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A profile of Josh Wallace Kerrigan, also known as Neural Viz, a filmmaker using AI tools from Midjourney to Runway to create a cinematic universe (Christopher Beam/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-ai-media-parody-of-the-apocalypse-g…

The Future of AI Isn't Just Slop
Behold Neural Viz, the first great cinematic universe of the AI era. It's from a guy named Josh.

I hope traditional roguelike fans who follow me here have been following the progress I've boosted here and there about @…'s ZAngband variant 'ZMAngband' he's been working on based on the original red box D&D rules.
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ZMAngband 0.7 Machete Edition by Jose Machete
Youngest bastard son of the mythical Angband variant ZAngband.

Filing: Musk and X agree to settle a lawsuit by Twitter's ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M in unpaid severance (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/796239/elon-musk-x-128-milli…

Elon Musk will settle $128 million Twitter execs lawsuit
Elon Musk has agreed to settle with Twitter’s former top executives, after they sued the billionaire over more than $128 million in unpaid severance.

Josh McDaniels says there’s no hard feelings toward Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/josh-mcdaniels-says-theres-no-hard-feelings-toward-raiders-3438187/

Spin-wave propagation at low temperatures in YIG thin films on YSGG substrates
Jos\'e Elias Abr\~ao, Daan Weltens, Rhodri Mansell, Sebastiaan van Dijken, Luk\'a\v{s} Flaj\v{s}man
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04330

Spin-wave propagation at low temperatures in YIG thin films on YSGG substrates
The use of spin waves in magnetic thin films at cryogenic temperatures has long been hindered by the lack of a suitable material platform. Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is the leading candidate, yet it is typically grown on gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) substrates, which develop a large paramagnetic moment at low temperatures. This substrate effect limits spin-wave propagation. In this work, we demonstrate that thin YIG films grown on yttrium scandium gallium garnet (YSGG) substrates support robu…

Imagine having this issue with a kid...
It isn't exactly common but it happens occasionally with K being about 120lb. these days and me being a hard-rode 60yrs. He's not stupid but he has never fully internalized that if he tries to fight me when I'm picking him up, he can succeed in sabotaging that process and it is NOT GOOD.

SparkUI-Parser: Enhancing GUI Perception with Robust Grounding and Parsing
Hongyi Jing, Jiafu Chen, Chen Rao, Ziqiang Dang, Jiajie Teng, Tianyi Chu, Juncheng Mo, Shuo Fang, Huaizhong Lin, Rui Lv, Chenguang Ma, Lei Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04908

SparkUI-Parser: Enhancing GUI Perception with Robust Grounding and Parsing
The existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for GUI perception have made great progress. However, the following challenges still exist in prior methods: 1) They model discrete coordinates based on text autoregressive mechanism, which results in lower grounding accuracy and slower inference speed. 2) They can only locate predefined sets of elements and are not capable of parsing the entire interface, which hampers the broad application and support for downstream tasks. To address the a…

It's September, and these are my favorite films of 2025 so far. (Freaky Tales is technically 2024, but it released in theaters this year, I'm counting it, it happens)
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I'm not even big on Scarlett Johansson usually, but tried out Under the Skin from 2013 on a whim, and wow, this was a wild one. Some pacing and editing issues (as all modern films seem to have) but I really dug this - the ending is bonkers and then your confusion will all make sense. I do love knowing NOTHING about a film going in.
https://boxd.it/3mD…

Raiders must play their rookie wide receivers following Jakobi Meyers trade https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/11/05/raiders-must-play-their-rookie-wrs-following-jakobi-me…