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ConTeXt group

#ConTeXt #LMTX update:
Hans:
Normally around the meeting we bump a LuaMetaTeX version. Before I do that I uploaded a new version, just to be sure. There are no substantial additions / changes apart from some checking for stale (or unintended) global assignments. If you run a document and get some 'global' related warning at the end, let me know (there is no need to report TikZ related warnings). This kind of checking is also part of a bit more protection against user injected (lua) code.

Laffy

Between this and Epstein not going away, Trump's pulling out all the stops:

Moving Ghislaine Maxwell to a comfier prison, and moving nuclear submarines to respond to Medvedev.

‪Steve Benen‬
‪@stevebenen.com‬
· 11m
U.S. job growth over the first seven months of the year:
2015: 1.62 million
2016: 1.44 million
2017: 1.36 million
2018: 1.49 million
2019: 1.12 million
2020: [pandemic]
2021: 4.21 million
2022: 3.26 million
2023: 1.68 million
2024: 1.07 million
2025: 597,000 #trumpeffect #context

Fabrizio Musacchio

Efforts to reduce animal experiments are important and should be pursued. But despite progress in #AI, #organoids, and #InSilico models, I’m not convinced we’re there yet — especially in #neuroscience, where #complexity and systemic #context matter. However, I do think we should stay committed and aim for reduction by all available means. I recently came across this article, which gives a good overview of the current state of the field:

🌍 genengnews.com/topics/translat

GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News · Why We Still Need Animal Research in a World of AI and OrganoidsBy Jason Shepherd, PhD
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ConTeXt group

The latest version of #ConTeXt #LMTX seems to have a broken Mac binary, the Mac in the build farm is reported to have problems.

You can try to compile it yourself, it’s easy:
– you need Xcode installed
– run "source build.sh" in texmf-context/source/luametatex
– copy "build/native/luametatex" to texmf-osx-64/bin/ (Intel) or texmf-osx-arm64/bin/ (Metal)

(wiki.contextgarden.net/Manual_ is overly complicated.)

wiki.contextgarden.netManual Compilation - Wiki
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Different Than

In case it's useful: #Context is critical. The way a group of people behave is always, always heavily context dependent. This seems relevant to some things people say on the internet...

"Trans people have higher rates of stress-related mental illnesses" - Right now, yes, while most of our societies demonize them and work to take away their basic rights. Let's try full LGBTQIA+ equality and see how trans people do.

"Only X% of people say they have nonbinary gender, trans identity, non-straight sexuality, or other LGBTQIA+ identity/experiences" - OK, yes, while nearly every person on earth lives in a society that marginalizes or demonizes sexual/gender minorities (I've seen X quoted as "under 5%", "under 10%", etc.). Thhose numbers will change as we make the world safer for people to express identities outside the prescribed dominant categories.

"Fascism has an advantage in economic downturns" - For now, when extractive/exploitative capitalist systems dominate the world. I wonder if this will still be true when we make all of our governments more humane.

"UBI is amazingly successful" - For now, yes, while small groups receive UBI in the context of mostly capitalist systems. Let's guarantee everyone a living income and then see.

"Women have better outcomes as political and corporate leaders" - Maybe. They certainly seem to right now, while most women (and eveyrone else) are raised in patriarchal cultures. Let's make equality actually happen and then see.

"Women are more interested in social issues while men are more interested in physical and power-dynamic issues" - Possibly true only while we acculturate women this way (there's actually cool empirical evidence suggesting this is not innate)

"Brown, Black, female, and queer people focus on community and justice while cis/het white male people focus on 'the bottom line' and 'concrete' outcomes" - Evidence that this stops being true when various kinds of inequality stop being the norm.

And so on.

#BigThoughts#gender#lgbtqia
Inautilo

#Development #Approaches
We’re using AI wrong · “The question isn’t whether AI will get smarter.” ilo.im/164sly

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#Programming #Coding #AI #Chatbots #Context #Workflows #Codebase #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

N’s Blog · There’s a Better Way to Code with AIEvery developer I know has the same frustrating ritual. Open Claude Code or Cursor and ask it to do a task. The AI gives you generic code, sometimes useful (but usually not). You correct it. It apologizes. You explain again, with additional context. Rinse, repeat, until you want to throw your laptop out the window. David Cramer from Sentry recently shared his AI workflow where he maintains manual rules files to give LLMs context. Solid approach, but it feels like too much copy-pasting. It’s 2025, and machines can do a better job of remembering things. It’s funny how we’ve built the most powerful reasoning systems in human history, then lobotomized them by making them forget everything after each conversation. My question: is there a better way?
ConTeXt group

today’s #ConTeXt update is a bit of beta, because of:

• reworked control over callbacks
• preparations for an upgrade of grid snapping
• overload protection enabled
• a few fixes
• additional warnings
• some potential speedups

(full version in Hans’ message to the mailing list)

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