2026-08-27 08:41:27
WZB-Diskussionspapier "AI images, labels and news demand"
https://wzb.eu/de/publikationen/discussion-papers/markt-und-entscheidung
WZB-Diskussionspapier "AI images, labels and news demand"
https://wzb.eu/de/publikationen/discussion-papers/markt-und-entscheidung
Discussion of how evolution, under #capitalism, systematically selects for #psychopathy. Which is obvious, when you think about it, but it's interesting to hear it argued explicitly.
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis: The Rules of the Game …
Posting some typical north American power infrastructure in response to a discussion earlier today.
This pole is in a downtown area and is mixed transmission, distribution, and communications.
Top lines with largest spacing are transmission, feeding to a substation the next block over. Probably 100 kV.
The ones on the cross arm are distribution, probably around 10 kV. Both 3 sets are 3 phase.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/116840098196799526
i like the part in
PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION OF THE LOGICAL DESIGN OF AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTING INSTRUMENT
(28 june 1946)
I learned a long time ago that the smell of fruit helped me identify the better tasting produce (and without bruising the fruit by squeezing it). This article raises a much broader discussion topic:
Smelling test: children need education in sniffing aromas, scientist says
ht…
I learned a long time ago that the smell of fruit helped me identify the better tasting produce (and without bruising the fruit by squeezing it). This article raises a much broader discussion topic:
Smelling test: children need education in sniffing aromas, scientist says
ht…
From a historical point of view: what's the difference between #radioactivity and #ai ?
#history
"the game no longer makes sense.
Academia, as most of us have practiced it, runs on maximalism. The most grants, the most papers, the most students, the most awards, the most news coverage. While we are doing much better these days in highlighting impact and contributions, the underlying engine is still volume... The problem is that AI makes volume essentially infinite (until the world burns up, but that's a parallel discussion)."
Just published a new comment on the NPM discussion page about upcoming phase out of 2FA tokens for direct publishing and the dire consequences this will have on many projects (including ~220 of my own packages). I'd appreciate if more people impacted by these changes are making their voices heard, before it's too late...
Taking a break from digital privacy news, online engagement in discussion groups and testing new privacy tools can be a positive, healthy experience.
https://theprivacydad.com/its-ok-to-take-a-break-from-thinking-about-digital-privacy/
The Fedi just *shines* when we do Big Ideas. Herewith a very civilised conversation about gender, power, violence, colonialism, and how to unthink all the rubbish we get taught. Follow the thread right through; the original claim that "testosterone is more dangerous than CO2" is not the best way to challenge toxic masculinity, but the discussion includes more measured voices.
The FDA’s Overton Problem
On Thursday, Republican Senator SusanCollins,
a self-described abortion rights supporter,
asked not a single question about abortion during the hearing for Food and Drug Administration commissioner nominee Heidi Overton.
That, along with testy exchanges with Democrats over Overton’s vaccine views, is likely to be the primary takeaway from the confirmation hearing.
But while Overton’s past comments on mifepristone and vaccines receive …
NFL Week 3 grades for all 32 teams: Patriots stumble to an 'F,' Commanders earn an 'A' for stunning Seahawks
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-3-grades-…
Las Vegas’ long standing gap in specialized pediatric care meets a franchise level response as the Raiders deliver a $25 million gift to Intermountain Health https://www.raiders.com/news/las-v…
Cowboys conduct walk-around at Maracanã Stadium, get a feel for field conditions https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-conduct-walk-around-at-maracana-stadium-get-a-feel-for-field-conditions
For those people interested in digital identity , wallets etc., Architecture and Reference Framework for the EU Digital Identity Wallet, version 3.0 has been released.
#EU
Her inclusion of Kristin Leachman’s “Longleaf 2” invites us to look at minute details of our surroundings, while a woven Gullah basket made from sweetgrass invokes discussion about how we take from the land. One piece that McCaskill is excited about is an untitled work by Radcliffe Bailey because of the artist’s ability to construct polyvocal stories that cross time, generations and space.
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A new concept of government: “pathocracy” and, I suppose, this leads to #pathocrats. Well worth reading, especially the the discussion after the concept of #pathocracy is raised.
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
A new concept of government: “pathocracy” and, I suppose, this leads to #pathocrats. Well worth reading, especially the the discussion after the concept of #pathocracy is raised.
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
What I’m missing in the discussion of the OpenAI LLM hacking Huggingface:
The fact that a LLM even considered an illegal activity (not to mention putting it into practice) reveals crass misalignment. Disabling the guardrails is one thing. Having the LLM commit a crime is another.
A friend is a member of the #DAR and is a local delegate to the recent national convention. She says there was a faction that tried to amend the bylaws to preclude the admission of #trans members, forcing the hiring of a professional parliamentarian to run the discussion up to the eventual vote on the motion, w…
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How Julian Edelman uses a group chat and voice memos to shape 'Fox NFL Kickoff' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7623849/2026/09/25/julian-edelman-fox-nfl-kickoff-podcast/
Cowboys conduct walk-around at Maracanã Stadium, get a feel for field conditions https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-conduct-walk-around-at-maracana-stadium-get-a-feel-for-field-conditions
""Several times in my life I’ve tried to break in with a new social group. […] Pretty quickly I learned that the best and fastest way to join a group is to organize events where we do the group’s core activity. […] there is far more demand for social events and things to do than there is supply. […] I’ve found this true everywhere from niche online fanfiction discussion groups to vanguard intellectual movements directing hundreds of millions of dollars annually.""
The feds have returned to Black Hat/DEFCON
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260716737340/en/Black-Hat-USA-2026-Keynotes-to-Address-AIs-Impact-on-Cyber-Operations…
Tuesday 21 July, Durham-Raleigh #Accessibility MeetUp (online or IRL in Millersville) will talk about the book, “Digital Accessibility Ethics: #Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech” with @…
Programming language tradeoffs.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/language-tradeoffs

Programming language trade-offs
This article is also available in Serbo-Croatian
This article is also available in Dutch
There has been much discussion of late in Drupal about Object-Oriented Programming. That's not really surprising, given that Drupal 7 is the first version that has really tried to use objects in any meaningful way (vis, as something…
Capture of #interstellar objects during stellar encounters: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18551 -> discussion: https://bsky.app/profile/planetplanet.bsky.social/post/3mrppvl5x422r
Peter Alexander & Jen Psaki have an wicked, almost intense discussion about Trump, Karoline Leavitt & the WH Press Corp.
▶️ Psaki reacts to Leavitt stepping down from being WH press secretary
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ialjwTS5l4Y&si=LzZpu_OODJgc3tWw…
The course also includes works of theater, dance and literature along with the visual pieces in the study gallery. For example, Johnson chose Joyce Kozloff’s “Maui: Sugar Plantation” to connect the colonization of Hawaii to current discussion of Puerto Rico after she noticed her students’ interest in Bad Bunny’s popular Super Bowl halftime show.
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Somewhere I'm following a discussion where someone suggested not calling the bar full of nazis with a nazi bartender a nazi bar or suggesting that's where nazis hang out.
🍿
Hoax alert: that legal threat supposedly sent by Flock to a discussion group telling them not to "analyze or speculate" about Flock's security vulnerabilities was made up by the group.
What Flock *actually* does is evil enough, so don't muddy the waters by making stuff up, geez. Also I was mildly suspicious of this but boosted it anyway so my bad I guess.
We could avoid so many fights if we could just agree to disagree.
And - 🤔 maybe - a disagreement might even lead to some reflection and discussion later on. Maybe more than hardened fronts. Well at least in my case. But maybe I'm not representative for the majority of people..
Well... Just thinking.. Feel free to disagree - or agree - or not to take a position at all.
Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy
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Rep. Gabe Amo (D-RI) sounded the alarm about Trump's international diplomacy tactics during a discussion with CNN's John Berman.
"What's clearly happening is Donald Trump ... still can't stop the war that he started,
and Americans are paying the price," said Amo.
"My constituents are paying the price. And people across the region are less safe."
Amo, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, explained the problem as he saw it…
Reserved Top Level #DNS Names
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606
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Sources: Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-stripe-exclusive-…
Just thinking about the political discussion going on here these days... Seems to me we need better labels. 'Right' in English has the unfortunate connotation of 'correct', and 'Left' the connotation (but perhaps only among the better read) of 'sinister'... I think new terms without that baggage are required. I propose that the Left<->Right spectrum be replaced by the Nobel<->Ignoble spectrum, which is more objective accurate in any case.
This month's Papers Club reading is titled
Textiling World Politics: Towards an extended epistemology, methodology, and ontology
and we are inviting Toronto's makers, scholars, and thinkers of every stripe to come join the discussion. We are extending special invitations to fiber artists - that includes knitting, crochet, weaving, fashion design etc. So if you know a fiber artist friend, please forward them this message :)
Thank you, hope to see you on July 27th!
Fascinating discussion of where menopause came from and potentially why it evolved:
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/stephaniesammann-the-rarest-trait-orcas-share-with-us-its-not-intelligence/
YT:
RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/117107705258642031
This is interesting in the whole discussion about datacenters and AI. Ofcourse they are needed for training but the inference will be possible on local hardware.
Interesting discussion over at /r/books. I haven't followed that many book series after an author's death or retirement. The first ones that spring to mind for me are Clancy, Parker, and Cussler.
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1v
Maxx Crosby's Raiders future questioned as Cowboys emerge as potential trade partner https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/maxx-crosby-cowboys-trade-ashton-jeanty-injury/f721912a0c5e8f7c90a1989b…
As an American who loves language and has spent a bit of time in the U.K., I enjoy the quirks that distinguish the versions of English.
One that I don't tend to see much discussion of is the way Americans will say "would you like ice cream?" or "I'm getting coffee" while Brits say "would you like an ice cream?" or "I'm getting a coffee."
There's no conclusion here, I just enjoy it. It's not like the "team have/team …
Tell the city administrator that infrastructure co-ordination is NOT optional and there will be one group responsible, no discussion, no debate, here is your order. That group checks with the departments, province and utilities on what is coming up for the next 12 to 18 months. Also, if there is an emergency they are consulted so that ALL parties are informed.
“… smart glasses are becoming slimmer, less noticeable […], raising concerns not only about exam integrity, but also about broader privacy risks.”
Maybe I missed it, but so far I haven’t seen much discussion of the risks posed by #smartglasses in academic settings in particular, for both students and instructors.
“… smart glasses are becoming slimmer, less noticeable […], raising concerns not only about exam integrity, but also about broader privacy risks.”
Maybe I missed it, but so far I haven’t seen much discussion of the risks posed by #smartglasses in academic settings in particular, for both students and instructors.
“… smart glasses are becoming slimmer, less noticeable […], raising concerns not only about exam integrity, but also about broader privacy risks.”
Maybe I missed it, but so far I haven’t seen much discussion of the risks posed by #smartglasses in academic settings in particular, for both students and instructors.
"The truth is that the British government has placed itself in an exposed position thanks to its increasingly aggressive intervention in the Russia-Ukraine war.
"From the first, it has spared no effort to prolong the war – Boris Johnson stopped partying in Downing Street long enough to fly to Kiev in April 2022 to help block an incipient peace deal."
We drift ever closer towards war, without debate or discussion | Morning Star
A great discussion on how all the cross-investing in AI looks like Enron leading up to the crash. https://youtu.be/KIednHv2BHU?si=P93FtNIgWrwpCyaf&t=6814
About "86% of all new power generation in the world this last year was in the form of renewable energy,
so that's real progress.
The problem is we still have a lot of legacy fossil fuel energy."
-- Michael E. Mann .
https://bsky.app/profile/thebulletin.o
Insider trading steering military decisions and politicians betting on their own campaigns. Prediction markets could be the most dangerous new technology since ChatGPT—especially for this administration. My new Substack at https://jonippolito.substack.com
Maxx Crosby's Raiders future questioned as Cowboys emerge as potential trade partner https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/maxx-crosby-cowboys-trade-ashton-jeanty-injury/f721912a0c5e8f7c90a1989b…
> "#GitHub advanced security" bot
Checks.
> Reviews random PR telling people to add docstring to a test 🤦.
https://github.com/praiskup/argparse-manpage/pull/131#discussion_r3595368424
📂 Your past agent sessions are stored in local provider history files. ctx indexes them into a #SQLite database on your machine, so current & future agents can find the prior discussion, command, or failed attempt before repeating it
Typesafe AI's Jev is interesting, and it might be better (and cheaper) than rawdogging LLMs, but it's still a magic blackbox language model. Their cookbook examples are all "attach some ceremonial gems to a natural language question, and Jev will point at the gems that answer the question, probably."
There's some discussion of the types of questions Jev is bad at, but there's no discussion of how to validate that a question yields the result you intend. Hey it works on this example. Ship it!
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RE: https://gruene.social/@jon/117231312115546549
So this post by @… led to a long discussion of the ethnozoonym "elk". Apparently …
Former Department of Government Efficiency, (or DOGE), employees are working on an artificial intelligence takeover of federal government services for the Trump administration.
The Washington Sun reports that the staffers are setting up an AI-driven website,
America.gov,
to help Americans with everything from obtaining and renewing passports to potentially preparing and filing taxes for free.
(The latter is still under discussion and would be a reversal from the Whit…
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It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,”
the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.
But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault these days may be its silence.
It’s a mystery scientists are still trying to unlock.
The San Andreas is central to any discussion of California.
It’s the massive 800-mile spine of the state,
trundling up the Coachella Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains,
and p…
Whenever I use an #LLM it really annoys me it's offering multiple choices. So it puts the burden of checking and filtering out invalid responses back on me. It's practically impossible to follow a chain of thought in a conversation. Why did they call it a chat? Probably because it will always stay on the surface of things and never turn into a thoughtful discussion.
Hurricane Lala began its path toward Hawaii’s Big Island on Saturday,
though the possibility of a direct hit, which would be the first in 155 years, was uncertain.
In its latest forecast discussion, National Hurricane Center meteorologists said the hurricane is displaying a possible new track,
making it “unclear if Lala will actually make a landfall on the Big Island.”
The tropical cyclone is unleashing what could be life-threatening rain on the Big Island
as it…
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Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman has argued that Congress
“should do a little more” to help wealthy Americans.
The six-term congressman, 71, a Donald Trump loyalist,
spoke up for neglected U.S. elites Thursday during a panel discussion on the economy in Troy, Michigan, with that state’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. John James, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and other officials.
As the conversation pivoted to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in J…
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"More and more people are dying.
So the question arises:
wouldn't it be better to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine
rather than, perhaps later, over Poland?
This is a subject for a very serious discussion,
one that should not become a hostage to party-political rivalry,"
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.
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Luigi Mangione’s case has drawn extensive global attention
as Thompson’s death spurred intense discussion about the US’s heavily criticized for-profit healthcare system.
The attention has also been fueled by M…
I really like @… blog, everybody should read it, i especially like the continuing pelican discussion 🙂, #AI #pelican #simonwillison
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a screening and conversation on
"Deportation Inc.: Investigating the Business of Migrant Removal",
presented by SITU Research, and The Intercept.
Registration is free and required to attend.
Deportation Inc. is an ongoing video series by SITU and Lawfare
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a multi-billion-dollar industry shaped by private profit and…
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