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SPEAK ITALIAN:
THE FINE ART OF THE GESTURE
-- BRUNO MUNARI
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Speak Italian: The Fine Art of the Gesture

Visuospatial experience shapes the form of gestures: Blind speakers gesture with more precise spatial tracking of motion than sighted speakers https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-026-02957-w "altered spatial cognition in blindness enhances gesture precisio…

Visuospatial experience shapes the form of gestures: Blind speakers gesture with more precise spatial tracking of motion than sighted speakers - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Co-speech gestures emerge from the interaction between visuospatial experience and speech formulation, but what happens when visual experience is absent from birth? Blind individuals gesture in ways consistent with their native language, albeit they gesture less frequently. However, nothing is known about whether their gesture form differs from that of sighted individuals. Using computer vision technologies, this study examines whether gesture kinematics are shaped by visuospatial experience. I…

I came across this short, factual documentary.
The video from is lifted from Instagram but I am re-sharing it here, as it is the type of daily interaction that all unicyclists can related to.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaWF2PkSrit/

Elephants use body language to tell each other what to do #animals

Elephants use body language to tell each other what to do
Wild African elephants appear to use body movements as deliberate signals. They watch other elephants before and during gestures.

NFL, union clarify celebration rules, say drinking gestures not violations https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50127635/nfl-union-clarify-celebration-rules-ok-drinking-gestures

The new multitouch gestures iOS 27 are amazing, to generate an image you can now just swipe left with six fingers

Reinhold Messner's moving message about the recent death of Nirmal Purja and ten others:
What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard.
I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away.
And yet l also know that, for some, …

Reinhold Messner on Instagram: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I also know that, for some, there is a quiet comfort in knowing they were in the place they loved most, doing what gave their life meaning. My thoughts are with all the families, friends, and everyone who loved them. Pls remember a human being is never an object. A life is measured by presence, not by tributes. #thinking #memories #"
97K likes, 854 comments - reinholdmessner_official on August 2, 2026: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I …

'...the payment processing giant announced a massive acquisition of BioCatch, an Israeli AI fraud detection company, in a $2.4 billion cash deal. A joint news release on Monday said the company uses biometric data, like key strokes and touch gestures, to detect fraud in “real time.”'
So the plan is to use AI to see if "key strokes and touch gestures" are genuine? It strikes me that #AI

'...the payment processing giant announced a massive acquisition of BioCatch, an Israeli AI fraud detection company, in a $2.4 billion cash deal. A joint news release on Monday said the company uses biometric data, like key strokes and touch gestures, to detect fraud in “real time.”'
So the plan is to use AI to see if "key strokes and touch gestures" are genuine? It strikes me that #AI

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwaldby/117105410530944742
Three things to note here:
1. The story itself, ugly
2. The story of the NYT and then Bulwark killing it
3. The cautionary tale it briefly gestures at of Republican fundraising SMS spam, which I also somehow get sometime and it’s 10x more unhinged than the Democratic PACs (which is saying something)