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AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…

‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech
Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…

‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech
Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

As the midterm elections near, a slew of extremist candidates
— selected by GOP primary voters at Donald Trump’s urging over the past few months to represent their party in the general election
— are aiming to woo the public in marquis races around the country.
Should they get elected, they will push the U.S. political system even further to the right,
mainstreaming views that until recently would have been considered far outside of the boundaries of the acceptable.

Even as Trump Flounders in the Polls, GOP Candidates Keep Running Further Right
Since Trump’s reelection, the GOP has increasingly embraced overtly white nationalist and conspiracist candidates.

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Sunday, Aug. 16 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-sunday-aug-16

House Of Coffee And Chaos Podcast
Built around connection, honesty and a good cup of coffee, we talk motherhood, ambition, relationships and the beautiful chaos in between...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/house-of-coffe…

Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/childrens-health-at-risk-in-south-borneo-as-el-nino-intensifies-indonesia-wildfires/

Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia — Siti Sarah slept in fits and starts through August as the fires broke out around her village and surrounding peatlands. One fire on Aug. 18 at first seemed a safe distance away, but in a heartbeat the flames were within 100 meters (330 feet) of her home in Pengayuan, a village in […]

Ein formidables Rezept, das gut skaliert (nach unten in der Menge) und auch mit Zusatz von Resterbsen und gelben Paprika vortrefflich mundet. #nommention

Lemon-Pepper Zucchini Pasta With Dill Recipe • 5★ (Gift Recipe)
A summer favorite, zucchini bulks up raw salads, lends texture to muffins and bread, and adds a subtle salinity to pasta dishes. That's the role it plays in this simple miso butter pasta. A little pasta water and spoonfuls of miso melt into a delightful sauce to coat the noodles. Searing the delicate squash and tossing it with lemon zest and black pepper, then with the pasta allows zucchini to do what it does best: absorb all the flavors of the elements around it. This dish provides a playful r…

Forgive these sleep-deprived rantings - they come from a happy, people-appreciating place! :D
It has become freshly amazing to me, the many ways of framing or encountering music. As a child it almost always provoked narrative experience; travel escapades - personalities arriving, things happening, a world generating itself. This disappeared fairly quickly from around ten onwards, and went to abstraction: sound as sound, music as music. In feeling out metaphors to try and give it langua…

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Monday, Aug. 17 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-monday-aug-17

Donald Trump’s move to gut Washington’s 73-year-old military alliance with Seoul has been called “inane” and “shortsighted”
as lawmakers warned it risked strengthening Russia’s hand in Ukraine.
The US president abruptly ordered the Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea
just days after North Korea test-fired ballistic missiles,
justifying the decision by citing his “very good relationship” with Kim Jong-un, the nuclear-armed dictator such exercises ex…

Trump’s move to gut South Korea alliance is ‘inane, haphazard decision’, lawmakers say
US president’s abrupt order to scale back joint exercises with Seoul is meant to ‘flatter’ North Korea’s dictator, top Democrat says