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I think we have a new synonym for #Liar that will come into use in 2029. #Propaganda should have some level of credibility, some lnk to reality.
Though it looks like the #47Adminstration is striving …

US claims of Cuba’s ‘unique threat’ jar with reality of hunger and blackouts
State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down government

I think we have a new synonym for #Liar that will come into use in 2029. #Propaganda should have some level of credibility, some lnk to reality.
Though it looks like the #47Adminstration is striving …

US claims of Cuba’s ‘unique threat’ jar with reality of hunger and blackouts
State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down government

svMultiPhysics: a finite element-based solver for cardiovascular simulations
David Codoni, Sujal Dave, David W. Parker, Aaron L. Brown, Javiera Jilberto, Han Zhao, Divya Adil, Zachary A. Sexton, Martin R. Pfaller, Michele Bucelli, Shawn C. Shadden, Charles A. Taylor, Alison L. Marsden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19631 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19631 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19631
arXiv:2607.19631v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, motivating extensive efforts to improve its diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Over the past decade, computational modeling has emerged as a powerful tool to advance cardiovascular research by enabling detailed, patient-specific studies of cardiac physiology and pathology. svMultiPhysics is an open-source, parallel finite element solver written in C specifically designed for multiphysics cardiovascular problems. It provides a unified framework for simulating the partial differential equations that govern solid mechanics, fluid dynamics, diffusion, and cardiac electrophysiology. These equations can be solved independently or in a coupled fashion, allowing researchers to investigate interactions between physical processes in a modular yet integrated way. The solver's main strength lies in its ability to seamlessly couple multiple physics modules, enabling the study of complex, highly nonlinear systems. For example, svMultiPhysics can capture the interplay between cardiac electrophysiology, myocardial tissue mechanics, and blood flow dynamics, processes that are essential to understanding vascular and cardiac physiology and function in health and disease. Preliminary GPU-enabled simulations show up to approximately $30\times$ wall-clock speedup for selected linear solver configurations over CPU-based simulations. By offering a robust, extensible, and freely available platform, svMultiPhysics empowers researchers to explore multiphysics problems in cardiovascular science. As the primary 3D solver in the SimVascular open source project, it forms a key component of an end-to-end open source software ecosystem for image based patient specific modeling in the cardiovascular system. It is maintained and openly developed on GitHub, fostering transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration.
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'Madden NFL 27' sells hyperrealism in EA's goal to make 'a scouting report' for the league https://www.nfl.com/news/madden-nfl-27-sells-hyperrealism-in-ea-s-goal-to-make-a-scouting-report-for-the-league

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

northwest pals: i'm speaking about robert hunter in portland in september! part of a 3-day celebration. https://creativeworldsofroberthunter.com

Creative Wor(l)ds of Robert Hunter: A Celebration
A three-day celebration of Robert Hunter in Portland, Oregon — September 24–26, 2026. Poetry, live music, and songwriter stories.

The U.S. military has asked combat experts to think outside the box in a desperate bid for new ideas to end Trump's war against Iran
In an email last week, an officer in the intelligence branch of U.S. Central Command asked a broad group of military analysts for suggestions:
"We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” the email reportedly read.
Military officials said the effort to crowdsource a solution to the war by email …

Trump’s despair over Iran revealed in memo seeking ‘creative and unconventional’ ways to punish the enemy: report
U.S. military officials say effort to crowdsource a solution to the war via email blast is highly unusual

❝I’m definitely not trying to romanticise that world with limited access to information, but I think we could all do with a bit more patience to digest things rather than having some immediate reaction, evaluation or classification of the art we take in.❞ https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/rob…

Robert Beatty on retro Photoshop, creative friction and designing album covers that feel almost primeval
On the occasion of Robert Beatty’s newest work for the cult-favourite trip-hop duo Boards Of Canada, It’s Nice That does a deep dive into his vast career of video collage, noise rock, alternative tech and iconic album covers.