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The Last Remaining Newspaper’s Obituary for David Duke, ca. 2033

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Mon, 22/09/2025 - 22:00

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David Ernest Duke, devoted father, community leader, and passionate advocate for his beliefs, passed away peacefully of natural causes on February 17, 2033, at the age of 82.

Mr. Duke earned his PhD in history, with his dissertation focusing on Middle Eastern studies. His academic background informed his extensive writings on the management and ownership of academia, media, and financial systems. He also authored a self-help book for women, demonstrating his diverse intellectual interests.

At last: the first-ever textbook on ergodicity economics

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/at-last-the-first-ever-textbook-on-e…
Created
Mon, 22/09/2025 - 21:38
Over the years, some of us have tried to teach our economics doctoral students a bit about the importance of questioning the common ergodicity assumption. This assumption, often left unstated, underpins most mainstream economic models concerning preferences and expected utility. One of the problems has been the lack of an accessible textbook on ergodicity economics. […]

Meet Dominique De Cooman and his vision for open digital experiences

https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/meet-dominique-de-cooman-and-his-vision…
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Mon, 22/09/2025 - 20:22

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We’re thrilled to introduce Dominique De Cooman, one of the newest members elected to the Drupal Association Board, with his term beginning 1 November 2025.

Dominique is the co-founder, CTO, and co-CEO of Dropsolid, where for more than a decade he has been a driving force behind the company’s vision and growth. His work has focused on digital transformation, open digital experiences, and more recently AI transformation, helping companies, organisations, and governments stay innovative and sovereign in a fast-changing world.

Drupal AI Development Progress Week 36-37

https://www.drupal.org/about/starshot/initiatives/ai/blog/drupal-ai-development…
Created
Mon, 22/09/2025 - 19:53

The last two weeks have had a huge focus on getting the providers into the new 1.2.0 structure, beta blockers done and manipulating the AI Agents system so it handles specific cases that we see happen when we are working on the Canvas AI module.

Progress Service for Agents

When setting up a user interface for agents, complex agents can take several minutes to load. If users are shown only a loading spinner during this time, many will assume the system has failed and abandon the page.

Another challenge arises during development, when we need to debug the agent’s behaviour. A useful debug tool should be able to display the agent’s progress, which tools it has used, the contexts it has added, and other relevant details.

Australian Senate enquiry finds that the university sector is rotten to the core

https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62789
Created
Mon, 22/09/2025 - 17:26
Last week, the Education and Employment Legislation Committee of the Australian Senate (our upper house) released its interim report – Quality of governance at Australian higher education providers. It wasn’t pretty reading. Those who work inside the higher education system could have written this report some years ago – given the problems that are finally…

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Mon, 22/09/2025 - 17:00
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 21, 2025

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Mon, 22/09/2025 - 04:32
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 21, 2025 by Tony Wikrent   Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] A […]