Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy
Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that "committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea", and OpenAI will do the same (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Viiaan:
🎵 Azkhar
#Viiaan
https://qeone.bandcamp.com/track/azkhar
https://open.spotify.com/track/2iOy6rzoLwiIk4DYououmG
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#InTune
- Sean Shibe & Karim Sulayman in session
Sean Shibe and Karim Sulayman perform live. Petroc also chats to Andrew Griffiths and Jeremy Gray, discussing Bampton Classical Opera's production of Grétry's Zemira and Azor.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yml3
TL;DR: Die Abhängigkeit von ausländischen Importen und die Klimakrise treiben die Ölpreise.
Höchste Zeit was dagegen zu tun!
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/diesel-oelpreis-spritpreise-heizoel-100.html
253g Weizensauer, 300g Weizen hell, 150g Weizenvollkorn und 50g Roggenschrot. Salz, Wasser und etwas Malz und viel Geduld. Ich liebe es, das #MillLoaf nach Dan Lepard.
Den Duft müsst Ihr Euch selbst vorstellen.
#urslisbäckerei
Former Mexican governor charged in case of 43 students who vanished in 2014 | Mexico | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/former-mexican-governor-charged-in-case-of-43-students-who-vanished-in-20…
Sources: Silver Lake is in talks to acquire HR and financial management software maker Workday, which has a market value of ~$43B; WDAY jumps 18% (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/silver-lake-talks-buy-workday-sources-say-2026-08-13/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
André Grétry, Jean-François Marmontel, Thomas Beecham, Huguette Boulangeot, Bernard Lefort, Arda Mandikian, Claire Duchesneau, Thomas Beecham & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra:
🎵 Zémire et Azor, Act IV Scene 2: Quartet. Ah! Je tremble
Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW of computing power, pushing the total cost beyond $250B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20