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Oh no I just found out that one of my favorite Buddhist teachers has just gone all AI grifter
Tara Brach, WYD this is not the dharma

https://lnkd.in/p/gcynwNDX

Very niche goss in the spiritual business world: esteemed Buddhist teacher Tara Brach announced yesterday that she is launching "AvaTara" — a generative AI that has been trained on her vast catalog… | Amanda Baudier | 18 comments
Very niche goss in the spiritual business world: esteemed Buddhist teacher Tara Brach announced yesterday that she is launching "AvaTara" — a generative AI that has been trained on her vast catalog of teachings and can create custom meditations for the user... yikes. As you can imagine — there was lots of uproar in the spiritual / Buddhist community (including my own) which is not overwhelmingly friendly to the AI revolution. A thread I posted went so semi-viral that it inspired me to wr…

Jarvis Cocker, fundador y líder de Pulp, una de las mšs emblemšticas bandas del britpop, hoy celebra su cumpleaños 63. Nació en Sheffield el 19 de septiembre de 1963. ¡Larga vida, Jarvis!
#JarvisCocker #Pulp #CumpleañosRockero

Newly disclosed records reveal
the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations
and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.
Internal investigative reports show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent undercover agents to community meetings in the Twin Cities and New York City,
infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records of mainstream unions and le…

US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown

NFL news roundup: Packers sign LB Isaiah McDuffie to contract extension https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-monday-july-13

"Unter dem Strich beantwortet die Zahl die entscheidende Frage jedoch nicht: Wie hoch ist der tatsächliche Wasserverbrauch der Rechenzentren? Für mich hat diese Kommunikation deshalb den Charakter von Greenwashing: Amazon lenkt den Blick auf Kompensationsprojekte, statt den tatsächlichen Wasserverbrauch seiner Rechenzentren offenzulegen."
@… heute b…

An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026…

How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners
An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.

NFL news roundup: Commanders LT Laremy Tunsil to undergo surgery on torn triceps; Pats extend Hunter Henry https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-monday-aug-10

NFL news roundup: Giants signing QB Jameis Winston to two-year, $13 million extension https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-sunday-sept-6

Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/accel-backed-keenable-is-indexing-the-web-for-ai-agents…

Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents | TechCrunch
Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Saturday, Sept. 12 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-saturday-sept-12