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Anyone on here fancy themselves a TinaCMS expert? #ssg #javascript

TinaCMS – Open-Source Headless CMS with Visual Editing, Markdown Support & GitHub Integration
Combine the power of GitHub and Markdown with TinaCMS for seamless content management. Empower developers and creators to edit, preview, and manage static and dynamic sites effortlessly.

More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop”
– low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.
The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels
– the top 100 in every country
– and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop.
Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63 billion views and 221 million subscribers,
-- generating ab…

I have finished editing an additional 50 photos, meaning I have now completed doing perspective corrections on 500 photos of NHCP #HistoricalMarkers of the #Philippines 🇵🇭! 🎉
You can browse through all 500 in

Was editing and noticed that if you rotate-left "those" you get "ethos". Was curious how many of these are in English. Big dicts have a lot of junk, and most endings in "s" are for plurals. Here's a good list of rotwords.

New post: Neovim as a Java Ide with Lombok support
#blog

Foto's bewerken is leuk. // Editar fotos es divertido. // Editing photos is enjoyable.
#kamafotos #photograpy #gimp

@… Mona will create a new copy of a Draft every time you open it and edit it. If I am editing a preexisting draft, it should simply update it with edits and save, instead of creating a new copy.

William Safire's Rules for Writers:
Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be
used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Verbs have to agree with
their subjects. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. If you reread
your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be
avoided by rereading and editing. A writer must not shift your point of
view. And don't start a sentence with a conjunct…

Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/16/meta-pla…

Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE
Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE

#Gentoo kann sich beim #Linux #Kernel auch nicht entscheiden, oder? >_>
"for your editing pleasure" − "Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT."

It has been 19 years since the launch of Firebug v1.0.
It’s hard to overstate how critical this Firefox extension was. Before 2007, tooling was scarce. Firebug introduced the DOM inspector, live CSS editing, and the network monitor—features that laid the groundwork for the advanced performance tooling we rely on today in Chrome, Safari, and Edge.
Happy Anniversary, Firebug. 🎂

There are many things I could do at #39C3, and I brought
- some of my SpacemiT and other RISC-V boards
- a #DECT dev board by @…
- two TP-Link 4G route…

The segment needs additional redacting... er, editing, I mean, editing... That's the ticket.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/22/cbs-news-delays-60-minutes-segment-featuring-investigation-into-cecot-m…

CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot megaprison
Backlash after broadcaster announces investigation, due to air on Sunday night, ‘needs additional reporting’

incisive and careful editing

Couple this with the news Truth Social embraces #aislop plus X offering instant inline posted photo editing …
White House Confirms It Altered Photo Of Activist Arrested In Minneapolis
http://web.archive.org/web/20260122223025/https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2026/01/22/white-house-confirms-it-altered-photo-of-activist-arrested-in-minneapolis/

Donald Trump followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list.
By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets i…

Trump’s BBC lawsuit is nonsense, like his others
His frivolous damages theory concedes that Trump views the presidency as a for-profit venture

Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/google-photos-launches-new-video-editing…

Google Photos launches new video editing tools | TechCrunch
Google Photos' new update helps make editing video reels in the app quicker, such as new templates that already add music and text to clips.

Proc3D: Procedural 3D Generation and Parametric Editing of 3D Shapes with Large Language Models
Fadlullah Raji, Stefano Petrangeli, Matheus Gadelha, Yu Shen, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Gang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12234 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.12234
arXiv:2601.12234v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generating 3D models has traditionally been a complex task requiring specialized expertise. While recent advances in generative AI have sought to automate this process, existing methods produce non-editable representation, such as meshes or point clouds, limiting their adaptability for iterative design. In this paper, we introduce Proc3D, a system designed to generate editable 3D models while enabling real-time modifications. At its core, Proc3D introduces procedural compact graph (PCG), a graph representation of 3D models, that encodes the algorithmic rules and structures necessary for generating the model. This representation exposes key parameters, allowing intuitive manual adjustments via sliders and checkboxes, as well as real-time, automated modifications through natural language prompts using Large Language Models (LLMs). We demonstrate Proc3D's capabilities using two generative approaches: GPT-4o with in-context learning (ICL) and a fine-tuned LLAMA-3 model. Experimental results show that Proc3D outperforms existing methods in editing efficiency, achieving more than 400x speedup over conventional approaches that require full regeneration for each modification. Additionally, Proc3D improves ULIP scores by 28%, a metric that evaluates the alignment between generated 3D models and text prompts. By enabling text-aligned 3D model generation along with precise, real-time parametric edits, Proc3D facilitates highly accurate text-based image editing applications.
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"This is a new reality that we are dreaming and weaving together."
This is either the last or second to last section of Kairos I'm writing. This is the most specific so far. After that it's editing and making it feel more like a single consistent text than a bunch of essays. I hope it's worth the read.
Feedback is always welcome, especially editing (typos, grammar, etc), and questions.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-creating-a-viable-system-91h5

Facing a pretty strange behavior in #VSCode while editing Markdown: when using the backtick to wrap code, the editor behaves like it's a grave accent waiting for the next character to be entered. If the next character doesn’t accept an accent, then the backtick is not displayed. It is saved in the file though.

Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/a…

Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability
Kuaishou expects the new model’s abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers.

President Trump sues BBC (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/trump-bbc-lawsuit-defamation-editing-jan-6-speech
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p121#a251215p121

Today for the first time ever I added fake film grain in post while editing my photos.
I reached the point where noise reduction in low light situations makes my photos look noticeably worse, especially when people are involved. They start looking like wax figures and I hate that.
At the same time, as a digital kid, I wasn't a fan of adding fake grain to my photos. Everyone and their dog knows I don't shoot film. And what's the point of making my photos look worse.
Today something clicked in my brain and I decided I'd rather have some texture and deliberate imperfection in my pictures.
Especially when all this generative AI bullshit these days is about making things look so smooth and perfect it hurts.

I’ve not really got into AI much at all, aside from some photographic editing. However, I was reading about Gemini earlier today, and decided to poke around in it. I’m not sure yet how it can help me.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[6/6]:
- Fast-ThinkAct: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning
Chi-Pin Huang, Yunze Man, Zhiding Yu, Min-Hung Chen, Jan Kautz, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Fu-En Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09708 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115898618760721320
- Universality of Many-body Projected Ensemble for Learning Quantum Data Distribution
Quoc Hoan Tran, Koki Chinzei, Yasuhiro Endo, Hirotaka Oshima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18637 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115967001797773134
- FROST: Filtering Reasoning Outliers with Attention for Efficient Reasoning
Haozheng Luo, Zhuolin Jiang, Md Zahid Hasan, Yan Chen, Soumalya Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19001 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115972068838908815
- Analysis of Shuffling Beyond Pure Local Differential Privacy
Shun Takagi, Seng Pei Liew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19154 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115971701218309765
- CryoLVM: Self-supervised Learning from Cryo-EM Density Maps with Large Vision Models
Weining Fu, Kai Shu, Kui Xu, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02620
- XtraLight-MedMamba for Classification of Neoplastic Tubular Adenomas
Sultana, Afsar, Rahu, Singh, Shula, Combs, Forchetti, Asari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04819
- Flow-Based Conformal Predictive Distributions
Trevor Harris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07633 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116045671088130364
- GOT-Edit: Geometry-Aware Generic Object Tracking via Online Model Editing
Shih-Fang Chen, Jun-Cheng Chen, I-Hong Jhuo, Yen-Yu Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08550 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116046486984991360
- UI-Venus-1.5 Technical Report
Venus Team, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09082 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116050980295461008
- The Wisdom of Many Queries: Complexity-Diversity Principle for Dense Retriever Training
Xincan Feng, Noriki Nishida, Yusuke Sakai, Yuji Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09448 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116051022881293649
- Intent Laundering: AI Safety Datasets Are Not What They Seem
Shahriar Golchin, Marc Wetter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16729 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116101884238965526
- The Metaphysics We Train: A Heideggerian Reading of Machine Learning
Heman Shakeri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19028 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116125225694943789
- Skill-Inject: Measuring Agent Vulnerability to Skill File Attacks
David Schmotz, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Sahar Abdelnabi, Maksym Andriushchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20156 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116125330557447048
- A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
Maijunxian Wang, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20159 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116125664801070747
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Before publishing an #obituary , make sure to get a statement from the deceased.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2003/if…

Ignore the video's clickbait title. It's a nice story about the resolution of film before and after the advent of "Digital Intermediate" (I didn't know that editing in Avid was originally in something like 320x200 pixels or that Oh Brother Where Art Thou" was the first production to scan a whole movie at high resolution for digital color grading).

Today is objectively a great day for #RockNRoll. On my way to the studio, where S1E10 of "The Adventures of Dirk Balsäk", the season finale, is being handed over for audio post!!
2.5yrs since I started editing...
#filmmaking

Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/adob

Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models | TechCrunch
Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.

I just finished editing a short video that I made in English and then dubbed in Spanish. And damn, keeping the timing similar is harder than I thought :neofox_sweat:

PSA: if you're following @…, you might want to mute the account for a bit. i'm bulk editing the support section on all of my videos, which will cause a fuck ton of them to appear in your timeline. sorry! :P

It’s another one of those lackluster desert sunsets again
(no editing or filters on the photo)

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115827039406863229
After editing this post and going through heaps of theory, anarchist texts, and NSF-IAA and IWA-AIT magazines, I noticed it ended up being exactly 2,048 characters. I wanted to keep editing …

During the pandemic, I spent over a year in my evenings livestreaming #Wikipedia editing out on #Twitch ! 🤣😱 As we celebrate #Wikipedia25 today, I reflected back on the almost 22 years that I'v…

I am drooling at the new UI elements in this new batch of apps coming out:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/introducing-apple-creator-studio-an-inspiring-collection-of-creative-apps/

Apple introduces Apple Creator Studio, an inspiring collection of the most powerful creative apps
Apple Creator Studio is a collection of powerful creative apps for making music, video editing, creative imaging, and visual productivity.

Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetune, is splitting its consumer app unit from its GenAI unit LTX to better capture the growth in AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/facetune-

What's your favorite FIrefox and Chrome extensions for putting back traditional Unix/X11 editing keys?
The specific behaviors I rely on are:
Ctrl-A: beginning of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-E: end of line
Ctrl-K: kill to end of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-D: Delete next character [CHANGED]
Ctrl-F: forward a char
Ctrl-B: backward a char
Maybe a couple others I'm not remembering.
(These are actually emacs-style editing keys and I'm a vi user, …

#ffmpeg in your browser: #codecs

Ok, he has seen replies and knows we were out first but decided not to bother editing or deleting his statement, that way convincing his fanbois that Brave is best and we totally failed, even though we were first.
Nice, basically a Trump move.

"Gender-fair language in translation and post-editing: Insights and best practices"
#linguistics

It's a trip editing your erstwhile PhD supervisor's writing.

😋 Gene editing creates compact goldenberry plants suitable for large-scale farming
#food

Gene editing creates compact goldenberry plants suitable for large-scale farming
Goldenberries taste like a cross between pineapple and mango, pack the nutritional punch of a superfood, and are increasingly popular in U.S. grocery stores. But the plants that produce these bright yellow-orange fruits grow wild and unruly—reaching heights that make large-scale farming impractical.

Breaking “Margaret Mead” out of a Wikipedia Rut:
What I learned by editing one of the oldest articles on #Wikipedia.
https://carwilb.github.io/posts/wiki-rewriting.html

"The lesson isn’t “be accurate” or “be fair.” The lesson is: make us look good, or face the consequences."
NBC Hid The Boos For JD Vance. Where’s Trump’s ‘Unfair Editing’ Lawsuit? | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/nbc-hi

NBC Hid The Boos For JD Vance. Where’s Trump’s ‘Unfair Editing’ Lawsuit?
If you watched NBC’s prime time broadcast of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, you saw Vice President JD Vance in the stands at San Siro Stadium in Milan with his wife, Usha. Th…

"By pairing caffeine with CRISPR, a powerful gene editing technology known as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, scientists are developing new ways to treat long-term illnesses such as cancer and diabetes through an approach called chemogenetics."
CRISPR Meets Caffeine: Scientists Develop New Approach to Cancer Treatment
https://scitechdaily.com/crispr-meets-caffeine-scientists-develop-new-approach-to-cancer-treatment/

Writing a blog post that the meat of which just POURED out in a draft. It's gonna take a bit of research and editing, but the bones are definitely there.
It's gonna be a fun one.
#blogs #blogging #writing

X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out
A few days ago X introduced a new AI Image Editing button that lets any user modify images posted by others, even without the original uploader’s consent. Image owners are not notified when edits are made, and the feature is enabled by default with no opt-out option (at least not so far) […]
🙄

The LLMs are useful for some tasks, I'm currently tidying up, proof reading and editing a document written by many international co-authors.
The LLM I'm using can very quickly correct grammar and spelling mistakes and produces much easier to understand text from occasionally tortured paragraphs. It still needs an experts eye (mine!) to check no mistakes have been introduced or complexities over-simplified.
This is actually the first time I've used an LLM for this task. It's making it much faster and less painful.
It also explains a lot about academic publishing lately..

Trump sues BBC for $10 billion, accusing it of defamation over editing of president's Jan. 6 speech (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-bbc-lawsuit-defamation-a9fd196c4f242decd8f28e8d0ce74442
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p134#a251215p134

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/adobe-acr…

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries | TechCrunch
Adobe is adding AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts.

Ah, Google Documents.. So convenient.. But #Google is bad and the current US government is crazy.
What is the closest existing alternative to GDocs which is not owned by an american for-profit?
So far, Libre Office docs could be a replacement but there doesn't seem to be an integrated way to do co-editing online with it?
Conditions:

• I am not interested in L…

A London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia articles for governments and billionaires
Portland Communications helps rich clients
‘protect their reputation’
– with a shady, off-the-books editing service
The clients who benefitted from this “wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
The firm's founder,
Tim Allan, is now the director of communications for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
And it has been busted once already for th…

London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires
Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service

I spent too much of the past two weekends working on writing or editing shit for https://jws.news.

It's not a contradiction to be opposed to the Online Safety Act, and to also think that this is Clown World nonsense
> Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida said [...] “If Starmer is successful in banning X in Britain, I will move forward with legislation that is currently being drafted to sanction not only Starmer, but Britain as a whole."

Elon Musk’s Grok curbs AI image editing usage after deepfakes backlash
The tool is now limited to paying users.

If you are an anti-fascist, you are against petroleum. Petroleum funds fascism globally. It is at the heart of the military industrial complex driving global imperialism, from both the US and Russia. Motonormitivity is fascist, both in it's elitist roots and in it's ties to historical fascism (Hitler hated bikes, just on principle). Oil is militarism.
Oil is the dominant resource which drives war, both in terms of it being the primary spoil wars are fought over and in terms of fueling the military vehicles and weapons that carry out those wars. Practically every war since (and including) WWII has been over oil. Genocides are carried out to secure oil. Gaza is over oil, in more ways than one.
Oil is the absolute enemy, and AI is simply an extension of that: an attempt to atomize us so we can't resist the oil-centric global order, one last grasp at the control over our lives oil has given to those whose power is now threatened by a solar punk future.
"I haven't written for a few weeks now. As I write the closing chapter and begin rewriting previous sections, everything feels both more distant and more immediate. The working title [Kairos] has only continued to feel more and more resonant, both during the writing and during my pause."
Now is the time to resist by making something different, by creating a world fundamentally opposed to these systems of oppression.
This is the last in my Kairos series. From here on out I'll be editing to try and make it more of a book than a series of posts. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. All editing is welcome (typos, spell checks, questions and challenges). Between ADHD and dyslexia, it's always hard for my brain to notice mistakes in my own text so I always appreciate the support of those who can.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/kairos

"Like many, I never really lost the inner nine-year-old who rejoices at the sight of armed soldiers marching in lockstep"...maaaate, don't admit that on page 25!
Yes, you had the grace to admit you've never experienced war, but how the f*** do you expect readers to react?
Is this what comes of being published by a military history/games publisher (Osprey)? Insufficiently critical editing?
Is this a common sentiment? It's 100% not mine
I'm reading Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
I realise it was published in 2022 as Russia was invading Ukraine, but that sentence is even more distasteful now, in 2026

X updates Grok to prevent the "editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis" and geoblocks it for all users "where it's illegal" (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/x-says-grok-wi

X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
X says it is changing its policies around Grok’s image-editing abilities following a multi-week outcry over the chatbot repeatedly being accused of...

EAG-PT: Emission-Aware Gaussians and Path Tracing for Indoor Scene Reconstruction and Editing
Xijie Yang, Mulin Yu, Changjian Jiang, Kerui Ren, Tao Lu, Jiangmiao Pang, Dahua Lin, Bo Dai, Linning Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23065 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.23065 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.23065
arXiv:2601.23065v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent reconstruction methods based on radiance field such as NeRF and 3DGS reproduce indoor scenes with high visual fidelity, but break down under scene editing due to baked illumination and the lack of explicit light transport. In contrast, physically based inverse rendering relies on mesh representations and path tracing, which enforce correct light transport but place strong requirements on geometric fidelity, becoming a practical bottleneck for real indoor scenes. In this work, we propose Emission-Aware Gaussians and Path Tracing (EAG-PT), aiming for physically based light transport with a unified 2D Gaussian representation. Our design is based on three cores: (1) using 2D Gaussians as a unified scene representation and transport-friendly geometry proxy that avoids reconstructed mesh, (2) explicitly separating emissive and non-emissive components during reconstruction for further scene editing, and (3) decoupling reconstruction from final rendering by using efficient single-bounce optimization and high-quality multi-bounce path tracing after scene editing. Experiments on synthetic and real indoor scenes show that EAG-PT produces more natural and physically consistent renders after editing than radiant scene reconstructions, while preserving finer geometric detail and avoiding mesh-induced artifacts compared to mesh-based inverse path tracing. These results suggest promising directions for future use in interior design, XR content creation, and embodied AI.
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I tried to disable the "Game Bar" that pops up when you press Windows G... what a rabbit hole. I'm rarely on Windows and I know to stay away now. All search results on all those useless Windows sites are wrong. Microsoft removed the option to disable the hotkey from its system settings! On Windows Pro you could use a group policy. After some f-word-riddled Copilot prompting the bot admitted that there's no way to disable the hotkey except for editing the registry.

The BBC running damage control on its own broadcast is wild to witness. The most egregious part of the affair to me is that no one from BAFTA or the BBC even bothered to apologize to Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo when they got off the stage, let alone tell *them* what was going to be done about it. There was no effort to bring the three people involved together for resolution at the time of the incident, nothing.
But the other part of this that just grates on me with every article is the BBC trying to defend itself by saying “that another racial slur had been edited out of the broadcast.”
#BBC #BAFTA #Racism #FreePalestine #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #misinformation #disinformation #complicity
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165835

Why Inkscape Is Better Than Affinity for Editing Vectors - Logos By Nick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB-KTnqBfzU

Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/a…

Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability
Kuaishou expects the new model’s abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers.

AI in everything, and the cracks are showing more and more. The copy-editing process is totally broken right now, in top-tier publishers. IT DOESN'T WORK

I was in the process of writing a short story when all this talk of #LLM spellchecking came up. So I wrote a story that you can't actually use an LLM spellchecker on because it breaks them:
#Writing #Fiction #SolarPunk

X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (Helena Horton/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/gro…

Before meeting up with a buddy to see the new Avatar movie, I went to a coffee shop to do a little bit of copy editing. When I ordered my Chai, the cashier asked if I wanted it to be Indian or European. I got really excited about that.
#Chai #Tea

Once upon a time there was a DOS user who saw Unix, and saw that it was
good. After typing cp on his DOS machine at home, he downloaded GNU's
unix tools ported to DOS and installed them. He rm'd, cp'd, and mv'd
happily for many days, and upon finding elvis, he vi'd and was happy. After
a long day at work (on a Unix box) he came home, started editing a file,
and couldn't figure out why he couldn't suspend vi (w/ ctrl-z) to do
a comp…

Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.

Exporting E3 now. Every shot upscaled and repaired where necessary; captions combed through and corrected, timing confirmed; all cast and music credits confirmed; render integrity confirmed by going through frame by frame; project files backed up to 2 external drives.
Waiting on my collaborator's approval, and then I can attach the word FINAL to the file name!
😮‍💨
#VideoEditing

"The lesson isn’t “be accurate” or “be fair.” The lesson is: make us look good, or face the consequences."
NBC Hid The Boos For JD Vance. Where’s Trump’s ‘Unfair Editing’ Lawsuit? | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/nbc-hi

This is a totally sensible policy for video editing. The marketing term "AI" is absolutely misplaced for modern features like matte creation (image segmentation, background removal) or motion tracking (and pose estimation) and even speech-to-text transcription. These things have existed for a long time - just not as good - and they run locally in an open-source NLE (non-linear editor).

As the first guests began to trickle in, the conversation turned,
as these things do,
to the ethics of gene-editing embryos to create custom babies.
“I would actually argue that the ethical questions probably aren’t as big,
because kids already don’t choose their genes,” said
#Malcolm #Collins

Why Elon Musk and JD Vance Are Obsessed With You Having More Babies
My strange weekend with the pronatalists.

Tired: Errant water bottle in a movie shot.
Wired: Errant watermark in a movie "shot".
#entertainment #movies #bloopers #chatbots #editing

Following the links you get to something called Perlisisms which are tiny poems from Alan Perlis. Here are 120 of them:
https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
8. A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
95. Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
(I'm guilty as charged)
110. Editing is a rewording activity.

Researchers from Nvidia, Microsoft, and others use AI on 1M species to generate potential new gene editing and drug therapies, including AI-designed enzymes (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/29ec4303-cb70-48b5-a28c-320a7062cdd3

Whilst waiting for weather to clear would love to spend some time prepping Loops/peertube clips, editing together music, text etc with some very short videos I've shot (very roughly -> don't expect BBC style nature documentaries), while in the middle of fieldwork.
EDIT: I just discovered @… have added creator mode to the @… app! Awesome work - will test it out right now. If it works from #Antarctica, guess it will work anywhere?
What are your recommendations for easy lightweight ideally #FOSS apps for video editing on an android phone? Don't mind paying but privacy is essential...
#HiveMind #FediRecommends

Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-launches-pro-design-tools-figma/

Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers
The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.

Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added app integrations in October (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841369/chatgpt-apps-adobe-photoshop-acrobat…

ChatGPT can now use Adobe apps to edit your photos and PDFs for free
Adobe is giving ChatGPT users integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express for designing and editing their work without having to switch apps.

Learning to Build Shapes by Extrusion
Thor Vestergaard Christiansen, Karran Pandey, Alba Reinders, Karan Singh, Morten Rieger Hannemose, J. Andreas B{\ae}rentzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22858 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22858 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22858
arXiv:2601.22858v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce Text Encoded Extrusion (TEE), a text-based representation that expresses mesh construction as sequences of face extrusions rather than polygon lists, and a method for generating 3D meshes from TEE using a large language model (LLM). By learning extrusion sequences that assemble a mesh, similar to the way artists create meshes, our approach naturally supports arbitrary output face counts and produces manifold meshes by design, in contrast to recent transformer-based models. The learnt extrusion sequences can also be applied to existing meshes - enabling editing in addition to generation. To train our model, we decompose a library of quadrilateral meshes with non-self-intersecting face loops into constituent loops, which can be viewed as their building blocks, and finetune an LLM on the steps for reassembling the meshes by performing a sequence of extrusions. We demonstrate that our representation enables reconstruction, novel shape synthesis, and the addition of new features to existing meshes.
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JUST-DUB-IT: Video Dubbing via Joint Audio-Visual Diffusion
Anthony Chen, Naomi Ken Korem, Tavi Halperin, Matan Ben Yosef, Urska Jelercic, Ofir Bibi, Or Patashnik, Daniel Cohen-Or
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22143 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22143 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22143
arXiv:2601.22143v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Audio-Visual Foundation Models, which are pretrained to jointly generate sound and visual content, have recently shown an unprecedented ability to model multi-modal generation and editing, opening new opportunities for downstream tasks. Among these tasks, video dubbing could greatly benefit from such priors, yet most existing solutions still rely on complex, task-specific pipelines that struggle in real-world settings. In this work, we introduce a single-model approach that adapts a foundational audio-video diffusion model for video-to-video dubbing via a lightweight LoRA. The LoRA enables the model to condition on an input audio-video while jointly generating translated audio and synchronized facial motion. To train this LoRA, we leverage the generative model itself to synthesize paired multilingual videos of the same speaker. Specifically, we generate multilingual videos with language switches within a single clip, and then inpaint the face and audio in each half to match the language of the other half. By leveraging the rich generative prior of the audio-visual model, our approach preserves speaker identity and lip synchronization while remaining robust to complex motion and real-world dynamics. We demonstrate that our approach produces high-quality dubbed videos with improved visual fidelity, lip synchronization, and robustness compared to existing dubbing pipelines.
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Made a new recording yesterday of #Rautavaara's O ihr Zärtlichen, for an audition. Trying out my recording gear, I used #Ardour as my DAW for recording and mixing, and #Shotcut for editing the video.
Turned out quite well, I must say, though I do want to move a bit more, next time 🙈 You live and you learn...
#ClassicalSinging #Singing #Music #Baritone #ProfessionalSinging #Recording