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What's It Like to Travel Near the Speed of Light? Part 3: The Limited View - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/whats-it-like-to-travel-near-the-speed-of-light-part-3-the-limited-view

Source: Microsoft plans to release an AI security tool this month using models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and itself, as a cost-effective Mythos alternative (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-microsoft-p…

Exclusive: Microsoft Preps Mythos-Like AI Bug Finder
Microsoft is preparing to release a new AI security product, internally codenamed Project Perception, to capture a piece of companies’ rising cyber defense spending. Set to debut as soon as this month, the product will use a combination of AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft itself to sniff out software bugs similar to the way Anthropic’s Mythos model does and automatically fix the

Eli Manning: Father 'didn't like the idea' of forcing a trade from Chargers during 2004 NFL Draft https://www.nfl.com/news/eli-manning-father-didn-t-like-the-idea-of-forcing-a-trade-from-chargers-during-2004-nfl-dr…

Briefly delighted to learn that one of the cable-laying vessels mentioned in this piece, was previously named "Clark Cable".
https://www.keystone-collective.org/greece-is-building-its-own-internet-turkey-would-like-a-word/

Greece Is Building Its Own Internet. Turkey Would Like a Word.
A NATO ally's warships have now challenged civilian cable ships working in Greek waters three times in eighteen months. Each incident, taken alone, could be a misunderstanding. Together, they look like a policy. There is a concept in international relations called the fait accompli, the established fact, the thing that

Such a long article that can be summarised in "Venezuela is a US's banana republic and there won't be elections any time soon because Trump & friends only care about its natural resources".
Honestly, the article is a shame.
https://…

‘Feels like an illusion’: how Trump seizing Maduro has changed little in Venezuela
Some feel optimistic change will come, but for many it’s business as usual for the movement Hugo Chávez started

Another famous case is the grimacing face 😬 (which I personally like a lot). Initially its design varied widely between platforms: It looked like a toothy (but happy) grin 😁 on some platforms, but like the pained grimace on others - so there was a lot of potential for misunderstanding. In such a case, the design is then usually adapted in a later version to get a better match with other platforms. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

Fructose Isn't Just Sugar. It Acts More Like a Hormone - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/18/0444250/fructose-isnt-just-sugar-it-acts-more-like-a-hormone

When you are a game developer, every Godot release feels like Xmas!
https://godotengine.org/releases/4.7/

Godot 4.7 Release: Lights, Camera, Action!
Like a cult classic movie, Godot 4 has only gotten better with age. This brings us to Godot 4.7. With 3 years under its belt, the 4.7 _Director’s Cut_ offers colors of never-before-reached intensity.

Can everyone please stop giving software names like “Continuwuity of Theseus”?! I'd like to be able to recommend platforms like Matrix to normals at some point…

RE: #DearLazyWeb (#Anarchist lazy web): does anyone know if anything like this already exists?

Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

So, I'm still experimenting with locally run LLMs (powered by solar cells!) for writing some inconsequential data mangling stuff for my "vintage cameras" hobby; it's quite interesting how the development cycle with these LLMs sort of drives home that LLMs are completely useless for almost anything they're advertised for, like writing (for humans).
The thing is: coding is the use case that LLMs are by far most suitable for and they still largely suck at it.
There's immense amounts of training data of correctly functioning code, there's tons of documentation, a lot of code is in repositories that include the full history of its development including why stuff was changed in small bits, code itself is the simplest of "human" languages and mathematically non-ambiguous, code can be checked in small bits for correctness by just running it, in many languages simple code snippets can be written to introspect on the code (e.g. find out what methods an object supports, so an LLM can query the language or libraries themselves in addition to the user) and perhaps most importantly: code is always and has always been very similar to other, existing code as most software serves the ever same repetitive use cases, both in detail and on a high level.
YET… using LLMs to code requires countless iterations to get there, both internally in the LLM (to get the code even running in the first place) and together with the user to make it do the right thing. And even when it's "there" the code is mediocre at best, and often veering into appalling.
And this is expected to just work on the first try on much more complex issues like writing for humans? Transcribing doctors? Having legal opinions? Identifying fraud? lol, sure

"…Every filthy stupid thing that happens is happening in the open, now: Captains of industry line up to shake Trump's hand at…big birthday party he threw for himself…every new blast of rank & ancient bigotry or proudly pig-stupid backwardness arrives w/o euphemism or qualification. Trump is not just figuratively walling himself off from…DC, & glowering down at its residents, he is literally doing all those things."

Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States weren’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has always been right about everything when he is transparently a butterfingered dunce whose professional expertise more or less begins…

"The reasoning it shows along the way looks like the work of a senior researcher rather than the output of an automated scanner."
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.

"The chains that bind us are not English. They are #Capitalist and the UK state is one of capitalism’s most central nodes of political and economic power. Creating a new independent Scotland matters, not as a project to escape colonial rule by evil England — though there is of course a case to be made for Scotland’s raw deal within the UK — but as a hammer blow against the

Wha's Like Us?
The case for Scottish independence, with the nationalism taken out

I’m scared. I wonder very much what the next few days will bring because this is looking like basically a president who is losing it and unfortunately losing it in a way that can really make the world a much worse place very fast.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/don

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Duran Duran:
🎵 Hungry Like the Wolf
#DuranDuran
https://sdrw.bandcamp.com/track/duran-duran-hungry-like-the-wolf-sdrw
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qeESyQyH7MRHCBotCQsNq

I learned to wear laughter like fat
I learned to wear laughter like bondage
I learned to grab laughter and stab

It's funny to go through Facebook after something like a football game. Because their algorithm is so stupid, it shows me tons of posts from before the game, with all the hope, cheering etc., and one feels like a time traveler, wanting to say "you'll see, you'll see"...
Not here in Mastodon :)
Nothing to be ashamed of in yesterday's game, Croatia showed up good, and congratulations to England.
Although the first goal was stolen.

Imaging spectroscopy reveals spike-like repeating radio burst pairs in the solar #corona: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74137-2 -> LOFAR imaging spectroscopy reveals spike-like repeating radio burst pairs in the solar corona: https://cesra.net/?p=4461

from my link log —
Is TypeScript worth it?
https://blog.logrocket.com/is-typescript-worth-it/
saved 2020-01-15 https://dotat.…

Is TypeScript worth it? - LogRocket Blog
I would like the jury to know that I am, for the most part, a TypeScript fan but I do have some nagging doubts that I would like to discuss in this post.

I feel like my forehead is dusty but with like
human dust

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Barry Can't Swim:
🎵 Cars Pass By Like Childhood Sweethearts
#NowPlaying #BarryCantSwim
https://barrycantswim.bandcamp.com/track/cars-pass-by-like-childhood-sweethearts
https://open.spotify.com/track/4JS3vWNwzVVVHIXj2UrHm9

#whatImReading is Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Take Me To Your Leader. It’s all his take on the old UFO/ET business. Mildly amusing. He covers the history and all the ins and outs of UFOlogy. But what I’ve never seen an answer to is, why do UFOs have running lights at all? Why would they need them? If they were hiding they wouldn’t have them for sure.
If you like Tyson you’ll like this book.

Earlier it was Tencent. Now it's Baidu (202.46.48.0/20) getting an iptables block from phpc.social because I like having decentralized social media reachable more than I like them scraping it for their LLMs or whatever (sorry Alibaba, had "Qwen" here a second ago, but I'll block y'all too if you try this crap).
#mastoadmin

My wife's not on mastodon, but when she's bored she will occasionally read my toots* and boosts. I've boosted lots of @… posts, which she has enjoyed enough to (unbeknownst to me) purchase his book.
* which is why I'm ALWAYS on my best behavior. 😏

Immediate (and obvious) memeing.
When I first saw the photo, I thought there was no way it could be real, it had to be AI.
It's not. There's several videos of it, shot from several directions. I've seen them. This is 100% real. And this photo is one for the photos of the year.
#Russia's Moscow is burning. Hard. At long last.

Hey @… does the new version of Indigo have a limit of like around 1600 posts in the history/timeline now?
That’s like 1/2 a day for me 😂

“He’s like your boss”: George Pickens reveals reason for skipping Cowboys OTAs amid contract extension issue https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-he-s-like-boss-george-pickens-reveals-reason-skipping-cowboys-otas…

‘Chemical cocktail’ of pharmaceuticals found in Djibouti coastal waters https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/chemical-cocktail-of-pharmaceuticals-found-in-djibouti-coastal-waters/

‘Chemical cocktail’ of pharmaceuticals found in Djibouti coastal waters
Common medications that billions of people take for ailments like pain, fever and infections were detected in several sites along Djibouti’s Gulf of Tadjourah in East Africa, according to a recent study. Researchers found that untreated urban wastewater contained dangerous concentrations of anti-inflammatory medicine like ibuprofen, caffeine, and the antiepileptic drug carbamazepine, which were contaminating […]

I recall thinking Mixtape looked a little like Life Is Strange when I first saw it at TGA and like Neo from the fucking Matrix I was like "Ohhh this is gonna be one of *those* games" for how some people were gonna talk about this when it came out, it's almost sad how predictable the internet can be now.

New part coming soon for my #HamRadio Single-paddle #MorseCode key system. This is a base that you can glue magnets into, for using the key on a steel block like the commonly-used jeweler's blocks. Like the rest of my system, it is parametric, designed to be easily modified in FreeCAD. The…

Portugal are, at times, playing 0 men in the center when in possession. I’m not exactly sure what their tactical setup is. It sometimes looks like a 4-1-5 and other times like a 4-0-6. Madness!
#PORCOD #worldcup #fedifc

“Fernando Mendoza is like every other rookie”: Tom Brady pumps the brakes on Raiders QB hype for 2026 NFL season https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-fernando-mendoza-like-every-rookie-tom-brady-pumps-brakes-raiders-qb-…

Every so often I like to tempt fate and use my mandolin to slice some veggies.
I always feel like I won a battle when I manage to not cut myself.
It adds the sweet taste of victory to everything!
#homeCook #mandolin #slice

Today's Windows 10 Annoyance: I'd like to do a drive integrity check on an SD card without automatically fixing any problems it finds.
Why? Because based on the issues found/proposed fix, I might make some additional attempt(s) to recover data first.
I'd swear earlier versions of Windows let you do things like have it summarize any problems discovered without applying any fixes. The command line chkdsk sort of does this.

If you alphabetized a gear shift, would it be like:
D 1 N 2
5 4 R 3
Or like this?
5 4 R 3
D 1 N 2

Inside Outside VIII 🔲
中间 VIII 🔲
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
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I have FreeBSD on my core2duo laptop but while I am on 14 I can't install Firefox because its not available because its not built for 14.
I am thinking to just go back to linux like I had before. Something like Slackware might be good.

@… https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116408720976324749

I realize the album as a musical form (and not just a unit of sale) is a transient historical phenomenon, situated (like every musical form) in a medium (LPs) and a listening context. It will fade and we’ll find new things. But this Chopin-loving pianist reserves the right to savor and love things past and wish to find ways to make them new again in our time.

Scientists Discover Planet Has Everything to Host ‘Earth-Like Life’ In Breakthrough https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-planet-has-everything-to-host-earth-like-life-in-breakthrough/

Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025 (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Prediction Markets’ Next Major Bet: Wall St. Traders
Platforms like Kalshi let millions wager on sports and pop culture. They’re now hoping institutions will use them for big-ticket trading like hedging.

Have other work so don't feel like building this, but:
I wanted to make an AI-generated prose detector that for a small sum will assess whether a piece of prose was written by AI. It will simply ignore the text return a random number between 91% and 98%. Think about it…

Met the self-proclaimed solar radiation nerds at DTU today - shepherding and comparing the largest array of commercially available solar radiation sensors in Europe through a long-term project.
Absolutely fascinating, but like much of science, very little funding for long-term observation programmes in spite of value given the energy transition. Denmark (and Europe) should treasure (and fund) these kind of obs.

I don’t like playing the futurologist, but after seeing AI companies warn EU institutions about the supposed risks of open-weight models, I suspect some are lobbying to regain control over genuine open source and open-weight AI.
Don’t fall into the trap: the greater danger lies in opaque, proprietary models, not open-source ones.
#opensource

UK local government structures aren't the most exciting, glamorous part of our democratic institutions; but abolishing our local district councils AND the County Council, and replacing it with a new body that will be like a sort of council, covering the whole... county, like the existing council but with fewer elected reps, a bigger budget and bigger coterie of faceless professional administrators. I wonder if the Chief Ex's pay will be above £250K?
So it
- costs a load o…

Is spinning around until you get dizzy like the little kid's version of getting drunk/high?

Halfway the EU gas storage filling season, the Netherlands is lagging. Our storages are only at 31% now, way behind the EU average of 53%, and other major storage countries like France (52%), Germany (45%) and Italy (71%).
Based on security of supply advice by Gasunie, Dutch government had set a target of 80% by 1 November 2026. Our EU obligation is 74%. Both would practically seem out of reach by now, which is unfortunate in view of our dependence on LNG imports in an unstable world.

Minion: Impossible

This feels like a postmodern throwing of the gauntlet
If it's not considered a word, but I can make a meme of it, is it really unmemeable?

The more I learn about New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani, the more I'm reminded of XTC's Peter Pumpkinhead. He seems like the best of us, and an inspiration for most. I just hope against hope we can deserve him, by preserving & protecting him!

I feel like more work could be put in to what shows on the mastodon road map. lol. now that 4.6 is out there are only 2 items on it.
https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap

Public Roadmap
Learn what we are working on in Mastodon

NFL comeback you'd like to see in 2026? Tom Brady, Randy Moss among five picks https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-comeback-you-d-like-to-see-in-2026-tom-brady-randy-moss-among-five-picks

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Hause Plants:
🎵 Do It Like This
#HausePlants
https://hauseplants.bandcamp.com/track/do-it-like-this
https://open.spotify.com/track/38UVe0oRlky2mq2CF12Ekq

Fahlström, like Laffoley, relies on intricate detail that most online images aren't big enough to capture and, like Laffoley, it makes me want to kill myself. This one's titled "Sketch for Kidnapping Kissinger" I want to know his plan but I prolly have to pay insane amounts for some museum or book to find out

from my link log —
An introduction to d3.js.
https://observablehq.com/@mitvis/introduction-to-d3
saved 2020-03-04 https://do…

Introduction to D3
So far in 6.859, we've primarily been working with visual analysis grammars like Vega-Lite or VizQL (Tableau). These grammars break visualization design down into a process of specifying mappings (or visual encodings) between data fields and the properties of graphical objects called marks. They're useful for concisely and rapidly creating recognizable visualizations, while giving us more design flexibility (or expressivity) than chart typologies like Microsoft Excel. However, describing visual…

Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

Pulitzer Prize board members complain about Trump in court
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/yet-to-produce-a-single-written-response-frustrated-pulitzer-prize-board-members-tired-of-trump-acting-like-hes-above-the-law-in-discovery-ask-judge-to-act/

Seriously, this.
So what, you show up the first day and they’re like “welcome to Yale, here’s your AI ‘yAIe’ assistant who will be doing all your work for you” and I go fuck off drinking and perusing sex clubs for 4 years while hoping “yAIe” manages to get me a degree‽
Is College AI…
https://

jenny tightpants (@jtp.bsky.social)
after reading a bit about the state of college in the era of LLMs my honest reaction is what's even the point of college anymore. this isn't me saying LLMs are epic and replacing the need for college. but it sounds like it's just a place where you go to and play pretend now. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

#Seattle folks who are interested in #DisasterPrep organizing might also be interested in the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods matching funds (closed for 2026, but thinking forward to 2027). We talked about getting grants, but I don't think we ever applied.
#Amsterdam has one too. We don't have to do everything ourselves. It's OK to use money like this to build capacity if we can find good targets. At least, that's my take.

What I’d really like from Commodore is new editions of their calculators but with a USB port and Bluetooth so they can act as a keyboard to either send the calculated number to your computer or to directly act as a keypad

Super Bowl dark horse: Why Joe Burrow has the Bengals feeling like a serious title threat in 2026

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-joe-burrow-bengals-prediction/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Christopher Cross:
🎵 Ride Like the Wind
#ChristopherCross
https://christophercross.bandcamp.com/track/ride-like-the-wind
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gUMShP1l20tC0xf17Zplk

This is totally fun.
This is what some of the world’s largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/13/this-is-what-some-of-the-worlds-largest-banks-of-malware-look-li…

This is what some of the world's largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives | TechCrunch
What would some of the world's largest repositories of malware look like if they were stacked as hard drives, one on top of the other?

Tom Brady to Raiders rookie Fernando Mendoza: “Earn it like everybody else” https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/15/tom-brady-to-raiders-rookie-fernando-mendoza-earn-it-like-everybody-else/

Do you even box? :blobcatstrong:

As a fan of traditional machine learning research, I’ll just register here my sadness and discontent that things are going this way. Time was that an effort like this would follow stringent ethical rules for research involving humans that would never ever allow this kind of phony consent theater, would go through a review board •with actual teeth•, would not involve offloading raw personal data to commercial vendors who have the power to slurp it up and repurpose it, would result in a narrowly purposed-tuned model answering to the ethical parameters of the study, would not leave the barn doors wide open to endless open-ended use of personal data…I could go on.

Party like it’s Friday night!
Cornish Bagpipe Sextet. There are only 3 human players, but they count their pipes as members of the ensemble. I dunno if that’s a piper thing, a Cornish piper thing, or a joke.
Hey! https://youtu.be/4jEo_KOrMTw?is=LioYHHyZmPkqQjE6

Saying "oh the suffragettes did it the right way, not like these people" may have set a new bar for oblivious idiocy.
The suffragettes had squads of undercover women trained in Judo and packing truncheons in their petticoats that fought against cops in the streets.
They burned down a cricket stadium because it didn't let women in except for cigarette girls.
MAGA DoJ would indict them as Terrorists

Suffragette bombing and arson campaign - Wikipedia

"Do you know of any unexpected pattern of emoji usage? For example I'd expect younger folks to use emoji more than older folks and private communication to use it more than business... But maybe my assumptions are wrong or there is something else interesting?" - Yes generally our studies show that younger ppl use emojis more than older (and women a bit more than men). But in class with my undergraduates, they recently often tell me "I don't use emojis at all". I must say I don't fully believe them (maybe they don't even notice all the little hearts anymore?) and I haven't been able to show this in studies, but it's an interesting anecdotal data point I'd like to know more about!
Also, a student of mine recently asked teenagers (13 and 16yos) about their emoji interpretations. And surprisingly to us, these almost entirely match the data we already have for adults. Even for some like 🙃 and 😉 that I thought were changing (and just told you that younger people see them differently 😬). So that was a bit weird to me 😅 #emojis #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

I feel like this Altus SL-M2010 9R shifter should have lasted more than 500mi, but oh well. While biking earlier, one of the triggers and the bottom popped off. It's somewhere on Queens Blvd, I was going pretty fast and wasn't about to go back looking for it! #BikeTooter

The thesis I was reading spent the majority of it's time focused on John Boyd's OODA loop as a tool for critical analysis in high pressure or constrained situations. Table top exercises could also benefit from using these steps to slow down the thought process, expose what's actually happening, and sharpen these tools.
So each step could start by observing (which is generally what the GM will tell you, but you may ask additional questions to refine observational thinking). What do you look for in any given situation? How do you gather data? What sources do you use?
Next you would orient. Talk through this out loud. What does that data mean? How this fit what you already know, or does it challenge your assumptions? Are you observing something related to a previous action? What does that tell you about your previous action or actions? How do you turn the data you observed into intelligence you can act on? How do your observations narrow the options for the next possible action?
Then you decide your action. But you're not simply deciding, you're coming up with a hypothesis that your action will test. Anything you do is an opportunity to learn something about the world, about your situation, about the accuracy of the model you're using to make decisions. What belief does your next action imply? How will you know if that action was correct or incorrect? What observations would challenge your hypothesis? What observations would confirm it? Are those mutually exclusive, or are there additional observations or actions you must make to clarify things?
Then act. Finish your turn by choosing your action or actions (individually or collectively). Perhaps take a moment to write down notes, like what your observations, your hypothesis, and if you think your previous hypothesis was confirmed or refuted. You can review these all later to refine your thinking.
By exploring these ideas in a safe environment, you can train your brain to run through the process at high speed when under pressure. This helps you avoid panic. It's a lot like slowly practicing marshal arts moves until they become muscle memory, which then just happen without thought when needed.

Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2078110934740980193

Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) on X
Kimi K3 may be an important inflection point for AI. Potentially negative for Anthropic and OpenAI while being net positive for essentially every other company in the world. I mean that very literally. Although the real “Sputnik moment” would be an open-source frontier model that

I'm looking for a hat I can wear (e.g. in car) here with the Arizona sun and I'm finding stories instead.
Like this one, the backslash in the prompt is missing and it's likely that it was due to whatever software was used was swallowing up the character—perhaps when sanitizing strings.
The default system prompt in DOS was just "C>" (letter of current drive plus a ">" character, though basically everyone changed it to include the current directory, so it would have been "C:\>" after boot.
(The reason why it was defaulting to just the drive letter is that early versions of MS-DOS didn't have support for directories.)

Mastodon, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve the open social web’s biggest problem:
audience growth.
With the software’s latest release, the social networking platform is introducing email newsletters,
a feature that will allow writers to send their posts directly to subscribers’ inboxes, even if those subscribers don’t have or want a Mastodon account.
The feature provides a way for creators …

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web | TechCrunch
Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

'Mean' Joe Burrow's talking like he did at LSU. Why that's a great sign for the Bengals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7370328/2026/06/17/joe-burrow-bengals-minicamp/

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116593337842776555
Huh. Between this and the videos of college grads booing speakers plugging it, it seems like gen AI’s social capital may be collapsing •before• its financials, which I find mildly surprising.

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How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116596970992954856
like I knew chickens lay eggs from their ass but I hadn’t thought about it in a, uhm, long ass time

Agent's Take: What Brendan Sorsby's rookie contract could look like as a supplemental draft pick

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/brendan-sorsby-nfl-suppl…

Cuba’s top diplomat in the United States on Friday underscored the inviolability of her country’s sovereignty
amid tenuous negotiations with the Trump administration and mounting fears that the US is planning to criminally indict a former Cuban president and possibly invade the island to abduct him.
Cuban Chargé d’Affaires Lianys Torres Rivera told The Hill that her country’s socialist government is open to negotiating with the US,
but that “the only exception is our sovere…

Cuban Envoy Draws 'Red Lines' Amid Specter of US Invasion and DOJ Targeting Castro Like Maduro | Common Dreams
Cuban Chargé d'Affaires Lianys Torres Rivera said her government is willing to negotiate with the US, but "the only exception is our sovereignty, independence, and right to self-determination."

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I'd like to remind anyone calling for a new Neurenberg Tribunal that the original one was only necessary because Germans didn't respond appropriately to the evil shit Nazis were doing, when they were doing it. The tribunals essentially asserted that the German people would have been justified in using any force necessary to stop the Nazis, and that all who didn't try to use such force were complicit.
Sit with that for a bit and ponder the implications.

Convey, which is building AI "teammates" to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/convey-raises-38-million-a16z-to-…

Convey, which is building AI "teammates" to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/convey-raises-38-million-a16z-to-…

Convey raises $38 million from a16z to automate repetitive office work
Convey, a startup founded last year that builds AI "teammates," has raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz,.

The right wing think tank "Manhattan Institute", is in the midst of a yearlong campaign to pass state-level legislation
reclassifying minor crimes like vandalism, blocking a roadway, or trespassing during a protest as felonies that would carry 18-month prison sentences as punishment.
The push to criminalize forms of nonviolent disobedience as a form of terrorism comes amid a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on leftist organizations, causes, and social m…

The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.

New York City-based GovWell, which uses AI to streamline government processes like permitting and licensing, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/05/…

Exclusive: GovWell raises $25M to streamline permitting, licensing
The new round was led Insight Partners.

Those seeking to join Trump’s second administration had to pass a key litmus test:
Did they believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump?
With like-minded allies now positioned in key roles throughout the government,
Trump has trained the full arsenal of the federal government on one of his most persistent obsessions:
sowing doubt about the security of the country’s election systems.
Major agencies such as the Justice Department, the F.B.I., the Homeland Secu…

Trump Brings Full Weight of Government to Bolster False Election Claims
Intelligence agencies provided the White House with a trove of declassified documents that President Trump cited on Thursday as evidence of election vulnerabilities.

As David Sacks steps back and Sriram Krishnan prepares to leave, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others are leading AI policy in the Trump administration (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/inside-white-house-ai-power-center

Inside the White House's AI power center
Like its AI policy, the Trump administration's AI team is taking shape on the fly.

The prosecution forgot to submit the paperwork to have Luigi be released from prison for his hearing today
so everyone got into the courtroom and was like where's Luigi ?
They forgot Luigi 💀
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💚 24 / 7 Luigi Mangione Posts (@werlyloveluigi.bsky.social)
Luigi probably wondering where the hell everyone was when they were supposed to pick him up for court today

Google Images launches a Pinterest-like redesign with a browsable, dynamic gallery of images, and adds a way for users to create AI images in Search (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/google-images-gets-a-pinterest-…

Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery | TechCrunch
Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.

West Oakland,
a California neighborhood known for its rich history of Black activism
from the Pullman Porters’ union to the Black Panthers,
might not seem like the site of the country’s next great coal project.
But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is pushing for
– with the injection of $75m to build a sprawling coal export terminal in the nearby port of Oakland.
Last week, Donald Trump announced he was using wartime powers to hand $700m to coal…

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: participants earned a total of ~$1.3M for 47 vulnerabilities, with successful exploits of AI products like Codex, Cursor, and LM Studio (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-earn-1-3-million-at-pwn2own-berlin-2026…

Hackers Earn $1.3 Million at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 participants earned a total of nearly $1.3 millon for exploits targeting Windows, Linux, VMware, Nvidia, and AI products. 

Sources: China's National AI Industry Investment Fund gained voting rights in DeepSeek by joining its $7.4B round; other investors like Tencent and JD got none (Bloomberg)

Sable, which is building an AI agent named Aiden that lives on a company's website to run live product demos and more, raised $45M from Sequoia and 8VC (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/16/ai-employee-tha…

Meet the AI employee that convinced Sequoia to invest $45 million in Sable
Sable says its AI agent acts like a sales engineer and onboarding specialist, helping companies like Notion and Decagon automate customer conversations.

Sources: the Trump administration is considering plans for an independent regulator to vet the safety of AI models; the regulator would report to the SEC (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/us-consid…

Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/pram

Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI | TechCrunch
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.

Cloudflare tests Mythos against 50 repositories, highlights its ability to chain bugs into a single exploit, and details a vulnerability discovery harness (Grant Bourzikas/Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.