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Indie Email Marketing: Real World vs. "Experts"
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Meta upgrades Horizon Worlds with Meta Horizon Studio, letting creators use AI prompts to build worlds, powered by its new "built from scratch" virtual engine (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/780256/meta-horizon-worlds-engine-studio…

Meta is making the metaverse look better
At Connect 2025, Meta is sharing news about its Horizon Engine and the Horizon Studio for Horizon Worlds.

New study: 60% of the world’s land area is in a precarious state, putting at risk the ability of the plant world to acquire enough energy through photosynthesis to maintain the material flows of carbon, water and nitrogen that support the ecosystems.
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60 percent of the world’s land area is in a precarious state
15.08.2025 – A new study maps the planetary boundary of “functional biosphere integrity” in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds that 60 percent of global land areas are now already outside the locally defined safe zone, and 38 percent are even in the high-risk zone. The study was led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) together with BOKU University in Vienna and published in the renowned journal One Earth.

Can capitalism just die now, please? https://mastodon.world/@davidho/115046724177703023

We're live in one hour with this month's Living Between Worlds salon.
Please join us for another conversation for possibility about how we might live effectively in these times, with courage, grace, and power. 
Our topic this month? Well, it’s a moving target—just like the world these days! You’ll have to attend to find out. ;-)  
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World White Hate
Die Bedrohung durch rechten Terror wächst weltweit. Rassisten und Rechtsextremisten radikalisieren und bewaffnen sich, vernetzen sich global. So entsteht bei Mitgliedern, Mitläufern und Vordenkern der Eindruck, zu einem globalen Machtfaktor geworden zu sein. Was müssen Demokratien tun, um die zunehmende Gefährdung abzuwenden? Kann die Radikalisierung zukünftiger Rechtsextremisten verhindert werden.
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World White Hate - Aktuelles und Gesellschaft | ARTE
Die Bedrohung durch rechten Terror wächst weltweit. Rassisten und Rechtsextremisten radikalisieren und bewaffnen sich, vernetzen sich global. So entsteht bei Mitgliedern, Mitläufern und Vordenkern der Eindruck, zu einem globalen Machtfaktor geworden zu sein. Was müssen Demokratien tun, um die zunehmende Gefährdung abzuwenden? Kann die Radikalisierung zukünftiger Rechtsextremisten verhindert werden.

Indie Email Marketing: Real World vs. "Experts"
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Indie Email Marketing: Real World vs. "Experts"
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

OpenAI says its reasoning system solved all 12 problems at the 2025 ICPC World Finals, with GPT-5 solving 11 and an experimental model solving the last (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-outperforms…

OpenAI outperforms humans and Google at the world's top collegiate programming contest
An OpenAI system has solved every problem at the world’s most prestigious collegiate programming championship, outperforming not only human competitors but also Google's Deepmind model.

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves a gold medal performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals programming competition; only four out of 139 human teams won gold medals (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/go…

Gemini AI solves coding problem that stumped 139 human teams at ICPC World Finals
Gemini shows off at another high-level academic competition.

Meta rolls out Hyperscape Capture in early access, letting developers and creators use Quest 3 devices to scan a room and turn it into a VR space in minutes (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/meta-launches-hyper…

Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR | TechCrunch
Meta launches Hyperscape into beta, allowing users to turn real world spaces into digital spaces for VR.