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AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…

‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech
Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

Since the Trump/Netanyahu war started to escalate again, the EU natural gas price (TTF) is now €57.50 per MWh, that's 104% higher than at the beginning of the year.
When used for power generation at 60% efficiency, that's almost €100/MWhe for fuel cost only.

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…

‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech
Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

Just finished the game "Arco". It's a masterpiece. Wonderfully evocative setting and writing, excellent systems with top-notch ludonarrative harmony, and complex characters that you love while also seeing their not-so-great sides.
For once in a violence-centric game I get to be murdering colonizers instead of metaphorical stand-ins for indigenous people? Feels excellent.
The systems and abilities did a great job of keeping things balanced too, with definite power growth but growing costs too, letting the tactics remain important throughout. After playing Flamberge, I was worried it might feel too fiddly, but it doesn't at all, and the ghosts mechanic really pushes you to play quickly.
#Games

I knew that the existence of #WSocial from last year stank of something foul.
And @… has proved it. Good thing that #Eurosky exists!

W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.

POL-LG: Kabelbrand in Stromverteilerkasten - Strom- und "Ampel-Ausfälle" im Lüneburger Stadtgebiet Einbruch in Münzhandlung scheitert ältere Fotografenausrüstung sichergestellt - "Wer erkennt sie?" Lüneburg (ots) - Presse - 18.09.26 Lüneburg Lüneburg - Einbruch in Münzhandlung scheitert - Täter flüchten mit Pkw Am Donnerstag, den 17.09.2026, gegen 22:00 Uhr, kam es in einer Münzhandlung in der Münzstraße zu einem schweren ...

Sonnet 153 - CLIII
Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep:
A maid of Dian's this advantage found,
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which borrowed from this holy fire of Love,
A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired,
The boy for tria…

A Trump loyalist heading a “grand conspiracy” investigation into some of Trump’s grievances
signed a subpoena seeking testimony from former CIA director John Brennan just before his resignation from the Justice Department last week.
On Sept. 9, Joe diGenova signed the document aimed at Brennan for testimony before a federal grand jury sitting in Fort Pierce, Fla.,
Brennan attorney Ken Wainstein reached out to diGenova after he accepted the subpoena on Sept. 10, diGenova wr…

Trump loyalist subpoenaed John Brennan before resignation last week
A Trump loyalist heading a “grand conspiracy” investigation into some of Trump’s grievances signed a subpoena seeking testimony from former CIA director just before his resignation from the Justice Department last week.

All 5 legs assembled, planed, and cut to length.
#woodworking

He was called ‘MAGA’s Man’ in Latin America.
Now he’s charged with hiring hitmen to murder his girlfriend
Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo helped fuel the rise of right-wing politicians in South and Central America.
Cerimedo now sits in a Bolivian maximum security prison, accused of ordering hitmen to murder his pregnant mistress, lawyer and activist Nadia Beller.
The brazen shooting, captured on security cameras, has taken on the color of gripping t…

He was called 'MAGA's Man' in Latin America. Now he's charged with murder
Fernando Cerimedo, a prominent Latin American right-wing digital strategist, was arrested in Bolivia for allegedly orchestrating the attempted murder of his pregnant mistress to prevent her from exposing his criminal conduct.