Owl City has been an interesting recurring character for a long time. He fundamentally makes kinkade music, but in many instances there's something unintentionally captivating about watching a sheltered autistic christian man trying and failing to emulate the sterile neurotypical inhumanity of late 00s commercials, attempts at sincerely becoming what the squeakiest cleanest presenting factions want giving birth to an entirely different surreal alternate reality from the one he professes …
Eyewitnesses say Iranian government forces have begun opening fire,
apparently with automatic weapons and at times seemingly indiscriminately,
on unarmed protesters.
Hospital workers say protesters had been coming in with pellet injuries but now arrive with gunshot wounds and skull fractures.
One doctor called it a “mass-casualty situation.”
Despite the communications blockade, a recurring image has made its way out of Iran:
rows and rows of body bags.
…
I don't know the name of the lovely Season Five recurring lifeguard here with #MichaelNewman and #ChrisFiore
Season 5 Episode 18 "Fire with Fire"
#RandomBaywatch
Changing personel is a recurring theme in #StarTrek. But knowing who was serving when is always a good subject for a #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will repl…
Maybe this question has been asked before and maybe it hasn't - but to preface - I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV. I have (in a previous, gainfully employed life that I find I am missing less and less outside of the recurring paycheck) liaised with a good number of legal folks - both corporate and external counsel facing types.
And I had been involved - at least in the periphery - of some investigations of allegations of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) on a corporate lapto…
Anyone know of an Android to-do list application that is
* Completely device local, no network connectivity required or used
* No ads or spyware
* Doesn't time-out tasks even if they sit around for a year uncompleted (looking at you, google calendar)
* Supports recurring maintenance tasks for weekly, monthly, etc. cleaning or something
Open source preferred, but willing to pay a reasonable price if it's out there as a commercial tool
I'm sure that Tesla fee is more than covered by the passive income that's coming from operating as autonomous taxis while their owners sleep.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/tesla-wants-recurring-revenue-discontinues-aut…
Cluely's CEO, Roy Lee, says he lied about its $7M annual recurring revenue last year, calling it "the only blatantly dishonest thing I've said publicly online" (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/clue
I’ve been supporting this for a while with a recurring donation, and am glad to •still• be supporting it. The need is dire (still). https://techhub.social/@shantini/115845643268567538
> Companies invested millions in CASE tool suites. Conferences were held. Methodologies were developed. The promise was that software engineering would finally become real engineering, with predictable outcomes, repeatable processes, and automatic generation of code from specifications.
Made me chuckle
https…
You may want to #fediblock this pro-russian propaganda outlet which also happens to deny that the German Fascist Party #AfD is right-wing extremist: @ voiceofeast.net@voiceofeast.net
🚫 web.archive.org/web/20260102113448/https://voiceofeast.net/2025/12/27/us-intelligence-exposed-the-myth-of-rus…
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-12/vibe…
Looking forward to #FOSDEM this weekend but I doubt it will be a recurring event for me, with it being in peak flu and COVID season. :blobcateyes: May my stack of FFP2 masks protect me well.
A Spanish hosting provider that had stuck with Path.net (#AS396998) for add-on DDoS mitigation services for select IP addresses/prefixes longer than most has had enough (translated from Spanish):
"Unfortunately, the Path.net service was discontinued due to recurring outages."
Replit raised a $400M Series D led by Georgian Partners at a $9B valuation and says it's on track to hit annual recurring revenue of $1B by the end of the year (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/
1/2 Earlier this year I wrote about a tune arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams known as 'Monks Gate' named after a hamlet near Horsham where Williams heard it on 22 December 1904. https://edintone.com/monks-gate/
If anyone knows how to subscribe to Microsoft #Exchange calendars of colleagues using #Thunderbird (and Owl), I'd appreciate a tip. It works in #Evolution, but that one struggles with modifying recurring events...
Given the record-setting layoff pace of 2025, the pressing etiquette question of this time:
What is the respectful waiting period after a highly valued colleague is fired before you can delete your recurring 1:1 meeting from your calendar?
Joking, not joking.
#OfficeWorkerGripes #ScottHumor
Our collective intellectual culture seems to have calcified around a cohort of thinkers who achieved prominence roughly ten years ago and have been coasting ever since.
This isn't about Malcolm Gladwell specifically, though he'll appear as a recurring character.
The Gladwell formula, if you haven't encountered it, goes something like this:
take a subject that seems simple,
complicate it with research that seems to undermine common sense,
then re…
Sources: Mercor rival micro1 has told investors it is now generating $200M in recurring revenue; Mercor is offering micro1 employees signing bonuses up to $2M (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/02/05/the-ai-talent-wars-have…
Why Pass@k Optimization Can Degrade Pass@1: Prompt Interference in LLM Post-training
Anas Barakat, Souradip Chakraborty, Khushbu Pahwa, Amrit Singh Bedi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21189 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21189 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21189
arXiv:2602.21189v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Pass@k is a widely used performance metric for verifiable large language model tasks, including mathematical reasoning, code generation, and short-answer reasoning. It defines success if any of $k$ independently sampled solutions passes a verifier. This multi-sample inference metric has motivated inference-aware fine-tuning methods that directly optimize pass@$k$. However, prior work reports a recurring trade-off: pass@k improves while pass@1 degrades under such methods. This trade-off is practically important because pass@1 often remains a hard operational constraint due to latency and cost budgets, imperfect verifier coverage, and the need for a reliable single-shot fallback. We study the origin of this trade-off and provide a theoretical characterization of when pass@k policy optimization can reduce pass@1 through gradient conflict induced by prompt interference. We show that pass@$k$ policy gradients can conflict with pass@1 gradients because pass@$k$ optimization implicitly reweights prompts toward low-success prompts; when these prompts are what we term negatively interfering, their upweighting can rotate the pass@k update direction away from the pass@1 direction. We illustrate our theoretical findings with large language model experiments on verifiable mathematical reasoning tasks.
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"I have always believed in deeds, not words."
As the ongoing Russian attacks keep crippling our infrastructure (as seen from a cold unpowered home with a failing cell connection), I am left with few options. One of them, ruminating before sleep on a strange recurring phenomenon. If not careful, we become what we fight.
We're not infallible. It's the values we keep, the tradeoffs we make to succeed that shape us.
Be vigilant. Watch yourself.
And stay sa…
Source: Cursor's annualized revenue topped $2B in February, doubling from three months earlier, and about 60% of the revenue is coming from corporate customers (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
New on #blog: "Money isn’t going to solve the #burnout problem"
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The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was funding maintenance work.
While I’m definitely not opposed to giving people money for their FLOSS work, if you think that throwing some bucks will actually solve the problem, and especially if you think that you can just throw them once and then forget, I have bad news for you: it won’t. Surely, money is a big part of the problem, but it’s not the only reason people are getting burned out. It’s a systemic problem, and it’s in need of systemic solution, and that’s involves a lot of hard work undo everything that’s happened in the last, say, 20 years.
But let’s start at the beginning and ask the important question: why do people make free software?
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#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #AI #NoAI #LLM #NoLLM #Gentoo
Oura CEO Tom Hale says the company has no plans to abandon its subscription model, even as rivals experiment with cheaper hardware and no recurring fees (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/o…
Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says the AI music company hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M ARR; pitch deck: it had 1M paid subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-2-million-paid-subscribers-300m-arr-r…
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