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France is likely heading towards ECB support and a Marine Le Pen presidency – The Irish Times
France is in flames. Is this a precursor of things to come all over Europe or a display…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCentralBank #charlesdegaulle #david-mcwilliams #EmmanuelMacron #EuropeanCentralBank(ECB) #France #france-rugby #Immigration #MarineLePen #weekendreview
https://www.europesays.com/europe/165829/
Louder Sound 🤘 How Steven Wilson got a former Doctor Who to appear on his new album: Steven Wilson wanted Ivor Cutler to appear on his new album until he realised he was dead – and got ex-Doctor Who star David Tennant instead http://dlvr.it/TW2mms LinkInBio for More 🤘 #LouderSound #heavymetal #metal
Get ready for Halloween with our book - From Ants to Zombies: Six Decades of Video Game Horror 🐜🧟♂️
Features exclusive commentary from pioneering horror developers such as Keiichiro Toyama, Jane Jensen, Ken Levine, Sandy White, David Riordan, Paul Norman, Graeme Devine and many more.
1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine, the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then.
1951 – David Wills, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist, born
1939 – Zane Grey, American dentist and author (born 1872), died
Data from zenquotes.io #history
#NowWatching “The Possession of Joel Delaney” (1972) on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome
Get it: https://link.amazon/B029GWdWT
Directed by Waris Hussein
Starring Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, David Elliott
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.
#4K #4KBluray #4KUHD #bluray #blurayCollector #PhysicalMedia #ad #horror #SpookySeason #supernatural #thriller
https://www.europesays.com/fr/1261049/ « La photo est un exutoire et un moyen de m’exprimer » : Soizic David-Descamps expose à Couëron #arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsEtDesign #Canada #couëron #Design #Divertissement #Entertainment #expositions #FR #France #GaleriesPhotos
@thetnholler.bsky.social Until movie theatre owners in #Tennessee remember that they freely conduct business in the #UnitedStates - not #Russia - please enjoy this original song from the documentary “#Musk.” “Let me sell you a dream!” is performed by the incomparable David Byrne, with lyrics ‘written by’ #ElonMusk. https://youtu.be/BzZfEbA1_Po
the €n$μ¡tification of free simplex media alá Newscorp coming with your #Starlink subscription
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/22/elon-musk-david-ellison-skydance-investment?CMP=share_btn_url
Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are rampant. Here’s the latest list of scammers: Audrey Hudgins <[email protected]> david <[email protected]> #bookmarketingscam #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #amediting #booksky
Our Fantasy Band Poll
Guitarists Group 17 Results:
*Robert Fripp 52%
Sheryl Crow 40%
Steve Rothery 8%
*Qualifies for the Second Round
Guitarists Group 18 Results:
*David Gilmour 62%
Ronnie Wood 24%
Robin Trower 14%
*Qualifies for the Second Round
#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll #1990s #1980s #1970s #1960s #1950s #FantasyBandPoll
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
-- David Letterman
#AnotherWay2026 | #VanishingTracks es un retrato íntimo sobre el progreso, la memoria y todo lo que una comunidad puede perder cuando se rompe su vínculo con la tierra.
Crítica de David P. Davicine:
https://noescinetodoloquereluce.com/2026/10/awff-2026-critica-review-documental-vanishing-tracks.html
Please read this letter that was published in our local newspaper today.
[ Patients wait years with chronic illness
NDP Leader David Eby laments B.C.’s healthcare system as though his party has not governed since 2017. For disabled people, it rings hollow.
Contracting COVID-19 left me with severe long COVID, reliant on disability benefits, while still waiting eight years now for a family doctor in Sooke. My essential lifeline has been the B.C. Clinic for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and Fibromyalgia (BC-CLMF). Its innovative telehealth model delivers specialized care unavailable locally and represents the future of affordable, effective health care in B.C.
Despite the clinic’s success, the NDP quietly decided to go ahead with cuts during this election that will close this clinic and others like it. This will impact the most homebound and rural patients with chronic illness in B.C.
Alarmed, I contacted my MLA, Dana Lajeunesse, in August 2025 to seek his support and advocacy. It took four months for a staff reply and four more to secure a meeting. Lajeunesse promised to follow up with ministerial colleagues alongside our physician, yet his office has ignored every update request for six months. I am left to assume no support and no advocacy. The painful irony is that B.C.’s Parliamentary Secretary for Accessibility has proven largely inaccessible to a disabled, chronically ill constituent fighting to preserve essential care. I wonder whether Lajeunesse serves his constituents or party headquarters.
Campaign talk is cheap, but political posturing cannot replace accountability for patients waiting years for doctors while battling chronic illness. The NDP’s 2024 Action Plan failed to address key health-care issues. After nearly a decade of NDP governance, voters must ask: Are we better off today than when the NDP took charge?
Derek Geake
Sooke ]
#BCPoli #BCVotes2026 #CDNpoli #BritishColumbia #VoteForChange #ChangeStatusQuo #PleaseVote #PeopleWithDisabilities #DisabledVoters #HealthcareCrisis #NDP #Health #Medical #COVID #LongCovid #FundingCuts #Ableism #EbyEugenics #BCNewDeathParty #StopEugenics #PatientsDeserveBetter #ChronicIllness
Durante uma palestra sobre áudio em jogos na GameSoundCon, o designer Mike Morasky da Valve mencionou o HLX, nome ligado a rumores de novo Half-Life. Imediatamente, o colega David Feise sussurrou "nice work", chamando atenção para a fala.
A menção reacende especulações sobre Half-Life 3, já que o projeto aparece em vazamentos e entrevistas anteriores da empresa.
Me siga para mais conteúdos como este. O que você achou? Conte nos comentários.
#HalfLife #Valve #HLX #HalfLife3 #Games
La novela premiada ‘Donde el agua trabaja’ está escrita por IA al 99%, según el detector Pangram
#AnotherWay2026 | #ElementsOffBalance es un documental de mensaje positivo que muestra el posible equilibrio entre humanidad y naturaleza, un desafío al actual modelo basado en la explotación.
Crítica de David P. Davicine:
https://noescinetodoloquereluce.com/2026/10/awff-2026-critica-review-documental-elements-off-balance.html
News 📌
👤 Queens Of The Stone Age 📈 74 👥 4,1M
🔗 Josh homme omaggia bowie in tv (video) e annuncia un tour con i pixies
Una giacca rossa e una T-shirt bianca per rendere omaggio a David Bowie.
a cura di Claudio Fabretti
#Ondarock #MusicianSky #MusicSky #Music
Queens of the Stone Age
Startup Warhound has raised $200 million to genetically engineer and clone dogs for the US military.
Led by CEO David Spirk with backing from Ben Lamm, the project aims to modify cell samples from top-performing military and police breeds to prevent health conditions like hip dysplasia by 2027.
Future goals explore physical enhancements, while Anduril will design protective gear.
Join us this Saturday, October 24, for the consecration of Bishop Elect David Castro in Colombia.
The service begins at 10:00 AM Eastern (9:00 AM in Colombia). Bishop Juan Carlos will serve as principal consecrator. Everyone is welcome to watch live at https://video.myocci.social
This is a joyful day for the Old Catholic Churches International. A new bishop is a gift to the whole Church: another shepherd called to serve God’s people, to guard the faith, and to welcome all who seek Christ. We give thanks for Bishop Elect David’s yes to that call.
We would be honored to have you watching with us. Gather your family, parish, or prayer group and celebrate with us from wherever you are. If you cannot watch live, please keep Bishop Elect David in your prayers.
Pax et Bonum
Join us this Saturday, October 24, for the consecration of Bishop Elect David Castro in Colombia.
The service begins at 10:00 AM Eastern (9:00 AM in Colombia). Bishop Juan Carlos will serve as principal consecrator. Everyone is welcome to watch live at https://video.myocci.social
This is a joyful day for the Old Catholic Churches International. A new bishop is a gift to the whole Church: another shepherd called to serve God’s people, to guard the faith, and to welcome all who seek Christ. We give thanks for Bishop Elect David’s yes to that call.
We would be honored to have you watching with us. Gather your family, parish, or prayer group and celebrate with us from wherever you are. If you cannot watch live, please keep Bishop Elect David in your prayers.
Pax et Bonum
https://www.europesays.com/it/742818/ Judi Dench, 91 anni non riesce più a leggere nè a recitare. Invecchiare? «Non porta nulla di buono» #abitazione #AbitazioneJudi #AbitazioneJudiDench #attore #attrice #bbc #bond #buono #david #dench #Entertainment #film #Intrattenimento #invecchiare #InvecchiarePorta #InvecchiarePortaBuono #IT #Italia #Italy #james #JamesBond #judi #JudiDench #leggere #oscar #porta #PortaBuono #protagonista #recitare #RecitareInvecchiare #RecitareInvecchiarePorta #shakespeare #tv #zerbino
'The actor’s lengthiest TV job was the CBS series “Picket Fences,” which aired from 1992 to 1996. Created by David E. Kelley, “Picket Fences” was set in the small Wisconsin town of Rome and starred Skerritt as Sheriff Jimmy Brock, who works to keep his community in order amid a series of strange and unsettling events.'
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-10-22/tom-skerritt-dead-alien-top-gun-picket-fences-emmy-winner
From Fair Vote Canada
BC Conservatives receive 69% of the seats with 48% of the vote. BC voters cheated by first-past-the-post and pushed further towards a two-party system.
Only 48% of BC voters supported the BC Conservatives, yet the voting system has handed Lorne Doerkson's Conservatives 69% of the seats and 100% of the power.
The election results did not reflect what voters said with their ballots:
The BC Conservatives got 69% of the seats with 48% of the vote.
The BC NDP got 29% of the seats with 38% of the vote.
The BC Greens got 2% of the seats with 11% of the votes, electing only 2 MLAs to represent their voters.
CentreBC got no seats with 1.6% of the votes
First-past-the-post is to blame for giving former Premier David Eby the incentive to waste millions of dollars on an unnecessary, opportunistic snap election.
While the political right was temporarily split into several competitive parties, Eby saw an opportunity to sail to another majority govt w a minority vote.
The Brain Is Not Designed for Thinking
“As the cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham has written: ‘Contrary to popular belief, the brain is not designed for thinking. It’s designed to save you from having to think.’ Because the brain is naturally inclined to avoid effortful thinking and to rely instead on familiar patterns, complete freedom tends to lead to unoriginal ideas, simply repeating what is known. Constraints push the brain beyond its default tendencies, forcing it to engage in deeper problem-solving. Total freedom, then, is the enemy of creativity, and constraint its companion.” — David Epstein, Inside the Box
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Photo by Mago Brown on Unsplash #365Ways #brainScience #creativity #inspiration #Thoughts #writing
Sunday Morning Reading
Writing a blog is an interesting experience. So is reading them. The best blogs are the ones where the person behind the keyboard shines through. You can say it takes courage to put yourself and your opinions out there. You would be correct. A lot of that got diminished when social media took over because of its hit and run nature. But blogs and the writers behind them are still there and surface now and again. Today’s Sunday Morning Reading features a few along with a few other tricks and treats. Hope you check them and the rest of the links out.
Good writing stands out. Even on the Internet where it comes in small waves and ripples, subsequently washed away by more of the same, or often overwhelmed by the slop running alongside threatening to take it over. David Todd McCarty’s A Stream Has No Memory isn’t about that necessarily, and yet it is. All things flow.
As I mentioned, personal blogging took a hit when the age of social media dawned. Yet, those that still exist, though not always as prolific, still provide insight when a writer allows you to peek into deeper waters. In many ways putting yourself out there, regardless of where, can easily become a personal hell. There’s been quite a controversy eddying about in tech circles about some who loudly condemned what was formerly Twitter reversing course and just as publicly announcing that they are returning. To each their own personal hell, I guess. I’ve stated my feelings about that here and here. Noted developer Marco Arment took to his blog with a post simply and aptly titled Community. It isn’t about what X marks the spot, it’s about what I believe deep down we all search for when we choose to share ourselves in our writing and our creative work. It can be lonely even with a magnitude of followers in whatever personal hell you choose to put yourself into.
Jason Snell links to an excellent post by Cory Doctorow called Critique And Writing. Yes, it’s about AI and folks using it to generate editorial feedback, but it’s about so much more. We develop critical thinking by critiquing the work of others who work in the same field, whether it be writing or other disciplines. I had an acting professor once tell the class that the way we responded to the work of others told him more about how we were developing (or not) as actors as the work we ourselves did onstage.
In the category of things we all share but wish we didn’t Neil Steinberg takes on scams and their persistent and constantly replicating existence in I Look Forward To Reviewing Your Proposal And Learning About The Quest For Pie.
Natasha MH takes a look at perhaps the year’s most controversial film, Digger, in Hail The Conquering Heroes. That film is becoming a personal measuring stick for me as to who sees the world we live in as I do and who doesn’t.
Halloween is upon us. With grandkids that’s quite a treat. But it can also be tricky. I’m headed there next weekend because my grandson has convinced us that we have to go trick-or-treating with him and his sister. He’s chosen for me to be costumed as a T-Rex. (Wearing costumes is my own personal hell.) Regardless of my escapades, I marvel at all of the decorations that abound and proliferate in yards up and down every block of every town rendering them all somewhat meaningless. Rex Huppke takes on the topic in America Has An Addiction To Giant Halloween Skeletons.
And if Halloween spirits swirling amongst all of the evil things going on in the real world aren’t enough to scare the beejeebus out of you give a read to Max Seddon’s piece The Putin Whisperers about three men who worked to stop Putin from unleashing nuclear Armageddon. Some things are just damn scary.
All things flow.
(Image from The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash.)
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#ai #blogging #Community #Culture #Internet #Movies #russia #SocialMedia #SundayMorningReading #Tech #ukraine #Writing
Antonino X Tori Amos – God (Monkeying Around With The Overzealous Televangelist) MUSIC DOWNLOAD
Found Objects celebrates the return of the remix and the art of sampling (as in found audio).
Australian audio artist and Cream magazine editor Antonino Tati trawls the internet to find great soundbytes that he then layers over alternative mixes of great songs.
The Ultimate Eurythmics Archives calls it “a series of imaginative audio collages that feel part remix, part radio drama, and part pop culture time capsule,” while the series has also been acknowledged by the David Bowie fan site maggioreonbowie.com and other music sites.
Each day a new track is added, building up to a compilation of songs that go beyond the normal parameters of music mixing.
And each track is an awesome head trip. Good to show off on the playlist. The music featured is varied, with Volume 02 containing mixes of songs by Soulwax, Kate Bush, David Bowie, R.E.M., Air, Lily Allen, Taylor Swift, Malcolm McLaren, and more.
Today’s addition is Tori Amos’ masterful ode, God, to which has been added a sermon courtesy of a rather zealous late night televangelist.
Slip on a pair of earbuds or ‘phones and be transported into worlds of aural delight and mad sonic adventure. A musical universe where cool beats are paired with vintage educational fodder, insane radio ads of the 1950s, and classic film quotes.
https://creammagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/side-b1.-master_tori-master-final.wav
Antonino X Tori Amos God (Monkeying Around with the Overzealous Televangelist)
Access your free downloads from the Found Objects: Volume 2 page, and tell your friends.
Don’t forget there’s a load of mixes in Found Objects: Volume 1 you might like as well.
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#ambientMusic #ANTONINOTATI #art #audioArt #audioCollages #Chill #CHILLOUTTUNES #CREAMMAGAZINE #electronicMusic #foundObjects #freeDownloads #freeMusicDownloads #kateBush #MUSIC #pop #remixes #remixing #samples #sampling
National and Act have cranked up the rhetoric this week because left-wing candidates spoke with gangs. That tactic has backfired because endless photos exist of Nat MPs doing exactly the same thing.
So for no particular reason, here's a photo of Christopher Luxon posing with convicted child sex offender Roger Buchanan.
National's vetting process is still lax. Buchanan was convicted in 2021, yet National still appointed him to their Palmerston North electorate committee.
And of course everyone remembers David Seymour protecting paedophile Tim Jago when he was Act party president.
People in glasshouses etc.
AFI FEST 2026 is currently being held in Los Angeles
https://www.altfg.com/afi-fest-2026/
A number of potential #Oscar contenders, including Tony Gilroy's BEHEMOTH!, with Pedro Pascal, and Andrew Haigh's A LONG WINTER.
For those into Quentin Tarantino, he was in attendance @ screening of ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOOD. He showed 17 minutes from the sequel directed by David Fincher, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.
Halloween Horror Movie Review: The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Title: The Return of the Living Dead
Release Date: August 16, 1985
Director: Dan O’Bannon
Production Company: Hemdale Film Corporation | Fox Films, Ltd. | Cinema ’84
Main Cast:
Synopsis (via Letterboxd):
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
My Thoughts:
Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo split off from George Romero to create his own zombie franchise beginning with this 1980s time capsule of a movie. The movie is set around a medical supply warehouse in Louisville where drums of the toxic gas that causes zombieism were accidentally sent by the military. Remember the Reagan Era 80s when nonetheless the cultural zeitgeist was deeply mistrustful of the military rather than “support the troops?” Naturally, the gas is released affecting not just the warehouse but the nearby cemetery where a group of punks have gathered to party.
The blue collar workers (all of whom seem to be played by familiar character actors that I cannot place where I’ve seen them before) get most of the best lines. There’s the wiseacre Frank training the new hire Freddy, their hapless boss who makes all the wrong decisions when he takes charge, and the deadpan mortician Eddie. The punks are funny in that 80s movie punks are always the same over-the-top stereotypes. The girl who strips naked for the entire film is gratuitous though.
And then there are the zombies who just want “BRAIIIIIINSSS!!!” because they stave off the pain of decay (possibly a metaphor for substance abuse?). It’s hard to believe that is the first depiction of zombies craving brains. The idea of zombies who not only talk, but can hold conversations is a bit off-putting, but then again the “Send more cops!” gag is hilarious.
This isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s corny fun with a lot of great one-liners, and probably would be exponentially more enjoyable at a crowded theater screening.
Rating: ***
#Comedy #HalloweenHorror #Horror #MovieReviews #Movies #ScienceFiction #Zombies
This slipped past my radar when it happened, but this ruling is a significant sea change in #copyright vs #LLMs training theft.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on September 29, 2026, in Thomson #Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, that using copyrighted text to train an #AI model does not constitute fair use when the AI product directly competes with the original work.
For authors and artists who have seen prompts like “in the style of Terry Pratchett, or in the style of David Hockney”, this is an important ruling. All bets are off when it comes to the Supremes though. I guess we need to find out how much Reuters has preemptively paid #GOP whisperers to know if things will go their way. https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-of-copyrighted-material-not-fair-use-third-circuit