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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-…
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-…
@… also FYI
BACKUP_LIBRARIES
Recent discussion (I'll add something more this weekend): <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/
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"Exploring Stakeholder Awareness, Institutional Support, and Implementation of Co-Design in Higher Education: Challenges and AI Readiness"
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/libphilprac/8310/
"Findings show that awareness of co-design is moderate and institutional em…
Repost: CFP: A History of Demons and Blood Across Time
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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.
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I wrote this in a discussion where someone was posting anti-ebike stuff:
“I’m a cyclist who switched to an ebike last year due to health issues. As a bonus it also allowed me to bike to work. I ride as courteously as I did on my acoustic, maybe more so. It’s about the rider, their experience, and the respect they show others, more than it is the bike.”
This seems like it’s shaping up to be a rough summer for responsible ebike riders who read the comments.
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.
“… 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.
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Insider Reveals Kayshon Boutte News Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/patriots-kayshon-boutte-news-speculation/
📂 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
When, in 2024, Chinese scientists reported developing an artificial-intelligence tool to design conotoxins, it raised eyebrows in some quarters.
In an e-mail to a private AI and biotechnology discussion group seen by Nature, a senior US government employee flagged the study as a possible biosecurity risk.
The employee, who asked not to be named because of concerns for their job, felt it was especially concerning that the conotoxin AI is based on an open-source protein language …
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.
We were on a wee cycling loop. At one spot I had some disagreement with a larger root in the the way. During the short discussion, the click pedal took sides of the root and intervened in the discussion.
In the end we agreed to disagree and I need to repair my sock 🪡 🧵. Well, could all be worse.
Take care!
#cycling
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)
“For an Irish Government Minister, no movement is imaginable unless the Minister experiences an external pressure. Making decisions because the actions might be a good idea doesn't even enter the discussion.”
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-promise-of-no-change/
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Pretty sure here are people interested in the history of NeXT, Inc. On the occasion of the new book "Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary" by Geoffrey Cain, the Computer History Museum published a recent discussion with Geoffrey Cain with some early and central NeXT people. Enjoy: https://www.
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This is an absolutely brilliant discussion. Worth a listen:
Yesterday, in our very warm office, an interesting discussion emerged: there was no dedicated taxonomy for evaluating Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in MISP.
So, we created one called: cti-evaluation
🔗 https://www.misp-project.org/taxonomies.html#_cti_evaluation
I recalled a G183 discussion on a TPGuy post from a few years ago.
Vispero memory-holed it all when it subsumed TPGuy:
https://vispero.com/resources/well-color-us-surprised-this-sc-can-be-a-tricky-customer/
Thankfully, there’s Way…
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The Sideline Story: Rugby League Podcast
Take the discussion of Rugby League to another level, delving into the hottest topics from the NRL, Super League, international game, women's game, lower grades, and much more...
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I love this nerdy #Slidebean discussion into colorspaces (sRGB, HDR10), gamuts, dynamic range, gamma curves, nits, monitors, etc.! 🖥️
https://youtu.be/6hAVA6_Sczs
Mike Florio Delivers Strong Take on Maxx Crosby’s Raiders Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mike-florio-strong-take-maxx-crosby-future/
In other words, we as a campus community have an active debate about which debates are even worth having — and we have room to exercise judgement about which voices we as a community choose to amplify.
Amplifying all voices is not a route to free society; it’s a route to total noise. Flooding the zone is just as effective a means of censorship as silencing all opposition. As people trying to foster useful discussion, we have an obligation to choose choose wisely our topics of discussion and the voices we elevate.
7/
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.
Audrey Tang @… on 'Software Freedom as Civic Care' and so much more - 'care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance' https://civic.ai/software-freedom-as-c
A great 50min sit down discussion with Jon Favreau & Tracy Smith about Star Wars, Marvel, his acting & more.
▶️ Extended interview: Jon Favreau - CBS This Morning
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FT46j6trJXY&si=UecTYz6rxh5VO1v1
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Migrating from #Go to #Rust
https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
Wouldn't an itinerary tracing various culinary stples be fun? I've often pondered a food-centric tour - either around the Mediterranean, or along a cost of the Mediterranean and then through the Middle East into India. (Working in a semiconductor company, with employees from pretty much everywhere, I remember the intense discussion between an Iraqui, an Indian (Mumbai) and a Korean on the right way to cook rice.)
Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed m…
Wouldn't an itinerary tracing various culinary stples be fun? I've often pondered a food-centric tour - either around the Mediterranean, or along a cost of the Mediterranean and then through the Middle East into India. (Working in a semiconductor company, with employees from pretty much everywhere, I remember the intense discussion between an Iraqui, an Indian (Mumbai) and a Korean on the right way to cook rice.)
Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed m…
The most accurate philosophical discussion about LLMs. I only disagree in the point that I don't think embodiment is a prerequisite for consciousness. https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01kv4vtdwrteaxv8e1eghe8dew
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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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Plastic Poisons Primates: One Focus of 2026 American Society of Primatologists Conference https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2026/6/17/plastic-poisons-primates-one-focus-of-2026-american-s…
The Speakers
This is a spoken word poem read on top of a vaguely hip-hop backing track posted on the "Twanger Central" section of the guitar-oriented discussion board www.tdpri.com by a player whose screen name is "cminor9." The poem was a morning poem (sometimes I wake up with some lines) that I didn't know what to do with. It fit here. "Speakers" is a synonym for "humans" in this context.
From a historical point of view: what's the difference between #radioactivity and #ai ?
#history
The Bible, Animal Studies, and the Sciences: Past, Present, and Future
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“The vast majority of German political science scholars and the German international relations community have made virtually no analytical contribution to the discussion.
Either they refrained from taking a stance, or they went so far as to use their own academic authority to justify Israeli warfare or to endorse official Israeli perspectives on the conduct of the war. Such justifications were offered without any substantive engagement with the available analyses and documentation of wa…
every week I wear a different football shirt to the discussion section for my world cup & the politics of football class and I get to start by telling everyone about the shirt I picked for that week. this week class was about race& global football so I'll be wearing Vasco bc of The Historic Response
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It took many hours of thought and discussion - I'm infinitely grateful to our team at @…
RE: #Wikipedia Talk …
This (link below) appears to be @…'s (very careful) commentary on the ongoing #BambuLabs #GPL violation row.
It's an interesting read, and …
Remembering dear Roman Verostko, who died this month two years ago, aged 94. An highly influential figure, not just for algorithmic art in general, but also for younger me personally, after meeting him during a panel discussion at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and then corresponding for several years after...
Living as a monk and ordained priest in the 1950/60s, he absolutely cherished his limited computer time which he had first access to as student. The more he learned a…
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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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…
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.
Discovered a segfault in #FastAPI very strange, does only happen on MacOS with Python 3.14.0 ALPHA
The reason was that I was unaware that I ran an alpha version of Python 3.14.
FastAPI segfaults with Python 3.14.0 on MacOS · fastapi/fastapi · Discussion #15819
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, HUD Secretary Scott Turner have heated discussion over homelessness, Biden
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5878670-gillibrand-hud-turner-testimony/
These days, we often read that the richest person in the world is getting even richer. There is hardly any discussion of the nature of this wealth – namely, that it consists largely of fictitious capital, the capitalization of a claim to wealth to be produced in the future.
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""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.""
Journal of Global Catholicism Volume 10, Issue 2 (2026) Inter-Spiritual Dialogue Released
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Playing with CSAF 2.1 CSD02 and GCVE extensions.
https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/csaf-and-gcve-bcp-05-extensions/1093
I think more and more that having GCVE extension on all vulnerability standard format makes much more sense nowadays.
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…
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Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:
If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?
The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?
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Sources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-use-microsofts-ai-chips…
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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Well Played
Conversations on Marketing and Brand is a discussion through the lens of Kate Ware and Esther Kelleher; two career marketers who have seen the industry evolve from the inside since the early 2000's...
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Oh boy. The #Wikipedia article on the Iran war lists “Iranian victory” as the war’s result on the article infobox. (But this is tagged as disputed and there’s a lively discussion on the article’s talk page.)
I’m sure this will not help with the very dim view of Wikipedia already held by conservative, MAGA, and Israel-allied sections in the United States and Israel. 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸
Thermals on the VM server seem dramatically improved from the recent upgrades!
The changes made were:
* Swap the existing cheap 2x 120mm case fans with floppy connector and no PWM/monitoring out for Noctuas with a normal 4-wire fan connector
* Add two new 80mm Noctua fans on the back of the chassis, which previously had no fans in that spot but obvious screw holes where they could be added
* Add PCIe slot fan next to the NIC
* Use IPMI commands to force all fans to …
There should be more discussion about the costs of AI related to their actual added value in organisations. It is great to have an enormously capable model like Fable5, but is it worth it, can't we do the same tasks or parts of those tasks with much cheaper models?
https://artificialanalysis.ai/#price
@…
"It's completely pointless to even start any discussion about that junk!", shouted the participant who encouraged discussion by adding 170 words of AI-generated text.
<https://forums.fr…
@… Ouais… J’ai reconnu certains éléments mentionnés dans le fil, mais l’interprétation est... bizarre. Si j'ai bien compris, la keynote et la discussion étaient en anglais, donc il y avait potentiellement un problème de communication, mais je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le ton du post…
@… Ouais… J’ai reconnu certains éléments mentionnés dans le fil, mais l’interprétation est... bizarre. Si j'ai bien compris, la keynote et la discussion étaient en anglais, donc il y avait potentiellement un problème de communication, mais je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le ton du post…
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 @…
Some recent discussion on one of the OpenTTD groups led me to reminisce about SimCity, and I wondered what it would take to start playing again.
Read more 👉 #FortMcclellan
Raiders Receive Compelling Take on Free Agent Deebo Samuel https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/compelling-take-free-agent-deebo-samuel/
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
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.
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@…
1948/1949 Philips type 520A television and radio - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum — <https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showth
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…
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