Indian model's understated Met Gala debut revives debate on cultural representation

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cre13zeql51o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

#Fashion #Culture #Representation

Bhavitha Mandava at Met Gala 2026: Indian model's outfit revives cultural representation debate

Bhavitha Mandava’s Met Gala debut has brought a new wave of attention to her - and to her understated aesthetic.

Pete Buttigieg spent half of 2026 in five battleground states, building before anyone was watching.
Al Sharpton asked at the National Action Network if he's running in 2028. Buttigieg said: 'You save me a seat.' Not an accident of phrasing.
He held his own in hostile Fox News rooms without losing himself — not performing, talking to them. In an era where reasonable discourse is a party trick, that skill has a market.
The vulnerability named plainly isn't his policy record or his military service. It's his sexuality. That this remains the question says everything about the distance traveled — and the distance remaining.
https://twp.ai/4hrC89
#Pete2028 #Buttigieg #LGBTQ #Election2028 #QueerPolitics #GayRights #Democrats #OutPolitics #QueerLeader #GayPresident #Representation #ThistleAndMoss
Was watching Democracy Docket, w smart guests. Two things:
1) The #Callais decision is for minority representation what the #DredScott decision was for citizenship & due process (so #Congress passed the 14th, 15th #Amendments). The fix here is a slog.
2) Marc Elias predicts GOP attacking white districts if represented by a minority. They'll claim that SCOTUS has backed them up, which is true.
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK #SCotUS #decision #dissent #VotingRights #democratic #representation #DEI

#StateTroopers arrest Rep. #JustinPearson for refusing to leave the balcony in a show of #nonviolent resistance after #SpeakerSexton cleared it.

Rep. #JustinJones burned a confederate flag in the rotunda after
99% white #Tennessee House #Republicans pass a #racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black #Memphis of #congressional #representation.

3 Republican abstentions, 2 no votes (white and Gillespie, both from #Memphis)

#JimCrow

Recent industry reporting points to a decline in #LGBTQ+ representation across television, with entire characters and storylines disappearing altogether.
But the disappearance is not neutral, it follows a pattern.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-quiet-return-of-lesbian-erasure-6743bd79500f?sk=fd57f316895d5f76346d3bd085e162dc

#Lesbian #Queer #Representation

The Quiet Return of Lesbian Erasure

When representation exists without permanence, it isn’t progress — its permission.

Medium

How the SCOTUS voting rights ruling could affect Congress, according to Eric Holder

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5807645/eric-holder-scotus-congress-black-representation

#Politics #SCOTUS #Representation

How the SCOTUS voting rights ruling could affect Congress, according to Eric Holder

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5807645/eric-holder-scotus-congress-black-representation

#Politics #Law #Representation

fly51fly (@fly51fly)

에이전트 스킬을 위한 새로운 표현 방식인 S3R(Scheduling-Structural-Logical Representation)을 제안하는 논문입니다. 텍스트 기반 스킬을 구조화해 에이전트의 스킬 관리와 실행 계획을 개선하려는 연구로, AI 에이전트 개발에 유용한 연구 성과입니다.

https://x.com/fly51fly/status/2051058921725649168

#aiagents #arxiv #agentskills #representation #research

fly51fly (@fly51fly) on X

[CL] From Skill Text to Skill Structure: The Scheduling-Structural-Logical Representation for Agent Skills Q Liang, H Wang, Z Liang, Y Liu [Peking University] (2026) https://t.co/GNzxoWlXAM

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#representation : a likeness, a picture, or a model

- French: représentation

- German: die Darstellung

- Italian: rappresentazione

- Portuguese: representação

- Spanish: representación

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NEW BIML Bibliography entry

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01797

H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs

Gao, Cheng, et al

Looking into associated overlap of activation during bad behavior. Assumes a non-distributed representation; overlap of principal-component parts. Analyzing data along (especially tagged) does not necessitate statistical evidence.

#LLM #Representation #MLsec

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