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Ah. Now there's the motion picture studio ligitiousness & just-desserts I know so well.
Warner vs Alcon. Y'all deserve each other.
✅ Matrix, Practical Magic, Ocean's Sequels: Warner Bros. Forced Into Deal
https://www.…

Warner Bros. Forced Into Shotgun Wedding for ‘Matrix,’ ‘Practical Magic’ and ‘Ocean’s 11’ Sequels
A bankruptcy court awarded Alcon the derivative rights to Village Roadshow's film library after Warners' higher bid was rebuffed. The studio is considering an appeal.

Democracy, innit?
Wonder how the corporate Democrats feel about having Trump’s endorsement. https://dmv.community/@AliceMarshall/115492411417922038

When AI Gets Persuaded, Humans Follow: Inducing the Conformity Effect in Persuasive Dialogue
Rikuo Sasaki, Michimasa Inaba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04229 https://

When AI Gets Persuaded, Humans Follow: Inducing the Conformity Effect in Persuasive Dialogue
Recent advancements in AI have highlighted its application in captology, the field of using computers as persuasive technologies. We hypothesized that the "conformity effect," where individuals align with others' actions, also occurs with AI agents. This study verifies this hypothesis by introducing a "Persuadee Agent" that is persuaded alongside a human participant in a three-party persuasive dialogue with a Persuader Agent. We conducted a text-based dialogue experiment with human participants…

Esto es lo que yo estaba esperando:
la voz de Richie Kotzen para tributar a Chris Cornell. Es parte del proyecto King Ultramega.
Yo creo que si hay alguien que podría reemplazar a Cornell en la voz, ese es Richie Kotzen. Le queda perfecto.
«Say Hello 2 Heaven»
https://song.link/s/1iiqhfdHZGZPpK5Eci

Un compañero ha preparado una encuesta sobre el nombre de nuestra cooperativa de trabajo, con una sola pregunta y una pequeña introducción con información superficial sobre el proyecto.
#cooperativismo #cooperativisme #ESS

You no longer need to be a multimillionaire to own a Picasso
– for 100 Euros, anyone in the world has the chance to walk away with a painting by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
The French charity
"Alzheimer’s Research Foundation" announced recently it was raffling Picasso’s 1941 portrait,
"Tête de femme",
💥which is worth more than one million Euros,
- to a single winner.
Proceeds from the tickets will hel…

Filing: OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman donated $25M to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H2 2025; Crypto.com operator Foris DAX donated $20M (Bill Allison/Bloomberg)

Não é a primeira vez que o imperialismo americano rapta presidentes de países latino-americanos. Mas das vezes anteriores pelo menos havia algumas provas do que estavam a dizer. Lembro-me do caso do Noriega, por exemplo, que de resto foi posto no poder pelo próprio imperialismo americano.
No caso do Maduro, independentemente de ele ser, como é, um gigantesco imbecil e filho de puta, hš zero provas. As tretas sobre narcotršfico são claramente inventadas.

Scaling Multi-Talker ASR with Speaker-Agnostic Activity Streams
Xiluo He, Alexander Polok, Jes\'us Villalba, Thomas Thebaud, Matthew Maciejewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03630

Scaling Multi-Talker ASR with Speaker-Agnostic Activity Streams
An increasingly common training paradigm for multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is to use speaker activity signals to adapt single-speaker ASR models for overlapping speech. Although effective, these systems require running the ASR model once per speaker, resulting in inference costs that scale with the number of speakers and limiting their practicality. In this work, we propose a method that decouples the inference cost of activity-conditioned ASR systems from the number of speake…

A belted kingfisher, Megaceryle alcyon , having a snack in the Friday Harbor marina
#naturalist #wildlife #bird #WashingtonState