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Crossing The Tideline
An observational documentary and podcast exploring fear, risk, trauma, perception and our evolving relationship with the ocean...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/crossing-the-tideline/

Editorial: Crossing sensory boundaries: multisensory perception through the lens of audition https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1848850/full "revealing a network of connections that link sensory quali…

Frontiers | Editorial: Crossing sensory boundaries: multisensory perception through the lens of audition
A closer examination of the multisensorry integration contributions reveals one additional shared characteristic: a focus on audiovisual interaction, arguabl...

How Raiders Could Change Entire Team Perception in 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-could-change-entire-team-perception-2026

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Jazz Among the British
Veteran jazz broadcaster Geoffrey Smith (1943-2026) reflects on the perception of jazz in Britain, and begins by questioning the dubious term 'jazzer' and its jokey connotations.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pgbm

A horizon is the visible form of the invisible fact that every perception excludes more than it reveals.

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Non-invasive optical stimulation for induction of auditory perception https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1136516 "It may also open new avenues for sensory substitution devices"
Optical induction of auditory perception via cochlear stimulation in Mongolian gerbils …

Non-invasive optical stimulation for induction of auditory perception
Hearing loss affects communication, learning, independence, and social well-being. While cochlear implants have transformed treatment for severe hearing impairment, they require surgery and are often associated with post-operative complications. They also rely on electrical stimulation, which can limit their precision. Researchers are therefore exploring whether applying optical neural stimulation through brain-machine interfaces can mitigate these limitations. However, the effect of laser stim…

“Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-07310-z
With 572 citations, how many poor decisions are coming from this ret…

UK politicians over-reacting to changes in voter perception. Basically an unstable feedback system. We need leaders who understand control engineering.
FT: https://www.ft.com/content/85c3f0de-9593-44a9-bb99-9f78e3dd4732
Sans £:

How Raiders Could Change Entire Team Perception in 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-could-change-entire-team-perception-2026

Source: Microsoft plans to release an AI security tool this month using models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and itself, as a cost-effective Mythos alternative (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-microsoft-p…

Exclusive: Microsoft Preps Mythos-Like AI Bug Finder
Microsoft is preparing to release a new AI security product, internally codenamed Project Perception, to capture a piece of companies’ rising cyber defense spending. Set to debut as soon as this month, the product will use a combination of AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft itself to sniff out software bugs similar to the way Anthropic’s Mythos model does and automatically fix the

Ancient Greeks according to MAGA and not-lonely-enough men: "You can't cast a trans man as Achilles. Achilles is the embodiment of masculinity."
Actual ancient Greeks: Giving Sophocles the influential position as military strategist because he wrote the play Antigone.
If you never even read the Ilias, just keep your mouth shut. Hollywood's hypermasculinity has skewed modern perception of Greek poetry.
Achilles is, and ever was, a queer hero.

It looks like brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will need AI scene description to become practical/useful/functional while giving phosphenes (to late-blind) mostly for the visual experience with light perception. #hybrid #BCI #AI

Topographic reorganization of EEG complexity during visual mental imagery: Insights from Lempel-Ziv complexity in high-density EEG https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10548-026-01238-y "Visual mental imagery is the process of reconstructing perceptual experience…

Topographic Reorganization of EEG Complexity During Visual Mental Imagery: Insights from Lempel-Ziv Complexity in High-Density EEG - Brain Topography
Visual mental imagery is the process of reconstructing perceptual experience without sensory input. How the brain performs this process is poorly understood, particularly from the perspective of conventional linear EEG analysis. This study aims to evaluate if the two non-linear EEG complexity measures—Lempel-Ziv Complexity (LZC) and Higuchi Fractal Dimension (HFD)—can differentiate between perception and imagination and if they can be used as objective indices of neural separability of ment…

@… long ago (some time between 2003 and 2013) I sat in on a visiting researcher's work-in-progress seminar about innovation in China.
Really fascinating, what struck me most was the chasm between the (ignorant, lazy) commonplace British perception of things as knock-offs, and the reality of effective innovation without the constraints of official or…

"#Nobel laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born 116 years ago today. The legend among legends in #crystallography, she cracked the 27 atom structure of penicillin, and then the 181 atom structure of vitamin B12, and THEN the 788 atom structure of insulin. "
See "Monarch of Crys…

Monarch of Crystallography: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and the Structure of Large Molecules.
Two scientists.Two crystallographers.Both successful, but one died young after her most significant discovery was snatched from her, while the other lived to a ripe old age after a string of ground-breaking discoveries and a Nobel Prize. The former, Rosalind Franklin, is a household name. But the latter, in spite of the foundational importance of her work, has always remained on the fringe of our cultural perception: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994).  It is one of the truly frustrating …

Excerpt from an essay I may or may not write:
Ontologies evolve to fulfill functions. They serve a purpose, and will be adapted until they fulfill this purpose. There are, occasionally, things that exist within those ontologies which do not actually exist.
Programming bugs are an example. There is no such thing. Code is code. It can't be right or wrong, it just is or isn't. The mismatch between the intent and the execution creates a side effect. We may confidently assert such a thing exists. We may name such things. But they don't exist. This becomes apparent when you try to figure out how to suppress one specific instance of a bug in one specific place through multiple revisions.
At some level, a lot of things don't actually exist. We only need to follow through the logic of The Ship of Theseus to see how our ontologies break down.
One thing that doesn't exist, that is a side effect rather than an object, is the personal self. You do not exist. Your perception of your existence is an illusion, a necessary side effect.
Every day you wake up a different person. Every second you are not who you were. That person is as dead as you will be the next instant, as all versions of you will be every second until there are no more. These selves are bound together by imperfect memories. The person you remember as yourself, all those people, never existed. You created them based on your current experience, your current iteration.
You could, just as easily, wake up an unrecognizable person, in some Dark City, and never know the difference. Continuity is absurd. And yet, some people believe they'll still experience the same self after being frozen or "uploaded." It's a silly illusion.
Once you can get over that illusion, you can let go of the need to thrash against the void. You can let go of the various furious dreams of immortality.
At a high enough level, all ontologies are illusions. Useful illusions, but illusions none-the-less. There is only the undifferentiated universe, and you are experiencing it. You are the universe. You will always persist, long past the time this specific iteration or any iteration experiences it.
This implies a certain obligation then to all the others experiencing the same self, the future iterations that may remember being someone like you, and any other person you, the universe, could wake up as tomorrow.

Negativity surrounding the government has seeped into public perception of the core components of America’s story,
such as its history, notions of American foreign influence and impact, or the way the country’s democracy works.
Pride in American democracy has declined 14 percentage points since 2017, when it was measured at 42 percent, to 28 percent.
The survey also found that a majority of Americans are disillusioned with the American dream:
They are not confident in …

Americans’ Pride Drops to New Low as 250th Anniversary Approaches
The American public aren’t feeling particularly proud of their country, according to a new poll.

Vision-Language-Action Models Meet World Models: Embodied Agentic AI for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Feibo Jiang, Li Dong, Lei Mao, Kezhi Wang, Cunhua Pan, Dong In Kim, Naofal Al-Dhahir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11618 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11618 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11618
arXiv:2606.11618v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-Altitude Wireless Networks (LAWNs), composed of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other aerial platforms, provide integrated perception, communication, and computation services in low-altitude airspace. However, deploying large generative models in this domain faces three major challenges: 1) Limited embodied action mapping; 2) Inadequate physical environment modeling; 3) Insufficient closed-loop optimization. To address these challenges, this study proposes an Embodied Agentic UAV framework. Centered on a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model as the execution core, the framework establishes an end-to-end embodied decision-making pipeline from multimodal environmental perception to continuous control generation. In addition, a World Model (WM) is introduced to capture the coupling between UAV actions and environmental state evolution, thereby supporting environment prediction, policy verification, and dynamic optimization. Furthermore, memory and reflection mechanisms are incorporated to form an adaptive closed-loop optimization paradigm of decision, execution, evaluation, and update, thereby enhancing the system's autonomous decision-making capability and continual evolution ability in complex dynamic environments. Experimental results validate its effectiveness in enabling robust, predictive, and sustainable autonomous control in LAWNs.
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This is mildly terrifying: now I have to figure out what the heck I’m doing in my session on Saturday! BUT…my problems are not the point. The point is:
Don’t let the loudest voices distort your perception of the world.
If nobody’s talking about what you wish everyone were talking about, don’t assume nobody wants to hear it. Be brave. Speak up.
If you think you’re the only one…you’re almost never the only one.
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This #RustDuck #botnet thing is kinda cute.
https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/rustduck-en/

RustDuck: An In-Depth Analysis of a Two-Stage Botnet
Overview Since February 2026, the XLAB large-scale network threat perception system has detected a new malware family active in cyberspace that adopts a Loader + Core (two-stage loading) architecture. Currently, the family has spawned multiple variants, with the main core functionality being the execution of large-scale Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. It

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Vikings coach unfazed by perception of QB1 comp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48968400/vikings-mccarthy-murray-very-professional-qb-comp

Towards Fine-Grained Multi-Dimensional Speech Understanding: Data Pipeline, Benchmark, and Model
Guojian Li, Zhixian Zhao, Zhennan Lin, Jingbin Hu, Qirui Zhan, Yuang Cao, Pengyuan Xie, Chuan Xie, Jie Liu, Qiang Zhang, Zhonghua Fu, Lei Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12036 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12036 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.12036
arXiv:2605.12036v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While speech Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at conventional tasks like basic speech recognition, they lack fine-grained, multi-dimensional perception. This deficiency is evident in their struggle to disentangle complex features like micro-acoustic cues, acoustic scenes, and paralinguistic signals. This resulting incomplete comprehension of real-world speech fundamentally bottlenecks the development of perceptive and empathetic next-generation speech systems. At its core, this persistent perceptual limitation primarily stems from three interacting factors: scarce high-quality expressive data, absent fine-grained modeling for multi-dimensional attributes, and reliance on restricted coverage, coarse-grained benchmarks. We address these challenges through three pillars: First, our robust data curation pipeline resolves complex acoustic environments and long-audio timestamp alignment challenges to extract a high-quality spontaneous speech corpus from audiovisual sources. Second, we construct FMSU-Bench, a pioneering benchmark covering 14 speech attribute dimensions to rigorously assess the fine-grained, multi-dimensional speech understanding capabilities of current models. Third, empowered by our curated corpus, we introduce FM-Speech. Driven by a decoupled attribute modeling and progressive curriculum fine-tuning framework, it substantially elevates fine-grained, multi-dimensional acoustic perception. Extensive evaluations on FMSU-Bench reveal that current speech LLMs still require significant improvement in multi-dimensional, fine-grained understanding. In contrast, FM-Speech substantially outperforms current open-source models, establishing a robust paradigm for real-world speech understanding.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Groove Junkies & Solara:
🎵 Perception (Richard Earnshaw Hypnotronic radio edit)
#GrooveJunkies #Solara

LU 1er juillet 2026
"Lëtz prepare! Luc Frieden, Yuriko Backes et Léon Gloden présentent les résultats de l'enquête nationale sur la perception des risques et menaces"
Site: • https://gouvernement.lu/fr/actualites/

Imagination is not just replaying what we see and hear https://www.sciencenews.org/article/imagination-perception-overlap-brain-neuroscience "Conjuring a nonspecific scene or sound pings brain networks that respond to more than one sense"

Imagination is not just replaying what we see and hear
The findings differ from prior work, showing it's tough to disentangle how similarly our brains register imagined thoughts and real sensations.

Second, just because it •seems• like everyone’s talking about AI all the time, that doesn’t actually mean that AI has taken over your industry / public consciousness / the world. If you feel “blah” about it, you’re not alone.
Don’t let the loudest voices distort your perception of the world.
If nobody’s talking about what you wish everyone were talking about, don’t assume nobody wants to hear it. Be brave. Speak up.
If you think you’re the only one…you’re almost never the only one.
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Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
[1/1]:
- B-repLer: Language-guided Editing of CAD Models
Yilin Liu, Niladri Shekhar Dutt, Changjian Li, Niloy J. Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10201 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/115031625722935245
- Geometrically Approximated Modeling for Emitter-Centric Ray-Triangle Filtering in Arbitrarily Dyn...
Rabin Gajmer, Joonas Haapala, Zoltan Beck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10457 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116560660242490785
- NaP-Control: Navigating Diffusion Prior for Versatile and Fast Character Control
Chia-Wen Chen, Yan Wu, Korrawe Karunratanakul, Siyu Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116611422054088912
- Vis4GS: A Visual Analytic Tool for 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction
Kai-Yuan Lin, Aryabima Mandala Putra, Jui-Chi Lee, Shih-Hsuan Hung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26985 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116815255549530340
- LATO.2: Factorized 3D Mesh Generation with Vertex and Topology Flow
Long, Zhao, Lin, Zhang, Guo, Liang, Xu, Hladk\'y, Nie{\ss}ner, Hu, Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10623 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116917178519049532
- OmniX: From Unified Panoramic Generation and Perception to Graphics-Ready 3D Scenes
Yukun Huang, Jiwen Yu, Yanning Zhou, Jianan Wang, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan, Xihui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26800 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115468347012341868
- HairPort: In-context 3D-aware Hair Import and Transfer for Images
Alireza Heidari, Amirhossein Alimohammadi, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12562 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116735964747387747
- From Scene-Centric to Observer-Centric: Modeling Observer-Aware Relations for 3D Scene Graph Gene...
Jingjun Sun, Chaowei Wang, Zhirui Liu, Jiaxu Tian, Ming Yang, Yaoxing Wang, Yan Di, Shan Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27412 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116832228785083392
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Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- Effect of an auditory static distractor on the perception of an auditory moving target
Noa Kemp, Cynthia Tarlao, Catherine Guastavino, B. Suresh Krishna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25119 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115462256692285649
- Cortex-Inspired Continual Learning: Unsupervised Instantiation and Recovery of Functional Task Ne...
Kevin McKee, Thomas Hazy, Yicong Zheng, Zacharie Bugaud, Thomas Miconi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24637 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116481549483167923
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Edge-Based QoS-Aware Adaptive Task Placement: A Closed-Loop Control in Multi-Robot Systems
Thien Tran, Jonathan Kua, Thuong Hoang, Minh Tran, Honghao Lyu, Jiong Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00552 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.00552 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.00552
arXiv:2606.00552v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-robot systems (MRS) increasingly offload compute-intensive perception tasks to edge nodes to meet strict time-sensitive Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints. However, static task orchestration on a shared edge node can severely degrade QoS due to network latency, jitter, and edge-resource contention. We present a pilot edge-centric MRS testbed using Raspberry Pi nodes to evaluate a camera-to-manipulator pipeline under three modes: local execution, static offloading, and a QoS-aware Adaptive Task Placement (ATP) controller. ATP scores candidate placements using a multi-metric cost (normalized latency, CPU utilization, and switching overhead) over two-second control windows. The closed-loop visual servoing testbed is instrumented with sub-millisecond clock synchronization, network emulation, and detailed monitoring of multiple metrics across nodes to capture realistic jitter. Experimental results under compute-stress and network-fault scenarios show that static edge offloading reduces on-board CPU load but amplifies tail latency and deadline misses. In contrast, the QoS-aware ATP controller, by switching task placement based on measured latency and utilization thresholds, consistently lowers deadline violations and tail latency. Overall, the results position ATP as a practical edge-side control primitive for MRS and concrete design guidelines for Cloud-Edge Robotics deployments within the broader cloud-fog automation, while motivating QoS-aware multi-objective workload orchestration for industrial cyber-physical systems.
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Adjectives improve color perception in visually impaired people through multisensory stimulation https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1718682/full "Auditory stimuli were particularly effective in elicit…

Frontiers | Adjectives improve color perception in visually impaired people through multisensory stimulation
Visually impaired individuals, particularly those who are totally blind, cannot rely on vision to perceive colors and instead depend on other sensory modalit...

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Low-level "visual" perception with visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is at least on par with brain implants for restoring vision. It's the higher-level visual perception where there remain many open questions. Much more scientific effort should go into that. #BCI #blindness

#Cortigent about their Orion visual cortical prosthesis system (brain implant for restoring vision to the blind) https://www.cortigent.com/orion "It is intended to deliver meaningful perception of motion and light.&…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thetransmitter/116913384256610078
Awake vivid sound-guided generative perception (visual imagery) is what we seek for most compelling results with The vOICe vision BCI for the blind

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- Subjective functions
Samuel J. Gershman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15948 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115745517602563939
- A modular state-space model of human perception, cognition, and decision dynamics
Sven Schoonebeek, Carlo Cenedese, Anahita Jamshidnejad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14078 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSY_bot/116928666355965273
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windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

BRIDGE-STIM 2027: Probing sensorimotor circuits and perception across species with microstimulation workshop, Pittsburgh, May 17-19, 2027 #BCI

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Thoughtseeds as Latent Causes: A Dual-Process Computational Phenomenology of Focused-Attention Meditation
Prakash Chandra Kavi, Daniel Ari Friedman, Gustavo Patow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14833 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.14833 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.14833
arXiv:2607.14833v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Meditative expertise involves sustained attention, rapid recovery from distraction, and coordinated dynamics of large-scale brain networks. We present a computational phenomenology of focused-attention meditation traversing four attractor states: breath focus, mind-wandering, meta-awareness, and redirect attention. Within a dual-process active inference formulation, the model implements a three-layer nested Markov-blanket architecture: (L1) a high-dimensional physiological neuronal substrate modeled as a stochastic multivariate Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process over attentional Yeo networks; (L2) a low-dimensional generative model (System 1) that encodes latent mental content as thoughtseeds and evaluates autonomic action tendencies; and (L3) an agentic metacognitive monitor (System 2) that implements a Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) capacity bottleneck to selectively gate these tendencies. In L3, meta-awareness functions as the GNW ignition signal, derived from policy-prior divergence and dynamically gated by direct competition between orchestrator and distractor thoughtseeds. Policy selection actively minimizes expected free energy, and L2 actions furnish descending predictions over network activity to close the enactive perception--action cycle. Training uses variational Expectation-Maximization (EM) across expert and novice phenotypes. Simulations reproduce behavior consistent with empirical observations and findings in contemplative neuroscience, providing a tractable link between first-person phenomenology and objective neurophysiological measures.
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With that context, the apparent pause on ICE vehicle stops is fascinating. I hesitate to parse it too finely without (1) deeper context and (2) anything other than “Trump administration people said so,” but even if it’s just the hot air they’re blowing today:
- Suggests there are internal battles going on at DHS
- Strongly suggests they are afraid of public backlash and media perception
- which in turn suggests that our outrage and our pressure and our resistance efforts do in fact matter, and we should continue all of it
Whatever the hell is going on internally, signs of weakness are oozing out every part of DHS. Don't despair, don't relent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/14/ice-vehicle-stops-texas-maine-shootings

The pip-and-pop effect in depth: how multisensory stimuli influence depth perception https://brill.com/view/journals/msr/aop/article-10.1163-22134808-bja10199/article-10.1163-22134808-bja10199.xml "audiovisual pairing …

EyeBrain: Left and Right Brain Lateralization Activity Classification Through Pupil Diameter and Fixation Duration
Ko Watanabe, Pooja Pol, Nicolas Gro{\ss}mann, Shoya Ishimaru, Andreas Dengel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.23562
arXiv:2604.23562v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The relationship between brain lateralization and cognitive functions is well-documented. The left hemisphere primarily handles tasks such as language and arithmetic, while the right hemisphere is involved in creative activities like drawing and music perception. Eye-tracking technology has shown the potential to reveal cognitive states by measuring ocular metrics such as pupil diameter and fixation duration. However, the ability to distinguish lateralized brain activity using these ocular metrics remains underexplored. Here, we demonstrate that pupil diameter and fixation duration can effectively classify left and right brain hemisphere activities. We obtained a considerably high classification performance, with an F1 score of 0.894. The results suggest that ocular metrics are robust indicators of lateralized brain activity and can be applied in cognitive monitoring and neurorehabilitation. Our future work expands on this by integrating these methods into real-time applications EyeBrain, potentially broadening their use across various cognitive and neurological domains.
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Improvement of peripheral visual discrimination through mental imagery https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(26)01812-2 "Mental imagery can enhance visual perception"

Sensory challenges should be treated more like sports challenges: people don't ask if it is "useful" to play football or tennis or chess. Why not the same thing with pushing the limits of perception with novel visual prostheses? #BCI #NeuroTech