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Pilot psyching himself up for a flight
https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/114887806340468873

A profile of Stability AI, which under CEO Prem Akkaraju and Chair Sean Parker has shifted from building frontier AI models to a Hollywood-focused SaaS company (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hollywood-stability/

AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?

“The Americans must understand—any US military incursion will undoubtedly lead to irreversible consequences.”
Experts believe one of the repercussions of US military adventurism against the Islamic Republic would be the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran controls.
According to Tanker Trackers data, more than 80 percent of oil passes through this narrow strip 
-- and if it’s closed, the global economy and energy sector will be dealt a heavy blow.
Most multi-nation…

Strait of Hormuz closure in event of US aggression against Iran to paralyze world economy
As regional tensions escalate amid the Israeli regime’s brutal aggression against the Islamic Republic, the possibility of the closure of Strait of Hormuz is a possibility, according to experts.

A Comprehensive Review of Agricultural Parcel and Boundary Delineation from Remote Sensing Images: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives
Juepeng Zheng, Zi Ye, Yibin Wen, Jianxi Huang, Zhiwei Zhang, Qingmei Li, Qiong Hu, Baodong Xu, Lingyuan Zhao, Haohuan Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14558

A Comprehensive Review of Agricultural Parcel and Boundary Delineation from Remote Sensing Images: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives
Powered by advances in multiple remote sensing sensors, the production of high spatial resolution images provides great potential to achieve cost-efficient and high-accuracy agricultural inventory and analysis in an automated way. Lots of studies that aim at providing an inventory of the level of each agricultural parcel have generated many methods for Agricultural Parcel and Boundary Delineation (APBD). This review covers APBD methods for detecting and delineating agricultural parcels and syst…

It looks like we will have tax free books in Denmark soon (Hurray!), partly to try an encourage more reading (though our libraries are booming) after #PISA2022 showed alarming decline in reading ability. This was IIRC the case across the OECD, I haven't seen a very convincing explanation for the decline in maths, science and reading performance (which started way before COVID shutdowns).
Has anyone done any research to understand why?
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/08/20/denmark-to-end-book-tax-to-encourage-people-to-read_6744543_143.html

USA: Videos von Ring-Türkameras landen bald wieder bei der Polizei
Die Amazon-Tochter Ring hat den Firmengründer Jamie Siminoff zurückgeholt. Er ändert die Ausrichtung der Firma in den USA.
https://www.…

No fun traveling today and maybe for quite some time if this is a ransomware attack.
Chaos at Heathrow: Passengers in three-hour queues to check in bags with flights delayed and cancelled after cyber attack hits airlines across Europe
https://www.dailym…

Chaos at Heathrow: Passengers in three-hour queues to check in bags with flights delayed and cancelled after cyber attack hits airlines across Europe
Passengers at the UK's largest airport are facing huge queues this morning after hackers targeted Collins Aerospace, which provides services for multiple airlines globally, on Friday night.

Sabot in the Age of AI
A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867412641585520

ASRG (@asrg@tldr.nettime.org)
Attached: 1 image ## **Sabot in the Age of AI** A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning. ### **Selected Tools & Frameworks** - **Nepenthes** — [Endless crawler trap.](https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes) - **Babble** — [Standalone LLM crawler tarpit.](https://git.jsbarretto.com/zesterer/babble) - **Markov Tarpit** — [Traps AI bots & feeds them useless data.](https://git.rys.io/libre/m…

The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across all of California.
Two Inland Empire lawmakers are urging state officials to take action to save a hospital in Blythe.
Last spring, Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe was on the brink of closure,
after a series of financial mishaps left it bleeding cash.
In May, the hospital announced that it would not accept new patients, “for the foreseeable future,”
although its emergency room and clinic remained open, th…

This rural hospital almost closed. Emergency state funding is keeping it open, but for how long?
The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across California. Two lawmakers are urging the state try and save a hospital in Blythe.

The FBI reportedly recorded Donald Trump’s border czar -- Tom Homan -- accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents who were posing as business contractors last year.
A new report from MSNBC on Saturday reveals that the agents recorded Homan, six weeks before the 2024 election,
allegedly promising to assist in securing government contracts across the border security industry during Trump’s second term.
Six sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC that the FBIand just…