#kuhn spikes

[live-from-flaturn]

I can't believe KinnPorsche fridged a hedgehog.

Anyway RIP Kuhn Spikes.

[technicallyverycowboy]

kinnporsche babes ep 10

shit i love about episode 10:

i love the central tenet of this episode being trust. who do you trust? why do you trust them? how far do you trust them? inasmuch as kinn and porsche are still in the 'just fucking talk to each other' mire, there's still an evolution here. porsche is running away with vegas! but he asks kinn to trust him and kinn sort of does. progress!

there are so many great fucking tidbits about vegas's personality here. i particularly like the little undercurrent of domestic fantasy in how he treats tawan. objectively, there was so reason to up the ante with tawan all the way to marriage, but for my money, i think that fantasy of having someone, getting married, being accepted by his father is way more about vegas.

on that same note, there's such tragedy in who vegas is as a person. everything he does is in reaction to other people; obeying his father, getting under kinn's skin etc. there's nothing that he seems to just want for himself. i think vegas is so used to being seen as a blunt instrument of violence that he's completely internalized it. there's something so deeply sad about needing to take from kinn badly enough that he fakes a relationship with a man that he clearly finds repulsive. vegas is so much the architect of his own unhappiness, because i think he sees unhappiness as an inherent aspect of his existence.

one of the most rewarding things about rewatching for me has been a much deeper appreciation of kim, knowing now that he's caught feelings real bad. just truly love him as a man dealing with his unmovable emotional repression meeting the unstoppable force of a cute boy sincerely liking him. smiley face eggs!

on that same note, kim and big as two people very much in love with someone they can't admit that to showing up to the firefight first is devastating. "kinn loves you so much!" YOU'RE PRECIOUS BIG.

i think there's a really interesting parallel between kinn/porsche and vegas/pete in that kinn is drawn to porsche because porsche isn't impressed by him and vegas is drawn to pete because pete's not afraid of him. there are a couple moments in the first torture scene where this little expressions flash across vegas's face that read to me as realizing "oh, this guy's also a freak. he can take it." it's just such fantastic 'i'm gonna fucking torture you'/'ha ha then what' energy

and finally, dutch ovening is always the correct way to settle spousal disputes

[robynsassenmyview]

Of family meetings and other lies

"Of family meetings and other lies", a review of Mike van Graan's 'My Fellow South Africans' at Theatre on the Square in Sandton until 2 September.

WITH an ‘eff you’ face, Kim Blanche Adonis in Mike van Graan’s My Fellow South Africans at Theatre on the Square until 2 September. Photograph by Philip Kuhn. THERE IS NOTHING quite like the anger of an articulate playwright to get the currents of electricity flowing through the veins of an audience. My Fellow South Africans by Mike van Graan charges up the levels of political satire with strong…

[toxicrevolver]

I found the perfect keychain for Vegas and Kuhn Spikes.

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 9, 2022

Measuring rationality: percentages vs expenditures. Allen, R., & Rehbeck, J. (2021). Theory and Decision, 91(2), 265–277.

Constant curvature modeling of abstract shape representation. Baker, N., & Kellman, P. J. (2021). PLOS ONE, 16(8), e0254719.

A measure of ambiguity (Knightian uncertainty). Blavatskyy, P. (2021). Theory and Decision, 91(2), 153–171.

Continuous, multidimensional coding of 3D complex tactile stimuli by primary sensory neurons of the vibrissal system. Bush, N. E., Solla, S. A., & Hartmann, M. J. Z. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(32), e2020194118.

Binocular rivalry reveals an out-of-equilibrium neural dynamics suited for decision-making. Cao, R., Pastukhov, A., Aleshin, S., Mattia, M., & Braun, J. (2021). eLife, 10, e61581.

A theory of direction selectivity for macaque primary visual cortex. Chariker, L., Shapley, R., Hawken, M., & Young, L.-S. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(32), e2105062118.

Sleep loss drives acetylcholine- and somatostatin interneuron-mediated gating of hippocampal activity to inhibit memory consolidation. Delorme, J., Wang, L., Kuhn, F. R., Kodoth, V., Ma, J., Martinez, J. D., … Aton, S. J. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(32), e2019318118.

A new cognitive model of long-term memory for intentions. Grünbaum, T., Oren, F., & Kyllingsbæk, S. (2021). Cognition, 215, 104817.

Behavioural tagging: Effect of novelty exploration on plasticity related molecular signatures. Naseem, M., Vishnoi, S., Kaushik, M., & Parvez, S. (2021). Experimental Brain Research, 239(8), 2359–2374.

Primate Spatial Memory Cells Become Tuned Early and Lose Tuning at Cell-Specific Times. Papadimitriou, C., Holmes, C. D., & Snyder, L. H. (2021). Cerebral Cortex, 31(9), 4206–4219.

Confidence, advice seeking and changes of mind in decision making. Pescetelli, N., Hauperich, A.-K., & Yeung, N. (2021). Cognition, 215, 104810.

Decoding of Attentional State Using High-Frequency Local Field Potential Is As Accurate As Using Spikes. Prakash, S. S., Das, A., Kanth, S. T., Mayo, J. P., & Ray, S. (2021). Cerebral Cortex, 31(9), 4314–4328.

Dysfunctional Brain Reward System in Child Obesity. Pujol, J., Blanco-Hinojo, L., Martínez-Vilavella, G., Deus, J., Pérez-Sola, V., & Sunyer, J. (2021). Cerebral Cortex, 31(9), 4376–4385.

Natural environment statistics in the upper and lower visual field are reflected in mouse retinal specializations. Qiu, Y., Zhao, Z., Klindt, D., Kautzky, M., Szatko, K. P., Schaeffel, F., … Euler, T. (2021). Current Biology, 31(15), 3233-3247.e6.

Hippocampal sub-networks exhibit distinct spatial representation deficits in Alzheimer’s disease model mice. Rechnitz, O., Slutsky, I., Morris, G., & Derdikman, D. (2021). Current Biology, 31(15), 3292-3302.e6.

How multisensory neurons solve causal inference. Rideaux, R., Storrs, K. R., Maiello, G., & Welchman, A. E. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(32), e2106235118.

Visual predictions, neural oscillations and naïve physics. Saurels, B. W., Hohaia, W., Yarrow, K., Johnston, A., & Arnold, D. H. (2021). Scientific Reports, 11, 16127.

Neural systems underlying the learning of cognitive effort costs. Sayalı, C., & Badre, D. (2021). Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(4), 698–716.

The Brain Circuits and Dynamics of Curiosity-Driven Behavior in Naturally Curious Marmosets. Tian, X., Silva, A. C., & Liu, C. (2021). Cerebral Cortex, 31(9), 4220–4232.

The influence of visual attention on memory-based preferential choice. Weilbächer, R. A., Krajbich, I., Rieskamp, J., & Gluth, S. (2021). Cognition, 215, 104804.

[awed-frog]

“When you go back and look at where these hog facilities are located, there’s a disproportionate number of them that are located near communities of color. It is definitely a human rights issue.”

Learn more:

N.C. Residents Living Near Large Hog Farms Have Elevated Disease, Death Risks

Duke report shows spikes in health problems around NC hog farms

A million tons of feces and an unbearable stench: life near industrial pig farms

[Image source: What the Health. Documentary, 2017. Directed by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn. Available on Netflix.]

[carewyncromwell]

Bat confronting Dumbledore about Grindelwald sounds so interesting! (especially because i thought it was really lame in the new film) So if you ever feel inspired to write it, please do💕. All your writing and your drawings are lovely (i will stop fangirling now)

Aww, thank you so much!! I’m so touched that you like them!! ^///^

I have to agree with you on Crimes of Grindelwald -- I’m afraid I really didn’t like much of its writing at all, including the stuff involving Dumbledore and Grindelwald, so I like the idea of being able to rewrite that part of the timeline in a way that feels more organic and realistic for the books and for the historical allegory I feel it’s almost obligated to make.

For one, I never liked the thought of Grindelwald going to America. The twist of him being Graves at the end of the first Fantastic Beasts seemed perfectly unnecessary for me, as in 1920′s/30′s America, there was a spike in racism and anti-Semitism, largely inspired by the same things that supported the Nazi Party’s rise to power in Germany. Keep in mind that the Ku Klux Klan had a revival in the 1920′s, fueled in large part to the success of the white supremacist garbage film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915 and was given further credibility by that scumbag Woodrow Wilson after he screened it in the White House. That time period after its revival is largely considered to be when the Ku Klux Klan was at its most powerful and socially acceptable in the States -- and in the 20′s, the Klan extended its bigotry beyond black Americans to also encompass immigrants, using the rhetoric of them “coming to steal American jobs” (sound familiar?), as well as Catholics (many Klan members were Protestant) and Communists (one of the Nazi Party’s main rivals for power). Hitler didn’t need to go to the U.S. to spark the creation of the first American Nazi parties -- the Friends of the New Germany was sparked by German immigrants, yes, but its much more prolific successor, the German-American Bund, was founded in 1936 by an American citizen named Fritz Kuhn. And what do you know, it turns out that the home-grown group founded by Americans did better at recruiting other Americans to the Nazi ideology than one funded and promoted by lesser officers of the Third Reich. Graves could’ve been the Wizarding World’s Fritz Kuhn -- another great and memorable villain alongside Grindelwald, rather than just a mask he uses.

I admit as well that I personally envisioned Grindelwald looking and acting differently than he does in the films. Johnny Depp doesn’t give a bad performance exactly, and I feel awful about everything that went down with him and Amber Heard...but at the same time, Depp’s Grindelwald was not what I ever had in my head. My personal fancast for Grindelwald is Michael Fassbender (if nothing else, he’s a German actor and he played Magneto, for crying out loud: he’s awesome!!) --

-- and I just always imagined Gellert Grindelwald being the sort of animated, dynamic person who talked with his hands a lot and could whip people up into a frenzy about how they’re going to change the world and “bring everything back” to this idealistic, glorious time that never really existed, while still being so, SO obviously wrong -- to put it simply, like his real-world counterpart, Adolf Hitler. And considering I’ve read so many people completely missing the point of Grindelwald here on Tumblr after watching Crimes of Grindelwald by comparing him to Killmonger from Black Panther and saying “he had a point,” it’s clear to me these new films missed the boat on that. Also, they character-assasinated Queenie and killed Leda off way too friggin’ early, which pisses me off to no end. >I

Finally, I don’t like the idea they’ve established in the films of the little not-Unbreakable-Vow-but-damn-close blood pact “charm” Grindelwald and Dumbledore made being the reason that Dumbledore isn’t fighting Grindelwald. I thought there was something so powerful and tragic in the books about Dumbledore refusing to fight Grindelwald solely out of the embers of his old romantic feelings for him and the fear he felt as a result toward the idea of confronting the man he once loved and was maybe starting to realize was a monster. Realizing that you’ve been mistreated by someone you loved can be a very difficult thing to recover from -- sometimes it can take time to come to grips with it, and then even more time to confront who hurt you. Dumbledore likely could’ve been struggling with the fear not just of fighting someone who he doesn’t really want to hurt, but also of fighting someone who knows him in ways other people never could, who could manipulate him and could very well do so again...who knows the true extent of his demons and guilt surrounding what happened to his sister, something he’s clearly never gotten over. That alone is MORE than enough to explain why Dumbledore isn’t fighting Grindelwald -- that alone is MORE than enough drama to fill an entire movie -- but like with a lot of things in Crimes of Grindelwald, we get all sorts of unnecessary padding theoretically put in to better explain things, but in the end, that padding and exposition takes away from the core emotions that should be at the heart of the story and its relationships. We didn’t need all of this stuff with the charm. We didn’t need all of this stuff with Credence or the prophecy. We didn’t need Grindelwald going to the States to try to find an Obscurus. We didn’t need to involve Newt, Tina, and crew in any of this, at least not this quickly and/or directly. Fantastic Beasts should’ve been more like Indiana Jones, if they wanted to include Grindelwald -- have him be in the background, but not the focus. Then do a separate film (or multiple separate films) about Dumbledore and Grindelwald, showing everything we didn’t get for them in Deathly Hallows and expanding upon it to craft the romantic tragedy that has only been alluded to previously.

Now of course, I totally understand if any of you disagree with anything I wrote up there -- this is just my personal point of view. But it will definitely color how I depict my boy Bat, his relationship with Dumbledore, and his resistance efforts against Grindelwald on this blog.

[foreverlogical]

Donald Trump is running for the presidency of an America that no longer exists.

Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly reprised two of Richard Nixon’s most memorable rallying cries, promising to deliver “law and order” for the “silent majority.” But in almost every meaningful way, America today is a radically different country than it was when Nixon rode those arguments to win the presidency in 1968 amid widespread anti-war protests, massive civil unrest following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., white flight from major cities, and rising crime rates. Trump’s attempt to emulate that strategy may only prove how much the country has changed since it succeeded.

Americans today are far more racially diverse, less Christian, better educated, more urbanized, and less likely to be married. In polls they are more tolerant of interracial and same-sex relationships, more likely to acknowledge the existence of racial discrimination, and less concerned about crime.

Almost all of these changes complicate Trump’s task in trying to rally a winning electoral coalition behind his alarms against marauding “angry mobs,” “far-left fascism,” and “the violent mayhem we have seen in the streets of cities that are run by liberal Democrats.” The Americans he is targeting with his messages of racial resentment and cultural backlash are uniformly a smaller share of American society now than they were then.

Not all the country’s changes present headwinds for Trump. The population is older now, and older white voters in particular remain a receptive audience for Trump’s messages of cultural and racial division (even if his mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak has notably softened his support among him). Fifty years ago, Southern evangelicals still mostly leaned toward the Democratic Party; now they have become a pillar of the Republican coalition. And while many Northern white Catholics back then might have recoiled from Trump-style attacks on immigrants as a smear on their own heritage, now “when Trump talks about making America great again,” more of them “see themselves as part of that country that is getting protected,” says Robert P. Jones, the founder and chief executive of the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute and the author of White Too Long, a new book on Christian churches and white supremacy.

[David Frum: This is Trump’s plague now]

Together, those shifts have solidified for Republicans a much more reliable advantage among white voters without a college education than they enjoyed in Nixon’s era. Like Trump, who once declared “I love the poorly educated,” Nixon recognized that he was shifting the GOP’s traditional class basis. On “tough problems, the uneducated are the ones that are with us,” Nixon told his White House advisers, according to David Paul Kuhn’s vivid new book about blue-collar backlash in that era, The Hardhat Riot. “The educated people and the leader class,” Nixon continued, “no longer have any character, and you can’t count on them.”

Trump might echo both of those assessments. But he is offering them to a very different audience. The demographic shifts that have most reshaped politics since Nixon’s day sit at the crossroads of race, education, and religion.

From the 2016 GOP primaries forward, white voters without a college education have provided Trump’s largest group of loyalists. In the 1968 presidential election, that group comprised nearly 80 percent of all voters, according to post-election surveys by both the Census Bureau and the University of Michigan’s American National Election Studies. White Americans holding at least a four-year college degree represented about 15 percent of voters, with non-whites, almost all of them Black, comprising the remainder, at just under 10 percent. (Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz analyzed the ANES data for me.)

That electorate is unrecognizable now. The nonpartisan States of Change project has forecast that non-college-educated white Americans will likely constitute 42 percent of voters in November, not much more than half their share in 1968. States of Change anticipates that both college-educated whites and voters of color will represent about 30 percent of voters in 2020. For the former group, that’s about twice their share in 1968; for the latter, that’s somewhere between a three- and four-fold increase.

The change is just as dramatic when looking at the nation’s religious composition. White Christians comprised fully 85 percent of all American adults in 1968, according to figures from Gallup, provided to me by senior editor Jeffrey M. Jones. They now represent only half as much of the population, 42 percent, according to PRRI’s latest national figures.

The groups that have grown since then reflect the nation’s increasing racial and religious diversity. In 1968, non-white Christians represented only 8 percent of Americans; now that’s tripled to just over 24 percent in the PRRI study. Most explosive has been the growth of those who identify as secular or unaffiliated with any religious tradition. They represented just 3 percent of Americans in 1968; now it’s 24 percent.

Other shifts in society’s structure since that era are equally profound. Census Bureau reports show that a much smaller share of adults are married now than they were then. Only about half as many Americans live in small-town or rural communities outside of major metropolitan areas. The share with at least some college experience is about triple its level then.

Across all these dimensions, the consistent pattern is this: The groups Trump hopes to mobilize—non-college-educated, non-urban, married, and Christian white voters—have significantly shrunk as a share of the overall society in the last 50 years. The groups most alienated from him include many of the ones that have grown over those decades: college- educated white people, people of color, seculars, singles, and residents of the large metro areas.

Trump faces two other big challenges in channeling Nixon. One is that the crime rate, especially the rate of violent crime, doesn’t provide as compelling a backdrop for a law-and-order message as it did during the 1960s. The overall violent-crime rate increased by more than 50 percent just from 1964 to 1968, en route to doubling by the early 1970s. Robberies per person more than doubled between 1960 and 1968. The murder rate soared by 40 percent just between 1964 and 1968; by 1972 it was nearly 85 percent higher than in 1964. In Gallup surveys from September 1968, 13 percent of college-educated white voters, 11 percent of non-college-educated white voters, and 9 percent of non-white voters identified crime as the biggest problem facing the nation.

Today, overall crime rates are much lower, a change that’s made possible the revival of central cities around the country. After violent crime peaked in 1991, it declined fairly steadily for about 15 years. It’s proved more volatile over the past decade: The violent-crime rate fell from 2008 to 2014, then rose through 2016 and has dipped again since. As Trump did in 2016, with his dark warnings about “American carnage” following the uptick in crime late in Barack Obama’s second term, he is again using recent findings of elevated murder rates in some cities to raise the specter of Democrats unleashing a new crime surge. “Despite the left-wing sowing chaos in communities all across the country … and the heart breaking murders in Democrat controlled cities like Chicago, New York City, and Atlanta, Joe Biden has turned his back on any semblance of law and order,” the Republican National Committee warned in a press release yesterday morning.

But James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, said that any crime spikes this year amount to “short-term fluctuation [in] a long-term trend” toward greater safety. “We’ve enjoyed, really since the early 1990s, a decline in crime,” he told me. “From year to year, some cities see decreases, some see increases, [but] there’s no crime wave … although Trump may want to construct one—a trumped-up one.”

Though polls generally show concern about crime hasn’t fallen as fast as crime itself, Americans haven’t entirely missed this long-term trajectory: In June Gallup polling, just 3 percent of adults cited crime as the nation’s top problem, far less than in 1968.

Trump’s other big obstacle is that racial attitudes have shifted since then. That’s partly because people of color represent such a larger share of American society. But it’s also because college-educated and secular white Americans, who tend to hold more inclusive views on racial issues than non-college-educated and Christian whites, are also a bigger portion of the white population. Gallup polling in 1968 consistently documented a high level of white anxiety about the pace of racial change: Almost half of white Americans said the federal government was moving too fast to promote integration; two-thirds said Black people did not face discrimination in hiring; and, most strikingly, a bristling three-fifths majority supported a policy of shooting looters on sight during riots. On each front, college-educated white people were less likely to express conservative views than those without degrees, but even they split about evenly on these questions.

[Read: The rage unifying boomers and Gen Z]

A half-century later, racism remains ever-present in America. But many more white people appear willing to acknowledge its persistence, especially in the national debate that has followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. A recent Monmouth poll found that most white people now agree police are more likely to use deadly force against African Americans, while CNN found that most whites agree the criminal-justice system is biased. And while Trump has called Black Lives Matter “a symbol of hate,” three-fifths of white people expressed support for the movement in a June Pew Research Center poll. White people with a college degree were consistently more likely than those without one to express such liberal views on race, but these perspectives claimed significant support among non-college white Americans as well.

Those attitudes point toward a final key difference from 1968. Back then, many anxious white voters genuinely believed Nixon could deliver law and order; but today, many white Americans, especially those with degrees, have concluded that Trump himself is increasing the risk of lawlessness and disorder. In one particularly striking result, Quinnipiac University last month found that college-educated white people were twice as likely to say that having Trump as president made them feel less safe rather than more safe. That’s a very different equation than Nixon faced: Though he may have considered “the uneducated” the most receptive audience for his hardline messages, he overwhelmingly won college-educated white voters too, carrying about two-thirds of them in both of his victories, according to the ANES. Some recent polls have shown Trump carrying only one-third of them now.

Trump still has an audience for his neo-Nixonian warnings about an approaching wave of disorder: In that same Quinnipiac survey, a solid plurality of white voters without a degree said they feel more safe with Trump as president (even though many blue-collar whites have also expressed unease about his response to the protests). In a PRRI poll last year, majorities of white Protestants, Catholics, and especially evangelicals said discrimination against white people was as big a problem as bias against minorities. Yet both these groups—working-class and Christian white voters—will each likely comprise only about half as many of the voters in November as they did when Nixon prevailed five decades ago.

Those numbers won’t become any more favorable for Republicans in the years ahead: While white Americans accounted for four-fifths of the nation’s total population growth from 1960 through 1968, Frey noted in a recent report that all of the nation’s population growth since 2010 has been among people of color; the final 2020 Census, he concludes, will likely find that this has been the first decade ever when the absolute number of white people in the country declines. The shift in the nation’s religious composition is as unrelenting: Jones says that the share of adults in their twenties who identify as secular grew from 10 percent in 1986 to 20 percent in 1996 to nearly 40 percent in PRRI’s latest study. Only one-fourth of adults younger than 30 now identify as white Christians.

Trump hopes that reprising Nixon-style messages about disorder will allow him to mobilize massive margins and turnout among the white voters who feel threatened by these changes. But the country’s underlying evolution shows how narrow a path Trump has chosen. He is betting the Republican future on resurrecting a past that is dissolving before his eyes.

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[rkuhn21ahsgov]

BLOG POST #4: ELECTION 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ASSESSMENT

Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker, Green:

Statement:  Focusing on police accountability, racial accountability, ending war on drugs and decriminalizing some drugs, fight against mass surveillance

My Opinion:  I agree with their position, I am pro criminal law reform, so these steps seem like good ideas to me

Similarity to Platform:  Seems pretty similar to the party platform, although the party platform was more comprehensive  

Donald J. Trump/Michael R. Pence, Republican:

Statement:  Not a plan as much as a list of achievements, notable ones were granting more funding to police and expanding their supplies, laws passed that promote crime reduction strategies and violent crime reduction in cities, and more funds for police to stop organized crime

My Opinion:  I do not agree with these candidates stances on police funding, but I do agree with the and hope for more of the laws that promote violent crime reduction, although I am not sure exactly how they work

Similarity to Platform:  These candidates stances actually seems to contradict their party platform, as one of the main points in the platform was that the police were over federalized, and a lot of these candidates achievements listed seem to involved federal funds and power being used to buffer the police

Gloria La Riva/Sunil Freeman, Peace and Freedom:

Statement:   Very focused on racial reform involving police and police brutality, ending mass incarceration, and freeing political prisoners

My Opinion:  I agree with their platform mostly, except I would have to look into these political prisoners they want free and decide for myself weather I would agree with that

Similarity to Platform:  Very similar to platform, as both are very pro criminal justice reform

Roque De La Fuente "Rocky" Guerra/Kanye Omari West, American Independent]:

Statement:  Stance not listed

My Opinion:  Stance not listed

Similarity to Platform:  Stance not listed

Because there were no stances listed concerning Criminal Justice Reform on their website, I contacted Roque De La Fuente with the following email:

Dear Roque De La Fuente,

The issue I am concerned about is criminal justice reform.  I am concerned about this issue because I think it is very important, and because a lot of recent events concerning criminal justice and police brutality have taken place this year.  I am currently a senior at Acalanes High School and I am researching this issue for my senior Government class.  Please clarify your stance on this issue.  Thank you so much for your time and good luck.

Sincerely,

Robert Kuhn

Robert.kuhn21@auhsdschools.org

 Jo Jorgensen/Jeremy "Spike" Cohen, Libertarian:

Statement:  Focused on ending mass incarceration and war on drugs, decriminalization of all drugs, and reform police as well as limit their power and access to unneeded weaponry

My Opinion:  I don’t know if I agree with legalizing every single drug, but I definitely agree with the police reform stance

Similarity to Platform:  Seems similar to platform, with a focus on increasing the power of the individual citizen

Joseph R. Biden/Kamala D. Harris, Democratic:

Statement:  Reduce incarceration, reform racial / gender / income bias, focus on rehabilitation, expand DOJ to be able to adress police brutality, eliminate death penalty, reform juvenile justice

My Opinion:  I agree with these candidates stances, as I am pro criminal justice reform and so are they

Similarity to Platform:  These stances are similar to the party platform, as both of them are very comprehensive and pro criminal justice, also focusing on juvenile justice reform

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#1yrago Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years!

Every year, Jennifer Jenkins and Jamie Boyle from the Duke Center for the Public Domain compile a "Public Domain Day" list (previously) that highlights the works that are not entering the public domain in America, thanks to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which hit the pause button on Americans' ability to freely use their artistic treasures for two decades -- a list that also included the notable works entering the public domain in more sensible countries of the Anglophere, like Canada and the UK, where copyright "only" lasted for 50 years after the author's death.

But this year, it's different.

This is the year that America unpauses its public domain; it's also the year that Canadian PM Justin Trudeau capitulated to Donald Trump and retroactively extended copyright on works in Canada for an extra 20 years, ripping works out of Canada's public domain, making new works based on them into illegal art (more proof that good hair and good pecs don't qualify you to be a good leader -- see also: V. Putin -- not even when paired with high-flying, cheap rhetoric).

Even as Canada's public domain has radically contracted, America's has, for the first, time, opened.

So this year's American Public Domain Day List is, for the first time in 20 years, not a work melancholy alternate history, but rather a celebration of works that Americans are newly given access to without restriction or payment, for free re-use and adaptation, in the spirit of such classics as Snow White, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, All You Need is Love, and more (More than 1,000 in all, summarized in this handy spreadsheet -- thanks Gary!).

Films * Safety Last!, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, featuring Harold Lloyd * The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille * The Pilgrim, directed by Charlie Chaplin * Our Hospitality, directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone * The Covered Wagon, directed by James Cruze * Scaramouche, directed by Rex Ingram

Books * Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Golden Lion * Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links * Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis * e.e. cummings, Tulips and Chimneys * Robert Frost, New Hampshire * Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet * Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay * D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo * Bertrand and Dora Russell, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization * Carl Sandberg, Rootabaga Pigeons * Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front * P.G. Wodehouse, works including The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith * Viginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

Music * Yes! We Have No Bananas, w.&m. Frank Silver & Irving Cohn * Charleston, w.&m. Cecil Mack & James P. Johnson * London Calling! (musical), by Noel Coward * Who’s Sorry Now, w. Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby, m. Ted Snyder * Songs by “Jelly Roll” Morton including Grandpa’s Spells, The Pearls, and Wolverine Blues (w. Benjamin F. Spikes & John C. Spikes; m. Ferd “Jelly Roll” Morton) * Works by Bela Bartok including the Violin Sonata No. 1 and the Violin Sonata No. 2 * Tin Roof Blues, m. Leon Roppolo, Paul Mares, George Brunies, Mel Stitzel, & Benny Pollack (There were also compositions from 1923 by other well-known artists including Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, WC Handy, Oscar Hammerstein, Gustav Holst, Al Jolson, Jerome Kern, and John Phillip Sousa; though their most famous works were from other years.)

And as great as that list is, it's hardly a patch on the amazing works we'd be inheriting if the Sonny Bono law hadn't been passed and the 1978 law was still on the books -- works whose authors fully expected them to be in the public domain as of tomorrow:

Books * Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time * Rachel Carson, Silent Spring * Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August * Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools * James Baldwin, Another Country * Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle * Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions * Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire * Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange * Michael Harrington, The Other America * Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom * J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World * Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes * Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest * Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich * Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook * Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl * Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths

Movies * Lawrence of Arabia * The Longest Day * The Manchurian Candidate * Dr. No * Jules and Jim * Sanjuro * Birdman of Alcatraz * Mutiny on the Bounty * Days of Wine and Roses * How the West Was Won

Music * Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream), by Cindy Walker, performed by Roy Orbison * Blowin’ in the Wind, Bob Dylan * Watermelon Man, Herbie Hancock (from his first album, Takin’ Off) * Twistin’ the Night Away, Sam Cooke * You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover and You Shook Me, Willie Dixon * Surfin’ Safari, The Beach Boys * Songs from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Stephen Sondheim * Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream), Cindy Walker * Big Girls Don’t Cry, Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio * Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield * Little Boxes, Malvina Reynolds * The Loco-Motion, Gerry Goffin and Carole King * Soldier Boy, Luther Dixon and Florence Greenberg

And, as Jenkins and Boyle point out, the largely hidden casualty of copyright term extension is the scholarship and research published in academic journals, who paid nothing for these works, and who have locked them up for decades to come:

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[live-from-flaturn]

Y’all better appreciate how much fucking time I put into this stupid video because I cried laughing on my final watch-through. I think Rufus would be proud.

[hwanhee]

Why did Top Media try to hide a visual like him is a mystery... like except Jinhyuk during Blue Rose I don’t think anyone had a styling as tragic as Gyujin 😤😤

NGKSBRJD ur kinda right i think like top competitors would b bitto tonight jinhyuk any time he had short spiked hair and like. Idek what else. Maybe kuhn bird hair even tho i think its funny. I kinda love their shitty rags for blue rose tho they kinda went off

[kupotea]

I got tagged. :v

I didn't see this sooner, whoops! 😅 Thank you @tamsolo

1. Favourite colour: Orange

2. Top Four Ships: Hans x Anna (Frozen), Clarke x Bellamy (The 100), Buffy x Spike (BTVS), Jareth x Sarah (Labyrinth)

3. Lipstick or Chapstick: Lipstick, but that's recent for me because of my new job 🏡💄👠👩‍💼

4. Last Song: "Cat Scratch Fever"... only because my husband was proving the song exists.

5. Last Movie: Possibly "The Little Prince" 🙂

6. Currently Reading: Death in Salem by Eleanor Kuhns

7. Tag nine people (I don't even interact with that many people on a regular basis on tumblr, so apologies for random tags): @darksidechick823 @xserpx @miss-sweets @kira-ani-mcgrath @dreamsandimagination @secretagentzero @andeverymomentafter @everydreamcancometrueworld @nissounissouniss

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 16, 2022

Neural mechanisms underlying the temporal control of sequential saccade planning in the frontal eye field. Basu, D., Sendhilnathan, N., & Murthy, A. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(40).

Distinct timescales for the neuronal encoding of vocal signals in a high-order auditory area. Cazala, A., Del Negro, C., & Giret, N. (2021). Scientific Reports, 11, 19672.

The hippocampus converts dynamic entorhinal inputs into stable spatial maps. Cholvin, T., Hainmueller, T., & Bartos, M. (2021). Neuron, 109(19), 3135-3148.e7.

Nonlinear collision between propagating waves in mouse somatosensory cortex. Di Volo, M., & Férézou, I. (2021). Scientific Reports, 11, 19630.

Behavioral gain following isolation of attention. Edwards, G., Berestova, A., & Battelli, L. (2021). Scientific Reports, 11, 19329.

A rational model of people’s inferences about others’ preferences based on response times. Gates, V., Callaway, F., Ho, M. K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Cognition, 217, 104885.

Hippocampal replay reflects specific past experiences rather than a plan for subsequent choice. Gillespie, A. K., Astudillo Maya, D. A., Denovellis, E. L., Liu, D. F., Kastner, D. B., Coulter, M. E., … Frank, L. M. (2021). Neuron, 109(19), 3149-3163.e6.

Medial Frontal Cortex Activity Predicts Information Sampling in Economic Choice. Kaanders, P., Nili, H., O’Reilly, J. X., & Hunt, L. (2021). Journal of Neuroscience, 41(40), 8403–8413.

Inter-individual variations in internal noise predict the effects of spatial attention. Luzardo, F., & Yeshurun, Y. (2021). Cognition, 217, 104888.

Cerebellar complex spikes multiplex complementary behavioral information. Markanday, A., Inoue, J., Dicke, P. W., & Thier, P. (2021). PLOS Biology, 19(9), e3001400.

A rational reinterpretation of dual-process theories. Milli, S., Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Cognition, 217, 104881.

The magician’s choice: Providing illusory choice and sense of agency with the equivoque forcing technique. Pailhès, A., Kumari, S., & Kuhn, G. (2021). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(7), 1358–1372.

Neural heterogeneity promotes robust learning. Perez-Nieves, N., Leung, V. C. H., Dragotti, P. L., & Goodman, D. F. M. (2021). Nature Communications, 12, 5791.

Altered effective connectivity in sensorimotor cortices is a signature of severity and clinical course in depression. Ray, D., Bezmaternykh, D., Mel’nikov, M., Friston, K. J., & Das, M. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(40).

The cost of correcting for error during sensorimotor adaptation. Sedaghat-Nejad, E., & Shadmehr, R. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(40).

STDP and the distribution of preferred phases in the whisker system. Sherf, N., & Shamir, M. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(9), e1009353.

Neural excitability and sensory input determine intensity perception with opposing directions in initial cortical responses. Stephani, T., Hodapp, A., Jamshidi Idaji, M., Villringer, A., & Nikulin, V. V. (2021). eLife, 10, e67838.

What kind of empirical evidence is needed for probabilistic mental representations? An example from visual perception. Tanrıkulu, Ö. D., Chetverikov, A., Hansmann-Roth, S., & Kristjánsson, Á. (2021). Cognition, 217, 104903.

A model of head direction and landmark coding in complex environments. Yan, Y., Burgess, N., & Bicanski, A. (2021). PLOS Computational Biology, 17(9), e1009434.

Prefrontal cortical activity predicts the occurrence of nonlocal hippocampal representations during spatial navigation. Yu, J. Y., & Frank, L. M. (2021). PLOS Biology, 19(9), e3001393.

[nm-kuhn]

John K’s Spider-Spike

(Notice: Not really John K’s cause I'm a fan.)

So, last 2 weeks before Christmas break, me and the Pixel Blue gang went and see Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in theaters right next to the Empire building where we been, cause Pixel Blue College was inside the Empire building. Now, for the movie, I think it's flippin' amazing! Cause, I know it's 100% on Rotten Tomatoes which is in my brain, to be honest. I also liked the Spider-Ham part because it reminds me of one of the Looney Tunes character which he was matched into 2D and 3D together, and it maybe reminds me of some of John K's animations who created Ren and Stimpy. So, I like to post my Spidersona here, cause why not? Spider-Spike's Story: In a dimension where insects live in the city of the trees, there was a curious and independent spider, named Peter Spider. He himself went on a tour to check out what's inside the laboratory. Then, he was accidentally shot by a radioactive laser and he felt really dizzy. He was trying go back to the trees but he accidentally fell and bit himself. He didn't even feel the pain and 20 minutes, he was back into the tree and so he now has his super powers! And now he's off to save Bug City to stop those villains and criminals for good! Character by NM Kuhn, 2018 Spider-Man (c) MARVEL

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, February 25

ANDREW Come with me now, if you will, gentle viewers. Join me on a new voyage of the mind. A little tale I like to call: Buffy, Slayer of the Vampyrs.

~~Storyteller~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Family (Oz/Spike/Angel, PG) by angelus2hot

[Re: How is everyone like when it's time to go to bed?] (Faith, Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, not rated) by lilbtvs

[Chaptered Fiction]

Divided Destiny Chapter 20 (Spike/Buffy, Angel/Nina, T) by elisi

Secrets Kept Chapter 1, Chapter 2 (crossover with Criminal Minds, T) by mirrored-illusions

Becoming Chapter 3 (Buffy, Scoobies, Giles/Jenny, M) by jilyandbambi

A chaotic love Chapter 17 (Giles/Ethan, T) by Jaspergirl

Compassion pour le Démon Chapter 19 (French translation of "Sympathy for the Devil" by Sakuri, Spike/Xander, M) by Silu-chan

Those Wacky Monks Of Dagon Chapter 1 (Dawn, FR13) by Manchester

Undulating Flames Chapter 22 (crossover with Ghostbusters, Xander, FR15) by dogbertcarroll

What You Mean to Me Chapter 3 (Spike/Buffy, G) by pinkbox

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: Drawing of Buffy, Willow, and Faith (worksafe) by lilbtvs

Vid: Mad Love (Spike/Buffy, NSFW) by MissNikkie

Vid: Buffy Fights - [Music Video] (Buffy, worksafe) by BuffyTheVampireSlayer Videos

Trailer: Destined Fanfiction Series Trailer (crossover with Ronin Warriors, worksafe) by Amanda The Nerd Girl

Vid: buffy + law and order theme song (worksafe) by Matt Stinson

Music: "Under Your Spell" from Buffy (cover, voice + guitar) (worksafe) by Hannah L

Dramatic reading: Audition Monologue! (Xander, worksafe) by PhoebeRayDay2Day

Dramatic reading: you read my diary - monologue (worksafe) by Kassidy Kuhn

[Reviews & Recaps]

S3.E16 Doppelgangland by i-slay-we-slay

Predictions between watching What’s My Line part 1 and part 2 by mmpodcastnetwork

S03E18 - Earshot by After Show Reactions

S03E19 - Choices by After Show Reactions

S03E20 - The Prom by After Show Reactions

Podcast: Friends Talking Nerdy Buffy The Vampire Slayer Discussion Part 2 by Tim Jousma et al.

Podcast: We Watch Whedon REACTION | BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | S1 E1 | Welcome To The Hellmouth by FanTheory

Podcast: Buffy Back Issue Bin Ep. 52 Riley's Hit List (season 11) by Editor's Note Comics

TV Fanatic: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Becoming (Part 1) by Justin Carreiro

The Buffy Project: Goodbye Iowa

Podcast: Welcome to the Hellmouth WttH Episode 75 - New Moon Rising (S4E19)

[Announcements]

Moonstruck by Trepkos needs your questions! Submit your fan questions by March 3rd at thesunnydalefanficclub

[Fandom Discussions]

Re: what are your top 5 bangel episodes? by we-pay-for-everything

Re: how about faith and cordelia? by willowrosenboob

Re: Why do you think wuffy isn't a bigger ship? by lesbidar

Re: I see fans who argue that Spike's behavior towards Buffy on S6 should be compared to Angelus' towards Buffy on S2, not Angel's.... by sulietsexual (anti-Spike, anti-Spuffy)

[Re: parallel between Angel and Buffy in "Heartthrob" and "Anne"] by we-pay-for-everything

[Shanshu discussion] hosted by YvetteHorizon on r/ANGEL

What would the characters smell like? hosted by FaeryLynne on r/buffy

[Xander in Grave] hosted by Pellaeonthewingedleo on r/buffy

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

Video: ConnectiCon 2017 Press ket: Amber Benson and Phil Lamarr by Maia Balls

Video: MovieZone Reports - Immy is superfan van Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in Dutch)

PUBLICATION: #BuffySlayDay On the 21st Anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Celebrate with New Merchandise, Reveals and More via whedonopolis.com