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Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-tests-ne…

Google tests new conversational ad formats in AI Mode and Search
Google is rolling out Gemini-powered conversational ad formats across AI Mode and Search as it looks to make ads more contextual,

#Framed #1502
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"‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels "
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

'You Can’t Live Without Us': How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels  
Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a new message: fossil fuels are here to stay, a report has found.  Campaign group Clean Creatives analysed 1,859 communications from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron published between 2020 and 2024, spanning paid advertisements on Facebook, YouTube, […]

I've been liking Proton Sheets (from @… ) but the date formatting choices are not great.
I do (currently) live in the US but prefer ISO 8601/RFC 3339 formatting of YYYY-MM-DD and that's what I use in my spreadsheet.
I can type in that format but occasionally the date picker (which automagically shows up) changes it to the wrong for…

Motor imagery affects both cortical and spinal circuitry: a transcranial and trans-spinal magnetic stimulation study https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neural-circuits/articles/10.3389/fncir.2026.1809125/abstract

Frontiers | Motor Imagery Affects Both Cortical and Spinal Circuitry: A Transcranial and Trans-spinal Magnetic Stimulation Study
Introduction: Motor imagery (MI), the mental rehearsal of movement without physical execution, is a key technique in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), known ...

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

George W. Bush gifts Michelle Obama a tin of Altoids at Obama Center opening in an ode to their friendship (Nicole Brown Chau/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-w-bush-michelle-obama-altoids-friendship/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p79#a260619p79

Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-tests-ne…

Review: The role of sensory experience in the maturation of prefrontal cortical circuits https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1808558/full

Frontiers | The role of sensory experience in the maturation of prefrontal cortical circuits
Sensory input during early life is crucial for brain circuitry to be appropriately wired and refined. Foundational studies in the past century established th...

livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…