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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sub.thursdai.newsHola AI aficionados, it's yet another ThursdAI, and yet another week FULL of AI news, spanning Open Source LLMs, Multimodal video and audio creation and more! Shiptember as they call it does seem to deliver, and it was hard even for me to follow up on all the news, not to mention we had like 3-4 breaking news during the show today! This week was yet another Qwen-mas, with Alibaba absolutely dominating across open source, but also NVIDIA promising to invest up to $100 Billion into OpenAI. So let's dive right in! As a reminder, all the show notes are posted at the end of the article for your convenience. ThursdAI - Because weeks are getting denser, but we're still here, weekly, sending you the top AI content! Don't miss outTable of Contents* Open Source AI* Qwen3-VL Announcement (Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking):* Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B: end-to-end SOTA omni-modal AI unifying text, image, audio, and video* DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus: a surgical bugfix that matters for agents* Evals & Benchmarks: agents, deception, and code at scale* Big Companies, Bigger Bets!* OpenAI: ChatGPT Pulse: Proactive AI news cards for your day* XAI Grok 4 fast - 2M context, 40% fewer thinking tokens, shockingly cheap* Alibaba Qwen-Max and plans for scaling* This Week's Buzz: W&B Fully Connected is coming to London and Tokyo & Another hackathon in SF* Vision & Video: Wan 2.2 Animate, Kling 2.5, and Wan 4.5 preview* Moondream-3 Preview - Interview with co-founders Via & Jay* Wan open sourced Wan 2.2 Animate (aka “Wan Animate”): motion transfer and lip sync* Kling 2.5 Turbo: cinematic motion, cheaper and with audio* Wan 4.5 preview: native multimodality, 1080p 10s, and lip-synced speech* Voice & Audio* ThursdAI - Sep 25, 2025 - TL;DR & Show notesOpen Source AIThis was a Qwen-and-friends week. I joked on stream that I should just count how many times “Alibaba” appears in our show notes. It's a lot.Qwen3-VL Announcement (Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking): (X, HF, Blog, Demo)Qwen 3 launched earlier as a text-only family; the vision-enabled variant just arrived, and it's not timid. The “thinking” version is effectively a reasoner with eyes, built on a 235B-parameter backbone with around 22B active (their mixture-of-experts trick). What jumped out is the breadth of evaluation coverage: MMU, video understanding (Video-MME, LVBench), 2D/3D grounding, doc VQA, chart/table reasoning—pages of it. They're showing wins against models like Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT‑5 on some of those reports, and doc VQA is flirting with “nearly solved” territory in their numbers.Two caveats. First, whenever scores get that high on imperfect benchmarks, you should expect healthy skepticism; known label issues can inflate numbers. Second, the model is big. Incredible for server-side grounding and long-form reasoning with vision (they're talking about scaling context to 1M tokens for two-hour video and long PDFs), but not something you throw on a phone.Still, if your workload smells like “reasoning + grounding + long context,” Qwen 3 VL looks like one of the strongest open-weight choices right now.Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B: end-to-end SOTA omni-modal AI unifying text, image, audio, and video (HF, GitHub, Qwen Chat, Demo, API)Omni is their end-to-end multimodal chat model that unites text, image, and audio—and crucially, it streams audio responses in real time while thinking separately in the background. Architecturally, it's a 30B MoE with around 3B active parameters at inference, which is the secret to why it feels snappy on consumer GPUs.In practice, that means you can talk to Omni, have it see what you see, and get sub-250 ms replies in nine speaker languages while it quietly plans. It claims to understand 119 languages. When I pushed it in multilingual conversational settings it still code-switched unexpectedly (Chinese suddenly appeared mid-flow), and it occasionally suffered the classic “stuck in thought” behavior we've been seeing in agentic voice modes across labs. But the responsiveness is real, and the footprint is exciting for local speech streaming scenarios. I wouldn't replace a top-tier text reasoner with this for hard problems, yet being able to keep speech native is a real UX upgrade.Qwen Image Edit, Qwen TTS Flash, and Qwen‑GuardQwen's image stack got a handy upgrade with multi-image reference editing for more consistent edits across shots—useful for brand assets and style-tight workflows. TTS Flash (API-only for now) is their fast speech synth line, and Q‑Guard is a new safety/moderation model from the same team. It's notable because Qwen hasn't really played in the moderation-model space before; historically Meta's Llama Guard led that conversation.DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus: a surgical bugfix that matters for agents (X, HF)DeepSeek whale resurfaced to push a small 0.1 update to V3.1 that reads like a “quality and stability” release—but those matter if you're building on top. It fixes a code-switching bug (the “sudden Chinese” syndrome you'll also see in some Qwen variants), improves tool-use and browser execution, and—importantly—makes agentic flows less likely to overthink and stall. On the numbers, Humanities Last Exam jumped from 15 to 21.7, while LiveCodeBench dipped slightly. That's the story here: they traded a few raw points on coding for more stable, less dithery behavior in end-to-end tasks. If you've invested in their tool harness, this may be a net win.Liquid Nanos: small models that extract like they're big (X, HF)Liquid Foundation Models released “Liquid Nanos,” a set of open models from roughly 350M to 2.6B parameters, including “extract” variants that pull structure (JSON/XML/YAML) from messy documents. The pitch is cost-efficiency with surprisingly competitive performance on information extraction tasks versus models 10× their size. If you're doing at-scale doc ingestion on CPUs or small GPUs, these look worth a try.Tiny IBM OCR model that blew up the charts (HF)We also saw a tiny IBM model (about 250M parameters) for image-to-text document parsing trending on Hugging Face. Run in 8-bit, it squeezes into roughly 250 MB, which means Raspberry Pi and “toaster” deployments suddenly get decent OCR/transcription against scanned docs. It's the kind of tiny-but-useful release that tends to quietly power entire products.Meta's 32B Code World Model (CWM) released for agentic code reasoning (X, HF)Nisten got really excited about this one, and once he explained it, I understood why. Meta released a 32B code world model that doesn't just generate code - it understands code the way a compiler does. It's thinking about state, types, and the actual execution context of your entire codebase.This isn't just another coding model - it's a fundamentally different approach that could change how all future coding models are built. Instead of treating code as fancy text completion, it's actually modeling the program from the ground up. If this works out, expect everyone to copy this approach.Quick note, this one was released with a research license only! Evals & Benchmarks: agents, deception, and code at scaleA big theme this week was “move beyond single-turn Q&A and test how these things behave in the wild.” with a bunch of new evals released. I wanted to cover them all in a separate segment. OpenAI's GDP Eval: “economically valuable tasks” as a bar (X, Blog)OpenAI introduced GDP Eval to measure model performance against real-world, economically valuable work. The design is closer to how I think about “AGI as useful work”: 44 occupations across nine sectors, with tasks judged against what an industry professional would produce.Two details stood out. First, OpenAI's own models didn't top the chart in their published screenshot—Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1 led with roughly a 47.6% win rate against human professionals, while GPT‑5-high clocked in around 38%. Releasing a benchmark where you're not on top earns respect. Second, the tasks are legit. One example was a manufacturing engineer flow where the output required an overall design with an exploded view of components—the kind of deliverable a human would actually make.What I like here isn't the precise percent; it's the direction. If we anchor progress to tasks an economy cares about, we move past “trivia with citations” and toward “did this thing actually help do the work?”GAIA 2 (Meta Super Intelligence Labs + Hugging Face): agents that execute (X, HF)MSL and HF refreshed GAIA, the agent benchmark, with a thousand new human-authored scenarios that test execution, search, ambiguity handling, temporal reasoning, and adaptability—plus a smartphone-like execution environment. GPT‑5-high led across execution and search; Kimi's K2 was tops among open-weight entries. I like that GAIA 2 bakes in time and budget constraints and forces agents to chain steps, not just spew plans. We need more of these.Scale AI's “SWE-Bench Pro” for coding in the large (HF)Scale dropped a stronger coding benchmark focused on multi-file edits, 100+ line changes, and large dependency graphs. On the public set, GPT‑5 (not Codex) and Claude Opus 4.1 took the top two slots; on a commercial set, Opus edged ahead. The broader takeaway: the action has clearly moved to test-time compute, persistent memory, and program-synthesis outer loops to get through larger codebases with fewer invalid edits. This aligns with what we're seeing across ARC‑AGI and SWE‑bench Verified.The “Among Us” deception test (X)One more that's fun but not frivolous: a group benchmarked models on the social deception game Among Us. OpenAI's latest systems reportedly did the best job both lying convincingly and detecting others' lies. This line of work matters because social inference and adversarial reasoning show up in real agent deployments—security, procurement, negotiations, even internal assistant safety.Big Companies, Bigger Bets!Nvidia's $100B pledge to OpenAI for 10GW of computeLet's say that number again: one hundred billion dollars. Nvidia announced plans to invest up to $100B into OpenAI's infrastructure build-out, targeting roughly 10 gigawatts of compute and power. Jensen called it the biggest infrastructure project in history. Pair that with OpenAI's Stargate-related announcements—five new datacenters with Oracle and SoftBank and a flagship site in Abilene, Texas—and you get to wild territory fast.Internal notes circulating say OpenAI started the year around 230MW and could exit 2025 north of 2GW operational, while aiming at 20GW in the near term and a staggering 250GW by 2033. Even if those numbers shift, the directional picture is clear: the GPU supply and power curves are going vertical.Two reactions. First, yes, the “infinite money loop” memes wrote themselves—OpenAI spends on Nvidia GPUs, Nvidia invests in OpenAI, the market adds another $100B to Nvidia's cap for good measure. But second, the underlying demand is real. If we need 1–8 GPUs per “full-time agent” and there are 3+ billion working adults, we are orders of magnitude away from compute saturation. The power story is the real constraint—and that's now being tackled in parallel.OpenAI: ChatGPT Pulse: Proactive AI news cards for your day (X, OpenAI Blog)In a #BreakingNews segment, we got an update from OpenAI, that currently works only for Pro users but will come to everyone soon. Proactive AI, that learns from your chats, email and calendar and will show you a new “feed” of interesting things every morning based on your likes and feedback! Pulse marks OpenAI's first step toward an AI assistant that brings the right info before you ask, tuning itself with every thumbs-up, topic request, or app connection. I've tuned mine for today, we'll see what tomorrow brings! P.S - Huxe is a free app from the creators of NotebookLM (Ryza was on our podcast!) that does a similar thing, so if you don't have pro, check out Huxe, they just launched! XAI Grok 4 fast - 2M context, 40% fewer thinking tokens, shockingly cheap (X, Blog)xAI launched Grok‑4 Fast, and the name fits. Think “top-left” on the speed-to-cost chart: up to 2 million tokens of context, a reported 40% reduction in reasoning token usage, and a price tag that's roughly 1% of some frontier models on common workloads. On LiveCodeBench, Grok‑4 Fast even beat Grok‑4 itself. It's not the most capable brain on earth, but as a high-throughput assistant that can fan out web searches and stitch answers in something close to real time, it's compelling.Alibaba Qwen-Max and plans for scaling (X, Blog, API)Back in the Alibaba camp, they also released their flagship API model, Qwen 3 Max, and showed off their future roadmap. Qwen-max is over 1T parameters, MoE that gets 69.6 on Swe-bench verified and outperforms GPT-5 on LMArena! And their plan is simple: scale. They're planning to go from 1 million to 100 million token context windows and scale their models into the terabytes of parameters. It culminated in a hilarious moment on the show where we all put on sunglasses to salute a slide from their presentation that literally said, “Scaling is all you need.” AGI is coming, and it looks like Alibaba is one of the labs determined to scale their way there. Their release schedule lately (as documented by Swyx from Latent.space) is insane. This Week's Buzz: W&B Fully Connected is coming to London and Tokyo & Another hackathon in SFWeights & Biases (now part of the CoreWeave family) is bringing Fully Connected to London on Nov 4–5, with another event in Tokyo on Oct 31. If you're in Europe or Japan and want two days of dense talks and hands-on conversations with teams actually shipping agents, evals, and production ML, come hang out. Readers got a code on stream; if you need help getting a seat, ping me directly.Links: fullyconnected.comWe are also opening up registrations to our second WeaveHacks hackathon in SF, October 11-12, yours trully will be there, come hack with us on Self Improving agents! Register HEREVision & Video: Wan 2.2 Animate, Kling 2.5, and Wan 4.5 previewThis is the most exciting space in AI week-to-week for me right now. The progress is visible. Literally.Moondream-3 Preview - Interview with co-founders Via & JayWhile I've already reported on Moondream-3 in the last weeks newsletter, this week we got the pleasure of hosting Vik Korrapati and Jay Allen the co-founders of MoonDream to tell us all about it. Tune in for that conversation on the pod starting at 00:33:00Wan open sourced Wan 2.2 Animate (aka “Wan Animate”): motion transfer and lip sync Tongyi's Wan team shipped an open-source release that the community quickly dubbed “Wanimate.” It's a character-swap/motion transfer system: provide a single image for a character and a reference video (your own motion), and it maps your movement onto the character with surprisingly strong hair/cloth dynamics and lip sync. If you've used runway's Act One, you'll recognize the vibe—except this is open, and the fidelity is rising fast.The practical uses are broader than “make me a deepfake.” Think onboarding presenters with perfect backgrounds, branded avatars that reliably say what you need, or precise action blocking without guessing at how an AI will move your subject. You act it; it follows.Kling 2.5 Turbo: cinematic motion, cheaper and with audioKling quietly rolled out a 2.5 Turbo tier that's 30% cheaper and finally brings audio into the loop for more complete clips. Prompts adhere better, physics look more coherent (acrobatics stop breaking bones across frames), and the cinematic look has moved from “YouTube short” to “film-school final.” They seeded access to creators and re-shared the strongest results; the consistency is the headline. (Source X: @StevieMac03)I've chatted with my kiddos today over facetime, and they were building minecraft creepers. I took a screenshot, sent to Nano Banana to make their creepers into actual minecraft ones, and then with Kling, Animated the explosions for them. They LOVED it! Animations were clear, while VEO refused for me to even upload their images, Kling didn't care hahaWan 4.5 preview: native multimodality, 1080p 10s, and lip-synced speechWan also teased a 4.5 preview that unifies understanding and generation across text, image, video, and audio. The eye-catching bit: generate a 1080p, 10-second clip with synced speech from just a script. Or supply your own audio and have it lip-sync the shot. I ran my usual “interview a polar bear dressed like me” test and got one of the better results I've seen from any model. We're not at “dialogue scene” quality, but “talking character shot” is getting… good. The generation of audio (not only text + lipsync) is one of the best ones besides VEO, it's really great to see how strongly this improves, sad that this wasn't open sourced! And apparently it supports “draw text to animate” (Source: X) Voice & AudioSuno V5: we've entered the “I can't tell anymore” eraSuno calls V5 a redefinition of audio quality. I'll be honest, I'm at the edge of my subjective hearing on this. I've caught myself listening to Suno streams instead of Spotify and forgetting anything is synthetic. The vocals feel more human, the mixes cleaner, and the remastering path (including upgrading V4 tracks) is useful. The last 10% to “you fooled a producer” is going to be long, but the distance between V4 and V5 already makes me feel like I should re-cut our ThursdAI opener.MiMI Audio: a small omni-chat demo that hints at the floorWe tried a MiMI Audio demo live—a 7B-ish model with speech in/out. It was responsive but stumbled on singing and natural prosody. I'm leaving it in here because it's a good reminder that the open floor for “real-time voice” is rising quickly even for small models. And the moment you pipe a stronger text brain behind a capable, native speech front-end, the UX leap is immediate.Ok, another DENSE week that finishes up Shiptember, tons of open source, Qwen (Tongyi) shines, and video is getting so so good. This is all converging folks, and honestly, I'm just happy to be along for the ride! This week was also Rosh Hashanah, which is the Jewish new year, and I've shared on the pod that I've found my X post from 3 years ago, using the state of the art AI models of the time. WHAT A DIFFERENCE 3 years make, just take a look, I had to scale down the 4K one from this year just to fit into the pic! Shana Tova to everyone who's reading this, and we'll see you next week

Esther Lisk-Carew is engagement coordinator for a programme called AHEAD (Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue) at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is also a freelance consultant, trustee of Manchester's Portico Library and founder of the Black and Global Majority Cultural Creative Network. Sarah and Esther talk about How she combines a love of storytelling and the arts with a talent for managing events and operations Why engagement is often baked into the methods and outputs of arts and humanities Building a career in the cultural sector (despite a detour into French law) Why academia needs more diverse voices, and high-profile cultural icons   Find out more Read the show notes and transcript on the podcast website Find out about everything Esther is working on via her Linktree Find AHEAD at MMU on the web, Linktree, LinkedIn and Instagram   About Research Adjacent Where are you listening from? Share a pic and tag @ResearchAdjacent on LinkedIn, Instagram or BlueSky Fill out the research-adjacent careers quiz Sign up to the Research Adjacent newsletter Email a comment, question or suggestion Leave Sarah a voice message

*Note: this is the Free Content version of my interview with Dr. Matteo Polato. To access the full interview, please consider becoming a Patreon member; alternately, this episode is available for a one-time purchase under the "Shop" tab. www.patreon.com/RejectedReligionMy guest this month is Dr. Matteo Polato.Matteo is a researcher, sound artist and videogame developer. He works as Senior Research Assistant at the School of Digital Arts of Manchester Metropolitan University, where he has completed his PhD on the roles of sound, vibration and resonance-based processes in contemporary occulture and paranormal practices. His artistic practice spans from electroacoustic composition to free improvisation and psychedelic rock, in solo and with bands such as Mamuthones and Cacotopos. As Yami Kurae – with Jacopo Bortolussi – he develops experimental games inspired by psychogeography and occultural practices. He is co-founder of D∀RK – Dark Arts Research Kollective at MMU, and co- artistic director of the association for experimental music research Centro d'Arte dell'Università di Padova.Matteo's recent article in Revenant Journal dives deep into the sonic and atmospheric dimensions of the paranormal documentary series Hellier. From Reddit threads to academic conferences, Matteo's journey into Fortean soundscapes is as unexpected as it is fascinating.Matteo recounts his initial encounter with Hellier and how its unique approach to paranormal investigation inspired him to analyze it academically. Unlike typical ghost-hunting shows, Hellier emphasizes experiential and atmospheric elements, which resonated with his interests in sound studies and Fortean phenomena.Matteo's article shifts the lens from why paranormal entities emerge to how sensory experiences (especially sound) create a sense of supernatural agency. He uses Hellier as a case study to explore this dynamic, drawing from sound studies and concepts like: the eerie, affective atmospheres, & agency and attunement.Matteo argues that sonic interactions and “listening ecologies” are central to how Hellier portrays paranormal phenomena. He explains how sound is not just a medium but a method of engaging with unseen forces. Examples from the series include:Ritualistic listening sessionsUse of the Estes Method vs. traditional EVPAmbient silence as a communicative spaceHellier stands out by blending folklore, psychology, ritual, and media theory. Matteo emphasizes the importance of this holistic method, which allows the investigators to explore the paranormal not just as spectacle, but as a lived, felt experience.Whether you're a fan of Hellier, curious about the intersection of sound studies and the supernatural, or just love a good mystery, this episode will tune you into a whole new frequency of thought. PROGRAM NOTES  Revenant JournalRevenantThe Atmospheric Forteanism of Hellier and the Role of Sound in Recent Practices of Paranormal Investigation : Revenant DVRK:https://www.instagram.com/dvrk_mcr/ DVRK Editions Label:https://dvrkmusic.bandcamp.com/ Videogame stuff:https://yamikurae.itch.io/ Mamuthones Band:https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/artist/0JeuJ0H0Q54p6kTuHJSCIA D∀RK: Dark ∀rts Research Kollective (@dvrk_mcr) • Instagram photos and videos Yami Kurae (@yami_kurae) • Instagram photos and videos Instagram Music and Editing: Daniel P. SheaEnd Production: Stephanie Shea 

It's another great mailbag this weeks as we read messages about some Chatabix fans at the Stretford Paddock Man U YouTube channel, an embarrassing quip (and several others too), a query about David's attitude to Joe's MMU massage day, a trio of funny names, Bradley Walsh on The Chase, a Sir Winch-a-lot musical and more littering stories. FOR ALL THINGS CHATABIX'Y FOLLOW/SUBSCRIBE/CONTACT: YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@chatabixpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chatabixpodcast/⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@chatabix⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/chatabix1⁠⁠⁠⁠ Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/chatabix⁠⁠⁠⁠ Merch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://chatabixshop.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Contact us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠chatabix@yahoo.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 291 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Leigh Edwards. Leigh Edwards works as a QA Analyst for a housing association and helps lead on the community work that men's mental health charity Mandem Meet Up (MMU) carries out in Wolverhampton. Leigh was raised by a single mum in a difficult neighbourhood of Wolverhampton, but achieved the grades to study at university. He dropped out in his second year but views it as the best decision he's ever made. Leigh's mental health difficulties started when he was 26 years old. He suffered with auditory psychosis for eight months but never told anyone about it. It got to the point where he became suicidal and he planned to take his own life on Mother's Day in 2019. His plan was to go round to see family and ‘say goodbye' for the final time. However, his mum had the most important mother's instinct of her life and wouldn't let him leave the house as she knew something was wrong. After forcing the issue through his defences, Leigh disclosed to her how he was feeling, broke down and agreed for his family to take him to their local hospital. After psychiatric nurses came to his house for a few weeks and checked in on him, he felt like it was no longer helping him and decided to take ownership of his mental health and life. He started doing meditation, discovered the work of a philosopher called Alan Watts and the concept of Taoism, jumped down a rabbit hole and never came out. In this episode we discuss Leigh's upbringing, the psychosis, suicidality and recovery. We then discuss the grief of losing his best friend Ryan who had helped him through that period just a year afterwards in 2020, who tragically took his own life. We also discuss the impact that David Goggins had on Leigh's recovery and how it led him to taking his fitness journey to another level, starting with one half-marathon in memory of his friend, before running two ultra-marathons for himself. Leigh's advocacy work began in December 2022, a month before MMU Wolverhampton was formed. He took part in a monthly hike in Snowden with MMU and in January 2023 – the charity's Founder and previous JCIP guest Jamie Dennis gave the green light to start Mandem Wolves alongside his co-founder Christian. MMU Wolves work continued with an outreach programme for homeless people in Wolverhampton town centre, which takes place once-a-month and has been running for two years. We discuss this community work, running MMU football and his plans to turn it into a fully-fledged team. We finish by discussing his next project to run 10 marathons in 10 days to fundraise for MMU, which at time of recording he was preparing for, but has now successfully completed in June 2025. As always, #itsokaytovent You can donate to Leigh's campaign here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/maintain-our-free-services-to-the-men-of-our-community?attribution_id=sl%3A9af31a4f-3b67-434d-a6b6-6741e9a4d3a3 You can follow Mandem Meet Up Wolves on social media below: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandemmeetup_wolves/ You can follow Mandem Meet Up's main social media channels below: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandemmeetup/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mandemmeetup?lang=en-GB You can also follow Leigh on social media below: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leigh_edwardss/ Support Us: Patreon: www.patreon.com/venthelpuk PayPal: paypal.me/freddiec1994?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB Merchandise: www.redbubble.com/people/VentUK/shop Music: @patawawa - Strange: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d70wfeJSEvk

It was David's 51st Birthday recently, so Joe kicks things off by finding out what he got up to and what presents he was given. It turns out that one gift was a shirt, which was a little too ‘Woodcuttery' for David's liking. So the chat soon turns to buying clothes, for both themselves and their other halves, which all gets a little heated. They also talk about discomfort when rummaging in clothes shops, being bad at small-talk, David looking into moving again and some listener feedback on the MMU's. FOR ALL THINGS CHATABIX'Y FOLLOW/SUBSCRIBE/CONTACT: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chatabixpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/chatabix1 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/chatabixpodcast/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chatabix Merch: https://chatabixshop.com/ Contact us: chatabix@yahoo.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.Today is the 10th of April and here are today's headlines.China Pushes Back Against U.S. Tariffs, Warns of ConsequencesChina hit back sharply at Washington's escalating trade war rhetoric, saying it does not seek conflict but won't tolerate bullying either. Responding to the U.S. decision to raise tariffs on Chinese goods to 125% while pausing tariffs for other nations, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a press briefing, “This cause will not win popular support and will end in failure.” Lin emphasized that Beijing will defend its people's rights, signaling that retaliatory action may still be on the table. Meanwhile, Asian markets surged on news of the 90-day tariff pause for other countries, with Japan's Nikkei 225 soaring 8%, South Korea's Kospi rising over 5%, and Australia's ASX 200 up 5% in early trading.India Steers Clear of U.S. Tariff Clash, Eyes Fall Trade PactIndia responded cautiously as U.S. President Donald Trump announced a temporary suspension of his sweeping reciprocal tariffs, which went into effect Wednesday. Just hours before the announcement, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar confirmed that India is actively engaging with Washington to finalize a bilateral trade agreement by the fall. Speaking at the News18 Rising Bharat Summit, Jaishankar avoided directly commenting on Trump's controversial statements about trade partners, saying only, “We've been constructive in our engagement, and so have they.” India appears to be walking a fine line—avoiding confrontation while quietly working to secure a stable trade relationship.Tahawwur Rana Extradited from U.S., Special Prosecutor AppointedIndia has taken a key step toward justice in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case. The Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday night appointed a special public prosecutor for a three-year term to lead the prosecution of Tahawwur Rana, who is being extradited from the United States. Sources confirmed that a senior team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and intelligence services has taken custody of Rana, who is expected to arrive in Delhi by Thursday. Rana is accused of aiding the planning of the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai, which left more than 160 people dead.Kashmir Cleric Says Police Blocked Religious Meet Over Waqf ActMirwaiz Umar Farooq, the prominent religious leader and head of the Muttahida Majlis Ulema (MMU), accused Jammu and Kashmir police of halting a planned meeting of clerics at his Srinagar residence. The gathering was meant to discuss concerns over the Waqf Act, which governs religious endowments in the region. Calling the police action unjust, Mirwaiz said religious leaders must be allowed to deliberate peacefully. He added that a joint resolution would be read in mosques across the Valley on Friday. The MMU also pledged support to the All India Muslim Personal Law Board's legal challenge to the Act.Israeli Airstrike Kills 23 in Gaza as Conflict DeepensA deadly Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in northern Gaza's Shijaiyah neighborhood on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, including eight women and eight children, according to officials at Al-Ahly Hospital. The Gaza Health Ministry confirmed the toll and said rescue teams were still searching through rubble for survivors. Nearby buildings were also damaged, according to Gaza's civil defense, which operates under the Hamas-run government. The strike is the latest in a wave of intensifying attacks, as the humanitarian crisis worsens in the besieged Palestinian enclave with no signs of a ceasefire in sight.That's all for today. This was the CatchUp on 3 Things by The Indian Express.

Episode 481 avec Sébastien S. et Xavier.• Quand les robots sont expressifs (00:01:49) : Apple publie un papier de recherche sur les mouvements des robots. (Sources : youtu.be, techcrunch.com et arxiv.org) • S.A.M.: Quand impression 3D rime avec sécurité (00:10:01) : Une société française met au point un token infalsifiable imprimé en 3D. (Sources : francetvinfo.fr et signaturesam.com) • Quand l'IA entre dans nos vies sentimentales (00:16:04) : Les apps de rencontres se réinventent avec l'IA générative. (Sources : techcrunch.com et theconversation.com) • Le Bloc-Notes (00:26:11) : Quelques infos en bref. • Anniversaire: les 40 ans d'une sortie en MMU (00:32:41) : Il y a 40 ans, un astronaute s'éloignait sans cordon de sa navette spatiale. (Sources : sciencepost.fr et nasa.gov) • Quand le réseau préserve la tracabilité des images (00:40:09) : Cloudflare préserve les informations de provenance dans les images qu'ils servent . (Sources : cloudflare.com, contentcredentials.org et c2pa.org) • Le TRIP à la mode pour sécuriser les votes en lignes. (00:47:23) : Des chercheurs testent la génération de fausses identités à l'aide de QR codes. (Source : sciencesetavenir.fr) Retrouvez toutes nos informations, liens, versions du podcast via notre site Abonnez-vous à notre infolettre afin d'être informé de notre veille technologique de la semaine et de la parution de nos épisodes

This week, we're talking to the authors of a new book about spaceflight called "Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between," Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III. Emily started the popular Facebook group Space Hipsters, now 66,000 members strong, and Bruce is a retired lawyer and space enthusiast who also happens to be the son of Bruce McCandless II, the NASA astronaut who flew on the shuttle and pioneered the use of the Manned Maneuvering Unit. We're going to cover a lot of territory in this one, so take your hand off the eject lever and strap in! Get "Star Bound" (Amazon Affiliate): https://amzn.to/4hvHtXo Headlines - Trump's Mars Vision: The administration's push for a crewed Mars mission by 2029 sparks debate. Tariq notes Elon Musk's visible enthusiasm, while Rod highlights the technical and political hurdles. - NASA Leadership Shuffle: Janet Petro named interim NASA administrator, bypassing Jim Free. The move might signal potential shifts in Artemis priorities. - DEI Rollbacks: Executive orders halt NASA's diversity initiatives, sparking workforce concerns. - SpaceX Milestones: 400th Falcon 9 landing celebrated, with 60 Starlink satellites launched in a week. ULA's Vulcan launch remains delayed. - Meteorite Doorbell Footage: A meteorite impact in Canada, captured on camera, stuns scientists and homeowners. - Quirky Moon Naming: IAU dubs a quasi-moon "Cardea" after the Roman goddess of door hinges. Main Topic: Star Bound - Book Overview: A cultural history of the U.S. space program, connecting missions like Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab to societal shifts (e.g., civil rights movements). Authors Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III emphasized accessibility, avoiding "engineer-speak." - Skylab's Legacy: Emily's passion shines as she details Skylab's role as a bridge between Apollo and the Shuttle, citing the groundbreaking science performed and how it may help us send humans to Mars. - MMU & Bruce McCandless II: Bruce shares stories of his father's iconic untethered flight with the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), suggesting that future missions may revive jetpack tech for tourism and repairs. - Shuttle Era Love/Hate: Both guests defend the Shuttle's cultural impact (e.g., Judy Resnik's inspiring legacy) while acknowledging its flaws. - Conspiracy Corner: The duo laughs over wild theories (STS-1 being flown by clones; Neil Armstrong being a robot) and praises Rod's 2016 book "Amazing Stories of the Space Age" for documenting Project Orion's nuclear explosive propulsion tech. - Future of Space: The book ends at today's "precipice"—Artemis delays, Mars hype, and private ventures. Bruce predicts jetpacks and hotels; Emily urges newcomers to embrace space history's messy, human side. Don't Miss: - Emily's Space Hipsters Facebook group for lively space discussions. - Bruce's website (brucemccandless.com) with book sources and WWII project teasers. Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guests: Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III Download or subscribe to This Week in Space at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode.

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode.

Send Me A Message! What's the biggest challenge you face when it comes to looking, feeling, and performing your best? Let me know and I'll show you how to MMU in an upcoming epsiode.

This Episodes Questions: Hello, I'm a dedicated listener of your podcast and I have a question that's been on my mind regarding 3D printing materials. Nowadays, PETG is available at a price point similar to PLA, sparking a debate among enthusiasts. Many argue that PETG is superior in every aspect, rendering the use of PLA obsolete. However, my personal experiments, corroborated by various online sources, indicate that PLA exhibits greater tensile strength and, in some cases, enhanced impact resistance—especially PLA+. This does seem to vary across different brands. While PETG undoubtedly outperforms in terms of temperature resilience and chemical stability, its reputed strength superiority is something I find quite perplexing. My theory is that PETG's significant deformation under gradual stress, as opposed to PLA's sudden failure under higher loads, might be influencing this common perception. I would love to hear your thoughts on this topic. Thank you for the consistently excellent content! Kelly Hey guys love what you do, I'm listening to the “Worn Nozzle” Podcast. You mention the 3D Chameleon multi filament changer. You guys should try to get him on the show, https://www.3dchameleon.com/ . The inventor is Bill Steele (I may have misspelled the last name) and if you will look at the dates of releases, Bill's invention predates all the multi filament changers even Prusa's MMU, Bambu's AMS, etc. He is up to version MK4 and this unit is amazing. Don't dismiss it as a gimmick, it works better than all these others out there including the new “enraged rabbit carrot feeder”.  Chris

EP033 - If shame is the darkest demon we will ever have to battle as men, what can we do to keep that motherfucker from pulling us down and holding us back from stepping into the truth of Who We Are?“Pain shared is pain divided. Success shared is success multiplied.” - Coach Sam Falsafi, Wake Up WarriorIn today's PodWod, we be crushing our RELATIONSHIP Health & Fitness.Inside the gym, pain is pain. The pain I feel from doing Burpees is the same pain you feel. So then how come I love them while most people hate them? Am I crazy or is the rest of the world missing something? A little bit of both, I'd say.Anyone consistent in the fitness game knows that the sooner you develop a healthy relationship with pain, the better. Outside the gym, how we perceive pain and whether we invite it or reject it will determine how strong or how weak we become, and is there any greater or more consistent source of pain than shame?

Discover the best place to find the best friends. This strategy not only ensures that you create a supportive friend netwok, but that you operate in your highest purpose of expanding God's kingdom. What You'll Learn In This Series: The 5 reasons we ISOLATE as moms and how to overcome them. How MOM BRAIN stands in the way of friendships, and how to wire your brain for relationships. What to do when you're just TOO TIRED for friendships! How to know when it's time to weed your FRIEND GARDEN. How to know when you have OUTGROWN a friend, and what to do about it. The 4 REAL reasons we make friends and how to put these to work in your life. The 7 NO-FAIL ways to make friends (the ones you actually want to have). Hannah's 5-step method to make friends in a world where people isolate. The 6-step “Friend Litmus Test” to see if a friend is a REAL friend. The exciting opportunity to make friends inside MMU as a leader! And so much more...

Welcome to this week's Unbelievable? Podcast!

Pulling from a historic classic, find out the 6 ways to win friends and influence people. Hannah also includes her number 1, no-fail technique to make friends, but not just any friends... the right friends! What You Will Learn In This Series: • The 5 reasons we ISOLATE as moms and how to overcome them.  • How MOM BRAIN stands in the way of friendships, and how to wire your brain for relationships.  • What to do when you're just TOO TIRED for friendships!  • How to know when it's time to weed your FRIEND GARDEN.  • How to know when you have OUTGROWN a friend, and what to do about it.  • The 4 REAL reasons we make friends and how to put these to work in your life.  • The 7 NO-FAIL ways to make friends (the ones you actually want to have).  • Hannah's 5-step method to make friends in a world where people isolate.  • The 6-step “Friend Litmus Test” to see if a friend is a REAL friend.  • The exciting opportunity to make friends inside MMU as a leader!  • And so much more...

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How Do YOU MMU? Shoot me a message

How Do YOU MMU? Shoot me a message

How Do YOU MMU? Shoot me a message

Some friends are for keeps, some are just for a season. How do you know when it's time to do some weeding in your friend garden? Find out the 4 reasons we have friends, and how to know when it's time to move on.   What You Will Learn In This Series: The 5 reasons we ISOLATE as moms and how to overcome them. How MOM BRAIN stands in the way of friendships, and how to wire your brain for relationships. What to do when you're just TOO TIRED for friendships! How to know when it's time to weed your FRIEND GARDEN. How to know when you have OUTGROWN a friend, and what to do about it. The 4 REAL reasons we make friends and how to put these to work in your life. The 7 NO-FAIL ways to make friends (the ones you actually want to have). Hannah's 5-step method to make friends in a world where people isolate. The 6-step “Friend Litmus Test” to see if a friend is a REAL friend. The exciting opportunity to make friends inside MMU as a leader! And so much more...

Friends are easy, right? We have them as children, through high school, as we start out in life. But something happens when we become moms. All of a sudden, making friends becomes difficult and we have a tendency to isolate. Discover the 6 reasons we isolate so we can face them head-on.   What You Will Learn In This Series: The 5 reasons we ISOLATE as moms and how to overcome them. How MOM BRAIN stands in the way of friendships, and how to wire your brain for relationships. What to do when you're just TOO TIRED for friendships! How to know when it's time to weed your FRIEND GARDEN. How to know when you have OUTGROWN a friend, and what to do about it. The 4 REAL reasons we make friends and how to put these to work in your life. The 7 NO-FAIL ways to make friends (the ones you actually want to have). Hannah's 5-step method to make friends in a world where people isolate. The 6-step “Friend Litmus Test” to see if a friend is a REAL friend. The exciting opportunity to make friends inside MMU as a leader! And so much more...

How Do YOU MMU?

How Do YOU MMU?

EP016 - MMU Question of the Day: Would you rather waste time figuring out how to manage your stress or eliminate as much of it as possible? If eliminating stress is the key to experiencing more joy, what is one of the fastest ways to eliminate much of the stress we experience from our jobs, our relationships, and all the everyday shit we have to do so that we no longer have to figure out how to manage our stress?

In Part 3, we're moving from the joy in the family to joy in your heart. As a Master Mom, everything begins and ends with you. Discover the 4 principles that will help you create and nurture joy in your life, as well as the “5 Joy Reminders.” The key 3-part strategy that will help you manage your home better, while you are creating more joy. The free tool inside MMU that will help you organize your life (and have more fun). The key meeting you must have with your family, that could totally change their future. How to make mealtime easier and more joyful, and the secret is right under your nose! The 7 House Rules you must put in place today to create a joyful family tomorrow. The key principle that can help you move past a fear of failure and--finally--create success. The effects of “Totem Pole Syndrome” and how to know if you have it. The real reason you are not experiencing enough joy and how to tap into it in seconds. The 5 Joy Reminders and how to make them work with your subconscious brain. The secret method of tapping into peace while also allowing the release of joy. The “behind the scenes” enemy that every mom has to stop joy (and how to overcome it).

In Part 2, we're moving from joy in the home to joy in the family. Your family is going to thrive during this part as we we will be focusing on unity and the “7 House Rules”. The key 3-part strategy that will help you manage your home better, while you are creating more joy. The free tool inside MMU that will help you organize your life (and have more fun). The key meeting you must have with your family, that could totally change their future. How to make mealtime easier and more joyful, and the secret is right under your nose! The 7 House Rules you must put in place today to create a joyful family tomorrow. The key principle that can help you move past a fear of failure and--finally--create success. The effects of “Totem Pole Syndrome” and how to know if you have it. The real reason you are not experiencing enough joy and how to tap into it in seconds. The 5 Joy Reminders and how to make them work with your subconscious brain. The secret method of tapping into peace while also allowing the release of joy. The “behind the scenes” enemy that every mom has to stop joy (and how to overcome it).

This month, we're joined by Dr. Jillian Weber, National Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (HPACT) Program Manager, and Dr. Aayshah Muneerah from the VA Oklahoma City Healthcare System to learn more about VA's new mobile medical units (MMU) for Veterans.  Our guests talk about what HPACT does, what MMUs are, and how both help bring medical care services directly to homeless Veterans living out on the street.Veterans who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness are strongly encouraged to contact the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans at (877) 4AID-VET (877-424-3838) for assistance.Closed Caption Transcript is available at: https://www.sharedfedtraining.org/Podcasts/EVH_S1EP26.pdf===============================Find your nearest VA: https://www.va.gov/find-locationsLearn more about VA resources to help homeless Veterans: https://www.va.gov/homelessListen to our very first episode of Ending Veteran Homelessness featuring Dr. Jillian Weber: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/s1ep1-caring-for-the-health-of-homeless-veterans-during-covid-19--49740594Read our press release announcing the launch of VA's new mobile medical units: https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-launches-mobile-medical-units-to-increase-access-to-health-care-for-homeless-veterans/Read about, and view pictures of, the MMU Oklahoma City, OK: https://www.va.gov/oklahoma-city-health-care/stories/oklahoma-city-vas-big-blue-van-hits-the-road-delivering-care-to-unhoused-veterans/Read about, and view pictures of, the MMU Birmingham, AL: https://news.va.gov/128877/birmingham-va-launches-mobile-medical-unit/

In Part 1, we will be traveling through each zone of your home and discovering techniques to fill it with joy. If you aren't already zoning your home, get ready for life to change. The key 3-part strategy that will help you manage your home better, while you are creating more joy. The free tool inside MMU that will help you organize your life (and have more fun). The key meeting you must have with your family, that could totally change their future. How to make mealtime easier and more joyful, and the secret is right under your nose! The 7 House Rules you must put in place today to create a joyful family tomorrow. The key principle that can help you move past a fear of failure and--finally--create success. The effects of “Totem Pole Syndrome” and how to know if you have it. The real reason you are not experiencing enough joy and how to tap into it in seconds. The 5 Joy Reminders and how to make them work with your subconscious brain. The secret method of tapping into peace while also allowing the release of joy. The “behind the scenes” enemy that every mom has to stop joy (and how to overcome it).

Episode 14 "On the Road to AMPS Nats... “  As you are listening, the guys should all be converging on South Bend!   John Charvat gets us even more hyped up for NATS!   We discuss his history with AMPS, the past shows and most importantly, this year's show!   The guys also discuss their new purchases and projects on their benches.  This did get recorded a few weeks back, so you may already have seen some of these builds shared as completed by now; Riv also comes at Frankie D about his choice of apparel, while trying to explain to the rest of us what the hell “Oaktag” is...   Frankie D talks about the Moosaroo Cup, and his entry. (of course, by now we know the results  of this contest...).  The kit was a teenie-tiny little 1/72 scale Russian/Ukranian Ural truck. Group Build updates: The Red Beach One Studios World War One group build is ongoing, make sure to check that one out if you're interested in WWI subjects. Justin completed his German Pioneer figure, Rob Adams is working on his Mk V Tank (which he has since completed-cant wait to see this thing at NATS!)  48 in 48 M4H group build- this was a fun time, and has since been completed.   Machinen Krieger Group build is well underway!  Officially ends in July, with the release of the 1/35 Falke kit - post your unstarted  builds in the ‘Unstarted ‘ Album.  New Kits In The News Frankie D –1/20 Grosserhund ‘Maskenball' Ma.k., Heller Panhard Armored Car 178 AMD 35 new tool, Border Models, 251-1 D Halftrack in 1/35 scale Rob Adams-Nothing jumped out at Rob this episode-He “Dont got nuthin'” Tuch-Miniart 1/72 Stug, M3 Stuart 35th scale, 48th scale Scaffolding set, 1/48th scale wooden pallets, 35th scale Bakery Van, Takom, Stug 3 G Blitz Kit, storage and equipment set, Mk 45 Model 4 5in Naval gun 1/35, Don2N Pillbox Antimissile defense system Justin-1/72 Special Hobby Westland Whirlwind, Italeri EF-111 Raven, SBS Model 48th Macchi M33 Project Upcoming Shows AMPS Nats - April 11-13- Southbend IndianaHome Page - Armor Modeling & Preservation Society (amps-armor.org) MFCA - May 3-4 Feasterville-Trevose PaMFCA Annual Show | Miniature Figure Collectors of America (mfcaclub.com) Can-Am Con 2024 - Saturday April 20th Williston National Gard Armory in suburbs of Berlington Vt. CAN/AM Con '24 | IPMS/USA Home Page (ipmsusa.org) ModelMania 24 - Saturday May 4thStafford Centre, 10505 Cash Road, Stafford, TX 77477https://ipms-houstontx.org/Social Media Shout Outs Rob Adams- Craig Flynn (Flynnburger) Bandai 72nd scale Y Wing Frankie D-Robert Czulda and his 1/72 Vietnam Era Mule w/ recoilless rifle Bad Santa - Bob Smith and his Hetzer 38t Late Tuch- Bill Huffman and his WWI trench Diorama Rob Riv - Sheldon Mcleese's JS2 in MMU and on the Insanity page-Tamiya Kit with upgrades Links Mount Mansfield Scale ModelersMount Mansfield Scale Modelers | Facebook Rob Riv's Modeling Insanity Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/robrivsmodelinginsanity?mibextid=AEUHqQ Ryan's Random Modelwerks on Facebook Opening and end music by Supernova by Arthur Vyncke https://soundcloud.com/arthurvostMusic promoted by http://www.free-stock-music.comJoin the Podcast on Facebook on The Modeling Insanity Podcast PageEmail the Insanity Crew at modelinginsanitypodcast@gmail.com for any comments or suggestions.