Laurie Anderson performing lyrics by C. P. Cavafy In November 2023, the Onassis Foundation organized a concert in St. Thomas Church, NYC, celebrating the great Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. - 1 comments

It's a pitch-perfect combination of old-school shooter action, bombastic anime-style storytelling and Saturday Morning cartoon, and it's free to play on itch.io and Newgrounds. (HTML5, Windows and Mac) Help ace fighter JON STARBUCKLE, stationed on the USS ACRES, pilot the GAR-TYPE D to destroy GORESTAR, a planet-eating threat, with your choice of three different weapons: Ravioli, Macaroni or Spaghetti. If the action is a bit too hot for you (ya Nermal), you can check out the trailer, or this complete playthrough. And if you find this bit of silliness to your liking, its creator Lumpy Touch also made Bad Monday Simulator, a fangame crossover with Undertale (video). - 2 comments

Outrageous Predictions 2025 [Saxo Bank; previously] - 2 comments

WA-first artificial reef trial could help tackle coastal erosion nationwide. As communities across Australia battle coastal erosion, one council in WA is seeing promising results from a state-first artificial reef trial that is also helping marine life flourish. - 3 comments

Kevin Foley rakes the red-hot, wooden embers from the iron, cobblestone-shaped ingots; sweat drips from his face as rearranges the ingots into a rectangle. He pours rockweed out of three burlap sacks over the ingots; smoke and steam surround Foley and his two assistants as they rapidly assemble the clambake amid a cacophony of crackles and pops from the bursting seaweed pods. - 12 comments

The We Rate Dogs Top Ten Dogs of the Year

The last 5 are the hero dogs - 16 comments

'Linda Lavin, acclaimed star of sitcom 'Alice' dead at 87.' 'The award-winning performer most recently acted in Netflix’s "No Good Deed' and forthcoming Hulu series 'Mid-Century.''' Linda Lavin sings, ' I'm going to live till I die" - 17 comments

After a series of foreign wars, a dysfunctional republic finds itself wracked by economic inequality, with property and wealth increasingly monopolized by greedy elites. A leading politician, newly elected on a platform of redistribution, social welfare, and political reform, bypasses Senate obstruction with a legislative loophole -- only to find his ambitious agenda blocked by a former ally on behalf of special interests. The leader: Tiberius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs. The year: 133 BC. What happened next would shatter longstanding norms, introduce political violence to the Roman forum, and lay the groundwork for the bloody collapse of the Republic, more than a generation before the birth of Julius Caesar and the rise of the Empire. [So much more inside] - 26 comments

Contemplating the future of AI in general and OpenAI in particular isn’t just a Silicon Valley parlor game but national watercooler chatter. OpenAI is the next Google, some cry — it’ll change the way we use the internet! Others warn it’s the next FTX, an over-hyped scam led by a charismatic founder that’ll go to zero ... Some see huge returns, others serious peril. In some cases, the tech is transformative on a scale that today we have difficulty even imagining; in others, you’ll hear about a rather boring but extremely lucrative business. And then there’s Taco Bell. from What company’s past reveals the future of OpenAI? [Sherwood] - 46 comments

And it depends on this woman. “I thought I had the coolest job ever,” Hall says. “I didn’t process the fact that this job is necessary for our entire world to exist as it does.” - 24 comments

The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday , when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at Muan International Airport. - 30 comments

Australian bosses could go to jail for 10 years and be fined $1.65 million if they deliberately underpay their workers, as part of new laws that nationally criminalise wage theft from January 1. The new laws and penalties follow years of underpayment scandals in Australia, with cases at prominent employers including Woolworths, Chatime, Qantas, NAB, BHP, 7-Eleven and the ABC. Until now, the federal body that investigates wage theft has only been able to go after companies and their directors using civil laws, which don't come with the threat of jail time. Now Fair Work will be able to go after them using criminal laws too. - 18 comments

Dr. T and the Women. HealtH. A Perfect Couple. Buffalo Bill and the Indians and Quintet. Ready to Wear. A Wedding. And the final horror: O. C. and Stiggs. - 22 comments

The Women, Tom Lake, Camino Ghost, Braiding Sweetgrass, Fourth Wing, Lessons in Chemistry, and others were among the top titles. [NPR] - 14 comments