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A look at Human Generative Workflows, a framework developed by a group led by Kathleen Kennedy, in which AI use in Hollywood stays under human creative control (Richard Rushfield/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/first-look-hollywoods-secret-ai-talks-go-…

First Look: Hollywood’s Secret AI Talks Go Public. Here’s the Plan - The Ankler
Kathleen Kennedy quietly convened Oscar winners, actors, studio execs, Silicon Valley — and me. Now our first public framework draws a line in favor of human-controlled AI

"England’s sewage spills: why citizen scientists want to test for pollution themselves"
#England #Pollution #Sewage

England’s sewage spills: why citizen scientists want to test for pollution themselves
Citizens are taking water testing into their own hands as sewage spills in rivers and on beaches increasingly get reported.

Raiders delaying naming Fernando Mendoza QB1 only hurts themselves https://fansided.com/nfl/raiders-delaying-naming-fernando-mendoza-qb1-only-hurts-themselves

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Tinseltown Singers:
🎵 Best Friend (Courtship of Eddie's Father Theme Song)
#TinseltownSingers

James Webb Space Telescope discovers how black holes feed themselves | Space https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-how-black-holes-feed-themselves

Hierarchical neural integration of musical structure during expert performance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.20.738980v1 "Responses in the motor network, default mode network, and hippocampus were strongly impacted by scrambling, indicating that they…

Hierarchical neural integration of musical structure during expert performance
Music, which is organized hierarchically (notes, phrases, sections), provides an ideal model for studying fine-grained motor sequence production. However, it is unknown how musicians' brains integrate tonal structure over multiple timescales during real-life performance. Here, we scrambled an unfamiliar Tchaikovsky piano suite at four timescales (every 1/2/8 measures, or fully intact) and asked expert pianists to play (sightread) all four versions in the fMRI scanner. Responses in the motor net…

Career advice from people who cannot follow it themselves, but whose careers benefit from your following it, should be taken with a grain of salt. #influencers

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
—Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

Responsible Statecraft’s
Trita Parsi reported this week that
U.S. service members marooned in the Persian Gulf have been expressing themselves in messages fingered onto a dusty aircraft flap.
The anonymous graffiti,
which calls to mind the helmet scrawls of disgruntled soldiers in Vietnam,
include
“Operation Epstein Fury,”
“Peace deal #64 incoming …
ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND,”
and “Bibi’s cucks.”
Sounds like things aren’t going s…

Trump Hates the Troops. The Troops Are Taking Notice.
The administration is desperately trying to spin the hopeless war in Iran as a success, but our service members and their families are telling a different story.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
P Rinse:
🎵 Crazy ™Shall I Bruk It P Rinses
#PRinse
https://tmshallibrukit.bandcamp.com/track/crazy-shall-i-bruk-it-p-rinses