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I have written a movie review of a movie I have not yet seen. I read one too many reviews of it, and figured I'd give it a shot.
Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
I hope you find it entertaining!
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/movie-re

Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
What’s with starting “into the middle of things” (Latin: in medias res)? It is crazy, right? Who would do that (except all the movies that do that)? Who would do that enough over multiple millennia so that people over centuries would have to come up with an entire phrase

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
DeVotchKa:
🎵 Dearly Departed
#DeVotchKa
https://devotchkamusic.bandcamp.com/track/dearly-departed
https://open.spotify.com/track/3b0zfoWZ6u6RAxLCFBfOop

Absolutely fascinating piece by David Oks connecting language model oddities to human cultural development. Picked this up courtesy of Deena Mousa's "Under Development" newsletter.
https://davidoks.blog/p/language-models-are-weird-for-the

Language models are weird for the same reason human cultures are weird
You can’t have adaptive learning without strange tics

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/116648574548589154
<always have been meme>

The government should seize all parking lots. #FuckCars
https://mastodon.social/@davidzipper/116811091230575779

David Zipper (@davidzipper@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Renowned historian Gordon Wood was walking across a supermarket parking lot when a car driver struck and killed him. The federal gov claims such crashes aren't traffic fatalities b/c parking lots are private property. As a result, they're uncounted and often ignored. Me, in Bloomberg. Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/parking-lots-and-driveways-are-america-s-auto-safety-blind-spot?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJT…

Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström defends the company's expansion into AI-generated music, arguing that "controlled" products are superior to unregulated AI "slop" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dbdec57b-1e24-455b-b9e8-81fd3efe85da

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding - Nikkei Asia
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding
Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows

Turns out I’m not smarter than a fish.
#DeepThoughtsWhileFishing #HashTagGames

I riffed on the news a bit, hoping it would get the angst out of me. Instead I have this short article and a headache. Oops.
#USpol

War's Going Great
Brilliant gambit: the U.S. will now allow Iran to hit some of what they shoot at because that will surely lead Iran to capitulation. It has nothing to do with the fact we are running of of air defense interceptors (that's exactly what it is). Thankfully, the U.

An #acting #coaching client just delivered a line in scene with such heartfelt candor, the material came alive in new ways. So good to see the work we're doing, the different layers, grow and infuse the performance with new depths. Happy coach moment.