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Physical Film Files
From the film itself, to the artwork, the packaging, and the special features—this is about celebrating movies the physical way...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/physical-film-files/

Ashton Jeanty: 'We're going to be the most conditioned team, most physical team https://www.raiders.com/video/ashton-jeanty-we-re-going-to-be-the-most-conditioned-team-most-physical-team-and-we-re-g…

Sony says all new PlayStation games from both first- and third-party developers will be sold in digital formats from January 2028, ending physical game discs (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/sony-drops-playstation-discs-2028-ps3-vit…

Sony will cease production of discs for new PlayStation games in 2028
The end of an era, a potential fatal blow to video games as physical media, and a hint of what’s in store for the PS6? Also: PS3/Vita online stores scheduled for shutdown.

Cowboys reportedly outbid Lions for Steelers' disgruntled physical corner in late-night trade https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-reportedly-outbid…

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

"This is the logic of carbon offsetting and it fundamentally doesn’t make real, physical sense: no matter how much more renewable energy you fund, emissions are emissions and they still cause climate change. We solve this problem when we stop emitting" -- @…

Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/28/physi…

Physical AI custom chip startup SiMa.ai raises $150M at $1.45B valuation - SiliconANGLE
Physical AI custom chip startup SiMa.ai raises $150M at $1.45B valuation - SiliconANGLE

FYI, from now until midnight (CST) Sunday, all physical items in the Elevator Bath catalog are 25% off with code AUGUST. If you want recommendations, lemme know. https://elevatorbath.bandcamp.com/music

Elevator Bath
Elegant abstract music. Since 1998. Distributed by Clandestine → https://clandestinedistribution.com/ Not currently accepting demos.

I like my physical PC release of GTA V, btw 😁🥰

I find myself thinking about accessibility a lot, and it was hard to not be very annoyed by the truly awful yellow-on-white text here:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/blooms-taxonomy.html
I genuinely can't read that. And it's on a psychology web site -- psych …

Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning | Domain Levels Explained
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a widely recognized hierarchical framework used by educators to classify and structure educational objectives according to their complexity and specificity. This taxonomy encompasses three primary domains: cognitive (intellectual processes), affective (emotional responses and attitudes), and psychomotor (physical skills and abilities).

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 367 nodes and 398 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to "open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI" (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/a16z-creates-a-1-1b-machine-…

a16z creates a $1.1B 'Machine Age' fund to 'accelerate the physical buildout of AI' | TechCrunch
The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.

Trump now says the Kennedy Center could be deadly.
Months ago, it was ‘great.’

The president’s assessment of the Kennedy Center’s physical condition grew increasingly dire after his name went up on the building and revenue began to plunge
https://www.

Trump now says the Kennedy Center could be deadly. Months ago, it was ‘great.’
The president’s assessment of the Kennedy Center’s physical condition grew increasingly dire after his name went up on the building and revenue began to plunge.

Had an #acting #coaching client do a physical rehearsal technique I sometimes use, and immediately their upper spine changed and their voice shifted really nicely. Next take after the technique: the change partly remained, clarifying things as I'd hoped. Satisfying.

At the end of the day, the whole VG industry conversation currently comes down to access, it's not necessarily even about "digital vs physical", it's about whether or not the things you were told your money was "buying" wasn't actually just a slightly more wordy rental. If these platform holders made it obvious from day one that this was what we were getting into, no one would be buying digital, we'd still preference having 5'15 inch bays in our PCs.…

Entire Cowboys roster passes physical, ready for camp today https://insidethestar.com/entire-cowboys-roster-passes-physical-ready-for-camp-today

from my link log —
Are aerospike engines better than traditional rocket engines?
https://everydayastronaut.com/aerospikes/
saved 2019-10-19 https://

Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?
Today we’re going to look at the history of aerospike engines, go over how nozzles work including things like overexpansion, underexpansion and even expansion ratios, we’ll look at the pros and cons of the aerospike, the physical limitations and problems, then we’ll compare the aerospike to some other traditional rocket engines. But that’s not all, I obtained never seen before photos and videos of some aerospikes, we’ll get opinions from some people who have actually worked with aeros…

Sharing big R objects across processes shouldn’t mean copying them over and over.
mori uses shared memory ALTREP to give you zero-copy access—multiple processes, one underlying object.
Fast, memory-efficient, and built for modern parallel workflows.
👉 https://shikokuchuo.net/mori/

Shared Memory for R Objects
Share R objects across processes on the same machine via a single copy in POSIX shared memory (Linux, macOS) or a Win32 file mapping (Windows). Every process reads from the same physical pages through the R Alternative Representation (ALTREP) framework, giving lazy, zero-copy access. Shared objects serialize compactly as their shared memory name rather than their full contents.

I had to walk home from work yesterday, an impromptu necessity and always a slog after a full day in a physical job - 40 minutes all slightly uphill 😐
As I walked through the industrial estate I spotted some gorgeous looking blackberries so I tried one and oh man they were good. So I scarfed a load of those and got a disgusted look from a passer by 😄
I'd decided I could have a choc milkshake from the local dairy's vending machine I walk past 10 mins in, and that was delic…

‘The physical toll is visceral’: How Indonesia’s fire haze affects millions - visual guide https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/21/indonesia-borneo-sumatra-fires-smoke-toxic-air

(YouTube) Bloomberg Tech: AMD acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion #AI spatial and physical intelligence

I'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 5x26 "Bohemian Ecstatic (2)" #JoJosBizarreAdventure

Bohemian Ecstatic (2)
Splitting up with Weather Forecast, Anastasia tries to recover his physical body after the enemy Stand Bohemian Ecstatic separates it from his soul.

Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/30/forget-

Forget robots on assembly lines. Foundational Industries wants AI to run the entire factory
The startup says software-native factories can leapfrog China’s highly automated manufacturing base rather than trying to replicate it.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.comp-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.comp-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Learning Stiff Dynamical Operators: Scaling, Fast-Slow Excitation, and Eigen-Consistent Neural Mo...
Mauro Valorani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01632 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicscompph_bot/115847284915795620
- How Physical Dynamics Shape the Properties of Ising Machines: Evaluating Oscillators vs. Bistable...
Abir Hasan, Nikhil Shukla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06843 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicscompph_bot/116204003660873932
- Quantum metric-induced generalized magneto-optical effects in $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric antiferrom...
Yongpan Li, Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04312 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/114120036631640231
- Filtered Quantum Phase Estimation
Gwonhak Lee, Minhyeok Kang, Jungsoo Hong, Stepan Fomichev, Joonsuk Huh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04294 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115332659452746830
- NAVIS: A LAMMPS-Python framework for efficient computation of nanochannel velocity and thermal in...
Sleeba Varghese, Sobin Alosious, Jesper Schmidt Hansen, Billy Dean Todd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11391 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatsoft_bot/115920990500539102
- Fast proton transport and neutron production in proton therapy using Fourier neural operators
Blangiardi, Ratliff, Teichert, Ytre-Hauge, Langer, Meric
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03912 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot/116175752411043510
- Smoluchowski Coagulation Equation and the Evolution of Primordial Black Hole Clusters
Borui Zhang, Wei-Xiang Feng, Haipeng An
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01684 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophCO_bot/116339761602853235
- Identical Particle Systems : Hierarchical Spectral Reconstruction
Hovan Lee, R\'emi Lef\`evre, Gr\'egoire Ithier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02864 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116521159694499994
- A matrix free action of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski volume operator of loop quantum gravity
Waleed Sherif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18397 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/116770027887442756
toXiv_bot_toot

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

"Until now, the end of Russian natural gas supply and the closing of Strait of Hormuz have mainly led to price increases, not to physical shortages, thanks to the increasing share of LNG", says Dutch government in its recent letter to parliament on Strategic gas policy.
1/4

Leaked video from inside the concentration camp called the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana
I translated and added English subtitles to the original video. Please tell me if I made a mistake, I'm still learning Spanish.
Multiple woman report physical & sexual assault by officers.
Children taken away from mothers.
Officers expose detainees' private info so they can be trafficked.
Amputated toes off woman & didn't t…

Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-standard-ai-agents-coming-to-the-physic…

This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World
The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

TIL: The BART expo fare now has a grace period of 30 minutes before it applies IF you are using open-loop or the newer physical media. If you're still on old media because that's the only thing that works on the Bike Share docks, you are SOL and have to call Clipper for the refund.

>Remote for TV box (from ISP, not TV itself) misses physical buttons.
>Need to go to AI trashbot for "assistance"
>AI trashbot: "Have you tried turning the receiver off and on?"
>"The physical buttons are gone..."
>AI trashbot: "That can be caused by an empty battery, please replace them and let me know!"

Matt LaFleur says he fully anticipates Packers keeping Josh Jacobs while charges are pending https://www.nfl.com/news/matt-lafleur-says-he-fully-anticipates-packers-keeping-josh-jacobs-while-charges-are-pending

2027 NFL Mock Draft Has Cowboys Landing Physical Georgia Linebacker https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/2027-nfl-mock-draft-dallas-cowboys-landing-physical-georgia-linebacker

Japan commits up to $6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Japan backs SoftBank-led AI models with up to $6.2bn in chasing US, China
New company will focus on physical AI using data from Japanese companies

New 10x8" silver gelatin print. This one took a lot of refining, back and forth and test strips to achieve the right balance between brightness, contrast (esp. in the brighter parts of the clouds) and smooth mid-tone transitions. So even though this is a contact print from a digital negative, this was the first time in ages (i.e. decades) that I used some physical dodging to soften the horizon and emphasize the haze in the distance a tiny bit more...

Finally caught up with this two-year-old archive (🫣).
It'sage isn't relevant, as it talks about things that are unlikely to change: Your data is only yours if you also have it on physical media in your possession. (And stored there in open formats.)
Because services will come and go, promises will be forgotten, data loss will not cause more than a shy "sorry". Especially for free online services, but it also happens for paid services.

PSI, which aims to use AI "to industrialize the discovery of new physics" including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/can-ai-crack-interstellar-travel…

Can AI help crack interstellar travel?
AI is best known for transforming coding. Now, one startup is making the case for physics. On Tuesday, the AI-native physics research lab, Physical Superintell...

I'm surprised that after all this time there's still no way to make Linux maintain consistent /dev/whatever to physical storage device mappings. There are ALL KINDS of workarounds, like the /dev/disk/by-whatever tree and mounting with UUIDs, but nothing equivalent to what network devices have with `biosdevname`. Consequently, every time I boot my desktop, it's a toss-up if the boot drive will be /dev/nvme0 or /dev/nvme1. Purely cosmetic, but aggravating!

The U.S. military shot down three drones with a laser this week on the southern border,
saying the autonomous aircraft were linked to cartels.
The operation, which took place Tuesday to Wednesday, was the first operation where
the military used a high-energy laser
against cartel-linked drones,
according to a statement from the U.S. Northern Command.
The military detected the “hostile” drones as part of activities posing a physical threat to U.S. soldiers…

U.S. Military Uses New Laser Technology to Down ‘Cartel-Linked’ Drones
The operation was the first high-energy laser strike against cartel-linked drones, according to a statement from the U.S. Northern Command.

Zur Situation der Menschheit: https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html

AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late
AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books to their shadow library before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

The Guardian's tech team share their shoe-leather experiences covering AI data centers, as field investigation becomes increasingly important in tech coverage (Gautam Malkani/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/202

‘These are some of the most complex structures ever created’: how tech reporting moved into the physical world
The Guardian’s global tech reporting team are investigating the impact of the vast datacentres being built to power the AI revolution. We spoke to them about how their beat has become increasingly offline

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.comp-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.comp-ph/new
[2/2]:
- Fully compensated ferrimagnetic triferroics and multistate transport in hidden-phase wurtzite MnS...
Zhuang Ma, Hongfei Liang, Po Ma, Guangqian Ding, Xuehao Wu, Sikander Azam, Guoying Gao, Long Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31419 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsappph_bot/116843598417234230
- Mesoscopic simulations of linear and ring polymer solutions with explicit hydrodynamics under goo...
Ashish Kumar Singh, Angelo Rosa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31656 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatsoft_bot/116843658778265550
- GQL-Based Physical-Constraint-Preserving High-Order Finite Difference Schemes for Special Relativ...
Linfeng Xu, Shengrong Ding, Kailiang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31992 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathNA_bot/116843746861915057
toXiv_bot_toot

Yesterday we did our weekly errands again with our bicycle trolley. Works like a charm.
We select routes off major roads, have some chat along the way, see what's going on in town, physical exercise, fresh air, no fuel cost, no traffic jam.
And even car drivers are very friendly to us as well.

It's interesting that people seem way more concerned about the physical destruction of books (no knowledge is lost, these aren't rare books) than about compensation for the authors of said books.
I guess it's very evocative to see a book shredded?
But this isn't burning books or denying access to knowledge (they're literally archiving the books).

"ESA is closely monitoring the wildfire situation in the vicinity of its deep-space ground station in #Cebreros, Spain," says https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/ESA_statement_on_the_wildfires_near_Cebreros: "Based on the information currently available, the station appears to have remained unharmed. [...] All ESA personnel are safe and accounted for. [...] At present, ESA does not have physical access to the station and is therefore unable to conduct an on-site inspection."

Dmitriy Kostunin and Julian von Hoerschelmann-Schliwinski joined us at Berlin Buzzwords 2026 with "AI in the physical world: from observation to discovery" and shared real-world applications of AI across modern physics and more.
Catch the live recording here: #bbuzz

From The Conversation
Where else can you peer into the labs and lecture halls of Canadian researchers and academics, who draw on their life's work to explain what being sedentary does to your body, why male chimps repeatedly throw rocks at trees and how the international legal order has collapsed?
We share their vast expert knowledge to educate Canadians so they can make informed decisions about politics, their health, the environment, the education of their children and the…

Not getting enough physical activity may be harming your health: Here’s what being sedentary does to your body
From a biological perspective, being inactive is more than the opposite of being active. Being sedentary results in unique physiological changes that can lead to a variety of health risks.

I never would have predicted that #2026 would be the year that:
- I get back to reading physical books.
- Buy a photo album.
- Order photos printed.
- Use an disposable analog camera.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116844725841908509
This would be a great time for Valve to release Steam-integrated physical media for PC. An USB-C flash drive (styled with game art) with the full 1.0 version of the game that gets installed to your PC, plus a transferable Steam key for updates, achievements, easy proton use and stuff.

It seems hard to believe that simply lying with your legs up the wall could make any difference to mental or physical health.

Why Your City Feels Built For Cars, Not People
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2026/07/24/why-your-city-feels-built-for-cars-not-people/

Why Your City Feels Built For Cars, Not People
A new book posits that physical space, rather than policy, is the primary constraint for urban transport. I speak to the authors to learn more.

I think one of the most annoying things about our modern world is that even after you subscribe to a service, or even purchase a physical thing, you still get hit with shitty messages about "upgrading" and "subscribing" and like... fuck...
I've paid for a thing or subscribed to your service, but still you want more from me. More of my money, more of my time wasted, more annoyance.
I hate it. Hate it!

Three Books on a Table
When this novel began, there were three physical books on my table, and none of them had anything to do with the others....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/24/three-books-on-a-table/

Training Camp Notebook 8/18: Improvements made in physical joint practice with Houston Texans https://www.raiders.com/news/training-camp-notebook-8-18-physical-joint-practice-with-houston-texans-2026-preseason

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 692 nodes and 2426279 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Un…

@… @… I believe they are put in containers in a warehouse in the East Bay:

I would be more okay with the loss of physical game media if it came with promises of working with archivists or some group that could help perseve the games without needing to depend on pirates.
There really is no attempt to give any back while taking things away.
#videogames

An #acting #coaching client used the emotional/physical reality of their own day as a starting point for their character, and it was so interesting and fun. I'm a big fan of starting with what you have, and where you are, and letting that be some great raw material.

US senator Mitch McConnell is still not cleared to return to work, his office confirmed on Monday,
six weeks after he was hospitalized after a fall at his home.
An update released alongside a new photograph of the Republican lawmaker – one of the highest-profile figures in Congress, as a former Senate majority leader – said he was undergoing “intense physical therapy” and is “working hard” to get back to his duties.
In the statement, he said that he wouldn’t be able to make…

Mitch McConnell still not cleared to resume Senate duties, office says
Kentucky senator has been absent and not seen in public since mid-June after he was hospitalized due to a fall

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-can-control-humanoid-robots/

Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World
The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

Packers RB Josh Jacobs facing misdemeanor charges of battery, criminal damage to property https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-rb-josh-jacobs-facing-misdemeanor-charges-of-battery-criminal-damage-to-property

Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a…

Training Camp Notebook 8/18: Improvements made in physical joint practice with Houston Texans https://www.raiders.com/news/training-camp-notebook-8-18-physical-joint-practice-with-houston-texans-2026-preseason

"Maybe I'll be okay using a touchpad without physical buttons if I try a macbook, since Apple pioneered that nonsense?"
Nope. I still want to throw this thing into a lake (but I can't, since it's not mine). It's sooo bad any time you want to do something even mildly complex, like hold down a button while dragging & dropping to copy a file between two file browser windows. I honestly don't understand how people put up with this.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 1323 nodes and 5230 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

I grew up with 2 sisters. I never heard either of them discuss guys in physical/visual terms.
My first girlfriend, later my first wife, said she was first attracted to me because I looked “like a man” whatever that meant. It only took her 5 years of intermittent dating & 10 of marriage to decide that maybe that was a poor basis.
My last girlfriend, later & still my second/last wife, hadn’t see a photo of me when she deemed me suitable from afar in `98

VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/physical-ai-funding-startups…

VCs Pour Billions Into Physical AI As The Next Wave Of AI Investing Takes Shape
In the first half of 2026, global venture funding in the physical AI space totaled $47.4 billion across 521 deals, per Crunchbase data. That’s up dramatically — almost 4x — compared to the second half of 2025 when startups in the sector raised $12 billion across 470 deals.

from my link log —
Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-21-concurrency-textbook/
saved 2026-09-21

Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
Here are my thoughts on the free online textbook Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? by Paul E. McKenney, author of the Linux kernel’s RCU synchronization mechanism. I read a lot of this textbook, got my fill, and probably won’t read more of it in the near future so wanted to write this review while it is all still fresh. Set & Setting Here I’ll talk about the mindset/life phase and physical setting I was in when I started reading this textbook. This might …

Last year, we covered how Anthropic was buying physical books,
scanning them,
and destroying them to feed their Claude chatbot.
Judge William Alsup ruled this fair use.
In particular, he said mulching the books was perfectly fine because making them digital was
“exceedingly transformative”: [Order on Fair Use, 2025, PDF]
The print original was destroyed.
One replaced the other.
And, there is no evidence that the new, digital copy was shown, s…

AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot
Every AI vendor trains their chatbots on the Common Crawl, a copy of the whole public internet. But that’s just the starting point. AI vendors are desperate for more data — in the hope of making th…

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 215 nodes and 405 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Eliyan, which aims to license tech and make physical "chiplets" to ease AI chip data transfer bottlenecks, raised a $145M Series C at a $1B valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eliyan-ra

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Mental performance coaches share 3 ways athletes (and anyone) can become mentally tougher https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7627150/2026/09/25/mental-toughness-performance-athletes/

Quinnen Williams: Captain patch 'means a lot', looks to set a physical tone vs. Giants https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/quinnen-williams-captain-patch-means-a-lot-looks-to-set-a-physical-tone-vs-giants

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 216 nodes and 259 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model designed for robots and vision AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/nvidia-reveals-new-ai-model-and-expands-…

Nvidia unveils new AI model and expands Japan’s physical AI ecosystem
Nvidia announces new AI model, Cosmos 3 Edge, and expansion of its physical AI ecosystems in Japan.

Last week, Anthropic confirmed that it was operating a wet biology lab in the Bay Area
where it uses its AI models to run physical experiments.
This week, the AI giant announced that this lab has already made what it believes is a big discovery:
a new enzyme “system” that has certain “properties reminiscent of CRISPR,”
as Anthropic describes it.
CRISPR is a natural immune system used by bacteria to fight off viruses that has become a gene-editing technology wi…

Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big | TechCrunch
But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

Quinnen Williams: Captain patch 'means a lot', looks to set a physical tone vs. Giants https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/quinnen-williams-captain-patch-means-a-lot-looks-to-set-a-physical-tone-vs-giants

Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M from Silversmith Capital Partners (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a-sta…

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI | TechCrunch
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

Had an #acting #coaching client make a single physical change be the focus of a take and shot to see and hear their voice expand into the character in a whole new way. So good to hear their voice more fully animate the moments with new depths.

Even if getting up from your chair isn’t an issue for you now,
lots of older adults have difficulty rising without pushing off from the armrests, said Liu-Ambrose.
Working the sit-to-stand
— one of the top moves both Liu-Ambrose and Na recommend to older clients and a good measure of overall fitness
— into your daily routine can help preserve that functional motion.

The move strengthens your quads, hamstrings and glutes,
and it trains the mobility of mult…

5 movements physical therapists say every adult over 50 should do daily
These simple moves can help you maintain mobility and independence as you age.

Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build digital and physical AI agents; Pragmatik hit a $2B valuation in June (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/f

Former Alibaba Researcher Announces New Startup on Digital and Physical AI Agents
Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin announced that he had started a new AI company, confirming The Information’s earlier reports. Lin, who left Alibaba in March, said in a post on X that his Shanghai-based startup, Pragmatik Labs, is focusing on “next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds.” Lin also said Chinese venture capital firms Gaorong Ventures and HongShan led

Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 692 nodes and 2426279 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Un…

A hacker known as Cyberleek leaks two GTA VI gameplay clips and the full map in protest of Rockstar Games' digital-only release; Rockstar issues DMCA takedowns (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
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Hacker leaks GTA VI gameplay and map to protest digital-only release — claims pre-orders are a legacy of physical game releases
The hacker wants Rockstar to stop pre-selling digital games.

A U.S. appeals court has ruled in a case involving Exxon Mobil that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
cannot require businesses to document work-related mental illnesses reported by employees.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on Tuesday
that a requirement in federal law that ‌employers periodically report work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses only applies to physical -- and not mental c…

Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered "Smartbadges" worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/augmodo-rais

Augmodo raises $21M to push its spatial AI beyond just retail toward the broader physical workforce
Customer demand is pulling the Seattle startup's technology into warehouses, facility maintenance, delivery, and other parts of the physical workforce.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 598 nodes and 2351 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkhattyhzl

Former Meta AR/VR executives raise $21 million to build sensors for the AI era
Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world. 

Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/24/robotics-ai-generalist-200m

Scoop: Generalist raises another $200 million for AI robotics
This comes just weeks after it raised $400 million at a $2 billion valuation.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 387 nodes and 1477 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/no

Sources: Microsoft has been working on a disc-to-digital feature for Xbox One and Xbox Series X that will let users digitize their physical game collections (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection
Microsoft’s disc-to-digital feature could be essential for next-gen Xbox consoles.

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/22/go

Google's robotics unit Intrinsic open-sources its foundational infrastructure for intelligent robots - SiliconANGLE
Google's robotics unit Intrinsic open-sources its foundational infrastructure for intelligent robots - SiliconANGLE

Anthropic life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-quietly-sets-up-biology-…