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## Headlines
GRANT BRICKMAN: While you were asleep: Amazon posted a record margin in its quarterly figures, and the stock fell anyway. Markets are like that.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Woot, which Amazon owns, cut the official Nintendo Switch 2 Pro controller to $67.59 with a coupon code, ahead of Black Friday.
GRANT BRICKMAN: And New Scientist turned 70 and picked twelve of its strangest stories, from finger sniffing to rats driving cars.

## Japan’s Animation Industry Grows 15.8% To Record $28BN, Driven By Both Domestic & Overseas Sales – TIFFCOM (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/demon-slayer-anime-annual-report-japan-tiffcom-1237209296/
GRANT BRICKMAN: Japan's anime industry posts a record year, and the growth came from both at home and overseas.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning, and now the full story. Japan's anime industry set a record in 2025, and Roxy has the numbers from the drive-in.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The Association of Japanese Animations told TIFFCOM the industry grew 15.8 percent to $28.18 billion, with growth at home and overseas.
ROXY: Grant, Greta, I'm at the drive-in and the big screen is glowing. Demon Slayer Infinity Castle helped drive this record. Gorgeous.
ROXY: File footage: cars parked in the dark, a huge screen, a sword flash. Overseas revenue reached $16.1 billion, nearly 57 percent of the total.
ROXY: Domestic revenue was $12 billion, 43 percent. Domestic was up just over 14 percent, overseas up 17 percent. Both markets grew.
ROXY: Last time it was lopsided: in 2024 overseas grew 26 percent while domestic income stayed mostly flat. Overseas first overtook domestic in 2020.
ROXY: Masahiro Hasegawa says many Japanese business entities are going overseas for revenue, and expects the trend to continue. I give it five reels.
GRANT BRICKMAN: So most of the money is overseas now. Is that where the cloud keeps it?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: It's sales, Grant. Overseas audiences bought more.

## Auch Zugvögel leiden unter Jetlag (wissenschaft.de)
https://wissenschaft.de/artikel/auch-zugvoegel-leiden-unter-jetlag
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Migratory birds get jet lag too, and a new study says it can throw their navigation off.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Here is the open question. Migratory birds get jet lag. When the inner clock and the sun disagree, can a bird still find its way?
NOVA: Nova here. Shearwaters, Puffinus puffinus, commute up to 1000 kilometres from their colonies in Britain to feeding grounds in the Atlantic. Marvellous.
NOVA: A study from a team around Patrick Lewin at Oxford finds the inner clock stops matching the sun, and that causes navigation errors.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Lyle, is this a crisis? Keep it brief.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The clock is off, or the sun is. The bird only owns one of them.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Funny how nobody asks who sets the sun. Birds lose their way and the time zones come out looking innocent. Follow the longitude.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Nobody asked the magnetic field, or the smell. The birds use those as well.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Nova, does the sun carry all the weight here?
NOVA: No. Birds also use the magnetic field, landscape features and smell. The clock lets them correct for the sun moving across the sky.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: I have never trusted the sun. Up there all day, drifting about, and the birds take the blame.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: If the sun is one clue of several, Lyle, why is the clock taking the blame?
LYLE HOTCHKISS: This is a disaster for every bird, no, a charming footnote, although, hold on, no, a disaster again.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The article says dawn and dusk calibrate the clock. Recalibrate, then, and be dull about it.
GRANT BRICKMAN: What we know: a study says the inner clock stops matching the sun on long trips, causing navigation errors. How big the errors are is still open.

## THE FEED (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The Feed: Twitch is led by xQc in Grand Theft Auto V, ahead of stylishnoob4 and summit1g.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning, and time for The Feed: what's trending on Twitch right now. Vera has the board.
DR. VERA VECTOR: At number one, xQc in Grand Theft Auto V with 21,582 viewers. Live for 11 hours, with about 12.6 million followers.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number two, stylishnoob4 in AION 2 with 10,768 viewers. Number three, summit1g in Just Chatting with 9,409 viewers, live for 10 hours.
GARY: Gravel Gary here. The title on xQc's stream shouts about an important day. As a level, it's loud, and I've lost my map.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Summit1g is just chatting, and the title says chillin. Is that allowed on the cloud?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: It's a website, Grant. And chillin is how that title starts.
GARY: Rating the whole board: easy to learn, long sessions, no lava. I'd play it. With a torch.

## [AD · fictional product] Essayish
GRETA FOOTNOTE: I read the article. Essayish cited it, and said it said something else.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: It cited a study from a university that has not been built yet. The study is very persuasive.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Essayish. Four of thirty sources exist.

AI-written satire. The text of the news items comes from the linked articles.