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P. V. Sundar Balakrishnan
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Dad! Prof, U of Washington Bothell School of Business. AI/ML pioneer in Marketing.
Academic Editor PLOS ONE; Management & Business Review.
Analytics, Negotiations. Marketing, Analytics, Capt America case. UW Teaching Medal
orcid: 0000-0002-2856-55
#Thanksgiving meal prep
Gravy done
Wasabi Mashed potatoes done
Next Cranberry sauce with oranges.
Dishwasher running. So morning shift can take over with Cheddar Scones etc.
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
www.itchotels.com/content/dam/...
Restaurant is Avartana at the Grand Chola ITC.
In #Chennai #MadrasSky
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Now is it possible to create a thread that doesn't allow people to respond to the first one?
I think An experiment following on @emilymbender.bsky.social comment is apropos.
"... Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while"
TESTING >>
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"... Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while"
TESTING >>
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Girmay Zahilay sworn in as King County executive
Girmay Zahilay sworn in as King County executive
Zahilay, who arrived in the U.S. as a refugee, promised a local government that "can help people and change lives." He takes office amid federal government hostility toward immigrants.
www.seattletimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
www.oudaily.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Clever study assesses “whether same person is treated differently when their race is perceived differently.” Finds “same driver is likelier to be searched or arrested by police when they are perceived as Hispanic than when they are perceived as white.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Testing for racial bias using inconsistent perceptions of race
A proposed test for racial bias assesses whether the same person is treated differently when their race is perceived differently.
www.science.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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"I'm too poor to buy the book!"
Get it from a library! They have paid the author, and the more people read it the more copies they will buy!
Libraries are amazing, free for the public, but paying authors!! And the more checkouts the better their impact statements!
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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“Heartbreaking scenes from Elit, Iran, where wildfire is damaging parts of the ancient Hyrcanian forests — a @unesco.org World Heritage treasure and one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests" Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health

#Iran 🇮🇷
Turkey sends aircraft to help battle Iran wildfires
Two Turkish firefighting planes, one helicopter and eight personnel will arrive in Iran on Saturday to help quell fires in the Hyrcanian forest in the country's north, Iranian environment chief Shina ...
www.iranintl.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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"bishops of the Catholic Church made bonfires of the Maya and Aztec manuscripts, a terrible loss to history. Calendars on wood and painted paper books made of the leaves of the maguey all blazed together. May these bishops expiate their crimes in the purgatory of biblioclasts!"
-Athenaeum 2954, 1884
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Super interesting and detailed ARTICLE.
But the irony!!
inflection POINT. ".. algorithmic trading systems detected accounting fraud faster than human analysis. The 18-hour reversal from post-earnings euphoria to negative market territory reflects machine intelligence*
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Wikipedia picture of the day 29 Oct 2025: portrait of a peacock dance performer w make up. The peacock dance is performed by girls dressed as peacocks during the harvest festival of Thai Pongal in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pe...
Via @wikipedia.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Zohran Mamdani is the ethical power empath the world has been waiting for.

MeidasTouch has put together this excellent power clip of the best moments of the NYC mayoral debate between the clear moral leader in the race and the corrupt genocidal moral failures he is running against.
October 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Power empaths like Zohran Mamdani are capable of playing power narcissists like Donald Trump.

Donald seems to have met his match.
Zohran Mamdani is the ethical power empath the world has been waiting for.

MeidasTouch has put together this excellent power clip of the best moments of the NYC mayoral debate between the clear moral leader in the race and the corrupt genocidal moral failures he is running against.
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Over the last six months some key figures in Trump’s coalition have been “reigning over a part of the online right that is sharply veering toward a wide variety of aggressive anti-Jewish messages,” Yoram Hazony tells Ross Douthat on this episode of “Interesting Times.”
Opinion | It’s Deeper Than Nick Fuentes
Understanding the Right’s antisemitic turn.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
#Garlic bulb sprouting with 4 days growth
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Has anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/
Collaborative Editing of Rmd (or Quarto / Rnw) Documents in Google Drive
Collaborative writing and editing of R Markdown (or Quarto / Sweave) documents. The local .Rmd (or Quarto / .Rnw) is uploaded as a plain-text file to Google Drive. By taking advantage of the easily re...
claudiozandonella.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Inspirational move took only ~8 months. Sets a high bar, but we all contribute in our own way.

Ex-prosecutor who resigned in protest amid DOJ purge now poised to lead Seattle City Attorney office - CBS News share.google/QezMkPPDpXXx...
Ex-prosecutor who resigned in protest amid DOJ purge now poised to lead Seattle City Attorney office
Erika Evans will begin her term as elected city attorney of Seattle on Jan. 1.
share.google
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
#2 Single origin chocolates
Food and Drinks in #Chennai #MadrasSky
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Food and drinks in #Chennai #MadrasSky
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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September 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Donald Trump has reignited his feud with London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan in an unhinged TV rant.
Donald Trump re-ignites feud with London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan in unhinged rant
www.mirror.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Amazing re #Typst with #Quarto in #Rstudio #rstats
#YAML for creating #PDF in seconds & looks great!
---
title: "dashboard"
format:
typst:
editor: visual
editor-options:
chunk-output-type: console
---
@typst.app are there templates that i can access for journals? @typstcommunity.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Amazing learning re #Typst with #Quarto in #Rstudio
#YAML for creating #PDF in seconds & looks great!
---
title: "dashboard"
format:
typst:
code-fold: hide # hides code by default, adds Show/Hide
editor: visual
editor-options:
chunk-output-type: console
---
@typst.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM