2026-04-16 09:24:33
Creative Conversations
Designed for creative thinkers interested in how ideas become artworks...
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Creative Conversations
Designed for creative thinkers interested in how ideas become artworks...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/creative-conversations/
Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web
https://www.wired.com/story/sears-exposed-ai-chatbot-phone-calls-and-text-chats-to-anyone-on-the-web/
The Pentagon has met with senior executives of Ford Motor and General Motors
to gauge whether the auto industry could help the military acquire vehicles, munitions or other hardware more quickly and at lower costs.
The conversations are in the very early stages, and relate to the possible production of components by the companies, not entire weapons systems.
No specific projects are currently being negotiated, the people said.
The discussions with automakers underscore …
Railway Conversations With Doc Frank
Authentic discussions with interesting people about railway subjects that matter...
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Great thread on cast iron skillets.
And lower down they mention cast iron woks.
I would put my votes in for cast iron griddles and dutch ovens as well.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pkakkdcfdr6inetyj737kzpd/post/3mlwkjixdpk2u
Sources: Jensen Huang was left out of President Trump's China trip to avoid unwanted scrutiny and awkward conversations about the sale of Nvidia chips to China (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/12/2026/nvidia-snubb…
Hi folks, Nadeen (@…) and her family have had no donations for 12 days.
You can find a list of Gaza Verified members ranked by the amount of financial support they’ve received in the last week at:
https://
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Moving in Slow:
🎵 Conversations
#MovinginSlow
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jDLh3VwfmGiofdYGZ91AU
One of the core problems of GenAI is that it's trained on junk data no one has ever read and reviewed. Once again we see that's a lesson not learned, because in their endless quest to more data for more-of-the-same models, GenAI companies have found a new source of mediocre training slop: work-related chats.
The Innocence Project and StoryCorps Studios have recorded more than 30 intimate conversations about wrongful convictions. These videos show what exonerees have gone through and are still going through as they try to adjust to life after prison.
https://innocenceproject.org/storycorps/
Schoen: Giants have had 'really good' conversations with Dexter Lawrence reps after trade request https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7197092/2026/04/14/new-york-giants-dexter-lawrence-trade-request/
Constitutional Cafe
Scholarly but fun conversations about constitutions brought to you by the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Melbourne Law School...
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In classrooms and public events and private conversations, my campus regularly facilitates discussion (often heated) about the virtues and dangers of capitalism and Marxism and every economic theory you can think of, about human rights and AI and abortion access and data centers and civil wars and genocide and myriad other subjects of •extreme• controversy.
We do not, however, make space for and amplify people who believe the Earth is flat, because that would be a f***ing waste of time.
6/
The R4R Podcast: Road To Zero
Shares honest conversations about mental health, resilience, community and the moments that shape us...
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Conversations that don't happen remote.
I stepped in the elevator - a colleague on the phone:
Him: "okay create a character for me... Yes..."
Me: which game?
Him: "Baldurs Gate 3"
Me: stepping out, "omg! I still need to finish it!"
Him: "it's our third walk through"
I feel like using QQ, Douyin, Weibo, Bilibili, etc. would be an effective means of subverting this Western push toward mandatory online ID and all its attendant baggage. I don't personally care if the Chinese spy on my inane conversations, and I don't really spend much time talking about Tiananmen Square. The enemy of my enemy, and so forth.
AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…
AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…
I spent 4 hours today talking to 2 graduate seminars, 1 in each official language. In both, we had wide-ranging conversations on evidence, methodology, theory, concepts, the literature, the discipline, publicly engaged scholarship, and more. The students were engaged, inquisitive, humane, and brilliant. This is why I wanted this job. A damn good day.
Here, There, Everywhere.
A space for brutally honest conversations about identity, ambition, motherhood, and everything that shifts after becoming a mum...
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UFL says in-game ref interviews strengthening tran... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48778323/ufl-game-referee-interviews-strengthening-transparency
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"The case for academic freedom and the independence of the university is far shakier today than it was even a decade ago..." Register for the 5/19 #DefendResearch webinar with Sara Rouhi and Brandon Turner
on this aspect of #censorship
Substack launches the Substack Recording Studio, letting creators prerecord videos with up to two guests, share screens, and auto-generate clips and thumbnails (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/substack-launches-a-built-in-recor…
Every social media platform I'm on (Twitter, Threads, Bluesky) I'm seeing a very necessary and solid level of tough-but-important conversations and fights. about the clashes between (Far?) Leftism and real Black folks who actually participate in politics*
Except here. Same ol same ol do-nothing far-left type stuff except also WITHOUT the "good but ugly" fights
(*Yes, I'm aware I'm being harsh here, but I don't have better terminology and its importa…
Follow-up: a version of #1 for visibly-to-a-user already exists in at least one client:
https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/02/28/2.10.0-release.html#anti-harassment-controls-for-conversations-private-mentions
Having it happen at the server level where the post gets dropped would be better.
Thanks @… for the pointer to the fediverse ideas repository:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues
It's so difficult to have conversations with this person.
Me: "Do you come here a lot?"
Reply: "Mmm-hm! I've never been here before."
WhatsApp launches Incognito Chat, an AI chat mode built on Private Processing that Meta says lets users talk to AI without Meta being able to access the chats (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-incognito-chat-meta-ai/
« Vous n’avez pas de regrets de devoir tuer ? » : dans le Transsibérien, chroniques de soldats russes de retour d’Ukraine
https://www.lemonde.fr…
I've been wondering: will future historians have more public records to go through, or less? It's fascinating to read through letters and telegraphs of Albert Einstein, yet I wonder whether our digitized world will leave the same trace. While on the one hand public figures share a lot more personal information on the internet, which will always be preserved through articles, replies, screenshots etc., chat conversations, which somewhat replace letters, are encrypted, often with disappearing …
From today's #pokopia conversations
There are a couple of other tricks you could try if have any doubts that the voice you are conversing with might not be human.
You could, for example, ask it to scream.
Many Al-voice programs struggle to speak outside the normal range, unless they have been specifically trained to, said Nicoletti.
I asked ChatGPT to do it and it told me it couldn't.
Jisc report: 'Student perceptions of AI 2025' https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/student-perceptions-of-ai-2025
'A report on how students view artificial intelligence, how they are using it, and their concerns and hopes, based on conversations with…
I think he plans to try to sleep with the peace treaty.
He plans to use a double sided ceasefire. Ew.
#USpol
RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@daisy/116312358923253621
This. The conversations are incredibly fraught. I hear this over and over
.. and also, the flip side. Anyone who finds it useful tends to find the need to keep it hush-hush on the fediverse. It's really preventing the "how do we steer" harm-avoiding conversations from happening. The net result is that only the careless touch the stuff. It’s not a good time.
Video: Relationships and Commitments: Land Beyond Ownership
Part of the Learning Series, Seasons of Responsibility: Interreligious Conversations on Environmental Justice and Repair There are ways to exist in harmony with all of creation that cultivate the soul and a relationship with the Divine. Hussein Rashid and Rabbi Gordon Tucker bring Muslim and Jewish texts into dialogue to explore how religious traditions resist transactional relationships with the earth and…
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.
EMpowered
Through conversations at the intersection of parenting, relationships, leadership and business, the show explores emotional intelligence and nervous system regulation as the foundation for how we show up in the world...
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One of the few things I miss about working for my old company was when we had an office on Newbury Street.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6xt7j6q2g4oedf5b6fdpx7dd/post/3mlqntnkxqs2d
I finally got out and did a #POTA activation using only my QMX. Most of this was on a 20m EFHW, and then I did a few QSOs on a random wire through a tuner.
It didn't start out well. I couldn't figure out why no one was responding to me. I finally discovered that when I last used the QMX I was showing it to someone at a ham club gathering and had put the CW keyer in practice mode. 🤡 I …
🎩 A background historian compresses older conversation parts into structured summaries while the main agent keeps working — no pause, no interruption. The agent never summarizes its own history.
💾 Cross-session memory: architecture decisions, naming conventions & user preferences survive session restarts. New conversations start with everything the previous session learned.
WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool to suggest replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/whatsapp-c…
Hanging at @… today. Great to chat with a bunch of folks, even when the conversations are about [redacted]
Mum To Mum With Doctor Tash
Honest, heart-centred conversations about raising emotionally healthy kids, one connection at a time...
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Your regular reminder that you can find a list of all our Gaza Verified friends and families at https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ with links to their fundraisers and sorted by those who have received the least in donations over the last week.
If you can, please help, as things are almost as bad as ever…
On the one hand, LLMs are planet-destroying bullshit machines, gaslighting our sense of reality by spewing an endless supply of hallucinations.
On the other hand, they can provide a brief yet overwhelmingly mild sense of satisfaction when you convince them to do something silly.
#LLMs #DonnieTurnip
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
Giants have had 'productive' talks with Lawrence https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48487499/giants-had-productive-talks-dexter-lawrence
Adelaide Property Pod
Each episode explores market trends, investment opportunities and conversations with the people shaping South Australia's property landscape...
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Israeli-Dutch startup Wonderful AI, which offers AI agents that can handle customer conversations across voice, chat, and more, raised $150M at a $2B valuation (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
"Video Recordings, From Speaker Series to Open Access Repository"
https://doi.org/10.31274/joerhe.24658
"[…] the care, pace, and speakers’ perspectives on how open access and librarianship practices share stories in their collections. Based on the Western Washington University En…
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?"
Ursache für den DNSSEC Fehler wurde gefunden: alle betrunken.
#denic
Seriously the theme of the next few years are going to be “you can check that, you know. Did you actually check?"
It's going to be tedious. It's going to be super annoying. And it's going to be a good part of what keeps us tethered to conversations that actually work with other people and don't turn into weird factions.
US HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is launching a podcast, billing it as a new way to expose "corruption" and "lies" making Americans sick (Ali Swenson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-kenn
Zeteo’s Asawin Subsaeng reported this week that Trump is directing a furious hunt for people who leaked info to The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for that huge piece about how Trump decided to start this war.
The piece is actually an excerpt from their upcoming book, which is expected to contain still more embarrassing details about the Trump regime.
“In conversations with close aides and advisers, President Trump has loudly demanded to know who in his Cabin…
And here’s your regular reminder that you can find the fundraisers of all the people from Gaza that our tiny team of volunteers has carried out video verification calls with, ranked by how much they managed to raise in the last week:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate
Threads is testing a Meta AI integration similar to X's Grok, letting users mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context, in five countries (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/threads-tests-a-meta-ai-i…
As soon as users log into Perplexity’s home page, trackers are downloaded onto their devices, giving Meta and Google full access to the conversations between them and Perplexity’s AI Machine search engine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Rural Health Conversations
Features conversations with rural health professionals about the experiences, opportunities and challenges of supervising healthcare students on rural placements...
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Vrabel: I had 'difficult' talks over Russini photos https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48552151/mike-vrabel-says-had-difficult-conversations-dianna-russini-photos
Corporate lawyers say AI-transcribed meeting notes may not have attorney-client privilege, making otherwise protected conversations discoverable in lawsuits (Sarah Kessler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/…
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.
There's still time to register for the #DefendResearch webinar with Dr. George Cooper to hear about his research: "Conditions of Censorship Complicity in Scholarly Publishing: A China case study" https://
Clinical And Experimental Ophthalmology Conversations
Each episode discusses a recently published manuscript, highlighting key findings, clinical impact and how new evidence is shaping ophthalmic practice...
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Folks, this is a general Gaza Verified message.
Please note that while we know the unconscionable situation people in Gaza are having to go through, we are also seeing a rise (from a small number of people) of mass tagging of people in messages and unsolicited direct messages.
To our friends and families in Gaza Verified: this is against the rules of almost every server, including the one your account is on and it will get your account limited or suspended. It is also against our…
Between The Flags
We bring you honest conversations, expert insights, and a bit of cheeky fun from the riders, the coaches, and even those amazing folks shaping our sport in Australia and beyond...
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Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is not planning to seek reelection, according to people who have spoken to him directly.
The polarizing fixture of Southern California politics has not filed to run again, with less than an hour to go before the deadline.
Two people who were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations said Issa told them he was planning to step aside.
An ally of Donald Trump, Issa’s decision could help Democrats win his newly-competitive district in the …
X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat, supporting one-on-one and group conversations via a new voice input icon, as it tests a standalone X Chat spinoff on iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/x-brings-back-voice-notes-to-x-chat/
RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116332667717903322
I really think that we _are_ starting to build those tools. I'm party to a lot of discussions about how to use these tools well, and a lot of that starts to look like systems design: what are controls? What are the feedback loops? Where do we need to add new frictions? Where do we need to eliminate old bottlenecks?
We are still very, _very_ early in this.
But the work is getting done, and a lot of us 'haters' need to get in the drivers seat and start putting up useful critique like mttaggart's. I don't agree with the entire article, but it's solid work and solid case report. It’s very good stuff. We need a lot more of these conversations.
And we need to let people hate it. Not to be confused with obstinate blocking, but to have the feelings of hating it, of disliking the processes it engenders, of finding those new footings — or rejecting the bad ones. We can't look at this clearly unless we have the space to hate it.
The common thinking in the US is that Trump either blundered his way into the Iran war or was goaded into it by Benjamin Netanyahu.
There’s a bit of truth to the second idea and a lot to the first.
But it’s MBS and the leader of the UAE along with other gulf princes who are really Trump’s guys,
much more than Benjamin Netanyahu.
The way the Trump White House has interwoven US security,
money and geopolitics with them runs much deeper.
And, critically a…
Talk Therapy
Sharing real, vulnerable, and empowering conversations about life, growth and the human experience, to inspire you to lead with courage, embrace the chaos, and stop letting fear get in the way of living your dream life...
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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:
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
Accountants After Hours
The podcast for accountants who want honest conversations, real stories, zero fluff and a little bit of industry gossip...
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Capes Conversations
A weekly podcast celebrating the stories that make the Margaret River Region such a special place to live and visit...
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Mike Vrabel addresses photos with reporter: 'I've had some difficult conversations with people I care about'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriots-mike-vrabel-a…
Want to help people in Gaza suffering through a genocide perpetrated by Israel and supported by many of our own governments?
Here’s a list of everyone we’ve verified using video calls with links to their fundraisers, ranked by how much they managed to raise in the last week:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate
The Uplift Podcast
a fortnightly drop of good energy, real stories and inspiring conversations. Hosted by Harrison Kirkwood and Rachel Baigent...
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Voices In Vet With Allens Training
It gives a voice to the people behind the training sharing insights, real stories and practical conversations that matter in the day-to-day world of vocational education and first aid training...
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Kapitol Conversations
a construction podcast hosted by Andrew Deveson and David Caputo, exploring the people, projects and thinking behind Kapitol's continued growth...
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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
Amplify Our Voices: Conversations From Regional Australia
Recorded in the Clarence Valley, bringing real stories into the light. We explore leadership, equality, business, culture and the structural forces shaping women's lives in regional communities...
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Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/google-is-launching-search-live-globally/
Rebel Radio: Conversations With Allied Health Leaders
Created to capture the personal side of Allied Health careers...
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Meta unveils Live Chats on Threads for real-time conversations during cultural events, launching first within the NBA Threads community during the playoffs (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/threads-is-adding-live-chats-to…
Hard Ground
A podcast for farmers and rural operators willing to have the difficult conversations around succession, production, politics, all of it...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/hard-ground/
Curiously Connected
Conversations that explore behaviour, brains, nervous system, and relationships, and how understanding our own unique wiring might just be the thing that connects us all...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/curiou
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/
My Money Circle Podcast
This podcast is all about real, honest conversations around money without the jargon, pressure, or one-size-fits-all advice...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/my-money-circle/
It Takes A Village
Unfiltered conversations with working parents in Australia's media and marketing industries...
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The Rural Bridge Podcast
Brings honest, long-form conversations around wealth, health, relationships, and the realities of rural life...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-rural-bridge/
Generation Inspired
The show features conversations with founders, creators, athletes, innovators and young change-makers who followed unconventional paths and built extraordinary lives...
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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...
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