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Heavy is the head that bows the crown. Or something…
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876

Top BBC bosses resign after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a Trump speech
The head of the BBC has resigned after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness both announced their resignations on Sunday. Britain’s public broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021 before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington. Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut …

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.

DreamOmni2: Multimodal Instruction-based Editing and Generation
Bin Xia, Bohao Peng, Yuechen Zhang, Junjia Huang, Jiyang Liu, Jingyao Li, Haoru Tan, Sitong Wu, Chengyao Wang, Yitong Wang, Xinglong Wu, Bei Yu, Jiaya Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06679

DreamOmni2: Multimodal Instruction-based Editing and Generation
Recent advancements in instruction-based image editing and subject-driven generation have garnered significant attention, yet both tasks still face limitations in meeting practical user needs. Instruction-based editing relies solely on language instructions, which often fail to capture specific editing details, making reference images necessary. Meanwhile, subject-driven generation is limited to combining concrete objects or people, overlooking broader, abstract concepts. To address these chall…

I'm not even big on Scarlett Johansson usually, but tried out Under the Skin from 2013 on a whim, and wow, this was a wild one. Some pacing and editing issues (as all modern films seem to have) but I really dug this - the ending is bonkers and then your confusion will all make sense. I do love knowing NOTHING about a film going in.
https://boxd.it/3mD…

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s).
#accessibility

Welcome to the Java Geek Weekly, special I miss Pasteis de Nata edition
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/105/

#Upcoming Did you know there was another #Nijiumu (Keiji Haino, Tetuzi Akiyama, Takashi Matsuoka) album after “Era of Sad Wings”? I didn’t! This new vinyl edition includes a solo Haino piece recorded in 1973, a bracing electronic blowout stretching almost half an hour. Available via

Avoiding Knowledge Edit Skipping in Multi-hop Question Answering with Guided Decomposition
Yi Liu, Xiangrong Zhu, Xiangyu Liu, Wei Wei, Wei Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07555 h…

Avoiding Knowledge Edit Skipping in Multi-hop Question Answering with Guided Decomposition
In a rapidly evolving world where information updates swiftly, knowledge in large language models (LLMs) becomes outdated quickly. Retraining LLMs is not a cost-effective option, making knowledge editing (KE) without modifying parameters particularly necessary. We find that although existing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-based KE methods excel at editing simple knowledge, they struggle with KE in multi-hop question answering due to the issue of "edit skipping", which refers to skipping t…

Also in Asterisk: an interesting article about the history of the DSM-5, and its critics.
> The psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams captures this concern with unusual clarity in her 2021 essay “Diagnosis and Its Discontents.” She reflects on a shift that began with the release of DSM-III, when psychiatry embraced a more descriptive, symptom-based diagnostic model. The change, she notes, quietly restructured how people speak about themselves in therapy. Once, a client might enter the roo…

You Aren’t In The DSM—Asterisk
Five editions on, the DSM shoulders more responsibilities than it was ever intended for. How did we get here?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Kate Fagan:
🎵 I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool
#KateFagan
https://katefagan.bandcamp.com/album/i-dont-wanna-be-too-cool-expanded-edition
https://open.spotify.com/track/14c1AiazzlXcmURe3IaURi