🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Louis Armstrong:
🎵 Cheesecake
#LouisArmstrong
https://soulspazm.bandcamp.com/track/cheesecake-feat-louis-armstrong
https://open.spotify.com/track/7LehAvMS14FjPqKmlfbo1B
Adrian Newey to be team principal (!) at Aston Martin
https://www.astonmartinf1.com/en-GB/news/announcement/aston-martin-aramco-announces-changes-to-leadership-structure
How does this Roman torso get identified as #Apollo? Just look at his glutes!
#BumDayMonday
Western Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/wes…
Zelensky orders Ukraine to begin export of controlled arms next month: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/zelensky-orders-ukraine-to-begin.html
The problem with "you can just do things" is that other people can also just do things. You can get into an arms race of just doing things, or learn how to build shared intent.
One of those approaches is masculine and exciting. The other one actually works.
Guess which one AI-powered design & development tools encourage?
I have written an arrangement for string orchestra of the beautiful baroque Capriccio No.1 in C minor from Giuseppe Barone Dall'Abaco (aka Joseph Dall'Abaco), originally for solo cello.
The full score is here: https://musescore.com/user/79969672/scores/28853444
i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy
ShelterBox USA
To provide families with life-saving shelter and essential tools and supplies that will enable them to rebuild their homes
and transform their lives after disaster
and to build awareness of global displacement.
https://shelterboxusa.org/
In 2016, The Atlantic’s journalist
Shane Harris
made contact with a person claiming to work as a hacker for Iran’s intelligence,
where he claimed to have worked on major operations,
such as the downing of an American drone and the now-infamous hack against oil giant Saudi Aramco,
where Iranian hackers wiped the company’s computers.
Harris was rightly skeptical,
but as he kept talking to the hacker,
who eventually revealed his real name to him,…