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Silent speech with ultrasound alephneuro.com/blog/silent-speech We trained a model to predict text from ultrasound videos of the tongue while the speaker stays silent. On an internal open-vocabulary, cross-speaker…

After Forty Years, Still No Silver Bullet jarango.com/2026/07/10/after-forty-years-still-no-silver-bullet/ Technology keeps making software faster to produce, but it doesn’t solve the harder problem of knowing what to build. LLMs…

The End of Reading Is Here theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/ Americans are reading less for pleasure, news is increasingly consumed in fragments, and literacy skills are slipping even as text floods…

MIT engineers whip up a more breathable hydrogel news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engineers-whip-up-more-breathable-hydrogel-0708 MIT engineers created an air-permeable hydrogel by using tiny silica aerogel particles to form interconnected tunnels. The material stays…

Who cares for injured ants in a colony? uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ameisen-kolonie-verletzte-pflegt/ Carpenter ants amputate injured legs to reduce infection risk, and a Würzburg-led study found that the ants most likely…

Showdown in Strasbourg: Chat Control 1.0 returns to the EU Parliament heise.de/en/news/Showdown-in-Strasbourg-The-unexpected-return-of-Chat-Control-1-0-11356680.html EU lawmakers in Strasbourg are set to debate a fast-track bid to revive the temporary Chat…

A 2048-Spin Bulk Acoustic Wave Ising Machine for Number Partitioning and Sudoku arxiv.org/abs/2607.02112 A time-multiplexed Ising machine built with two serial bulk acoustic wave delay lines supports 2,048…

Castro Podcasts: Things I got wrong about support uncommonapps.nyc/p/castro-podcasts-things-i-got-wrong-support Why trying to build customer loyalty through detailed support responses often backfires, and when support actually helps. By @steiner…

Lilypad mini quilt lizdenys.com/journal/articles/2026-lilypad-mini-quilt.html A hand-quilted and hand-embroidered linen lilypad made during a road trip and recovery from surgery, finished with bias tape and stitched vein details. It…

Artful Cats si.edu/spotlight/art-cats A Smithsonian collection spotlight featuring cat-themed art and artifacts from across the museum network, spanning paintings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, stamps, and archival materials. Source…

Notes on Acquired Taste ian-leslie.com/p/notes-on-acquired-taste Why we sometimes work to like things, how taste is formed, and why acquired preferences can be a form of self-cultivation rather than…

Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines apnews.com/article/california-farmer-nectarines-lawsuit-patent-4f7bc8ab185e8b9cbdd6d6ad4f2aabd1 A California farmer is giving away more than 100,000 pounds of white nectarines amid a legal battle with…

Power and Devotion Inside Oregon Buddhist Communities thewesternedge.media/p/give-your-mind-over-power-and-devotion Women in some Northwest Buddhist centers say spiritual authority has shielded predatory behavior by teachers, and that abuse allegations have…

New Orleans, Like Every City, Is Mortal commonedge.org/new-orleans-like-every-city-is-mortal/ New Orleans faces an existential climate threat, and the city may need to plan for managed retreat rather than assume…

Healing Sounds and the Medical Promise of Ultrasound honest-broker.com/p/healing-sounds-are-the-medical-miracle Sound-based medical technologies are moving from research into real-world use, with ultrasound showing promise in imaging, treatment, and even…

A Better World Is Not Possible lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangerous-dirty-violent-young-ayers-dohrn-weather-underground/ Did the Weather Underground have a point? By @kx98 50m Source link

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518 Charles Mackay’s classic 1841 study of crowd psychology and mass delusions, covering financial bubbles, witch trials, alchemy,…

The Grate Cheese Robbery longreads.com/2026/05/28/the-cheese-theft-food-crime/ Organized crime has turned cheese into a surprising target, with artisanal cheddar and Parmigiano Reggiano especially vulnerable because they’re labor-intensive, high-value, and often…

Slow down, have fun, live well idler.co.uk The Idler is a magazine and academy about philosophy, literature, learning, retreats, and events, with online courses and a festival alongside…

Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html Daisugi is a traditional Japanese forestry technique developed to produce long, straight cedar timber from…