Vasily Kandinsky, Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 2, 1914 #vasilykandinsky #museumarchive
Blanche on the Epstein files: This was never ever ever about protecting Trump. He had nothing to hide
Volunteer-written messages on Ken Paxton's campaign bus:
"CRIMINAL!" "Adulterer"
Nearly a million people lost a total of $3.8 billion on Trump's crypto coin
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Prime Video’s ‘Fourth Wing’ series casts Esther McGregor and Emilio Sakraya as leads
Esther McGregor and Emilio Sakraya will play dragon riders Violet Sorrengail and Xaden Riorson in Prime Video’s adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ best-selling novels.
Ars Technica
• Aurich Lawson
The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world
Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.
Forcing and detouring
A career ladder creates winners and losers; what happens to the losers?
Making a Career in Dictatorship
What if the standard career path was a driver of authoritarianism?
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
BMW’s first three-row electric SUV is almost here: Here’s an early look at the iX7
McSweeney’s
• Jasmine Mote
Why Get Romantic with AI When You Can Message Your High School Ex-Boyfriends at 9:30 p.m. on a Wednesday?
McSweeney’s
• Jonathan Zeller
Ghostface Asks: “What’s Your Favorite Albert Brooks Movie?”
New Theme: Cinder, a light-only theme
Defector
• Luis Paez-Pumar
BioWare Becomes First Major Casualty of Saudi Arabia’s EA Takeover
When news came out that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund had taken a majority stake in Electronic Arts last September, it was clear to anyone familiar with Saudi Arabia, EA, private equity, or capitalism that the move would make an already terrible gaming company even worse. I wrote as much at the time, and though the sale took until August of this year to go through, I can grimly say that I was completely right: On Wednesday, Bloomberg video game reporter Jason Schreier reported that EA had shut down BioWare, the game studio behind such classic role-playing game series as Mass Effect, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Dragon Age.
The studio then confirmed the news in a statement.
Trump agrees with Steve Witkoff's statement that Putin is a "humanitarian"
Added support for custom emoji in user profile full names from Mastodon.
Kash Patel: There has never been a president who has brought us together like Trump has
Trump: If you think you may be a victim of a crypto scam, seek out help
Ars Technica
• Kyle Orland
RIP BioWare: EA shuts down storied RPG studio after over three decades
Next Mass Effect project canceled as parent company lays off 400.
Ars Technica
• Ryan Whitwam
OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity
Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Bobby Welber
New York Alcohol Deaths Remain a Serious Public Health Concern
Thousands of New Yorkers are dying from alcohol-related causes, and a new report reveals how the state's death rate has changed over the past decade. Continue reading…
