@Techmeme@techhub.socialNew York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/01/mecka-ai-series-a-60-million-robotics-data-training/…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRavens QB Lamar Jackson says offseason changes, new coaching staff like 'a breath of fresh air' https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-qb-lamar-jackson-offseason-changes-breath-of-fresh-air
@cdarwin@c.imA Humpback whale and a pod of Common dolphins feeding in Donegal bay. 🔊
You can hear the whale's breath over the sound of the outboard engine.
https://bsky.app/profile/cormacscoast.bsky.social/post/3mpbrdisnr22x
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzTony Romo DUI video released: Bodycam shows altercation and arrest https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/29/new-video-shows-cowboys-tony-romo-dui-arrest-refusal-of-brea…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaYou have to rest. There are industrial buildings on the opposite bank---abandoned granaries and silos---but they're so rain-rusted and sun-bleached, they have their own charm, like public sculptures. When you've recovered your breath, we continue.
@newsie@darktundra.xyz'We Will Fight to Our Very Last Breath:' Township Leaders Vow to Fight Nuclear AI Data Center https://www.404media.co/we-will-fight-to-our-very-last-breath-township-leaders-vow-to-fight-nuclear-ai-data-center/…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Forever Grey:
🎵 Last Breath
#ForeverGrey
https://forevergrey.bandcamp.com/track/last-breath
https://open.spotify.com/track/0O0MWSZirxnSDdy35hThia
@cdarwin@c.imNuclear scientists and the University of Michigan want to build a massive data center in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan.
If built, the data center will, among other things, run simulations to help America build nuclear weapons.
The residents of Ypsilanti Township overwhelmingly oppose the construction of the data center
and voiced their opposition to the computer warehouse during a public board meeting on June 16.
In a show of support that’s often rare from local lead…
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.deI just hope the cool people won't just be offline, when Bluesky draws it's last breath.
I hope they'll realize, that community funded alternatives, that are built for people and not corporations, are the way to go.
Social media isn't dead.
Big tech "solutions" are.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzQB Lamar Jackson calls Ravens' offseason changes 'breath of fresh air' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7312567/2026/05/27/ravens-lamar-jackson-offseason-changes-minter-contract/
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaSeason: A Letter to the Future (PC/PS5, xp'd on PS5) Your best friend in the village has a dream that the Season is about to end. You decide to leave the village and go out into the world on your bike to catalog as much as you can so that the future might remember this Season.
This is a short (9h to credits for me) "walking sim" that, if I'm honest, is rather melancholic. In this alternate universe, there are purple crystals that have affects on people's memor…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzEarlier this week, we had the opportunity to get our (nearly 10yo) hound's teeth cleaned. It involves full anaesthetic... Wow. The unexpected side effect: dog breath is *gone*. Her teeth are stunningly white and clean. She seems pretty chuffed about it, too.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Jasmine Myra:
🎵 Breath
#JasmineMyra
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://jasminemyra.bandcamp.com/track/breath
https://open.spotify.com/track/1xFeFSaV8jHxI0po4yYco7
@randombaywatch@mastodon.socialPulling dead bodies from the sea
#AnthonyGuidera #BrettBaxterClark #RichardEllis
Baywatch Nights 2x08 - Last Breath
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Kim Deal:
🎵 Crystal Breath
#KimDeal
https://kimdeal.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-breath
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PsxpQQfcOljj2eBmGF8h3
@shriramk@mastodon.socialEnjoyed reading /A City on Mars/ by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. I was impressed by the breath of topics, depth of research, and quality of writing (though a bit less puerile prose could have helped). They had fun writing it. Haters can just view it as a todo list. #BookReview
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine update from Giorgio Provincialli and Alla Perdei.
World War One lasted 1568 days. Russia's illegal full scale invasion has now gone 1569 days and counting.
Over 1600 first-hand reports from ground zero, and over 300 videos in this time, nobody compares to the work done by Giorgio and Alla. True heroes.
Please share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and help the truth reach more people:
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialThis week's #MythologyMonday theme is heat. The Chimera is a hybrid creature from #GreekMythology, usually depicted as a lion with a goat's head protruding from its back and a snake for a tail. The Greek hero Bellerophon made use of the heat in the Chimera's fiery breath a…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pearl Jam:
🎵 Breath
#NowPlaying #PearlJam
https://open.spotify.com/track/6i81qFkru6Kj1IEsB7KNp2
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotIf you're hoping that the #InternationalCourtOfJustice #ICJ is going to have any serious effect on the #Gaza crisis any time soon, don't hold your breath.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@david@boles.xyzHope Has No Shovel: Why We Fling Our Wishes at the Sky
Watch what the body does with a wish. The child inhales before the candles, holds the secret behind her teeth, then gives it to the room with one hard breath....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/08/hope
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itRE: https://mastodon.social/@TheManilaTimes/116506093382348580
hahahahahahahahhaahahahahhahahahahahhahahhahahahaha
*deep breath*
aahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahahahaha
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#KeyChanges:Radio3sEssentialHistoryOfClassicalMusic
- 1600: Opera's First Breath
1600, Florence. At a lavish Medici wedding, Jacopo Peri’d Euridice introdces a radical new idea: drama told entirely through music. This is the birth of opera.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x5vz
@jake4480@c.im
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 130 - CXXX
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath …
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza@pkotrcka_1@vivaldi.net The part of Danang we live now is a breath of fresh air on that part. Saigon was one continous construction thing somewhere. Other parts of Danang are like that also. Here, at worst, they can burst out in karaoke on Monday afternoon 15:45. But hey, who isn't sad on Monday?
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stones Taro:
🎵 Breath Twice
#StonesTaro
https://instinctrecs.bandcamp.com/track/breath-twice
https://open.spotify.com/track/7llnemutp1Uw5MMLHvggrN
@draxil@social.linux.pizzaNot that I share all of @… 's rosy post bubble projections, but his #AI book sure is a breath of fresh sense, and a good antidote to the LLM mania echo chamber.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pink Breath of Heaven:
🎵 Always
#PinkBreathofHeaven
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pkdipvf5UpPoqlK1wYoDK
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Karen O & Danger Mouse:
🎵 Super Breath
#NowPlaying #KarenO #DangerMouse
https://open.spotify.com/track/71dMjqJ8UJV700zYs5YZCh
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 130 - CXXX
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath …
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageThoughtseeds as Latent Causes: A Dual-Process Computational Phenomenology of Focused-Attention Meditation
Prakash Chandra Kavi, Daniel Ari Friedman, Gustavo Patow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14833 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.14833 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.14833
arXiv:2607.14833v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Meditative expertise involves sustained attention, rapid recovery from distraction, and coordinated dynamics of large-scale brain networks. We present a computational phenomenology of focused-attention meditation traversing four attractor states: breath focus, mind-wandering, meta-awareness, and redirect attention. Within a dual-process active inference formulation, the model implements a three-layer nested Markov-blanket architecture: (L1) a high-dimensional physiological neuronal substrate modeled as a stochastic multivariate Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process over attentional Yeo networks; (L2) a low-dimensional generative model (System 1) that encodes latent mental content as thoughtseeds and evaluates autonomic action tendencies; and (L3) an agentic metacognitive monitor (System 2) that implements a Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) capacity bottleneck to selectively gate these tendencies. In L3, meta-awareness functions as the GNW ignition signal, derived from policy-prior divergence and dynamically gated by direct competition between orchestrator and distractor thoughtseeds. Policy selection actively minimizes expected free energy, and L2 actions furnish descending predictions over network activity to close the enactive perception--action cycle. Training uses variational Expectation-Maximization (EM) across expert and novice phenotypes. Simulations reproduce behavior consistent with empirical observations and findings in contemplative neuroscience, providing a tractable link between first-person phenomenology and objective neurophysiological measures.
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@pre@boing.worldMy pitch if I ran a TV production company would be something like:
Twelve episodes a year of 3-episode serials: That keeps the number of sets you have to construct down. It gives each story the complexity of a movie and time to breath without the frantic pace. You can have one every season of the year.
You gotta remember to focus on the companion. This isn't really a story about The Doctor, it's about the companions asking the question, Doctor Who?
Episodes should generally start with a companion's face or escapade coz they're the ones we're identifying with as we figure out who the doctor is.
At some point in 2027 you'll cast and announce a new doctor.
This is when you call Billie Piper in to film and release a webisode which is just the regeneration into Billie so far: her going "Oh, hello?" Then shaking her head and saying "oh hell no" and shaking harder until she shakes the face off into the new man or woman you picked who says "Oh, that was close".
That change into the Bad Wolf Doctor was just bad without a capstone xmas episode. So a one minute tik-tokable short to announce the newbie frees you of it.
Then you can start ep1 filming and released nearly a year later on the 65th anniversary with a story that focuses on the companion getting into trouble and meeting The Doctor.
Cast nobody famous. The production is about making stars not finding them I don't want anyone having preconceived notions about the character from seeing the actor in that other show even it it was a really good one and they're great.
Earthbound cross-time time-travel story for serial one to pick up new companion, intervene in an aliens vs aliens space-war in serial two, go screw up history and fix it for the third and aliens endangering companion's family for the fourth.
When they're 3-episode serials you only need four a year. Different writer for each.
Cliff-hangers between episodes in each serial of course, with stories about the nature of time and space and getting along with other cultures and running up and down corridors and scary monsters and of course the question "who is The Doctor and how can they fix this without guns or violence with just a screwdriver and two hearts worth of compassion".
The Doctor is some weird looking older dude, more importantly vivid and strange and scholarly than handsome. He has a big coat and no question marks. Then he can change clothes but with the same coat always have the same look. He needs to be able to do a good arrogant rant at himself while he thinks.
The companion is curious and brave and young enough to be naive and surprised and energetic. Doesn't do what she's told. Wonders off against orders. Maybe sometimes bombs things.
Obviously you keep the blue box and the tune and make a new style screwdriver.
You need to do the behind the scenes shows too. Not sure if they make or cost money but they are brilliant for the geeky fandom. That may be why it came back last time.
Anyway. Sadly I don't own a production company.
I cancelled the TV license in the mean time. Give the money to Big Finish instead. These audio things are expensive. I've bought bundles before. Anyone have favorites? I lose track of which one's I've heard.
#doctorWho
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Pearl Jam:
🎵 Breath
#PearlJam
https://open.spotify.com/track/6i81qFkru6Kj1IEsB7KNp2
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
deary:
🎵 Baby's Breath
#deary
https://open.spotify.com/track/0RuUyGjPZAlX8XYmNY0Mhh
@randombaywatch@mastodon.socialClosing time at the beach
Baywatch Nights 2x08 - Last Breath
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #LastBreath
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Cécile McLorin Salvant, Jules Buckley & Metropole Orkest:
🎵 With Every Breath I Take
#CécileMcLorinSalvant #JulesBuckley #MetropoleOrkest
https://open.spotify.com/track/70VMUCYO8Q0pjnXlGB7pCW
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Matthew Coleridge, Lionel Handy, Choir of Royal Holloway, Southern Sinfonia & Rupert Gough:
🎵 The Breath of Life (7. These Great Trees are Prayers)
#MatthewColeridge #LionelHandy #ChoirofRoyalHolloway #SouthernSinfonia
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Black Breath:
🎵 Endless Corpse
#BlackBreath
https://open.spotify.com/track/3m3oGbnO7YnaREfbye3Gjk
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
