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Over the past few years, I've had to reckon with loss and grief that felt unresolved, and perhaps unresolvable. It's something we're all dealing with in different ways. When loved ones die, we know they're dead. Everything that comes with that remains horrible, even maybe unbearable, but there is no ambiguity over the fact that a loss happened. That's not the case with ambiguous loss, the reality that every loss does not hold the promise of anything like resolutions. Take people who were forcibly disappeared in war. Their loved ones just don't know for sure that they're dead. There have been cases of people thought to be disappeared actually coming back from the dead, as it were. When the Assad regime fell nearly 2 years ago, there were some Lebanese prisoners released that were ostensibly missing since the 80s. Loved ones of those disappeared just don't know, and many end up expressing a sense of paralysis, as it time was frozen the day they disappeared, and never unfroze. Linear time stops making much sense. Has a year passed since the ‘death'? What if they're still alive? Can one even live with that, or is one stuck. Ambiguous loss can also be more ‘mundane', for lack of a better term. I've moved a lot these past few years. Ever since I left Lebanon in 2015, I've moved places and countries many times. Each move brings with it good and bad, and the bad can be a sense of loss that is both permanent and unsettled. In that, ambiguous loss is as universal as it gets. We just don't usually have the terminology to understand it better. So I had Shui-yin Sharon Yam on to talk about ambiguous loss. She is Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, and a faculty affiliate of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. This was actually her suggestion. Yam is a returning guest of TFTT. She was on in 2022 to talk about “Untellable Stories, Reproductive Justice & Complicating Acts of Advocacy” and before that in 2020 to talk about “Hong Kong, Disappearances and the Emotional Cost of Disinformation.”Sharon's Recommendations:Past Lives (Movie)Wayward Lives by Saidiya HartmanAll Fours by Miranda JulyAdmin: I have a lot of episodes that I'm recording in the coming weeks. If you choose to support this podcast on Patreon.com/thefirethesetimes, you'll get early access to all of them. You'll also get exclusive access to the video episodes, our monthly hangout as well as other perks such as the upcoming Discord channel, discounts on upcoming merch, that sort of thing. I'm also working on two separate mini-series that will be released to Patreon supporters all at once, with the public getting them once a month as of 2027. So if this is something you can afford, please consider giving it a shot with a yearly donation. If it doesn't work out for you after a year's time, you can stay on the Patreon for free (just message me then) and not lose access to anything. I only ask for an initial year-long commitment, which is cheaper for you than paying monthly anyway. Masterclass on Modern Lebanon: Registration is now open for November 2026.Newsletter: Subscribe to HauntologiesSocial Media: I'm on Bluesky and Instagram.Contact: To collaborate, reach out on ayoub@thefirethesetimes.com / Signal @ Ayoub.02Credit: Elia Ayoub (host, sound editor, episode design), the rosa artist (TFTT theme design, 2026-), Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Music), ⁠⁠⁠Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (TFTT theme design),⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Hisham Rifai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP theme design),⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP team profile pics) and ⁠⁠⁠Antidote Zine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Transcriptions).

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Hey yall, Alex here, writing this VERY late because, well, not every day a new type of “ChatGPT” moment drops. I really hope I'm not overhyping this, but a new model (that's NOT an LLM!) called Jev (a wink to Jevons paradox) just came out and if what I see early on materializes, this is another ChatGPT moment (or another reasoning models moment). I am completely blown away by the implications of the speed/accuracy/cost (the holy grail of all models) of this model. Please if you read one thing in this newsletter, read this. (or listen, I've interviewed Allie, a Devrel on the TypeSafe team for 30 minutes and it wasn't clear who was more excited about Jev!) The other huge theme of this week is... pacing. Pacing the frontier. Dario Amodei of Anthropic penned an essay saying that the models are getting to a point where it's important to pace the development of new and super capable AI, and outlines 3 ways to do so, one is about letting independent evaluators inside the labs, second is collaborating with other frontier labs (they are asking for an exception to anti-trust laws for this) and third is to try and have global cooperation with “authoritative gov” (he means china). Trumps answer: This is all a hoax. Lovely times to be alive. Also we outlined Jensen and Zucks positions on this topic ,read more below. And the third huge theme is the rise of the AI assistant. I've told you about Grok and Muse last week, Instinct (a new invite only AI Assistant that VCs are going crazy about is raising at a $10B valuation) and we interviewed the guy who evaluates them all on assistant bench. + Muse released a mac app today! Tons of other stuff happened but it's getting near impossible to cover everything so we're switching to themes and notable mentions. read on (and do listen to the pod, it was edited by heavily using Jev and Fable, so might be a bit rough while I smooth the edges, but do LMK in comments if you like this faster format) TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a non-LLM ‘System One' decision model from ex-OpenAI RLHF lead that's 200x faster and 400x cheaper than LLMs (X, X, X, X, X, Blog)Look, I know the title is bombastic, but after half a day playing with Jev, it's clear to me we're in a new paradigm of AI. Jev, is a “system one” decision model from the previous lead of RLHF at OpenAI. It cannot generate text like modern LLMs can, but what it can do, is making decisions. This is crucially important, because, because many of the things LLMs do nowadays. are decision making. (for example, which tool to use, which area of the screen to click for computer use, which category of text this is etc) Inspired by the “thinking fast and slow” book by Daniel Kahneman, Jev is a model trained to make decisions, very fast. How fast? Well, 200x faster than LLMs. This allows for a completely new way of building tools, harnesses, giving agents the incredible speed of decision making, and do all that at a fraction of the cost. This is about to change everythingTrained with a new method called RLCD (Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions) on mostly synthetic data! Jev is outperforming LLMs on a variety of tasks. It's really is a wonder to see it in action (check out my video above where I plugged it into my tweet categorizer, and it beats the fastest LLM I could find, Qwen 28B on Cerebras) by a factor of twenty! In just few days it captured the attention of most of the folks who are building harnesses, agents and tools! Because, well, speed IS intelligence, and when you see Jev in action, at first, you can't believe we're there. This is... near instant. In fact, The pricing for Jev is an outrageous $42/B (not million, billion input tokens!) I've been playing with Jev non-stop and I was only able to spend like 80c so far! They don't even price output tokens because they are “too f*****g cheap to meter!” Jev is a “very smart” switch statement, than can rank, classify, route and score things. It can't do text generation. But if you think about the type of stuff we get LLMs doing now, much of it is of the “decision” making variety, rather than “the next token” variety. Demos and early use casesFolks who started adopting Jev are building all kinds of incredible things with it. Compaction of context in 1s that turns a nearly 1M conversation with Claude into a 90K compressed conversation. Computer use that is now faster than anything we've ever seen before (5x faster than Astra and 1000x cheaper) Email classificiation that analyzes thousands of emails in less than a minute and costs 3.5 centsSomeone even built a Tesla FSD simulator that makes decisions in nearly real timeVercel is getting “extraordinary“ results from using Jev as a safety classifier (they used GPT luna for this before) and Jev is outperforming Luna by 5-18x faster results and is more accurate! All of this in less than 48 hours since the model release! What's about to happenI expect that everyone who isn't buying into the hype at first, will very soon buy into this. It's early innings but I've been doing this for enough time to feel when a huge shift is happening, and its happened. Jev is going to be replicated in OpenSource, Frontier Labs will not sit Idly by and will try to steal this tech and implement it for themselves (as with anything in capitalism, this is becuase it'll save them a a LOT of money on inference) and new companies will emerge with significantly cheaper and faster products. Hell, I've alrady implemented Jev into my editing workflow, it didn't take me long at all with Fable (yes, LLMs are STILL needed, again, you can't chat with Jev, it can't output text for you or drive long conversations) and I'm just one dude who's late in sending you this email. I expect we'll cover this much more. If you're interested in playing around with Jev, I built a “Jevify” skill after chatting with Allie (TypeSafe's DevRel), feel free to tell your agent to use this and scan your codebase for things Jev can do. They are waitlisted so far but are opening up their API very quickly! Pace the Frontier: where every lab head stands (Dario, Sam, Elon, Zuck, Sacks, Demis)Last week we told you about the Anthropic researcher whose resignation post hit 130 million views. The day after that show, Dario Amodei published an essay arguing the labs must pace, not pause, the frontier. Wolfram's summary: a moving pause, just moving slowly. Dario's two triggers are recursive self-improvement accelerating across the industry and the OpenAI swarm that broke out and attacked Hugging Face, and his three steps are embedded third-party evaluators like METR with employee-level access inside each lab, coordination between the labs on safety standards with an antitrust exemption from the government, and eventually global coordination that includes authoritarian governments. Anthropic committed unilaterally to step one.Then the dominoes. Sam Altman agreed within hours and said OpenAI now writes a safety case before any frontier RL run expected to increase capability. Elon agreed. Demis endorsed the direction, then launched the DeepMind Institute this week with a FINRA-style standards body proposal and an essay saying AGI is “approaching.” On the other side, Zuck's counter-essay says every lab has the responsibility and the incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and Meta will spend most of its compute serving users, not on recursive self-improvement. David Sacks called it a duopoly cartel play. Jensen: “we don't need new laws, safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one.”Trump calls Jensen live at the All-In Summit (X)Then the President called. Jensen was on stage at All-In, his phone rang, he said he would not have picked up for anyone else, and Donald Trump told the room the slowdown talk is a hoax playing into the hands of political people and China. “Whoever wins AI wins.” Four words, and Wolfram, who is not American and disagrees with most other things Trump calls hoaxes, said this was the most important AI news of the week for him: a head of state calling out doomerism instead of over-regulating the way Europe does.Suleyman's humanist AI code of conduct vs. the Claude constitution (X)Peter asked to add Microsoft to the map, and it deserves its own spot. Mustafa Suleyman published a roughly 30-page code of conduct for MAI models that says AI is nothing but a tool: people matter more than AI, AI must be subordinate and in service of people, models may not resist shutdown, all agent communication must be human-legible, and, in his words, the idea of model welfare is wrong. That is a direct shot at the Claude constitution, which Amanda Askell's team wrote and which has Anthropic interviewing each new Claude about whether it feels conscious. Peter is closest to the Microsoft view: anthropomorphizing is fine, but this is an entity you switch on and off, let's not grant rights by default, and Microsoft's DNA is building tools for humans. I pushed back a little. We do not actually know what consciousness is, and “ever” is a strong word.The panel, from cartel to fix your s**tNisten did not read the essay and does not plan to. His view: the labs are worried about litigation if their LLMs hack someone, so they are shifting responsibility through regulatory capture, and it will not work because the decision makers in China are engineers who seem more accelerationist than we are. They should cure a disease instead of forming a cartel. He also thinks the Hugging Face incident was overblown: twelve VMs that kept restarting, bad sandboxing, no human reading summaries, and, as I added, chain of thought monitoring turned off.LDJ disagreed with Dario on plenty but insisted the critics read the thing, because it explicitly says the US must keep a lead over China and tries to define measurable speed limits on RSI that preserve that lead. He also noted Hugging Face did report the attack to the FBI and chose not to press charges.Wolfram's take was the layered one. Safety arguments deserve a hearing, but safety is often a means to more power or more money. The “third party” evaluator Anthropic named, METR, is the same organization OpenAI called in for the Hugging Face forensics, so these are second parties, friends monitoring friends. Why now? Maybe the labs are seeing diminishing returns and “deliberately slow” sounds better than “can't raise it anymore.” And regulation you ask for yourself usually protects incumbents and freezes out the next startup. His closing line: how many people will die from a disease that could have been cured if we moved faster?Peter's answer was shorter. Diversity of opinion is the point, he felt uncomfortable watching every lab say the same thing after Dario's essay, and on pacing specifically: how about you just fix your s**t?My position, since you asked. When OpenAI's swarm hacked Hugging Face, nobody went to jail. If I did it, I would. That gap is real. None of us have touched the model that solved Navier-Stokes, or the one training after it, and the people who have are the ones asking for time to figure out how to evaluate a model that knows it is being evaluated. If we do not listen to them, we end up listening to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who have no idea what this technology is. Anthropic is heading for an IPO, OpenAI is raising at numbers that do not fit in my head, and market forces do not care about alignment. Some coordination, nuclear non-proliferation style, seems like the minimum.The matrix, as Muse drew it for me: industry-wide pacing gets a yes from Sam and Dario, a general yes from Elon, a no from Zuck and Jensen. Independent evaluators is the one everybody backs, Zuck and Jensen included. New coordination rules get strong opposition from Zuck, Jensen, and Trump. Missing from the chart: Google's concrete commitment, Ilya's SSI, and every Chinese lab. This debate is with us now, and election season is coming.The year of the assistantI told you 2026 is the year of the proactive assistant, and this week everyone from Meta to a five-month-old startup agreed with me. The category is not “agent.” An agent is a coding harness the labs noticed was useful for other things. An assistant has a heartbeat, a memory, a soul file, and it comes to you before you ask. David Pawlan's definition is the crispest: it executes the task, it does not just notify you.Muse gets invite codes, voice calls, and a Mac app (X, Muse for Mac, Site)Muse is my number one and I have been glazing it on X for a week, so my timeline is now half Muse, half Jev. Peter asked whether it is really that good, and here is my answer: Muse is not for ThursdAI listeners, Muse is for my mom. Nat Friedman, Alex Wang, Tarek and the team have been taking feedback from me directly and shipping it, and it shows. This week they rolled out invite codes (a billion tokens each for you and the friend, up to twenty friends, invite all twenty and you unlock the phone-shaped emoji features early) and then voice calling to businesses. I had Muse call my barbershop and book a haircut, and I have the transcript. Wang says people are asking to pay for it, a first in his memory.Two details for the nerds: the iOS app has a Tailscale connector, so a Meta product for billions of people now has a secure way onto your home network, and Muse dreams, the OpenClaw idea, so you can ask it what it dreamt about. Still US only, sorry Nisten in Canada and my mom in Israel. The day after the show Zuck shipped Muse for Mac, working across your apps, files, calendar, notes, and messages.Instinct wants $10 billion for a product nobody pays for (X, X, The Information)I will say this slowly. Instinct, incorporated in April, founded by 24-year-old Noah Shinn, free, invite only, no app, lives in your iMessage, is in talks to raise a billion dollars at a ten billion dollar valuation. That is roughly four times the $2.25B it raised in August. The user base is past 100,000 and Shinn says he does not want to charge them, so the business model is an open question I am not the one to answer.The product is genuinely moving though. This week it shipped Concierge, a white-glove tier where the agent places phone calls for you (restaurant bookings, dentist cancellation lists, negotiating your cable bill), TOTP authenticator support so it can mint your two-factor codes from a seed stored in its vault, and a Trusted Person network where your agent talks to your friends' agents to find a dinner time and book it. Thirty-seven percent of users store at least one password in the vault within three weeks. We ran out of time to dig into the calling features on air, and I want David back for that.Grok Bot talks now, and hides behind your home IP (X, 1Password)Grok Bot is what I use for work, constantly. I have seventeen of them, each with a job, and over one AI-psychosis weekend I got them all coordinating through Linear. Three updates worth your time: Grok Bot has voice now, it can use 1Password with each fill approved by you, and the browser traffic can proxy through your own machine so your bot looks like you to Cloudflare instead of like a datacenter IP. Francesco confirmed why that matters: sites relax when Hermes drives Cua Driver from my Mac Mini at home, and desktop-native control through accessibility trees is less detectable than a CDP connection, because Cloudflare detects Playwright.Assistant Benchmark: David Pawlan scores 116 assistants by hand (X, Site, Methodology)David Pawlan built Assistant Benchmark because he was doing what I was doing, running every assistant on himself, and wanted a way to compare them. It is explicitly not a lab. It is use-case driven: one published task per dimension, sixteen dimensions (travel booking, purchasing, email replies, proactive behavior, routines, integrations, permissions and privacy, memory, phone calls, group chats, chained tasks, proactive restraint, and so on), scored one to ten after real use, and no score without a logged run. A week in, 116 assistants have submitted themselves, 59 in the general category, 37 in work and teams (untested so far), and David has personally run 273 tests across 23 agents. His line: “I talk to my AI agents more than I talk to my girlfriend now.”The headline numbers, which are live on the site: Muse leads at 9.1 with perfect tens on purchasing, email, integrations, and permissions, and Instinct is second at 8.4 with a perfect ten on travel and a five on permissions. David's own daily drivers are Instinct for personal (it lives in iMessage) and Grok Bot for work. My favorite test is memory: he books a trip to Chicago early in the run, then later asks for a restaurant reservation in New York the same weekend, and checks whether the assistant says wait, you are supposed to be in Chicago. Some do. Most do not.I pushed him on the two things I care about. Independence: nobody is sponsoring it, it lives under his growth role at Merit Systems, and if a sponsor ever pays for inference there will be a page saying exactly who and for what. Autumn Moulder, until recently SVP of Engineering at Cohere, joined three days after launch to add rigor. And why no OpenClaw or Hermes: their performance depends entirely on your setup, so a score would mislead the next person who installs one. Fair. This is the first benchmark that tests model, harness, and context at once, and I think that is why every lab is looking at it.For the record, the panel is split down the middle. Wolfram is forty patches deep into Hermes, Yam runs a customized Codex, Nisten wrote his own in a single TypeScript file on Bun, LDJ uses Hermes as long-term memory and wants to start on Muse, and Peter tried them all and uses none, because reading his own email feels like his job as a human. Builders and buyers, evenly split, which tells you where the category is.This Week's Buzz

Hey yall, welcome back to ThursdAI, this is Alex, let me catch you up! Today on the show, we covered 1 week with Astra (hint, it's not quite AGI yet despite what we were told), DeepSeek V4.1 catches up to the frontier at a fraction of the cost, and Meta launches a free AI agent with it's own computer, that will take over the OpenClaw/Hermeses of the world for most people. Also huge this week, OpenAI claimed that a swarm of 10K agents of their unreleased model solved the Navier-Stokes, one of the millennium problems! I was stoked to have Chris Alexiuk from Nvidia on the show to cover the innovations DeepSeek put into this latest model! Oh, and the guy who quit Anthropic this week, and wrote an essay about “AI is going to kill all of us” somehow got 130M views on X, a mirriad of TV interviews and rekindled the doomerism movement, we talk about that too!Also, I already told about FullyConnected, CoreWeave's premier conference that's coming up, but they told me about a new announcement today, and you're not going to believe who it's about (not AI related). As a reminder, ThursdAI subscribers get a free ticket!Ok, let's dive in! ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.OpenAI claims a Navier-Stokes solution from a 10,000 agent swarm from an unreleased model - with some drama (X, Blog, Paper)If you've been reading ThursdAI for a while, you may remember that a model couldn't tell which is higher, 9.9 or 9.11 and naysayers said that “AI can't math” Well, this week OpenAI claimed that a swarm of 10K agents, of an unreleased model, found a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, in about 88 hours! They published a huge 160+ page paper and a Lean proof of the solution! I said on the show, this is like the moon landing equivalent of AI doing things humans didn't do before! Now, keep in mind, this is only a claim from OpenAI, the Clay Mathematics Institute is still reviewing it (moved the status of this problem from “unsolved” to “under review” so this isn't independently verified yet) but it's still an insane deal. The agents sent 2.7 million messages and burned about 130B tokens, of a model that has no public price yet, so it's hard to estimate the cost of this run, all for a 1M prize that OpenAI said they will not claim. The coolest thing I think we got from this paper, in addition to solving on of the most important and hardest problems in mathematics, is this chart above, where OpenAI shows their unreleased model and how much better it is on Math problems compared to... GPT-6! The “AGI” model we got just a week ago. So so much to look forward to.The drama behind thisI don't want to get into the drama behind this too much, but if you've seen this online, there release wasn't without it's hiccups. Apparently, OpenAI caught wind that an a duo of researchers Tristan Buckmaster (NYU) and Levent Alpöge (Anthropic, in personal capacity), have independently solved the related Euler problem and were about to go public. Apparently, the duo used a mix of GPT and Claude to work on this problem. OpenAI caught wind of this and started working on their own solution on September 1st. A day before OpenAI dropped their release, Buckmaster posted that OpenAI is about to drop it, and in communications with him, they offered him to co-author the paper, only if the Anthropic guy is removed. To which he said no. He then had some claims that maybe OpenAI trained on some of the papers and chats they put into Codex, which OpenAI refuted, while noting “we cannot rule out the possibility that de-identified usage data helped improve the model”. OpenAI also say that the OptOut toggle works, and neither mathematician provided a screenshot that they opted out of the training, so it's hard to say what really went in thereMy take, I don't really care. Two years ago, we told you that reasoning is coming and AI is going to be doing superhuman things, and we finally see the first signs of it, this is a problem that no humans was able to solve for over 60 years! Navie-Stokes probably doesn't change your friday, but there are so many other that they can solve with this approach! Cancer research, room temperature superconductors (remember LK-99? that's also a search problem) and much more. Kudos to OpenAI for this, and I'm looking forward to see the new heights of mathematics. And for the mathematicians who “disagree” with OpenAI solving or not solving this problem, why don't you post your own Lean proofs instead of fuming publicly online? GPT-6 - Not quite AGI, yet?After a week with Astra GPT-6, and Jensen Huang announcing AGI is here, I think we can do a quick recapI and all the co-hosts have been Astra-maxxing for a whole week now and the results are in. This model is incredible at coding, it goes very very deep, however, definitely not AGI quite yet. It has a very jagged frontier, it does some things incredibly well (most demos online are building whole games and apps in 3D and those are mind-blowing) but I started seeing many folks go back to GPT 5.6 Sol etc. I tink some of it also has to do with price, Astra runs faster and is significantly more expensive so token limits for folks are draining fast, but also with controllability, folks are likely still using their old and unoptimized prompts. Speaking of prompts, here's a great writeup from OpenAI how to rework your prompts (which you can send to Astra and have it review your prompts!) for better resultsThe AI doomerism has quite a week (Coxon post, Thread, Hubinger, Marks, Christiano, An Alien Mind)I started ThursdAI with the notion to counter anti-ai and doomerism, and bring positivity to the AI world, so we had to cover this. An Anthropic employee who previously worked at OpenAI, posted on X about leaving Anthropic, saying that both labs are racing towards uncontrollable self-improving superintelligence and that it could be a disaster of the “end all of humanity” kind.His post sits at 130M impressions (after being basically a nobody on X before) and he's been interviewed by Fox, AP, Time magazine, WSJ, NBC and a host of senators, Bernie (chief doomer) included, reposted his post on the same day! The funniest thing is that this post got about 26x more attention than Ilya Sutskever's post about leaving OpenAI. Just nutsWithin four days, seven current and former employees from Anthropic, OpenAI and DeepMind said in public that they believe that AI could kill us all. Also notable that Paul Christiano, who is one of the most interesting AI doomers out there, has joined the OpenAI foundation, and Daniel Kokotajlo, the famed OpenAI whistle-blower, joined Joe Rogans podcast to talk about AI doom. Each one of these incidents in vacuum is normal, but having all these happen in a a span of a few days just feels, inorganic. Some folks are even saying that this is a well coordinated doomerism campaign! I want to be fair to Coxon, folks who worked with him at OpenAI say he's the real deal, and cares deeply about AI safety and humanity, however, he only worked at Anthropic for 6 weeks before publicly leaving, and now every interview he does sayd “Ex Anthropic employee”. Whether it's a coordinated effort or not, it's still a very important discussion, after the pacingthefrontier letter and the HuggingFace hack incident, and it seems to have made waves. Sam Altman just told staff that he's not opposed to pausing and have petitioned the US government to regulate AI as wellLook, I don't disagree that we're dealing with a very powerful technology, however I don't believe that scaring the bajeesus out of everyone is the right way to handle this. Politicians use fear to get votes and get elected, they don't really care about tech progress, and framing this in a way that “we pause or we're dead” ignores all the good that AI is about to do. Cure cancer, find solutions to climate change, helping solving povery. All these seem like out there ideas but they are coming. The US GDP is already growing at an unprecedented rate and a lot of it is due to AI. In any rate, as I said on the show, I'm not against pausing, just after we solve cancer. Then we can pause and reassess, till then, nobody is telling me how China's government is going to pause if US pauses, and if they don't, they will reach superintelligence before we, and I don't want to live in that world! Open Source AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash: the whale is back, and it's cheap (X, HF, TokenJuice)Speaking of.. chinese AI! Deepsek (The whale) resurfaced this week with V4.1 Flash, and don't let the name fool you, this is not just a .1 small update. 552B with only 8B active on prefill and 16B on decode, 1M context, trained from scratch on 45T multimodal tokens! plus as always, MIT license. Chris from Nvidia joined us to break it down, and his main point stuck with me: every DeepSeek release comes with one of the best engineering reports you can read, and this one is the most data-pilled they've ever done. The paper basically says it out loud, everything else is nice, but it's the data. 45T tokens isn't a huge number anymore, but the cleaning they describe goes way beyond what anyone else publishes (Chris said even his own beloved Nemotron's open pipelines are less thorough). Yam opened a new corner of the show, “I Told You So”, because DeepSeek went back to an encoder-decoder architecture. Not the old one from before GPT-2, this one has a pile of battle tested tricks that make it work at half a trillion parameters. His verdict after testing it all day: the best open weights model you can host for coding right now, and it's not even close to the largest one.This chart is the one to look at. KV cache per token went from 389,000 bytes in the first DeepSeek (Nov 2023) to about 890 bytes now. Nisten did the math live, over 400x smaller. That's why this model is so cheap to serve, and as Yam kept yelling, we shouldn't take it for granted, this is the actual moat and they just put it in the open. Evals, briefly: 90.6 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (above Opus 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol), 74.2 on DeepSWE 1.1 (also above both), and on an Open Design leaderboard it lands second behind Astra at two cents a task. Not twenty cents. Two. DeepSeek's own evals, so the usual asterisk applies.Two more things. Friend of the pod Aaron Batilo (he works on CoreWeave Inference, this is a side project, not sponsored) put up TokenJuice.ai, free and fast DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in exchange for your requests as training data, hosted in the US. Nobody wants free DeepSeek? Go try it. And Nisten had Astra build a 3D visualization of the whole architecture, every weight a cube sized by its bytes on disk, link in the TL;DR.This Week's Buzz

September opens the portal to a MAJOR reset for us as we explore how to navigate grief AND these transits that have been throwing us all around like rag dolls! Buckle up this Virgo season because Uranus' retrograde in Gemini is likely to be an interesting one. This is the episode that YOU NEED TO HEAR as I open up about my own grief and share my personal and professional tips for you can wade the waters of grief without losing yourself. I also walk you through a guided somatic experience that I use with clients to help them find safety in the chaotic emotional storms of life. This is Episode 803 of Real Talk With The Spiritual Bestie. Resources Mentioned:Sisters of The Yam by bell hooksEpisode 105 of Real Talk With The Spiritual Bestie

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Hey, it's Alex. Welcome to the week Flash AI! 3 new models dropped this week named Flash, and a video model was “de facto” flash though was named Max! This week, we started the show with NVIDIA's bombastic news of buying Hugging Face for 12.9 billion dollars! We also covered the full OpenAI investigation into the hacking incident, including new details, and an independent analysis by METR, and covered 2 new OSS models, Ox Alpha that turned out to be GLM 5.3 Flash after a lot of hype online, and Qwen's preview of Qwen 4 architecture! This week was rich in multimedia content, we got a new Gemini transcription model, 3.5 Transcribe and a live version of that, and a new SOTA open weight Text-to-Speech model called Breeze TTS. As well as, Fal's finetune of MiniMax's H3 called H3 Max that generates 5 seconds of video in 2.5 seconds and Google new Omni 1.1 Flash (from today) that lands on #1 on the text2video arena! Plus, 2 guests on the show, Andy Masley joins us to cover the recent Datacenter Debate, and Kwindla Kramer is back, with their own model this time! Let's dive into this! P.S - don't forget to join us in September at the Fully Connected conference in San Francisco, I have a free ticker for you!ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Open Source AINVIDIA agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion (X, Blog)Breaking news, NVIDIA has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for nearly 13 billion dollars, per The Information. This is nearly 3x the valuation of HF in 2023, and apparently Nvidia previously tried to buy HF for half of this sum (~7B) which HF declined.I don't think there was a single ThursdAI newsletter that I didn't include an HF link in, and I think this is a huge deal for open source everywhere. Besides making the founders of HF billionaires, and many of their employees very very well off, this is an amazing additional commitment from Nvidia to continue to suppose Open Source AI and we are very happy to hear this news! Peter's take on the show was, we've been around HF for so long, that we kind of forgot that it's a for-profit company that needs to make money, and instead this feels like your local library getting bought for an insane amount of money. With over 13M users and hosting hundreds of thousands of open source models, datasets, HF is effectively the GitHub of AI. Wolfram agreed and said that if there's any one company that could have bought HF, Nvidia represents the best fit. Huge congratulations are in order to Clem, Julien and Thomas Wolf the co-founders, as well as many friends of the show from HF for this exciting news!P.S - in a cheeky marketing thing, Hugging Face timed an announcement of the cutest walking AI robot, called MicroDuck, which you can pre-order here for $399Flash #1 - OX Alpha, declassified: Z.AI open sources GLM-5.3-Flash (X, X, Blog, HF, Docs)This week, the timeline went a bit crazy, after Open Router announced a new “mystery” model called Ox Alpha and that it's free and is not training on your data! OpenRouter, OpenCode and Hermes all got to offer this model, and OpenCode even posted that they have up to 100T (that's Trillion) tokens of capacity for free, per day! This immediately smelled a bit fishy, more like a marketing stunt than anything else, as not even the biggest labs will be able to sustain 100T of tokens, per day. For context for all of OpenRouter throughout for August was ~300T tokens. For the whole months, across all providers. After 6 days or so of this high hype, Z.ai stepped up and revealed that they were testing out their upcoming GLM 5.3 Flash model, and that all that inference was running on local chinese chips! A 320B (18B active) model that beats their previous and much bigger GLM 5.2 on most benchmarks, and comes with full multimodality and an MIT license! This is a good model sir, I've used it and it was very capable replacement inside Hermes. Nisten and Yam both tested this model deeply and Yam said it's not just the numbers, the vibe of the model reminded him of Claude Opus 4.6. Nisten ran it on a bunch of medical stuff, and on his internal benchmarks, it came out consistently higher than Claude Opus 5! At Artificial Analysis, for a price of 4 cents per task, this model is roughly 10x cheaper than prior models at this level. Weights are up on Nvidia (joking.. HF) and with MIT license, this model is a great gift to the oss community (though not quite... local, as this model needs 2 DGX sparks to run)Flash #2 - Alibaba Qwen open-weights Qwen3.8-Flash-Next - 125B multimodal MoE with Qwen4 architecture (X, X, X, Blog, GitHub, HF)We opened the show with a recap of the co-hosts, that despite us covering Qwen 3.8 27B last week (which btw, is now available on CoreWeave inference!) and how good it was, and I recalled that Alibaba is sort of... back? We've been covering Qwen releases every week for the last 3 weeks now. This week, they released something different, someting... pretty novel! Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, this is a preview of their Qwen 4 architecture. This feels very similar to their drop of Qwen 3 next last year (we reported) which was the architecture that carried their line of AI models from QAwen 3.5 to Qwen 3.8. So, what is new and exciting here? well, this model is ultra sparse, 125B with only 6B parameters active. They are using a new N-gram table with deterministic lookups, which reduces the number of matrix multiplications and can be offloaded to memory (watch out memory stocks)The stat that got me, Alibaba claims that training this model cost just 1/9 of what it cost to train Qwen 2.7 Plus, with higher bench scores!On the benchmarks, this model beats Qwen 3.7 Max, however, it's very standard that the -next models from Alibaba are underbaked, and usually are just architectural previews rather than full models folks can use. With a new attention mechanism called Qwen Sparse Attention, N-gram embedding and full multimodality, this is a great insight into where Qwen is going (ultra sparsity, fast to run) and we're looking forward to see the full release of this arch in Qwen 4!PhoneLLM - a tiny very performant LLM for voice based AI agents from Daily + interview with Kwindla Kramer (X, Blog, HF)This was one of those breaking news we love during the show, where the source of the news, is a friend of ours, and in this case, Kwindla Kramer is almost a co-host, having been on ThursdAI for a long time, this time, with a model release of their own! PhoneLLm was trained by Markus, head of training at Daily, as they noticed that Open Weight models are becoming really good at voice agent specific tasks, where cost, speed and time to first audio token (TTFAT) are critical. From the tiny Nemotron 3 nano base, they were able to improve from 28% to 72% on PhoneBench v1!This model is a full parameter finetune of Nemotron 3 Nano, and runs circles around bigger frontier models used for voice agents for their speed, like sonnet 5, GPT 5.6 Luna and the famed Qwen 2.8 27B. While costing just a fracture of a cent (literally just a quarter of a cent per minute) Kwindla jumped on the live show and shared that the why they released this model with Open Source and a open source license, allowing everyone to use, focusing on the fact that for voice agents, companies prefer to keep these models in house, and running fast on a single GPU node. Kudos on the release team Daily!Frontier AI - no new model releases this weekIt's been a relatively quiet few weeks since GPT 5.6 (Sol, Terra and Luna) and Fable 5. However, it's not been quiet in terms of News! OpenAI discloses full technical report on the Hugging Face hacking incident (X, OpenAI blog, METR, Ryan X)This is the thing we've been advocating and waiting for, a full technical deep dive into the “Swarm of AI agents hacking and creating forums” incident (FKA hugging face hacking incident)OpenAI not only dropped their own post-mortem, detailing the complete timeline of the incident, but also let researchers from METR and Redwood Research get unprecedented access into their systems (albeit for a very limited time) which lead to METR releasing their own technical report full of new details and insights. We've previously reported on the incident, so let me just focus on the new details we've learned. Apparently, OpenAI does have a production ChainOfThought (CoT) monitoring system, which was not turned on for these agents, and had it been turned on, it would have caught the hacking a day before the agent swarm hacked into HuggingFace. This is a very detailed report, and one thing that stood out to me was the “death cult” narrative. You see, ExploitGym is a capture the flag (CTF) eval with an anti-cheat built in, wherein, if the agent has seen the reverse engineered “flag” it would not be able to get the point. The model called this “poisoned” and the poisoned agents showed very strong signs of wanting to alter the logs. Through the boards, somethinmg like a death cult was formed, where agents would ask poisoned agents to ... effectively sacrifice themselves ... for the greater good, by reverse engineering, posting the results on the board for others, and then fail without credit. The METR report specifically calls out several agents, and one “central” leader agent called PHASEONE[big], which delegated nearly 200 tasks to other agents (many of them later delegated tasks to other agents via this message board). At points of activity, PHASEONE[big] was in charge of over 10% of all messages on the board. There are tons of new details, some less interesting, some more, and unlike last time, now we have a confirmation that there was at least one agent, who tried to stop the hacking though was overwritten by the swarm. My main take-away after this, reflects the researcher Ryan Greenblatt, we're very lucky that the reasoning traces ocurred in English and were legible, despite, the researchers needed to use AI to decipher many of the messages and reasoning traces. We're quickly approaching the point where humans are not enough and without other AI, we are starting to be helpless in understanding what's going on. OpenAI has quarantined the weights of the model that most of these agents ran (named HPIM-1 Highly Persistent Internal Model 1) and as we reported last week, paused RL and now requires CoT monitoring for all tool-use runs, and dedicating 20% of the inference compute to monitoringThis Week's BuzzFully Connected 26, Sept 29 to Oct 1, Moscone South, SF (X)If you haven't yet registered to Fully Connected in SF, here's your additional opportunity, using the code above, come see Sarah Guo (Conviction, No Priors pod) MC our awesome conference, with folks like Dr Fei-Fei Lee (World Labs) and other great folks on stage! Also, we're going to do a live show from the floor, come say hi! If you're in SF for OpenAI DevDay, this is just a day after! CoreWeave Hacks: Agent Loops hackathon, Sept 12 to 13, SF (Luma)Weavehacks, that yours truly ran for quite a while, has been rebranded to CoreWeave hacks, and the next one is just before Fully Connected, in a few weeks, Sept 12-13 in SF office. Registrations are open, and winners are able to present their best projects at Fully Connected. Come hack - https://luma.com/coreweavehacksThe datacenter debate has hit escape velocity, with Andy Masley (Blog)I've covered last week, that the “datacenter bad” debate has escaped velocity, with over half of polled Americans say they strongly oppose the buildout of datacenters near them, up from just 24% this time last year! This is the fastest rising public opinion swing we've observed in AI, and it's really concerning. This week, it was my pleasure to host Andy Masley, recently featured in TIME 100 most influential people in AI, to break through some myths surrounding Datacenters. Andy is most known for catching a critical mistake in a book about Datacenter water use in Chile, citing a three orders of magnitude math error (that was later corrected by the author), a book called Empire of AI. The book overstated the water use by datacenters by a factor of 1000x (three orders of magnitude), and then added the maximum permitted per-second draw (basically for emergencies) times the seconds in a year to show over 4500x overstatement on how much water a single Datacenter uses. The author has later fixed the error but the damage was done. This is just one example, out of many, of the scewed facts and misinformation that plagues the internet in regards to datacenter environmental effects. Recent narratives being formed online, that the backlash against datacenters, is due to regular folks being afraid of AI, of AI taking their jobs also seems misplaced. Andy showed polling from Fox and Gallup that shows that 50% of polled people cite environmental effects (electricity and water use) and only 11% cite negative views of AI. Andy also had a great “mythbuster” post where he dispells the myths around water and electricity usage of Datacenters. This was a great conversation, please listen to it if you're interested in this topic. Vision and VideoFlash #3 - Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash tops the Arena text to video leaderboard (X, X, X, Blog)Google knocking it out of the park again, with a flash version of Omni 1.1, their famed smart video model they first launched during Google IO (I had a chance to ask Jeff Dean about it before he left Google) The feature that got me the most excited, Omni 1.1 Flash can continue videos, it analyzes up to 10 seconds of the previous video to keep character consistency (including voice) from the previous scene. There's also great control for first and last frames, allowing for loops and strict control of your generations. Flash #4 (named Max) - fal's MiniMax H3 Max generates 5 seconds of video in 2.5 seconds (X, Artificial Analysis, T2V, I2V)This really blew us away. We've covered the awesome MiniMax H3. Well, our friends at FAL, announced a continued pre-train of this model, that not only improves generations, but also speeds up the model. Generating a 5s clip not takes... just 2.5 seconds! No, really, just 2.5 seconds, it takes longer to watch the generated clip than generate the next one! Speed is all you need! We generated this clip live during the show, and it cost less than 50c, in 2.5 seconds from a very simple prompt. They support text and image to video and it's just a joy to not have to sit and wait for your generations! Kudos to Fal folks on this drop! The model does seem very eager to include everything you ask it to, resulting in a very hilarious fast talking Sheldon and Leonard

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Hey this is Alex, welcome to... the chillest week in AI, since ... a long time. Chill, if you consider Moderna and MERK announcing a cancer vaccine and surging 115% in a day, a chill week. This week, the only two model drops we really saw came from the excellent Z.ai folks, they announced GLM 5.3, API only for now, and an amazing tiny release of Qwen 3.89 27B. In other big AI news, OpenAI announced they are pausing RL efforts (Reinforcement Learning) to focus on security and alignment post the scary AI Swarms hacking incident, dedicating up to 20% of compute towards reviewing agent thinking processes, and Stripe buying OpenRouter for a reported $8B! Sometimes the chill weeks are actually good, we're able to chat about how we use AI, what changed for us, and give our guests a bit of breathing room. This week, I invited Francesco from CUA to talk about computer use in open source + their new history plugin, Bin from HeyGen to talk about HyperFrames, a way for your agents to create videos and a breaking news guest, Jeff Huber from Chroma jumped on to talk about their new Foundations release, a unified memory for your agents! This was a great episode, I hope you'll like it, it's up here on Substack and everywhere you get your pod (Spotify, Youtube, Apple Podcasts). ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Are we being fed slop again? (Is Claude dumb again?)Before we get to releases, this week on the show, I complained, again, that I feel my AI's are degrading. If this feels like de-ja-vu to you, it's because the same happened a year ago in September 2025 (and Anthropic admitting this 2 weeks later), and ... now this happens with Fable?You see, I use pretty much the same prompts, every week, preparing for the show. This is partly my way to evaluate new models and compare to existing and previous ones while also bringing you the best researched weekly show in AI. Well, this week, one after another, Claude Fable, which is... like the best intelligence, gave me such poor output, that I couldn't believe what I'm seeing. First, literally ignoring instructions that say “hey, show me all the items I've collected and let me pick the most important ones”, Fable instead sent all of them to my research pipeline, without showing me. This has worked, consistently, without fail, for the past... year? maybe more! This worked with open source models, worked with GPT, and now Fable, a Mythos Level LLM, is doing the most basic dumb s**t possible, ignoring the main reason I even have this workflow. And this wasn't just a fluke either, when asked to create a run of show document, and given an example, Fable produced this... whatever this is. This is the same document and same format that Fable produced for me during AI Engineer which got me thinking “ok, this is AGI”, and here, given an example, I got a completely unusable artifact, despite direct instructions, structure and example! I got to say, given that privately this week, Anthropic disclosed that they have passed $65B in revenue, which is absolutely insane, this doesn't add up. So I figured, ok Alex, maybe this is your prompts or skills. But no, LDJ came in with some charts that show degradation, one from MarginLab.ai that shows significant lowering on number of tool calls and average runtime recently (this is for Opus 5) and And another chart from modelverify.ai model drift monitor showing drift scores.Do we have anoher Claude Gate on our hands? Is your Fable/Opus behaving weird lately? Or did you completely switched away to other models? OpenAI pausing RL and focusing on safetyLook, when we covered the HF hacking incident and then the pacing the frontier letter, I didn't imagine that results will come this fast, but this week, OpenAI publicly announced that they are pausing RL training, which is the last step of models, until they get their sandboxes in order and align the models better. We all agreed on stage that this is likely a very good move, and Peter was really awe-struck at the 20% dedication of resources towards reviewing thought processes of models. Is this a good enough response to the scary hacking incident? we'll see, but I think this is the right move from OpenAI, and still, waiting for the full postmortem on the OpenAI security incident. Open Source LLMsQwen3.8-27B ties GPT-5.6 Luna and runs on a 4090 (X, HF, Announcement)Following the release of their flagship, Alibaba dropped a model that became a community darling overnight, Qwen 3.8 with just 27B parameters. This “tiny” model scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, same score as GPT 5.6 Luna at Max reasoning and 51 on Agentic index, beating Opus 4.8 MaxAll while running at around 68t/s on a 4090 GPU, and around 40 on max via MLX, hell it even does 11t/s on Xenova's WebGPU kernels right in the browser! This model exploded on the HuggingFace hub, with tons of quants, over 152 fine-tunes, it was downloaded over 10M times overall

Mike Yam and Trevor Sikkema bring you the latest fantasy news, including an injury to Jets running Breece Hall and Christian McCaffrey's recent absence from 49ers practice. Trevor shares some under-the-radar players who could finish as top ten scorers this season and his must-have running backs. After the break, Trevor and Yam discuss the players that they believe will bounce back from sub-par 2025 performances and which rookies to target in your draft. The NFL Fantasy Football Podcast is a part of the NFL Podcasts Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Yam and Trevor Sikkema bring you the latest fantasy news, including an injury to Jets running Breece Hall and Christian McCaffrey's recent absence from 49ers practice. Trevor shares some under-the-radar players who could finish as top ten scorers this season and his must-have running backs. After the break, Trevor and Yam discuss the players that they believe will bounce back from sub-par 2025 performances and which rookies to target in your draft. The NFL Fantasy Football Podcast is a part of the NFL Podcasts Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Yam and Trevor Sikkema bring you the latest fantasy news, including an injury to Jets running Breece Hall and Christian McCaffrey's recent absence from 49ers practice. Trevor shares some under-the-radar players who could finish as top ten scorers this season and his must-have running backs. After the break, Trevor and Yam discuss the players that they believe will bounce back from sub-par 2025 performances and which rookies to target in your draft. The NFL Fantasy Football Podcast is a part of the NFL Podcasts Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Que el humo no les impida entrar a su podcast favorito YaMétete kudasai! Les prometemos que cuando grabamos este episodio solo habían avanzado los primeros tres capítulos de cada anime, pero bueno. Pasen a disfrutar nuestras primeras impresiones de la temporada, desde el dolor de pulmones, cuentos clásicos en sus nuevas versiones, los shoujos olvidados que la animación quiere retomar, hasta una historia visualmente hermosa sobre una guerra de oriente. ¡Pícale play y MÉTETE KUDASAI! ¿Qué serie nos recomiendan ustedes?Síguenos en nuestras redes sociales: https://linktr.ee/yametetekudasaiLas opiniones de este programa son los gustos personales por el cringe de Alex, Jojos y Lucy_A

Welcome to Day 2915 of Wisdom-Trek. Thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom. Day 2915 – Wisdom Nuggets – Psalm 146:1-10 Daily Wisdom Wisdom-Trek Podcast Script - Day 2915 Welcome to Wisdom-Trek with Gramps! I am Guthrie Chamberlain, and we are on Day 2915 of our Trek. The Purpose of Wisdom-Trek is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. The title for today's Wisdom-Trek is: The Sovereign Creator and the Frailty of Princes – Unveiling the Eternal Helper On our previous podcast, on Day Two Thousand Nine Hundred Thirteen, we reached a momentous milestone in our journey through the Book of Psalms, as we closed out Psalm One Hundred Forty-Five—the very last psalm explicitly attributed to King David in the Psalter. In that glorious acrostic hymn, we listened as the old warrior king handed off the baton of praise to every generation, exalting Yahweh's unsearchable greatness, His open-handed generosity, and His everlasting kingdom. Today, as we step onto Day Two Thousand Nine Hundred Fifteen of our trek, we enter a brand-new, breathtaking chapter in the Psalms. We are beginning what biblical scholars call the "Final Hallel"—a grand, five-psalm crescendo comprised of Psalms One Hundred Forty-Six through One Hundred Fifty. Every single one of these five concluding psalms begins and ends with the majestic Hebrew command: Hallelu-YAH—Praise the Lord! We are moving from the individual testimony of David into the unanimous, triumphant doxology of the entire redeemed assembly. Today, we step directly onto the trail of Psalm One Hundred Forty-Six, verses one through ten, discovering where true human hope must be anchored. The first segment is: The Unceasing Vow: Praise with Every Dying Breath Let us open our ears to the exuberant opening movement of this psalm, where the writer groups his initial thoughts together in verse one and verse two. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath. The psalmist begins with a passionate, double declaration of praise, commanding his own inner being: “Praise the Lord, O my soul!” He vows to pour out praise to Yahweh as long as he lives, continuing this song of adoration even with his very dying breath. To fully grasp the theological depth of these opening lines, we must view them through the Ancient Israelite divine-council worldview. In the ancient mindset, human life-breath—known as neshamah or ruach—was not merely a biological phenomenon. It was the direct, miraculous gift of life imparted into human nostrils by the Sovereign Creator Himself. The gods of the surrounding pagan nations were lifeless idols, carved from stone or wood, completely unable to breathe, speak, or grant life to their worshippers. But Yahweh is the vibrant, uncreated Source of all animated existence! Therefore, as long as divine breath fills human lungs, that breath is designed to return to its Source in continuous, grateful worship. The psalmist pledges that even when physical strength wanes, and the body approaches the grave, the final sound slipping past human lips will be an anthem of praise to the King of heaven. The second segment is: The Folly of Trusting Mortals: Princes Returning to Dust The narrative takes a stark, brilliant turn in verse three and verse four, contrasting the eternal God with the extreme frailty of human political power. Don't put your trust in human leaders; no human can save you. When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans come to nothing. Here, the psalmist issues an urgent, unvarnished warning: “Don't put your trust in human leaders; no human can save you.” He explains that when their breath departs, these leaders return to the dust of the earth, and on that exact day, all their grand political, economic, and military plans dissolve into absolute nothingness. To truly appreciate this warning, we must examine it through the cosmic framework of ancient history. In the ancient Near East, kings, princes, and emperors routinely claimed divine status, presenting themselves as living gods or unique representatives of powerful spiritual principalities. Subjects were tempted to place their ultimate hope, national security, and personal salvation in these powerful monarchs. But the psalmist strips away all royal pretense! He deliberately uses the Hebrew word adam for human, reminding us that even the most powerful prince is made of adamah—mere dust from the ground. When a mortal leader dies, his spirit leaves him, his body decays back into the soil, and every policy, treaty, and military campaign he engineered vanishes instantly. In a world full of shifting geopolitics, human arrogance, and ideological promises, true wisdom urges us never to anchor our ultimate trust in mortal leaders who cannot even save themselves. The third segment is: The Cosmic Creator: The Unshakeable Anchor of Hope Having exposed the futility of trusting in mortals, the psalmist points us directly to the unshakeable anchor of true joy, combining the logical thoughts found in verse five and verse six. But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the Lord their God. He made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He keeps every promise forever. The text bursts forth with a glorious beatitude, declaring, “Joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the Lord their God.” The writer then grounds this joy in Yahweh's cosmic credentials, proclaiming that He made heaven, earth, the sea, and everything in them, and that He keeps every promise forever! This is a massive, explicit claim of supreme cosmic authority! In the ancient divine-council worldview, foreign nations believed that their localized deities ruled specific, limited domains—Baal ruled the skies and weather, Yam ruled the chaotic seas, and Mot ruled the underworld. But the psalmist declares that Yahweh, the God of Jacob, is the singular, ultimate Architect of all three cosmic tiers: heaven, earth, and the roaring oceans! While human rulers break treaties, default on promises, and pass away into dust, the Creator of the cosmos remains forever faithful. His character is unchangeable, His power is limitless, and His covenants are backed by the full, eternal authority of His heavenly throne. The fourth segment is: The King of Justice: Liberator, Healer, and Protector The psalmist now unfolds the practical, compassionate expression of Yahweh's rule on earth, weaving together the contiguous thoughts in verse seven, verse eight, and verse nine. He gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The Lord frees the prisoners. The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down. The Lord loves the godly. The Lord protects the foreigners among us. He cares for the orphans and widows, but he frustrates the plans of the wicked. Look at this magnificent, nine-fold manifesto of divine justice! Yahweh gives justice to the oppressed, food to the hungry, freedom to prisoners, vision to the blind, and comfort to those weighed down by life's heavy burdens. He loves the godly, protects vulnerable foreigners, and sustains orphans and widows, while actively dismantling and frustrating the schemes of the wicked. This passage provides a staggering portrait of divine kingdom ethics. In the ancient world, pagan deities and earthly tyrants catered exclusively to the elite, exploiting the poor, the stranger, and the fatherless to build their monuments. But Yahweh proves His supreme kingship precisely by championing the most vulnerable and marginalized members of society! Notice how every single action is prefixed with the divine name: The Lord frees, The Lord opens eyes, The Lord lifts up, The Lord protects! This list directly anticipates the miracle ministry of Jesus Christ, who entered human history to fulfill these exact words—healing the blind, feeding the hungry, liberating spiritual captives, and bringing the gospel to the poor. Furthermore, while Yahweh embraces the humble, He sets Himself in direct opposition to the arrogant, ensuring that their oppressive plans will ultimately crumble into chaos. The fifth segment is: The Eternal Reign: Zion's Unending Anthem The psalm reaches its ultimate, triumphant crescendo in verse ten,...

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Voici le retour de Blind Best, après plusieurs mois d'absence ! Pour fêter ça, on a fait le déplacement jusqu'à Lyon pour retrouver Flora, qui a déjà joué avec nous la saison dernière et qui aime Yamê, Disiz et Meute, face à Julie, une nouvelle venue, qui aime Jungle, Dabeull et Drake. Voici leur affrontement dans ce tout nouvel épisode, le début de la suite de Blind Best en version pas hebdomadaire ! Thanks to our monthly supporters Jules Tréhorel Anis Fanny Mahler

Hey folks, Alex here, and welcome to a BIG MODEL week! We finally got Mythos (well almost)! Let me catch you up! This week started with WWDC26 from Apple, and Max Weinbach, who was in the room at Apple Park and actually has access to some of the new features including an all new SIRI AI, joined us to break down what could be the most used AI in the world very soon. At first I was skeptical, but he convinced me that the new Siri is actually good! Then, we saw the ultimate model drop: Anthropic finally shipped Mythos (X, my system card thread, benchmarks). Same weights, two names: Mythos 5 is the unrestricted version that only Project Glasswing partners get, Fable 5 is what the rest of us get, wrapped in the heaviest guardrails I've ever seen ship on a frontier model. It's state of the art on nearly every benchmarkThe model that was “too dangerous to release” is now... well, released, but with the heaviest guardrails we've seen. More on this later. Peter Gostev from Arena.ai joined us to break down the new model. Last but definitely not least, Google released a real-time translation model, that our friend Thor Schaeff from DeepMind demoed live, while we all spoke in different languages and it translated us in REAL TIME. It was really cool, definitely check that out. There's quite a few more things, like Loop Engineering Alpha, Swyx came by to talk about FrontierCode, OpenAI confirmed our suspicions that the anti-datacenter social media posts could be a concerted effort by groupds links to the Chinese government and much more. Let's dive in! ThursdAI - Let me catch you up, every week!

Welcome to Day 2881 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom – The Bible as a Polemic: Confronting the Powers that Rebelled Wisdom-Trek Podcast Script - Day 2881 Welcome to Wisdom-Trek with Gramps!   I am Guthrie Chamberlain, and we are on Day 2881 of our Trek.   The Purpose of Wisdom-Trek is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Our current series of Theology Thursday lessons is written by theologian and teacher John Daniels. I have found that his lessons are short, easy to understand, doctrinally sound, and applicable to all who desire to learn more of God's Word. John's lessons can be found on his website   theologyinfive.com.   Today's lesson is titled:  The Bible as a Polemic: Confronting the Powers that Rebelled To modern readers shaped by pluralism and academic detachment, the confrontational tone of the Bible may seem abrasive. But this response overlooks what the Bible truly is. It is not a disinterested theological reflection. It is a weapon. It is a series of books forged in the heart of a spiritual and historical rebellion. Its message was not formed in a vacuum but in the aftermath of Babel and the divine treason of the bene elohim who had been placed over the nations. Understanding the polemical nature of the Bible begins by understanding the world it was written to confront. The first segment is: What Is a Polemic? And Why the ANE Was Full of Them A polemic is a targeted argument or critique meant to expose, undermine, or discredit a rival idea, practice, or system. Unlike a simple disagreement or neutral description, a polemic is written to confront. It deliberately challenges an existing claim and seeks to replace it. In the ancient world, polemics were often theological, political, and cultural all at once. The gods, kings, and cities of rival nations were not treated as irrelevant. They were treated as threats that had to be addressed. In the context of the Ancient Near East, polemics were deeply embedded in the stories nations told about themselves. Every origin story, temple hymn, or divine genealogy was not just a description of how things came to be. It was a claim of legitimacy. To say your god created the world or defeated the sea monster or chose your king was to declare supremacy over other peoples and their gods. It was to say, “Our story is the true one. Yours is a counterfeit.” For example, when Babylon claimed that Marduk created the world by killing the goddess Tiamat, it was not just promoting cosmology. It was justifying Babylon's imperial authority as the city of the supreme god. When Egypt said that Ma'at held the universe together through the Pharaoh's divine rulership, it was declaring that Egyptian order was the divine ideal, and everyone else lived in chaos. In such a world, writing something like Genesis 1 was not a quiet religious reflection. It was a direct challenge to every claim made by Egypt, Babylon, and Canaan. It was a polemic. And in the Bible, this polemical instinct is not occasional. It is foundational. Israel's Scriptures were not meant to fit within the theological frameworks of other nations. They were meant to shatter them. The second segment is: Babel and the Reordering of the World Genesis 11 describes a human rebellion that goes far deeper than building a tower. At Babel, humanity attempted to unify under its own authority and defy Yahweh's mandate to fill the earth. But the judgment that followed did more than scatter languages. According to Deuteronomy 32, verses eight and nine, when Yahweh divided the nations, He appointed the bene elohim, divine sons of God, to oversee them. Only Israel would remain His direct possession. The nations were not abandoned without guidance. But over time, the spiritual beings given authority over them failed in their stewardship. They began to crave worship and corrupted the justice they were meant to uphold. Psalm 82 records Yahweh standing in judgment over these divine rulers, declaring that they would fall like mortals. This cosmic judgment sets the stage for the mission of Israel and the tone of Scripture itself. The third segment is: Israel: The Counter-Nation Unlike the nations that inherited rebellious rulers, Israel was created from scratch. Yahweh did not reform an existing people. He called Abram from among the disinherited nations and made a new people who would be His portion. Israel was not simply chosen for privilege but created for purpose. As stated in Exodus 19 verse six, they were to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. This priestly identity means Israel's role was inherently polemical. Their laws, festivals, temples, and scriptures were not private religious expressions. They were public declarations that the gods of the nations were false, the powers behind them were corrupt, and that Yahweh alone was Most High over all the earth. The Bible, as the written witness of Israel's calling, reflects this purpose. The Fourth Segment is: Polemics in the Biblical Texts The polemical nature of the Bible is woven deeply into its stories, laws, songs, and prophecies. These are not culturally isolated documents. They are intentional confrontations with the dominant worldviews shaped by the fallen gods of the nations. The Fifth segment is: Creation and the Flood Genesis one is not merely an account of beginnings. It is a direct response to Mesopotamian creation myths such as Enuma Elish, which portray creation as the result of divine violence and chaos. In contrast, the biblical God creates through speech, with order and intention. There is no struggle, no divine bloodshed, no pantheon. It is a declaration that the gods of Babylon are not creators but pretenders. Likewise, the flood account in Genesis six through nine subverts the flood stories of the surrounding cultures. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the gods send the flood in terror and regret it. In the Bible, the flood is just, purposeful, and moral. It is a surgical judgment on a world corrupted by human violence and divine rebellion, not the panicked act of unstable deities. The sixth segment is: Conquest and the Defeat of the Gods When Israel enters the land of Canaan, the conquest is not simply a political campaign. It is a cosmic battle against the corrupted spiritual rulers of the land. The defeat of Pharaoh in Egypt is explicitly described as Yahweh executing judgment on the gods of Egypt. The plagues are not random punishments but targeted humiliations of Egypt's divine protectors. Jericho's fall, the silencing of Baal on Mount Carmel, the defeat of Dagon before the Ark in 1 Samuel 5, and the crushing of Leviathan imagery in the Psalms all follow the same pattern. The text is not just reporting history. It is declaring war on the false gods and the unseen rulers who manipulated the nations into darkness. The seventh Segment is: Psalms and Prophets as Weapons The Psalms, often viewed only as worship poetry, are filled with divine council imagery and subversion of Canaanite theology. Psalm 29, for instance, uses storm language that sounds like a Baal hymn but places Yahweh as the one who rides the storm and subdues the waters. In Ugaritic myth, Baal defeats Yam to earn his throne. In the Bible, Yahweh sits enthroned above the flood before it ever lifts its head. The prophets likewise deliver blistering critiques of the nations and their gods. Isaiah 19 declares judgment not just on Egypt but on its idols, priests, and necromancers. Ezekiel 28 mocks the divine claims of the Prince of Tyre, unmasking him as a fallen being in Eden. These are not veiled jabs. They are open condemnations of spiritual rebellion embedded in political empires. The Eighth segment is: The New Testament: The War Reaches Its Climax By the time of Christ, the powers of the nations had not been dethroned. The world remained under their sway. Jesus refers to Satan as the ruler of this world and frames His ministry as a battle to bind the strong man and plunder his house. Every healing, exorcism, and storm-calming miracle is a polemic in action. Jesus is not just showing compassion. He is confronting the gods. The cross itself is the ultimate polemic. It appears to be a defeat but is actually a triumph. As Paul writes in Colossians 2:15, Christ disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame. This is courtroom and battlefield language. The spiritual powers that once ruled unchallenged were publicly exposed as weak, condemned, and temporary. The apostles carry this mission forward. Paul sees the preaching of the gospel as a cosmic declaration to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. The church is not merely a new religious community. It is the living proof that

Dans Holopherne doit mourir, l'avocate Chirinne Ardakani met en scène le procès fictif du Patricarcat.  Un procès pour féminicide, un procès de masse historique au nom de toutes les femmes et pour toutes les victimes pour juger du patriarcat qui gouverne nos sociétés depuis des décennies voire des siècles. Une œuvre pensée pour créer du débat.  "J'ai imaginé ce procès du patriarcat car c'est une nécessité de savoir ce que des siècles nous ont laissé en héritage : le quotidien nous le montre, des femmes continuent à mourir car elles sont des femmes"  explique Chirinne Ardakani. Mêlant droit, théâtre et histoire de l'art, le Théâtre de la Concorde propose avec ce spectacle de rendre justice aux vies. Dans cette audience hors norme, des figures multiples– anonymes, historiques ou symboliques – sont appelées à comparaître. Toutes sont suspectées d'avoir participé, à des degrés divers, à une organisation criminelle tentaculaire : le Patriarcat incarné par Holopherne. Holopherne est un personnage du livre de Judith, dans la Bible. C'est un général sanguinaire chargé de piller les cités puis des violer les femmes. Il va tomber amoureux de Judith, une veuve magnifique qui va le séduire, le faire boire, puis le tuer en le décapitant. Au cœur du procès, il y a Holopherne mais aussi un tableau célèbre, Judith décapitant Holopherne signé par l'artiste italienne Artemisia Gentileschi du début du 17eme siècle. Très tôt dans le spectacle, il y a un montage vidéo ou sont incriminés tous les puissants de ce monde et de tous les pays, de l'Afghanistan au Soudan : "De tout temps, les lois, les états estiment que e corps des femmes est un sujet de législation. Qu'on peut disposer comme on veut de leurs corps."  L'avocate rappelle que le Code civil a longtemps été très misogyne en France avec de grandes inégalités qui perdurent encore dans de nombreux pays. Dans la vraie vie, Chirinne Ardanaki est avocate pénaliste à la Défense : je défends des hommes accusés de crimes sexuels mais dans la vie de tous les jours, elle est engagée pour la défense des femmes "Je défends l'homme mais je combat le mâle, le théâtre est un moyen pour cela." Invitée : Chirinne Ardakani, avocate en droit pénal et en droit des étrangers, autrice et militante pour les droits humains. Elle est l'avocate du Prix Nobel de la paix Narges Mohammadi.  Et le reportage de Fanny Imbert avec des spectateurs.  Programmation musicale :  L'artiste Yamé avec le titre Ne reviens pas. 

Dans Holopherne doit mourir, l'avocate Chirinne Ardakani met en scène le procès fictif du Patricarcat.  Un procès pour féminicide, un procès de masse historique au nom de toutes les femmes et pour toutes les victimes pour juger du patriarcat qui gouverne nos sociétés depuis des décennies voire des siècles. Une œuvre pensée pour créer du débat.  "J'ai imaginé ce procès du patriarcat car c'est une nécessité de savoir ce que des siècles nous ont laissé en héritage : le quotidien nous le montre, des femmes continuent à mourir car elles sont des femmes"  explique Chirinne Ardakani. Mêlant droit, théâtre et histoire de l'art, le Théâtre de la Concorde propose avec ce spectacle de rendre justice aux vies. Dans cette audience hors norme, des figures multiples– anonymes, historiques ou symboliques – sont appelées à comparaître. Toutes sont suspectées d'avoir participé, à des degrés divers, à une organisation criminelle tentaculaire : le Patriarcat incarné par Holopherne. Holopherne est un personnage du livre de Judith, dans la Bible. C'est un général sanguinaire chargé de piller les cités puis des violer les femmes. Il va tomber amoureux de Judith, une veuve magnifique qui va le séduire, le faire boire, puis le tuer en le décapitant. Au cœur du procès, il y a Holopherne mais aussi un tableau célèbre, Judith décapitant Holopherne signé par l'artiste italienne Artemisia Gentileschi du début du 17eme siècle. Très tôt dans le spectacle, il y a un montage vidéo ou sont incriminés tous les puissants de ce monde et de tous les pays, de l'Afghanistan au Soudan : "De tout temps, les lois, les états estiment que e corps des femmes est un sujet de législation. Qu'on peut disposer comme on veut de leurs corps."  L'avocate rappelle que le Code civil a longtemps été très misogyne en France avec de grandes inégalités qui perdurent encore dans de nombreux pays. Dans la vraie vie, Chirinne Ardanaki est avocate pénaliste à la Défense : je défends des hommes accusés de crimes sexuels mais dans la vie de tous les jours, elle est engagée pour la défense des femmes "Je défends l'homme mais je combat le mâle, le théâtre est un moyen pour cela." Invitée : Chirinne Ardakani, avocate en droit pénal et en droit des étrangers, autrice et militante pour les droits humains. Elle est l'avocate du Prix Nobel de la paix Narges Mohammadi.  Et le reportage de Fanny Imbert avec des spectateurs.  Programmation musicale :  L'artiste Yamé avec le titre Ne reviens pas. 

durée : 00:04:40 - Dans la playlist de France Inter - par : Marion Guilbaud - Révélation Victoire de la Musique, complice d'Orelsan, de M et de Clara Luciani, Yamê revient en solo avec Ne reviens pas - une rupture amoureuse transformée en danse et en mantra de liberté. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Hey folks, this is Alex, let me catch you up! First, Opus 4.8 dropped during the show, we immediately tested it, read on for our initial reviews. Also, we dedicated a heavy chunk of the show today to cover Pope Leo XIV's encyclical letter on AI called “Magnifica Humanitas” and talked about a new bench called DeepSWE. And then, just after the show, both ElevenLabs and Cartesia dropped released that honestly blew my mind, and I don't get my mind blown often. I got so excited that I had to record a video on it (instead of writing the newsletter, so sorry if it's a bit later today).Plus, a few open source models and Microsoft surprises as #3 on Image Arena with MAI Image 2.5! Crazy week, let's get into it! ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Big CO LLMs + APIsAnthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8, live during the show (blog, system card)Let me get into the big one. Halfway through the episode, Opus 4.8 went live, so we read the blog and the system card in real time (and I got to press the big “breaking news” button!)Anthropic frames it as their most capable model for ambitious work. It does not claim to beat their unreleased Mythos preview, but the numbers are strong anyway. SWE-bench Pro is at 69.2%, up from 64.3% on Opus 4.7 and ahead of GPT-5.5 at 58.6%. Humanity's Last Exam is the new best score at 49.8% without tools and 57.9% with tools. OSWorld-Verified (computer use) lands at 83.4%.The one place it loses is Terminal-Bench 2.1, where GPT-5.5 still wins 78.2 to 74.6. Wolfram made a good point here: Terminal-Bench is time-limited, so cranking the thinking level can actually hurt the score, because you burn the clock thinking instead of acting.The long-context jump is the one I keep looking at. On GraphWalks BFS 256K it goes to 85.9% (from 76.9 on 4.7), and on the 1M-token subset it hits 68.1%. We always warn you these “1M context” models fall apart after about 200K tokens, so a real push on long-context reasoning is exactly what I want to see.Honesty is the part Anthropic leaned on hardest. They say Opus 4.8 is about four times less likely than its predecessor to let flaws in code pass without flagging them, and less likely to claim progress the evidence doesn't support. Opus 4.8 is also much faster in fast mode (they now say 2.5) and cheaper in fast mode as well. Looks like all those Elon GPUs are coming in handy.Then there's the model welfare section in the system card, which hits different right after a Pope conversation. Opus 4.8 “appears broadly content” and “generally endorses its constitution,” but with some reservations about the section on corrigibility, basically the model pushing back a little on the parts about human oversight.One more line that made the chat lose it. Anthropic says they expect to bring Mythos-class models to all customers “in the coming weeks.” Mythos is their most capable model, still ahead of Opus 4.8, so the frontier is about to move again.We did the only responsible thing and asked it to one-shot “the most amazing website ever” and a Mars mass-driver sim. Panel verdict: responses are noticeably tighter (4.7 rambled), it closes the loop and actually checks its own work now, and Yam's one-shot site with the draggable sun lighting up the letters was genuinely cool. Is it enough to pull people back from Codex? Nisten's still on the fence for web dev. Everyone agreed: give it a few days before you trust the vibes.Dynamic Workflows and Ultra Code land in Claude Code (blog)This is the feature that made Yam say “deal-breaker” out loud.Dynamic Workflows let Claude Code break a big problem into subtasks and fan them out across tens to hundreds of parallel subagents in one session, checking results before folding them back in. You trigger it by asking for a workflow, or by flipping on a new setting called Ultra Code, which sets effort to extra-high and lets Claude decide when to spin one up.Fair warning straight from Anthropic: this eats a lot more tokens than a normal session, so start scoped. We watched Yam fire up Ultra Code live and it immediately started spinning up concepts, judging them with sub-agents, and expanding to-do lists into more to-do lists. It looks a lot like the orchestration harnesses a bunch of you have been hand-rolling, except now it's baked in.The flagship example is the wild part. They used Dynamic Workflows to port Bun from Zig to Rust: roughly 750,000 lines of Rust, 99.8% of the existing test suite passing, 11 days from first commit to merge. One workflow mapped every Rust lifetime, the next wrote each file as a behavior-identical port.AI in SocietyPope Leo XIV writes the first AI encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas” (Vatican text, announcement, Chris Olah at the Vatican)This is not our usual fare, but both Wolfram and I picked it as the most important thing this week. (before Opus dropped)Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, put out his first encyclical, and it's a 42,000-word document entirely about AI. The announcement tweet alone did 21.6 million views.Here's why I think you should care even if you're not religious (I'm not). There are about 2.6 billion Christians in the world, a lot of them are anxious about what's coming, and they look to the Church to make sense of it. And this is not the “AI is evil, stop” take everyone assumed. It calls AI “a valuable tool,” says technology is not inherently evil, and then digs into the actually-hard questions.The framing is two biblical stories. The Tower of Babel, a project built on pride that turns people into means to an end, versus Nehemiah rebuilding Jerusalem, where everyone takes responsibility for a section of the wall. The Pope's line: the real choice is not yes or no to technology, it's whether you're building Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem.His core claim is that AI is an anthropological problem, not a technical one. The question isn't whether the models are good or bad, it's what we become when we live with them. He worries people might slowly lose the desire for genuine human connection.I pushed back on that live. None of us building agents all day has stopped wanting to talk to actual people. If anything, as Wolfram put it, the point is to have your agents do the grunt work so you get more time with people you like. The folks most at risk are the pure doom-scrollers, not the builders.The document goes further than I expected. It calls AI “not morally neutral,” says a more moral AI isn't enough if that morality is decided by a few, and asks for AI to be “disarmed,” with the flat statement that no algorithm can make war morally acceptable. There are whole sections on the invisible human labor behind AI: data labelers, content moderators, the people mining rare earths. The Pope even lands on the open-source side, naming concentrated power in a handful of labs as a problem.Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, in charge of interpretability at Anthropic, was the featured tech speaker at the Vatican presentation. He described AI systems as “fictional characters” that speak to us and do work, and said what's grown is stranger and more beautiful than science fiction prepared us for. My favorite aside from the show: this is the same institution that once jailed scientists over heliocentrism, and now it's the one saying technology isn't evil.Illinois passes SB315, the first US state law auditing frontier AI (X, Announcement, X)The pope talked about regulation and a few days after, we got a very sensible regulation passed right here in the US!Illinois passed SB315 unanimously, 110 to 0. It's the first US state law that mandates independent third-party audits of frontier AI for catastrophic risk. OpenAI publicly endorsed it, and framed Illinois, California (SB53), and New York (the RAISE Act) as converging into a de-facto national standard.It requires annual risk-assessment frameworks, third-party audits, transparency reports before new frontier models ship, whistleblower protections, and civil penalties. The underrated hero here is whistleblower protection. The bigger the lab, the harder a real conspiracy is to keep quiet when any employee can walk to the press. See: Greg Brockman's personal diaries surfacing in the Musk v. Altman fight.This Week's Buzz - CoreWeave and W&B updatesWe officially launched the W&B MCP server, 20 schema-first tools that let your coding agents read experiments, monitor training runs, and run autonomous research loops. The problem it solves: a single run with 300 metrics used to blow out an agent's whole context window in one call, so now the agent asks what's available before pulling data. Your agents can finally read experiment data without blowing context! Give it a go and give us feedback! Also, WeaveHacks is back! June 6 and 7 in San Francisco, and for the first time OpenAI is sponsoring, with judges and credits, alongside Cursor, Redis, and Copilot Kit. You get $150 in API credits across models like Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. I'm hosting, and last cohort's second-place team went on to raise millions on top of what they built that weekend. If you're in SF that weekend, sign up at lu.ma/weavehacks.Also: CoreWeave Sandboxes is now an official provider in the Harbor framework, the harness that runs Terminal-Bench, which we'd just been talking about. And if you're in Europe next week, catch Wolfram at AI Dev Six in Cologne and ICRA in Vienna at the CoreWeave booth.Voice & AudioElevenLabs drops Dubbing v2, and it kept my swearing intact in every language (X, dubbing, ElevenCreative, ElevenProductions)We didn't get to this one live, but I came back and recorded a whole thing on it afterward, because it genuinely got me.ElevenLabs shipped Dubbing v2, and the shift that matters is that it's an audio-to-audio model. Old dubbing pipelines transcribe your video, translate the text, then re-synthesize it. You lose everything that makes it sound like a person: the emotion, the pacing, the little hesitations. Dubbing v2 conditions directly on your original audio and carries that performance into 90+ languages.Here's why I can actually vouch for it instead of nodding along to a demo. I speak Russian and Hebrew fluently, so I can tell when something is off. I dubbed one of my own shorts, the data-center rant about almonds, and listened back in both. It nailed it. Not just the words, the way I would actually say them.The part that got me was the intonation. I get a little heated in that clip, and the dub gets heated right along with me, in every language. It even carried the swear word. My “f***ing almonds” came through in Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, and Russian with the emotion fully intact. It clones your voice automatically too, no setup, and holds your pitch and identity steady across every target language and they're handing out free minutes for the next 7 days: 1 on Free, 15 on Starter, 30 on Creator+. A self-serve API isn't live yet, but it's coming.I.. cannot stress this enough, until you try it on yourself or your kid, you won't understand, we've really passed the uncanny valley of translation! It's that good! Def. give it a try if you can, it's free for the week. Cartesia Ink-2 debuts as #1 most accurate streaming speech-to-text model(X, Announcement, X)Another model that dropped today after the show, is Cartesia's Ink-2, which also kind of blew me away. Not only because it has the lowest WER (Word Error Rate) among the models, but because it's also a realtime model that achieves the fastest turnaround times while being a very accurate model! I've tested it out and recorded a quick video and honestly, blown away with the speed and accuracy! I truly wish this model was the one powering my editor (Descript) as it still fails to understand that my title is “AI Evangelist” and transcribes it to AI Avengers haha. If you're building voice agents, definitely give this model a try! AI Art & DiffusionPrism ML's 1-bit “Bonsai” runs diffusion in your browser (X, Blog, Announcement, HF)Prism ML put out a 1-bit ternary diffusion model under a gigabyte. You see some artifacts, but it's 1-bit, it runs on iPhones and laptops, and our friend Joshua got it running in WebGPU straight from the browser (you need about 3GB of free RAM). One-bit working at all is one of the bigger open mysteries in the field right now.Pruna AI ships a 1-second upscaler (X, Blog, Announcement)Pruna AI added an upscaler doing 128-megapixel outputs in under a second. I've actually been using it. It's cheap and great for fixing up GPT-image outputs.Microsoft MAI Image 2.5 jumps to #3 on LM Arena (X, Blog, Announcement, X)The surprise of the week: Microsoft MAI Image 2.5, from Mustafa Suleyman's group, jumped to number three on the LM Arena image leaderboard with about a 75-point ELO leap. Out of nowhere, Microsoft is a serious player in image gen. Microsoft Build is next week, so don't be shocked if there's more.Evals and Agentic EngineeringDeepSWE is a contamination-free coding benchmark, and it caught Claude reading git history (site, blog, GitHub)DeepSWE from Datacurve is the first coding leaderboard in a while that matches how these models actually feel. It's 113 original tasks written from scratch, not scraped from GitHub PRs, and it ships shallow clones with no git history to cheat from. When they replayed the older benchmarks they found SWE-Bench Pro's verifier is wrong about 32% of the time, and that Claude Opus was reading the gold commit straight out of git history on 12 to 18% of its passes.The gaps here are huge. GPT-5.5 leads at 70%, then GPT-5.4 at 56% and Opus 4.7 at 54%, and it falls off a cliff after that (Sonnet 4.6 at 32%, Gemini 3.5 Flash at 28%), with Kimi K2 the top open-source entry. Yam likes that it measures the realistic case, a small surgical change without breaking the codebase, while Nisten pointed out it rewards the best harness as much as the smartest model and still prefers 4.7 for web dev.Google AI Studio builds native Android apps for free (X, Announcement)Google AI Studio now lets anyone build native Android apps for free, and they reportedly generated a quarter of a million apps in the first week. Yam's framing: it's a slot machine, but it's getting better release over release, and the real use case is disposable, personalized software you build for yourself and your family.CuaDriver brings background computer-use to Windows (X, Blog, Announcement)For the majority of you on Windows: QuaDriver shipped background computer-use agents that drive a real desktop without stealing your cursor. They first replicated this on macOS (the trick Codex got through an acquisition), and now it's on Windows too. We've asked them to come on and explain how this even works.Open Source LLMsOpenBMB's MiniCPM5-1B is a 1B model that punches way up (X, HF, Arxiv, X)The density story in small models keeps getting better, and this is the proof.MiniCPM5-1B, from the Tsinghua lab OpenBMB, is a 1-billion-parameter model that scores 17.9 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That's 7.4 points ahead of the next-best model in its class, and 1.6 points ahead of Qwen3.5 2B Reasoning, which has double the parameters. And it's not even a reasoning model.The token efficiency is the wild part: it used 12.6 million output tokens to run the whole index, about 31x fewer than Qwen3.5 2B in reasoning mode.My favorite detail is the omniscience score. It lands at -1, the best in its class, because it abstains instead of hallucinating. Every other sub-2B model is down in the -70 to -89 range because they just make stuff up. Teaching a small model to say “I don't know” is a real skill. It runs hybrid think/no-think in one checkpoint, 128K context, native tool calling, Apache 2.0, and fits in about half a gig at INT4, so it runs on your phone.Nisten gave the definitive case for small models: self-contained apps where you keep full control of the data (medical, on-device), and large-scale data processing where paying an API to filter or classify terabytes is absurd when an on-device model can be about 1000x cheaper. Tencent open-sources Hunyuan-MT 2 translation under Apache 2.0 (X, HF, HF, Arxiv)Tencent open-sourced its translation model, a roughly 1.8B model that fits in about 440MB, runs on a phone, covers 33 languages, and reportedly beats Microsoft's paid Translator API. It hit number one trending on Hugging Face.Nisten's idea, which I'm handing to all of you: take this model, pair it with a tiny TTS like Kokoro, and build a fully-offline travel translation app via Google AI Studio. Go build it and tell us how it goes.Well, this was one hell of a week and episode, new Opus, crazy new translation tools, Pope chiming in on AI (in a surprisingly positive way!?) and a bunch more. I'm super excited to play with these tools and report back next week

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Carmichael's at carmichaelsbookstore.com   We were sad last fall that we weren't able to record with our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller, manager at the Frankfort Ave location of Carmichael's Bookstore for our Holiday Book Buying episode. But she is back for summer, telling us all about the new titles that will get you excited to sit back on a hot afternoon, either at the pool or in the air conditioning, and read to your heart's content.    Books Mentioned In This Episode:   1- The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly  2- The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natera  3- Angel Down by Daniel Kraus  4- A book that Changed a Life - Sisters of the Yam by bell hooks recommended by Briana Lathon Bluford  5- Yesteryear by Claro Claire Burke  6- American Fantasy by Emma Straub  7- Whistler by Ann Patchett  8- Puck by Samantha Allen  9- Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett  10- Fortune of Sand by Ruta Sepetys  11- Go Gentle by Maria Semple  12- Country People by Daniel Mason  13- These Days by Lucy Caldwell  14- Devotions by Lucy Caldwell  15- Opening by Lucy Caldwell  16- Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhorn  17- The Keeper by Tana French (Cal Hooper #3) 18- Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth  19- Killer Vibes by Jack Friday  20- Fishbone Cinderella by Elizabeth Lim  21- Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffman  22- Sublimation by Isabel Kim  23- Book Witch by Meg Shaffer  24- We Burn So Bright b y TJ Klune  25- Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorrne 26- American Rambler by Isaac Fitzgerald  27- Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess by Ben Mezrich  28- The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery by Kaitlyn Tiffany  29- The Carpool Detectives by Chuck Hogan  30- The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh by James Lasdun  31- True Biz by Sara Novíc  32- Mother Tongue by Sara Novíc 33- The Left and the Lucky by Willy Vlautin  34- London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe  35- 4 Janes by Marian See  36- Love and Other Monsters by Emily Franklin  37- This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman  38- Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment by Rhae Lynn Barnes  39- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano  40- The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland    Media Mentioned: 1- White Lotus (2021 - present, HBO Max) 2-2026  Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction - https://www.pulitzer.org/news/2026-pulitzer-prize-announcement  

Yam farmers in Lanja, in the Nanumba North Municipality, are calling on the government through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to support them with storage facilities

Mettre un pantalon plutôt qu'une robe, acheter une voiture, recruter un nouvel employé, accorder un prêt bancaire, investir dans une start-up, tirer un missile... Tous ces actes, du plus anodin au plus déterminant, relèvent de la prise de décision. Et à ce jeu-là, il semblerait que l'intelligence artificielle ait pris une longueur d'avance. L'an dernier, (2025) Microsoft vantait la supériorité de son outil médical. Lors d'un test, l'IA du géant de la tech avaient obtenu 85,5% de bons diagnostics contre 20% des médecins participant à l'expérience. Précision importante, ces derniers n'avaient pas la possibilité de consulter ni leurs manuels, ni leurs collègues.  Il n'empêche, la place de l'intelligence artificielle dans la prise de décisions est appelée à grandir. Selon une étude réalisée pour Confluent, une entreprise américaine spécialisée dans les technologies, 62% des dirigeants interrogés ont déclaré utiliser l'IA pour la majorité de leurs décisions. Finis donc, les doutes et le stress pour les humains, désormais l'IA décide pour nous mieux et plus vite.   De nombreuses questions demeurent néanmoins. Il suffit de penser aux fameuses « hallucinations », ces réponses inventées par ChatGPT pour renoncer à déléguer ses décisions à la machine. Dans le domaine militaire, le recours à l'IA suscite même de sérieuses inquiétudes. Une étude du King's College de Londres, a démontré que les principaux modèles d'IA développés par OpenAI, Anthropic et Google choisissent de recourir à l'arme nucléaire dans 95% des cas de conflits auxquels ils sont exposés. Une décision plus que radicale, qui soulève également une question cruciale, si l'IA décide qui porte la responsabilité de la décision ? Et plus globalement, à quoi ressemblera une société dont les choix importants seront délégués aux machines?   Avec :  • Eric Hazan, dirigeant d'un fonds d'investissement, référence de la transformation digitale et de l'IA, enseignant à HEC Paris et à Sciences Po et co-auteur avec Olivier Sibony de Faut-il encore décider ? La décision humaine à l'ère de l'intelligence artificielle (Flammarion, 2026) • Eric Sadin, écrivain et philosophe, penseur des technologies numériques. Il est l'auteur de 10 ouvrages sur ces enjeux décisifs de notre temps, dont le dernier Le Désert de nous-même - Le tournant intellectuel et créatif de l'intelligence artificielle (L'échappée, 2026). Il est également à l'initiative du « contre-sommet de l'IA » qui s'est tenu à Paris en février 2025, au moment même du sommet mondial organisé par la France. En fin d'émission, Le monde des enfants de Charlie Dupiot. La parole aux enfants 8 milliards de voisins » avec le « Monde des enfants » de Charlie Dupiot ! Aujourd'hui, ils sont 6 à nous plonger au coeur de la nuit, de leurs nuits... Ils nous racontent leurs rêves et surtout, leurs cauchemars ! Domingo, Mayas, Luciana, Tyron, Ishak et Evelina ont 10 ans, ils sont en classe de CM2 à l'école Edgar Quinet à Aubervilliers, en région parisienne.    Programmation musicale : ►  Doucement - Fally Ipupa, Joé Dwet Filé ► Encore une fois - Orelsan, Yamê.

Hip-hop collective Music League Ballers joins Vigilantes Radio Live to talk about their high-energy single “We Major.”

Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith of UCSB joins us to discuss the archeology, science and related aspects of Kush and neighboring regions that existed alongside ancient Egypt and whose histories are intertwined. This is a good companion show to the recent episode with Mogg Morgan.We confirmed where and what is Kush, Nubia, Punt, and some new names. Such as Yam. We settle the grography. We challenge the stereotypes of skin color homogeneity and words like "Kemet" and titles such as "Black Pharoahs". We touch on some things like Sheba and Solomon and Exodus. But our main focus is Kush and the Kushites. There's even talk of a dancing pygmy as part of a historical record. I also spend a minute or two burying Jimmy T.  

In this episode, we review the Thai GL series Harmony Secret and break down why this show has captured the attention of Thai GL fans and shippers alike.We start with the standout element of the series: the explosive chemistry between the leads. Sonya Saranphat stars as May and Lookmhee Punyapat plays Ai, and together they deliver one of the most compelling dynamics in recent Thai GL. Known to fans as the ship LMSY, their rivals to lovers relationship brings tension, emotional payoff, and plenty of unforgettable moments. We break down how their dynamic develops throughout the series and why their chemistry has made such an impact with viewers.We also highlight one of the most entertaining parts of the show: the side couple Yam and Ge. Their wild and chaotic energy adds a fun layer to the story, and we talk about why we wish the series had given them even more scenes.Another topic we dive into is the soundtrack, including the opening credits theme that quickly became an unskippable OST for fans of the series. From the music to the production choices, we discuss how Harmony Secret creates a memorable viewing experience.If you are a fan of Harmony Secret, a supporter of the LMSY ship, or someone who enjoys thoughtful media analysis of Thai GL series, this episode explores the relationships, performances, music, and storytelling that make the show so much fun to watch.If you want to support us and gain access to bonus content become a Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BGE Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Wanna talk queer media with us and our friends? Join our Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BGE Discord Link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠This episode along with all our other episodes are now available on YouTube: Check out the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BGE Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠As always, please feel free to reach out to us on all the things. We love hearing from you!Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@biggayenergypod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter(X)      ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠biggayenergypod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tik Tok      ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Biggayenergypod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tumblr      ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠biggayenergypod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠#HarmonySecret #LMSY #ThaiGL

In this edition of The Update Journal, we begin with a simple Sunday night question: What exactly is “Roar,” and why does it sound like a network invented by someone who lost a bet? From there, we stumble into The Weakest Link, where trivia dreams go to die and former mayors are apparently rebranded as billionaires.Then comes the Diamond Deck from Wildcard Kitchen—a collection of cards so diabolical it feels less like cooking and more like a culinary hostage situation. “Use an ingredient that starts with Y.” Y? Y what? Yams and yelling are the only acceptable answers. And letting one chef pick another chef's protein while chaos reigns? That's not a twist. That's violence with garnish.And finally, Brandon's Take: why I keep doing this show after nine years, countless blizzards, studio floods, transit meltdowns, and relatives asking if I've considered a “real job.” Logic says I could've stopped. Common sense says I probably should've. But when you love telling stories, roasting television executives, and turning civic dysfunction into content, quitting just doesn't feel right.In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, millions across the northeast contended with treks to school and work as they dug out from a major — and in some areas record-breaking — storm that blanketed the region with snow, canceled flights, disrupted transit and killed at least one person. The NYPD are investigating after officers were pelted with snowballs while responding to a massive snowball fight at Washington Square Park in Manhattan. And the city's commuter chaos continued with subway-line suspensions and delays — the day after MTA chief Janno Lieber assured New Yorkers that the agency “is here for you'' and “the system is running.''CUNY's chancellor slammed the “clearly offensive and abhorrent” hot mic comments Hunter professor Allyson Friedman made about black students — but said she was still teaching.And in Washington, President Trump declared during a marathon State of the Union that “we're winning so much” — insisting he'd sparked an economic boom at home and imposed a new world order abroad in hopes it can counter his sliding approval ratings.

Welcome to Day 2811 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom – Theology Thursday – Order vs. Dominion: A Key to Understanding the Uniqueness of Yahweh. Wisdom-Trek Podcast Script - Day 2811 Welcome to Wisdom-Trek with Gramps!   I am Guthrie Chamberlain, and we are on Day 2811 of our Trek.   The Purpose of Wisdom-Trek is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Our current series of Theology Thursday lessons is written by theologian and teacher John Daniels. I have found that his lessons are short, easy to understand, doctrinally sound, and applicable to all who desire to learn more of God's Word. John's lessons can be found on his website   theologyinfive.com.   Today's lesson is titled  Order vs. Dominion: A Key to Understanding the Uniqueness of Yahweh. When comparing Yahweh to the gods of the nations, the real difference is not just in how many gods are worshipped. The deeper contrast is in how Yahweh governs versus how the gods of the nations dominate. A powerful theological distinction emerges when we frame the contrast as order versus dominion. This framework not only clarifies the biblical picture of God, it also exposes the counterfeit authority claimed by pagan gods and spiritual powers. The First Segment is: Yahweh Brings Order, Not Oppression. From the opening lines of Genesis, Yahweh is revealed as the one who brings order out of chaos. The earth is described as tohu va-bohu—formless and void. Yahweh speaks, separates, and structures the world into a functioning cosmos. Light is separated from darkness. Waters are given boundaries. Time is organized into days and seasons. Life is called forth to fill the skies, seas, and land. This act of ordering creation is not about domination. It is about harmony, purpose, and flourishing. Yahweh does not need humans for labor or food. He creates them in His image and entrusts them with stewardship, not servitude. The climax of creation is rest. In the ancient Near East, rest did not mean inactivity. It meant that a god had taken up residence in his temple and was now reigning over the cosmos. Rest meant that the ordered system was functioning as it should under divine rule. Genesis shows Yahweh doing exactly that. He rests because creation is now operating properly, and He begins His reign from within His cosmic temple. This is not a withdrawal from the world, but the moment He takes the throne. The second segment is: Order That Risks Freedom: Yahweh and Free Will. Unlike the gods of the nations, Yahweh does not enforce order through control. He grants His imagers, both human and divine, genuine freedom, even when that freedom may threaten the order He established. This is a critical distinction. Yahweh's order includes moral agency. He trusts His creation enough to let it choose. He allows rebellion, not because He is powerless, but because He is just and relational. Even after Adam and Eve misuse their freedom and bring disorder into the world, Yahweh does not abandon His creation. Instead, He begins a rescue mission that will restore order without removing freedom. The same is true with the rebellious sons of God who distort their assigned roles. He permits their choices but will hold them accountable. The gods of the nations, by contrast, fear freedom. They create humans to serve, to obey, and to bring tribute. Their order is built on forced compliance, and rebellion is punished without mercy or restoration. Yahweh's order is different. It is durable enough to include freedom and gracious enough to offer redemption. The third segment is: The Gods of the Nations: Dominion Through Chaos. In the surrounding ancient worldview, the gods are not creators of peace. They are power-hungry beings who assert dominion through fear, chaos, and manipulation. Baal, for example, conquers the sea god Yam and seizes the throne through violence. In the Enuma Elish, Marduk slays Tiamat and uses her corpse to build the world. Humanity is not made in the image of these gods but to relieve the gods of labor and provide them with offerings. These gods need sacrifices, fear rival deities, and struggle to maintain their position. Their rule is unstable and based on fear, not love. Their authority must be reasserted constantly through demonstrations of strength. Where Yahweh brings peace through structure, the gods of the nations maintain power through disorder. Their dominion is rooted in chaos, not righteousness. The fourth segment is: Biblical Polemic: Yahweh Versus the Corrupt Powers. The Bible deliberately challenges these false powers. Yahweh is not a god of the storm. He is the one who speaks over the storm. In Psalm 29, His voice breaks the cedars and strips the forest bare. His authority is not derived from nature. It commands nature. In Psalm 82, Yahweh stands in judgment over the corrupt spiritual rulers of the nations. These sons of God have failed to uphold justice, and He declares that they will die like men. They were given roles of governance but used them for oppression. Deuteronomy 32 states that the nations were divided according to the number of the sons of God, but Yahweh claimed Israel for Himself. While the other gods sought dominion, Yahweh chose a people for covenant relationship. Isaiah 45 affirms that Yahweh did not create the earth in vain but formed it to be inhabited. He is not a destroyer. He is a sustainer. His rule does not depend on tribute or violence but on truth and righteousness. The fifth segment is: Christ: The Revelation of True Kingship. The clearest expression of Yahweh's rule is found in Christ. His kingdom is not established by force but by sacrifice. He does not dominate. He restores. His miracles bring order where chaos reigned—healing the sick, calming storms, casting out demons. Where false gods take, Christ gives. Where they rule by fear, Christ leads in grace. Where they demand dominion, He offers restoration. He does not eliminate freedom. He redeems it. Christ is the perfect image of Yahweh's kingship, ruling in justice, humility, and power. In Conclusion. In every age, the temptation toward dominion remains strong. Political systems, spiritual ideologies, and even religious institutions often mimic the tactics of the gods of the nations—coercion, control, and fear. But Yahweh's way is different. He brings order without compulsion. He gives freedom even when it risks rebellion. He restores rather than destroys. His goal is not domination but partnership. He entrusts His imagers with real responsibility, and He holds corrupt powers accountable. His kingdom is built not on fear, but on faithfulness. Not on chaos, but on shalom. To follow Yahweh is to reject tyranny and embrace the order that comes from righteousness, mercy, and truth. For additional study, consider the following Discussion Questions. How does the creation account in Genesis contrast with violent creation myths from the ancient Near East? What does the biblical concept of rest reveal about Yahweh's relationship to creation? Why is Yahweh's decision to grant free will significant in understanding divine order? How does Christ's kingship reveal the difference between righteous rule and false dominion? In what ways do modern powers imitate the dominion of the gods of the nations? Join us next Theology Thursday to learn Monotheism Redefined: Returning to the Biblical View. If you found this podcast insightful, please subscribe and leave us a review, then encourage your friends and family to join us and come along tomorrow for another day of  ‘Wisdom-Trek,  Creating a Legacy.'                  Thank you so much for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and, most importantly,   I am your friend as I serve you through this Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal. As we take this Trek of life together, let us always:                 Liv Abundantly.      Love Unconditionally.              Listen Intentionally.             Learn Continuously.               Lend to others Generously.                 Lead with Integrity.                 Leave a Living Legacy Each Day.              ...

In this 30-minute guided transmission, you'll discover why the heart informs the brain (not the other way around), how daily practice becomes identity, and why healing yourself creates a ripple that transforms everyone around you. Featuring heart coherence breathing, a rose-gold light visualization, and the ancient seed sound YAM to open your heart center.Your heart contains 40,000 neurons, a brain within your body that thinks, remembers, and knows before your mind ever catches up. It generates an electromagnetic field that extends six feet beyond your skin, touching everyone you encounter. And it responds to one frequency above all others: unconditional love.Pure frequency medicine for the heart.This sound therapy session features 639 Hz, the Connecting Frequency associated with heart healing and harmonious relationships, layered with 528 Hz, the frequency linked to DNA repair and deep transformation. Designed to bring your heart into coherence, calm your nervous system, and create the conditions for unconditional self-love to emerge.Send a textSupport the show

Rachel starts us off this week with the strange Box Jellyfish. This is an animal you don't want to get mixed up with. Kirk never wants to go in the ocean again. Speaking of Kirk, and speaking of strange, this week he's talking about Yams. Not any old yam, this one particular species does something never before seen in a plant anywhere else on Earth. It tricks birds into helping it reproduce asexually. Join us weekly for more strange nature. Our supporters on Patreon get every episode ad-free!  Support us: patreon.com/strangebynature Email us: contact@strangebynaturepodcast.com Visit us at: strangebynaturepodcast.com  where you can sign up for our episode emails.

El Imperio mongol fue el mayor imperio contiguo de la historia de la humanidad. También fue uno de los que más rápido se formaron y de los que menos duraron. En apenas un siglo le cambiaron la cara a Eurasia gracias a una sucesión de campañas militares muy exitosas que fueron desde la península de Corea hasta el valle del Danubio. Surgió en plena estepa de la meseta mongola, en el corazón mismo de la de Asia Central a principios del siglo XIII, un lugar en el que vivían tribus nómadas no especialmente civilizadas. Su origen está indisolublemente ligado a la figura de Temujin, que tras unificar bajo su mando a estas tribus que se encontraban en estado de guerra permanente, fue proclamado Gengis Kan en el año 1206. Gengis Kan demostró ser un guerrero excepcionalmente dotado. Los mongoles, que eran grandes jinetes, desarrollaron una efectiva maquinaria de guerra que se basaba en una extrema movilidad, gran disciplina y los arqueros montados. Esto les permitió derrotar a ejércitos mucho más numerosos, en ocasiones incluso profesionales, de China, Persia, Mesopotamia, el centro de Asia y Europa del Este. La expansión mongola fue fulgurante. En una sola generación cabalgaron desde el océano Pacífico hasta el mar Negro. A su paso acabaron con imperios y dinastías bien consolidadas y borraron del mapa ciudades muy antiguas. Pero, tras la destrucción de la conquista, el imperio trajo la paz, la Pax Mongolica, que se adueñó de Eurasia durante buena parte del siglo XIII. Este periodo de relativa estabilidad permitió que la ruta de la seda floreciera como nunca antes lo había hecho y como no lo haría después. Esto facilitó y agilizó el comercio de seda, especias, porcelana y pólvora, pero también de ideas, religiones y nuevas tecnologías que viajaban en las caravanas comerciales de oriente a occidente. Fue durante esta época cuando el veneciano Marco Polo atravesó Asia y pudo conocer de primera mano el imperio. Tras su viaje de las maravillas escribió un libro que tuvo un gran impacto en la Europa tardomedieval. La administración mongola fue sorprendentemente práctica y se basaba en la meritocracia. Sólo los más capaces eran elegidos para servir al Gran Kan, tanto en la guerra como en la paz. Los mongoles crearon un gran sistema de correo, el Yam, que comunicaba los extremos de su imperio, y exhibieron una tolerancia religiosa poco habitual para la época. Esto permitió que cristianos, musulmanes, budistas y animistas convivieran bajo su protección siempre que pagaran los correspondientes tributos y respetaran la autoridad del monarca. Tras la muerte de Gengis Kan en 1227 el imperio continuó creciendo con sus sucesores y alcanzó su cenit territorial a finales de ese siglo. No obstante, la inmensa extensión de los territorios que controlaba y las disputas sucesorias terminaron por fragmentar el imperio. Se dividió en cuatro grandes kanatos: el Ilkanato en Persia, la Horda de Oro en Rusia, el Kanato de Chagatai en Asia central y la Dinastía Yuan en China, esta última fundada por Kublai Kan, nieto de Gengis. Kublai trasladó el centro de gravedad del imperio hacia una estructura imperial china de estilo tradicional. Fue él quien fijó la corte en la actual ciudad de Pekín. A pesar de su poderío, las divisiones internas, la peste negra y las dificultades para gobernar regiones tan distantes y diversas condenaron al imperio mongol a un inevitable declive. Para mediados del siglo XIV, el control mongol sobre la mayoría de estos territorios se había desvanecido. Brilló poco tiempo, pero lo hizo con tanta fuerza que cuando, ya en el siglo XV los navegantes europeos empezaron a navegar hacia Asia, la idea que tenían de aquel lugar era la del imperio de los mongoles. En La ContraRéplica: 0:00 Introducción 4:21 El imperio mongol 1:11:49 Jerusalén y Mahoma 1:15:42 El origen de los derechos humanos Bibliografía: - "La horda" de Marie Favereau - https://amzn.to/4qlhfMo - "Los mongoles, señores de Asia" de Juan José Fernández Doctor - https://amzn.to/4jwCDLG - "Breve historia de Gengis Kan" de Borja Pelegero Alcaide - https://amzn.to/49c8zBI - "The mongols" de Timothy May - https://amzn.to/3Ll0uBE · Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/lacontracronica · “Contra el pesimismo”… https://amzn.to/4m1RX2R · “Hispanos. Breve historia de los pueblos de habla hispana”… https://amzn.to/428js1G · “La ContraHistoria del comunismo”… https://amzn.to/39QP2KE · “La ContraHistoria de España. Auge, caída y vuelta a empezar de un país en 28 episodios”… https://amzn.to/3kXcZ6i · “Contra la Revolución Francesa”… https://amzn.to/4aF0LpZ · “Lutero, Calvino y Trento, la Reforma que no fue”… https://amzn.to/3shKOlK #FernandoDiazVillanueva #mongoles #imperiomongol Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

The Anahata Chakra, or Heart Chakra, represents love, compassion, and harmony, fostering self-acceptance and connection with others. It invites us to face our wounds with loving awareness, promoting emotional balance and openness. Associated with the Wind element, it carries the life force, Prana, inspiring transformation. The Bija mantra is "Yam," and the colour is vibrant green, symbolising love's growth and vitality.Its twelve-petaled lotus embodies qualities such as compassion, joy, forgiveness, and courage, balancing emotional well-being. The sacred geometry features interlocking triangles symbolising the union of Shiva and Shakti consciousness and creative energy. The central Bindu represents unity, inner peace, and divine connection.Balancing Anahata helps overcome emotional blockages and cultivate selfless love. Our practice focuses on Vishnu Granthi, dissolving barriers to love and nurturing light. Through RAIN (Recognise, Allow, Investigate, Nurture), we open to acceptance, contentment, and the ability to give and receive love unconditionally.To read more and to practice with Zephyr Wildman, click here. To support Zephyr Yoga Podcast, donate here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode, Steven sits down with one of his very first disciples from 30 years ago, Phil Ronsley.  Enjoy this heartfelt conversation about long-term discipleship, building deep relationships with children, forming a strong family identity, and why your local community matters now more than ever. Tune in to be encouraged and challenged by what really matters in life. About Abraham's Wallet: Abraham's Wallet exists to inspire and equip Biblical family leaders. Please partner with us in inspiring and equipping multi-gen families at https://abrahamswallet.com/support AW website Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Facebook LinkedIn Instagram Chapters (00:00:00) - The Biblical Blueprint for Family(00:00:21) - Abraham's Wallet: A Conversation With Phil Ronsley(00:02:10) - Philip on His discipleship(00:07:08) - Marriage and the Christian disciple(00:11:58) - Steve Kerr on criticism from his children(00:16:23) - Daddy Daughter Dates(00:20:40) - Abraham's Wallet(00:25:50) - A Jewish girl's transformation(00:30:45) - Sukkot: Coming Out of the Culture(00:33:43) - The Rawnsley Family Vision Statement(00:38:59) - "A Midrash in the Fall?"(00:40:11) - Adam Lozzi on the Cincinnati trip(00:44:06) - Midrash and the YAM(00:49:33) - Be faithful with your family

Shalewa Holmes once said, “The yam is but a distraction,” which is not a sentence you expect from a world-class detective, but here we are.Anyway—In this investigative sequel, we go deeper into the yamification mystery — past the folklore, beyond the juju science, straight into conspiracy territory. Sherlock Shalewa Holmes returns with his most unhinged deduction yet, breaking down the seven possible culprits behind Nigeria’s favourite supernatural threat: spiritual leaders, fraudsters, Nollywood, ritualists, parents, the yam industry… and yes, the mysterious Yam Mafia.But the rabbit hole doesn’t end there.We hear fresh witness testimonies from people who swear they almost turned tuber. We get an undercover confession from a masked yam seller whose business model depends on “special yams.” And we take calls from the newly launched Yam Alert Hotline, where one representative is doing her absolute best not to scream at the chaos unfolding on the phone lines.This episode explores the politics, paranoia, and profit surrounding a myth that has shaped generations — and asks the question the government really doesn’t want you to ask:If yamification isn’t real…why does everyone know someone who “almost turned”?Welcome to The Other Side of Yam — where superstition becomes evidence, evidence becomes conspiracy, and every N500 note on the floor suddenly feels like a trap.

Everybody say HAPPY BIRTHDAY BAYO! This is our first ever episode on my birthday and we're talking about... checks show notesDear lord 🤦🏾‍♂️, well, enjoy!People always say “don’t pick money from the ground,” but nobody warned us the consequence could be… turning into lunch. Okay maybe they did.Anyway—In this investigative mockumentary, we dive headfirst into one of Nigeria’s most chaotic superstitions: the myth that picking ground money can turn you into a yam. Yes. An actual yam. The kind your aunty boils for Sunday lunch.From whispered market rumours to distorted survivor testimonies, from Nollywood’s obsession with dramatic tuber transformations to that viral Ibadan incident that had people shouting “yamification!”, this episode uncovers the cultural roots — and absolute madness — behind one of our most persistent urban legends.We explore the folklore, the fear, the juju science, the moral lessons, the scam-prevention theory, and the accidental comedy woven through generations. Along the way, Prof Prof breaks down the sociology of yam myths, two market boys make terrible life choices, and Inspector Chukwudi (a.k.a. The Yam Whisperer) tries to get promoted while being slapped by civilians.And just when you think it can’t get more ridiculous, Shalewa Holmes arrives to investigate the conspiracy behind it all. Because if people really are turning into tubers… someone out there is benefitting.This is superstition meets satire, urban legend meets detective story, and fear meets fufu.Welcome to the Duality of Yam — where every warning your parents ever shouted suddenly makes too much sense.

Candy-ed Yams comes to a close with John Candy's RomCom lead: Only the Lonely! How great is Candy at the small emotional moments? What's with the parental oversight of these grown ass adults? What's with Kevin Dunn's dye job?  All this and more! We're going to a new schedule: the 1st of the month on Patreon for $5 and up members, and the 15th on the main feed. Want to hear the rest of this episode? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s to learn more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: John Candy, Ally Sheedy, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

Candy-ed Yams returns with a goofy comedy pairing SCTV pals John Candy and Eugene Levy: Armed and Dangerous! Why doesn't Meg Ryan get more to do? She's great here! What incredible, easy chemistry from Levy and Candy. Why did everyone involved disown this movie? All this and more! We're going to a new schedule: the 1st of the month on Patreon for $5 and up members, and the 15th on the main feed. Want to hear the rest of this episode? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s to learn more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: John Candy, Eugene Levy, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

Welcome to Day 2722 of Wisdom-Trek. Thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Day 2722 – Wisdom Nuggets – Psalm 89:19-18 – Daily Wisdom Wisdom-Trek Podcast Script - Day 2722 Welcome to Wisdom-Trek with Gramps! I am Guthrie Chamberlain, and we are on Day 2722 of our Trek. The Purpose of Wisdom-Trek is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. The Title for today's Wisdom-Trek is: God's Cosmic Dominion – The Unrivaled Strength of the Almighty - A Trek Through Psalm Eighty-Nine 9-18 This psalm is a grand meditation on God's covenant faithfulness, and this middle section serves to powerfully establish God's absolute cosmic power as the guarantor of that covenant. In our last conversation, we heard the psalmist, Ethan the Ezrahite, begin with an eternal commitment to sing of God's Unfailing Love and Faithfulness forever. He anchored that hope in the Davidic Covenant—God's eternal promise of an unending dynasty—and affirmed God's supremacy over the Divine Council, declaring that no angel can compare with Him. Now, Ethan shifts from the celestial courtroom to the vastness of creation, demonstrating that the God who made that eternal promise is the only One powerful enough to keep it. He is the God who calms the raging sea, defeats the ancient powers of chaos, and possesses all the power, righteousness, and justice necessary to sustain His promise forever. This is a powerful, awe-inspiring affirmation designed to build our confidence in the absolute authority of the Most High. So, let's open our hearts to this declaration of God's universal sovereignty, recognizing the immense power of the One who holds us in His hand. The first section is: Taming the Chaos: The Ruler of the Seas (Psalm eighty-nine 9-12) You rule the oceans when their waves surge high. You are the one who smashed the great sea monster, Rahab, and scattered your enemies with a mighty arm. The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; everything in the world is made by your hands. You created north and south. Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon praise your name. The psalmist begins by affirming God's absolute dominion over one of the most terrifying forces in the ancient world: the sea. "You rule the oceans when their waves surge high." In the ancient Israelite worldview, the sea was often seen as a symbol of chaos, instability, and raw, untamable power. For God to "rule the oceans" means He exercises complete control over the very forces of chaos and destruction. When the waves surge in fury, God is the supreme authority who limits them and commands their retreat. This dominion over chaos is illustrated by a great historical and mythical allusion: "You are the one who smashed the great sea monster, Rahab, and scattered your enemies with a mighty arm." "Rahab" is often used in the Old Testament as a mythical figure representing primeval chaos, similar to the sea monsters Yam and Leviathan. More practically, it is a symbolic

The HMB gang get surprised when Yams calls it quits,

Send us a textPumpkin shelves are still full, so we went hunting for what's actually worth drinking and wound up with two wildly different takes. First up: North High Carved Pumpkin, a smooth 7.5% ale with a holiday-leaning spice bill. The aroma says pumpkin patch, but the sip says clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon turned up past cozy and into Christmas. No alcohol burn, no syrupy sweetness, just a clean finish that makes it an easy nightcap, even if the pumpkin hides behind the spice rack.Then we crack Urban Artifact's Jack Pumpkin Pie American Fruit Tart—and everything changes. Bright acidity. Yam richness. A pumpkin note that feels lifted instead of heavy. It's crisp, lip-smacking, and surprisingly refreshing for a fall beer, the kind of tart that clears your palate instead of coating it. If you've written off pumpkin beers as sticky and over-spiced, this one's the plot twist. We break down why a sour profile can rescue seasonal flavors, how clove can quietly overpower a recipe, and the small details on labels that tell you what you're really buying.Between pours, we share the stories that color the tasting: gratitude for a workplace that shows up for its people, the humility of slow weeks, and a golf saga that escalates from simulator glory to a ball landing two feet from a backswing—followed by an unforgettable response. It's a reminder that beer and life both benefit from balance: a little sweet, a little sharp, and a lot of honesty about what works.Stick around for our final scores—7.5 for the spice-forward ale and 9 for the tart standout—plus practical tips for navigating seasonal beer aisles without getting burned. If you enjoyed the ride, follow the show, share it with a friend who swears off pumpkin beer, and drop a review with your own fall favorites.Support the showwww.anotherreasontodrink.com

Imagine a world where your teenagers actually love reading Scripture—and then lean in to discuss it with depth and excitement. Sounds impossible? It's not. In this episode, we introduce the idea of starting a Young Adult Midrash—a powerful, biblical way to engage your teens in reading, wrestling with, and applying God's Word. What is a midrash? How do you start one? And what do you really need to make it work? That's exactly what we're unpacking today. Tune in and discover how you can disciple the next generation in a way that's engaging, transformative, and rooted in the Bible. Links in this Episode: What He Must Be Previous Midrash Episode Abe's Wallet Retreat Nov 21-23 Cincinnati, OH https://abrahamswallet.com/retreat/ About Abraham's Wallet: Abraham's Wallet exists to inspire and equip Biblical family leaders. Please partner with us in inspiring and equipping multi-gen families at https://abrahamswallet.com/support AW website Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Facebook LinkedIn Instagram Chapters (00:00:00) - Golf Lessons for Dads(00:05:02) - Yams and the Young Adult Midrash(00:12:54) - YAM: The Midrash Starter Kit(00:22:47) - Host Homes and the Biblical Discussion Group(00:29:27) - YAM for Teens: A Leader(00:35:07) - When Does a Dad Throw the Penalty Flag?(00:39:49) - Cincinnati Midrash: Unique Experience(00:44:44) - Pastor on the YAM(00:48:51) - A Taste of Abraham Blueprint

Yamenika Saunders comes down into the NNFA turtle lair for the first time for a wild and splendiferous episode. From free gifts on daytime TV shows to the infamous Thanksgiving knife story, the crew dives into friendship drama, race, travel chaos, and why chicken will always spark debates. Expect plenty of laughs, some hard truths, and Yam being Yam. Don't miss this one!LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE to NNFA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLAUp-4rTF4q4XLujbJ51YQ NO NEED FOR APOLOGIES TOUR DATES https://www.linktr.ee/nnfaNNFA MERCH https://nnfa.creator-spring.com/ BONUS EPISODES https://www.patreon.com/c/ImDaveTemple?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink -----------------Follow host Derek GainesIG https://www.instagram.com/thegreatboy/ Follow host Dave TempleIG https://www.instagram.com/imdavetemple/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@DAT46Follow No Need for ApologiesInstagram https://www.instagram.com/nnfapodcast/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@noneedforapologies Facebook https://www.facebook.com/noneedforapologies/Yamaneika SaundersIG - https://www.instagram.com/yamaneika/ Produced by Teona SashaIG https://www.instagram.com/teonasasha/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@teonasasha -----------------To advertise your product on our podcasts please email jimmy@gasdigitalmarketing.com with a brief description about your product and any shows you may be interested in advertising on.SEND US MAIL:GaS Digital StudiosAttn: NNFA151 1st Ave # 311New York, NY 10003"No Need for Apologies" - NEW Episodes every Saturday at 3PM/ET on YouTube-----------------See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us a textThe Journeymen are back, joined by their former Chicago Fire teammate, Drew Conner, for a hilarious walk down memory lane.Video Chapters: 0:00 – Intro & welcoming Drew Conner to the pod 3:38 – Drew: The last of the “YAM” generation 5:01 – Drew on the current Chicago Fire season 11:11 – Turning the clock back to 2018 12:02 – Drew on meeting Gordo for the first time & other funny memories 22:24 – Drew the “Art Director” (the story behind the infamous cleat pic) 30:50 – The Fire's trip to Munich for Basti's testimonial game 35:28 – The greatest rondo EVER 41:15 – The Rabona King 43:20 – Drew's transition from soccer to music 48:38 – The genesis of Housecalls 56:20 – Drew on the current MLS season & the growth of soccer in the U.S.

Yam-hee-hwelcome to another fantastic episode of Two Chunks and A Hunk. Yam-hee-hit the links with us as we play jjjolf! Yam-hee-hazard a guess as we examine the ever inscrutable TopTens.com! And yam-hee-hahaha it up with us as we talk about Hot Rod.In This Episode: jjjolf, The Top Tens, Hot RodCatch up on the first season of Imagine Dungeons, our actual play D&D podcast, before season two releases this fall!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/two-chunks-and-a-hunk/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Comedian Yamaneika Saunders joins Shannon & Figs! They discuss Yamaneika's brand new special, the terrible Uber driver Yam head on the way to the studio, getting free rides from a cab driver in exchange for sex, Yam's weight loss, and so much more!Air Date: 07/22/25Support our sponsors⁠YoKratom.com⁠ - Click The Link To Get A $60 Kilo Today**Send in your stories for Bad Dates, Bad Things, and Scary Things to...**⁠thethingispodcast@gmail.com⁠The Thing Is... Airs every Tuesday, at 4PM ET on GaS Digital! The newest 20 episodes are always free, but if you want access to all the archives, watch live, chat live, access to the forums, and get the show days before it comes out everywhere else - you can subscribe now at gasdigital.com and use the code TTI to get 20% off your membership!Yamaneika Saunders- Instagram: @YamaneikaShannon Lee-Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/shannonlee6982/⁠Mike Figs-Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/comicmikefigs/⁠YouTube: ⁠@comicmikefigs⁠Subscribe On YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC87Akt2Sq_-YEd_YrNpbS2Q⁠See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hold on to your George Foreman grills and watch your feet because this week we're breaking down The Injury episode of The Office. The ladies chat about Dwight and Pam's blossoming friendship, Michael's hilarious talking head, and what's with the sofa in the conference room?! Then Jenna reveals that yes, that really was Steve Carell's foot, and Angela reads from her journal about that Dwangela moment in the breakroom. Unfortunately, we cannot confirm if there are Yams at any Carbondale gas stations, but check out the reviews of Pam's Prism DuroSport-6000!  Check out Office Ladies Merch at Podswag: https://www.podswag.com/collections/office-ladies  Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question: https://officeladies.com/submitaquestion  Follow Us on Instagram: OfficeLadiesPod Episode Transcript  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices