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Wes Anderson steps into the mobile Criterion Closet to select some films that he enjoys.

One unsurprising thing about this video: Anderson says he has his own Criterion closet at home with all of the Criterion films. That’s maybe a $40-50K investment? (He probably gets them free from Criterion tho.) I wonder how many films he watches a day? Two? Three? If Soderbergh’s yearly watch/read lists are any indication, it’s probably in that ballpark.

One surprising thing about this video: I was expecting Anderson to go for Kurosawa, Tati, Truffaut, Welles, and some other of his big influences but instead selected family friendly fare suitable for a trip. The man has a wide array of influences. Here’s the full list:

The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, 1943)
Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, 1933)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024)
Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982)
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)

I love seeing Flow on there. What a great little film.

See also Wes Anderson Talks Up Some of His Favorite Movies in a Parisian Video Store and this delightful video from 20 years ago or so featuring Anderson and Jason Schwartzman picking out music & movies in a Borders:

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Thanks to AI, computer science majors are finding themselves in a tougher spot than they might have expected. Jobs are harder to come by, and more graduates are ending up in lower-paying sectors like retail and food service. That’s according to a new working paper by three US Census Bureau economists examining how college graduates from majors with the highest exposure to AI have fared since ChatGPT came onto the scene in late 2022 and helped kick off the generative AI boom. The results don’t look good for those in the most exposed fields, with career and earnings prospects for the top decile (i.e., the top ten percent of majors most exposed to AI) looking as bad as those of older Millennials who graduated during the Great Recession. “The most AI-exposed decile of college majors saw their likelihood of initial employment decline by five percentage points, while full-quarter initial earnings declined by 13 percent,” a trio of Census Bureau economists wrote in the paper. “This earnings decline is comparable in magnitude to the earnings losses associated with graduating into a large recession.” And why are those earnings declining? Well, part of the answer is where the AI-affected graduates are ending up: With job prospects worsening, more are turning to lower-wage sectors like restaurants and retail, with the researchers finding that shifts into lower-paying industries account for about half of the earnings decline. The one big difference between your usual recession and what’s happening now, the economists explain, is that the effects aren’t spread evenly across all industries. Graduates from less AI-exposed fields, including nursing and many education fields, haven’t experienced the same deterioration in early-career employment seen among those from the most exposed majors. Those having trouble are largely who you’d think: Graduates in computer science, mathematics, statistics, some engineering disciplines, networking, and (gulp) even journalists are among those in the most AI-exposed fields. The impacts that young graduates are feeling have tended to ease as they move further from graduation, but previous research on those who entered the workforce around the Great Recession suggests that years of lousy job prospects can leave graduates behind the curve on earnings. The researchers acknowledge that other factors could be at play, but the paper finds that several alternative explanations don’t fully account for the pattern. Is there an oversupply of new graduates in those fields, given how popular they are? Probably not, the paper notes, and the authors explained to us. “The most AI-exposed majors saw rapid growth in graduates in the years leading up to ChatGPT's release. After its release, the number of new graduates in these majors started to level off quickly,” the authors explained in an email to The Register. “Survey data on STEM departments also suggest that enrollments in some of the most exposed major programs have started to decline.” That said, the number of those graduates who found jobs in their field has fallen faster, they added. What about self-employment or the grad school route? Together, changes in those activities could account for as much as half of the five-percentage-point employment decline, the paper concludes. In other words, AI appears to be having an impact on the job market for young people, especially those in the most AI-exposed fields, though other factors are at play. “There are many different plausible ways in which AI may be impacting early career workers,” the research team told us. “Firms may have chosen to hire fewer new graduates for reasons that are related to AI's existence, but aren't related to firms' use of the technology themselves.” Those who aren’t embracing AI in their business may simply be less certain about the future, or they may be concerned that AI is making it harder to find suitable candidates, both of which can make job prospects for fresh graduates worse, the economists told us. The takeaway from the entire paper is essentially that, yes, AI is reshaping the labor market, and it’s having a disproportionate impact on young folks who went to school to do jobs that are being affected by AI, like software development and writing. “We should be concerned about the magnitude of these results,” the researchers told us, but they added that they hesitate to extrapolate this short-term trend into a long-term doomsday forecast for the future of the labor market. “Historical evidence shows that many jobs performed today did not exist decades ago, and it's not easy to predict what those jobs of the future might be or what skills they may require,” the authors told us. “We should be very cautious in speculating about how AI will impact the economy as a whole based on shorter-term effects on only a subset of workers.” Still, the evidence to date suggests new compsci graduates fielding questions from their parents about why they’re still slinging frappuccinos or waiting tables have a ready answer: It’s all AI’s fault. ®

Claude Code customers have a new reason to give Anthropic more of their money. The tool now allows you to launch multiple sessions related to a single project, burning through more resources and cash at once. Appropriately enough, the feature is called projects and can be accessed from the Claude.ai sidebar. It's not the old version of projects, capitalized in some reference material, which allowed for the creation of self-contained workspaces with separate chat histories and knowledge bases. The new implementation is technically in beta, though that term hardly means anything anymore amid the constant code iteration. Anthropic describes projects as a way to let Claude manage multiple related tasks. "Claude scopes the request, delegates the work, coordinates parallel threads, reviews the outputs, and assembles the finished result," the company explains in a blog post. "You can steer progress throughout, even from your phone, and it keeps working after you step away from your computer." It's the sort of capability that might be useful if you are prompting the model to begin a large coding project and you want to get several essential components like authorization, databases, caching, and containers up and running at the same time. Essentially, a project spins up each task as its own Claude Code cloud session thread that works on its own git branch and its own copy of the relevant repo. A coordinator directs the threads; if they touch the same code, overlaps surface as merge conflicts like those in other pull requests. And each thread may get broken down into distinct tasks handled by subagents within that session. Claude Code now offers five different ways to run multiple tasks at the same time. Subagents work within a session, though each with its own context. Agent View provides a single screen interface for overseeing several independent tasks. Agent Teams allows coordinating multiple Claude Code instances that can share information and communicate. Dynamic Workflows allows subagents to be orchestrated by a script. And then there's projects, intended for work that spans multiple repositories, migrations that require more than a single session, or work that isn't code, like a frequently queried set of support tickets or documentation. Anthropic's caveat is that projects burn through tokens quickly. "Projects can run several threads at once, and each one is a full Claude Code session," the company explains. "Because of this, projects can reach usage limits faster." Select Pro and Max subscribers should have access to the Projects beta so long as they use Claude Code and don't have existing Projects set up on web or desktop. Pro and Max users without access can join a waitlist as Anthropic gradually expands the rollout. Team and Enterprise plans don't have access to the redesigned Projects beta yet. Anthropic reportedly told investors that, in its second quarter, it posted an adjusted operating profit - if you don't count expenses including stock-based compensation. Q2 revenue is said to be $11.5 billion, and if enough customers create projects that run multiple Claude Code threads at once, that figure could be higher still. ®

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US president has overseen an unprecedented restriction of access for major traditional news media since start of second term

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In his latest attack on the US constitution’s first amendment and the press, Donald Trump has announced that he is banning outlets CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House over their coverage.

In a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday afternoon, the US president said he was expelling the news outlets over what he called their “constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” and threatened that bans for others outlets could follow.

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WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft besloten diverse media per direct uit het Witte Huis te weren. Het gaat om CNN, Politico en MSNOW. Trump beschuldigt ze van het constant delen van "nepnieuws".

"Media zouden niet voortdurend fictie en leugens moeten kunnen schrijven of berichten wanneer ze verslag doen over de president van de Verenigde Staten, de regering-Trump of de Verenigde Staten", aldus een verklaring van Trump op zijn platform Truth Social. Daarin meldt hij dat "andere nepnieuwsmedia zullen volgen", zonder de media bij naam te noemen.

Trump haalt regelmatig uit naar verschillende media en haalt bij persmomenten ook uit naar aanwezige verslaggevers. Het Witte Huis heeft onder zijn leiding het beleid omtrent journalisten aangepast. Zo maakte het Witte Huis begin vorig jaar, kort na Trumps aantreden, bekend dat het voortaan zelf de nieuwsorganisaties kiest voor de perspools. De selectie was sinds 1914 in handen van een onafhankelijke vereniging.

PARAMARIBO (ANP) - Suriname heeft Interpol gevraagd een internationaal opsporingsbevel uit te vaardigen tegen de voortvluchtige verdachte Ryan T. Die wordt verdacht van betrokkenheid bij de vermissing van de Nederlandse filmproducent, ondernemer en dj Rodney Leysner. De Nederlander verdween op 15 augustus. Het Surinaamse Openbaar Ministerie meldt vrijdag dat Interpol het verzoek momenteel beoordeelt.

De Surinaamse procureur-generaal gelastte ruim drie weken geleden de opsporing en aanhouding van Ryan T. in Suriname. Hij wordt verdacht van onder meer deelname aan een criminele organisatie en moord.

Leysners familie kreeg na 15 augustus geen contact met hem en sloeg alarm. De politie vond zijn witte Kia Sorento op 21 augustus in een moerassig gebied ten westen van Paramaribo. Van Leysner zelf ontbreekt elk spoor.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Wessel Nijman heeft zich geplaatst voor de tweede ronde van de World Series of Darts Finals. De 26-jarige Noord-Hollander versloeg in de AFAS Live in Amsterdam de 57-jarige Australiër Simon Whitlock met 6-4.

Nijman doet het daarmee beter dan vorig jaar, toen hij in zijn openingspartij onderuitging tegen zijn landgenoot Michael van Gerwen. Van Gerwen overleefde een matchdart en won het toernooi toen uiteindelijk. De titelverdediger werd donderdag in de eerste ronde uitgeschakeld door de Noord-Ier Daryl Gurney.

BREE (ANP/BELGA) - De Belgische politie heeft vijf verdachten opgepakt na de vondst van een groot drugslaboratorium in het Belgische Bree, dicht bij de Nederlandse grens. Vier verdachten komen uit Nederland.

In het lab werden MDMA en crystal meth gemaakt. Het parket van Limburg heeft het over een van de grootste actieve drugslabs voor de productie van synthetische drugs die de afgelopen jaren is ontdekt. Alle materialen en installaties voor drugsproductie zijn in beslag genomen, evenals drie voertuigen, een kleine hoeveelheid contant geld en vijf gsm-toestellen.

Er zijn grote hoeveelheden grondstoffen en chemische producten aangetroffen die bij de productie en verwerking van synthetische drugs worden gebruikt, waaronder dertien flessen waterstofgas, meer dan 700 kilogram precursoren en ongeveer 180 kilogram afgewerkte MDMA-kristallen. Volgens Belgische media is het mogelijk om daarvan zo'n 800.000 pillen te maken met een straatwaarde van 2,5 miljoen euro.

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De politie verrichtte dinsdag, een dag na de vondst, vier arrestaties in Bree. Het gaat om twee mannen van 30 en 35 jaar uit Weert, een 61-jarige man uit Sittard en een 43-jarige man met de Belgische nationaliteit uit Venlo. Donderdag werd bij een huiszoeking in Bree een 34-jarige vrouw opgepakt. Toen werd ook een telefoon en geld in beslag genomen. De verdachten zijn in het belang van het onderzoek naar verschillende gevangenissen gebracht.

Voor ontmanteling van het drugslaboratorium en afvoer van de gevaarlijke chemicaliën en installaties werd een beroep gedaan op specialisten. Die hadden meer dan twee dagen nodig om het lab te onderzoeken en de aangetroffen spullen te inventariseren. Volgens het Openbaar Ministerie geeft dat een beeld van de omvang van het drugslaboratorium.

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Bijzondere beeldtaal deze goede vrijdag. De Luftwaffe heeft z'n nieuwe F-35's binnen en er lijkt geen sprake van Cock Shame want ze schamen zich bepaald niet voor hun KRUIS. Welverdiend, het was immers het eerste ras met straaljagers. Maar dan even over de veenbrand in het Zuiden, want vandaag lekte de onderstaande video van 7 oktober 2025 uit, waarin een Franse militaire pastoor een parachutistenregiment toespreekt, en van leer trekt tegen de linkse orde. Mechelon & Co op links, en gretige accounts op rechts claimen dat de pastoor spreekt van 'the great replacement', maar we kunnen hem niet op etnisch geladen taal betrappen. Héél politiek is het wel, en daar heeft hij zich destijds blijkbaar al publiekelijk en privé voor verontschuldiugd. Mooie tv is het wel!

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🇫🇷🔴 JUST IN: A video has been leaked of a French military chaplain roasting leftists and warning of the Great Replacement in front of French paratroopers in the city of Carcassonne.

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De westelijke Suurhoffbrug (A15) zal in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag gesloten zijn voor verkeer. Eerder deze week werd al bekend dat Rijkswaterstaat scheuren had ontdekt in de brug. Verkeer werd sindsdien over de vluchtstrook geleid. Om dat veilig te laten verlopen, is een spoedreparatie nodig.

Central Saint Martins students brought 12 McLaren-inspired looks to the runway, drawing on racing icons, engineering and modern F1 fandom.