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OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/21/openai-calls-…

A Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot had no ammunition left, so jet wash it is. They flew dangerously close to a Russian Shahed drone, used the jet’s thurst to destabilize it and send the drone to the ground. Eat wake drone.
h/t @nickmelnick.bsky.social
#Ukraine #russia

Should the caption of this photo be: "I'm a fox and I vote" or "I'm a fur and I vote?"
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/andy-burnham-s-resounding-win-special-election-britain-photos-7…

Andy Burnham's resounding win in a special election in Britain, in photos
Labour’s Andy Burnham, the popular mayor of Greater Manchester, won a special election for a seat in Parliament and signaled Friday that he will use it to challenge embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer for leadership of the country.

Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor

Moving as metaphor
A few weeks ago, I and several others helped some friends of ours pack up their apartment into a truck in preparation for moving cross-country from Chicago to New York. It was, as such moments generally are, bitter sweet. It's always a good feeling to help out a friend, but when you're helping them get further away from you it's not as pleasant. Of course, me being me, what struck me most about the whole process was how well it served as a model for software development and project managemen…

Marvin Wildhage infiziert Medizin-Influenzerin Alina Walbrun mit Pinocchio-Krankheit
https://youtu.be/XEQsPeyiTjw
Diese reagiert in Story mit Gagen-Forderung, die er an Médecins sans Frontières spenden soll

Indian tricolor flying over the Rhode Island State House. (Yesterday was Indian independence day, and there was a gathering in front of the state house.) Didn't get to see whether the other dome was flying the PK flag. (-:

Newsom creates panel on AI safety regulation, suggests possible ‘kill switch’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday became the latest politician to push for stronger artificial intelligence regulations
following claims from AI experts that the technology could lead to widespread death and destruction.
Newsom issued an executive order for the creation of a panel to recommend safety rules,
including the development of a possible “kill switch” for AI programs that go …

Newsom creates AI safety panel, suggests possible 'kill switch'
Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the formation of a panel to come up with safety regulations for the state's AI companies, including the development of a possible 'kill switch' for programs that go rogue.

So disappointing. I admired what this director has done previously, and this 40 second “trailer” is almost unwatchable. Not a single character is there; there is no there there.
https://xcancel.com/NeillBlomkamp/status/2079078300660769193#m

Neill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp)
NIGHTBORNE is the first full test AI film I have made. It was made using Seedance 2.0. I've been experimenting with AI for a couple of years, and it's now at the point where I want to tackle a full feature in this format. This is a 13-minute test start. It was made with real concept artists, and features the faces and voices of 32 real people. Barley Studios will be my new AI studio for creating my own films, the way Oats Studios was for traditional film and VFX. @Barleystudiosai Full film…

Damn! spent the whole evening reading articles and not editing photos (as planned) ...
Ah well - then I invite you to a walk we did recently on a sunny day along some nice blooming bushes.
#hiking #flowers #outdoors

That feeling when you’ve got twice the number of followers on the fediverse as the closed-source VC-funded European social network being peddled by the EU Commission has accounts.
Hey, @…, y’all are so incompetent you can’t even do evil right.
Muppets.
@…

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ (@elena@aseachange.com)
[1 media attachment] Good morning Fedi friends. Is anybody curious about how the #WSocial experiment is going? You know, the private, for profit "European answer to X" endorsed by the European Commission, which is a fork of Bluesky and has quietly gone closed-source before its beta launch (à la #TruthSocial)? I've got numbers for you! Nearly two months in, W Social has almost the same number of accounts as #Eurosky... You know, the European fork of Bluesky that does NOT require government …