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Colts WR Adonai Mitchell feeling comfortable in Year 2: 'I knew it would eventually come together' https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-wr-adonai-mitchell-feeling-comfortable-in-year-2-i-knew-it-would-eventually-come-togeth…

"Politicians, oil companies and Russia: Who’s fuelling climate disinformation, and why?"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Report exposes key players spreading climate disinformation
A new report has revealed how political figures, fossil fuel interests and foreign states are shaping climate denial worldwide.

SEC filing: Snowflake says an executive shared unauthorized financial guidance with an Instagram influencer; an Oct. 26 video interview features CRO Mike Gannon (Alice Tecotzky/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/influencer-inte…

An influencer's interview with Snowflake's CRO triggered an 8K filing
Mike Gannon said that Snowflake will end the year with just over $4.5 billion in revenue and that "we're getting to $10 billion in a couple of years."

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts
-- under fire for a video he posted defending Tucker Carlson for his friendly interview with white supremacist talker Nick Fuentes
-- has reassigned his chief of staff to another position.
In an email to the conservative think tank’s staff on Friday,
Roberts announced that Heritage’s executive vice president, Derrick Morgan, had been tapped to replace Ryan Neuhaus as chief of staff.
In the controversial video posted on X …

Exclusive: Heritage Reassigns Chief of Staff Following Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes Fallout
The conservative think tank’s executive vice president, Derrick Morgan, has been tapped to replace Ryan Neuhaus as chief of staff.

Talking Spell: A Wearable System Enabling Real-Time Anthropomorphic Voice Interaction with Everyday Objects
Xuetong Wang, Ching Christie Pang, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02367

Talking Spell: A Wearable System Enabling Real-Time Anthropomorphic Voice Interaction with Everyday Objects
Virtual assistants (VAs) have become ubiquitous in daily life, integrated into smartphones and smart devices, sparking interest in AI companions that enhance user experiences and foster emotional connections. However, existing companions are often embedded in specific objects-such as glasses, home assistants, or dolls-requiring users to form emotional bonds with unfamiliar items, which can lead to reduced engagement and feelings of detachment. To address this, we introduce Talking Spell, a wear…

Sources: after earlier suing CBS over 60 Minutes, Trump is set to be interviewed for the show by Norah O'Donnell, following David Ellison's Paramount purchase (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/31/2025/trump-to…

Trump to sit with CBS News in first interview after lawsuit
The US president is set to sit down with CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell on Friday afternoon, Semafor has learned.

Social World Models
Xuhui Zhou, Jiarui Liu, Akhila Yerukola, Hyunwoo Kim, Maarten Sap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00559 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00559

Social World Models
Humans intuitively navigate social interactions by simulating unspoken dynamics and reasoning about others' perspectives, even with limited information. In contrast, AI systems struggle to automatically structure and reason about these implicit social contexts. In this paper, we introduce a novel structured social world representation formalism (S3AP), designed to help AI systems reason more effectively about social dynamics. Following a POMDP-driven design, S3AP represents social interactions …

this is worth reading, even if you have no interest in hearing about Ezra Klein (I sure didn't): it's only using him as a paradigmatic case in how a lot of us are feeling lost.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-have-to-swallow-frogs…

An interview with Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman on movies that inspired him, too-short theatrical windows, Letterboxd's influence, and more (Mia Lee Vicino/Letterboxd)
https://letterboxd.com/journal/tom-rothman-sony-interview/

Executive Decisions: Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman tells us why the future of film is on Letterboxd • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman talks to Mia Lee Vicino about his scrappy indie roots, championing visionary filmmakers like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino, and why Letterboxd is the way of the future.

Over nearly nine months,
the lawsuit challenging Trump’s attempt to slash foreign aid funding
has ricocheted around the federal judiciary
but still has not reached a final resolution.
It has been reviewed by 21 judges,
spawned thousands of pages of filings
and lumbered forward
even after the administration dissolved the U.S. Agency for International Development,
the government office responsible for disbursing much of the contested funding.

The Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid
One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go.