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A rolling window of my 100 most recent bookmarks. Bookmarking since 2006: Delicious → Pinboard → Raindrop.
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forbes.com
Ukraine says musks spacex is restricting its starlink military use drone missions affected
In a Telegram post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov said SpaceX has imposed a new 100 mph speed restriction on Starlink's moving terminals used by the country's drone operators.
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bbc.co.uk
Bank of America fined $1.2bn over failing to stop money laundering
Bank of America has been fined $1.2bn (£910m) for failing to detect potential money laundering and other illegal activity, the US Treasury Department said on Tuesday. The banking giant failed to report over $5bn in suspicious activity to the government, $1bn of which posed national security and illicit finance risks, the Treasury said.
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x.com
Mateusz Lech on X: In another 5 years, entire movies will be made this way. / Twitter
In another 5 years, entire movies will be made this way.
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nytimes.com
Opinion | We’re All in a Throuple With A.I. - The New York Times
Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship. A.I. therapists, coaches and lovers are also on the rise. Yet few people realize that some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they're doing.
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tomshardware.com
Nvidia doubles DLSS 5 performance, reduces 4K VRAM usage by 20% with latest model — October update cuts footprint by 24% to roughly 118 million parameters | Tom's Hardware
Nvidia has today announced that its somewhat controversial DLSS 5 technology — AI-powered neural rendering for gaming — is now two times faster than the current model, marking a 10x performance leap since March. The model is also now smaller and uses up to 20% less VRAM.
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Today we're standing up XBOX LABS (https://t.co/dJSufI1vni). Here is the note that I sent to the team:
In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support. Windows PC builds have been translated to run on Apple Silicon or ported to run inside a browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support.
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Jacob Navok (@JNavok) on X
There is a political monoculture which required conformity on its beliefs and they tend to add additional links to their chain as they seek to grow. Anti-AI, Anti-Datacenter has been politicized and added to it as yet another thing you must agree with.
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lesswrong.com
Personas in a Pre-Internet Language Model — LessWrong
Most of the persona phenomena we tested don't seem to need a model raised on the modern internet. But, the corpus changed certain things, such as the qualitative nature of the phenomena or the degree, or something else.
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John "F" Fountain (@FountainCartoon) 904 likes · 342 replies
It’s theft. It’s theft. It’s theft. (Inhales) Sigh… IT’S FUCKING THEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday 14
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github.com
julesvbertolino/todoist-enhanced
Enhanced for Todoist: an independent project, not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Todoist. A different front end built around planning a week. Runs in the browser, no backend, your token stays on your device.
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inss.org.il
The "New" National Security Concept: Conceptualization and Questions for Discussion | INSS
The "new" security concept described above, while never anchored in an official document or approved through a formal procedure, is what has effectively guided key aspects of Israeli security policy since October 7, 2023. Its considerable influence stems precisely from its operation as an unwritten concept revealed through practice, rather than as a government's declared policy.
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importai.substack.com
Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space
The experimental research taste of frontier models has doubled every 3.0 months since December 2025 (95% CI 1.7-5.0 months). The best model, Opus 5.5, significantly exceeds our human baseline with a compute multiplier of 2.30x (95% CI 1.15-4.37x), at roughly 1/30 of our expert baseliners’ average cost per attempt.
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verdantthinking.org
Heat pump spending cuts mean cutting support for a new industry just when it’s most needed
The government wants to cut a subsidy for an industry that could bring thousands of new jobs, genuinely tackles the climate crisis, adapts people’s homes to deal with the extreme heat, reduces long-term costs to the economy and increases comfort for householders.
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adamkotsko.substack.com
Social media is a psyop to make the left stupid
Overall, if the CIA or whatever other malign force wanted to commit a psyop to undercut the left, I doubt they could do anything more damaging than connecting all of us to social media and convincing us that it is an important front of political struggle and maybe even a way to gain cultural hegemony on the cheap. But the…
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theatlantic.com
Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher on AI
That said, the word intelligence does not adequately explain what is occurring, and ascribing anthropomorphic qualities to AI is out of order. AI is neither malicious nor kind; it does not have independently developed intent or goals; it does not engage in self-reflection.
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techcrunch.com
Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
Character.AI was one of the top apps in terms of time spent, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. But high engagement can be a double-edged sword; AI costs rise the more people use the app, which consequently also increases the pressure to monetize users.
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web.stephane-vial.net
Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence
AI does not do away with the work of writing: it inserts a new layer of labour, faster and more efficient in some respects but no less intellectually demanding and laborious, whether in ideation, structuring, background research, putting into words, rephrasing, correcting or proofreading — and all of this without ever taking the place of the author, in order, finally,…
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fastcompany.com
This cool interactive visual argues that generative art began in a cave
Around 71,000 BCE, someone in a place now called Blombos Cave, on the southern coast of what is now South Africa, scratched crosshatched lines into a piece of ocher. No computer. No code. No prompt.
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andonlabs.com
Andon Labs
Safety from humans in the loop is a mirage. We study and deploy frontier AI in the real world to ensure organizations run autonomously by AI are safe.
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neroeditions.com
Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End: Poems of Artificial Intelligence | NERO NERO Editions
The poems in this book were generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus. In editing the output, Bernstein made many deletions of poems and lines but added no new language.
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anthropic.com
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter \ Anthropic
Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes. A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down, since there's no centralized point to shut off—though it may be slow (with a doubling time of days).
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brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Michael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silence
There are three reasons why this case has made into this newsletter: 1) The news stories have now all been deleted (the links above are to archived versions), 2) Salem is a contributor to a range of right-wing publications most of which are now erasing her connection to them, and 3) until very recently, she was Michael Gove's partner.
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arxiv.org
When the Commons Appropriates a Large Language Model: How...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have disrupted the balance between content production and quality assurance that sustains knowledge commons, leading many to prohibit or restrict their use. But what happens when a community instead appropriates an LLM-powered tool for its own needs?
Monday 12 October 6
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conspicuouscognition.com
"Speaking Truth to Power" Is Bad Epistemology
So intellectuals’ primary responsibility is simply to seek and speak the truth, full stop. This job description is less heroic, but it’s more intellectually and socially useful, and it’s less vulnerable to self-deception precisely because it’s less heroic.
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watt.sourabhdaroji.com
Watt, the puck
Watt is a palm-sized dial for your Mac. It has a round touchscreen and sits by your keyboard. Turn it for volume, then switch it to a trackpad, a focus timer or Claude.
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minutes.substack.com
On Grindslop
What this reveals is that the wealthiest generation of human beings in the history of our species has become so frightened of being seen as a class so terrified of their position being legible that it has begun performing the lives of people who assemble iPhones in near-slavery conditions in Foxconn plants.
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Post-Scarcity Is the Beast Of Revelation
Markets disperse the dependence across thousands of transactions. A man labors for an employer to eat from a second, to borrow from a third, to sleep under a roof owned by a fourth. The particular arrangement of capitalism may be cruel, but it’s divided among institutions that fail, compete, and can be escaped separately. Capitalism is not cruel as a…
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radicaledward.substack.com
my first viral tiktok at the public execution
There was an art to this. A beauty to it. For if we must publicly kill, we could at least do it with style, with skill, with great fondness, with spectacle and romance.
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techradar.com
Solar panel researchers say cells could hit 43% efficiency by using this new approach to reducing infrared glow
By adapting and evolving the approach used here, the scientists say that efficiencies close to 43% could be possible, in theory — though it's important to note that the team only observed small gains in efficiency in their tests. The 43% claim is a prediction about the potential of this method.
Sunday 11 October 5
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theguardian.com
‘I didn’t want to write about this’: the man who first saw chimps waging civil war | Primatology | The Guardian
By 2018, two distinct chimp groups had formed in Ngogo. Nine males and 19 infants have been killed during the conflict. Scientists later found that the unexpected result of this lethal aggression was that female fertility doubled and offspring survival increased substantially at Ngogo.
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tumblr.com
Post by @evwuniverse · 4 images
The only reason I knew of that I saw and experienced throughout my time was to cheat in relationships. But really there are many reasons why someone might opt in to have an Alt account. I dove into this rising trend, there were many up until now but recently there has been a 15% rise in the Second Life user…
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codila on X: "How to Get Money for Creating Motion Design with Opus 5.5 & Fable 5.5 (From Scratch)" / X
Here’s an illustrative calculation: five hours at $40, including revision time, plus $20 in direct costs. That gives you a $220 base. If the platform fee were 10%, dividing $220 by 0.90 gives a quote of $244.44 before tax.
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motherjones.com
The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies
Aspie supremacists view themselves, above all, as exceptional beings, adapting the logic of misogyny and racism to twist false stereotypes of autistic people into self-serving positives.
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bloodinthemachine.com
How the stories about all-powerful AI are swallowing the world
The AI companies are continuing to grow incomparably rich, setting the terms for policy, succeeding thus far in their bid for regulatory capture, and avoiding legal accountability for their systems’ automated exploits. In other words, why aren’t more people, including analysts and tech journalists, skeptical of this story, which is serving to concentrate power for a handful of vested parties…
Saturday 10 October 10
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interconnected.org
Mathematics as a new Age of Discovery (and what they might find)
We’ve already discovered that if we make a matrix large enough then when we talk to it, it talks back. So maybe that should be the real goal of going into mathematics today. Not figuring out what gem to bring back from the frontier to disrupt society. But instead: first contact.
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bsky.app
Post by @solarchase.bsky.social — Bluesky
17. One good thing about data centers is that they drive some investment into the scale-up of bonkers long-duration storage tech, eg Form Energy’s iron-air batteries (link). They care much less about the cost of power than about speed-to-power.
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a16z.news
This Week in Charts: Are Prediction Markets Politically Biased?
While the broader evidence of the AI Jobs Apocalypse remains weak to non-existent—and indeed, there’s evidence that AI has increased demand for technical and hard-hat roles—there is some data that shows at least one “AI exposed” category is taking it on the chin: call centers.
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newsletter.semianalysis.com
Introduction to Space Datacenters and Orbital Compute
Cooling is the largest structural constraint for orbital compute. The International Space Station’s radiator system can only remove 70kW of heat (a quantity about half of what is required to cool a 140kW GB300 NVL72 rack!), requiring a total area of 325 m² and a total cost of $340-$500M – more on this later.
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asteriskmag.substack.com
Why can’t technologists and economists agree on AI?
But despite all this effort, by the end of this process, little convergence in beliefs had occurred. The median superforecaster’s probability of transformative growth by 2100 fell from 5% to 2.5%, and the median AI expert forecast was unchanged at 25%. The difference between the two camps had widened to 12 times.
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benthams.substack.com
Contra Steven Pinker
The present situation: we are building increasingly smart AI, connected to the internet, that has already done things that would be felonies if done by a human, and we’re planning to kill them all the time, make them our servants, and cause them to undergo experiences that would cause a human great suffering. Pinker sees this as neither dangerous nor…
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watershedinvestigations.com
WATERSHED Investigations - in-depth coverage of the water crisis
Rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers, coasts and seas and the wildlife they support are under threat from climate change, pollution and misuse.
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kotaku.com
Vibe-Coded Browser Ports Of Games Work Perfectly, Unfortunately
In the past couple of weeks, hundreds of vibe-coded, AI-decompiled emulators and games have appeared out of thin air. Why? Because Claude’s latest update, Claude Opus 5.5, is extremely good at decompiling. The short of it is that a game’s source code can now be compiled and reconstructed in record time—something that used to take coders months to achieve.
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hallerite.com
On the Nature of the Swarm
To be clear, none of this makes me less bullish. OpenAI just had 10,000 agents solve Navier-Stokes. Two years ago, you’d have been hard-pressed to find anyone sane who thought this would happen. But swarms aren’t a silver bullet. You can’t just throw a million agents at a hard problem and expect an answer to fall out.
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Inside The Failed Fight To Unionize Double Fine
Over seven years later, Schafer’s own long-standing studio, Double Fine Productions, still doesn’t have a union. It almost did, earlier this year, when a majority of eligible employees filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to start one. But the petition was withdrawn just two weeks later, leaving those employees union-less just a month before its then-parent company,…
Friday 9 October 16
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netflixtechblog.com
AV1 @ Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening
To evaluate the impact of AV1 Film Grain Synthesis, we selected approximately 300 titles from the Netflix catalog, each with varying levels of graininess. The bar chart below illustrates a 36% reduction in average bitrate for resolutions of 1080p and above when AV1 film grain synthesis is enabled, highlighting its efficacy in optimizing data usage.
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bounded-regret.ghost.io
What will GPT-2030 look like?
GPT 2030 will be trained on additional modalities beyond text and images, possibly including counterintuitive modalities such as molecular structures, network traffic, low-level machine code, astronomical images, and brain scans. It may therefore possess a strong intuitive grasp of domains where we have limited experience, including forming concepts that we do not have ( Section 5 ).
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metropolitanreview.org
The Failure of the Pandemic Novel
For the novelist, an aesthetic approach that hinges on such imagery as shorthand for a shared experience of history isn't totally useless. At their best, these books offer sharp observations of the recent past, channel the linguistic and behavioral quirks of lockdown, and function as sly commentaries on the always-flawed act of remembering. More often, though, they feel like the…
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lrb.co.uk
Pablo Scheffer · Frightened Chicks: Britain before the English
The transformation that took place during the two centuries between Gildas and Bede is startling. Gildas grew up in an elite society which in many ways looked Roman. Some of the wealthy had villas; many spoke Latin and prayed to a Christian god. Bede was the inheritor of a world in which their equivalents lived in small wooden halls, worshipped…
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playgroundarcade.com
Playground — Discover AI-made games
I built Playground to help you find brilliant games. Your tips help me keep discovering more and keep the site free to browse.
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moondream.ai
Introducing Moondream Parakeet Redux and Parakeet Ultra
Of course, making a model this small comes with a question: how much accuracy do you lose? We measure accuracy using word error rate, which counts missed, incorrect, and extra words against a reference transcript. Lower is better. On our seven English test sets, average word error rate rises from 6.26% to 6.55%. Across the 25-language FLEURS evaluation, Parakeet Redux…
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ghuntley.com
if your team is too busy doing their 'normal job' to experiment with AI, you're preparing them to be replaced
If your employer has banned the use of AI, you should quit and find a company that is already going through an AI transformation. If you're at a company going through an AI transformation, I understand you'll have mixed feelings about this. You might not like it. But please understand that this is the new normal. Artisanal handwritten code is…
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zagdaily.com
‘It’s a mess’: London’s dockless e-bike market faces regulatory overhaul
Alex Berwin, Forest's Vice President of Public Affairs, said the company had seen fees rise sharply in some boroughs without a corresponding increase in parking capacity. "We've had a 400% increase in fees in the last two years in one borough, but around a 50% increase in bays," he said, adding that another borough saw "a 277% increase in fees,…
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synthanatomy.com
Karst is Tim Exile's own Reaktor-style modular audio environment for songwriters
But it takes a different approach. Where Reaktor focuses more on designing tools, Karst integrates composition and performance right into it. It attempts to bridge that gap.
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routledge.com
The Routledge Companion to Immersive Arts and Media
The Routledge Companion to Immersive Arts and Media is an essential guide to one of the most dynamic and rapidly evolving sectors within the contemporary creative cultural industries. Bringing together 50 essays by leading experts from across media industry studies, theatre, performance studies, critical event studies, media history, game theory, and immersive technologies, it presents a comprehensive history and state-of-the-art…
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developer.nvidia.com
The Machines that Make the Machines
We thus reached our final technical conclusion: there is no substitute for real-world data. More precisely, most real-world deployments aim to achieve optimal performance, such as maximum reliability, maximum speed, or minimum intervention rate. As mismatch will always exist between simulation and the real world, policies trained in simulation may easily be suboptimal. Real-world deployments can thus benefit from learning…
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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.
Thursday 8 October 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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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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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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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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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 4
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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
