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We worry, quite rigthly, about the Gaza Genocide and Trump bombing ships on the high seas yet at the same time Sam Altman is doing systemic harm to the rest of the world unchecked.
"Pupils fear that using artificial intelligence is eroding their ability to study, with many complaining it makes schoolwork “too easy” and others saying it limits their creativity and stops them learning new skills, according to new research.
The report on the use of AI in UK schools, commissione…

🛰️ GPS technology reveals that football practices can be up to 40% more demanding than games
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-gps-technology-reveals-football-demanding.html

GPS technology reveals that football practices can be up to 40% more demanding than games
Until recently, there has been little data available on how much effort football players exert in games versus practices, which position groups run the most or how to balance loads in practice to best meet the needs of game day. New research from the University of Kansas is using global positioning system technology to provide those answers to coaches and trainers.

Just finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not

“Windows Copilot Serves At Best Half an Answer to Screen Reading Users”
https://theideaplace.net/windows-copilot-serves-at-best-half-an-answer-to-screen-reading-users/
Kelly Ford is unintentionally describing when a pattern in a…

Eine große Freude dieser Woche war, dass eine Person aus einem fernen Land es diese Woche geschafft hat, eine für sie sehr belastende psychische Erkrankung ihrer Dienstvorgesetzten mitzuteilen und ein Gespräch darüber anzuregen, wie sie weiter arbeiten kann. Per E-Mail und mit Unterstützung maschineller Übersetzung. #TechnologyDoesHelpSometimes

Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (Brooke Singman/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple…

Apple building American-made AI servers ahead of schedule in new Houston facility, answering Trump call
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American-made artificial intelligence servers in the United States — a move that has the technology giant answering President Donald Trump’s call to on shore manufacturing.

Anchor: Reducing Temporal and Spatial Output Performance Variability on Quantum Computers
Yuqian Huo, Daniel Leeds, Jason Ludmir, Nicholas S. DiBrita, Tirthak Patel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06172

Anchor: Reducing Temporal and Spatial Output Performance Variability on Quantum Computers
Quantum computing, which has the power to accelerate many computing applications, is currently a technology under development. As a result, the existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers suffer from different hardware noise effects, which cause errors in the output of quantum programs. These errors cause a high degree of variability in the performance (i.e., output fidelity) of quantum programs, which varies from one computer to another and from one day to another. Consequently,…

I was recently asked where I would see useful applications of CCS. My answer was: Cement🧱🪨 and Biomethane🐄🌱🏭
Most won't be surprised that I said Cement. Yet, Biomethane is not what people usually have in mind. But bear with me, it makes a lot of sense.
CCS is a controversial topic to begin with. That has a lot to do with the fact that many see it - often rightfully so - as a delay strategy by the fossil fuel🛢️ industry.

You want CCS, but cheaper and less controversial? Try Biomethane
Carbon capture technology is often associated with ideas of capturing CO₂ from power plants or industrial facilities like cement plants. Biomethane upgraders provide CO₂ that is easy to capture and less controversial than most other potential sources for CCS and also CCU. Yet, they are rarely part of the discussion.

We launched our product at work this week!
I don't usually post the marketingese, but I'm really proud of a lot of the work we've done and I really think our core technology is pretty cool.
Spice Labs is live. We’ve launched our Surveyor and Topographer products; available now at https://spicelabs.io.
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A deeper dive from our founder and CEO, David Pollak is at: https://lnkd.in/eSt8hAyX

“The day may come sooner than many expect when shareholders, directors and executives will demand evidence that the massive investment in LLM technology will generate an adequate return for them. The answer will be “no” for many, if not most”
(This isn’t from some mad poster, this guy has been a big shot VC since the 1980s.)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/24/ai-investors-llms