Jim Harris: Artist. has added a photo to the pool:

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Life tip: Hang out more with socionauts. "Our trip helped me realize that the world isn't like one of those games with predetermined levels; it is a game of generated landscapes where the world keeps growing the further you go. You can go out and talk to people and do stuff, and the world opens up vista after vista. Or, as Werner Herzog likes to say, "the world reveals itself to those who travel by foot." "

"This was, looking back, classic exposure training. I was afraid to go out into the world, talk to people, and do things, so we came up with playful ways of practicing these skills until the anxiety went away." --- "What all of these experiences had in common was that they expanded my world. By tagging along with people bolder than me, I learned that it wasn't dangerous to reach out to and talk with people and make stuff happen. You could be playful with it. It wasn't dangerous to fail. The TV series never happened, for instance, but it didn't matter, because now that move in social space was part of the game, and we could play around with it and see what would happen (a year later, we ended up securing money to do a feature-length documentary instead)."

May 6 is World Accordion Day! It marks the date of the first accordion patent, filed May 6, 1829 by Austrian inventor Cyrill Demian. World Accordion Day was created by the CIA* in 2009 and is a"promotion for the accordion in which every accordion enthusiast can participate and help bring our accordion world together as well as strongly promote the accordion."

While earlier similar instruments existed, Demian's was the first to allow the playing of a chord with a single button (hence the name). It would go on to become a staple for a wide variety of music genres, featuring in blues, jazz, Vaudeville, polka, norteño, rock, zydeco, and just about every other genre I can think of (including a very specific subgenre). There are lots of ways to celebrate World Accordion Day, including playing your accordion! If you don't know how to play the accordion, there are lots of ways to learn, including online! I like Accordion Love myself, but there are other options out there too. If playing isn't for you, you can read about the accordion's history in the US in Accordion Revolution: A People's History, or listen to Accordion Noir online or on the radio (geographic limitations may apply). And if you hurry, you can still get a 2026 Accordion Babes pinup calendar! *The Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes, natch!

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De tweedeling tussen kopers en huurders op de woningmarkt groeit, constateert ABN AMRO in een nieuw rapport. Volgens deskundigen van de bank is wonen de laatste jaren over de gehele linie beter betaalbaar geworden. Echter, vooral zittende huiseigenaren profiteren. Voor koopstarters en jonge huurders gaat dit minder op. In sommige regio's, vooral in de grote steden, gaan zij er juist op achteruit.

ABN AMRO becijfert dat het deel van het inkomen dat opgaat aan wonen bij huurders in de vrije sector met 28 tot 38 procent de laatste jaren structureel hoger is dan bij woningeigenaren. Bij de laatste groep vormen de woonlasten 20 tot 28 procent van het inkomen.

De huizenbezitters zagen het deel van hun inkomen dat ze kwijt zijn aan wonen tussen 2019 en 2025 ook duidelijk dalen, waardoor ze 2 tot 3 procent van het netto-inkomen aan andere dingen kunnen besteden. Wat meespeelt is dat huiseigenaren voordeel opbouwen doordat hun inkomens in de loop der jaren doorgaans stijgen terwijl hun hypotheeklasten relatief stabiel blijven.

Huurstijgingen en oplopende huizenprijzen

Tegelijkertijd worden vooral jonge huurders en koopstarters het slachtoffer van huurstijgingen en oplopende huizenprijzen. Koopstarters gingen er volgens cijfers van de bank daarom ook minder op vooruit. Starters in de grote steden zijn relatief meer gaan betalen. Bij huurders liggen de getallen iets anders, maar ook daar valt op dat jonge huurders slechter af zijn dan oudere huurders.

ABN AMRO ziet inkomensverschillen tussen de diverse groepen. "We zien dat er een aanzienlijk inkomensverschil bestaat tussen de vrije huursector en de koopmarkt. Hierdoor wordt de overstap van huren naar kopen steeds moeilijker", zegt ABN AMRO-econoom Mike Langen. "Starters moeten door de hoge huizenprijzen meer eigen vermogen meenemen."

Hij merkt verder op dat jongere kopers en huurders hun "ogenschijnlijk stabiele of dalende woonlasten" alleen maar realiseren doordat ze gemiddeld kleiner zijn gaan wonen. "Als rekening wordt gehouden met woonoppervlakte, betalen zij juist steeds meer per vierkante meter."

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At its Code with Claude developers' conference, Anthropic has introduced what it calls "dreaming" to Claude Managed Agents. Dreaming, in this case, is a process of going over recent events and identifying specific things that are worth storing in "memory" to inform future tasks and interactions. Dreaming is a feature that is currently in research preview and limited to Managed Agents on the Claude Platform. Managed Agents are a higher-level alternative to building directly on the Messages API that Anthropic describes as a "pre-built, configurable agent harness that runs in managed infrastructure." It's intended for situations where you want multiple agents working on a task or project to some end point over several minutes or hours.

Anthropic describes dreaming as a scheduled process, in which sessions and memory stores are reviewed, and specific memories are curated. This is important because context windows are limited for LLMs, and important information can be lost over lengthy projects. On the chat side of things, many models use a process called compaction, whereby lengthy conversations are periodically analyzed, and the models attempt to remove irrelevant information from the context window while keeping what's actually important for the ongoing conversation, project, or task. However, that process, as I described it, is usually limited to a specific conversation with a single agent. "Dreaming" is a periodically recurring process in which past sessions and memory stores can be analyzed across agents, and important patterns are identified and saved to memory for the future. Users will be able to choose between an automatic process, or reviewing changes to memory directly.

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