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Watching an English Netflix show last night w/ Italian subtitles, and noticed that "underdogs" in English was subtitled as "outsider" in Italian?!? What gives?

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow – The Creative Independent https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo…

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow – The Creative Independent
Musician Demian Licht discusses the feminine energy she's inspired by, teaching Ableton as a woman in Latin America, and identifying as an outsider in the music scene.

As an outsider, watching from Europe, I am wondering whether the democratic leadership will give in to Trump’s demands to prevent a government shutdown.
What do you think?
#governmentshutdown #trump #democrats

Liberals often struggle against these populist narratives because the polar opposite of populism is elitism, which carries much less appeal. Here are some of the narratives that work to create the software of autocracy.
— The Folksy Outsider. Pushing against the boundaries of written and unwritten norms is a standard performative element in the populist toolbox, establishing the populist leader as a folksy outsider disrespected by liberal elites.
We can expect Trump to continue …

Super interesting read about the dynamics in OSM: «[if this trend continues] de facto power within the #OpenStreetMap Foundation will increasingly shift towards individuals or informal interest groups within the sketched de facto membership. Ultimately, it is likely that the board itself in a way becomes an outsider within the organization – being formally in control […], but de facto being dependent on the true insiders of the organization in everything they do.»
https://imagico.de/blog/en/who-are-the-members-of-the-openstreetmap-foundation/

Evaluating Ethnic Income Gap in China: The Case of Han, Mongol, and Manchu in Liaoning and Inner Mongolia
Xinyan Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21625 https://

Evaluating Ethnic Income Gap in China: The Case of Han, Mongol, and Manchu in Liaoning and Inner Mongolia
This study analyzes the 2018 Chinese Household Income Project survey data to evaluate the income gaps between an "outsider" ethnic minority group, the Mongols, an "insider" ethnic minority group, the Manchus, and the majority Han group in urban and rural areas of Liaoning province and Inner Mongolia in China. Three statistical methods, a simple first-order OLS linear regression, linear regressions with interaction terms, and the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition, are used to investigate the income d…

Contracting against Non-contractible Outsider
Hongcheng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06267 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06267…

Contracting against Non-contractible Outsider
This paper studies contracting in the presence of externalities with a non-contractible outsider. Multiple equilibria arise from strategic symmetry between the insider agent and the outsider. To address strategic uncertainty, the principal guarantees their actions in a unique equilibrium. A novel duality approach reformulates her problem as a series of problems in which she selects agent expectations. The key constraint is that the principal cannot convince the agent to expect non-guaranteed re…

Some words to describe the material featured would be... Celebrity, Children, Demonstration, Indigenous, Industrial, Outsider, Song-Poem, Spoken, Ventriloquism, and on and on and on. The best thing to do is to simply listen.
WFMU - 365 Days Project
https://wfmu.org/365/

One of the things promised for the next phase of Open Banking in the UK was an open API for managing subscription payments from banks (something like Direct Debits, or "commercial variable recurring payments (cVRP)" in their terminology). As in: one day you'd have one-click set-up for subscriptions, and manage them all via banking/finance apps.
As an outsider it's hard to determine the current status, but apparently this might be in beta by the end of the year?
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Open finance - Open Banking
As open banking evolves into open finance and smart data, we explore the potential benefits, cost savings and economic growth it can deliver.

idk why people seem shocked by the homestuck adaptation, like as a total outsider if u asked me to make up a way to expand the "homestuck brand" a year ago id sleepwalk into getting vivziepop and toby fox in just off vibes of the types online who devote their souls to that shit

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But there is no certainty that madness was content to sit locked up in its immutable identity, waiting for psychiatry to perfect its art, before it emerged blinking from the shadows into the blinding light of truth. Nor is it clear that confinement was above all, or even implicitly, a series of measures put in place to deal with madness. It is not even certain that in this repetition of the ancient gesture of segregation at the threshold of the classical age, the modern world was aiming to wipe out all those who, either as a species apart or a spontaneous mutation, appeared as 'asocial'. The fact that the internees of the eighteenth century bear a resemblance to our modern vision of the asocial is undeniable, but it is above all a question of results, as the character of the marginal was produced by the gesture of segregation itself. For the day came when this man, banished in the same exile all over Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, suddenly became an outsider, expelled by a society to whose norms he could not be seen to conform; and for our own intellectual comfort, he then became a candidate for prisons, asylums and punishment. In reality, this character is merely the result of superimposed grids of exclusion.
The gesture that proscribed was as abrupt as the one that had isolated the lepers, and in both cases, the meaning of the gesture should not be mistaken for its effect. Lepers were not excluded to prevent contagion, any more than in 1657, 1 per cent of the population of Paris was confined merely to deliver the city from the 'asocial'. The gesture had a different dimension: it did not isolate strangers who had previously remained invisible, who until then had been ignored by force of habit. It altered the familiar cityscape by giving them new faces, strange, bizarre silhouettes that nobody recognised. Strangers were found in places where their presence had never previously been suspected: the process punctured the fabric of society, and undid the familiar. Through this gesture, something inside man was placed outside of himself, and pushed over the edge of our horizon. It is the gesture of confinement, in short, which created alienation.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)