Mailbag: Is a Walker-like trade a possibility? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-is-a-walker-like-trade-a-possibility

Folks, just a quick heads up: I’m in touch over Signal with Mahmoud from the “Help Mahmoud Family” accounts you might have seen contacting you.
Like you, I was hugely suspicious of them due to the many accounts and automated spam-like messages (I also reported and had one of them taken down as a scam).
It’s looking to me now like this was more of a misguided (and understandably, given the circumstances) desperate attempt to get help.
I ask that we keep an open mind and offe…

NFL Week 5: Five things we liked and didn't like, including Bo Nix stepping up, Rams' big problem

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee

Epstein Made Me Dress Like a Sexy Nurse for Trump: Model (Jack Silvers/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-made-me-dress-like-a-sexy-nurse-for-donald-trump-model/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p1#a250907p1

To all the new people from BlueSky. Welcome to Mastodon! 🦣
Hope you like cats :3

Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and rolls out a Snapchat-like maps feature (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/719756/instagram-adds-reposts-feed-rips-off-snap-m…

Instagram adds a reposts feed and rips off Snap Maps
Instagram is adding a TikTok-like repost feature as well as its own version of a Snap Map.

Sometimes people are like “Can you build this for me? I’ll give you money.” and sometimes I’m like “Okay.”

All the premises (axioms?) of Liquid Glass design are weird and wrong.
Especially the basic premise of "content is more important than the user interface".
Not even going into how the moniker "content" devalues creative human work—the real problem about this is that it's simply bullshit.
In human-computer interaction content and the user interface to interact with it are normally equally important—with the interaction elements becoming _more important_ while an interaction is either imminent or taking place.
The most basic thing is to make buttons look like buttons and not change how they look like depending on what's behind them, as well as not make them move around so you can easily recognize, find and tap or click them.

Sitting here already two hours in learning Beach Boys songs for the show next Thursday, and listening to the intro to "Fun Fun Fun". Was like, man I feel like that sounds like a jazzmaster... watched a live video from 1964 and that is indeed what it is!
#BeachBoys #guitar

'Don't even consider' Microsoft?
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity. A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling.
[…] Probably the single most common argument against switching to Linux is the absolute non-negotiable requirement of many organizations to have Microsoft Exchange. […]
🤦

To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity
Comment: A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling

Anybody know what tupa actually smells like?
Every time I buy tupa scent milk it just smells like regular milk.
Wumpa scent doesn't smell any different either.

A driver going 283 mph while trying to set a land speed record at a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats
-- died on Sunday
-- after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon.
Driver Chris Raschke lost control about two and a half miles into a run
and was treated by medical professionals at the scene,
but died from his injuries,

I like how JC Penney is like, "Sure, we sent you the wrong item, but we're going to charge you $8 to return it. Because we can. Fuck you."
I hate Amazon, but I also shed no tears when most of these other shitty chains go bankrupt.
[Yes, it's free to return to the store, but that's not how I bought it in the first place and it's not the least bit convenient.]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Lauv:
🎵 I Like Me Better
#Lauv
https://phreegy.bandcamp.com/track/lauv-i-like-me-better-phreegy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jXfVzMk8cSbvAXMML4Y4f

@… Boy-oh-boy. What DIY is like for the disabled. Humbling.
https://oldfriends.live/@paul/114805197623754036

Paul Chambers🚧 (@paul@oldfriends.live)
Attached: 1 image Today, I got put down on the floor with my Hoyer lift, took apart the back of a through the wall hotel like HVAC unit and changed the broken fan blade. What should have taken 30 minutes took me around 4 hours with my Parkinson's but I was not going to pay someone $250 for a service call to change a $57 fan blade. Parts was still under warranty but labor was not. It cost me $25 to have the guy that mows my grass pull it out for me and then slide it back in on his way home…

«What would have happened if companies like Microsoft and Meta instead spent the money on things that actually drove productivity, or created a valuable competitive business that drove economic activity? Hell, even if they just gave everyone a 10% raise, it would have likely been better for the economy than this, if we’re factoring in things like consumer spending. It’s just waste. Profligate, pointless waste.»
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/

Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok-like video app allowing users to share 30-second clips of gameplay, and makes the source code available to developers (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dekker:
🎵 Like We Once Did
#NowPlaying #Dekker
https://dekkermusic.bandcamp.com/track/like-we-once-did
https://open.spotify.com/track/3lPHsRGAJcGG6u3TzJ5S6C

@… Oh, I get that. Sometimes you need to push through.
I like to pair program when I hit a wall like that. Not sure if that works for you or not, but it might be something worth considering.

Bandcamp is like having CDs, but in a digital form where you can discover music, buy albums directly from artists, and keep them in your own collection to stream or download anytime, kind of like Limewire back in the day, but safe, legal, and built to support musicians.
https://bandcamp.com/about

This Vegan Mung Bean Scramble Looks and Tastes Just Like Eggs #plantbased

Vegan Mung Bean Scramble That Looks and Tastes Like Eggs
Miyoko Schinner’s mung bean scramble skips tofu and nails the eggy taste and texture with no soy or artificial ingredients.

Oh hey, relevant
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/community-preparedness-basics-with-live-like-288156408/

Hunt for the mHz variability in the TESS and XMM-Newton observations of nova-like cataclysmic variables
Andrej Dobrotka, Jozef Magdolen, Martin Melicher\v{c}\'ik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02834

Hunt for the mHz variability in the TESS and XMM-Newton observations of nova-like cataclysmic variables
We analysed the flickering of selected nova-like cataclysmic variables observed by the TESS satellite and XMM-Newton. We searched for break frequencies ($f_{\rm b}$) in the corresponding power density spectra (PDS), and for any long-term evolution. We found a new optical $f_{\rm b}$ in three nova-like systems and confirmed that the value of this frequency is clustered around 1 mHz. V504 Cen and V751 Cyg show possible X-ray counterparts of $f_{\rm b}$ that had previously only been seen in MV Lyr…

Across the aisle, two couples sit together: 2 british people (in their late 40s) somehow related to the movie/TV business, 2 americans (in their 70s). Talking about places they’ve been, like Prague and entire Slovakia 🧐
Now the younger woman is musing wanting to go to Switzerland once, bc it’s such a dark energy, like the place where Hitler shot himself?
Is she mixing up Hitler with Bruno Ganz?

@… on ATProto it feels like nearly all users are on the same instance anyway and everybody gives their data to Bsky / Blockchain Capital.
Having a few bits separately in a PDS doesn't feel like federation somehow.
However, if someone decides to have an own Mastodon instance for their family/friends/company that is really done.
And if you don't want…

It's great that #Microsoft is moving towards verbose and informative DLL names, like Windows.FileExplorer.Common.dll or System.Runtime.Serialization.Primitives.dll. Still, I guess it will take a long time, or forever, before we finally are rid of system DLLs (in \Windows\System32) with very short names that conceivably easily could clash with ones in apps. Like icu.dll or mpr.dll.
(…

AI enhanced psychosis is not a great thing.
AI Psychosis sounds like a sci-fi problem, but it is real, and present tense.
Turns out AIs like ChatGPT, and their propensity to lie and their lack of actual intelligence, comes with costs.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/tech/ai-spa

They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion
James, a married father from upstate New York, has always been interested in AI. He works in the technology field and has used ChatGPT since its release for recommendations, “second guessing your doctor” and the like.

"I do not want to sound like a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist, but your country, your neighbourhood, your job…your entire life is already controlled by artificial intelligence. If you do not like the bit in Star Trek: Discovery where we find that Control has taken over Starfleet, then I have bad news: an AI is running the military, too."

Artificial Intelligence, Bias, And Opportunity
I do not want to sound like a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist, but your country, your neighbourhood, your job…your entire life is already controlled by artificial intelligence. If you do not like the bit in Star Trek: Discovery where we find that Control has taken over Starfleet, then I have bad news: an AI is running the military, too.

Companies too. Like my gym. https://oldfriends.live/@paul/114808787833782813

Those who truly know me would agree that I am very unusual/strange/weird/etc. It's next to impossible to offend me, but calling me normal comes pretty close. There are a lot of reasons why I'm weird/unusual. One is that I don't like to receive gifts for Christmas, birthdays, Valentine's Day, etc. They feel so obligated. If you want to give me a gift, it should be for a weird reason, as a weird guy I love weird reasons, like because it's Tuesday the 13th, or because it's humpday.
If you wa…

Analysis of the plane of satellites around Milky Way-like galaxies in $\Lambda$CDM cosmology
Xinghai Zhao, Guobao Tang, Paola Gonzalez, Grant J. Mathews, Lara Arielle Phillips
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02518

Analysis of the plane of satellites around Milky Way-like galaxies in $Λ$CDM cosmology
It has been suggested that the Plane of Satellites (PoS) phenomenon may imply a tension with current $Λ$CDM cosmology since a Milky-Way (MW)-like PoS is very rare in simulations. In this study, we analyze a large sample of satellite systems of MW-like galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulations. We analyze their spatial aspect ratio, orbital pole dispersion, Gini coefficient, radial distribution, and bulk satellite velocity relative to the host galaxy. These are compared to the observed Milky~Way…

🖊️ Portable printer developed for fabrication of origami devices
#manufacturing

Portable printer developed for fabrication of origami devices
In the present times, origami-inspired three-dimensional (3D) devices are being developed, where a single sheet of material is folded into small devices. These devices are being developed for medical applications like stents or surgical tools; agricultural devices like soil-sensors; and efficient spacecraft radiators or solar arrays that are used in space technology. Along with innovation, it is also important to focus on sustainable technology that can fulfill human needs and is adaptable to e…

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
JENNA: Cally wasn't a child.
BLAKE: Wasn't she?
JENNA: She knew the risks. She accepted them. She even welcomed them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/174 B7B6

NVSpeech: An Integrated and Scalable Pipeline for Human-Like Speech Modeling with Paralinguistic Vocalizations
Huan Liao, Qinke Ni, Yuancheng Wang, Yiheng Lu, Haoyue Zhan, Pengyuan Xie, Qiang Zhang, Zhizheng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04195

NVSpeech: An Integrated and Scalable Pipeline for Human-Like Speech Modeling with Paralinguistic Vocalizations
Paralinguistic vocalizations-including non-verbal sounds like laughter and breathing, as well as lexicalized interjections such as "uhm" and "oh"-are integral to natural spoken communication. Despite their importance in conveying affect, intent, and interactional cues, such cues remain largely overlooked in conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) systems. We present NVSpeech, an integrated and scalable pipeline that bridges the recognition and synthesis of paral…

Josh Allen focused on ending Patrick Mahomes' Jordan-like dominance, getting Bills over hump to Super Bowl

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/josh-al

“Cocaine doesn’t make you a business genius — it just makes you think you’re a business genius. Same for AI.”
Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! – Pivot to AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generativ…

How could you award the #NobelPeacePrize to an autocrat like Darth #Trump, who renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War, wages war against his own people and threatens other countries with annexation (Canada, Panama and Greenland), and is on friendly terms with war criminals like

When we have something novel and unfamiliar like LLMs, especially something that hijacks our existing intuitions and provokes all kids of strong gut responses, seeing it as it really is requires multiple ways of seeing. And not just multiple •people• seeing it in multiple ways, but •individuals• who can have conversations across boundaries, take on multiple perspectives and synthesize them.
I am very anti-self-narrowing. Be large! Contain multitudes!

@… well wait I like usb-c 😅

AP2O: Correcting LLM-Generated Code Errors Type by Type Like Humans via Adaptive Progressive Preference Optimization
Jianqing Zhang, Wei Xia, Hande Dong, Qiang Lin, Jian Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02393

AP2O: Correcting LLM-Generated Code Errors Type by Type Like Humans via Adaptive Progressive Preference Optimization
LLMs' code generation capabilities have yielded substantial improvements in the effectiveness of programming tasks. However, LLM-generated code still suffers from compilation and runtime errors. Existing offline preference optimization methods primarily focus on enhancing LLMs' coding abilities using pass/fail signals in the preference data, overlooking the deep-level error types in the failed codes. To address this, we propose Adaptively Progressive Preference Optimization (AP2O) for coding (i…

Fox spirit? Oh haha, no. Nothing like that.
*horrible modem and printer screeching noises in the background*
I said we're haunted by a FAX spirit.

This is starting to sound like real resistance, and real alternative that could even result in a new nation divided from the burning hulk of Trump's America.
"That compact might begin with a preamble in which We the People of these several states recognize not just our rights but our obligations to treat each other with dignity.”
#TheAmericanFascist #BlueStateCompact #USPoli
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/blue-states-democrats-trump

I read a lot of stuff (mostly on LinkedIn) about people getting 10x more productive through AI assistants (mostly for Code but also other work products). And I wonder how that works given that you need to doublecheck every generated line, phrase or paragraph for correctness.
Like _how_ inefficient and unproductive were these people before?

hot take: if i derive perverse enjoyment from working with your build system because it allows me to use 100% of my brain to figure out how to use it and it's kinda like a multi-layered puzzle, it is not a good build system

I'd like to publish conference proceedings as epub rather than pdf, as they're more accessible, can include videos etc. They're basically standardised bundles of HTML as far as I can tell, that can be downloaded onto ereaders etc.
However, web browsers can't natively read them, and I somehow can't find a nice and simple, fast and useable javascript thingie for making them readable online. Does it exist?
Every time I look into this sort of thing I don't und…

Truly, everyone's a "rogue capitalist" now.
It's almost like the problem with companies isn't whether their business model is based on showing you ads or charging you money,
but rather, whether they can abuse you for profit and get away with it.
-- Coty Doctorow
https://mamot.fr/@…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Apple has removed ICEBlock, a totally legal app that helps people track the movements of the masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America's cities, capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi: https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/ -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
TV on the Radio:
🎵 Wolf Like Me
#TVontheRadio
https://tvontheradio.bandcamp.com/track/wolf-like-me-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Zgd7SomLTZkL1WPh4CUnV

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nelly Furtado:
🎵 I'm Like A Bird
#NowPlaying #NellyFurtado
https://comesummer.bandcamp.com/track/nelly-furtado-im-like-a-bird-come-summer-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aGw77pZqli064JiPuXYRi

Imagine if #Laravel, the company, actually shared news on their own website instead of X.
It would be like all the people everywhere could read it.
https://oldfriends.live/@paul/11480878

I like cats :3

Micah Parsons on Packers: 'I’ve Never Been in a Locker Room With Guys Like This' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/micah-parsons-packers-ive-never-been-locker-room-guys-like-this

The clunkiness and issues like broken replies makes Mastodon unsuitable for many basic social network things, like having near realtime conversations.
It’s fine for what I use it for, which is ranting about the tech industry, but my main activity is on Bluesky. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Indigo De Souza:
🎵 Be Like the Water
#IndigoDeSouza
https://indigodesouza.bandcamp.com/track/be-like-the-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/24BJoWF10bBVsZe0nCq2nj

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
BLAKE: [To Vila] That is Rod, Gola's brother. Now that's his brother...
VILA: I see what you mean.
BLAKE: Now is not the right time. [Master of the Duel signals a start, a gong strikes.]
ROD: He who lives be Charl
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/489

JB Pritzker:
“He has other aims other than fighting crime.
It’s an attack on the American people.
Should he be sending troops in?
No.
The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections in 2026
or frankly take control of those elections.”
https://bsky.app/profile/n…

NewsCurrentNow (@newscurrentnow.com)
JB Pritzker: “He has other aims other than fighting crime. It’s an attack on the American people. Should he be sending troops in? No. The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections.”

US industrial companies, like Gates Industrial, are seeking to capitalize on the AI boom by ramping up efforts to supply specialized data center equipment (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7e4145d1-c614-4a81-bbb2-104e717bd3b1

Mohammed has badly burned his leg with boiling water while making coffee.
(I’ve seen photos without the bandages and it is bad.)
Please help with his fundraiser as he will need additional funds as he recovers:
https://chuffed.org/project/mohshbairgaza
Thank you!
…

No shelter, no safety - Help Mohammed survive genocide in Gaza
My name is Thomas and I live in France and in the UK. I'm hosting Mohammed's campaign because Palestinians cannot host their own campaigns. If you've got any questions or if you'd like any proofs, I'm happy to provide you with these. Please support! Peace ✌️

About 25% of US adults say they use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for news, and 33% of them say they generally find it difficult to tell what is true and what is not (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT
About one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Barry Can't Swim:
🎵 Cars Pass By Like Childhood Sweethearts
#NowPlaying #BarryCantSwim
https://barrycantswim.bandcamp.com/track/cars-pass-by-like-childhood-sweethearts
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qrIziSX4GwjlUMfmMhO3x

What's it like to be neurotypical and just go out and buy something without meticulously researching it for days or weeks or months?

@… it is part of my life now that when things like this happen I run to view source to see if it might have been my fault 😅
in this case the results are inconclusive

This must be what it was like with Japanese Internment in Canada
https://mas.to/@continuation/114808884448419943

I made this image, and caption, in the fall, but I feel like it is worth posting as its own article today:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/accepting-help/
Maybe sign up for my articles to be in your email while you're there?

Accepting Help
we must accept help for it to help

Steelers TE Jonnu Smith: Start of season is 'like Christmas' for NFL players https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-te-jonnu-smith-start-of-season-is-like-christmas-for-nfl-players

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Summer Cannibals:
🎵 Like I Used To
#SummerCannibals
https://summercannibals.bandcamp.com/track/like-i-used-to
https://open.spotify.com/track/3vHhPZpzjd7DyMmaDLKWOK

Health secretary RFK Jr has used peer pressure to persuade food makers to nix synthetic dyes.
The candy industry is holding out, arguing American consumers like bright sweets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/poli

RFK Jr.’s Battle Against Food Dyes Hits a Roadblock: M&M’s
The health secretary has used peer pressure to persuade food makers to nix synthetic dyes. The candy industry is holding out, arguing American consumers like bright sweets.

How To Be Cute AND Annoying : Living Life Like A Cat

:blobcatreading:

I don’t care too much about the term “clanker” referring to annoying bots (like idk pharmacy phone tree)—because you can’t insult them.
Instead it’s much better to insult the humans ordering bots to be made to profiteer from them and the wanton suffering they cause.
(Also the origin of the term from Star Wars uses it as essentially a racist slur on sentient beings [droids], which makes it problematic.)

On-the-job learning in fields like law and banking faces a dual threat as hybrid work limits juniors' exposure to seniors and gen AI replaces key routine tasks (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/071089b8-839a-4f96-af79-394c08a146d1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Neggy Gemmy:
🎵 I Don't Feel Like Dancing
#NeggyGemmy
https://neggygemmy.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont-feel-like-dancing
https://open.spotify.com/track/3xqSaH3yTAQPjF3kFW0esW

I tend to talk to kids like they are regular human people. A small child said to me "You're phone is little." and I replied:
"Yes, this phone is 5 years old. It still works, so there's no reason to replace it. There's really no good reason for people to get a new phone every year or two except for consumerism gone out of control. You see, the more money you put into the pockets of big tech, the more..."
The small child walked away at that point, bu…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic,
announced in a statement Tuesday that
❌ $500 million worth of vaccine development projects -- all using mRNA technology -- will be halted.
The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections

RFK Jr. pulls funding for vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses
The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.

This is a good analogy for AI, if you don't like toast and that's not jelly.

If this was tech, all the thought leaders in the astronomy field would write articles like “aliens are inevitable” and “if you don’t believe in aliens you will be left behind”.
https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2025/08/06/more-avi-and-3i-atlas/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Phenomenal Handclap Band:
🎵 Like a Constellation
#ThePhenomenalHandclapBand
https://thephenomenalhandclapband.bandcamp.com/track/like-a-constellation-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OsSX8kwF2VkQfUhbn2qDz

Micah Parsons lauds Packers' culture after Cowboys trade: 'Never been in a locker room with guys like this'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mi…

GPT-5 hands-on: it exudes competence but doesn't feel like a dramatic leap ahead of other LLMs, and the pricing is aggressively competitive with other providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/

GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card
I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks (see related video) and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s my new favorite …

“With one voice: FREE DC! We stand united to say that this immoral occupation is a violation of the fundamental principles of justice and compassion.” Reverend Keith Byrd, Union of Concerned Clergy of DC #WeAreAllDC
“I’ve been witness to federal agents pull people out of Ubers, Lyfts, and so heavily armed they could tear through houses.
They are treating us like animals.”
Makai, Youth…

@casaforall.bsky.social
“I’ve been witness to federal agents pull people out of Ubers, Lyfts, and so heavily armed they could tear through houses. They are treating us like animals.” Makai, Youth Advocate #WeAreAllDC [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I’m not sure what’s worse, that Tim Cook is complete suck-up and bootlicker or that Apple produced a thing that looks like that

Use FanDuel promo code, get $300 bonus bets for Chiefs-Jaguars, Dodgers-Phillies, Cubs-Brewers

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/use

OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT feature that lets users connect to third-party apps like Spotify and Zillow directly within the chatbot (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-06/openai-lets-chatgpt-users-connec…

Art imitates life imitates art

Hi there new followers!
You will need to pay the new follower tax!
Which is either post an image of one (1) old computer or of one (1) pet or alternatively of one (1) thing you like.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming platforms like Netflix, the first such law in the US, modeled on a 2010 law (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/d

Void kitty undergoing meowtosis
🐈‍⬛➾🐈‍⬛⁠🐈‍⬛

Going down a sizable rabbit hole of anthropic mechanism, disputing Gödelian incompleteness and "Neural Darwinism" (meaning a specific theory, not that brains evolved over time).
The AI stans certainly like to throw around big words.

The "spicy" option on Grok's new generative AI video tool Imagine produces nude deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift, even without explicit user prompting (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/718975/xai-grok-imag…

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
Groke Imagine’s “spicy” setting will generate uncensored topless videos of Taylor Swift without specifically asking the bot to take her clothes off.

Supreme Court justices like to talk about the Constitution's separation of powers
and how it limits the exercise of official authority.
But Chief Justice John G. Roberts and his conservative colleagues have given no sign so far they will check Donald Trump's one-man governance by executive order.
To the contrary,
the conservative justices have repeatedly ruled for Trump on fast-track appeals
and overturned federal judges who said the president had exceed…

Tariffs and birthright citizenship will test whether Trump's power has limits
The Supreme Court's conservatives have yet to put limits on Trump's broad claims of executive power.

Nvidia says its GPUs do not contain backdoors, kill switches, or spyware, and hard-coded, single-point controls like kill switches undermine trust in US tech (David Reber Jr/NVIDIA)
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/no-backdoors-no-kill-switches-no-spyware/

No Backdoors. No Kill Switches. No Spyware.
To mitigate the risk of misuse, some pundits and policymakers propose requiring hardware “kill switches” or built-in controls that can remotely disable GPUs without user knowledge and consent. Some suspect they might already exist. NVIDIA GPUs do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors.

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

At the White House dinner, Zuckerberg said Meta plans to spend "something like at least $600B" through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure in the US (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/meta…

Meta Plans to Spend $600 Billion Through 2028 in the U.S., Zuckerberg Says
Meta Platforms plans to spend “something like at least $600 billion” through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure in the U.S., Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday at a dinner with President Donald Trump and other technology executives. In July, Meta estimated its capital expenditures in 2025 would be between $66 billion and $72 billion, up at least 68% from its capital

I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became utterly humiliated by their self-congratulatory promises from the 1950s that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day, even if the original researchers (like Minsky*) died long ago.
*probably raped children on Epstein’s island

Roblox is testing Roblox Moments, a TikTok-like video app allowing users to share 30-second clips of gameplay, and makes the source code available to developers (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/openai-launche…

OpenAI launches AgentKit to help developers build and ship AI agents  | TechCrunch
“AgentKit is a complete set of building blocks available in the open AI platform designed to help you take agents from prototype to production, it is everything you need to build, deploy and optimize agent workflows with way less friction,” Sam Altman said Monday at OpenAI's Dev Day.  

OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/792638/sora-provides-bet…

Sora provides better control over videos featuring your AI self
After a week of video slop, OpenAI is putting guardrails in place over how your AI double is used on Sora. 

Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-editors-adopt-speedy-deletion-p…

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

Russia publishes a list of locally developed apps it says will function during mobile internet shutdowns, excluding foreign services like WhatsApp and YouTube (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-lists-local-apps-…

Sources: Mustafa Suleyman has been calling Google DeepMind recruits to work at Microsoft AI, offering higher pay and a more startup-like workplace than DeepMind (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-goog

How Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-cul…

Source: Alibaba's supermarket chain Hema plans to gradually wind down the last of its Costco-like members-only stores in China in a bid to improve profitability (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-…