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UMG and Stability AI announce a partnership to develop music creation tools powered by "responsibly" trained AI (Marc Schneider/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-stability-ai-partnership-develop-music-creation-tools/

UMG Partners With Stability AI to Develop Music Creation Tools for Artists, Producers
Following its Udio settlement, UMG teams up with Stability AI to build responsibly trained AI tools that empower artists and protect copyrights.

UMG and Stability AI announce a partnership to develop music creation tools powered by "responsibly" trained AI (Marc Schneider/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-stability-ai-partnership-develop-music-creation-tools/

UMG Partners With Stability AI to Develop Music Creation Tools for Artists, Producers
Following its Udio settlement, UMG teams up with Stability AI to build responsibly trained AI tools that empower artists and protect copyrights.

The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/29/the-organists-improvising-soundtracks-to-silent-films

The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films
Early on, movies had no sound, but musicians provided live accompaniment. The tradition continues, Alex Ross reports.

Weak-strong uniqueness for general cross-diffusion systems with volume filling
Maria Heitzinger, Ansgar J\"ungel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25978 https://

Weak-strong uniqueness for general cross-diffusion systems with volume filling
The weak-strong uniqueness of solutions to a broad class of cross-diffusion systems with volume filling is established. In general, the diffusion matrices are neither symmetric nor positive definite. This issue is overcome by supposing that the equations possess a Boltzmann-type entropy structure, which ensures the existence of bounded weak solutions. In this framework, general conditions on the mobility matrix are identified that allow for the proof of the weak-strong uniqueness property by me…

**“I am proud to join my friend Jeff Merkley in saying this part out loud. Donald c-nt Trump is not a king, he will never be a king, and America does not bow down to kings,”** Elizabeth Warren proclaimed not realizing what she’d just said but didn’t attempt to walk it back."
She Really Said That!’: The Senator Trump Tried to Reduce As a ‘Nasty Woman’ Just Humiliated Him In Public with a Savage Nickname — and Didn’t Flinch
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/10/24/the-senator-trump-tried-to-reduce-as-a-nasty-woman-just-humiliated-him-in-public-with-a-savage-nickname-and-didnt-flinch/

Raiders’ Geno Smith Drops True Feelings After Loss to Browns https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-true-feelings-losing-browns/?adt_ei=[email]

Writing unit tests for my random number generation library continues to be difficult. My tests are failing because the bias in the distribution exceeds my expectations, but I'm wondering whether I should just repeat the test more times and permit it to exceed expectations some of the time (as long as it does it symmetrically/rarely/etc. My gut tells me that second-order expectations aren't any better than first-order expectations, but another part of me disagrees.
Thinking more as I write this (writing is thinking): second-order tests can at least give me better info to work with towards fixing things I think! So maybe I'll invest in them.
#coding

Feeling the Dad energy here. Pretty darn cool!
"Facing the possibility of winning the World Series, Steve says the title was never even on his radar when Davis was growing up. He just wanted his son to earn a college scholarship. Then, when Davis got drafted, Steve focused on him getting called up some day.
"He's just beaten all the odds every place he's stopped, so, this is just another stop along the way. And if this happens, it's just going to be incredible," he said.
"It's just unreal. I still just can't believe it's happening.””
#Dad #Baseball #BlueJays #MLB #Dodgers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/davis-schneider-home-run-dad-9.6959789

Trump Dismisses Another Inspector General,
Fueling Oversight Concerns
With the firing of Parisa Salehi,
the Export-Import Bank’s inspector general,
the president has sidelined around two dozen of the watchdogs who seek out fraud and mismanagement in federal agencies.
Even among Republicans on Capitol Hill, Ms. Salehi’s firing is prompting some backlash.
Senator Charles E. Grassley,
Republican of Iowa, raised concerns that the termination was illegal, …

Trump Dismisses Another Inspector General, Fueling Oversight Concerns
With the firing of the Export-Import Bank’s inspector general, the president has sidelined around two dozen of the watchdogs who seek out fraud and mismanagement in federal agencies.

Browns say Shedeur Sanders' play-call sheet 'must have fallen out' during loss to Bears https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891825/2025/12/15/browns-shedeur-sanders-kevin-stefanski-wristband-play-sheet/