over is an obvious farce.
That narrative goes a long way toward letting Musk and Trump off the hook for a multitude of casualties
—those already in the ledger and those to be counted later.
It suggests that his reign of terror was actually ineffectual when,
in fact, it was massively successful;
Trump and Musk destroyed that which they’d planned to all along.
Most crucially, it suggests that reign of terror has …

Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.

Starmer's Labour outdid the fucking Tories for supplying war criminals.
#IsraelIsATerroristState #BoycottIsrael #IsraeliWarCrimes

Optimizing Storytelling, Improving Audience Retention, and Reducing Waste in the Entertainment Industry
Andrew Cornfeld, Ashley Miller, Mercedes Mora-Figueroa, Kurt Samuels, Anthony Palomba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00076

Optimizing Storytelling, Improving Audience Retention, and Reducing Waste in the Entertainment Industry
Television networks face high financial risk when making programming decisions, often relying on limited historical data to forecast episodic viewership. This study introduces a machine learning framework that integrates natural language processing (NLP) features from over 25000 television episodes with traditional viewership data to enhance predictive accuracy. By extracting emotional tone, cognitive complexity, and narrative structure from episode dialogue, we evaluate forecasting performance…

The narrative that #AI will do all routine and we can just focus on important/strategic/big picture things works because it tell us that we are oh so smart and special. WE DO THE BIG STUFF.
Newsflash: If your big picture decisions are not grounded in real experience they are gonna end up bullshit.

Early Modern Narrative Theory (RSA2026)
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Hot take about #StarWars #Andor:
1️⃣ It requires the viewer to pay attn to, remember & think about the story's subplots & not be an ADHD idiot
2️⃣ It makes the narrative familiar but also takes it very seriously
3️⃣ It uses the SW universe exclusively to tell a story, not t…

Enhancing Text Comprehension for Dyslexic Readers: A 3D Semantic Visualization Approach Using Transformer Mode
Zhengyang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03731

Enhancing Text Comprehension for Dyslexic Readers: A 3D Semantic Visualization Approach Using Transformer Mode
Dyslexic individuals often face significant challenges with traditional reading, particularly when engaging with complex texts such as mystery novels. These texts typically demand advanced narrative tracking and information integration skills, making it difficult for dyslexic readers to fully comprehend the content. However, research indicates that while dyslexic individuals may struggle with textual processing, they often possess strong spatial imagination abilities. Leveraging this strength, …

New around here, hi!
For those who'd like a big old dose of "yes we can" energy,
please check out
"Words to Win By "
where every episode details a campaign we've won somewhere
and delves into the research, messaging & strategies used to do it.
https://wordstowinby-pod.com/

Words to Win By
Words to Win By, formerly Brave New Words, takes listeners on a journey around the globe with renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio as she unpacks real-world narrative shifts that led to real-world victories.

Chapters on Gullah Geechee Narrative and Song in American Culture
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Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Baoyang Chen, Xian Xu, Huamin Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02606 https://

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

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Bayesian Learning in Structural Dynamics: A Comprehensive Review and Emerging Trends
Bayesian learning has emerged as a compelling and vital research direction in the field of structural dynamics, offering a probabilistic lens to understand and refine the analysis of complex dynamical systems. This review meticulously traces the three-decade evolution of Bayesian learning in structural dynamics, illuminating core principles, groundbreaking methodologies, and diverse applications that have significantly influenced the field. The narrative commences by delving into the basics of …

TACO: Trump always chickens out.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/trump-always-chickens-out-taco-investors-narrative?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Bayesian Learning in Structural Dynamics: A Comprehensive Review and Emerging Trends
Wang-Ji Yan, Lin-Feng Mei, Yuan-Wei Yin, Jiang Mo, Costas Papadimitriou, Ka-Veng Yuen, Michael Beer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22223

Bayesian Learning in Structural Dynamics: A Comprehensive Review and Emerging Trends
Bayesian learning has emerged as a compelling and vital research direction in the field of structural dynamics, offering a probabilistic lens to understand and refine the analysis of complex dynamical systems. This review meticulously traces the three-decade evolution of Bayesian learning in structural dynamics, illuminating core principles, groundbreaking methodologies, and diverse applications that have significantly influenced the field. The narrative commences by delving into the basics of …