Behavioral models often take as a starting point a standard economic model and reinterpret the model as a description how the person thinks and feels. Next, an (often compelling) case is made that many of the assumptions are unrealistic because humans cannot perform the difficult mental tasks embodied in the formalism. The mistake or bias […]
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Brought to life with playful animation, nothing is off limits in this intimate chat among friends about living with boobs
- A film by Subarna Dash and Vidushi Gupta
My world was dark and scary. But beautiful things crept in, and threats of hell just couldn’t compete
- by Liz Boltz Ranfeld
“We’re back,” I tell the room. It’s January 21, 2029, and I can barely contain my excitement. “America is back!” I expect applause, but there is none. I try again, louder this time. “After four long years, America is finally back! We’re ready to resume our international obligations!” The members of the U.N. Human Rights Council are looking in every direction — except at me. I feel a tug on the sleeve of my suit jacket. I glance down and note that the representative from Morocco is passing me a slip of paper. All I see are numbers. “This is… a bill?” She nods. “Your international obligations.” “Fifty-two billion dollars?” “Four years of non-payment of U.N. contributions. We rounded it... Read more
Here are a couple of reports on the June 13 concert in New York City. First up is Associate Editor Tom Frangione’s review for Beatlefan. … Having kicked off the first leg of their 2025 tour the prior evening in … Continue reading
Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts (no Iran/Israel.)
A huge joint stable release of AI was made yesterday, where 10 modules were updated to 1.1.0. This is a major milestone in the Drupal AI brings a host of improvements and significant new features.
Some technical facts of the AI release:
- 105 issues fixed on AI Core, 75 issues fixed on AI Agents and roughly 25 issues on providers.
- 90 unique contributors on AI Core
- 244 files changed, 6500 lines added, 15044 lines removed on AI Core.
The most important update is function calling and a new agent framework, but here is a list of some other new features:
With Israel set to compete in the U.S.-hosted 2025 Club World Cup, a growing international campaign is calling on FIFA to suspend Israel over its ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The post As FIFA Preps for 2025 Club World Cup, Fans Demand Israel Be Shown the Red Card appeared first on MintPress News.
Three visits to Magic Jewelry, a small shop in Manhattan’s Chinatown, where spectral photographs reveal something more than aura color.
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Today we live in the Great Vibes epoch. Inherent yet ephemeral, vibes are difficult to measure. They’re the perfect concept for a period when “if you know, you know” is answer enough. Uncertainty is the fraught space where pseudo-prophetic practices like aura photography thrive. Still, who doesn’t want promises of self-knowledge, healing, and growth when we know what the problems are but change seems futile?
The senior commanders of the air and missile forces are dead, and so is the commander of the Revolutionary Guard. Multiple nuclear sites were hit, plus civilian targets.
Iran previously threatened that if Israel hit their nuclear program, they would hit Israel’s nuclear sites in retaliation.
The Chancellor offered security for the profit margins of defence and construction companies while largely missing the opportunity to invest in the economic security of working people, argues Labour MP Clive Lewis
What if ‘stress reduction’ is the least interesting thing mindfulness does? Complexity science offers new ways forward
- by Pavel Chvykov
The Chancellor's Spending Review was far more radical and transformative than anyone has yet realised, argues Josiah Mortimer
Let me state my two main conclusions. First, starting from sharply different views, there has been substantial convergence, both in terms of methodology and in terms of architecture. Second, this convergence has been mostly in the right direction, allowing future research to build on the existing conceptual structure. Put strongly, macroeconomics may have a claim […]
What economics does is to convert open systems into closed systems by excluding ‘moves’ which would render the system unstable. Dictators ‘freeze the frame’ by order: economists do it by ‘modelling.’ They model the world as a giant computer network in which every possible move has been programmed, and anything outside the frame excluded by […]
‘I do love the creatures I hunt’, writes Patrick Galbraith in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship With The Countryside. ‘I love snipe in sundrenched winter meadows and it’s never really autumn, I think, until the teal are in.’ Like many who take part in activities like shooting and wildfowling, Galbraith — a former editor at […]