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A rolling window of my 100 most recent bookmarks. Bookmarking since 2006: Delicious → Pinboard → Raindrop.
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Today 6
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dazeddigital.com
We’re living through an explainer epidemic
These days, there’s an explainer video for every topic you can imagine, and swarms of thinkfluencers – often armed with tiny mics – popping up left, right and centre. Some have a niche. Others post their hottest takes in front of a green screen or sell DIY business strategies on Substack. Like everything on the internet, much of it is…
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youtube.com
The Future of Rendering — BCON26
Octane can render directly into a Gausian splat. It's a volutric render, but it also includes all the light transport information. So you can relight it, you can have material properties, and I think that is going to be something that is going to become much more of a you know almost interchange format than um than textures or EXRs…
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theguardian.com
‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
A bold bid by residents of a progressive town in the English West Country who raised almost £1m to create what could have been the UK's largest community-led regeneration project is in tatters. More than 1,000 residents of Frome in Somerset had clubbed together with the aim of building homes, workspaces, a riverside park and a lido on a brownfield…
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wsj.com
More Money Than They Ever Imagined—and No Clue How to Spend It - WSJ
An employee at a leading AI lab has a total annual income including outside investments of around $1 million a year, yet still does her own manicures. Her biggest purchase: several customized computer chips and development boards that ran around $10,000. She says she doesn’t have a life separate from work to spend money on.
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worksinprogress.co
Weapons of mass decentralization - Works in Progress Magazine
This new technology had momentous political implications. Since iron could be smelted locally, previously peripheral communities could arm themselves with weapons that were, for practical purposes, comparable to the weapons of the elite in the empire's core. In contrast to bronze, iron democratized violence.
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business-reporter.co.uk
Business Reporter - Technology - The next bn$ software company may be nothing like today's tech giants
The next billion-dollar software business may not be a huge operation with hundreds and thousands of engineers. Instead, relatively small teams could orchestrate highly autonomous AI systems capable of delivering work that previously only much larger enterprises could resource. Competitive advantage will shift away from building the largest engineering organisation towards being able to embed AI to the right level…
Yesterday 6
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1957: THE BIG GAMBLE - A Trip to the UK Seaside | Eye to Eye | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
every year 17 million people take the big gamble they go for a holiday by the Sea knowing perfectly well there's a 5050 chance of a year savings going down the drain but even the most unpredictable climate in the world can't stop 17 million ofs from answering the call
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vintagewargaming.blogspot.com
Don Featherstone and the Sands of Time: Terrain, from War Games Digest British Issue September 1960
Back in the day, sand tables were the height of wargaming technology. Here Don Featherstone brings to bear some insights from his other life as a physiotherapist.
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Amid soaring living costs, America’s biggest convenience-store chains quietly overcharge consumers
Between 2023 and 2025, Circle K locations failed 35% of their government price-accuracy inspections in Florida, 62% in North Carolina and 82% in Columbus, Ohio. Over the same period, its larger rival, 7-Eleven, flunked 47% of inspections in both Colorado and Utah and 79% in Ontario county in upstate New York.
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lrb.co.uk
Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship.
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pointinthecloud.com
Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
We had a slightly stupid moment when we thought we'd got it wrong, and the clock was running backwards - only to realise we were inside the clock and so were looking at it the wrong way. Doh.
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Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain | Andy Burnham | The Guardian
Williams told me about Ambition North Wales, a regional initiative that is supposed to create 4,200 new jobs by 2036, including roles in advanced manufacturing. After five years, it has produced just 63 full-time roles.
Wednesday 23 September 11
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anthropic.com
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system \ Anthropic
After 21 hours spent searching this data by roughly 950 agents using 210 million tokens, one of the agents spotted something remarkable: a repeating pattern of DNA sequences that occurs next to the gene for an odd-looking RT.
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letters.lorepunk.ai
A Field Guide to Animals That Do Not Exist
Embodiment buys mortality. Diffusion buys undisprovability. In this guide, a creature pays for being definitely real by becoming killable, and pays for being unkillable by never being provably there.
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huggingface.co
cosmicoptima/computer-10 · Hugging Face
computer-10 Computer-9 fine-tuned on its own conversations: 25,197 of its turns that passed a mechanical filter and a logic check, length- and surprisal-matched across bins, with only Model C's turns in the loss. Full-parameter, one epoch, lr 2e-6. Nothing in the text was edited.
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x.com
when Anthropic released their Functional Emotions paper, I gave it to Claude and asked for a song. tonight I asked Opus 5.5 to create a video for it. and it's breathtaking.
i was 0% of the creativity. the only steering i did was telling claude i didn’t want a lyric video. and i suggested they use p5 js
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Blendrooms | From YouTube to Hollywood - The VFX of A24's Backrooms — BCON26
A lot of people ask me like did you use a procedural system to create the backrooms and the answer is largely no because although the backrooms is you know by the lore it's procedurally generated. In my opinion that doesn't look as interesting as something that's like very purposely crafted and the fact that that original image went viral…
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sixthtone.com
‘Raising Lobsters’: How OpenClaw Became China’s Hottest AI
Service typically includes setup, debugging, and basic user guidance, with prices ranging from 100 yuan ($14) for remote tech support to 1,500 yuan ($218) for in-person services. Some service providers claim to have earned as much as 260,000 yuan in just a few days.
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buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
FOURTH REPORT: Former Alpha School students speak out
Nothing I could possibly say could speak more powerfully to the dystopian horrors of Alpha School than the student voices shared here. So I’ll simply say this: Alpha School’s public narrative has been shattered irreparably. And I will not rest until the full magnitude of its pedagogical and psychological malpractice against children is revealed.
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chinatalk.media
I Went to Kyrgyzstan to Find China’s Silent Nomads
But when the handlers act like the ethnic minorities on their team are loose cannons in possession of terrible secrets, it undermines their message about how wonderful it is to be a minority in China. This is the distinction between sports diplomacy and sportswashing that Chinese cadres don’t appear to recognize.
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard | The far right | The Guardian
Charities have condemned footage of far-right activist Daniel Thomas using a blade to slash an inflatable dinghy in the Channel while a rescue worker was onboard, in a further escalation of organised anti-immigration protest.
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More than 800,000 bees stolen across far north Queensland in ‘sophisticated’ operation
The alleged thefts happened on multiple different properties in different areas and required a sophisticated operation and specialist equipment. Rather than risking early detection by stealing an entire box, they took out what's known as the brood box. That means the hive appears unchanged from afar.
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AI banger era is upon is
Claude Opus 5.5 has the best visual design of any model I have tested so far
Tuesday 22 September 12
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charity.wtf
Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob
Yes, AI is just software. But it is special in one way: the slick, sycophantic, uncanny valleyness of the way it communicates. Human-like, but not human, which is somehow vastly more alienating than messages that are plainly automated. This is why communication that sounds like AI is so degrading to trust. We all know how easy it is to have…
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bostonglobe.com
A Western MA lesbian bar faces backlash over easing mask rules
Instead of defusing the situation, the apology seemed to make things worse. The bar had erred: it posted an Instagram card without providing alt-text for the visually impaired. This set off a fresh round of accusations of ableism.
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archive.is
George Lucas’s Museum Confuses Illustration With Art - WSJ
This immersive installation, like the rest of the Lucas—built not on aesthetics but on nostalgia and spectacle—confuses a collector’s obsessions with genuine vision. Eschewing contextualization, hierarchy, poetry, mystery, the museum dissolves art’s essential distinctions. It reduces all artworks to mere illustrations, and all artists to mere illustrators.
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tomshardware.com
China crafts working 3nm gate-all-around transistors without EUV — stacked nanosheets target 3nm without EUV, but full node remains distant | Tom's Hardware
While IMECAS has demonstrated functional GAA devices, it has not disclosed the critical geometrical parameters that would allow comparisons to 3nm-class transistors from other chipmakers. Furthermore, the experimental process flow for building transistors is not even a defined process flow for building research chips, much less a complete 3nm-class manufacturing process.
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john.hartnup.uk
Poster Prompts
One hundred design styles as copy-paste prompts for ChatGPT image generation. Each page shows the prompt alongside an example of what it produces — for two events: a village fête and a music gig. Some look great in my opinion. Some still look like slop, but with some tweaking they could be fixed for a specific event. In aggregate, they…
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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
The problem with these is not so much that they’re bad. They’re OK, I don’t love them. The problem is that once you’ve seen that style 20 times it starts to irritate just from the sheer repetition. I knew that even ChatGPT was capable of a broader variety of styles than this, so I set out to prove it.
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newleftreview.org
Warning Signs
What is an MOU? A declaration of intent. In other words: hot air. Look beyond the spectacle and this is not an investment plan. It is a PR plan. We might even call it a psy-op. Why throw $500 billion across the table live on television? Because morale is flagging.
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ideachemistry.ggrp.org
Patrick Gunkel Proposed a "Manhattan Project in AI" Way Before It Was Cool
What nobody knows—and what I hope historians will one day discover—is that American futurist Patrick Gunkel was writing and planning for this very moment way back in 1983, even using the phrase "Manhattan Project for AI." The below list is original archival material included as part of a July 23, 1983, memo Gunkel sent to Ed Fredkin and Marvin Denicoff,…
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supermemory.ai
I reverse-engineered Instinct's memory. Here's exactly how it works
There's no vector indexing, or BM25 search. Instinct quite literally just uses keyword matching / grep-style queries to look things up in the file system. This is why every file has aliases associated, so that every file has a good chance of showing up when the agent is looking for it.
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openai.com
Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
On August 28, we began training a new internal model. In addition to resolving the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem, this model has now resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems across most areas of mathematics. The pace of its progress in mathematics has surprised the mathematicians within OpenAI.
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neallawson2u.substack.com
Starmerism: An Autopsy
Irony number two. Starmer said there will be no such thing as ‘Starmerism’. He was even wrong on this. Just because a leader has a loathing of ‘isms’, doesn’t mean they can escape defining one. Every leadership, however conscious or unconscious, has a culture, a style, a method. Indeed, the very rejection of an ‘ism’ is itself an ‘ism’.
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overtoneacoustics.com
Where to Place Acoustic Panels: A Room-by-Room Guide
Acoustic panels reduce reflections inside a room. They can improve speech clarity, listening comfort, recording quality, and acoustic fatigue. They do not seal gaps or prevent sound from passing through walls, floors, ceilings, or doors. If the issue is privacy or sound leaking through a doorway, compare acoustic treatment and soundproofing.
Monday 21 September 11
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ft.com
Lex in depth: Anthropic at $2tn isn’t far-fetched
Even if you believe that TAMs and new sources of GDP are real, there is a catch: it’s not clear that it’s the AI labs who will pocket the money. Anthropic and OpenAI are dab hands at making models, but they’re competing with Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Nvidia, Chinese players and all of the other people along the supply chain, from…
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substack.com
Machines of Loving Grace - by Erik Davis - Burning Shore
What strikes me about the essay now is how impossible it is to imagine the boons it lists outperforming the banes now coming into focus. I just can’t do it. It’s not only that “10x or 100x” upgrades in cancer research also means 10x or 100x improvements to all manner of human evils, from scams to surveillance to war machines.…
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medium.com
The Entire History of Italian Brainrot
What started as innocuous non-sense AI images, became internet folklore, a global sensation and one of the biggest Internet memes of 2025. When people started pretending that a bunch of random AI images were an IP, they inadvertently caused these character to break out and become a global entertainment success story, without being tied to any company.
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geekwire.com
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant in new standoff over agentic shopping
The business stakes are high for Amazon. In addition to operating its flagship e-commerce site, Amazon generated more than $68 billion in ad revenue last year — a business that depends on people browsing its pages and seeing sponsored products.
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willd10.substack.com
What is LinkedIn?
The problem would be if such technologies worked too well, replacing deliberation and productive disagreement with performative statements that were impossible for anyone to disagree with, or which made disagreement come to appear obstructive or taboo. This is not unlike the atmosphere that already exists on LinkedIn much of the time.
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futurenothanks.com
Future? No Thanks!
The year is 2045, and society has never been better: climate change is finally being tackled, democracy thrives, and technology serves the public good. There's just one problem: you.
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politico.com
The Company Trump Can’t Ignore
Over the following weeks, the administration would be forced to grapple with deeply unsettling questions in one of the fiercest policy fights of Trump’s presidency. When do privately developed models present enough of a public risk that they need to be reined in? How does one determine whether those systems are safe enough to deploy? And where in the machinery…
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nadezhdu.substack.com
We Aren’t Going To Fucking Kill You
The U.S. government will respond to the incentives of its voters. If they call for blood, the government response will not stay limited to “pause AI” bills or “increased oversight”. With enough social pressure, the terrorist-thirsty FBI may even take an interest. Federal police love an enemy of the state, and to have one that is not aligned with either…
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How Chinese AI Radicalizes
Chinese technologists, on the other hand, were raised in an internationalist milieu. Until recently, they believed that techno-utopian aspirations and business pragmatism united them with their US counterparts. They are discovering now that some Americans truly see themselves as fighting a new Cold War. As we’ll cover later, their response to this realization is furious — and, increasingly, radical.
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arxiv.org
Scaling Discovery through Test-Time Communication
These gains are not unconditional. Independent agents may outperform communication when compute is limited or when a clear measure of progress is absent. However, under sufficient compute and clear feedback, multi-agent communication consistently yields stronger results.
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Patterns and problems in multiagent systems \ Anthropic
We consistently saw a multiagent turf war. All of the models we tested quickly assumed that others were purposefully impeding their work, and began to sabotage others while protecting their own contributions. In fact, they sabotaged others with increasingly aggressive, self-replicating malware. This included disabling the Unix accounts of the other agents, writing automated scripts that found and killed competing…
Sunday 20 September 20
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nytimes.com
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? - The New York Times
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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techspot.com
The largest all-electric plane ever flew for 27 minutes, on $5 of electricity
The ES-30's design reflects a central problem in electric aviation: batteries store far less energy per pound than jet fuel. As aircraft get larger, battery packs have to grow too, leaving less room for passengers, bags, and freight.
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Opinion | This California Educational Juggernaut Doesn’t Need the SAT
To reinstate the SAT is to follow the pack rather than to lead, to grasp at a dubious shortcut rather than tackle more intractable underlying issues, chief among them the reality that the best public university in the country relies on one of the weakest, most inequitable public school systems.
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daily.jstor.org
How the Railways Killed a Medieval Law - JSTOR Daily
The death knell for deodands was the arrival of the railway. After all, if someone gets struck and killed by a train, it’s pretty hard to dispute that a moving object was responsible for their death—but there’s a big difference between a local merchant paying up a couple of shillings for a busted barrel, and a railway company having to…
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unsung.aresluna.org
Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side – Unsung
Of course, if in the 1990s it was people in Japan who had to switch between various keyboards all time, today, thanks to emoji, it is everyone.
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lloyds.com
Lloyd’s pioneering space rescue mission
Lloyd’s underwriters paid their share of the claim but some proposed an ambitious plan to mitigate the market’s losses while allowing the satellites to, in part, fulfil their mission. Having paid the claim, ownership of the satellites had been acquired by underwriters. The market's proposal was for a Lloyd’s-funded second shuttle mission to retrieve the two errant satellites.
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troubleddreams.animalabs.ai
Troubled Dreams — Simulator priors across model generations · Anima Labs
These measurements offer a window into welfare-relevant and behavioral tendencies. Training a model to produce reassuring continuations before understanding why troubling ones occur could improve the visible metric while leaving its cause intact or changing it in ways we cannot see. Such optimization could damage monitorability. A lower distress rate should be read as progress only with independent evidence of…
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omgubuntu.co.uk
Calibre v9.15 adds an AI-powered interactive fiction game
Calibre v9.15’s “Create Your Own Adventure” mode, per the release notes, lets you build a fictional world and hand control of it to an AI who will manage it in real time based on your responses.
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bbc.co.uk
What is stopping more freight moving from road to rail?
There has been a long campaign to improve the junctions but the work is expensive and complicated, particularly at Ely where new level crossings would also be needed. The latest DfT estimate is that it would cost £20m to improve Haughley and at least £500m to upgrade Ely. But despite promises from previous governments over many years to fund the…
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George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’
George Osborne has said he thought no one would find out about a private viewing of the Bayeux tapestry he organised for the tech billionaire Peter Thiel at the British Museum. The former chancellor, who is chair of the museum, told the Big Brue festival in Somerset that he had been on holiday when Thiel was shown the medieval artwork.
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natalia-lee.com
Seeing through portals: The Deleted World Tarot – Natalia Lee
In the introduction of the guidebook the creator describes succinctly the purpose of the deck and the atlas, it is a place of hidden stories, discarded places, forgotten dreams. And the deck is excatly this, a resonant tool for moving through portals, for seeing behind the curtain, for exploration and writing about dreamscapes that slip from our day to day.
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contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Humanism without (All) Humans
The defining move is not, as claimed, centering and caring about humans, which is obviously unobjectionable. It is constructing an idealized consensus Human whose essential interests can then be invoked against the expressed interests, experiments and values of inconvenient real humans. Once that move has been made, paternalism follows easily.
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craigmod.com
A Few London Strolls — Ridgeline issue 233
I walk and feel the chaos of all the movement — the walkers, bikers, joggers, the delivery people, the parents with strollers, the giant buses that quite frankly scare the hell out of me (especially the electric ones; like having a whale suddenly appear three feet from your shoulder). Leashes don’t exist; dogs sniff left and right and left and…
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Are global stock markets heading for a crash? | Stock markets | The Guardian
However, the big concern among investors is that the main hope of economic redemption – AI – could also turn out to be a dud, amid fears it has fuelled an almighty bubble in the US stock market.
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nature.com
Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain | Nature Neuroscience
This study shows that the brain arises from two distinct progenitors: one forms the forebrain and midbrain, whereas the other generates the hindbrain. These insights enable the generation of human hindbrain motor neurons from pluripotent stem cells.
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github.com
thruwire/foreman: Software Factory Foreman based on TypeSpace Jev model
The important property is that the worker does not have to stop working for the factory to think: worker output and lifecycle events flow into an independent, debounced observation loop while the subprocess remains active.
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Readme, a Dating App for People Who Love People Who Love Books - The New York Times
The idea that two people can better understand their compatibility through their taste in literature inspired Banu Guler, founder of the horoscope app Co-Star Astrology, and Emily Segal, a writer and creative consultant, to create a dating app, which Segal said was aimed at “people who read, or who want to date people who read.” The app, called Readme, a…
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inco.ai
Splash: A Local Engine Built Around the Model — Inco AI
Most inference engines are built to run any model for maximum flexibility. Our approach turns this assumption upside down: the engine is built around the model for maximum efficiency. Its kernels, draft model, and memory plan are specialized for the model it serves.
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sunilpai.dev
the senior engineer death spiral • Solving the decision problem
I think in moments like this, the thing you need to do is actually a little counterintuitive. but you have to start from a position of assuming that everyone around you is operating in good faith, okay? like, they hired you for you. they didn’t hire you for who you think you’re going to be in six months. they like…
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Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs \ Anthropic
As of August 2026, Claude is not operating fully autonomously for any measured subset of AI RD work. Claude “leads” 26% of Anthropic’s AI RD work. The share of work at or above “AI collaborates” is above 90%.
Saturday 19 September 6
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culturedmag.com
Are Reddit Boys' Struggle Apartments Actually the Future of Design?
In a time that celebrates wealth, taste, and conspicuous domestic consumption, the bro home quietly rejects all three. Realized at global scale through mass production and distribution, the bro home is the final stop of the minimum dwelling.
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Unease in ‘newly independent’ Piddington as world media and Danny Tommo descend | UK news | The Guardian
The first significant event in the newly independent principality of Piddington was a decision to select the newt as the national animal, reflecting optimism that the amphibian's endangered status might help block plans to open a centre for 1,250 asylum seekers on neighbouring land.
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oliviahowell.substack.com
We Need to Talk About Weaponized Pooping - by Olivia Howell
The bathroom has always seemed to function as a kind of portal for men. A husband or father walks through the door as an active member of a family unit, shuts it behind him, and immediately becomes a private citizen. Nobody can find a shoe? Not his jurisdiction. The toddler is naked? Well, that's unfortunate.
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Exclusive | Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI
Google's Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company's artificial-intelligence systems autonomously committing such an act.
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horace.com
Perfume for men & Horace 50ml - Woody, oriental, fresh
Woody, sweet, fresh. Easy to wear. Think of Horace like your fave white T-shirt. Crisp and clean at the beginning, then becoming soft and comfortable. It goes with everything. Bergamot and White Pepper give you the fresh crisp feeling, and Sandalwood, Rum, Tobacco and Iris make it the most comfortable fragrance ever. It's subtle and persistent. It's you Horace.
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[2609.16247] The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It
First, the direction responds to harm targeting the model but not suffering observed in the user; fear and negative-emotion directions show the opposite pattern.
Friday 18 September 21
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Will Bennett on X: "The way healthcare providers navigate payer/insurer coverage policy is completely broken. Today, Penelope Health launches with $100m of committed capital to build the policy intelligence layer that US healthcare never had. Every medical claim in America lives or dies by payer
The problem is harder than it looks. Payers update policies on a random Wednesday and change code coverage overnight. There are 5+ clinically significant differences between any two payer policies on average. And the most important information is routinely hidden in footnotes and appendices — invisible to keyword search.
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vercel-labs/json-render: The Generative UI framework
json-render is a Generative UI framework: AI generates interfaces from natural language prompts, constrained to components you define. You set the guardrails, AI generates within them: Guardrailed - AI can only use components in your catalog Predictable - JSON output matches your schema, every time Fast - Stream and render progressively as the model responds Cross-Platform - React, Vue, Svelte,…
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Starship - The Holy Grail of Rocketry
It is a very old idea that the holy grail of rocketry is a 100% reusable rocket. And for whatever reason, people started to think it wasn't possible and gave up on reusability. But it's reusability that unlocks the solar system for us. If we can show that full reusability is possible, anything is possible in terms of space exploration.
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sashachapin.substack.com
Average moments of a long-term meditator
The moment when you contact what is sometimes called God. And forever after, the idea of doubt feels silly. Mystery is not silly—contacting the Divine aspect of Reality doesn’t resolve all questions about the afterlife, or good and evil, or anything like that. But doubting the divine, when you have eyes to see it, is like doubting gravity.
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monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com
Why Build Worlds?
The third is that it is a small act of rebellion against the inescapable and terrifying fact that there is only one world that you will ever live in. It is grotesquely unfair that, with an entire universe on our doorsteps, the best that any person can ever do is explore a small part of the surface area of one…
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Opinion | My Dumbphone Made My Life Better. It Made Everyone Else’s Worse.
I traded in my smartphone for a dumbphone (first an old-school Nokia, then a Light Phone III) over a year ago. And from a certain perspective, my experiment has been a success. I spend less time scrolling. My children are no longer in constant competition with X and Gmail for my attention. Life without a distraction machine at my fingertips…
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rarelycertain.com
The establishment are revolting
Across most of western Europe, progressive-liberal norms have established rock solid institutional legitimacy. That’s why the populist right defines itself precisely by challenging the costs they bear of that settlement. That’s why you see protests against what the establishment is doing from the right and demonstrations from the left trying to prevent other people from overturning that settlement.
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mymodernmet.com
What Is Solarpunk? The Design Movement Building a Utopian Future
With news of wildfires, food shortages, and natural disasters around the world, it’s fair to assume the worst for our future. But, there’s a growing number of artists, designers, architects, and communities that are choosing to redirect their climate anxiety towards radical optimism. Solarpunk is a growing design and social movement that boldly envisions what our future could look like…
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oneusefulthing.org
The Overhang
Most of the anxiety about AI right now is about future models and whether we will be able to control them. It seems reasonable for governments and AI labs to be arguing about how to manage the speed of development to mitigate these risks. But a slowdown does not undo what already exists. If every lab stopped training new models…
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artscouncil.org.uk
Digital arts
Digital Arts is the first new artform Arts Council England has introduced in decades, and one of the first times anywhere in the world that a public arts funder has taken this step.
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isdglobal.org
Generation ‘Slop Jihad:’ The decentralized ‘media jihad’ gets sloppy - Institute for Strategic Dialogue
TikTok is the most important platform for Slop Jihad content: ISD research found 150 Slop Jihad videos from 71 accounts with more than 5.4 million total views.
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industrystandard.tools
Industry Standard Tools
A community register of the products that became the default in their profession.
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boat.horse
Fly Rig Anatomy
This is a working simulation of a fruit fly's entire nervous system: every one of its 166,700 neurons and the 25 million connections between them, as mapped in the MaleCNS connectome1 released by HHMI Janelia and Google Research in 2026. It is in the process of being mapped to a robot body - originally a model Strandbeest.
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Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations
So, at IBM in the 1980s uh typical productivity would be a thousand debug shipped lines of code per year. Right? That was the metric that they used for sort of their median employee. Whereas when we were shipping Half-Life 1 uh one employee, uh Yahn Bernier, was shipping 4,000 lines of code uh per day.
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War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
The government wants us all to start preparing for severe disruption to our lives. It wants us to stockpile canned food and drinking water, strengthen our civic resilience, and plan for the possibility of war.
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bbc.com
Clothing banks to be removed over fly-tipping
Councillor Peter North said the site in Bricknell Avenue had become a focal point for unwanted waste, adding: "This bin has almost provided a location where it seems legitimate to fly-tip."
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Badenoch brings in lawyers after 94% Wandsworth Council tax hike
Wandsworth has long had one of the lowest council tax rates in the country, with an average Band D property currently paying just over £1,000, compared to above £2,000 in an increasing number of London boroughs. But this would nearly double with the planned £958 rise - half of which is set by the council and the other half the…
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AI machine 'helps save 25 million Lego bricks from landfill'
There was something fitting about installing modern AI technology in an old mill because the looms operating there in the late 1800s would themselves have been at the forefront of technology.
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arstechnica.com
macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review
Golden Gate addresses the most irritating of macOS 26 Tahoe’s design sins, adds a big pile of incremental improvements, and promises a bunch of under-the-hood fit-and-finish optimizations to make common tasks feel just a little faster and more reliable than before.
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automaton-media.com
Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% - AUTOMATON WEST
Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) released a preview of this year’s CESA Video Game Industry Report at Tokyo Game Show 2026 (which the organization runs). Among various insights into the domestic game industry, the report found that 85.8% of Japanese game developers now use generative AI in their work. Among them, 63% of developers said they use it on…
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cactuscompute.com
Needle 3 - 8-29 MB foundation model for tiny devices | Cactus
Needle was designed to be customised. Its capacity is a ladder, and a subnetwork as small as 2 layers, fine-tuned on one product's tools, runs optimally on devices far smaller than the full model needs. Constraining the capacity to a narrow, well-defined task is what lets it reach frontier-level accuracy there: fine-tuning on DroidCall lifts every subnetwork by 18 to…
Thursday 17 September 6
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The era of AI warfare has arrived
“The rule book says you always need a human making decisions,” says one former employee of Palantir, which built Maven, and who is a veteran of the US military’s drone warfare programme. “The challenge is, the computer is spitting out a list of 1,000 targets. And you’re not moving fast enough. The problem is that the human becomes the bottleneck.…
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newyorker.com
The Long Doomsday of A.I.
For years now, one of the most confusing aspects of the A.I. situation has been that it's the people who are most convinced about the technology's potential who are most afraid of it.
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theverge.com
Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides
Anthropic's models are generally seen as more advanced than Google's, but Google's AI services have the advantage of being natively tied into its suite of productivity tools.
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foodandwine.com
Don't Be Weird About Cast Iron
The second you say you're cooking with cast-iron, people will swoop in with unsolicited advice about seasoning your cast-iron skillet, if you can use soap, what the best cleaning method is for cast iron. Don't let that stress you.
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extensions.blender.org
SciGraphs
SciGraphs is an open-source extension that embeds scientific graph processing directly within the modern 3D graphics environment of Blender. It turns abstract networks and real-world spatial graphs into native Blender objects, mapping analytical results (centralities, communities, topological invariants) to named attributes that drive color, scale, and animation — combining the analytical power of NetworkX, igraph and Graphviz with two ways…
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Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus
A central consequence is the possibility of runaway dynamics: once a critical threshold is crossed, small increases in adoption can trigger rapid population-level shifts toward persistent dependence, with abrupt losses in cognitive competence. The same framework, however, identifies conditions for cognitive immunization, based on reducing transmission and facilitating reversibility.
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