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  • Kieran Foster aka illformed, developer of the Glitch² FX plugin, has passed away, and in memory, the plugin is now a free download.
  • The answer lies in how different societies build different types of AI companions, which then create distinct societal risks.
  • Atonement didn't exist in Greek culture or in Homer's Odyssey…It exists in your Odyssey. Did you Christianize the Odyssey?
  • There is something about mathematical discovery (progress, advancement, creation) which is vital to the spiritual, experiential quality of doing mathematics. The creation (or even the pursuit) of novel mathematics is one way that humans have historically accessed the ineffable and encountered the divine and mystical.
  • The problem and the solution both ladder back to the same investment thesis: being human online used to be free, and now it's not.
  • So pieces that Pangram call 100% human written are part of a larger piece that Pangram calls 100% AI written which in turn is part of an essay that Pangram calls 100% human written, a Russian doll of contradictory results.
  • Several US companies are on the precipice of fully automating the AI RD loop, inclusive of pre/post training, env creation, data generation, evals, algorithm and kernel design, systems engineering, architecture search, etc. — the full stack. We are already in a regime of weak RSI via partially automated SWEs, but closing the loop altogether represents a difference in degree becoming a difference in kind.
  • The new logo is a massive departure from the previous ones used by the company, which started with handcrafted art and eventually morphed into something that lacked any personality whatsoever.
  • you are the wind hold to converge · drag to lean and climb you cannot steer. altitude decides your heading.
  • SKATE By @Simeon M 2.1k plays Skate game based on three.js
  • Other times, trees are not where they should be, as artist Alexa Hoyer began to notice when she moved to Ridgewood, Queens. Looking for nature where open space was scarce, she found tree pits absent of trunks and filled instead with bricks or scattered with litter. She embarked on a mission to map the neighborhood's peculiar voids and document their forms.
  • To a first approximation, intellectual culture has always been synonymous with urban culture. With AI this is starting to change creating, for the first time in human history, an intellectual culture that has more in common with rural culture. A speculative, technology-augmented rural culture to be sure, but still recognizably rural.
  • Ten locations across the city are earmarked for cash with more than £2bn pledged for the plan.
  • Under current health and safety legislation, a level of 60 micrograms of lead per decilitre of blood triggers an immediate suspension of the employee working with lead. The new level, after a two-year transition period, would be 15 micrograms per decilitre. For pre-menopausal women, the current level of 30 micrograms per decilitre would reduce to 7.5.
  • Pi is aggressively extensible so it doesn't have to dictate your workflow. Features that other tools bake in can be built with extensions, skills, or installed from third-party Pi packages. This keeps the core minimal while letting you shape Pi to fit how you work.
  • Sam Jones, Founder of 155.io, built his studio on a simple conviction: that authentic, unscripted real-world chaos will outperform even the most polished digital content.
  • It turns out that agents want the same things as humans: code that is easy to read, explicit contracts, and constructive feedback. So the company has reorganized its theme architecture using these qualities as first principles (while maintaining existing Liquid themes in a 'forever API'). While these changes better support our new AI overlords, the underlying code also became more readable to humans as well.
  • We have inherited the surfaces of decadence – luxury, excess, artifice, bodily display – but have surrendered the fin de siècle's commitment to pleasure. The result is a culture in which pleasure is subordinated to programs of optimisation and replaced at scale by numbing algorithmic stimulation and promises of instant gratification.
  • LingBot-Map is a feed-forward 3D foundation model that performs streaming 3D reconstruction from monocular video, producing camera poses, depth maps, and dense 3D point clouds in real-time. The original implementation requires PyTorch + CUDA + FlashInfer, restricting it to NVIDIA GPUs. This repository rewrites the entire inference pipeline in Apple MLX, making it run natively on any Apple Silicon Mac (M1/M2/M3/M4/M5) using unified memory — no NVIDIA GPU required.
  • Stateless agents are preferred in simple pipelines oriented to very specific tasks, like text extraction, summarization, or single-turn classification chatbots. They keep the architecture lightweight, which is usually enough in such use cases, avoiding database bottlenecks and allowing seamless horizontal scaling. Stateful agents make much more sense if we intend to develop long-running assistants, coding assistants, or multi-turn bots in applications like customer service.