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This is unusually gentle. Even the “bad” stuff is either understandable or kind-of endearing. Non-US friends: what •really• makes Americans stand out when we’re in your country?
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Ayanda Sikade – Umakhulu
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ayanda-sikade-umakhulu/
Though he’s been a crucial figure in South African jazz for years, drummer Ayanda Sikade is only now achieving the recognition he’s long deserved—something one could say about the South A…

Ayanda Sikade - Umakhulu - African Music Forum
Ayanda Sikade - Umakhulu - second album as a leader, rooted in the (South) African culture of song and dance

One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy theories, invent new culture-war obsessions, and pit one region of the country against another
The Baltimore bridge collapse demonstrates with unusual clarity that when it comes to calamities of this sort, we really are all in it together.
That, of course, is exactly what the MAGA worldview seeks to deny at all costs—and is once again try…

MAGA’s Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse
If they can try to turn the tragic Baltimore bridge collapse into a culture war, they’ll go anywhere—hurting their own people in the process.

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Theorizing the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Consumer Decision-Making for Participation in Community-Supported Agriculture
In the context of the urgent need to establish sustainable food systems, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), in which consumers share risks with producers, has gained increasing attention. Understanding the factors that influence consumer participation in CSA is crucial, yet the complete picture and interrelations of these factors remain unclear in existing studies. This research adopts a scoping review and the KJ method to elucidate the factors influencing consumer participation in CSA and …

The ancient Egyptian personification of the Milky Way as the Sky Goddess Nut: an astronomical and cross-cultural analysis
Or Graur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01458

The ancient Egyptian personification of the Milky Way as the Sky Goddess Nut: an astronomical and cross-cultural analysis
The Milky Way's name and role in ancient Egyptian culture remain unclear. One suggestion is that the Milky Way may have been a celestial depiction of the sky goddess Nut. In this work, I test this association using an interdisciplinary approach. In the first part of this paper, I combine astronomical simulations of the ancient Egyptian night sky with primary Egyptian sources to map the goddess Nut onto the Milky Way. With her head and groin firmly associated by primary texts with the western an…

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Bi-KVIL: Keypoints-based Visual Imitation Learning of Bimanual Manipulation Tasks
Visual imitation learning has achieved impressive progress in learning unimanual manipulation tasks from a small set of visual observations, thanks to the latest advances in computer vision. However, learning bimanual coordination strategies and complex object relations from bimanual visual demonstrations, as well as generalizing them to categorical objects in novel cluttered scenes remain unsolved challenges. In this paper, we extend our previous work on keypoints-based visual imitation learni…

Perceptual learning in contour detection transfer across changes in contour path and orientation
Yue Ding, Hongqiao Shi, Shuang Song, Yonghui Wang, Ya Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11516

Perceptual learning in contour detection transfer across changes in contour path and orientation
The integration of local elements into shape contours is critical for target detection and identification in cluttered scenes. Previous studies have shown that observers can learn to use image regularities for contour integration and target identification. However, we still know little about the generalization of perceptual learning in contour integration. Specifically, whether training in contour detection task could transfer to untrained contour type, path or orientation is still unclear. In …