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Chinese humanoid robot's 3-day walk sets world record.

A Chinese humanoid robot has completed a three-day, 100-kilometre trek, the longest reported distance walked by a humanoid machine. AgiBot A2 set off from the eastern city of Suzhou on November 10 and arriving at Shanghai's Bund on November 13
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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If you missed this week's Romancing the Gothic talk, you can catch it here.

It was an absolutely fantastic exploration. Highly recommended.

youtu.be/bgmV4Sz1AC8
‘Thakumar Jhuli’ – The Ghost Stories of Bengali Folklore with Arya Ray
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I couldn't sleep last night so I started a substack:
brandonshimoda.substack.com/p/vanishing-clarity
Vanishing Clarity
an introduction to a festival of the dead as occasional writing
brandonshimoda.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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And we're back in our Nation's Capital! Hello @mesa1966.bsky.social and #MESA2025 attendees! Drop by the exhibit hall and check out our latest books in Middle East Studies!

And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I am trying to read "Kairos" by Jenny Erpenbeck. So far I have failed to be absorbed by it. Part of the problem is that it thrusts the reader into deeply intimate scenes between two lovers at the very beginning and they are basically ciphers. Also the unmistakable cloying tone of class solidarity.
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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now a few lucky people are going to read a weird book about a fish

‘Sturly’ (1923) by the French writer Pierre Custot has been republished, in the translation of Richard Aldington. A mutant book of mystical Eastern dialogues crossed with scientific rigor & oceanic observation

Empyrean no. 47
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
That Caryl Phillips novel based on Jean Rhys was pretty good and led me to her sharply written book "Good Morning, Midnight" and the Jonathan Coe book read many years ago is just a tiny flicker in memory. Just remember it as being very different from his later social realist Brexit novel.
This months’s book arrivals
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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I just think Trump understands Mamdani is not someone he wants to tangle with. Too smart, too charismatic, too New York, too straightforward, too young. Easier targets elsewhere, like everyone who works for him and most of Congress. (1/2)
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Obama turned out to be a celebrity. We will see about Mamdani. So far he doesn't appear to trend in that manner.
also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?

TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Not for nothing but the “bromance” stuff is as made up cope as anything else. I haven’t heard a clip of Mamdani saying anything other than “I appreciated the invitation to discuss things with him” and agreeing that he called him a fascist
Laura Loomer is not taking it well
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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every MAGA pundit:
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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JD Vance is such an oozing critter compared to the frustratingly comic Trump and it must eat him alive. The Lord did not bestow rizz equally among fascists
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani:
“I have spoken about the Israeli government committing genocide and I’ve spoken about our government funding it.”

Pres. Trump:
“I think he’s different than your typical guy… I think you have a chance to really make (NYC) great… you’re going to have a really great...
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Ay me, detested! How am I beguil’d!
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Bill Ackman come online please i want to read your Posts
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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"Well, yes, Mamdani and I have our differences. He's a socialist, they say he's a socialist, and I guess he says so too. A democratic socialist, but a socialist. Meanwhile, I'm busy seizing the means of production, forcing a cultural revolution, cracking down on the intelligentsia ...."
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Trump meeting is even funnier when you picture JD Vance getting redder and redder as he watches
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Zohran's father is an academic. His family milieu on his mother's side is filled with intellectuals. I think he has heard sui generis used in conversations before. I like Chris Hayes and I have no issue with people displaying a recherché vocabulary. But he does give off the straining too hard to be
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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BEAUTIFULLY AUSTERE, ELEGANT novel about love and memory and the impossibility of recapturing the past rings with echoes of 20th-century Portugal. Stunning translation sets off a real gem for English-language readers. A MINUS

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#BookSky
#SmallPressSunday

www.catranslation.org/shop/book/gr...
Grace Period
Matea Silva is at a crossroads, but too paralyzed to change direction in a life that he no longer seems to control. After 25 years away, he has returned to sell his childhood home so he can send his l...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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my mom is part of an amazing senior group in Minneapolis, which helps low-income ppl access vaccines, food, & transport through SEWA, an org that supports people facing gender violence, food and housing insecurity. We are buying everyone a thanksgiving meal!

Donate if you can:

www.sewa-aifw.org
South Asian | SEWA-AIFW | Minneapolis
This is the homepage for SEWA-AIFW, a South Asian nonprofit based in Minneapolis, MN.
www.sewa-aifw.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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There are many ways to hear the voices calling to us from ravaged Gaza & WB. This is one very immediate & powerful way. These 32 poets speak to us of love,dream,fear,memory, beauty--of the sea & of beloved lost ones.Listen to them.Share their voices. Bilingual edition.Brilliant. Wherever u buy books
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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If Mamdani had eschewed those attacks to say ‘Cuomo will answer for his conduct when he meets his maker, I’m here to talk about affordability,’ Cuomo may have done better. Making Cuomo’s character salient was decisive to NY voters I know personally.
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Also, the Democrats fielding this bad advice are in the congressional opposition, not running for president. Also, also, Mamdani’s attacks on Cuomo for abusing women were brutal. Sharper, as far as I can recall, than anything Trump has faced from his opponents.
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I wonder what America would look like if both parties had possessed the moral integrity to take a hard line against segregation and antiblackness and left disgruntled racists politically homeless instead of integrating hatred into a party platform.
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM