Forgive these sleep-deprived rantings - they come from a happy, people-appreciating place! :D
It has become freshly amazing to me, the many ways of framing or encountering music. As a child it almost always provoked narrative experience; travel escapades - personalities arriving, things happening, a world generating itself. This disappeared fairly quickly from around ten onwards, and went to abstraction: sound as sound, music as music. In feeling out metaphors to try and give it langua…
Apple's stock is up 15% since June 25, adding nearly $600B in market value and pushing shares back to record territory, as investors flee an AI stock selloff (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
A Laramie Wyoming bartender faces felony charges after pulling a gun downtown.
She says it was self-defense amid a volley of anti-queer slurs.
Ríhanna Kelver, a transgender woman, has been charged with two felonies after drawing on a man who pushed her to the ground.
She said she’ll fight the charges and pursue “genuine justice.”
Demario Davis: Jets brought me in to 'model what they want that culture to look like' https://www.nfl.com/news/demario-davis-jets-veteran-lb-model-culture
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LinkedIn introduces a "seems like AI slop" button to allow users to report a post they think is AI-generated (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/
Canada's last epishelf lake is gone for good, study confirms #Canada
Inducing lucid dreaming with multisensory stimulation: a preregistered multi-center study #SSILD
LinkedIn introduces a "seems like AI slop" button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/
Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/self-driving-tr…