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How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

300,000 AI-Animated Poses in an Instant: My Visit to Disney and the New Reality for Cartoons
Disney checked out "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.

Zootopia 2 becomes Disney Animation's highest grossing movie ever, with $1.46B at the global box office, beating Frozen 2, which made $1.45B in 2019 (Jordan Moreau/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/zootopia-2-highest-grossing-dis…

Zootopia 2 Is Disney's Biggest Animated Film Ever, Beats Frozen 2
Zootopia 2' is the highest grossing Walt Disney Animation movie in history, beating 'Frozen 2.

Ammonites made it through the K-Pg extinction event according to this paper! #FossilFriday 🤯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34479-1

Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports
We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at Stevns Klint, eastern Denmark. The occurrence of this unit in disjunct basins between eroded crests of uppermost Maastrichtian bryozoan mounds prompts a reconsideration of ammonite redeposition as an alternative to the survival hypothesis. We describe new ammonite specimens from the Cerithium L…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Amantes del futuro:
🎵 cumbia de la Montana
#Amantesdelfuturo
https://bassfoodkrew.bandcamp.com/track/amantes-del-futuro-cumbia-de-la-monta-a-silly-tang-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/39h2XcPNOiMbFyxOOMhVyf

F-16 ammunition, air defenses — Netherlands announces $290 million Ukraine aid package: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/f-ammunition-air-defenses-netherlands.html

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

300,000 AI-Animated Poses in an Instant: My Visit to Disney and the New Reality for Cartoons
Disney checked out "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.

Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election Saturday
that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority, telling Donald Trump that the Democratic district “topples corrupt presidencies.”
Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member.
He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025.
The seat representing the heavily …

Democrat Christian Menefee wins House seat for Houston in special election
Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority. Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed Saturday in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member. He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025. The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year. Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott didn’…

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 21 December - 28 December https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136483/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-amindian-21-december-28-december

Ik heb eens alle hardlooprondjes uit Runkeeper geexporteerd. Ik hoop er eens allerlei animaties mee te kunnen maken. Via https://www.trailreplay.com/app kun je een animatie maken van een rondje. Kek.

Project Genie: Google öffnet experimentelles KI-Weltmodell für Anwender
Google Genie 3 generiert aus Textprompts und Bildern interaktive 3D-Umgebungen. Mit Project Genie können US-Nutzer das Weltmodell nun selbst ausprobieren.