Happy Birthday, Rhiannon Giddens! | WFMT A tribute to a woman who has reshaped our understanding of American folk music history and thrown open the gates dividing traditional folk from other musical genres.

I'm looking forward this show Saturday night on WFMT's Midnight Special. Happy Birthday Ms @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social www.wfmt.com/2026/02/21/h...

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

Oh, my. This is a very, very sad, but wonderfully written essay about a young Kennedy family member dying of Leukemia. That family has seen too much trauma.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I should have said Dr. Richardson (or Prof.)

October 26, 2025 Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.

Wow, we (and a sane government) can do really good things for all of us, if we wish. Ms. Richardson describes the rationale and success of the Erie Canal. Well worth the read. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

OMG! This just made my day. My favorite Python plotting tool has an XKCD mode: matplotlib.org/stable/api/_...

Wasn't there something in our history about taxation without representation? :-)

But what is the penalty? It's not like he is going to be impeached for this. :-(

When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer

I have to say that Robert Munsch is my *favorite* author. I read his stories to my kids a LOT. Amazing story about this life in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Wow, a 459 page review of an article. And they turned it around in less than 30 days. I'm in awe of the folks that wrote this review of the latest DoE climate report!!! Very detailed criticisms, and specific instructions. sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...

Sounds wonderful, except for the .NET and C# development environment. :-)

Does the de minimis tariff apply to gifts? Or used items? Or things you already own? (I'm also thinking about the people who bought cars in Europe, drove them for a while, then imported them.)

Must be the new location. :-)

Malcolm's Favorites - 2025 Track - Rustbuster Invitational All my pictures from the Rustbuster Inviitational are online at www.flickr.com/photos/malcolmslaney/collections/721577235.... Results are at lynbrooksports.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/2022/C...

How I spent my weekend. It's nice to be back at the track, cheering for the kids, and catching up with the coaches. www.flickr.com/photos/malco...

The cognitively controlled hearing aid in overview. Speech is picked up by an ad hoc array of microphones and processed to produce clean speech streams, one per speaker.

I helped advise the COCOHA team, and our paper is now out. Very cool work. www.slaney.org/malcolm/pubs...

Real-time audio attention decoding. We track eyes for visual attention, but there is no physical manifestation of the brain’s auditory interest. We decode EEG signals to see whether the brain is paying more attention to speaker 1 or speaker 2. Imagine aids that help you hear what you want.

Feed cleanse

The richest man in the world is taking pleasure in putting the world's poorest babies into a wood chipper. This is the essence of evil. Why isn't all of Congress screaming bloody murder?!??!?

I really like this statement from our friends up north. So true and now sad!
“As President John F. Kennedy said many years ago,” Trudeau began, “geography has made us neighbours. History has made us friends, economics has made us partners and necessity has made us allies.”

Since when has ICASSP had a registration limit? Why?

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

Last night I was helping a friend keep track of the fire as he was stuck in traffic trying to evacuate. Watch Duty was amazing, even more so when I realized that the main reporter was monitoring the event *and* the radio traffic from NZ! The Internet can be pretty amazing. app.watchduty.org/i/40469