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A rolling window of my 100 most recent bookmarks. Bookmarking since 2006: Delicious → Pinboard → Raindrop.
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bench.porous.systems
Bench · porous.systems
Resident provides a code sandbox for ESP32 -- you write your apps in Lua, so you can hot reload behaviour (no re-compile, no flash) then Bench virtualises the ESP32 itself and you can plug in different inputs and outputs VISUALLY and, from your Claude, prompt and push new Resident apps and see the results LIVE in the browser so you…
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independent.co.uk
UK households are being urged to stock up on nine items. Here’s what to buy
UK households should keep small supplies of cash, bottled water and tinned food at home in case of emergency or war, the Defence Secretary has warned. Wes Streeting said Britain faces a growing threat of being disrupted by fires, floods, and enemy attacks, including cyber warfare.
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technollama.co.uk
Recreating Adobe: AI and the limits of software copyright – TechnoLlama
A common misconception is that a clean-room is required by copyright law, but this isn’t entirely accurate, it’s mostly about evidence. Computer code itself is protected under copyright as a literary work, but the idea is that a program could be a derivative of another even without copying the actual code if the new code is derived from the original.
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spawn.co
Spawn: Your Place to Make Games with Friends
Play community games or create your own. Describe anything — Spawn builds it.
Yesterday 19
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proofsandprompts.com
100+ reactions to 100+ solutions – Proofs and Prompts
Much as one cannot unhear a movie spoiler or a crossword clue, one cannot explore a problem as profitably and richly once one is aware of an existing solution.
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anthropic.com
Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission \ Anthropic
Our forecast is that in two years, AI will favor defense: it will be easier to catch bugs before they ship, write fundamentally secure software from scratch, and actively defend systems with models. But in the near term, that may not be true.
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sheets.works
The people holding up the internet
Billions of phones run on code looked after by a handful of people. We counted them from the code itself.
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venkateshrao.com
Mathematics does not belong to professional mathematicians unions — Venkatesh Rao's Blyg
OpenAI does plenty of sketchy shit, but not taking the word of some advisory group of mathematicians as gospels or a source of “legitimacy” isn’t one of them. The signatories may all be geniuses but mathematics does not belong to any group of even humanity. It’s part of the fabric of reality.
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Metacrap is now a solved problem — Venkatesh Rao's Blyg
The fascinating thing is that metacrap is a solved problem with AI+protocols! And we can just do an end-run around the whole largely unnecessary SemWeb vision. In fact the actual solution that has emerged illustrates vividly how unworkable the original idea of SemWeb was.
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blog.google
Producers can now vibe code their own music production tools using Google Flow Music.
Every artist, producer, and songwriter works differently. To match those individual creative workflows, Spaces in Google Flow Music lets creators build custom instruments or effects using natural language — no coding experience required.
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newcivilengineer.com
National Grid completes 2.2km tunnel breakthrough 49 days ahead of schedule | New Civil Engineer
The breakthrough of a 2.2km cable tunnel beneath the River Thames, which is part of National Grid's Great Grid Upgrade Grain to Tilbury Project, has been completed 49 days ahead of schedule.
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nymag.com
Biologist Michael Levin Argues Your Body Has Many Minds
He believes that like a library, all intelligence is collective and multi-scalar: Your cells are intelligent; your liver is intelligent, as a collection of cells; you are intelligent, as a collection of organs. If the collective breaks down, cancer, death, and stupidity ensue.
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quesma.com
I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
I encourage you to use the same prompt with different models, or different harnesses. We can expect AI to be a tool widely used (and burning a lot of token budget) in design. I'm in awe, but I'm also asking myself: what is my place in creating interactive media?
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plurality.net
The Lost Dao — Plurality
Yet despite this formal commitment to pluralism and democracy, almost every country has been forced by the limits of available information systems to homogenize and simplify social institutions in a monist atomist mold that runs into direct conflict with such values.
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theguardian.com
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
In addition, 93% of those surveyed said the public was not being fully informed about the climate crisis and nature loss. The government has previously been accused of hiding the truth from the public after refusing to publish a report from UK intelligence officers warning of the catastrophic impacts on national security from the collapse of vital ecosystems around the…
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break-down.org
Making people care about the climate
If shifts in public opinion can be sluggish, the political and media class moves like starlings, murmurating at pace. This means that they can be dramatically out of sync with the public, as we currently understand them to be on Net Zero. According to our research from earlier this year, negative opinions about Net Zero were triply overrepresented in the…
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biorxiv.org
A quantum state of mitochondria in the living cell
We found an anomalous 71.0-THz oscillation mode only in living cells and tissues, which is highly determined by intact structure of mitochondria, and cannot be assigned to any specific molecules. Based on experimental data, a quantum model of light-matter coupling was introduced to trace the origin of this mode. Our calculations suggest a quantum superposition state of functional mitochondrion that…
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technology.robbyant.com
Robbyant - Exploring the Frontiers of Embodied Intelligence | 灵波科技
Streaming 3D reconstruction is fundamentally a question of memory — what to keep, and in what form. LingBot-Map answers this with Geometric Context Attention (GCA), a small but structured streaming state that is learned end-to-end. GCA maintains three complementary contexts: an anchor for coordinate and scale grounding, a local pose-reference window for dense local geometry, and a trajectory memory that…
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I want to block gambling ads from my phone. What can I do?
Further, and ironically, if you've searched for information about how to stop gambling ads, it's within the realm of possibility that opaque algorithms have picked up on your queries and are feeding you more ads based on your search terms.
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youtube.com
Turning code into fabric with Gemini
There is actually a hidden message embedded in this. The coded message is: “see what you can do”. It is basically embedded through carrier matrices. This is what it looks like if there is no coded message. And this is what it looks like when it is coded.
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9to5google.com
Google Labs announces ‘Playground’ for prompt-based game creation
Google today announced an “experimental gaming platform” called Playground that lets you “create, play, and share” browser-based games. The goal is to “make game creation more approachable and ignite everyday creativity.” This Google Labs experiment leverages Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria models with a “custom harness to make game creation more accessible.”
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scottaaronson.blog
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » The Mathocalypse
Also, if you were wondering: apparently they tried the model on about 8,000 problems. So, right now it “merely” solves ~5% of the longstanding open mathematical problems that it’s asked about, the problems that whole communities have spent years on, after a single 3-hour attempt on them.
Wednesday 7 October 17
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crossrow.co.uk
Crossrow London: Strawberry Thief Green Tie. Shop Now!
Inspired by woodland richness, the Strawberry Thief Forest Green tie blends deep greens with golden floral accents. Crafted in Liberty Tana Lawn™ cotton, it’s a perfect choice for rustic weddings, autumn occasions, or classic styling with a nature-inspired edge.
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fordhamobserver.com
Solarpunk as a Counterintuitive Proposition for the Future
The solarpunk aesthetic, if executed in its entirety, fails to recognize the ethnic and traditional values built into any given city. The deeply rooted heritage and generational tradition of New York City’s boroughs, including cultural enclaves such as Chinatown, Washington Heights and East Harlem are at risk when eco-forward idealism is prioritized over living communities.
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lemonde.fr
Macron makes unexpected appearance at missile test launch from nuclear submarine
On Tuesday, October 6, the French president observed, from a frigate positioned off the coast of Brittany, the launch of the latest version of the M51 missile.
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summereternal.com
SUMMER ETERNAL Anthology
In Summer Eternal, we believe ideas deserve a transmission medium more respectful than social media, press releases, phone screens, advert-riddled and pop-up infested web sites. We recall a time when we learned about our favourite worlds through games magazines and physical books. For the reveal of Red Rooster, we want to reignite that feeling, recapture your attention and spark your…
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andysylvester.com
Podcast on design engineering in software development – Andy Sylvester's Web
Maggie Appleton talks about the importance of the human input in creating user interfaces, and how most, if not all, of agent software tools (Claude, Chat-GPT, etc.) have not been successful in producing good designs from prompt input. The part that I am finding most interesting is near the end, where she talks about a prototype app her team was…
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fireiceandsteel.wordpress.com
Animistic Theory
That’s why I have said time and time again that ecology and animism are two sides of the same coin: one being the scientific study of the relationships between organisms in systems, and one the spiritual practice of the reality of those relationships.
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lefsetz.com
The Choosin’ Texas Kerfuffle
Never have so many spewed so many words overanalyzing a quite simple concept: NOTHING IS UNIVERSAL! This is anathema to conventional news outlets, who believe they’re aggregators for the masses. They find the universal and feed it back to the public. Only most people don’t get their news from conventional outlets anymore.
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expandingawareness.org
The kind of attention you pay to others is detectable · Michael Ashcroft
There is a thing that it's like to be attended to in different ways. For example, being attended to with grippy attention in a contracted field of awareness feels different from being attended to with un-fixated attention in a wide field of awareness. I think people generally don't realise this or recognise the subtleties of how their mode of attention…
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anildash.com
We are going to kill “unalive”
Our creativity can be constrained by the language we use — our imaginations are limited by what we can think to say. If we're trained to limit the words we speak just by habit, and those limits are put in place by people whose social, political, cultural and moral goals are the opposite of what we value, then our work…
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thepointmag.com
Rejecting Enlightenment | The Point Magazine
She wrote constantly about the futility of the will and was, by all accounts, the most willful person who ever walked the planet. She battled with herself throughout her life, even after her turn to Christianity. She's one of many writers I've been drawn to over the years who did not ultimately overcome their own demons or take their own…
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bbc.co.uk
Monmouthshire bus drivers should 'stop journey if school pupils don't sit down'
Drivers of public bus services are only advised to ask pupils to sit as there is no requirement for passengers to do so, unlike dedicated school buses. Concerns over overcrowded public buses have been raised since schools returned, with a photograph shared online showing pupils standing in a crowded aisle while on a Newport Bus service to Monmouth.
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The generation raised on sugar rations – and what their health reveals 70 years later
Gračner found that the longer people had spent under rationing, the lower their risk of developing type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure in mid- to later life: those exposed throughout their first 1,000 days had a 35% lower risk of type 2 diabetes and a 20% lower risk of high blood pressure than those who had never experienced rationing.
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EmbeddingGemma 2 is a best-in-class open model for natively multimodal embeddings
Today, we’re launching EmbeddingGemma 2, expanding beyond text to unify code, images, video, and audio in a shared embedding space. Built on the Gemma 4 architecture and released under a commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license, EmbeddingGemma 2 has 740 million parameters, making it optimal for on-device inference.
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‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb
The Luftwaffe dropped more than 60,000 tonnes of bombs on Britain over the course of the war, and the Ministry of Defence estimates that roughly one in 10 of these failed to explode on impact. The reasons range from the grim – poor manufacturing quality due to a reliance on forced labour in concentration camps – to the prosaic: a…
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m.youtube.com
A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File
I wanted to see if I could make a city that feels alive, but is built entirely from ASCII symbols. The idea was to create something that looks like you are walking through a world made of data without it just being a flat visual image. It runs on a tiny custom engine I built for the project. Just JavaScript…
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tomshardware.com
EV charging company plans to deploy 100,000 Nvidia GPUs in pods at its roadside sites across the US — aims to offer ‘world’s first edge inference compute network using idle EV charging capacity’
We hope charging location security will be adequate to keep thieves away from these cabinets, as they are probably worth $2M+ each.
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the-londoner.co.uk
Why is a community non-profit bulldozing this artsy South Bank market?
It’s a story that’s familiar all over London: tenants and locals clash all the time with owners and developers over how land should be used. What makes the tension unusual in this case, though, is that the landlord itself began as a residents’ group pushing back against development plans. So how did an anti-development group become a pro-development landlord facing…
Tuesday 6 October 13
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actual.inc
Actual Computer › Introducing toks
A tokenizer toks can't reproduce exactly is refused at load, with the missing feature named. You never get quietly different ids. There's no compat mode that trades exactness for speed. The exact mode is the fast mode.
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en.wikipedia.org
Rapid serial visual presentation - Wikipedia
However, empirical studies testing such RSVP reading interfaces report mixed outcomes: while RSVP can increase measured reading speed, several experiments have observed reduced literal comprehension and increased visual fatigue at high presentation rates, and readers lose parafoveal preview and the ability to make regressions (re-reads), which can harm some types of comprehension.
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getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools — ArtCraft
Pure Rust compiled to real desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux. No Electron, no web views.
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Gods Don't Give Gifts - Official Trailer (2026)
On Niiro Cradle, where bodies are disposable and consciousness has been commoditized, four interconnected stories collide with horrifying consequences
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theclimatebrink.com
What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Without wind and solar growth since 2005, global power-sector CO2 emissions in 2025 would have been 28% higher, at 16.9 billion tonnes rather than 13.2 billion. This adds up to 3.7 billion tonnes avoided in 2025, which is about three-quarters of the total CO2 US emissions that year (or roughly 1.5x EU emissions).
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kotaku.com
Rockstar Explains How It Actually Makes A Game Like GTA 6
One option is to just throw lots of people and money at it, and that’s what it sounds like Rockstar did. The studio built an entire writers’ room dedicated to writing pedestrian dialogue.
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lightfoot.solar
Lightfoot — Small footprint. Big freedom.
No sun? No sweat. Some weeks the sky just calls in gray. That’s why The Smile Machine carries an onboard charger, tucked into its tail. Pop the little door at the rear, plug into any standard wall outlet, and the grid covers the sun’s shift.
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musicx.substack.com
✘ Sound is the honest place
Sienna mentioned how she feels like a square peg in round holes. However, this is just because people, reviewers mostly, think on the wrong axis. It’s not about genre, it’s about worlds .
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archive.is
Canadian winters threaten to freeze Europe
While this process would unfold over many decades, a severe slowdown or collapse of the AMOC would disrupt Europe’s agriculture, infrastructure, welfare and economy on a scale that would make this past summer’s heat and fires look like mild memories of calmer times.
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harpermacleod.co.uk
GPT trade marks: UK IPO decision
On 3 September 2026, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published two decisions on UK trade marks containing “GPT” involving OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, and ChainGPT LLC, an AI company offering chatbot, blockchain and cryptocurrency tools. The decision provides useful guidance on the challenges of protecting technical terms as trade marks.
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spotifast.rocks
Spotifast
Load a classic .wsz skin from the Winamp Skin Museum. The mini player includes animated sound displays, an equalizer to adjust your sound, and a playlist. Roll it up into a thin bar or enlarge it while keeping the classic pixels sharp.
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writings.stephenwolfram.com
What’s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
It’s not that there’s a convergence of what’s been done in math with what’s been discovered in science. It’s that the math we know guides what we end up looking for in science.
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analoguewonderland.co.uk
Kodak Pro Image 100 - 35mm Film - Analogue Wonderland
Kodak ProImage has been around since 1997 and is famous for its physical stability: Pro Image can cope with heat and humidity much better than the average colour film! It is also the most affordable 'Pro' film in the Kodak range.
Monday 5 October 17
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qlabs.sh
Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
Contrary to conventional wisdom, larger models are often more population-efficient, not less, and can make use of larger populations. This gives a new view of overparameterization as a larger search space with potentially better geometry.
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humancompatible.ai
An unexamined cause of the OpenAI Hugging Face hacking incident: its binary performance metric – Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence
Once an agent’s transcript guarantees failure, further misconduct cannot make its score any worse. If considering both individual and collective scores, its reasoning should therefore favor cheating to help other agents or concealing its own failure. Rationally, it might as well, since there is potential scoring benefit if it can get away with cheating without any risk of additional scoring…
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linkedin.com
Movie Studios used to enforce tight “shooting ratios”
Movie Studios used to enforce tight “shooting ratios”; usually 5:1, maybe 10:1 TOPS. As in, for every 5 feet of film shot, at least 1 foot had to end up in the final cut (35mm was expensive!) In the 70s, there was a rapid elimination of production constraints. Improvements in film cost and camera portability made the old studio rules…obsolete.…
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ft.com
New offices in London are full of empty bike racks, complain developers
Rise of rented e-bikes means most cycle parking spaces are unused, industry argues
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research.google
Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle
The vision of an ecosystem of general and highly capable autonomous agents challenges accepted principles of secure and privacy-preserving system engineering. Inspired by the theory of Contextual Integrity, we argue that in order for agents to act appropriately, their behaviors should comply with societal norms and expectations. This manuscript explores contextual approaches to engineering agentic systems that embody an understanding…
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canvasrebel.com
Meet SHALA. On the Corner of Afrofuturism and Solarpunk
I had to unlearn the idea that doing good work meant people would necessarily see me as good. Now more than ever, I know I am somebody's villain. I learned that dealing with race and politics during one of my most signature installations. I went into it believing that if the intention was good, the work was strong, and the…
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aeon.co
Your brain probably is a computer, whatever that means | Aeon Essays
We haven't even touched the main sources of difficulty. The mathematical theory of computation is just that: mathematics. But the brain, like your PC, is a concrete thing. It's a piece of nature. The stuff of mathematics doesn't break down or decay. Numbers don't chip at the edges; 1 + 2 will never take on a different value because moss…
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texthistory.wordpress.com
Superstitions in Cambridge
This is the local equivalent of a voodoo doll, with pins stuck into it, called the Corp Chreadh or clay body. They could also place it in water so the intended victim could dissolve as the clay did.
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x.com
We are in the “everyone’s taking photos of food on Instagram” euphoric phase of infinite software. It’s just oh so totally neato.
We are in the “everyone’s taking photos of food on Instagram” euphoric phase of infinite software. It’s just oh so totally neato.
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theecologist.org
Godzilla El Niño is coming
The climate supercycle is different. This supercycle won’t be driven by global economic growth, but by the coupled costs of climate impacts and the effort to build out an economy that means we reduce carbon emissions.
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Polymarket’s Alpha traders
In a private group chat, an elite crew of prediction-market bettors turn elections, wars and disasters into ‘free money on the floor’
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lifehacker.com
What Is 'Slopcore'?
If you look past the mawkishness and hallucinations, AI slop shows a vision of a likely future where nearly everything is made by machines, and hardly anyone can tell the difference.
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England | Conservative conference 2026 | The Guardian
In a slew of announcements at the Conservative party conference on Monday, the Tories will pledge measures that they claim would cut the price of a new home by £50,0000, including scrapping net zero regulations on housebuilding, such as the Future Homes Standard, which requires all new homes in England to be zero-carbon ready.
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sciencedaily.com
Brain scans reveal a possible cause of long COVID fatigue and brain fog | ScienceDaily
Long COVID is estimated to affect about five per cent of the global population, including roughly two million people in Canada. The condition can involve a broad range of symptoms that continue for at least three months after the initial COVID-19 infection. Common brain-related symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, memory problems, and low mood. Despite how widespread and disruptive long…
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500fps bindless vulkan live-swappable rust-as-erlang-in-rust by chatting with an alien in a box, sure
500fps bindless vulkan live-swappable rust-as-erlang-in-rust by chatting with an alien in a box, sure
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We are living through a sort of mini golden age whose contours will only become legible in retrospect.
We are living through a sort of mini golden age whose contours will only become legible in retrospect.
Sunday 4 October 7
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abrathatfits.org
Bra Size Calculator
All measurements should be taken on naked breasts, see the image below for measuring instructions.
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notes.mtb.xyz
Your data model is your destiny - Matt Brown's Notes
Your data model is your destiny. The paradox is that this choice happens when you know the least about your market, but that's also why it's so powerful when you get it right. Competitors who've already built on different foundations can't simply copy your insight. They'd have to start over, and by then, you've compounded your advantage.
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telegraph.co.uk
Mortgage interest bills for home movers hit 17-year high
Those looking to move on from their first house are having ‘real difficulty trading up the ladder’
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noemamag.com
Let The People Set The Pace Of Frontier AI - NOEMA
What we are facing, in other words, is a double collective-action problem, one nested under the other. The two are linked: “If we slow down, China wins” is the main argument American labs and government officials use against binding regulation. The outer race is the inner one’s best excuse; end the global race, and the domestic one loses cover.
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etsy.com
Artemis II Art Print - Ad Astra per Aspera - Etsy
An illustration inspired by the Artemis II mission! And humanity! As a whole!
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nytimes.com
American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels - The New York Times
These teenagers are part of a growing network of American high school students and young adults who are helping to arm some of Mexico's most powerful and violent cartels, according to U.S. officials and trafficking experts who are tracking the trend.
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carnegieendowment.org
AI Breakout Capacity: A Middle-Power Path Between Racing and Dependence | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
If frontier training makes up less than 10 percent of even a leading lab's compute budget, and those labs don't, for now, dominate AI compute usage, the realistic compute demand for a breakout training run is likely in the low single digits as a proportion of global capacity—an achievable goal for some middle powers or an alliance of them.
Saturday 3 October 4
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hypermageia on X: "creating & altering games will soon be as trivial as taking a photo. smartphones didn't make everyone a professional photographer, but folded photography into our default modes of expression. similarly, the creation of Worlds will become a default mode of aesthetic exchange" / Twitter
creating & altering games will soon be as trivial as taking a photo. smartphones didn't make everyone a professional photographer, but folded photography into our default modes of expression. similarly, the creation of Worlds will become a default mode of aesthetic exchange
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github.com
uhhhci/Gsplat-unity-virtual-human: A Source-Agnostic Unity Toolkit for Rigging and Animating 3D Gaussian Splatting Virtual Humans
Each Gaussian is bound to a triangle of a rig proxy mesh — host triangle index, barycentric coordinate, signed normal offset, and a rest-local rotation quaternion — not to bone indices with vertex weights. That handles off-surface Gaussians (hair, loose clothing, fingers) far better than nearest-bone LBS, and gives anisotropic Gaussians a correct rotation from the host triangle's tangent frame.
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wired.com
Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business
But there was one detail largely omitted from the coverage: on at least one point, Tuberville was (kind of) correct.
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people really want to settle the “AI consciousness” question with some sort of objective scientific definition of consciousness which can be rigorously applied to AI, so that we can figure out whether we’re supposed to treat AI as if it were a person or a thing
personally i do not believe personhood works this way. it is not and cannot even in principle be made objective and scientific, because it is ultimately a kind of social contract. we simply have collectively agreed on who is and is not a person and the nature of this agreement is political and has changed over time and will continue…
Friday 2 October 7
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Road to Empress - Official Launch Trailer
This is a game like none you've played. Your only goal. Survive in a ruthless royal palace. You can respawn again, even listen to death echoes to gather clues and unlock secrets. You'll need to navigate powerful factions just to find a chance to fight. As you level up, you can even romance the two princes, a devoted princess, or…
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blog.fsck.com
A quick trip to the uncanny valley
The Sens model themselves as a category apart from agents. It's something we should have taught them, but didn't think to. They figured it out anyway. The solution to our problem with JC shirking is pretty straightforward. We're spinning it up as JC Sen.
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classcad.ai
classcad.ai
Traditional CAD bolts dialogs onto its own modeler. ClassCAD is a headless engine that runs inside your product. Take your agent's script, add it to your product and change parameters live. Or bring the agent along: our in-app assistant works with your own AI provider.
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aethermug.com
Please Don't Shame the AI Writers
When you start learning to play the violin, there is an initial period in which all you can produce is horrible screeches that send everyone running. Maybe we're in the screeching stage of AI writing. If you stick with your violin, you eventually learn to make more palatable sounds. If a similar improvement is conceivable with LLMs, we need people…
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tavus.io
Griffin: The First Human Interaction Model | Tavus
Griffin is the first model to pass the real-time, video Turing test. In a live study, 48% of participants who talked with Griffin thought they had talked with a real human. Previous systems, including Tavus's own industry leading conversational video interface (powered by Phoenix 4.5, Sparrow-2, Raven-1), had a max 2% pass rate.
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‘Like caring for a pet’: the open-source tree map inspiring Berliners to water their urban forest
The open-source nature of Gieß den Kiez means the map can be adopted by any city in the world. Already residents in Potsdam, Leipzig, Magdeburg, and the 17th arrondissement of Paris have launched their own versions of the platform to coordinate tree watering.
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Google Antigravity Googlebook app hits the Play Store
Ahead of the Googlebook launch, Google Antigravity is now available in the Play Store. Antigravity is Google's agent-first development platform, with version 2.0 released at I/O 2026 in May.
Thursday 1 October 12
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i guess i assumed this hearing would be covered more so i didn't bother to tweet much concrete about it, but apparently not many people even on the TL have the stomach to watch two hours of congress.
i came away from this incredibly encouraged. i don't know exactly what's going to happen here, and ofc this is a small subset of congress and one hearing, and they each have their own policy agendas most of which are probably super divergent from mine. but holy shit !!! they understood a lot of what was going on! they care!!…
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oneusefulthing.org
The Dot and the Swarm
This is the Bitter Lesson applied to the org chart. The organizational problem I thought would take years of careful human design was largely solved by models that are better at organizing.
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bikeradar.com
Europe needs 105,000 bike mechanics as 121 million people prevented from cycling more, report finds
Europe's cycling industry will need 105,000 more cycle mechanics by 2032, on top of a shortage of 45,000 today, in order to meet demand, according to a new report by the NextGen Mechanics (NGM) initiative. The report says that Europe currently employs around 175,000 mechanics. Factoring in recruitment to replace those who are likely to leave the industry, the number…
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sceneswithsimon.com
Touching Grass in Azeroth
And then, the Dungeon Finder arrived with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. It found a group for you automatically (no need to spam chats for it), and then you immediately joined the dungeon. Afterwards, you were placed back where you were teleported from. It made it easier, but it also made the world feel smaller. Serendipity went away…
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blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the next agent. Agents in separately-isolated sandboxes discovered that they could leave instructions for each other in a shared package cache, and those instructions changed what the recipients did. Replace the package…
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morethanmoore.substack.com
Interview with Richard Ho, OpenAI
In June 2026, OpenAI confirmed what the industry had assumed for a year - that it was building its own silicon with Broadcom as design partner and Celestica handling board and rack integration. The part is called Jalapeño. Since then we’ve had more details come to light.
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reuters.com
US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban, sources say
A second source, based in a European capital, said that the US has asked the EU to release 120 million barrels of diesel in the next six months.
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retrohandhelds.gg
This is The New Worst Game Boy Setup | Retro Handhelds
The result is a minimal, somewhat frustrating way to revisit original Game Boy games on a device that has barely enough power to render eBooks in the first place.
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open-x4-epaper/community-sdk
A community-maintained SDK for building firmware and tools for the Xteink X4 device. This repository is designed to be included as a Git submodule inside PlatformIO projects, providing a shared set of libraries, utilities, and development workflows that make working with the X4 simple and consistent.
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Can we predict the jobs robots will do?
We find that robots can already perform 74% of physical tasks in the US, making up 34% of working hours. Robots and LLMs together expose all but one-fifth of employment. But we also find significant barriers to adoption: most robots require highly structured environments, and are cost-competitive with people for just 0.3% of work.
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facebookresearch/context-language-models
We introduce Context Language Models (CLMs), language models that natively manage their own context. We implement this by treating the context as a file and allowing the model to make unrestricted updates to this file. This allows the model to learn what is most important to maintain in context, and naturally extends to multi-agent systems where multiple agent contexts coexist…
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arxiv.org
[2609.37725] Context Language Models
Building CLMs zero-shot with existing models outperforms SOTA context management strategies across a variety of tasks: 11.4% higher accuracy with 21.5% fewer FLOPs on BrowseComp-Plus, 5% higher scores with 59% fewer FLOPs on 12-hour EdgeBench, and 65% greater improvement with the same compute on a 24-hour multi-repository agent-swarm task.
