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“Great Badges!!”
For the #accordion crowd who refuses to be pro-fascist
https://accordionbruce.etsy.com/listing/1344908552

The excellent @… (https://erinkissane.com) has written a lot about the idea of “governance” in tech: the human networks and processes that surround the things that we build. Erin has proposed — and I agree, though I long failed to see it! — that governance is the gaping hole in the way we build OSS, shared infra, and the whole technology commons.
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Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time game data and analysis to coaches and players using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI (Ali McCadden/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-nfl-ai-analysis.html

Microsoft and NFL announce multiyear partnership to use AI to enhance game day analysis
Microsoft and the NFL announced a multiyear extension of their partnership to bring real-time analysis to the sidelines using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI.

If you've been paying attention, this is a *very* strong signal that OpenAI is hitting the limits of improved capability with more compute/data and they're (predictably) all out of other ideas. The quiet "exponential model capabilities" lie here is what Altmann promised but is now starting not to be able to deliver, even in cherry-picked demo terms.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/sam-altman-says-agi-is-a-pointless-term-experts-agree.html
The "agentic" turn was never going to pan out, because it exposes the unreliability of LLMs too directly, and it turns out that no amount of yelling at your text vending machine to "Be smarter! Think harder!" will actually get you anything more than vended text.
I'm *praying* that we get into this crash sooner rather than later, since the faster it comes, the less painful it will be.
My recent reading in actual research papers corroborates this, for example, asking LLMs to play games exposes their utter lack of anything that can be termed "reasoning":
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08501v1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Ryuichi Sakamoto:
🎵 Opus "Bibo no Aozora"
#RyuichiSakamoto
https://open.spotify.com/track/1eGd0Sqc3RQoICDjEamNFU

"Medicina mental e medicina orgânica no jovem Foucault: considerações em torno de René Leriche" agora nos Arquivos HAL
#filosofia

The White House points to a
seven-month snapshot
showing low inflation,
but economists say prices are closer to 3 percent.
The shutdown delays fresh data.
Most experts agree inflation has picked up in recent months,
in part because of Trump’s tariffs.
Economists expect more tariff-driven price increases in the months to come.

Trump says inflation is dead. Most data says: Not quite.
The White House says inflation is low and cool. Virtually every alternative calculation paints a less rosy picture.

Der Liveblog vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen
🔗 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-mittwoch-522.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Litauen bietet Truppen zur Friedenssicherung an ++
Litauen würde Soldaten und Ausrüstung zu einer möglichen Friedensmission in die Ukraine schicken - das sagte Präsident Nauseda in einem Interview. In der Ostukraine sind durch russischen Beschuss offenbar drei Menschen getötet worden.

Manchmal sind Standardprodukte das beste, was man einsetzen kann. Aber manchmal ist man auch mit Open-Source-Software besser bedient.
Morgen Abend im #Netzpolitik-Treff in der #Bitwäscherei ein solches Beispiel. Eine Kooperation von @…