Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress "on hold", fediverse, content moderation, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com…
Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress "on hold", fediverse, content moderation, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com…
Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok (Abbie Richards/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/racist-ai-generated-videos-are-newest-slop-garnering-millions-views-tiktok
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p101#a250701p101
Sources: Teams mulling trade offers for T.J. Watt https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45619446/sources-teams-mulling-trade-offers-steelers-tj-watt
✊ Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
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If people taking care of our elders get deported, will anyone take their place?
At a time where it seems fewer and fewer of us want to work in long-term care, the need has never been greater
So how will millions of aging Americans be able to afford care for physical and cognitive decline,
especially given Trump’s proposed cuts to Medicaid, which covers about two-thirds of nursing home residents?
And who will take care of those who don’t have family members who can …
MMReason: An Open-Ended Multi-Modal Multi-Step Reasoning Benchmark for MLLMs Toward AGI
Huanjin Yao, Jiaxing Huang, Yawen Qiu, Michael K. Chen, Wenzheng Liu, Wei Zhang, Wenjie Zeng, Xikun Zhang, Jingyi Zhang, Yuxin Song, Wenhao Wu, Dacheng Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23563
this was a plot point in vernor vinge's "rainbow's end" (2006), retroactively part of the expanded "torment nexus" universe apparently. https://code4lib.social/@dltj/114774949197817082