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John Butler Trio:
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Roots of R&B: Johnny Otis & Etta James
Roots of R&B: Johnny Otis & Etta James Fresh Air Duration: 51:55 Published: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:23:21 0000 Episode: Media: Podcast: All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. Singer, songwriter, producer and talent scout Johnny Otis got his start leading a big band th... Subscribe to this podcast: ---- Sent from Podcast Republic 25.8.20R

I wanted to send you a quick note tonight,
thanking you for supporting the Save America Movement.
We’ve taken our message straight to the White House,
DHS, Union Station, and Capitol Hill
— exposing Trump, ICE, and the profiteers behind his authoritarian movement.
The reception has been powerful. But we’re not done.
Tomorrow, the trucks will roll again. Every hour on the road costs money.
Screens, drivers, fuel — it adds up fast.
If we want to…

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Lol - John Carpenter's 1988 They Live.
Starring famed 80s wrestler Roddy Piper - who coined "I'm here to kick ass and chew gum and Im all outa gum!" - who discovers a pair of special sunglasses that show the world as it really is: we are subliminally controlled by aliens using global warming to make Earth's atmosphere similar to their homeworld, depleting its resources
`DISRUPT! SHIFT PARADIGMS! MOVE FAST BREAK THINGS!`

Beyond Competitive Gaming: How Casual Players Evaluate and Respond to Teammate Performance
Kaushall Senthil Nathan, Jieun Lee, Derrick M. Wang, Geneva M. Smith, Eugene Kukshinov, Daniel Harley, Lennart E. Nacke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19230

Beyond Competitive Gaming: How Casual Players Evaluate and Respond to Teammate Performance
Teammate performance evaluation fundamentally shapes intervention design in video games. However, our current understanding stems primarily from competitive E-Sports contexts where individual performance directly impacts outcomes. This research addresses whether performance evaluation mechanisms and behavioural responses identified in competitive games generalize to casual cooperative games. We investigated how casual players evaluate teammate competence and respond behaviourally in a controlle…

Robust Circularly Polarized Luminescence via Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum in Intrinsic Chiral Silicon Metasurfaces
Xiao-ke Zhu, Yu-Chen Wei, Jose L. Pura, Matthijs Berghuis, Minpeng Liang, Beatriz Castillo L\'opez de Larrinzar, Shunsuke Murai, Antonio Garc\'ia-Mart\'in, Jos\'e A. S\'anchez-Gil, Sailing He, Jaime G\'omez Rivas
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Robust Circularly Polarized Luminescence via Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum in Intrinsic Chiral Silicon Metasurfaces
We demonstrate a circularly polarized photoluminescence emission, with dissymmetry factors $g_\mathrm{PL}$ over 0.1, from achiral organic dye molecules by leveraging quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) and surface lattice resonances (SLRs) in intrinsic silicon chiral metasurfaces. We find that the $g_\mathrm{PL}$ associated with the quasi-BIC mode remains robust against variations in emission angle and dye thickness owing to its strong lateral field confinement. In contrast, the $g…

Rethinking Caching for LLM Serving Systems: Beyond Traditional Heuristics
Jungwoo Kim, Minsang Kim, Jaeheon Lee, Chanwoo Moon, Heejin Kim, Taeho Hwang, Woosuk Chung, Yeseong Kim, Sungjin Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18736

Rethinking Caching for LLM Serving Systems: Beyond Traditional Heuristics
Serving Large Language Models (LLMs) at scale requires meeting strict Service Level Objectives (SLOs) under severe computational and memory constraints. Nevertheless, traditional caching strategies fall short: exact-matching and prefix caches neglect query semantics, while state-of-the-art semantic caches remain confined to traditional intuitions, offering little conceptual departure. Building on this, we present SISO, a semantic caching system that redefines efficiency for LLM serving. SISO in…

at the stone, ikue mori (on laptop) & john medeski (on piano/b3/synths) takin' care of is-ness in some tactile conversational place beyond pitch/rhythm. beautiful & poetic, medeski noisier than mori at times, but mori like field recordings from another dimension. #nyc #jazz

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.