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Current RSS reader now supports Feedly, and here's the absurd story behind it.
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/07/30/current-now-supports-feedly-in.html

Extreme dominance of Earth-origin heavy ions in the intense #RingCurrent near the Earth during the May 2024 super #GeomagneticStorm: #ionosphere supplied vast majority of ring current ions during May 2024 super geomagnetic storm, study finds: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/articles/earths-ionosphere-supplied-vast-majority-of-ring-current-ions-during-may-2024-super-geomagnetic-storm-study-finds/ - despite the dense solar wind, solar wind ion contributions to the ring current during the May 2024 superstorm were minimal; the first simultaneous observation of ring current ions and solar wind during a storm this large.

With the date intentionally mis-set, after taking the network down then up, FreeBSD froze in response to:
pkg upgrade -Fqy
Then a kernel panic.
No response to keyboard input, so I could not type 'continue' at the prompt:
db>
I took a snapshot of the guest in the panic state.
root@maximal:~ # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -mvKU
16.0-CURRENT
16.0-CURRENT
16.0-CURRENT
FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT main-n286271-ee41a882054c GENERIC-NODE…

"Current Rothko"
#Rothko for the current weather."
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The current crisis: What's happening to science in America https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/current-crisis-what-s-happening-science-america

https://www.space.com/astronomy/its-going-to-do-things-that-currently-are-impossible-the-roman-space-telescope-nasas-next-great-observatory-is-ready-to-launch-aug-30

My current LLM toolchain
#llm #ai

LLM Toolchain - June 2026 | Chris K Wensel
Notes on the current LLM development toolchain I am using in June.

Why "Dark Output", the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/ai-dark-output-the-visible-cost-of…

AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output
Why AI's increasing output is going to be one of the hardest economic measurement problems in history. AI "Dark Output" could end up being the majority of economic activity, but a challenge to measure

I’ve been working more lately to distinguish the •technology• of LLMs in the abstract from the •business model political project• of LLM products as they currently exist. People get those two things muddled. I have serious problems with both, but they’re not all the same problems, and it’s useful to distinguish!
This thread is about the latter.
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Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) is projected to lose her reelection bid to former attorney and current PhD student Melat Kiros, 
-- marking the third time that a democratic socialist has scored an upset in a competitive House primary this cycle,
according to Decision Desk HQ. 
Kiros, who studies at the University of Denver, defeated DeGette, 
who’s served in Congress since 1997 
— delivering a major blow to the Democratic establishment 
despite the fact that DeGe…