Today's Washington Post editorial describing Haiti as "our Caribbean backyard."

New concept just dropped via NYT reporting on brain computer interfaces for inner speech decoding.

I am adding this new book about Net Art in Portugal to my summer reading list. "Net Art in the Bermuda Triangle." The PDF is freely available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1FsAU...

The Topography of Violence exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Berlin showcases hundreds of government documents and orders between 1933 and 1938, a legislative assault against Germany's Jewish population that laid the groundwork for the horrific violence that came after. (This is just one of many.)

That's nice! In Latin America we had "El tesoro del saber." (I can still sing the song—an earworm if there ever was one.)

I was today years old when I learned that the Magic Schoolbus was an NSF-funded project.

The sky over Berlin. Yesterday.

Happily, EODs on DEI haven't yet impacted Berlin's (fabulous) public library system.

German newspapers at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin register the US presidential inauguration. At the bottom, the NYT (from yesterday) speaks of Gaza's "fragile" truce.

It details how defense, industry, research, and markets intertwined forces to place computers (and their people) at the center of US design-manufacturing, seeking their managerial collapse and a weakening of blue collar labor, anticipating Reagan-era political sensibilities.

It's a political history of CAD that examines the different forces that converged in the US to reshape the country's industry around computers and the idea of full predictability in and control over design-manufacturing.

Happy to share my new open access article "Computer-Aided Design in the United States, 1949–1984: Designing in a Closed World" which is now 'trending' with the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Keep it coming!

www.computer.org/csdl/magazin...

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In Catalunya, where we are visiting beloved friends, an entire town becomes a 'pessebre vivent': the stage for a syncretic live blend of nativity scenes and local traditions.