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Mela is listening to a podcast: Gabriel Shemirani on medical misinfo and rejecting Conspiracyland – Marianna in Conspiracyland – BBC Radio 4 - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1690561703

My son, age 14, is a keen electronic music composer/producer. He's pretty good. He wants to upload his music to platforms like Spotify. He's been told that he has to sign a 'Digital Exploitation Agreement' to a company called Digital Rights Management New Zealand Limited. He needs a parent/guardian to sign it on his behalf. I *revile* the concept of DRM (it's rightly 'Digital *Restrictions* Management' and it's a deeply flawed concept at a fundamental level) &…

A Florida lawyer who describes himself as Donald Trump’s boyhood “best friend”
is pushing the president to declare a national emergency
to enable him to take control of November’s midterms, according to a report.
Peter Ticktin, 80, is a long-time believer in the claim that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from Trump by a vast voter fraud conspiracy
told CNN in a new interview that the threat remains real

Trump’s childhood pal is pushing him to declare national emergency and seize control of midterms: report
Lawyer Peter Ticktin claims Democrats are conspiring to steal November’s vote, this time with a view to removing Trump and JD Vance from power and installing Hakeem Jeffries in their place

Just noticed the (Computing Within) LIMITS 2026 workshop papers are on arXiv already. A selection:
Narratives That Limit the Possible: Interrupting Narrative Closure in Computing Practice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17360
Modest, artistic, and radical solutions to the environmental impact of ima…

Narratives That Limit the Possible: Interrupting Narrative Closure in Computing Practice
Computing's dominant concepts - innovation, efficiency, resilience, professionalism - often migrate from reflective ideals to instruments that limit behaviour, redirect responsibility, and foreclose critique. We call this drift weaponisation: the discursive repurposing of professional concepts so that they stabilise business-as-usual while making structural alternatives appear unreasonable, illegible, or out of scope. Using collective autoethnography across education, justice, public administra…

"Library 5.0 and Predictive Intelligence: A Conceptual Literature Review"
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/libphilprac/8309/

In the first post of this series, I focused on the project foundations: what should I do to create a video from photos taken from the same position year after year? I dedicated the second part to aligning images. It wasn’t as easy as I expected. I stumbled upon new concepts, such as ORB and RANSAC.
In this third and final post, I want to tackle the #video creation itself, explain some "

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
Myles Cochran:
🎵 Four Bent Barn
#MylesCochran
https://open.spotify.com/track/1coNQHP8hDzeIfeiENddwx

A Conspiracy Theory We Can All Believe In (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-conspiracy-theory-we-can-all-believe-in
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p59#a260505p59

Quite happy with how the page/component lifecycle log messages are coming along as part of my push to get the new stateful components over the line in Kitten¹.
This should make it very easy to ensure that things are happening as you think they are and to conceptualise the behaviour of your stateful component hierarchies. (You can also use stateless components, of course, as is the currently documented workflow.)
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
David Ackles & David Ackles:
🎵 Waiting for the Moving Van
#DavidAckles
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cNYZ7bviNWNtjNk44HKQQ
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