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Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

I don’t know about you 
but my feelings oscillate between intense grief and boiling anger. 
I do not hide my pro-Palestinian sentiments. 
But this goes beyond one side or another. 
This is about our shared humanity. 
Does it still exist? Did it ever exist?
As citizens, our tools are limited. 
As meager as they sometimes appear, we still haveto utilize them. 
So, tell your congressperson to co-sponsor HR 3565
— The Block the Bombs Act
— atte…

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

Re this from @…, also crucial to note that while cars are probably the greatest head injury while on a bicycle, they’re not the only danger. Wear a helmet on the trails too, kids.

https://beige.party/@FeloniousPunk/115364512759368085

Work Function Mapping Across a-In2Se3 to {\alpha}-In2Se3 to {\gamma}-InSe in RF-Sputtered Thin Films
Marius O. Eji, Md. Sakauat Hasan Sakib, Joseph P. Corbett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08767

Work Function Mapping Across a-In2Se3 to α-In2Se3 to γ-InSe in RF-Sputtered Thin Films
Indium selenide is a phase-change chalcogenide whose polymorphism enables a variety of physical properties to be tuned. Here we directly quantify the evolution of the surface work function across the amorphous-to-crystalline transition in RF-sputtered In2Se3 thin films grown on c-plane Al2O3 (001). By varying deposition temperature (100-500 °C) and film thickness, we establish processing windows for a- In2Se3, α-In2Se3, and γ-InSe, and correlate structure with electronic and morphological pr…

Every year, as I come up on my birthday, I start to think a lot more about the shooting. The intensity was a bit lower after Trump left office the first time, but October of 2024 was pretty intense.
As I've been processing through all this, I thought about the cards and letters folks sent to me in the hospital. I have a box of them in the US and sometimes I think about asking for them to be sent here. But things have a tenancy to get lost in the mail on the way here.
There's a little bit of a trapped and incomplete feeling, that Trump's chaos makes feel even more intense.
So I decided to write a bit about that box, and the hospital, and death.
CW: body horror, death
#Writing

Momentum-Resolved Relaxation-Time Approach for Size-Dependent Conductivity in Anisotropic Metallic Films
YoungJun Lee, Jin Soo Lee, Seungjun Lee, Seoung-Hun Kang, Young-Kyun Kwon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08622

Momentum-Resolved Relaxation-Time Approach for Size-Dependent Conductivity in Anisotropic Metallic Films
Shrinking CMOS interconnect dimensions to the nanometer scale intensifies electron scattering at surfaces, interfaces, and grain boundaries, causing severe conductivity loss and challenging copper-based designs. Here we present a momentum-resolved relaxation time framework that integrates density functional theory with the semiclassical Boltzmann transport equation to predict size-dependent resistivity in metallic thin films. Electron phonon interactions are computed from first principles, and …

A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is now worth $1B following ICE's $2B investment, as its rivalry with Kalshi intensifies (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciap…

Crypto’s Fastest-Growing Startup Mints World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire
A $2 billion investment from NYSE parent ICE vaults Polymarket’s 27 year-old founder Shayne Coplan into the three-comma club and intensifies its rivalry with prediction market competitor Kalshi.

In July, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France plans to recognize a Palestinian state
—joining the ranks of more than 100 global states, mostly non-European, that have already done so.
His decision was a clear shot across the bow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israeli conduct in Gaza.
The point was made even more blunt in the following days by the news that the United Kingdom also intends to recognize a Palestinian state if no progress is…

What Was the Tipping Point on Gaza?
After almost two years of war, Israel is feeling the growing weight of governmental opprobrium.

A thing I did when I was new to find good accounts to follow:
Whenever I saw a post I liked, I didn’t just follow that person. I looked at (1) who they were boosting in their timeline and (2) who •they• were following, so that each new good follow might turn into 5 or 10 new follows.
A week or two of that really helped me find my way to the communities I was looking for.