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"Bernard Lavilliers, toujours « coriace » Š 80 ans : « Il n’y a pas grand-chose qui m’angoisse »"
https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2026/10/23/bernard-lavi…

Bernard Lavilliers, toujours « coriace » à 80 ans : « Il n’y a pas grand-chose qui m’angoisse »
Le chanteur, auteur et compositeur publie son 23ᵉ album studio, « Rite cruel », un « appel à l’endurance et à la résistance », où il aiguise son goût des mots.

I wish I'd been more adventurous when I was younger.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/cargo-ship-tourism-voyages

For centuries, cargo ships allowed regular travelers to join their voyages. What happened?
This niche travel industry once had around half a dozen major players offering international voyages. Most of them are no longer in business, but a few exciting options remain.

Given that cherries are extremely perishable, a picked cherry loses quality by the hour.
Vision-based dynamic class segmentation enables shipping
first-class cherries with dark color, perfect stems, and high firmness,
and airfreighting them to China or Vietnam, where consumers pay $15-$25 per pound for a high-status gift.

The second most photographed fruit in the world
And how vision systems impact Chinese New Year celebrations

I would be down with Hunter Biden if he was just a crack addict

After working in the NT in the lat 80s, early 90s, I thought I'd covered every crazy story about the local politicians. ( My favourites were the MP who punched another fan while at the footy, and the Mines and Energy minister drinking water from the Ranger tailings dam to prove uranium was safe.)
I didn't expect them to keep electing crazy people in the 21st century.
"NT minister claims Earth’s magnetic poles could flip if territory doesn’t use more groundwater&quot…

Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?*
* Not my own.

'2026 Update: The Impact of AI Overviews in the Cultural Sector' by Chris Unitt / One Further - reconsider web metrics; what are you really trying to achieve with content online?
Summary: https://www.onefurther.com/insights/2026-update-ai-overviews…

AI Overviews in the cultural sector: 2026 update
Last year, we published a report showing how Google's AI Overviews were affecting search traffic for arts and culture organisations. We had seen that organic s

Spotify and other music streaming services are a product of the current time, which is mainly defined by the lack thereof. People would enjoy buying CDs, MP3s, taking the time to listen to albums, if that wouldn't take away the precious time our economic system demands for productivity.
Streaming services provide music as it is required in the western world: Something that is experienced passively, to numb, and to distract, not something to be actively enjoyed.
Of course any musi…

Screen tests for the next James Bond supposedly include three elements:
stunts, camera presence and dialogue.
Reports are that between three and five actors are finalists for the role,
which was vacated by Daniel Craig after 2021’s No Time to Die.
The candidates, reportedly including Callum Turner and Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden, will appear in front of cameras as the secret agent this weekend in London.
Despite speculation to the contrary, Sinners’ Jack O’Connell…

James Bond finalists to screen-test for role this week – reports
Actors in the mix to play 007 in Denis Villeneuve’s installment include Callum Turner and Jack Lowden

Todd Blanche Floats Chilling Likelihood of Trump Election Interference
Attorney General Todd Blanche is open to blocking states from certifying the November midterm elections.
Blanche made the comments during a Thursday press gaggle in Virginia.
“Is there any scenario in which DOJ would weigh in on that certification process or try to block states from certifying?” a reporter asked.
“Is there any scenario? Yes,” Blanche said.
“Of course there’s scenarios that we c…

Todd Blanche Floats Chilling Likelihood of Trump Election Interference
Donald Trump may try to steal the election—again.