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Folks, I’m just putting the finishing touches on an update to the Gaza Verified site that will make signing up for verification as easy as signing in with your Mastodon account (with none of the manual adding of the verification link to your profile that proved to be a stumbling block for many).
I’ll be reopening sign ups today once I’m done with that.
In the meanwhile, please remember that there are folks in Gaza who are suffering through an ongoing genocide at the hands of Isra…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has been "having productive conversations" with the DOD and apologizes for a leaked memo that criticized Trump and Sam Altman (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

Where things stand with the Department of War
A statement from Dario Amodei

Good Morning #Canada
Yesterday we had a Yellow snowfall warning and today it's a Yellow freezing rain warning. It seems like the winter of 2025 - 2026 is going to prompt more conversation than usual about the weather. Therefore I'm providing this Wiki article as a public service. You can meteorologicaly mesmerize your family, friends, and coworkers with these wild bits of trivia on Canadian extreme weather. And even if you don't awkwardly wedge some of this into your conversations, the crazy numbers appeal to the weather nerds in all of us.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Weather
Weather extremes in Canada - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_extremes_in_Canada

🔧 Prompt sensitivity testing - verify small phrasing changes don't break behavior (formal vs casual openings)
💰 Cost tracking built-in - use cheap model for conversation, smarter model for judging. Budget alerts at $5/month, run tests nightly not on every commit
🎓 Real catches: character breaks, premature agreement, prompt injection leaks, persona drift in long conversations

»Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations:
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.«
On the one hand, I don't understand the people who use it, but on the other hand, a company that people don't care about because people are a product.
🙄

Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.

Maxx speculation, Maxx compensation, Maxx headlines rule Cowboys news https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/05/maxx-speculation-maxx-crosby-dallas-cowboys-trade-news/89006440007/

»Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription. Using the free version? Delete the app, because your conversations still feed the machine. Then try an alternative, and tell at least one person why.« https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026…

“[Florida's education commissioner] encouraged families to have conversations with students about the ‘importance of not allowing civic engagement to detract from time in the classroom.’”
AKA asking parents in a so called “parental rights” state to help suppress their children’s 1A rights to freedom of speech and assembly
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2026/02/03/florida-education-commissioner-gives-guidance-on-student-ice-protests/88495396007/

It Takes A Village
Unfiltered conversations with working parents in Australia's media and marketing industries...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/it-takes-a-village-2/

Baron Davis' favorite conversations from 2025 | Raiders: Talk of the Nation https://www.raiders.com/video/baron-davis-favorite-conversations-2025-raiders-talk-of-the-nation-nfl

Putin's secret conversations with Bush: Kremlin planned aggression and didn't hide its hatred: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/putins-secret-conversations-with-bush.html

You can search for any tech guy's name and they plop out of the files.
Besides the shady mail conversations you can see there's also Steven Sinofsky's Retirement Agreement in there for some reason in case you wanted to see how that looks like.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

With few Epstein files released, conspiracy theories flourish and questions remain
"I know from survivors and survivors' lawyers that when they had these conversations with FBI agents, they specifically named other men who they were trafficked to or who showed up at the island or who covered up for this abuse," Khanna said. "There were lawyers of the survivors present there. There are dozens of these interview memorandums. The DOJ has not released a single one."
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/02/nx-s1-5662638/epstein-files-release-trump-conspiracy-2026

Got an email that it was 22 years ago that I started a LiveJournal. 😃 For a number of years in the 2000s, “LJ” was the main place I shared my thoughts and general posts. I did set it up as “blog . danyork . com”… and I remember many conversations there. After it was sold to a Russian media company in 2007, I started to phase out my usage. The last time I really used it was 2008.
Now… it is a trip into the past:

Anthropic says Claude "will remain ad-free", users "won't see 'sponsored' links adjacent to" conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think

Claude is a space to think | Anthropic
Anthropic explains why Claude will remain ad-free—how advertising incentives conflict with building a genuinely helpful AI assistant users can trust.

Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations https://www.404media.co/massive-ai-chat-app-leaked-millions-of-users-private-conversations/

I continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.

What I learned from candid conversations with Taylen Green, T.J. Parker and others during Senior Bowl week

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/senior-bowl-game-2026-top-prospects/

"(In)accessibility in Higher Education and the Myth of the Ideal Academic" by Elizabeth Champion @ De Gruyter Conversations:
https://blog.degruyter.com/inaccessibility-in-higher-education-and-the-myth-of-the-ideal-academic/

from my link log —
Interactive HTML trees with no JavaScript and no CSS.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/interactive-html-trees-with-no-javascript/
saved 2020-08-13

Interactive HTML Trees with no JavaScript and no CSS
Many text based conversations threads can be visualised as a tree. This is a follow-up to yesterday's blog post about Twitter conversation trees. Mailing list archives often use nested

to show a conversation. That's fine, but has the major drawback of not being interactive. There's no way to collapse a branch of a tree if you're not interested in that strand of the conversation. Older…

LLMs are good at deanonymization.
#AI #LLMs

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about tha…

I'm anticipating a lot of grief in 2026 after a hard end to 2025, so I'm not looking forward to the many January conversations about everything to look forward to in 2026
You can't skip processing grief and jump straight into hope. The grief will consume you and turn into despair, or you'll internalize and repress the trauma and metabolize it into despair via a different path.
Or, I don't know, maybe some people can grieve and hope at the same time, but I know…

“The core idea is that your conversations with an AI assistant should be as private as your conversations with a person. Not because you’re doing something wrong, but because privacy is what lets you think freely.”
Moxie Marlinspike, Confessions to a data lake https://confer.to/blog/2025/12/confess

Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl parodying the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will also air a 60-second pre-game ad (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…

Back in the 2000s, I remember having several conversations along the lines of "Could we fire all the developers and just get off-shore Indian developers to write the code cheaper?"

Things like the #NoKings protests may feel like they're not enough, but they can be useful for building that network. Asking neighbors if they're going can help open up conversations, can lead to more conversations, can provide openings to find ways to escalate resistance, and can let you build what you need to feel safe going hard if you realize it's time.
Protests directly against facilities and other direct actions are small escalations that let you build trust and understand your network. If you want to know where you need to be, look at Twin Cities. That is the type of response that makes the machine grind to halt.
Make that happen everywhere and more escalation may not be necessary. And, if it is necessary to escalate more, that level of community organizing makes all other forms of escalation sustainable.

Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Rabbi Jane Kanarek, PhD, author of "Beyond Brutality, Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah" https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136…

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUNFbR2AbG9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

VT on Instagram: "In Japan, a new kind of bar is drawing attention for flipping workplace culture on its head. The bar is designed specifically for people who are considering leaving their jobs. Drinks are free, and the focus is not on alcohol sales but conversation. Patrons are invited to talk openly about burnout, frustration, and career doubts, while staff are trained to listen without judgement or pressure. The idea taps into a growing reckoning in Japan around long working hours, rigid hierarchies, and the mental health toll of intense job expectations. Conversations about quitting or dissatisfaction have traditionally been stigmatised, making this kind of space unusual. By removing the cost barrier and offering a supportive environment, the bar aims to normalise discussions about career dissatisfaction and help people reflect on what they actually want from work, even if that means starting over."
34K likes, 169 comments - vt on January 31, 2026: "In Japan, a new kind of bar is drawing attention for flipping workplace culture on its head. The bar is designed specifically for people who are considering leaving their jobs. Drinks are free, and the focus is not on alcohol sales but conversation. Patrons are invited to talk openly about burnout, frustration, and career doubts, while staff are trained to listen without judgement or pressure. The idea taps into a growing reckoning in Japan a…

Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh? https://

The Mojo Sessions
Features in-depth conversations with the world's most interesting people, hosted by Gary Bertwistle...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mojo-sessions/

Btw "my" IT Event yesterday was pretty nice. One talk adressed a question that I also am struggling with and I was able to discuss it a bit. - Luckily a friend also showed up and we discussed a couple of topics.
"Luckily" because it was cool to see him - and also because I didn't feel like starting conversations with strangers. Even thoug hI know that it's the same for a lot of others there, too.

U.S. Senator and YDS alum Chris Coons '92 M.A.R., '92 J.D. on American Conversations with Heather Cox Richardson! Watch the video here.
https://www.facebook.com/events/26854423997479001/

Il existe des #chiens #savant
https://www.la…

Seeing some conversations here I'm inclined to try out either NetBSD or Crux today. Curious about both. Here we go again🐇

On this International Remembrance Day for the Victims of the #Holocaust, can we please also spare a thought for the victims of the #genocide that is happening right now, right in front of our faces?
What is the point of our remembering the atrocious crimes of the past if we do not strive to pre…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Many of the people I do have online conversations with speak English as their first language. I kinda get by but you native speakers really underestimate how hard it is to express oneself in a foreign language. Concepts work differently, metaphors don't really translate, references you have used for decades don't make sense.

»8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions«
WTF?! Now don't tell me that this surprises you. Why do so many people still naively think to keep their privacy over VPN's for data-hungry big corporations?
🤷 https://www.koi.ai/blo…

8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions | Koi Blog

Four years after the massacre of nine black church goers in Charleston, South Carolina;
two years after the murder of a white anti-fascist and anti-racist activist in Charlottesville, Virginia;
and days after the racially motivated massacre of 22 people who were targeted because their murderer wanted to kill Hispanics,
America has reached a crisis point where we finally have to talk about racism in our society.
But is the media approaching this conversation in an …

Why Corporate Media Doesn’t Talk Honestly About Racism
Media conversations about racism are rarely accurate, let alone honest, facilitating the status quo and hindering systemic change. A discussion between Dylan Rodriguez, Eddie Conway, and Jaqueline Luqman

Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/1…

Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations
The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.

A lot of conversations about neurodivergence take the form of the first image below. I’m arguing to adopt the framing of the second image instead (except 100- or 1000-dimensional instead of 2-dimensional).
We’ve identified a few clusterings in a space of extraordinary and beautiful variation, and given those clusterings names. How useful those names are! How little they capture, even so! How much variation remains unnamed! How much variation must exist within every human being!
12/

“Throughout our trip to Germany, most of the conversations I had with other survivors and their families reliably returned to fears and intergenerational traumas in the context of the Trump presidency; the rise of nationalism, authoritarianism and uncertainty in the U.S. and around the world. But although this was at the height of devastating reports of famine and genocide emerging from Gaza, everyone in our group, especially the Jews, seemed to make a concerted effort to avoid mention of Pa…

Remembering ‘Never Again for Everyone’ at Bergen-Belsen
At the height of the war in Gaza, a Jewish activist for Palestine accompanied his mother, a Holocaust survivor, to Germany for a ceremony to mark 80 years since liberation

What's the current state of XMPP and OpenID Connect? My web search returned that ejabberd is still considering if and how to implement and Prosody has experimental alpha-stage support via a module. I couldn't find anything conclusive in regards to XMPP clients. What's with Gajim(?) and Conversations? Or other clients? Are there any web clients supporting OIDC?
#jabber

Deanonimizzazione online su larga scala con LLM
Gli LLM possono essere utilizzati per eseguire una deanonimizzazione su larga scala. Con un accesso completo a Internet, il nostro agente può reidentificare gli utenti di Hacker News e i partecipanti ad Anthropic Interviewer con elevata precisione, dati solo profili e conversazioni online pseudonimi, un'operazione che richiederebbe ore a un investigatore umano dedicato. Progettiamo quindi attacchi per l'ambiente chiuso. Dati due d…

Sagt mal, wie schätzt Ihr Followys ein, die angeben, "Gaza-verified” durch https://gaza-verified.org/ zu sein.
Ziel ist es wohl, 1.-Hand- Schilderungen und -Hilferufe aus Gaza weiter zu verbreiten.
Aber sind das wirklich "echte" Accounts, von real in Gaza (über-)lebenden Menschen?
<…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

The Family Tree
A podcast for parents who want grounded conversations without the overwhelm, hosted by Jess and Bree...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-family-tree/

Holy shit

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/12/21/documents-reveal-harvard-salient-complaint/

Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that later became central to the board’s decision to suspend the magazine.

Sources: the US DOJ has summoned some of the largest theater chains to private conversations about the potential impact of a sale of WBD (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/warner-sa…

I’m not really sure what it means, given the state of the world, but I guess in an aspirational sense, at least, as in “against all evidence to the contrary, here’s hoping 2026 will be a…”
Here’s wishing you all a Happy New Year.
(Except the fascists. They can get fucked.)
💕
PS. You can find people in need in Gaza to donate to at https://

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Rabbi Jane Kanarek, PhD, author of "Beyond Brutality, Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah"
https://ift.tt/FYAtiy4
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP

RABcasts: Industry Leaders Exploring Global Change
Join Dr Suresh de Silva, Sydney radiologist and founder of global charity Radiology Across Borders, for a series of conversations with health and other industry leaders...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/rabcas

Encrypt It Already
End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data, puts control over how the data gets used into your hands, and is the best way we have to ensure private conversations remain private. Not enough companies use it as broadly as they should. Learn more here.
— by @…
🔐

Encrypt It Already

Okay. Yeah. Putting out the call.
If you are a bisexual male who has dated both men and women can you DM or @ me for some private conversations please? #HeatedRivalry (after Episode 4)
RI/SE Mass/Boston area preferred.

Baron Davis’ Favorite Conversations from 2025 | Raiders: Talk of the Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nqJ1ujIp_Q

The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…

Language conversations have become highly performative,
with a fixation on the words people are using,
not why they’re using them
or what they’re reaching for when they deploy language
like “crazy,” “lame,” or the r-word
(currently experiencing a resurgence in popularitythanks to Elon Musk).
The language is a metaphor:
We call something “insane” because that word carries a specific baggage and burden.
But the fact that mental illness is stil…

Language Wars
Conversations about language were supposed to be a starting point rather than an ending one.

Yes I Can Solo - The Baby Dream Podcast
Through real conversations with solo parents, therapists, and inspiring voices, you'll hear stories, tools, and insights to trust yourself, create safety in your body, and create a life that supports you, and feel steady in every choice...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.

When "we cannot have serious conversations about AI" is just a shorthand for "I want critics to overlook that none of the criticism has been answered and I need them to accept that AI is without alternative and forever" the problem lies not with the critics.

Leading Conversations With Vice-Chancellor Alex Zelinsky
Professor Alex Zelinsky, Vice Chancellor of the University of Newcastle, interviews alumni about their achievements...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/leading-conversat…

Update from later in the day in MSP:
I’ve heard or uttered variations on the phrase “I’ll believe it when I see it” in numerous conversations through out the day. That seems to be the prevailing sentiment. People are willing to be hopeful, but nobody’s counting their chickens just yet.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/musk-altman-tussle-reports-…

Musk and Altman Tussle Over Reports of ChatGPT-Linked Deaths
Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded barbs on X this week over media reports of deaths linked to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI-related safety issues. On Monday, Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide after a series of delusional conversations with ChatGPT, calling the story “diabolical” and saying that AI should “not pander to delusions.” On Tuesday, he followed up with

"How Do We Make Reading Truly Accessible? A Conversation With Thomas Kahlisch"
https://blog.degruyter.com/how-do-we-make-reading-truly-accessible-a-conversation-with-thomas-kahlisch/
"Whether for pleasure o…

Former Steelers OC Arthur Smith to be named Ohio State offensive coordinator: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6996399/2026/01/24/arthur-smith-ohio-state-oc-steelers/

Hey everyone,
***Update***
We’ve raised the $500 we needed to replace Aseel’s (@…) broken phone.
Thank you all so much!
Please remember that you can find a list of all our Gaza Verified families to donate to at:

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Will McClay on Christian Parker hire, Cowboys draft and free agency approach, more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/will-mcclay-on-christian-parker-hire-cowboys-draft-and-free-agency-approach-more

During the pandemic, I spent over a year in my evenings livestreaming #Wikipedia editing out on #Twitch ! 🤣😱 As we celebrate #Wikipedia25 today, I reflected back on the almost 22 years that I'v…

Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Rabbi Jane Kanarek, PhD, author of "Beyond Brutality, Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah" https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136…

A Voice And Beyond
Through heartfelt conversations and inspiring stories, we take you, our listener, on an incredible journey of connection, growth, and empowerment...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/a-voice-and-beyond/…

On this Monday morning, please spare a thought for those who are starting the week off in cold, damp tents surrounded by the rubble of their previous lives, trapped within the clutches of an ongoing genocide that is the collective failure of humanity.
If you want to help, here’s a list of verified Mastodon accounts of Gazans and links to their fundraisers, ranked by how little support they got last week to feed their families and cover the basic necessities of life:

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions "seamlessly" via AI Mode (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868497/google-ai-search-follow-up-questions-gemini-3

Google Search now lets you ask AI Overviews follow-up questions
Gemini 3 will be the default model for AI Overviews and Google says follow-ups let you jump seamlessly into conversations with AI Mode.

Your regular reminder that you can find the fundraisers of people from Gaza who are part of our fediverse community and donate to them directly to meet their basic everyday needs at:
#Gaza

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

You know these conversations have long been happening in private. To say it in public is to propose a consensus around which EU nations are going to build policy.

Life After Divorce: Honest Conversations For Women Podcast
Divorce changes more than a relationship — it can change your identity, confidence, and sense of what comes next...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/life-after-divorce/

Trump's personal lawyer
#Robert #Garson told the Telegraph newspaper that he has held conversations with the US state department about💥 offering refuge to British Jews who are leaving the UK -- citing rising antisemitism.
Garson, 49, said he felt the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews”.
He adde…

Will McClay on Christian Parker hire, Cowboys draft and free agency approach, more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/will-mcclay-on-christian-parker-hire-cowboys-draft-and-free-agency-approach-more

Interviews with 100 therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/chatgpt-delusions-psychosis.html
…

How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them.
Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.

Google agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…

Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-fluency-index

Anthropic Education Report: The AI Fluency Index
Anthropic's AI Fluency Index measures 11 observable behaviors across thousands of Claude.ai conversations to understand how people develop AI collaboration skills.

The Mums' Group
Hosted by identical triplets and journalists Kate, Amy and Sophie Taeuber, The Mums' Group is your judgement-free space for honest, funny and very real conversations about modern motherhood...
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The Dust Up
A series of conversations about surfboard designs, shaper interviews and lots more...
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In Good Hands: Conversations With A Fertility Surgeon
Dr Alex Alexander will use expertise in his three fields — fertility, gynaecology and obstetrics —to give some clarity and hope to people facing infertility, as well as share his experience with managing high-risk pregnancies and complex gynaecological concerns...
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This is your regular reminder that you can donate to ease the suffering of those in our fediverse family who are enduring settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide at the hands of Israel in Gaza.
https://gaza-verified.org/donate
Thank you!
💕

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

EAL/D Conversations
Explores features of EAL/D education across NSW government schools, unpacks elements of second language acquisition and highlights practices that support effective teaching and learning for EAL/D students...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/…

Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

I just saw that we now have over 100 verified accounts on Gaza Verified.
https://gaza-verified.org/people/
That’s over 100 people that @…,

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Sustainable Transformation
We bring you honest conversations about the challenges and triumphs of sustainability transformations in business...
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🇵🇸 To support families facing genocide in Gaza, consider donating to them via Gaza Verified.
#GazaVerified

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Live Work More Human
The home of big ideas, bold conversations and brave questions on all things work, life and leadership...
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Amazon rolls out Alexa on the web to early access users, with chat functionality, smart home controls, file management, and cross-device conversations (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/with-new-ale

Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India's CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Domestic firms may chip in for the iPhone
Exploratory conversations have taken place between Murugappa Group-owned CG Semi, which is building an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) facility in Sanand, Gujarat. It’s the first time Apple is evaluating the prospect of having certain chips assembled and packaged in India.

Your regular reminder that you can find all of our Gaza Verified families’ fundraisers (those who use GoFundMe and Chuffed) in a single list at:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
The list is ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last seven days.
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Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

The Oliver Wild Experience Ft. Oscar Thompson: Money, Power, Sex, And Culture
Controversial public figure Oliver Wild unpacks the forces of money, power, sex, and culture in candid conversations with embattled party planner Oscar Thompson...
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The Hangout Australian Climbing Podcast
Join Tom in this adventure to bring climbers together through stories, conversations, and shared experience...
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A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January-September 2025 finds health-related topics dominated users' questions, and more (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/10/microsoft-copilot-personal-productivity

Exclusive: Microsoft Copilot is getting personal
Users are increasingly turning to Microsoft Copilot for non-work topics.

On Time
Across four conversations journalist Rachael Hocking engages with leading thinkers to examine how time governs our world by measuring moments, defining cycles and shaping our deepest sense of self...
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Rescued
Join Roz Pappalardo (songwriter, artist, festival and event programmer, regional arts champion, general mover and shaker) as she explores our obsession with being a dog's best friend through a series of funny, emotional, outrageous and down right incredible conversations with people who you may (or may not) know...
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The Space Between Two Lines
This is a podcast dedicated to honest conversations about the realities of fertility loss and the journey to parenthood...
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Moneyball - The Business Of Sport
Hosted by brand expert and experienced storyteller Scott Keenan, the show dives into the intersection of sport, money and culture, with open, commercially focused conversations that go behind the big decisions shaping modern sport in Australia and around the world...
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Your Digital Reputation
Honest, practical conversations with the leaders getting social media right in the moments that matter most...
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