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My Bartlett School of Architecture colleague Nina Vollenbroker is organising a session on 'Environments of Disability' at this year's AHRA conference in Liverpool (22-24 Nov 2025), based on the premise that architectural processes are central producers of disability
Abstracts are due 2nd June, call for papers and more info:

Articles like this remind me that #ferrari is a long way away from winning a championship. It's all about the BS around the #F1, not F1 racing itself.

‘I’m from the land of slow food and fast cars’ – Chef Massimo Bottura on taking over Ferrari’s famous Ristorante Cavallino | Formula 1®
“In my veins there’s balsamic vinegar, my muscles are parmigiano-reggiano, but in my DNA there’s a 12 cylinder engine,” he says.

Pam Ayres
At last, we have a cure for all!
Ailments large and ailments small,
Good health is not beyond my reach,
If I inject myself with bleach.
Radiant, I’ll prance along,
Every trace of limescale gone,
With disinfectant as my friend,
Like him,
I’m clean around the bend.

Bought a couple breadboard power supplies from Canaduino awhile back. Noticed one on a friends bench and after examining it decided I needed one too. Better than the ones with linear chips. If this fails it just stops working does not send whatever source voltage was to your project. Took awhile to get. They used a shipper called Sendle to ship it from Canada to the U.S.
Anyway I looked around and ordered one of these to to send to the niece.

Electronic Education DIY Kit “The broken code lock” (Troubleshooting Project)
A DIY soldering kit with “integrated” design flaws. Understand the working principle, find the mistakes on the PCB and in the schematics, and make it work.

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)

Choreographic Quick Changes: First-Class Location (Set) Polymorphism
Ashley Samuelson, Andrew K. Hirsch, Ethan Cecchetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10913 h…

Choreographic Quick Changes: First-Class Location (Set) Polymorphism
Choreographic programming is a promising new paradigm for programming concurrent systems where a developer writes a single centralized program that compiles to individual programs for each node. Existing choreographic languages, however, lack critical features integral to modern systems, like the ability of one node to dynamically compute who should perform a computation and send that decision to others. This work addresses this gap with $λ_{QC}$, the first typed choreographic language with \e…

Eye, Robot: Learning to Look to Act with a BC-RL Perception-Action Loop
Justin Kerr, Kush Hari, Ethan Weber, Chung Min Kim, Brent Yi, Tyler Bonnen, Ken Goldberg, Angjoo Kanazawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10968

Eye, Robot: Learning to Look to Act with a BC-RL Perception-Action Loop
Humans do not passively observe the visual world -- we actively look in order to act. Motivated by this principle, we introduce EyeRobot, a robotic system with gaze behavior that emerges from the need to complete real-world tasks. We develop a mechanical eyeball that can freely rotate to observe its surroundings and train a gaze policy to control it using reinforcement learning. We accomplish this by first collecting teleoperated demonstrations paired with a 360 camera. This data is imported in…

This Thursday the moving truck arrives and the following Tuesday we move into our new home. Therefore, it's time for a new alias, and this poll offers some possible alternatives. Please boost for maximum meaningless results.
Some background:
- we are moving to the Barrie area.
- officially, within the Town of Innisfil
- easy walking distance to Belle Aire Beach
- within Innisfil, we are in the community of Belle Ewart
Disclaimer - I am not legally bound by the results of this survey.
Barrie Beach Bum
Innocuous In Innisfil
Prince of Belle Aire
Ewartian Era

I really would have preferred that we saw "taco trucks on every corner" as a promise, not a threat.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK0zV2WRpha/

L.A. TACO 🌴🌮 on Instagram: "Taqueros are now closing due to ICE raids. ~ @el_tragon_de_los_angeles @brotherscousinstacos @birriaeljaliciense @angelstijuanatacos @tacoselvenado @chachacha.la @elbarrio_cantina @taqueriafrontera @carnitas_el_gordo_panzon"
4,159 likes, 98 comments - lataco on June 12, 2025: "Taqueros are now closing due to ICE raids. ~ @el_tragon_de_los_angeles @brotherscousinstacos @birriaeljaliciense @angelstijuanatacos @tacoselvenado @chachacha.la @elbarrio_cantina @taqueriafrontera @carnitas_el_gordo_panzon".

Apple's WWDC 2025 marked a strategic retreat from its overambitious AI promises; SVP Craig Federighi openly admitted Siri's AI features need more time (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/apple-retreats/

Apple Retreats
Apple’s WWDC was a retreat from not just last year’s WWDC, but potentially a broader reset for the company. That’s why it was a great presentation.