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Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli.
First-hand reports of the irony of Crimea...
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One Bridge Left in Crimea – and It’s for Fleeing
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

France Salutes America, Flying Over Statue of Liberty–Launching Month of Celebrations for 250 Years of Friendship https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/france-salutes-america-flying-over-statue-of-liberty-for-250th-anniv/

Should the caption of this photo be: "I'm a fox and I vote" or "I'm a fur and I vote?"
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/andy-burnham-s-resounding-win-special-election-britain-photos-7…

Andy Burnham's resounding win in a special election in Britain, in photos
Labour’s Andy Burnham, the popular mayor of Greater Manchester, won a special election for a seat in Parliament and signaled Friday that he will use it to challenge embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer for leadership of the country.

OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/21/openai-calls-…

A Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot had no ammunition left, so jet wash it is. They flew dangerously close to a Russian Shahed drone, used the jet’s thurst to destabilize it and send the drone to the ground. Eat wake drone.
h/t @nickmelnick.bsky.social
#Ukraine #russia

Someone living just a short drive from our new home is selling a trebuchet with a 5 m throwing arm. For just about 600 Euro...
I think I have to talk to my wife about things this house still lacks. Like a moat. And this.
https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/1309843354

Transient multidomain functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose #psilocybin-containing mushroom administration: a #case #report

Frontiers | Transient multidomain functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin-containing mushroom administration: a case report
BackgroundAdvanced Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is generally regarded as a stage of irreversible functional decline. Psilocybin is known to transiently alter lar...

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. (-:

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…

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