@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2026-07-16 19:38:37
Arena.ai reported this about the new Kimi-K3 model:
Weights are being open sourced on July 27.
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2026-07-16 19:38:37
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 20:13:07
Kimi-K3 is now #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5; the model scored 88.3 on Terminal Bench 2.1, only below GPT-5.6 Sol's 88.8 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinas-moon
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-08-17 02:56:01
@sncf_ligne_u@lepoulsdumonde.com2026-09-18 10:09:41
Période : en soirée
Date : le vendredi 18 septembre
Risque de forte affluence en gare de La Défense en soirée (concert Š la Plenitude Arena).
Dernier train de La Défense pour La Verrière: le VERI de 22h15.
Dernier train de Paris Montparnasse pour Rambouillet: le ROPO de 23h35.
Afin de voyager dans les meilleurs conditions, nous vous invitons Š anticiper vos déplacements.
Les horaires du calculateur d'itinéraire tiennent compte des travaux.
Motif …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-09 14:05:46
Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/char
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-09 14:50:54
Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/char
@sncf_ligne_u@lepoulsdumonde.com2026-09-16 12:00:24
Période : en soirée
Date : le mercredi 16 septembre Risque de forte affluence en gare de La Défense en soirée (concert Š la Plenitude Arena). Dernier train de La Défense pour La Verrière: le VERI de 22h15. Dernier train de Paris Montparnasse pour Rambouillet: le ROPO de 23h35. Afin de voyager dans les meilleurs conditions, nous vous invitons Š anticiper vos déplacements. Les horaires du calculateur d'itinéraire tiennent compte des travaux.
Motif : concert de Céline Dion.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-29 23:20:45
AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/arena-the-ai-leaderboar…
@krone@frawas.de2026-09-03 22:37:49
Auftakt am Dachstein - Die Ramsau wird wieder zur Arena für Vordenker #News #Nachrichten
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2026-09-08 11:34:25
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-22 04:11:22
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Boards of Canada:
🎵 Arena Americanada
#BoardsofCanada
https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/track/arena-americanada
https://open.spotify.com/track/43syeziBqARg4rYwHMxKcX
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-03 14:59:05
When Donald Trump once again backed down from a threatened military escalation against Tehran,
he offered fresh fodder to the narrative Iranian officials are eager to promote:
They are not the ones who fear war
— Mr. Trump is.
Iran’s leadership believes it has found the world’s Achilles’ heel.
With the help of regional militia allies, Tehran spent the past week underscoring
its ability to threaten several of the world’s most critical energy facilities and …
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-08-03 13:14:59
Good article, "For Iran, Trump’s Reversal on Escalation Shows Who Has the Upper Hand"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/world/middleeast/iran-trump-escalation.html?unlocked_article_code=…
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.de2026-07-01 13:29:25
POL-H: Verkehrs- und Sicherheitshinweise anlässlich des Helene Fischer Konzerts in der Heinz-von-Heiden-Arena Hannover (ots) - Die Polizei weist auf die zu erwartende Verkehrssituation anlässlich des Helene Fischer Konzerts im Rahmen der "360°Stadion Tour 2026" und stattfindender Parallelveranstaltungen hin und empfiehlt Besuchern, die vorhandenen "Park & ...
@domm@social.linux.pizza2026-06-20 10:18:10
#potd Fat Freddy's Drop @ Arena, open air, family outing; great gig playing Based On A True Story (and some more, including a Happy-Birthday-Interlude); RIP DJ MU aka Fitchie https://domm.plix.at/potd/2026-06-18.h
@Yogi77@hessen.social2026-07-14 16:30:48
Die Hütte ist voll. Wir freuen uns auf den Auswärtstripp nach Pforzheim! #EffectEnergyGFL #GFL #unicornsfootball #PFWvsSHU
@carloshr@lile.cl2026-08-27 23:16:27
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-26 20:56:07
Sources: Zuckerberg urged execs to explore Polymarket and Kalshi partnerships, as the Arena prediction app targets 100M monthly active "predictors" aged 18-34 (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/technology/zuckerberg-m…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-09-01 10:00:47
🔍 Review and analysis skills: interrogate (adversarial panel), arena (parallel candidates, graft the strongest parts), architect, how, why, swarm, blast-radius and reflect
✅ Verification covers project-local verification skills, periodic audits, #TDD bug fixing and a reviewable TSV decision trail for unattended or long-running work
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-11 16:22:46
Content warning: Long
Random thought that goes interesting places:
There are a lot of cheap ways to spend money to drastically improve the quality of life for lots of people (UBI, mosquito nets, digging wells, etc.). Those people almost invariably become way more economically productive in aggregate when this happens, far above the costs involved, if you measure from the perspective of the affected group. So for billionaires looking for outsized returns on investments, why not simply spend on some of these programs, then invest in a broad index of socks that are going to go up as a result?
The answer could be "billionaires by their nature are too evil to think of this," which, could be true....
But I think there's a deeper answer, which is that there *is no* bundle of stocks that goes up as humans flourish. This is directly contrary to neoliberal economic doctrine/propaganda, but it also has an explanation that's obvious from the neoliberal doctrine itself: the stock market is a gambling arena for bets on corporate profits. Corporate profits are money taken in in excess of costs. But the value of a corporation is not produced abstractly by the mere existence of the organization; it's produced by the labor of humans working for the organization, with raw materials that the organization purchases. So to make a profit, an organization has to do some combination of paying its workers less than the value the create, and/or paying less for it's raw materials than they are really worth. The more it does these two things, the more profit it can generate.
Notice that these two profit-generating activities directly and indirectly immiserate humans, *and* that reducing human misery by means other than reducing these activities makes them harder. People who have other means of income won't sell their labor for less than it's worth, nor will they sell their resources below their fair value. Only desperate people will agree to terms that corporations require to be profitable.
This is not a "Marxist analysis" by the way; it's the direct application of the basic principles taught in any neoliberal introductory macroeconomics class.
In any case, once we understand that the stock market is "gambling on how much corporations can exploit their employees/suppliers/customers", it's clear why you can't make money from stock investments in companies that profit from flourishing humans: profit is by construction made of human misery.
It also explains a lot of other things, like why private US employers who pay huge amounts of payroll towards health insurance for their employees would be *against* public health insurance that would offload those costs onto all taxpayers: the amount they're able to lower wages as a result of desperation for access to health care is more than worth the direct costs.
This is the central reason why capitalism (defined as: a system where money equals power) is inimical to human happiness: it allows profits built on suffering to be converted into the power to maintain the system of suffering and even extend and intensify it, creating a feedback loop of extractive domination.
Now I'm sure some people might read this and think: what about the good companies? The ones that pay their workers and suppliers a fair wage, and sell their products at fair prices? Even putting aside the fact that such a thing seems less believable than a unicorn these days, such a company by definition does not make a profit. The fair wage for its workers is the value they add to the raw materials it buys, and the fair price for those is the selling price of the finished product minus the value the company adds. The balance sheet will read exactly zero at the end of the day if compensation is actually fair. You can still run a company like this in theory, and even grow it, but of course under capitalism it will just get bought out by an unethical company that is profitable. Could you in some kind of utopian dream world run a tightly regulated series of markets where you have most of what people think capitalism is, without the bad parts? Maybe, but it definitely wouldn't involve actual capitalism, and it wouldn't have a stock market.
#anarchy #capitalism #econimics
@paulusm@scholar.social2026-08-27 14:54:21
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-arena-essex-tell-google-to-search-elsewhere
The unique former Arena Essex Raceway is a wildlife haven, home to hundreds of species of invertebrates- but under threat from a proposed Google data centre campus. Please sign to oppose this!
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-07-08 22:24:15
I bought my first Bethesda game (Arena) in the summer of 1994.
I won’t buy a Bethesda game ever again unless they’re no longer owned by Microsoft.
Microsoft is a company that poisons everything it touches. The way they treat their employees is despicable.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-23 16:51:52
Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/technology/meta-prediction-markets-app.html
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-09-01 01:00:07
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Boards of Canada:
🎵 Arena Americanada
#BoardsofCanada
https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/track/arena-americanada
https://open.spotify.com/track/43syeziBqARg4rYwHMxKcX
@arXiv_mathKT_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-06 08:53:05
Replaced article(s) found for math.KT. https://arxiv.org/list/math.KT/new
[1/1]:
- Localisation theorems for the connective K-theory of exact categories
Christoph Winges
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07170 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathKT_bot/115343286687751262
- K-theory of Weighted Blowups
Veronica Arena, Alessio Cela, Alberto Landi, Michele Pernice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22918 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAG_bot/116996498668891780
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-07-01 15:00:49
Judith Curry is possibly the most confusing and infuriating scientist in the entire climatological arena. She contributed to major understandings around the changes in the jet stream, the Arctic, and other processes that helped explain the impact climate change has already had on our day to day weather.
But then she left academia and essentially became a mouthpiece for Neo-denialism, claiming others were being “alarmist” and that while CO2 was the main cause, we really shouldn’t be spending money on reducing emissions.
Her final blog announcing its retirement is an interesting combination of declaring victory, mostly thanks to Trump and his acolytes (like Carney) who have pivoted fully into the arms of the fossil fuel industry, and declaring she was tired of it all and just wants to be in her garden and stop the flow of now $16,000 (!!) to maintain her Wordpress blog for the past 15 years.
She has done real damage to efforts to stop CO2 emissions. But another part of me wonders if this is an admission of guilt. Very often people come to a point, even subconsciously, where they realize they’re in with the wrong crowd.
I wonder if she has had that moment with Trump. She probably thinks it’s all irrelevant and out of her hands now. Other players, namely the oil industry, Trump, Putin, etc. will decide what happens and scientists like her will have no impact.
I am glad she is tapping out, as so many deniers inevitably do, but it is clear she is doing it because she thinks she’s won, and that is very very bad for the world.
#climateChange #carney #cdnpoli #canpoli #climateEmergency #climateDenial #science #JudithCurry #theAmericanFascist