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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra:
🎵 Malunguinho
#AbayomyAfrobeatOrquestra
https://alittlesomethingrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/malunguinho
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xqdZHy8OMlTRNhLTzchzP

YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-scr…

YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions
YouTube has terminated two prominent channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, using artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers.

Rund 15 % der britischen Bevölkerung waren laut einer Umfrage bereits von der #Flut eingeschlossen – oft wegen Fehleinschätzungen.
Viele wissen nicht, dass sich #Gezeiten täglich verschieben und sich örtlich stark unterscheiden. Gerade auf

Misunderstanding the tide is putting millions at risk on UK coasts – here’s what you need to know
Four in ten people surveyed were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country.

The Guardian: Millions march against Trump in nationwide day of protest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/oct/18/anti-trump-no-kings-protests-updates

"…official White House reaction…was 'Who cares?' But guess what? They clearly cared, a lot. You could see that…with the increasingly insane rhetoric and warnings about 'antifa' — a tiny, unorganized sliver of young rock-throwing radicals who were nowhere in sight Saturday — that aimed to neutralize the reality that millions of everyday Americans are sick of seeing a masked secret police snatch people off the streets."

Then they fight you: How the ‘No Kings’ protests are winning America
A massive turnout of 7 million and a panicked White House showed Saturday why the No Kings protests matter, a lot.

A statement from iNaturalist on experimenting with “AI-Assisted Identification Summaries” in 'Exploring New Ways to Learn from iNaturalist’s Community Expertise' https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/118695-exploring-new-ways…

Escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America,
Donald Trump said Sunday, the United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro,
“does nothing to stop” drug production"
The U.S. president warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. strik…

Trump announces an end to US aid to Colombia
It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance. Trump says he'll slash U.S. assistance and enact tariffs because Colombia's leftist president “does nothing to stop” drug production and is an “illegal drug leader.” Petro is rejecting the accusations and defending his work to fight narcotics in Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine. Colombia …

https://defend612.com has been blocked at the domain name level for me and at least two other people over T-Mobile networks (which includes GoogleFi, MetroPCS, and… wait for it… Trump Mobile). For at least all day today.
Seems unlikely to be a technical problem but instead to be Actual Censorship (unless its not …

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-int…

Microsoft and OpenAI invest millions in AI training for teachers
The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence. The tech giants are paying for training for teachers to apply AI skills in the classroom. For the companies, the partnerships are also opportunities to make inroads into schools and win over students in the race for AI dominance. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten says skepticism guided her negotiations, but the…

In the United States, more than 2,500 demonstrations against US President Donald Trump are planned nationwide for Saturday.
The organizers expect millions of participants under the motto
"No Kings".
The first protests are underway in Ann Arbor and other places.
Demonstrations against the growing US authoritarianism also gathered in European capitals.

"No Kings": Hunderte Demonstrationen gegen Trump laufen an - Hubu.de - News & FreeMail
In den USA sind für Samstag landesweit über 2.500 Demonstrationen gegen US-Präsident Donald Trump geplant.