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So disappointing. I admired what this director has done previously, and this 40 second “trailer” is almost unwatchable. Not a single character is there; there is no there there.
https://xcancel.com/NeillBlomkamp/status/2079078300660769193#m

Neill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp)
NIGHTBORNE is the first full test AI film I have made. It was made using Seedance 2.0. I've been experimenting with AI for a couple of years, and it's now at the point where I want to tackle a full feature in this format. This is a 13-minute test start. It was made with real concept artists, and features the faces and voices of 32 real people. Barley Studios will be my new AI studio for creating my own films, the way Oats Studios was for traditional film and VFX. @Barleystudiosai Full film…

Truly, Madly, Deeping It
A nostalgic Brisbane-based podcast about music and the deep feelings it invokes. We want to know how it felt to be lying on the floor in front of your parents' sound system listening to your favourite song for the first time...
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Marvin Wildhage infiziert Medizin-Influenzerin Alina Walbrun mit Pinocchio-Krankheit
https://youtu.be/XEQsPeyiTjw
Diese reagiert in Story mit Gagen-Forderung, die er an Médecins sans Frontières spenden soll

Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor

Moving as metaphor
A few weeks ago, I and several others helped some friends of ours pack up their apartment into a truck in preparation for moving cross-country from Chicago to New York. It was, as such moments generally are, bitter sweet. It's always a good feeling to help out a friend, but when you're helping them get further away from you it's not as pleasant. Of course, me being me, what struck me most about the whole process was how well it served as a model for software development and project managemen…

Newsom creates panel on AI safety regulation, suggests possible ‘kill switch’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday became the latest politician to push for stronger artificial intelligence regulations
following claims from AI experts that the technology could lead to widespread death and destruction.
Newsom issued an executive order for the creation of a panel to recommend safety rules,
including the development of a possible “kill switch” for AI programs that go …

Newsom creates AI safety panel, suggests possible 'kill switch'
Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the formation of a panel to come up with safety regulations for the state's AI companies, including the development of a possible 'kill switch' for programs that go rogue.

Damn! spent the whole evening reading articles and not editing photos (as planned) ...
Ah well - then I invite you to a walk we did recently on a sunny day along some nice blooming bushes.
#hiking #flowers #outdoors

Indian tricolor flying over the Rhode Island State House. (Yesterday was Indian independence day, and there was a gathering in front of the state house.) Didn't get to see whether the other dome was flying the PK flag. (-:

Filings: Meta reduced its $65M midterms budget by $25M through refunds, primarily from a super PAC it launched in 2025 with $45M to fight state AI bills (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/technology/meta-midterms-funding.html

Meta Withdraws $25 Million from Its Midterms Push
The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.

That feeling when you’ve got twice the number of followers on the fediverse as the closed-source VC-funded European social network being peddled by the EU Commission has accounts.
Hey, @…, y’all are so incompetent you can’t even do evil right.
Muppets.
@…

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ (@elena@aseachange.com)
[1 media attachment] Good morning Fedi friends. Is anybody curious about how the #WSocial experiment is going? You know, the private, for profit "European answer to X" endorsed by the European Commission, which is a fork of Bluesky and has quietly gone closed-source before its beta launch (à la #TruthSocial)? I've got numbers for you! Nearly two months in, W Social has almost the same number of accounts as #Eurosky... You know, the European fork of Bluesky that does NOT require government …

Sascha Martin's Ripping News
Join Sascha's misadventures with rocket-ships and flying saucers, aliens and dinosaurs, zombies, megafauna and exo-girls, plus his constant, ever critical, always demanding nemesis and not-friend, Mary-Alice Cooper...
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