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A look at the collapse of narrative podcasts, facing high production costs and limited ad revenue, despite overall podcast listenership reaching all-time highs (Eric Benson/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

Who Killed the Narrative Podcast?
Podcasts like 'Serial,' 'The Shrink Next Door,' and 'Over My Dead Body' were once a booming industry. But times — and budgets — have changed.

Over 23,000 civilians, 113 children trapped in active combat zones in Donetsk Oblast, official says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/over-civilians-children-trapped-in.html

Cross-Cultural Transfer of Commonsense Reasoning in LLMs: Evidence from the Arab World
Saeed Almheiri, Rania Hossam, Mena Attia, Chenxi Wang, Preslav Nakov, Timothy Baldwin, Fajri Koto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19265

A look at the collapse of narrative podcasts, facing high production costs and limited ad revenue, despite overall podcast listenership reaching all-time highs (Eric Benson/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

Who Killed the Narrative Podcast?
Podcasts like 'Serial,' 'The Shrink Next Door,' and 'Over My Dead Body' were once a booming industry. But times — and budgets — have changed.

“An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said … four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship”: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025…

Israeli drone strike kills 5, including 3 children, in southern Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship. Two others were wounded, including the mother in the family. Officials at the U.S. […]

"Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability"
#Consumerism #Disposability
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Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability
When Saabira Chaudhuri began covering consumer-goods companies for The Wall Street Journal, she thought she was writing about marketing campaigns, product launches, and quarterly results. What she found instead was a tale of industrial ingenuity turned liability: a business model built on disposability, dressed up in the rhetoric of sustainability. Her new book, Consumed: How […]

A new sheriff in town in Big D: New culture for the Dallas Cowboys https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/new-sheriff-town-big-d-new-culture-dallas-cowboys/bbb894e8c7f833bb729797aa

This is awesome... Milwaukee (and other cities) need more of this kind of thing!
https://www.wpr.org/culture/milwaukee-walkers-point-skatepark-diy-shanahan-skateboarding

Under the bridge: A skatepark grows in Milwaukee
The National DIY Skatepark in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood started out as an illegal project in the midst of COVID-19. Now, it's a nonprofit with city backing.

DRISHTIKON: A Multimodal Multilingual Benchmark for Testing Language Models' Understanding on Indian Culture
Arijit Maji, Raghvendra Kumar, Akash Ghosh, Anushka, Nemil Shah, Abhilekh Borah, Vanshika Shah, Nishant Mishra, Sriparna Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19274

DRISHTIKON: A Multimodal Multilingual Benchmark for Testing Language Models' Understanding on Indian Culture
We introduce DRISHTIKON, a first-of-its-kind multimodal and multilingual benchmark centered exclusively on Indian culture, designed to evaluate the cultural understanding of generative AI systems. Unlike existing benchmarks with a generic or global scope, DRISHTIKON offers deep, fine-grained coverage across India's diverse regions, spanning 15 languages, covering all states and union territories, and incorporating over 64,000 aligned text-image pairs. The dataset captures rich cultural themes i…