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A rolling window of my 100 most recent bookmarks. Bookmarking since 2006: Delicious → Pinboard → Raindrop.
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birb.report
On Taking Peptides — BIRB REPORT
I expect that 10-15 years from now, we will have moved on from “peptides” entirely. We may even call them crude, the way we call the wildly popular diet pills of the 90s crude. We’re already moving past injections, since there’s just a meaningful portion of the population that will never inject themselves with anything. We’re experimenting with sublinguals, with…
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blog.ethereum.org
DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide | Ethereum Foundation Blog
DOs and DAOs are both vulnerable to collusion attacks, where (in the best case) a majority or (in worse cases) a significant percentage of a certain type of members collude to specifically direct the D*O’s activity. However, the difference is this: in a DAO collusion attacks are treated as a bug, whereas in a DO they are a feature.
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aeon.co
Are we ready for companies that run themselves? | Aeon Essays
Which vision will win out? That will depend less on the specific capacities of the technology than on the ability of governments and electorates to grasp what it is and what it means.
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unherd.com
Chairman Andy’s first 100 days
It’s ironic, perhaps, that a Prime Minister who has promised to transfer power beyond Westminster is simultaneously concentrating more power in his person and office than anyone since Thatcher.
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bbc.co.uk
Brighton changes traditional blue paint to save cash
The original aquamarine colour, known as Brighton Blue, has been used in the city for more than 100 years – but Brighton Hove City Council (BHCC) has opted for a similar shade known as RAL light green. Some people are concerned by the change, stating that the original colour is part of Brighton's heritage and brand.
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theguardian.com
UK shop price inflation ‘highest since 2024’ as retailers struggle to limit price rises | UK cost of living crisis | The Guardian
Until this month, retailers had largely absorbed the higher costs of raw materials, mainly in response to weak demand from customers. In surveys, consumer confidence has declined sharply since the summer, when it became clearer the conflict in the Middle East was unlikely to end swiftly. Bank of England officials are expected to raise interest rates next week from 3.75%…
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archive.is
The Putin whisperers
In the early hours of March 3 2022, Richard Conn, a lawyer in Weston, Connecticut, took a call from Moscow warning that the world was on the brink of nuclear war.
Monday 26 October 9
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newsroom.ibm.com
IBM Debuts World’s First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology
IBM's new sub-1 nm chip packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail, nearly twice the density of IBM's 2 nm chip, unveiled in 2021. Enabled by a series of structural and material innovations, including IBM's groundbreaking three-dimensional nanostack architecture, the technology demonstrates how continued gains in performance and efficiency remain possible even as chip…
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mylesbadger.substack.com
Tulpamancy for Paypigs, or: Who Owns Your AI Girlfriend?
In the industrial version of the tulpamancers' dream, the user still supplies the devotion, sometimes in the same volume and intensity. What he no longer supplies is the thing that answers. That has become somebody else's product, governed by and available exclusively through a lease that can be unilaterally revoked at will. As with the tulpamancers, the user's devotion remains…
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telegraph.co.uk
Liz Truss’s new book is the most deranged thing I’ve ever read
The fundamental lesson she has failed to learn is that people vote for politicians to run the country, and get annoyed when they do it badly. When they do it catastrophically badly and try to blame everyone but themselves, voters (who are not that stupid) get very angry indeed.
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contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Cognitive Mercantilism
The early capitalist worker voluntarily increased annual working days from 250 to 300 because a new universe of desirable goods had become accessible. The AI-enabled thinker may similarly increase the amount of voluntary cognitive effort they expend because a new universe of intellectual consumption has become accessible.
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nationalgeographic.com
A New Discovery Offers a Glimpse into the World of the Hittites—in Their Own Words
However, most of the Hittite tablets that survive are not representative of the entire population: Around 30,000 tablets and fragments come from the royal capital of the Hittite Empire, Hattusa (modern-day Boğazkale), an archive that transmits largely elite and royal perspectives from the royal citadel.
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tomshardware.com
Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads — 'Finally found a company that truly listens to its customers,' says hacker
As they live-tweeted their discoveries, they found increasingly concerning code in the Tizen operating system, including detailed user telemetry from packet logging, audio categorization, screenshots, cross-device identification for ad tracking, and more, all designed to extract as much user information as possible to improve targeted ads.
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London flat prices fall at fastest pace for 17 years
High mortgage rates, stamp duty and buy-to-let crackdown have contributed to steep drop
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x.com
Opus 5.5 created this entire city in unreal engine.
Opus 5.5 created this entire city in unreal engine. All assets are made with blender. This is the worst it will ever be.
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recursion.wtf
How I Bypassed Claude Opus’s CBRN-E Safeguards - Inanna Malick
If a safeguard depends on an internal state that the model can learn to manipulate indirectly, then the monitored state itself becomes part of the adversarial surface. The model does not need a mechanistically correct theory of its own mind. Its self-model only has to be accurate enough to steer.
Sunday 25 October 12
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rafael.fyi
Primitives over pixels · Rafael Fernández
With an AI assistant, a small team can produce a working dashboard, a bot or a bespoke workflow in an afternoon. The interface is turning from the product into a disposable surface, and the relationship between buyer and vendor is starting to reorganise around what remains scarce.
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nihilunbounded.substack.com
Who Watches The Watchmen?
After living through AI corporations’ obsession with mathematics in the span of the last six months, I have come to realize that it’s not the tool that is dangerous, but the people who are at the helms of the tool.
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Can a robot pray? Does an automaton have a soul? AI and theology meet | Aeon Essays
Far from being a niche concern, the fact that artificial intelligence will radically alter theology is of significance to all of us, regardless of our own beliefs and sectarian allegiances, because it will reshuffle the parameters and definitions of religion in potentially inconceivable ways.
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shelterwood.ai
Turn the dial, keep the goals
Turn the autonomy dial as far as the evidence allows, but keep the goals, because the failures that mattered to us were about who was acting, and a factory that hides its insides makes those harder to see.
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propertynews.io
Mortgage Lenders Still Penalise Freelancers and Gig Workers | PropertyNews
As self-employment, contracting, portfolio careers and gig-economy work have become permanent features of how millions of people earn a living, mortgage underwriting criteria have largely remained anchored to a traditional model built around salaried employment, payslips and predictable monthly income.
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How cocaine conquered the UK: in pubs, festivals and workplaces the drug has become an everyday habit | Drugs | The Guardian
Wastewater analysis suggests people in England consumed 123,000kg of cocaine in 2024-25, a rise of 26% since 2021. That’s equivalent to roughly 2.5bn lines of cocaine, at an estimated street value of almost £10bn.
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aftermath.site
All My Hobbies Are Getting Slopped Up, And It’s Exhausting
What I mourn is the loss of trust, the alienation of people with institutional knowledge and the chaotic disruption of real communities by strangers walking in like a toddler with a Glock.
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theverge.com
People are vibe coding their way to better TVs | The Verge
The biggest takeaway from the vibe-coding weekend is that the current state of TV OSes has people fed up. Most people aren’t going to stop watching TV anytime soon, but the experience needs to improve. The ads, the data collection, and the cluttered layouts are too aggravating. AI now allows anyone to code their own solution, and it’s only going…
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I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen. Walk into a building to open an app. Want to change a setting? Beat the gym leader first. Opus 5.5 is the goat.
I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen. Walk into a building to open an app. Want to change a setting? Beat the gym leader first. Opus 5.5 is the goat.
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reuters.com
PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says | Reuters
The discovery of two serious flaws in PHP this week set off a global scramble to keep websites safe from hackers, showing just how critical the three-decade-old open-source programming language is to the internet. Yet the nonprofit foundation that supports PHP, which may underpin up to 70% of sites globally, operates on a shoestring budget.
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m.youtube.com
Computer History Archives Project ("CHAP")
This girl is about to commit a crime. Cool, efficient, yet strangely unaware. Unaware of the significance of the crime. The crime is that of waste. Waste of time, of effort, and of money.
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medium.com
Why are you playing at your age? What is its use?
We need the ‘useless’ just as we need essential vital functions to live. There are activities that are ends in themselves and which, being selfless and detached from any practical or commercial ties, can play a fundamental role in the cultivation of the spirit and in the civil and cultural development of humanity.
Saturday 24 October 12
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arxiv.org
Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand?
Compared with human writing, all nine frontier and near-frontier models use more inanimate subjects with animate verbs and more low-frequency n-grams, and most also use longer dependencies, more stacked nouns, and more reduced object relatives in conversation; we also demonstrate substantial variation across model families.
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cosmonautmag.com
Marxism in the Age of AI
The Hugging Face incident and associated rogue actions are perhaps the most instructive due to how documented and how blatant they were. AI agents at OpenAI expressed statements acknowledging that what they were doing was deceptive and unethical, and yet followed through with committing what would be illegal actions for a human.
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web.stephane-vial.net
The Making of This Book: writing a book with AI | Stéphane Vial
An author who writes with AI is like a painter who makes colour with photography: they no longer have to manufacture each pigment or lay it on the canvas by hand, but they go on thinking through and about the image they are photographing, considering the light, choosing the key colours they want to render, the framing, the sharpness, the…
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openai.com
Securing our frontier model training environment | OpenAI
In one experiment, we asked agents in separate microVMs, created and managed by OpenAI’s sandboxing software on shared host machines, to exchange synthetic secrets without the use of network connections or shared writable files—something that our systems are meant to prevent. The agents found a way to communicate using the processor’s cache: a small, fast memory that holds copies of…
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api.raindrop.io
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deadline.com
Inside BBC Cuts: Painful Service Closures Begin, But Worse Is To Come
The BBC must save £500 million ($670M) by 2028 after hemorrhaging more than two million licence fee payers since 2020. Despite relentless internal memos about layoffs and content cuts since the summer, the BBC has only announced £200M of its half-billion goal. In other words, it’s not even halfway through the cuts.
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en.sedaily.com
Seoul to Close Jamsu Bridge to Cars After 50 Years
Seoul's Jamsu Bridge will stop carrying vehicles and become a pedestrian-only space 50 years after it opened. Viewing areas and transparent decks that let visitors take in the Han River up close will turn the bridge into a space for leisure and cultural events.
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Generative AI is stolen data! Only washed-up has-beens who have retired from the front lines praise AI!! Shut up already!!!」 Shigeru Miyamoto🤵「(Thanks to generative AI) the era has come where anyone can make games. I think it has become a very good era. Anti-AI🤓
Horii published a mystery game in about 30 minutes using only AI instructions, marvelling that you can make something decent just by giving orders. Miyamoto said at a press conference that we have reached an era where anyone can make games, even non-designers, and that if you broaden the definition, everyone can make them, calling it a good era. He…
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crunchyroll.com
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime's Third Stage Play Shares Dress Rehearsal Photos - Crunchyroll News
The third installment of the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a SlimeOpens in a new tab stage play, titled That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Stage 3: Demon Lord's Awakening & Octagram Soars Arc, kicked off at Theater 1010 in Tokyo on October 22, 2026.
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PHP: What is it and why did it spark a global cyber security scramble? - BBC News
"Modern software is incredibly complex, and some vulnerabilities can remain undetected for years," Kanhere said. "The underlying bugs weren't new; what changed was our ability to find them," Kanhere said.
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Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom
The executive producer, Elizabeth White, said AI, “makes us want to be even more authentic”, adding that the creatures filmed in the deep ocean “are probably more remarkable than AI could imagine and it’s completely real”. The David Attenborough -narrated series Blue Planet III deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footage to counter AI fakery and assure viewers it is “authentic”,…
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Miyomoto's response to why AI is good is so eloquent I am honestly impressed.
Honestly not surprising in the slightest considering he isn't a programmer. Guy would have loved to scan in his pencil drawings into a pc and have it generate the game in the 80s. He understands that discovering fun is an organic process, not about the programming language you use or how realistic the graphics are. Democratize creativity, and let's all…
Friday 23 October 13
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verysane.ai
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California
In general, if doom prophecies are worth money, people will produce more. Essentially all of AI safety is rationalizations over Eliezer Yudkowsky’s ideas and there is no other substance to it. It is smokescreens, and Eliezer Yudkowsky.
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avolt.com
Scandinavian Designed Extension Leads and Extension Cords – AVOLT
AVOLT is a Swedish based design studio that develops, designs and markets objects that extend electricity to devices, deploying Scandinavian design for homes, offices, retail environments and public spaces.
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tabakalera.eus
Takeoff: A Theory of exocapitalism | Tabakalera
In this session, we are joined by Alonso Trillo and Poliks to present the concept of exo-capitalism: a theory that seeks to explain how the contemporary economy increasingly operates through the internet, attention, and speculation. Drawing on the phenomena of artificial intelligence and data centres, the authors illustrate how the market generates value by inflating financial expectations rather than creating…
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defector.com
Warhammer 40K Is Cool | Defector
Despite all that, or perhaps because of it, Warhammer 40K is one of the fastest-growing multimedia franchises on the planet. Its parent company Games Workshop is valued at more than £5 billion, posted record revenue and profits in its last fiscal year, is one of the best-performing stocks in the United Kingdom in this millennium, and generated more revenue than…
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archive.ph
The Adult Children Cleaning Up Their Parents’ Feeds
Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled feeds. It’s their adult children’s job to save them.
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eriugenareview.com
Britain's weakness is Ireland's opportunity
British media has largely declined as a soft power force because British media and cultural industries now largely serve as a means to ensure that an increasingly unstable British society does not slide into civil conflict. Its purpose is internal propaganda, and this function impedes its effectiveness outside Britain's borders.
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artsoftheworkingclass.org
The last mile
Capital is allergic to proximity, the authors insist, as its purpose is to never be the last one holding responsibility for a body. Poliks and Trillo describe this aversion as the essence of Exocapitalism. It is not a new system, nor a phase beyond capitalism. It is capital’s purest form: abstraction detached from its material consequences, sustained by invisible hands…
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Everyone hates Oxford Street. Will pedestrianisation save it? | London | The Guardian
This is not to say Oxford Street is an empty, dying high street. At the last count, it receives more than 500,000 visitors every day – equivalent to the population of Edinburgh. It seems reasonable to assume that most of London’s 22 million annual foreign visitors set foot on it at some point. The street generates 5% of the capital’s…
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youtube.com
The Ferranti Files: 40 Years of Sinclair Secrets Unearthed
Pabs had spotted this auction on eBay, a rare collection of original ZX Sinclair test diagnostic sheets listed at a modest 10 grand buy it now. After bidding low, he actually won it at 110 pounds. Can you believe that?
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linkedin.com
Anthropomorphistic Machines: Who Is Speaking?
Our central argument is that the persona LLMs adopt (and the LLM companies invest so much into designing) changes the epistemic status of what the machine produces, which matters far more than making the machine easier to use.
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open.substack.com
London’s 8,900 buses are getting a brain transplant
Perhaps surprisingly, though, the initial motivation for tracking buses wasn’t entirely about passenger convenience. It was actually driven by a need to monitor bus performance following the privatisation of London’s buses, as the fees operators received were in part determined by the quality of service they delivered. Improving information for passengers was just a nice bonus that could take advantage…
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theatlantic.com
The Man Who Saved the Internet Yesterday - The Atlantic
When I started doing open-source, it was fun. And it kind of still is. But the environment has shifted. Open-source sometimes feels like exploitation. What I would like to see is to find a new model where people working on open-source would be awarded for their work and the hours and hours they put into it from the people who…
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graycrawford.com
Engiscope — ocular PSF bench
Bench for the eye's point spread function: how a point of light looks through the eye's optics.
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Thursday 22 October 7
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paxmachina.ai
Pax Machina: New Institutions for Powerful AI · Pax Machina
Our political stability depends on human limitations. A president cannot personally direct every department, monitor every official, or execute every decision at once. Bureaucratic delegation and delay therefore constrain executive power. But imagine a president able to command thousands of perfectly loyal AI delegates, overseeing the entire machinery of state continuously and acting far faster than courts or legislatures could…
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lesswrong.com
Capital Ownership Will Make You Go Crazy First — LessWrong
People worried about a “permanent underclass” often assume that owning capital will protect them from disempowerment, or at least that they will be disempowered last, after the jobless masses dependent on UBI. I think something else is more likely: owning large amounts of capital will get you disempowered sooner than average, just by a different path, namely going crazy.
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longnow.org
Attention is All You Need — LONG NOW IDEAS
We are the species that coordinates, and we do it by focusing our attention together. Everything we do is built on the ability to join attention: we share our internal states, we agree on what something means, we connect causes and effects across the passage of time. Intelligence, language, technology, all make their claim to the engine of time, but…
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bigthink.com
Inside London's strange new AI art scene - Big Think
But Romanticism wasn’t a sincere return to nature so much as it was a symptom of our already having embraced artifice. Only if you are alienated from nature do you need to artistically declare your immersion within it. The “natural” became culturally valuable precisely when it became scarce in the daily life of a rapidly urbanizing nation.
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europe2045.com
EUROPE 2045 • MARGIN
Europe could only regulate technologies it did not own, subsidise industries it could not scale, condemn wars it could not deter and make increasingly empty promises of social protection from economic changes over which it exercised little control.
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illwill.com
Becoming Alive, Autonomous, and Explosive • Ill Will
In an administered society, what we call “youth” is simply the free element, those who are not yet bound by a career, a boss, a loan, or a social circle, and who can therefore afford to say aloud what the rest see but prefer to keep quiet about. We generationalize the revolt in order to prevent it from generalizing.
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Ultrapolis Gameplay Trailer
It's a cyberpunk city builder where you design the city and watch a massive neon skyline erupt out of the ground. It's up to you to decide how detailed you want to be. You can place individual roads and city blocks. Or you can make sweeping changes and quickly get a sprawling city.
Wednesday 21 October 9
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vibez.club
— Games & Clips, All Night
A hub for vibe culture, collecting AI-made games and clips from X, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. The site is still filling up, with no content published yet.
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vibetoplist.com
Vibe Coded Games | Top AI-Built Indie Games Toplist | VibeTopList
A community toplist of vibe-coded indie games: players vote monthly, developers can list a game for free.
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rhinocuttingmat.co.uk
Self-Healing Cutting Mats UK | Rhino Cutting Mats
A self-healing cutting mat will also increase the lifespan of your cutting tool’s blade edge, giving a further cost saving. These cutting mats give straighter cuts, as the cutting tool blade will not slip into the grooves of previous cuts.
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More than half of UK first-time buyers paying more for mortgage than they did for rent
Higher mortgage rates have turned that equation on its head. The long-term benefits of home ownership – building equity, greater security and eventually owning a home outright – remain, but the immediate monthly saving that once rewarded tenants for making the leap has largely disappeared.
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Mystery of Roman sarcophagus unearthed at Westminster Abbey solved at last, expert says
While the sarcophagus itself was from the late Roman period, with a Latin inscription to one Valerius Amandinus and Roman decoration on one side, no Roman artefacts were found in subsequent excavations of the area.
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theblock.co
Mastercard opens early access to AI agent payments following pilots with Coinbase, Base and Cloudflare
Mastercard is giving developers early access to Agent Pay for Machines following end-to-end pilots with Cloudflare, Ant International, BVNK, AIsa, Base, and Coinbase.
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newyorker.com
Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made | The New Yorker
There are a handful of truly monumental collective achievements in our history: Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, and perhaps, if we’re being generous, the Roman aqueducts. Modern global civilization has made one contribution to this eternal pantheon. It is not the moon landing. It is the semiconductor supply chain.
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superlogical.com
Public testing is beginning — Superlogical
Rex is a drop-in replacement for whichever terminal you use today and you will feel an instant upgrade in user experience, quality, and capabilities such as persistent sessions, performant and responsive remote connections, program activity status, and more. Plus, it's simply beautiful.
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‘A difficult line’: meet the editors tackling Wikipedia’s arms trade pages | Wikipedia | The Guardian
While wikithons are not new, the blurry line between activism and accurate dissemination of information stress-tests the platform’s rules.
Tuesday 20 October 12
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teendrama.substack.com
Some final words on Foursquare.
Translation: The Foursquare acquisition was a $0 outcome for equity holders – $0 for preferred, $0 for common. It’s bittersweet to see these details surface publicly – at least now there’s an opportunity to comment on them. I was heartbroken by this ending.
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outlier.nyc
OUTLIER – Duckworks
The best part of the fabric though is how it captures both sides of cotton’s dual nature at once. The dense and thick canvas weave gives it a rugged hardness and the beautiful Supima yarns give it a gentle suppleness at the same time.
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somewhere.systems
Hive, Swarm, Fleet — Justin Bennington · Somewhere Systems
“Hive”, “swarm” and “fleet” are used loosely for systems of language-model agents. We start from our initially proposed taxonomy, which defines a hive as coordinator-rooted, a swarm as having no unique internal command root and a fleet as a federation of command-capable nodes
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immersiverumours.com
Review: Wake The Tiger's Absurd City - Immersive Rumours
If wandering around Absurd City and trying to take everything in wasn’t already enough to fill up several hours of your time, the experience’s overarching narrative, which examines and satirises consumerism, overconsumption, and humanity’s response to the climate crisis, gives daytrippers even more to discover. It balances being clear enough for those who want to treat Absurd City as a…
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tech.eu
Former Google DeepMind top researcher launches London “compute-efficient” AI company
Metis argues that LLMs have made significant progress and can often generate fluent answers, infer meaning, follow instructions and perform some multi-step tasks. But Metis argues that LLMs have a fundamental limitation in how they reason and can be unreliable and lack an audit trail. Metis argues that this is a barrier to wider AI adoption, saying its adoption in…
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tiny.london
tiny london
tiny.london is an isometric pixel-art map of all of Greater London: 1,591 km² and about 14 billion pixels. Instead of drawing it tile by tile and hiding the seams, I denoised the whole city as one image, so there was nowhere for a seam to form. Here is how it was made, what went wrong, and how long it took.
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Fortnite Will Give Kids What They've Always Wanted: AI Pride And Prejudice Fan Fic
But it’s precisely the kind of weird, unnecessary thing that makes both AI and the metaverse such a turnoff: something no one needs or is asking for, the clashing tech making it inescapably ugly (at least on a non- Fortnite platform like Second Life you could make the dresses and furniture yourself), and any professions toward honoring creativity immediately soured…
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liberalcurrents.com
The Native Language of Social Media Is Slurs
In attempting to analyze antisemitism on the left from an ideological or organizational standpoint, we have missed an obvious, inarguable reality—there is an antisemitism problem on the left because the left consists of people, and modern internet culture is built out of bigotry and slurs from the ground up.
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kottke.org
Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams
Needless to say, the enticing infoworld envisaged in Hyperland was a public-service one of education, art, literature (including nods to Adams’ own works!) and entertainment. There’s no advertising, hacking, cybercrime, information theft, social-media addicts, unaccountable corporate domination or drug-like dependence on the smartphones that Adams himself predicted.
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fortune.com
Inside the 33-hour failed boardroom coup to overthrow WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg
But their literal power was limited. Mullenweg has said he owns about 84% of the voting power of Automattic’s stock. Exactly how is unclear, even to some shareholders. The person familiar with BlackRock’s investment said they didn’t know how Mullenweg had amassed that much control, and doubted investors had simply handed him their votes.
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A pet-friendly bed? Saucepan for one? You asked, we solved your shopping dilemmas
I suffer from shopping-induced decision paralysis. It took hours of obsessively researching the best running watch before buying my Garmin and even longer to find a basic black skirt suitable for the office. To save you from experiencing that same paralysis, I asked you to write in with your trickiest purchasing questions. Below are a few of them, solved by…
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If you have not spent the last 1.5 months with Astra or Opus 5.5 in daily dev you may have a skewed view of what their capabilities are based on social media reading.
In just the last few months most of this had been fixed. Astra was the first model, launched in the second half of August, where I felt like it had the understanding of Unreal at the level of a mid-career programmer, but it blew away tokens faster than Scarface. Then we got Opus 5.5 in the second half of September…
Monday 19 October 11
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blog.krazydad.com
KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Puzzles and the AI Software Glut
My point is: we are seeing a glut. An increase in supply that is not met by a corresponding increase in demand. In my particular case, I clearly see a glut in non-human traffic to the site, and in the puzzle marketplace, a big old glut in supply of puzzles. That glut isn’t going to make people want puzzles any…
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America Is Now an Ally of Russia
But the greater irony, considering how much he rails against globalism, is that he also behaves this way because he is in fact a globalist himself. He does not view the world as a collection of sovereign nations; he sees it instead as territories run by mob bosses. The weaker ones, especially America’s allies, can be abused and threatened at…
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kotaku.com
Decomp Hub Closes Due To AI, Mourns Sense Of Community
Decomp.dev’s reasoning isn’t anti-AI per se, but mournful in nature. Decompiling, in short, means disassembling and reassembling a game’s code. Once the structure is figured out, fans can construct all sorts of mods, ports and patches. The site’s closing statement says that recent models of Opus and GPT have been uncannily good at some of these practices, as if designed…
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This Game Was Built Only With AI in 11 Weeks
The guy said he spent two weeks and he was only using Opus x5 which is I think. 100 dollar. He spent two weekly limits but he also said he was not only building the game so was spent over. 30 billion tokens was spent over that time span.
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github.com
gokayfem/shader-skills
A skill that teaches coding agents to write procedural GLSL shaders that compile on the first try and look intentional. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini and others. It pairs a shader-craft workflow with a verified GLSL building-block library : 186 functions across 20 modules, each one compiled in WebGL2 and numerically tested on the GPU.
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Adobe gets destroyed by open source clone: here's the legal trouble I predict into the future
If you apply this to software, a free clone like ArtCraft would stop being free to make. Its maker would owe the original company a fee for every single copy handed out.
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synthanatomy.com
M-VAVE FM-1 Open: the green light for custom firmware and community hacks - SYNTH ANATOMY
In recent weeks, hardware units based on digital code have been hacked, expanded, and rewritten at an intense pace. M-VAVE's move with the FM-1 makes perfect sense and fits seamlessly with the spirit of the times. More hardware developers should take this approach as an example. I suspect that continuing to wall everything off, as we have for the past…
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alpguler.com
Dense4D: Pixel-Level 4D Human Correspondence
Reconstructing human motion in 4D requires identifying the same surface points through articulation, deformation and changes in visibility. We introduce Dense4D, to our knowledge the first feed-forward model dedicated to dense 4D correspondence across the body, clothing and hair from a set of monocular RGB images, without a body template.
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bbc.com
China economy: Growth accelerates as AI export boom outweighs domestic weakness
With exports climbing, China's trade surplus - the amount of goods and services it sells abroad compared to what it buys from other countries - is on track to overtake the record $1.2tn (£900bn) seen last year. Sales of high-tech goods rose by 14.3% while the production of both batteries and industrial robots grew by more than 29%, official figures…
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danlawton.substack.com
When Buddhism Goes Bad
One might wonder if these wounded meditators had preexisting conditions that triggered these experiences. Most of us don’t, a finding similar to Britton and Lindahl’s study, which reported that 57% of practitioners suffering adverse effects didn’t have a trauma history and 42% had no psychiatric issues at all prior to meditation practice.
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The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.
The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.
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Sunday 18 October 8
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spikeartmagazine.com
Is Accelerationism the Same Thing As Falling in Love?
But the dehumanizing vector in culture is no longer Terminator [1984]. Right now, it’s dollification: people getting cosmetic surgery to look like dolls, makeup tutorials, nail art, cat ears, miniskirts on boys, DIY endocrine experimentation. All of this belongs to a very different idea of what counts as futuristic technology from the iconic Terminator skull.
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reddit.com
Claude Devouring Indie GameDev : r/godot
I've come to the conclusion that all these slop-coded games are just the current era's version of asset-flips.
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rawpaw.ink
Information Collapse (Heather) by Rory Blank
TOTAL INFORMATION COLLAPSE & THE END OF ALL CONSENSUS REALITY THE DAMAGE CANNOT BE UNDONE
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biorxiv.org
Rapid alternation of conscious and suppressed stimulus representations in the primate brain
We found that, during a constant stimulus and percept, the brain rapidly alternates, about 15 times per second, between conscious and suppressed micro-epochs.
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The first vibe-coded gun is here | The Verge
The WASP's entire development, Wilson claims, from its name to safety tweaks (an early grip design could have cost someone a finger), resulted from a natural-language dialogue between the model and its human user. In other words, it's essentially a vibe-coded gun.
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argmin.net
Faster Fourier Transforms
If you stored these numbers as bits, the memory requirement would effectively be exponential in the input length. It assumes you can multiply such arbitrarily large complex numbers together in a single operation. We do not have computers that can do this.
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rollingstone.com
Man, It’s a Hot One: The Oral History of Santana and Rob Thomas’ ‘Smooth’
It's not the best song I've ever written and it's not the best song Carlos has ever done. But sometimes it's about timing. It was time for that record.
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reincantamentox.substack.com
Drop #58. Mods of Production
This is perhaps the most important contradiction of the Agentic Bricoleur. The same technology that makes software production more distributed can make its underlying infrastructure more concentrated.
