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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Joe Bataan:
🎵 It's a Good Feeling (Riot)
#JoeBataan
https://mundosalsero.bandcamp.com/track/joe-bataan-its-a-good-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/4sArymKxEv44zDJThfcMjt

House Republican to be evicted from DC apartment after failing to pay months of rent (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3470912/cory-mills-evicted-dc-apartment-failing-pay-months-rent/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p133#a250714p133

Meta's standalone Meta AI app, launched in April 2025, offers an uneven experience, often hallucinating facts and failing to provide personalized responses (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-15/meta-ai-app-ha…

Mgmt: We don't have the resources to make our own LLM. Can we just monetize AI prompts?
Business School Student: Hold my beer 🍺
#blockchain

PromptChain: A Decentralized Web3 Architecture for Managing AI Prompts as Digital Assets
We present PromptChain, a decentralized Web3 architecture that establishes AI prompts as first-class digital assets with verifiable ownership, version control, and monetization capabilities. Current centralized platforms lack mechanisms for proper attribution, quality assurance, or fair compensation for prompt creators. PromptChain addresses these limitations through a novel integration of IPFS for immutable storage, smart contracts for governance, and token incentives for community curation. O…

Die US-Marine und #NOAA haben entschieden, die #Mikrowellen-Daten dreier alter #Wettersatelliten bis mindestens September 2026 weiterzugeben.
Die Sensoren liefern seit Jahrzehnten entsch…

Military now won't cut off satellite data used by hurricane forecasters, climate scientists
Microwave data from a trio of defense department satellites will continue flowing to NOAA to help inform sea ice research and hurricane forecasts.

L'Orient en course Š pied
So it rained, and then it was sunny when I got to the treadmill. Should have done the treadmill, way too humid 🤦‍♂️😆
Turns out the bridge I cross when I run this route is falling apart, so I have a detour for a few months.
#running #runnersofmastodon

In recent months, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father, who complained about a UnitedHealth subsidiary.
In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the company’s health insurance division,
to argue that intense criticism of the company risks inciting further violence.

UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics
The company has invoked the murder of an executive last year to complain about coverage in news outlets, on streaming services and on social media.

This is me (playing bass) with my first band ever called Rapa Nui. This was officially our first gig, although the first one happened a few months before this one, in Sarajevo, in front of the then-demolished Youth House.
Back then, I hated melodic punk, feeling the buzz from bands like Motorhead and different extreme metal and grindcore artists.
However, in 2016, I rediscovered an old favorite.
This is a story of how Bad Religion made me start listening to punk rock, an…

How I Started Believing in Bad Religion
For almost a decade, after their song You, made me fall in love with punk rock, I hated the band called Bad Religion. And then they turned out to be one of my favorites ever.

In 10 Minutes, UN’s Tsunami Warning System Notified Millions in East Asia Following Russian Earthquake https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/in-10-minutes-uns-tsunami-warning-system-notified-millions-in-east-asia-follo…

In 10 Minutes, UN's Tsunami Warning System Notified Millions in East Asia Following Russian Earthquake
Thanks to this global monitoring system, which has been deployed for more than 20 years, millions of people in Japan and Russia were warned.

Texans safety Ward facing felony assault charge https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45498756/texans-safety-jimmie-ward-facing-felony-assault-charge