
2025-09-09 08:16:01
Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-hate-my-ai-friend/
Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-hate-my-ai-friend/
WTF, was there a market demand for this thing?
"It also listens to whatever you’re doing as you move through the world, no tap required, and offers a running commentary on the interactions you have throughout your day. To perform that trick, the device has microphones that are always activated."
https://www.
residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
Sean Payton reflects on 'friend, confidant' Mike Shanahan after passing Broncos legend on all-time wins list
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sea…
Michael Brown's Friend Who Invented 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' Hoax Is Murdered (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/09/08/michael-browns-friend-who-invented-hands-up-dont-shoot-hoax-is-murdered-n3806580
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p91#a250908p91
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Imaginary Friend (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://sophiakennedy.bandcamp.com/track/imaginary-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/7CbVZ2Yzl0TtcCERaJDZSR
Wigner's friend's black hole adventure: an argument for complementarity?
Laurens Walleghem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05369 https://
Critic as Censor: How the Humanities Sacrificed Art at the Altar of Theory
My beloved friend, mentor, and Columbia University Professor Howard Stein, was fond of saying, “The Enemy of the Arts is the Humanities.” That insight, and advice, has stuck with me over the past 35 years. Now, that phrase is not the glib provocation it may seem. It is a precise diagnosis of an institutional disease, a declaration of war against a century of academic drift that has created a…
Last week I had the great honor to give a talk with my friend Malte about capitalism, (tech-)fascism and how it connects to "AI".
(Original title: “Fascist AI” talk at LOOPS)
https://tante.cc/2025/07/04/fascist-ai-talk-at-loops/
residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
I find myself thinking about a long-lost friend a lot lately. Sometime in the late 90s, we both accepted that our friendship had run its course. I had come to embrace fairly low-key socialism and he was increasingly angry about the media's "liberal bias." The common ground we had once shared was gone. I imagine him cheering now, even as I recall his father, a deeply conservative Marine colonel, remarking that only authoritarian regimes used the military against their own citize…
Haven't done a #FensterFreitag in ages! Today I am sharing a super photo from San Francisco, posted by my dear friend @… over on BlueSty.
Ahahah a friend just reminded me of when we used to bluebox. Those were the days.
Oh, look, the famous letter from the pedophile-in-chief to his good friend that died in jail got released.
Cool, cool...
🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Imaginary Friend (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://sophiakennedy.bandcamp.com/track/imaginary-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/7CbVZ2Yzl0TtcCERaJDZSR
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CargoBike/comments/1ltpsvg/a_friend_gifted_me_this_custom_built_cargo_bike/
I feel like a boob for writing, during a chat with a friend, 'nostri' (from English: 'nostrils') instead of 'nozdri' (Bulgarian: 'ноздри').
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Evenings:
🎵 Friend (Lover)
#Evenings
https://badfriendband.bandcamp.com/track/where-your-evenings-go
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zMmSFncdGYsdmk8qqbh8A
Sometimes, you leave the office a few minutes early and are going to the Green Line and then you run into a friend on the platform at a station neither of us usually use but she’s taking the Yellow instead of the Blue due to construction…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- Piano Stories
Piano technician to the greats, Ulrich Gerhartz is in conversation about pianos with his friend and mentor Alfred Brendel in Brendel's last recorded conversation.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gryg
My friend Molly Snyder who once won the Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Contest at Wisconsin State Fair. (And will try again this year!)
#mke #Milwaukee #wisconsin
Dallas Cowboys legend visits Deion Sanders at Big 12 Media Days https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-legend-visits-deion-sanders-big-12-media-days
Day 4 - The Tiny Crossover.
While the statue cats keep staring into the eternal circle of the Rörsjökanalen, my bag is packed, the second fika is history, and the daily struggles of the Malmödians
continue. I’ve crossed the bridge to the land of the Danes.
I must say that I have never felt more welcome in a place like Malmö. From my friend and her kids to the local supermarket cashier, the guy in the sports shop, the tennis teacher, and the museum staff, you name it! In som…
A friend started this UK Parliament petition and I supported it:
“Review how controlled substances are classified”
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732610
"Whenever anyone asks me for advice, I tell them: we don’t realize how deeply the nine-to-five fractures us. The weekends, the holidays, the fixed friend group—whatever rigidness exists in your behavior will exist in your perception, and it will exist in your ability to think critically."
Victoria Brugger, "Last Words of an Ego on Death Row"
A few thoughts I had after a conversation with a friend. What are you - as a professional - even saying when openly using ChatGPT for your decision-making?
https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/
Today I met with a friend and his kids for a few rides in Prater. Wiener Looping !
Nottingham, short visit rent or housesit, anyone know a place?
Nottingham-related #AskFedi: anyone know of a Nottingham-area house or flat that's going to be empty over part or all of the summer? and that's potentially rentable for not too much for a few days, or wants house-sitting for a while?
It would be so that me and a friend/colleague could go and use the space to do some writing work together. We are reliable conscientious old(ish) people who'd leave it clean and not be any bother :-)
Boosts very welcome.
#Nottingham #AskFedi
Just now, from a friend in Gaza:
“The Israeli minister of defence just announced that the operation has begun. The announcement is from 15 minutes ago. He said that they ordered a high building in Gaza to evacuate (it's a tower) and this is the beginning of the operation. He also says that the operation will escalate and will be intensified
The tower that they will target is about 1.5 km away from us.”
We must stop this.
Get out onto the streets. Protest. Do some…
A Hollywood producer calls a friend, another producer on the phone.
"Hello?" his friend answers.
"Hi!" says the man. "This is Bob, how are you doing?"
"Oh," says the friend, "I'm doing great! I just sold a screenplay
for two hundred thousand dollars. I've started a novel adaptation and the
studio advanced me fifty thousand dollars on it. I also have a television
series coming on next week, and everyone …
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sam Austin:
🎵 pretend friend
#SamAustin
https://open.spotify.com/track/42hPDiwTOSPAPUL51FRNhp
I have an admission to make.
I made a Facebook account. 😭😬
Before you draw and quarter me, please understand this is out of pure desperation/necessity. lol.
Our town only buys/sells things on Marketplace. I don’t want to keep bugging my spouse every time I need to sell something (which isn't very often thankfully) or want to look for some random used thing.
The final straw was having to sell our son's car now that he has moved away.
My punishment: even though I pinned a post on my FB profile saying I am only using it for Marketplace and won't be accepting any Friend requests and that everyone should definitely check out the Free and Open web at socialbc.ca… now I am getting friend requests and feel slightly guilty.
I don't want to confirm them, obviously, but also don't want to delete them because that seems rude.
God I hate how FB has monopolized this stuff!
On the bright side, someone is coming to buy the car today!
#FB #DumpZuck #DonTGoBack #Marketplace #Used
A friend of mine last night told me about how his lover died of AIDS in 1994. And before he died, he had a port installed to more easily administer medication directly to his heart. Another friend also had a port installed in 1994 for AIDS treatment. That friend survived another year until the antiretrovirals became available and he is still alive today. My friend's partner died.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Viagra Boys:
🎵 Only Friend
#ViagraBoys
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DAIpMhGXZ9PAwwWf8QpM5
My friend Ivor just wrote this under a post advising certain mixing approaches:
“Many years ago I was mixing a track, and someone told me I should filter out everything below a certain frequency, as it was not audible. It completely destroyed the feel of the music. The frequency concerned may have been close to inaudible, but when it was there it was affecting how everything else behaved energetically in relation to one another, in ways that would be very hard to describe. That’s the b…
Happy Birthday, dear friend! And a long life for Your Holiness!
Franz Alt (86), Journalist und Buchautor
#DalaiLama
https://www.son…
Low-key judging a FB friend na halos araw-araw kung mag-post ng dasal pero meron ring mga post na may hashtag na “BringPRRDHome”. 👀
We were near President office today where was the gathering of time-stopping supporters which is the essence of „Poland will always be Poland” motto..
Conversation between two older men, both dressed in „patriotic” chinese t-shirts, commenting an arabic-dressed lady.
„My mate in Paris was afraid of standing in the train station, there so much of *this*”.
„My friend in Cologne…”
It’s interesting how in Polish macho culture it’s so easy to admit you’re afraid of a perso…
People hired for their skill are openly using ChatGPT and I wondered, what the long term strategy is?
(Original title: So what are you saying?)
https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/
A thing that puzzles me about biking, and how I bike, and how some apparently "Effective Cyclists" bike, is whether the belief in "the system" affects reactions to problems, or if there might actually might be something cognitive at work. A long-ago-friend of mine, when asked how to use a canoe, said, "don't fall out, don't hit rocks". This was flip and glib, but not all wrong, basically, avoid the two obvious mistakes, and keep doing that. When I sta…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Imaginary Friend (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://sophiakennedy.bandcamp.com/track/imaginary-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/7CbVZ2Yzl0TtcCERaJDZSR
Oh, wanted to share I'm getting a free bike!
Literally for free, a #Bicycle, my grandmother's hiking friend has never used it for the past 10 years, and he can't see very well.
Its also in very good condition, and so I'm excited, will probably pick it up tomorrow or the day after, I love bicycles.
I'm against
Just finished watching Mandalorian.
How would you describe it to your friend to convince them it’s worth watching?
(I will admit that I like storylines that have an end; even if I might not like the end. I completely dislike unfinished stories. It’s my be a bias, as I am under the impression that in the recent years TV series avoid completing their story arcs.)
🌝 Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
http://www.righto.com/2025/07/reverse-engineering-mysterious-up-data.html
#electronics
Over the last couple of weeks I introduced you to our homeless stray cat Cinderella and her descendants Nele, Nepomuk and Nera. Today I'll show you the last one of our cats: say hello to Kasimir. He was also homeless, found by my brother 12 years ago. He moved together with us, when we relocated from Bavaria to the north-eastern corner of Germany in December 2023. Living alone with us for 10 years, it took a while until he became friend with the stray cats family.
Totoro spoilers
Re the quoted post from @…:
The very first time I saw My Neighbor Totoro, it was because a friend cajoled me into attending the student anime club’s showing with absolutely no context whatsoever except “you •have• to see this movie, Paul.” I had no idea what genre it was. I had no idea that it was a movie considered suitable for kids. The last anime I’d seen was IIRC Ghost in the Shell; I was ready for anything.
When Mei went missing, I thought, “omg, is this a tragedy? I think this story is a tragedy!” The whole time they were looking for her, I was absolutely terrified. I thought for sure they’d found her sandal. I still tear up when they find her now, on every rewatching.
I’m so glad for that first viewing. It’s a much better movie that way. When you’re expecting an innocent movie about cute forest plushies, you see that. But when you see that it could be a tragedy — the mother’s shadowy illness, the lost child — it hits hard. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/114792748619083661
UPDATE! They fixed it!
Very sad atm my friend who bridged their account from bluesky isn't found on mastodon.I've added an issue here but I can't figure out what the issue might be.
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1973
@… @… Likewise, I love my TDD cycle. A friend of mine who is into Clojure keeps trying to make me learn how to modify at runtime, but I have been resistant.
I seem to be accidentally writing a Lisp with weird syntax though, s…
Three days later, I've finished turning 20-odd pounds of whole frozen tomatoes (almost all of last summer's harvest from a friend's garden) into just over 3 litres of sauce. A bit of an ordeal (thawing, chopping, roasting, food-milling, reducing, reducing, reducing) but it tastes good!
Next time, fresh plum-style 'maters for sure!
>Friend: "How can I get better results in low-light photos?"
>Me: "Use a portable sun"
>Friend: "LED panel?"
>Me: "No... The other type"
>Friend: "_Oh no_."
Cowboys reunite with former star who vows to protect best friend Dak Prescott https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-reunite-former-star-offensive-tackle-vows-protect-best-friend-dak-prescott
1. Condoms do not guarantee safe sex! A friend of mine was wearing one when he was shot by the woman's husband.
2. I think all politicians should wear uniforms. You know, like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
3. Also, all politicians should serve only two terms -- one in office and one in prison.
This was a public service announcement. No need to thank me!!
There was this New Yorker that had a lifelong ambition to be an Texan.
Fortunately, he had an Texan friend and went to him for advice. "Mike,
you know I've always wanted to be a Texan. You're a *____real* Texan, what
should I do?"
"Well," answered Mike, "The first thing you've got to do is look
like a Texan. That means you have to dress right. The second thing
you've got to do is speak in a southern drawl."
Late for this year, but I just heard about Heavenly Hounds Relaxation Squares. A friend tried them on their dogs and reported great satisfaction. #pets #fireworks
https://
A family friend died over the weekend.
Cancer.
He was late 30s / early 40s.
Too many people are dying way too early!
My peeps, get a #colonoscopy.
residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
Friend or Foe
Oleksandr Cherendichenko, Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn, Laura M. Carroll, Eric Libby
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00123 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…
When someone honks at me in anger, I wave to them they're my friend who I'm excited to see.
For some reason they don't like this.
Is it wrong to skip digging into a project just because it's build setup needs to install #npm first? Asking for a friend.
In Memory Of Tom
Inspired by the life of a mentor and friend...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://muz4no…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Maria Minerva:
🎵 I Could Be Your Best Friend
#MariaMinerva
https://mariaminerva.bandcamp.com/track/i-could-be-your-best-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/62HdzV365BAdKKIdntNs8K
#today will be #RepairCafé then a friend's birthday party and clubbing...
A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
#CelineDion #MyHeartWillGoOn
Google Pixel 8 and newer models can now stream audio to multiple headphones at once with expanded Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast support (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/770233/google-android-bluetooth-audio-le-multipl…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
David Bowie And Friends:
🎵 Looking For A Friend - Paris Theatre 1971
#DavidBowieAndFriends
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Ginger Root:
🎵 Phone a Friend
#GingerRoot
https://gingerroot.bandcamp.com/track/phone-a-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/1pyBialmH72dXMuKnjLlJS
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gruff Rhys:
🎵 Bad Friend
#NowPlaying #GruffRhys
https://gruffrhys.bandcamp.com/track/bad-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rYO8geLMcYDcQ7mZha9Ib
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
They Might Be Giants:
🎵 Your Racist Friend
#TheyMightBeGiants
https://guesthost1.bandcamp.com/track/your-racist-friend-tmbg-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hNrg9cIjyWuklYGWIduy5
slashdot_zoo: Slashdot Zoo friend-foe network (2009)
A network of interactions among users on Slashdot (slashdot.org), a technology news website. Users name each other as friends or foe. The friend label increases the scores of post, and the foe label decreases the score.
This network has 79120 nodes and 515397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Special Aka:
🎵 Racist Friend
#NowPlaying #TheSpecialAka
https://diametral.bandcamp.com/track/racist-friend-special-a-k-a-cover-live-in-prenzlau-2002
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mZ5ErcbrBqNtKN7rXaLk1
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Luna:
🎵 Friendly Advice
#Luna
https://luna.bandcamp.com/track/friendly-advice
https://open.spotify.com/track/0I8yCwp4Oy3H3UQdLYtYZl
residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Friend:
🎵 Pray For Me
#Friend
https://thefired.bandcamp.com/track/old-friend-jack-2
residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ryli:
🎵 Friend Collector
#Ryli
https://dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/friend-collector-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3MUeJ5rkkUYfHdGsvn4KBs
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sonic Youth:
🎵 My Friend Goo
#SonicYouth
https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/track/my-friend-goo-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/3BbPWMc572VSVDC7okGwJx
college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
POiSON GiRL FRiEND:
🎵 MELTING MOMENT
#POiSONGiRLFRiEND
slashdot_zoo: Slashdot Zoo friend-foe network (2009)
A network of interactions among users on Slashdot (slashdot.org), a technology news website. Users name each other as friends or foe. The friend label increases the scores of post, and the foe label decreases the score.
This network has 79120 nodes and 515397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…
freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…
slashdot_zoo: Slashdot Zoo friend-foe network (2009)
A network of interactions among users on Slashdot (slashdot.org), a technology news website. Users name each other as friends or foe. The friend label increases the scores of post, and the foe label decreases the score.
This network has 79120 nodes and 515397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed