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Frontier AI Goes Federal: How the Great American AI Act Compares to State Laws
https://fpf.org/blog/frontier-ai-goes-federal-how-the-great-american-ai-act-compares-to-state-laws/
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Feeling this one hard.
[via my old friend, Martin_FFF]

The #Proba3 mission’s Coronagraph spacecraft and its main scientific instrument, ASPIICS, are both at full health, ready to resume routine formation flying operations and deliver more breathtaking artificial eclipses: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/We_re_back_Proba-3_ready_for_more_science

Pride parade in #Buffalo yesterday.
Awesome performances in floats. Great community support. It’s nice when people aren’t bigots.
Lots of corporate, political involvement. Branded rainbow swag nobody needed.
This gamelan float is how I discovered there’s an org in Buffalo:

'Wasserfall' #FotoVorschlag 'Waterfall'
Some locations came to my mind when I read the topic this morning and my wife immediately mentioned that location. This is probably one of my best photos.
The water flooded over the stairs on the right, creating a lot of little waterfalls. Luckily I did bring my tripod and a considerable amount of time so that I could tak…

Now, I have a lot of reasons to hate vibe coding, but one of them is that I just think more easily in code. I reason by writing the code. It's not something I can easily disentangle.
Architectures tend to live in my head as pictures that change as I write. The words are code. There's no intermediate. So the offer of being able to skip the poc phase is just not interesting. "Oh, cool, I can skip the part where I preemptively identify problems? Great. That's gonna work out well." Vibe coding can give you working proof of concepts that self destruct when you try to grow them (much like any poc code you just try to use without actually engineering).
I don't know that this problem will ever get fixed. Even if it does, I don't know that this fix will ever rival human engineering. I don't think it's actually possible to know that yet, there are too many factors at play. It's definitely lowered the bar for writing proof of concepts. Now a business idiot can make a proof of concept, which even further distorts their understanding of what engineering actually looks like.
In order to go back to work, I'm basically expected to be ramped up on LLM stuff. But it all keeps reminding me of the feeling of powerlessness when we organized against Trump, when we organized against the rally at UW, when I tried to stop someone from pepperspraying people and I got shot. It's all the same ideology of rapists and pedophiles forcing their entire world on us against our will, thinking they can dangle "the Epstein files" in front of everyone and then yank them away like nothing ever happened... Like no one knows they implicate the entire power structure.

It's #TacoTuesday 🌮
Trump announced that he will suspend his threatened bombing of Iran’s energy infrastructure and bridges for ...(wait for it) ... two weeks.
The New York Times is reporting that Iran has accepted Pakistan’s two-week cease-fire proposal following frantic diplomatic efforts.
The newspaper quotes Iranian officials as saying the ceasefire was approved by the new sup…

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli, independent journalist extraordinaire.
Russia loses momentum, but even a falling giant can hurt you if it falls on top of you.
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The Corridor Cracks: How Ukraine Is Strangling Russia’s Road to Crimea
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Mixtape (Multi, XPd on PC)
"On their last night of high school, three friends embark on one more adventure together. Play through a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation.
Skate. Party. Avoid the law.
Make out. Sneak out. Hang out."
This is the 2nd game from Beethoven & Dinosaur, following the excellent The Artful Escape, so I had high hopes for it. These hopes were not dashed. As someone that also "came of age" in the 90s, …

The search for the liquid-liquid critical point in supercooled water is challenging
owing to rapid crystallization.
We studied supercooled water at timescales before ice formation
by heating high- and low-density amorphous ices
using infrared ultrafast laser pulses,
followed by x-ray scattering.
By varying the pump laser fluence,
we accessed liquid states straddling the predicted critical point.
We observed a crossover from a discontinuous t…