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Jedi-Meisterin des Schnitts: Marcia Lucas ist verstorben
Für zwei der ersten drei Star-Wars-Filme war die damalige Ehefrau von George Lucas entscheidend: Heute kultige Szenen hätte es ohne sie nicht gegeben.
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Jedi-Meisterin des Schnitts: Marcia Lucas ist verstorben
Für zwei der ersten drei Star-Wars-Filme war die damalige Ehefrau von George Lucas entscheidend: Heute kultige Szenen hätte es ohne sie nicht gegeben.

Sandisk reports Q3 revenue up 251% YoY to $5.95B, vs. $4.72B est., consumer revenue below est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; SNDK drops 5% after hours (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sandisks

Europe's extreme heat would be impossible without climate change, scientists say #Europe

Europe's extreme heat would be impossible without climate change, scientists say
The record-breaking heat that's scorching Europe day and night this month would not have been possible without climate change, according to a new study.

Scientists discover the brain can rewire itself to truly multitask https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-the-brain-can-rewire-itself-to-truly-multitask/ Implications for sensory substitution? Sensory overload?
Extensive experienc…

Scientists Discover the Brain Can Rewire Itself To Truly Multitask
Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking possible.

Sontag’s Two Doors, Campbell’s Underworld
In a television interview that has circulated for years, Susan Sontag offers a small theory of storytelling. She points out that the English word "story" carries a double valence. We say "tell me the real story" to demand truth, and we say "that's only a story" to dismiss invention. Stories, she argues, face two directions at once, toward fact and toward fantasy, and this doubleness sits at the center of what s…

Sontag’s Two Doors, Campbell’s Underworld | David Boles, Blogs
In a television interview that has circulated for years, Susan Sontag offers a small theory of storytelling. She points out that the English word “story” carries a double valence. We sa…

"Scientists have scrapped the worst‑case climate scenario – because action is making a difference"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario – because action is making a difference
Removing the worst-case climate future for Earth isn’t failed science, as climate sceptic Donald Trump claims. It’s a sign climate action has made a difference.

There are frameworks like {golem} and {rhino} to make shiny development more robust, but I like the concept of {shinytest2} in providing a testing framework for pure shiny. https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/index.html

https://theconversation.com/scientists-have-scrapped-the-worst-case-climate-scenario-because-action-is-making-a-difference-283675
Climate action makes a difference. The lesson to take from this is *n…

Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario – because action is making a difference
Removing the worst-case climate future for Earth isn’t failed science, as climate sceptic Donald Trump claims. It’s a sign climate action has made a difference.

Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60 scientific databases and specialized toolkits (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/anth

Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists | TechCrunch
Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.