China’s property market is bracing for a worsening crisis at state-backed China Vanke Co., as the builder struggles to convince investors it can avoid default in the months ahead without clearer signs of government support.
Source: Bloomberg Markets.
Experience design firm Murmur Ring, in partnership with Empathy and the Institute of Design, invites artists, designers, makers, and creatives of all kinds to join the Reclaiming Value: Sacred Valley Design Immersion from June 15 to 19, 2026, in Peru’s Sacred Valley. The Colossal team previously joined Murmur Ring for a transformative week-long immersion in Oaxaca, Mexico, and looks forward to joining this excursion, as well.
This is not a tourist program. Mumur Ring’s Immersions are creative exchanges born from years of research and relationship-building. Intimate site visits with Peruvian makers and innovators offer rare, behind-the-scenes access to the perspectives, techniques, and community-centered models shaping the region’s most visionary work. Participants will find new inspiration, forge collaborative relationships, and leave with ideas that will transform their practices.
In the coming weeks, Colossal will highlight several of the Peruvian makers whom participants will meet during the immersion, including Awamaki and Cerámicas Seminario.
Awamaki—named for the Quechua word meaning “made by hand”—helps women weavers of the Andes access global markets, develop business skills, and build financial independence to sustain their communities for generations. Murmur Ring’s immersion will venture into the mountains to see this social enterprise model in action and:
Since it began as an individual arts practice over 30 years ago, Cerámicas Seminario has evolved into a thriving studio blending ancient artistic language with a bold, contemporary visual style. The family-run business stands not only as a celebrated center of innovation in Peruvian ceramics but also as a powerful economic engine for its surrounding community. The immersion will allow participants to:
A place where food, land, art, and ancestral knowledge converge, MIL Centro is far more than a restaurant. It is an innovative research lab dedicated to preserving traditional Peruvian crops, restoring endangered agricultural practices, and sustaining the communities who have lived on and worked with this land for centuries. Theirs is a model that honors tradition, empowers community, and pushes the boundaries of what food, and art, can be. During a visit to MIL Centro, participants will:
Early bird reservations are available through November 30, 2025. Apply now to secure your spot at the exclusive rate, and join us for an unforgettable journey into the creative soul of the Sacred Valley.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Immerse Yourself in the Creative Culture of Peru’s Sacred Valley with Murmur Ring’s Unique Program appeared first on Colossal.
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• Buy/Stream Blu Attic ‘Traces’ EP: https://exp.anjunadeep.co/blut.oyd • Anjunadeep Explorations Discography: https://exp.anjunadeep.co/discog.oyd • Anjunadeep 2025: https://anjunadeep.co/deep2025.oyd • Listen to Anjunadeep Radio 24/7: https://anjunadeep.co/radio.oyd • Anjuna Music Store: https://music.anjunabeats.com/ • Anjuna Merchandise: https://store.anjunabeats.com/ • Join our newsletter for updates: https://anjunadeep.com/gb/join Blu Attic returns to Anjunadeep Explorations with the ‘Traces EP’. Hailing from India, producer and DJ Aniket Jain has quickly emerged as one of the nation’s most promising deep and melodic talents. Since his first release in 2021, Blu Attic has released on acclaimed imprints including Sekora and Songspire, steadily building a catalogue defined by deep melodic textures and elegant, emotive production. His Anjunadeep Explorations debut came earlier this year with ‘Till I Lose Myself’, a tastefully crafted electronica piece known for its unique sample of Aniket’s close friend whistling and catchy guitar riff. Blu Attic’s momentum has steadily grown throughout 2025, starting off the year with BBC Radio 1 airplay via Indo Warehouse’s Essential Mix, and his debut single with us landing first track status on the label’s debut annual compilation, ‘Anjunadeep Explorations Vol. 1’. Aniket’s presence on lineups across India and beyond is rapidly expanding, supporting the likes of Dosem, Fehrplay and Nordfold on their India tours this summer, and more recently playing Indo Warehouse and Tomorrowland’s collaborative Dubai event in October. The new EP is the latest development in Blu Attic’s style featuring a selection of upbeat, groovy and always danceable music. The project features two up-and-coming vocalists; ‘Bayaan’ with Adarsh Saxena, and ‘Out Of Sight’ with Shraddha Shree. Blu Attic’s ‘Traces EP’ is out now Anjunadeep Explorations. Release date: 26 November 2025 Follow Anjunadeep: • Youtube: https://anjunadeep.co/youtube.oyd • Website: http://www.anjunadeep.com • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/anjunadeep • Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/anjunadeep • Spotify: https://anjunadeep.co/spotify.oyd • Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/anjunadeep • SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/anjunadeep • Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/AboveandBeyond/ • Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/anjuna • Discord: http://www.discord.gg/anjuna • Join our newsletter: https://anjunadeep.com/signup/ Follow Anjunadeep Playlists: • Anjunadeep 2025: https://anjunadeep.co/deep2025.oyd • Anjunadeep Discography: https://anjunadeep.co/discog.oyd • Anjunadeep Essentials: https://anjunadeep.co/essentialsplaylist.oyd • Anjunadeep Explorations Discography: https://exp.anjunadeep.co/discog.oyd #Anjunadeep #Explorations #BluAttic #TracesEP
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Un pensionato di 87 anni è morto in un incidente stradale avvenuto lungo la statale 106 ionica.
È accaduto nel territorio di Mirto Crosia, in provincia di Cosenza.
La vittima era alla guida di un motocarro.
Che, per cause in corso d’accertamento, si è scontrato con un auto.
Il pensionato, a causa dell’impatto, è stato sbalzato fuori dall’abitacolo ed é deceduto sul colpo.
Sul posto il personale del 118 ed i carabinieri, che hanno effettuato i rilievi per ricostruire la dinamica dell’incidente
Source: Irriverentemente.
Campbell’s is insisting that its soups aren’t made with 3D-printed chicken, lab-grown chicken, or bioengineered meat. The food giant issued the explanation on its website after leaked audio allegedly captured Campbell’s vice president of information technology saying the company’s meat “came from a 3D printer.”
“A recent video contained false comments about our ingredients,” Campbell’s writes. “The comments heard on the recording about our food are not only inaccurate, they are absurd. We do not use lab-grown chicken or any form of artificial or bioengineered meat in our soups.” It adds that the company only uses chicken from “reputable” suppliers in the US that meet USDA standards.
The audio was released as part of a lawsuit filed against Campbell’s by a former employee, who claims to have recorded a conversation with IT VP Martin Bally. During the conversation, the person purported to be Bally makes racist remarks, while calling Campbell’s food “bioengineered” and for “poor people.”
“Even in a can of soup, I look at it — and look at bioengineered meat,” the person in the recording says. “I don’t want to eat a fucking piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer, do you?”
3D-printed chicken isn’t entirely something out of a sci-fi movie. KFC, which has had to deal with its own chicken-related conspiracies, said it was working with a Russian firm in 2020 to develop a way to “print” lab-grown chicken nuggets using chicken cells and plant material.
Campbell’s has put Bally on leave while it investigates the alleged comments. “Keep in mind, the alleged comments heard on the audio were made by a person in IT, who has nothing to do with how we make our food,” Campbell’s says.
Source: The Verge.
I’m on a sun lounger. First day of holiday. Should be relaxing.
Instead, I’m trying to remember what’s happening in Children of Ruin because I put it down three weeks ago and now I’m completely lost. I loved the Portiids (sort of spider aliens, stay with me here), but I couldn’t remember who was doing what or why everyone was upset.
So I did what any reasonable person would do. Found a PDF online, used some dodgy free tool to cut it at my current page, and uploaded it to ChatGPT asking for a summary.
ChatGPT proceeded to gaslight me about the plot. It invented species. It got confused about the Portiids I’d grown to love. It made me more confused than when I started.
Lying there, genuinely annoyed at an AI chatbot for making things up, I thought: “I could build this better. And I’ve been wanting to play with RAG anyway.”
So I did. On holiday. Instead of relaxing. Classic.
If you don’t have ADHD, building side projects probably looks like: plan → build → test → ship.
Here’s what it actually looked like for me.
I spent an unreasonable amount of time building elaborate re-ranking algorithms. Implemented MMR, “lost in the middle” reordering, contextual relevance scoring. The UI? Barely functional. But those ranking algorithms were beautiful. Priorities.
Then there was the config file that ate my life. I built this massive YAML system for scoring weights, thresholds, and narrative markers. Super organized. Very engineered. Used about 10% of it. Should’ve started simpler, but where’s the fun in that?
Testing avoidance is real. I kept adding features instead of testing the core thing. When I finally tested it on actual books, I found about ten obvious bugs I’d been completely ignoring. Turns out “it probably works” is not a QA strategy.
And then there was Cline. You know what’s worse than not having AI coding assistants? Having them but being too scattered to track what they changed. Cline would generate code. I’d lose grip trying to review it all. The cognitive load of “what did this change and is it right?” was overwhelming. So I’d just… not use it. Or use it and hope for the best. Neither great.
I could handle the backend. RAG pipelines? Vector stores? Re-ranking? That’s my comfort zone.
The frontend? Absolute disaster.
Tried a bunch of frameworks. Learning curve was too steep. Every AI-fueled “vibe coding” session with Cursor or Cline resulted in janky UIs that looked like they were designed by a backend engineer. Because they were. By me.
I was stuck.
Adrian and I used to work together. Platform engineer. Absolute breeze to collaborate with. We’d been on a few adventures together and became good mates, but lost touch after we stopped working together.
So I sent him a WhatsApp: “Fancy helping me build an AI app?”
He said yes.
We put in a weekly call. If we didn’t have updates on the app, we’d just chat. The project became an excuse to reconnect, and having someone else invested meant I actually had to follow through. Adrian brought actual frontend skills, deployment knowledge, the ability to say “mate, that’s over-engineered,” and—crucially—accountability.
Turns out, ADHD building works way better with a friend. Body-doubling I guess you’d call it.
Built this whole thing to solve my ADHD reading problem. Free tool. No monetisation. Genuinely trying to help people with the same struggle.
Posted it to r/ADHD: “Hey, made this tool for when you forget book plots.”
Permanently banned for self-promotion.
I won’t lie, I was properly annoyed. I’m not selling anything. It’s free. I’m one of you. But their rules are their rules, I guess. Still salty.
The r/ADHD_Programmers community was way more chill and actually appreciated it, so not a total loss.
RAG is kind of a brutalist approach to information retrieval. It works, but let’s not pretend it’s elegant.
The problem I kept hitting: generic queries yield garbage results. Searching for “plot points” as your retrieval query does not magically pull out the important narrative beats. You get sentences that contain the words “plot” and “points.” Groundbreaking stuff.
What actually helped was semantic chunking (respecting narrative structure instead of splitting at arbitrary token counts), MMR for reducing redundancy in retrieved chunks, “lost in the middle” reordering to put the most relevant chunks at the start and end of context, and contextual relevance scoring that goes beyond pure semantic similarity.
But honestly? It’s still messy. RAG is great for “find relevant information,” but fiction summarisation needs way more narrative understanding than embedding similarity can provide. The model needs to grasp story structure, character arcs, tension—things that don’t reduce neatly to vector space. I’m not sure anyone’s really cracked this yet.
The thing they don’t tell you about building side projects with ADHD: it takes longer than you think. Not because of technical challenges, but because of all the detours. You’ll over-engineer things (that elaborate config system was a waste of time). You’ll under-engineer other things (the UI, obviously). Solo ADHD building is hard mode. And shipping is more important than perfecting. I kept not shipping because “just one more feature.”
Building something I actually use made a real difference. Every time I picked up a book I’d forgotten, I’d use my own tool. Broken things annoyed me enough to fix them. Dog-fooding works.
Having a friend involved was probably the biggest factor. Adrian didn’t just bring skills I didn’t have. He brought accountability. Weekly calls meant I couldn’t just abandon the project mid-hyperfocus-cycle.
Railway deployment was a pleasant surprise. Coming from Google Cloud Run, Railway’s simplicity was refreshing. railway up and it deploys. Hard spending limits meant no surprise bills. Went from £??/month on GCP to £5/month.
And no signup required. Just let people upload files without accounts. Removes friction, better UX, one less thing for my brain to build and maintain.
In my r/ADHD_Programmers post, I crossed out “setting hard deadlines” because demand avoidance is real.
Tell me I have to ship by Friday? Suddenly I can’t work on it at all. Actually, it’s more “won’t” than “can’t”.
Give myself permission to ship “whenever”? Actually gets done.
There was no time pressure. The project happened because I wanted it to, not because I forced myself to. That’s the only way it works for me.
The tool is live at app.wherewasi.co.uk.
It’s v0.1. The UI is basic (Adrian did an amazing job with my vague requirements). It might crash. But it works, and I genuinely use it.
Hyperfocus will betray you. You’ll obsess over the wrong things. Find a building buddy, because accountability plus skills you don’t have equals actually shipping. Ship ugly, because perfect is the enemy of done. Build what you’ll actually use, because dog-fooding keeps you motivated. Be careful with AI coding tools because they’re great until you can’t track what changed. Respect your demand avoidance as deadlines might work for you, but they don’t work for me (hope my boss doesn’t read this). And apparently, don’t post free tools to r/ADHD.
This got way longer than intended. If you’re building side projects with ADHD, or dealing with similar challenges, drop a comment. Misery loves company.
Also, if anyone knows how to appeal r/ADHD permabans, asking for a friend. I’m the friend. I might have also burnt a bridge with the mods.
“Where Was I?” is built with: FastAPI, ChromaDB, OpenAI, Railway, friendship, and whatever the opposite of executive function is.
Source: DEV Community.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee released a package of 19 bills aimed at protecting kids on the internet, teeing Congress up for a chance at passing some of the most substantive internet regulations in recent history, alongside a fight over online speech rights.
The subcommittee on commerce will consider the bills during a hearing on Tuesday, including the contentious Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). KOSA has been the centerpiece of advocacy from parent survivors whose kids died after suffering from a range of online harms, including cyberbullying, sextortion, and drugs purchased through the internet. But the new version of the bill omits the animating feature of the Senate version that passed overwhelmingly last year: the duty of care, which would have made tech platforms legally responsible for mitigating harms stemming from their services, like eating disorders and depression. Critics warned that could sweep up a host of legal speech, including resources that seek to mitigate the very harms KOSA aims to solve.
The new version of KOSA omits the animating feature of the Senate version that passed overwhelmingly
In a new House discussion draft, the duty of care has been replaced by a requirement that social media platforms have “reasonable policies, practices, and procedures” to deal with four discrete kinds of harm: “Threats of physical violence,” “Sexual exploitation and abuse,” “Distribution, sale, or use of narcotic drugs, tobacco products, cannabis products, gambling, or alcohol,” and “Any financial harm caused by deceptive practices.” The extent of policies and procedures a platform has to have would need to be appropriate to the scale and complexity of the platform itself, and the technical feasibility of addressing the harms. The new version also expands the definition of who’s covered by the bill to include nonprofit platforms.
The package includes several other significant bills. Among them is the App Store Accountability Act, the federal version of a bill that’s passed in several states requiring age verification at the app store level and transmitting age signals to developers. The Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) would raise the age of privacy protections from an earlier version of the law from under 13 to under 17, and ban targeted advertising to those covered by the bill. The Reducing Exploitative Social Media Exposure for Teens (RESET) Act, currently a discussion draft, would prohibit social media platforms from allowing any kids or teens under 16 to maintain accounts.
It’s a significant step after last year, when House Republican leadership passed on the chance to advance KOSA. Though the Senate approved it 91-3, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) worried about the bill’s constitutionality and free speech implications. Opponents accused them of cozying up to the tech industry due to investments in their state. Now, it appears that House leadership may follow through on promises to reconsider kids online safety legislation — but it already looks far different than what was proposed last year, and there’s no promise it will cross the finish line.
Source: The Verge.
Riceviamo e pubblichiamo
“Psc: sviluppo e futuro del territorio urbano”: questo il tema dell’incontro che si terrà venerdì , alle ore 16.30, nella sala giunta della Provincia.
“Un momento di dibattito politico e istituzionale riguardo all’importante strumento urbanistico del Piano strutturale comunale alla luce della recente pubblicazione del documento definitivo, e su cui si aprirà una fase decisionale che dovrà coinvolgere tutte le forze dell’amministrazione. Il Psc può e deve costituire un’opportunità strategica attorno a cui far convergere i temi dello sviluppo urbanistico, della rigenerazione urbana, della salvaguardia del territorio. E’ per questo motivo che, giunti a questa ulteriore tappa dell’iter amministrativo, si è pensato ad un momento di riflessione aperto anche ad interventi di urbanisti e tecnici per ricostruire lo stato dell’arte e assumere una posizione chiara e trasparente sugli intendimenti futuri”.
Sono previsti i saluti dei consiglieri regionali di Forza Italia, Marco Polimeni, e di Fratelli d’Italia, Filippo Pietropaolo. Concluderà Filippo Mancuso, Vicepresidente della Giunta regionale, con delega all’Urbanistica.
Niente acqua zona Nord per guasto elettrico
A causa di guasto elettrico si registra un abbassamento dei livelli di accumulo tale da generare disservizio nell’erogazione. Zone interessate quartiere Stadio, via Cortese, quartiere San Leonardo, via Mario Greco, via Schipani, via Jannelli, via Buccarelli e zone limitrofe. Normalizzazione prevista in serata.
Source: Irriverentemente.
The penny — that lowly, grimy, circular piece of copper and zinc — is getting the last laugh. It’s been less than a month since the last one was minted on Nov. 12, and there are growing penny shortages all over the US. Stores are actually paying people to bring them in, and businesses fear they could lose millions of dollars.
What’s that old saying? You don’t miss something until it’s gone? Maybe the penny was more important than we thought. But that old one-cent coin had been fighting a losing battle for respect for years. You can’t buy anything with them anymore, not even a gumball. Most of us just toss them into a junk drawer or a glass jar. A sad penny can even lie on a sidewalk all day and not get scooped up.
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The US Mint struck the last pennies on Nov. 12, ending a 230-year run. According to the Mint, the cost of making the coin was 3.69 cents for every penny — hardly a smart return on investment for taxpayers.
However, with the discontinuation of penny production, some brick-and-mortar businesses across the country have been unable to give back exact change because they lack sufficient pennies, if any.
A Retail Industry Leaders Association survey revealed that thousands of stores have no pennies, and they are calling on the federal government to take action.
Grocery chain Price Chopper and Market 32 recently held a Double Exchange Day, where people brought in their pennies and received double the value back in the form of a shopping voucher. Similarly, grocery chain Giant Eagle offered gift cards worth twice the amount of pennies customers brought in during a one-day event on Nov. 1.
Canada and Australia also dropped their penny equivalents years ago.
Wrap the coins and find a bank: Many banks and credit unions will accept your coins. They might have a coin-counting machine, or they may ask you to organize the coins into wrappers, which is time-consuming but also will give you an idea of just how many coins you’ve been stashing. There may or may not be a fee, depending on whether you’re an account holder. (Note: Some banks will not accept prewrapped coins; they must be counted out or machine-checked to ensure they are legitimate.) Yes, people do hide same-weight slugs inside coin rolls.)
Fun and skills for kids: Those pennies could help you level up your arts and crafts toolbox. Help kids learn about budgeting, create some art, do a science experiment — you’ve got options! Check out Greenlight’s ideas.
The nickel could be next. It costs nearly 14 cents to make, almost three times the face value of the five-cent coin. The primary problem is that nickels are comprised of 75% copper and 25% nickel, metals which have doubled in price over the past decade.
The penny may be vanishing, but its history is full of fun facts.
Following its licensing deal with Udio, Warner Music Group (WMG) has also reached an agreement with Suno that will let the platform license its artists’ music and likenesses, and end the music company’s ongoing litigation. WMG was previously one of several record labels suing Udio and Suno for allegedly infringing on copyrighted works at a “massive scale.”
As part of the agreement, “artists and songwriters will have full control over whether and how their names, images, likenesses, voices, and compositions are used in new AI-generated music,” WMG explains in its press release for the announcement. WMG doesn’t spell out how that will work for musicians impacted by the deal, but it does appear that participation will be opt-in, rather than anything being shared by default. This mirrors the opt-in structure of the company’s Udio deal.
“AI becomes pro-artist when it adheres to our principles: committing to licensed models, reflecting the value of music on and off platform, and providing artists and songwriters with an opt-in for the use of their name, image, likeness, voice and compositions in new AI songs,” WMG CEO Robert Kyncl says.
Suno will also make adjustments to its AI music platform, possibly as a condition of the new partnership. WMG says Suno is launching “new, more advanced and licensed models” in 2026, after which its current models will be deprecated. The company will also limit music downloads to paid accounts. “In the future, songs made on the free tier will not be downloadable and will instead be playable and shareable. Paid tier users will have limited monthly download caps with the ability to pay for more downloads,” WMG says.
In an odd wrinkle to the partnership, Suno is also acquiring WMG’s Songkick concert discovery platform. The company plans to continue running it, and WMG claims that “the combination of Suno and Songkick will create new potential to deepen the artist-fan connection.” An app for finding nearby concerts doesn’t totally square with Suno’s existing music creation tools, but maybe it suggests the company is interested in offering more social features down the road.
Prior to this agreement, Suno openly admitted to using “essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet” to train its AI model, under the auspices of fair use. That seems like a pretty blatant admission of copyright infringement, but apparently Warner Music Group is happier with the deals it struck than what it could have won through its lawsuit. The company is reportedly one of several music groups looking to strike a similar deal with YouTube.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/warner-music-drops-lawsuit-against-ai-music-platform-suno-in-exchange-for-licensing-agreement-224619025.html?src=rss