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OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act and Illinois SB 315, an AI safety bill to create requirements around transparency, incident reporting, and more (OpenAI Global Affairs)
https://openaiglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/intelligence-as-a-utility

Intelligence as a Utility
And, why we’re endorsing the Kids Online Safety Act

aus der spaziergehforschung:
"Walking as Embodied Research: Drift, Pause, Indirection"
https://www.routledge.com/Walking-as-Embodied-Research-Drift-Pause-Indirection/Ernsten-Shepherd/p/book/9781032039688

Everyone is prototyping (sometimes, instead of doing their actual jobs). But the amount of insights has not increased.
A prototype is a research tool. These prototypes just getting shopped around as demos to stakeholders. When they are used for research, it is only as a tool of confirmation bias.
And if the prototype didn't change any decisions, then it doesn't matter how fast you made it. It was waste.

Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn
We confuse prototypes with demos, and validation with confirmation bias. As a result, we cannot lead — instead, we are led.

Warriors And Wardens (Formerly Origin K9 Podcast)
Dedicated to sharing the emotional well-being and lived experience of the Military and First responder community from Australia and around the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/origin

The luxury resort planned by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner faces a new challenge from villagers who say their land was wrongfully sold by an accused gangster.
The president’s daughter and her husband plan to develop a $1.4 billion resort on the uninhabited island of Sazan in Albania, as well as a wider hotel development along the Zvërnec coastline worth around $4.7 billion.
Weeks of protests have raised concerns that the wildlife-rich area, with its flamingos and sea turtles, co…

Ivanka and Jared Project Ensnared by Fresh Scandal Involving Accused Mobster
A dozen villagers say their land was wrongfully sold for the development by a Miami man with alleged mobster ties.

duolingo been doing some wild worldbuilding lately

Memo: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro informs staff of layoffs; source: around 1,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated as the company unifies marketing (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Layoffs Hit Disney: 1,000 Jobs Cut as Josh D’Amaro Unveils Streamlining Push
"Given the fast-moving pace of our industries, this requires us to constantly assess how to foster a more agile and technologically-enabled workforce to meet tomorrow's needs," the CEO told staff Tuesday.

Pick-up-generated ion cyclotron waves around Io: #Io: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/iwf/aktuelles/layer/news/grazer-studie-erforscht-atmosphaere-des-jupitermondes-io

Instagram rolls out Instants, which lets users share ephemeral photos, as an in-app feature in Instagram and as a standalone app in select countries (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/13/meta-launches-instants-a-…

Meta launches Instants, a new iPhone app and Instagram feature for ephemeral sharing - 9to5Mac
Meta just launched a brand new iPhone app called Instants. Built around ephemeral photo sharing, the new social media app...

University of California’s frontline workers have canceled the
system-wide strike originally planned to begin on Thursday after reaching a tentative agreement with the UC on Wednesday night. 
These 42,000 service and patient care workers
— represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 (AFSCME)
— have worked without a ratified contract since 2024, due to “stalled” negotiations with the UC, according to union leadership.