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
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Viiaan:
🎵 Azkhar
#Viiaan
https://qeone.bandcamp.com/track/azkhar
https://open.spotify.com/track/2iOy6rzoLwiIk4DYououmG
RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/117078842383109177
I also agree with the more “safe for work” version left as a comment suggesting to ask people to share their debit card PIN with the entire class. As well as the points that when we go in a public restroom, we still sh…
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…
O momento chegou! A grande batalha entre os pé-frios! Eu torcendo pra Noruega e Mick Jagger torcendo para a Inglaterra! Quem terš o pé-frio mais poderoso?!!! rs
https://ge.globo.com/futebol/copa-do-m
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
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Asheru And Blue Black Of The Unspoken Heard:
🎵 This Is Me
#AsheruAndBlueBlackOfTheUnspokenHeard
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mqaOXnTj6RJ2qm5D4esxi
eToro agrees to acquire US-focused online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231M in cash and stock; TradeZero had ~$80M in revenue over the 12 months ended June 30 (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026
Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal agree to sell payments company Moneris to PE firm Francisco Partners for CA$2B in cash, splitting proceeds equally (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/f…