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Tokyo’s TeamLab, creator of popular immersive art wonderlands, to open SoCal location
TeamLab,
the Japan-born, tech-heavy immersive art collective,
is plotting its first permanent U.S. exhibition in Anaheim.
The group, stylized as teamLab, is moving into a 110,000-square-foot space at OCVibe,
the 100-acre mixed-use entertainment district currently in development near the Honda Center.
Details are scant, as the TeamLab spot is not estimated to open until…

Reagan | Food, Travel & Experiences in OC, LA, IE, SD & Beyond! on Instagram: "BREAKING: Tokyo’s teamLab is officially coming to ANAHEIM!! 🇯🇵✨ Just announced today: the world-famous art collective teamLab, founded in Tokyo in 2001, will open its first permanent U.S. museum at OCVIBE, the 100-acre sports, entertainment and arts district being built next to the Honda Center. Why this is such a big deal: ✨ It is a brand-new exhibition created specifically for Anaheim, not a traveling version of the Tokyo museums ✨ The building itself is purpose-built and designed around the art by architecture firm smith-clementi ✨ teamLab’s only permanent museums right now are in Japan, China and Saudi Arabia. The U.S. has never had one ✨ At their Tokyo museums there is no map and no set route. The artworks wander from room to room, and at their tea house, a flower blooms inside your actual cup of tea 📍 OCVIBE, 2610 E Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA 92806 🗓️ Opening 2030 2030 sounds far away, but people plan entire trips to Japan around this. And it’s going to be in our backyard. #teamlab #teamlabanaheim #ocvibe #anaheim #orangecounty"
2,757 likes, 189 comments - reags.reviews on October 29, 2026: "BREAKING: Tokyo’s teamLab is officially coming to ANAHEIM!! 🇯🇵✨ Just announced today: the world-famous art collective teamLab, founded in Tokyo in 2001, will open its first permanent U.S. museum at OCVIBE, the 100-acre sports, entertainment and arts district being built next to the Honda Center. Why this is such a big deal: ✨ It is a brand-new exhibition created specifically for Anaheim, not a traveling version of the…

Memo: People Inc. is laying off 195 employees, or ~6% of its headcount, mostly in print and legacy web, and says it has added 320 employees so far in 2026 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/people-inc-lays-off-195-employees-around-6-of-h…

People Inc. Lays Off 195 Employees, Around 6% of Headcount
Most cuts hit print and legacy web as the publisher shifts investment toward new bets like social video

So here's #Greenpeace, responding to a data release by the Chinese government with...nothing but praise.
Zero mention of any issues related to #labor or #humanrights issues in

Playing around with a new #collation app for the #PTA which will be much more flexible and more potent than our current approach with #CollateX and a JupyterNotebook.

Pete Hegseth has always assumed that experts are idiots,
believed he’s the smartest guy around,
and as a result ignores them and ends up breaking stuff (and failing in the process).
The entire Trump administration’s motto mirrors Mark Zuckerberg’s adage to
“move fast, break things,”
in this case literally.
Hegseth’s aggression, recklessness and blatant disregard for expertise is nothing new.
When he served as a 1st Lieutenant in Iraq in 2005-2006, …

Move fast, break things
The failures of Trump 2.0, encapsulated in a broken globe.

Whatever you do, don't tell anyone.
Had a song spinning around in my head this morning. Could not remember the songs title or the band. Had to crawl back through a few days of Mastodon posts to see an image to remind myself – that Queens of the Stone Age have a new album out today.

I keep beating this drum, but...
It's.... Interesting that we're having an entire conversation about "AI alignment" when Sam Altman and Darius Amodei have flat out said that their goal is to make paperclips out of everything even if the human race goes extinct in the process.
Oh I'm sorry, dollars. They're making dollars, not paperclips. That changes everything, clearly.
...
What's more insidious is that even if you Luigi'd Altman and Amodei tomorrow, OpenAI and Anthropic would happily elect new leaders and continue with business as usual. There is no shortage of humans willing to step up and run the paperclip machines and who have the same misalignment issue (they're not actually a large percentage of humans, mind, but there are plenty of them). So the thing you have you defeat in order to stop the paperclipization is in fact a corporation (and the idea that wealth makes right behind it), not a human.
It's almost as if we're *already* locked in an existential battle with an inhuman entity whose effective goals are dangerously misaligned by nature... 🤔
...
I wonder if the same techniques used to defeat the entity already threatening us would work against the hypothetical threat it's waving around to distract us? Only one way to find out!
#AI #LLMs

Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-sh

Microsoft shuts the door on The Garage, the central program behind its hackathon and maker spaces
Microsoft is winding down The Garage, the 17-year-old program behind its Global Hackathon and employee maker spaces, according to an internal FAQ. Some Garage spaces could be restricted to employees as early as Friday, and Microsoft says the hackathon team is reimagining the event.

At this point, I started to look deeper at performance. Compute instance startup was taking over 30 seconds, and each generation propagation was about 55-75 seconds
I worked this from a few angles:
- parallelize actions (health checks, integrity checks, propagation initiation, and terminating ancestors) [30% gain]
- rebuild and reduce the AMI below Ubuntu minimal to fit in 2GiB EBS volumes (reduced cost and increased speed by also bundling the glider daemon and boto3 SDK in the AMI) [30% gain]
- switched from AWS CLI to boto3 SDK [5-10% gain]
- switched from CloudFormation creation stacks to using EC2 API directly with LaunchTemplate [under 5% gain total, surprisingly, but the time to initial instance startup is faster so I might be able to do better somewhere here]
- WIP: further refactoring of the daemon propagation steps especially around initial health/integrity checks
I still think I'm missing something major that's extending propagation times, despite benchmarking phases through several trials
I also optimized for cost (reduced DDB calls, abandoned KMS, reduced log & audit retention to the latest run, etc), and it's about a penny for a 10 generation run (and it scales sublinearly, mostly, since the instances are terminated afterwards)