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  1. Recently I've found this interesting website, which has a registry of plenty of quality 3D assets with open source licensing, worth taking a look if you need 3D assets for your game, VR or 3D project:

    opensource3dassets.com/

    #OpenSource #3D #Assets #CreativeCommons

  2. Recently I've found this interesting website, which has a registry of plenty of quality 3D assets with open source licensing, worth taking a look if you need 3D assets for your game, VR or 3D project:

    opensource3dassets.com/

    #OpenSource #3D #Assets #CreativeCommons

  3. Three former political figures-from the USA, Germany, and France-have advocated for unlocking the assets of the Russian central bank frozen in Europe and transf... news.osna.fm/?p=58581 | #news #after #assets #eu #frozen

  4. “Companies spent more than $44 billion during the second quarter acquiring #Canadian #assets, the country’s largest such #investment from overseas since 2007.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

    Follow the Money All the Way t...

  5. How can generative #AI better support youth with disabilities and neurodivergent youth?

    Join us at the *virtual* Safe and Accessible AI for Youth with Disabilities and Neurodivergence Workshop at ASSETS 2026.

    Submissions are due 8/17 youthaisafety.com/workshops/20

    #ASSETS #YouthandAI #accessibility

  6. How can generative #AI better support youth with disabilities and neurodivergent youth?

    Join us at the *virtual* Safe and Accessible AI for Youth with Disabilities and Neurodivergence Workshop at ASSETS 2026.

    Submissions are due 8/17 youthaisafety.com/workshops/20

    #ASSETS #YouthandAI #accessibility

  7. Online Asset browsing in Blender 5.2.1 is going to be a bit faster than in 5.2.0.

    Also scrolling through the asset browser will manage the download of thumbnails better, because Blender will download the most-recently shown thumbnail first.

    5.2.0 downloads the first-shown first, and so may not be able to keep up with your scrolling. Which is why they now go bottom-to-top.

  8. Online Asset browsing in Blender 5.2.1 is going to be a bit faster than in 5.2.0.

    Also scrolling through the asset browser will manage the download of thumbnails better, because Blender will download the most-recently shown thumbnail first.

    5.2.0 downloads the first-shown first, and so may not be able to keep up with your scrolling. Which is why they now go bottom-to-top.

    #b3d #blender3d #assets #OnlineAssetLibraries #development #devfund

  9. Trump Says He'll Seize Frozen Iranian Assets to Pay War Damages, Tehran Calls It 'Incendiary

    Our best stories, delivered daily. Follow us.

    1ban.news/trump-frozen-iranian

    #1ban #trump #frozen #iranian #assets #geopolitics

  10. Proposal would limit #SocialSecurity benefits to $100,000 annually for couples to boost solvency

    Story by Elizabeth Guevara, July 21, 2026

    These solutions would generally only lower the benefits of the top 20% to 30% of earners, the CRFB said.

    Excerpt: " 'If you’re getting $100,000, as a couple, in benefits, you probably have tens of #millions of dollars in #assets, and your Social Security benefit is not very important to you,' Goldwein said. 'Over time, as this phases in, it’s going to affect more people further down the income ladder, but every version that we model [is always] incredibly progressive.' "

    Read more:
    msn.com/en-us/money/other/prop

    #TaxTheRich #MillionairesTax #BillionairesTax #USPol #WorldPol #ShareTheWealth
    #Earth4All not just the #Rich!

  11. Proposal would limit #SocialSecurity benefits to $100,000 annually for couples to boost solvency

    Story by Elizabeth Guevara, July 21, 2026

    These solutions would generally only lower the benefits of the top 20% to 30% of earners, the CRFB said.

    Excerpt: " 'If you’re getting $100,000, as a couple, in benefits, you probably have tens of #millions of dollars in #assets, and your Social Security benefit is not very important to you,' Goldwein said. 'Over time, as this phases in, it’s going to affect more people further down the income ladder, but every version that we model [is always] incredibly progressive.' "

    Read more:
    msn.com/en-us/money/other/prop

    #TaxTheRich #MillionairesTax #BillionairesTax #USPol #WorldPol #ShareTheWealth
    #Earth4All not just the #Rich!

  12. “O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure!… Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.”*…

    Shen, which was set to auction at Christie’s for as much as $25 million, on display at the Victoria Theatre and Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore in 2022

    Readers may have seen news of the sale of “Gus,” a T. Rex skeleton that fetched a record $50,130,000 at Sotheby’s in New York last Tuesday. It’s part of a trend.

    Devon Pendleton reports that dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires, with alarming implications for science… and, unsurprisingly, the market is about as orderly and genteel as a starving T. Rex. She uses a different recent sale, one that went pear-shaped, as an example…

    It was supposed to be an unprecedented sale for the world’s wealthiest collectors. Shen, a Tyrannosaurus rex, was set to be the first of its kind ever sold at auction in Asia. The reconstructed creature, whose name means “godlike” in Chinese, was tens of millions of years old and longer than a city bus, frozen midstep with its massive skull cocked, jaws agape, as if ready to snatch up an onlooker. Christie’s was auctioning off Shen in November 2022, alongside works by Picasso, and it was expected to sell for $15 million to $25 million.

    Dinosaur skeletons had recently become a hot new asset class, coveted by the ultrarich, not unlike sports franchises or Fabergé eggs. They offered a mix of glamour and primal appeal to a certain type of high-net-worth buyer—someone who might find the conventional art market fussy or convoluted but couldn’t deny the allure of a T. rex. “It could gobble you up in one bite. It’s just an amazing creature,” says billionaire Dan O’Dowd, who bought his T. rex, Samson, for a bargain $600,000 in 2009. “It’s the best trophy kind of thing you could own.”

    Two years before the Shen auction, Christie’s had sold a T. rex named Stan, said to be one of the most complete and best-preserved specimens ever found, for $31.8 million, trouncing the top-end presale estimate of $8 million. And two years after the Shen auction, financier Ken Griffin spent $44.6 million on a stegosaurus (“a vegetarian,” O’Dowd notes). Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage and other celebrities have gotten in on the dino game too.

    A dinosaur’s value, like a painting’s or sculpture’s, derives from a protean mix of provenance, desire and authenticity—the last one hard to define, let alone prove, and in the case of an auction, up to the buyer to verify. Christie’s marketing blitz for Shen included the claim that it was one of the most “scientifically studied T. rex skeletons to come to auction,” featuring it in a short promotional video in which the camera cinematically races in for tight shots of its menacing talons and gaping jaw as eerie electronic music pulses in the background. Christie’s made clear that the winning bidder would also get renaming rights, a tradition in which T. rexes in circulation are often given human names.

    A month before Shen was supposed to arrive at Christie’s in Hong Kong, it was put on display at Singapore’s Victoria Theatre and Victoria Concert Hall, a stately neoclassical building with a grand clock tower. Families, tourists and prospective buyers in chauffeured Bentleys came to see the T. rex in the flesh, so to speak. But Shen never made it to the auction block…

    [Pendleton unpacks the full–and fascinating– tale of Shen. She concludes…]

    … In recent years the dinosaur market has gotten only more exuberant. Last year at Sotheby’s a juvenile Ceratosaurus—smaller than a T. rex, but just as carnivorous—sold for $30.5 million, five times its high estimate. Some collectors, including Abu Dhabi’s new natural history museum and German biotech investor Christian Angermayer, are funding teams of bone hunters to scour the fossil-rich western US. Todd Graves, the billionaire behind Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, emerged as a collector when he lent his triceratops skull to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.

    And on July 14 in New York, Sotheby’s held what was hyped to be the hottest T. rex auction yet. Gus, as the creature is named, was described as 61% complete by bone count and 75% to 80% by bone mass with “an exceptionally preserved skull.” As the bids climbed, the auctioneer tempted potential buyers. “Try a bigger bite,” she said. “It’s a T. Rex after all.” Gus sold for $50.1 million, the highest ever paid for a dinosaur at auction.

    Billionaires and their toys: “The Bone Rush,” gift article from @bloomberg.com.

    Walter Benjamin

    ###

    As we ponder possession, we might recall that it was on this date in 1983 that a new species of flesh‑eating dinosaur nicknamed “Claws,” later formally named Baryonyx walkeri was announced…

    A huge new dinosaur skeleton has been unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London.

    Plumber and amateur fossil hunter Bill Walker, 55, found a foot-long claw belonging to the flesh-eating beast at a clay pit in Surrey in January.

    When he found the rock containing the talon he tapped it and the whole thing cracked.

    Palaeontologists reconstructed it and dated the remains at 125 million years old, describing them as the find of the century…

    … Nicknamed Claws, the dinosaur would have been slightly smaller than the Tyrannosaurus Rex – with teeth like steak knives – and was probably a sub-species of the Megalosaurus.

    – source

    Plumber Bill Walker found a foot-long claw (source) #assets #billionaires #Claws #collecting #culture #dinosaur #DinosaurSkeletons #dinosaurs #Gus #history #Megalosaurus #paleontology #Science #Shen #TRex #TyrannosaurusRex
  13. “O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure!… Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.”*…

    Shen, which was set to auction at Christie’s for as much as $25 million, on display at the Victoria Theatre and Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore in 2022

    Readers may have seen news of the sale of “Gus,” a T. Rex skeleton that fetched a record $50,130,000 at Sotheby’s in New York last Tuesday. It’s part of a trend.

    Devon Pendleton reports that dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires, with alarming implications for science… and, unsurprisingly, the market is about as orderly and genteel as a starving T. Rex. She uses a different recent sale, one that went pear-shaped, as an example…

    It was supposed to be an unprecedented sale for the world’s wealthiest collectors. Shen, a Tyrannosaurus rex, was set to be the first of its kind ever sold at auction in Asia. The reconstructed creature, whose name means “godlike” in Chinese, was tens of millions of years old and longer than a city bus, frozen midstep with its massive skull cocked, jaws agape, as if ready to snatch up an onlooker. Christie’s was auctioning off Shen in November 2022, alongside works by Picasso, and it was expected to sell for $15 million to $25 million.

    Dinosaur skeletons had recently become a hot new asset class, coveted by the ultrarich, not unlike sports franchises or Fabergé eggs. They offered a mix of glamour and primal appeal to a certain type of high-net-worth buyer—someone who might find the conventional art market fussy or convoluted but couldn’t deny the allure of a T. rex. “It could gobble you up in one bite. It’s just an amazing creature,” says billionaire Dan O’Dowd, who bought his T. rex, Samson, for a bargain $600,000 in 2009. “It’s the best trophy kind of thing you could own.”

    Two years before the Shen auction, Christie’s had sold a T. rex named Stan, said to be one of the most complete and best-preserved specimens ever found, for $31.8 million, trouncing the top-end presale estimate of $8 million. And two years after the Shen auction, financier Ken Griffin spent $44.6 million on a stegosaurus (“a vegetarian,” O’Dowd notes). Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicolas Cage and other celebrities have gotten in on the dino game too.

    A dinosaur’s value, like a painting’s or sculpture’s, derives from a protean mix of provenance, desire and authenticity—the last one hard to define, let alone prove, and in the case of an auction, up to the buyer to verify. Christie’s marketing blitz for Shen included the claim that it was one of the most “scientifically studied T. rex skeletons to come to auction,” featuring it in a short promotional video in which the camera cinematically races in for tight shots of its menacing talons and gaping jaw as eerie electronic music pulses in the background. Christie’s made clear that the winning bidder would also get renaming rights, a tradition in which T. rexes in circulation are often given human names.

    A month before Shen was supposed to arrive at Christie’s in Hong Kong, it was put on display at Singapore’s Victoria Theatre and Victoria Concert Hall, a stately neoclassical building with a grand clock tower. Families, tourists and prospective buyers in chauffeured Bentleys came to see the T. rex in the flesh, so to speak. But Shen never made it to the auction block…

    [Pendleton unpacks the full–and fascinating– tale of Shen. She concludes…]

    … In recent years the dinosaur market has gotten only more exuberant. Last year at Sotheby’s a juvenile Ceratosaurus—smaller than a T. rex, but just as carnivorous—sold for $30.5 million, five times its high estimate. Some collectors, including Abu Dhabi’s new natural history museum and German biotech investor Christian Angermayer, are funding teams of bone hunters to scour the fossil-rich western US. Todd Graves, the billionaire behind Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, emerged as a collector when he lent his triceratops skull to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.

    And on July 14 in New York, Sotheby’s held what was hyped to be the hottest T. rex auction yet. Gus, as the creature is named, was described as 61% complete by bone count and 75% to 80% by bone mass with “an exceptionally preserved skull.” As the bids climbed, the auctioneer tempted potential buyers. “Try a bigger bite,” she said. “It’s a T. Rex after all.” Gus sold for $50.1 million, the highest ever paid for a dinosaur at auction.

    Billionaires and their toys: “The Bone Rush,” gift article from @bloomberg.com.

    Walter Benjamin

    ###

    As we ponder possession, we might recall that it was on this date in 1983 that a new species of flesh‑eating dinosaur nicknamed “Claws,” later formally named Baryonyx walkeri was announced…

    A huge new dinosaur skeleton has been unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London.

    Plumber and amateur fossil hunter Bill Walker, 55, found a foot-long claw belonging to the flesh-eating beast at a clay pit in Surrey in January.

    When he found the rock containing the talon he tapped it and the whole thing cracked.

    Palaeontologists reconstructed it and dated the remains at 125 million years old, describing them as the find of the century…

    … Nicknamed Claws, the dinosaur would have been slightly smaller than the Tyrannosaurus Rex – with teeth like steak knives – and was probably a sub-species of the Megalosaurus.

    – source

    Plumber Bill Walker found a foot-long claw (source) #assets #billionaires #Claws #collecting #culture #dinosaur #DinosaurSkeletons #dinosaurs #Gus #history #Megalosaurus #paleontology #Science #Shen #TRex #TyrannosaurusRex
  14. Je suis nul en modélisation #3D, mais j’avais quand même envie de construire mes propres mondes. 😅

    Je suis donc parti à la recherche de modèles gratuits et j’ai regroupé les meilleurs sites que j’ai trouvés dans cet article. 👇
    jiti.me/les-meilleurs-sites-po

    #Resonite #VRChat #JeuxVideo #VideoGames #Assets #3dAssests

  15. “There are other reasons to be bullish about #compute #standardisation. Chips from Nvidia’s Hopper range, which includes the H100, have held much of their rental value even as next-generation Blackwell models entered the market.

    This flies in the face of a comment in March 2025 by Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s boss, that “when Blackwell starts shipping in volume, you couldn’t give Hoppers away”. It also suggests that #computed erivatives’ underlying #assets will not suddenly become worthless, the risk of which would slow adoption”

    #Derivatives / #FinancialisingCompute / #MoneyTalks / #funding / #NeoCloud / #indicies / #ComputeCost / #FuturesMarket / #assets <economist.com/finance-and-econ> (paywall) / <archive.md/YHOPYG

  16. “There are other reasons to be bullish about #compute #standardisation. Chips from Nvidia’s Hopper range, which includes the H100, have held much of their rental value even as next-generation Blackwell models entered the market.

    This flies in the face of a comment in March 2025 by Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s boss, that “when Blackwell starts shipping in volume, you couldn’t give Hoppers away”. It also suggests that #computed erivatives’ underlying #assets will not suddenly become worthless, the risk of which would slow adoption”

    #Derivatives / #FinancialisingCompute / #MoneyTalks / #funding / #NeoCloud / #indicies / #ComputeCost / #FuturesMarket / #assets <economist.com/finance-and-econ> (paywall) / <archive.md/YHOPYG

  17. "The challenge facing Tū Ātea is not unique. It sits at the heart of many pan-tribal entities – how do you create governance arrangements capable of representing Māori collectively when Māori themselves are not a single political entity?

    The issue becomes even more complicated when money enters the equation. "

    #Aotearoa #Māori #Indigenous #assets #wealth #governance

    thespinoff.co.nz/atea/25-06-20

  18. "The challenge facing Tū Ātea is not unique. It sits at the heart of many pan-tribal entities – how do you create governance arrangements capable of representing Māori collectively when Māori themselves are not a single political entity?

    The issue becomes even more complicated when money enters the equation. "

    #Aotearoa #Māori #Indigenous #assets #wealth #governance

    thespinoff.co.nz/atea/25-06-20

  19. This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

    If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
    "Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
    "We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

    Hettie O’Brien: youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

    #mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

  20. This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

    If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
    "Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
    "We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

    Hettie O’Brien: youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

    #mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

  21. 'Capital' is not money. It is the expectation of obtaining later money from an 'asset'.
    An 'asset' is a labeled balance-sheet entry – backed against a factory, a flat, a patent, a software (or a combination such as Netflix).

    Household #wealth mostly accrues from 'asset' creation (or investment) and 'asset' revaluation (aka. holding gains):

    #inflation #finance #privateEquity #capitalism #assets #ownership

  22. 'Capital' is not money. It is the expectation of obtaining later money from an 'asset'.
    An 'asset' is a labeled balance-sheet entry – backed against a factory, a flat, a patent, a software (or a combination such as Netflix).

    Household #wealth mostly accrues from 'asset' creation (or investment) and 'asset' revaluation (aka. holding gains):

    #inflation #finance #privateEquity #capitalism #assets #ownership

  23. "Under the current system, where you have a billionaire class paying almost no taxes, it is just mathematically obvious that in a very short period of time, because of the power of compounding interest, they will own everything. And that means you owning nothing."
    Gary Stevenson

    edafe.de/2026/06/why-the-econo

    #assets #capitalism #economics #government #inequality #inflation #politics #poverty #prices #society #taxtherich #taxwealthnotwork #theeconomist #uk #unitedkingdom #wealth

  24. "Under the current system, where you have a billionaire class paying almost no taxes, it is just mathematically obvious that in a very short period of time, because of the power of compounding interest, they will own everything. And that means you owning nothing."
    Gary Stevenson

    edafe.de/2026/06/why-the-econo

    #assets #capitalism #economics #government #inequality #inflation #politics #poverty #prices #society #taxtherich #taxwealthnotwork #theeconomist #uk #unitedkingdom #wealth

  25. After quite a long run, mostly because my own lack of time and other shenanigans, we (as Niwl games) finally managed to release plant asset pack!

    You can get it there - niwl-games.itch.io/plants

    It contains 30+ assets, made for #Godot in mind, but you can use them elsewhere!

    #gamedev #3d #assets #stylized

  26. After quite a long run, mostly because my own lack of time and other shenanigans, we (as Niwl games) finally managed to release plant asset pack!

    You can get it there - niwl-games.itch.io/plants

    It contains 30+ assets, made for #Godot in mind, but you can use them elsewhere!

    #gamedev #3d #assets #stylized

  27. #IRAN: #TRUMP SECRETLY AGREED TO UNFREEZE IRANIAN #ASSETS: On June 12, Mohsen #Rezaei, #military adviser to Iran’s Supreme #leader claimed that “Trump has agreed to the release of part of Iran’s frozen assets, but he is unwilling to announce it publicly,” he said.

    cnn.com/2026/06/12/world/live-

  28. #IRAN: #TRUMP SECRETLY AGREED TO UNFREEZE IRANIAN #ASSETS: On June 12, Mohsen #Rezaei, #military adviser to Iran’s Supreme #leader claimed that “Trump has agreed to the release of part of Iran’s frozen assets, but he is unwilling to announce it publicly,” he said.

    cnn.com/2026/06/12/world/live-

  29. Without making a public declaration, Trump consented to unfreeze $24 billion in Iranian assets Report 》PrimeStories24

    Without making a public declaration, Trump consented to... #trump #iranian #assets #iran

    kbin.earth/m/[email protected]

  30. Without making a public declaration, Trump consented to unfreeze $24 billion in Iranian assets Report

    Without making a public declaration, Trump consented to... #trump #iranian #assets #iran

    kbin.earth/m/[email protected]

  31. The #US general who commands #Nato has said #russia is “not looking for a conflict”, despite concern among #European #allies about the potential #security gaps left by #Washington’s plans to withdraw key #military #assets.

    ft.com/content/751d4555-9e8c-4

  32. how #capitalism destroys itself: #Inequality as structural feature: #wealth concentration has returned to #GildedAge levels in many countries. top 1% owns roughly 45% of global #wealth (= #assets such as #houses #land #water #energy #minerals)

    Demand erosion: Extreme #inequality hollows out #consumer base that #capitalism depends on.

    #seigniorage problem = private institution (or semi-private, as #Fed) has #power to create #money, captures enormous #wealth (#assets) simply through act of creation — before money has done anything productive

    most powerful + least visible form of #wealth #extraction ever invented

    harder truth: If #moneyprinting and #asset #ownership have become so divorced from productive #economic #activity that only destruction and conflict #war seem to #reset the system, that suggests the #system itself is #fundamentallybroken—not that war solves anything.
    #warning even #revolution will be #manipulated to maximum extend mas.to/@wordmark/1167141618169

  33. #Inequality as a structural feature: Wealth concentration has returned to #GildedAge levels in many countries. The top 1% owns roughly 45% of global #wealth ( = #assets such as #water #energy #minerals )

  34. #banks produce nothing #own everything? #unsustainable
    systemic + fatal flaw of modern day #fiat #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism: not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind, #rich vs #poor + #inequality growing = #collapse of #society "thank you"

    = no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money + buys = owns #assets = #bank #centralbank
    why? because new #fiat #money created of air whenever someone get's #loan approved (#governments usually get approved) problem: #interest on this #loan is NEVER created

    to pay #interest on #loan #government needs to take something away from someone (no matter domestic or foreign)

    #solution: invest every USD + EUR + Peso in your own #INDEPENDENCE from #financesystem #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!

    #bernardlietaer youtube.com/watch?v=T9EI2PrDpmw