2026-08-12 21:08:22
Jordan Walker shines in new MLB Home Run Derby format; the 20 greatest NFL coaches of all time
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/jordan-walker-mlb-home-run-derby-greatest-nfl-…
Sources: OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of $40B based on its current performance, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/openai-s-revenue-r…
Must-See Play! Mike Washington Jr. stiff-arms defender and bounces outside for 53-yard run https://www.raiders.com/video/mike-washington-53-yard-run-cardinals-nfl-preseason-week-1-2026
What liberals will never understand is that there is no going back. We will not return to a 'normal' America, if that ever even existed. We will get to decide between socialism and barbarism. We will run head first against the wall until we answer this question correctly.
#Gentoo PSA: due to my oversight, upgrading sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin to the latest versions on every branch does not result in /usr/src/linux symlink being updated. I will try to fix it in 10 hours.
A workaround is to update the symlink manually or remove it and run `emerge --config gentoo-kernel-bin`. You may need to run `@module-rebuild` afterwards.
This is a one time problem. Once the symlink is updated (or becomes invalid, e.g. through --depclean), subsequent upgrades will update it correctly.
I'm sorry for the trouble.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/977372
[EDIT: pushed a fix]
Oh my. I couldn't have imagined that ACT could become any more risible... but I was wrong. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/715192/paul-henry-to-stand-for-act-in-this-year-s-election So it's tweedle dim and tweedle dimmer.
I wish I could say this is some light Bastille Day reading, it isn't light. But it is short, about a 2 minute read:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/the-world-is-on-fire-and-we-are-trying-not-be-its-kindling/
Ship $1 billion of Chinese goods straight to an American port, and the duty can run to several hundred million dollars.
Send the identical goods through Vietnam, Malaysia or Thailand, and most of that bill disappears.
Send them through Mexico wearing U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement paperwork that they have not earned, and the bill can disappear entirely.
Got the desktop-turned-VM-server added to the scopehal CI cluster.
I migrated the two Ubuntu LTS builder instances over to it, and added a third one so now we can run the regular Ubuntu CI, the asan/ubsan build, and the static analysis pass concurrently.
This box has a Xeon 5320 which is a bit slower than the 8362 on the main VM server, and has only 128GB of RAM rather than 512. But the compute-to-memory ratio is actually higher so after a bit of iteration I settled on 16 vCPUs a…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Coup:
🎵 We Are the Ones
#TheCoup
https://newgranada.bandcamp.com/track/jen-wood-seattle-wa-run-with-the-wild-ones
https://open.spotify.com/track/4RALofCf1N7YlC2yPLIO5w
YELL AT ME IN SEA OF EXPLODING FIRE CRACKER BY DANCE WHISKEY DRUNK OLD MAN SMOKE CIGAR IN RAGS WHEN RUN INTO STREET TO ASK WHAT HE YELLS AS HE SHAKES FIST UP AT SKY WHEN HE NOT SMILING AT OWN FACE IN MIRROR WITH BLOOD SUN PAINTED ON IT IN MIDDLE MOTT STREET IN MIDDLE BIG DRUMS IN MIDDLE FREEZING NEW YEAR DAY PARADE IN MIDDLE ICE COLD NEW YORK CHINATOWN FROZEN STIFF IN MIDDLE NUMB SHIVER WINTER 1960
I'll be running a hands-on two-hour workstop on #firmware analysis at #DO_BYTE: https://fahrplan.do-byte.de/do-byte-20
AI fear-mongering is profitable. Blaming AI is simply lazy. Claiming humans are alway better is sanctimonious.
Greed, Sloth, Pride... interesting.
From: @…
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3 billion devices run java (threat)
TIL of the 'Smithsonian institution, Feather Identification lab' - run by the FAA (which seems doubly appropriate). I saw it referenced in the NTSB prelim report on the Ryanair/Mailta plane that got a cracked window in Greece the other month.
https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safet
I assume that the deal is that former Makerfield MP Josh Simons will run for Mayor of Manchester after Andy Burnham wins his seat.
I expect it will all play out as expected, but with Reform comfortably winning that area in the council elections, and Hannah Spencer and new Green councillors showing that Labour can't assume they will win, there are some hilarious possibilities if all doesn't go according to plan.
211gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
More progress. I've got the entire MBR processing finished up with a ton of cleanup. Processing the extended partition entries is always fun, but after a fixing a few dumb mistakes everything is parsing out correctly. Even better: no memory leaks.
#zig #programming
🎶 „Alle deine Minderwertigkeitskomplexe bekommen von mir auf die Fresse“
– Sexy von ok.danke.tschüss
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdxftyCC/
Confirmed one of my expectations that the current/old NAS I'm using was the bottleneck for image conversion. Hooked up a new NAS over the weekend, directly in the VLAN, and with faster drives; almost directly on the first run, proving that #PHP and the #RaspberryPi's where neve…
Since we are one the subject of names in #StarTrek, let’s see how good you remember the names of small side characters for today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, th…
What is stopping asahi linux to run on m3 m4 or m5?
I don't mean manpower, I mean technically speaking.
I have not seen my cousin for maybe 30 years (due to family bullshit I had no say in as a kid).
We met yesterday and I am delighted that she also has two kids and lives the exact same #ADHD parenting life with her partner as we do!
It sure does run in families!
The kids bonded after 2 seconds instantly and even talked about their medication at the end of the day. Amazing ho…
from my link log —
A list of LD_PRELOAD hacks.
https://github.com/gaul/awesome-ld-preload
saved 2020-01-27 https://dotat.at/:/K9MQB.h…
Day 3 of Valheim on the Linux rig. Today's main objective is simple: walk into the Swamp, panic immediately, and run back to base while screaming "SAIL" at the top of my lungs. Come watch the chaos live: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus 🌲🏃♂️💨
The "AI Industry" (to the degree that it exists) has burned billions of dollars with no real hope of recuperating that. Models offered by services, charging huge amounts for inference, don't really offer much, if anything, above open source models run locally. Many of the claims made by these companies, and their supporters, have turned out to be lies. It seems as though the whole thing is a huge grift.
Investments will likely never be recovered. We've already seen a bail out in the form of military contracts. We will see much more public money dumped in to these technologies. In fact, threatening workers and suppressing labor strength is so strategically valuable that I expect LLMs to just be publicly funded (by being folded into the military industrial complex).
On these grounds, it can be easy to reject the technology outright. After all, how can anything useful not be profitable?
Even for radicals, capitalism can cloud our lens. The fact is, the dominant technologies of our age tend to not be profitable. Or rather, they are "publicly funded, privately profitable" (/hums in propagandhi/). Just like oil.
Outside of Saudi Arabia, oil is mostly not profitable to get out of the ground. Even there, it had only historically been profitable because of massive global military investments. The oil-centric world we have today is largely built on, and kept in place by, massive government subsidies. Roads, street parking, and direct subsidies to oil companies are all massive investments that tie populations to the resource at the heart of the military industrial complex: oil.
Oil was strategically important, because you can't run a modern military without it. The fossil fuel economy doesn't exist because fossil fuels are so cheap, but because modern militaries are only really possible by militarizing the population.
Unprofitable things *are made profitable* to serve the strategic interests of authoritarian systems. Though we have better alternatives to most oil-based products, it would be hard to argue that oil is not a useful resource. We can acknowledge it's strategic importance while also recognizing that the elimination of oil is essential to the survival of humanity.
Returning to "AI," we're seeing the same type of thing but it's more obvious. After the crypto grift, this seems to just be another way to transfer money into the pockets of the rich.
But crypto wasn't exactly a grift. It had a strategic function to power. It wasn't what we were told it was. It didn't free us from central banks. It wasn't a new way to invest. It wasn't anonymous. But it did create a new way to bribe politicians. It did make it easier to funnel public money into the pockets of the far right.
"AI" can similarly be mostly a grift. It can fail to do most, or all, of the things it claims, and it can still fulfill strategic functions. If we dismiss it as "just another grift," I think we miss a lot. "Just a grift" isn't something sustainable. It is something that will die out. It's something we don't need to resist because it is self limiting. But a strategy is something different. A strategy is more complex. A strategy will be sustained, at any cost. A strategy must be actively resisted.
PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/apple-prismml-ai-compression-iphone.html
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Why do people in comments on people’s social media accounts talk as if they’re not there? Do they think the account is run by a team who is disconnected from the owner of the account? Or that anyone who’s not a fan is in the space listening to the discourse?
1/2
This... This is a Viz or Private Eye spoof ad, right? Or a harmless ripoff, where they just take the money and run?
They... They wouldn't literally send out something like this to innocent customers, surely..??
It's up there with the magic IED detector that was a stick with an LED on the end.
https://
Spagnola: Focusing eyes on men in the middle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-focusing-eyes-on-men-in-the-middle
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 105293 edges.
Tags: Biol…
Some students are directing AI agents to “take” entire online courses for them,
letting the software run in the background while they focus on better uses of their time,
--like doomscrolling on their phone or gaming.
The New York Times unpacked the trend in a recent story,
and it’s a testament to how extreme AI-enabled cheating has become,
but also of the perils of getting an education in a virtual environment instead of a physical one.
Professors can’t re…
Super Bowl hangover? Assessing whether Seahawks, Patriots will regress or regroup for another run in 2026
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-hangover-seahawk…
79gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Databricks closed a $5B funding round at a $190B valuation, six months after raising $5B at a $134B valuation, and says it has crossed $7B in revenue run rate (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/13/databricks-funding-round-190-billion-valuat…
⚠️ Takeaway: the theory is promising, the practice is immature. Image handling is not optimized yet, so token savings get eaten by wall-clock time. It depends on the use case — run your own tests instead of trusting the hype.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bbt8cEyzsTk
This is the political party that likes to gripe about "frivolous lawsuits" and the need for "tort reform", right?
https://bsky.app/profile/ryanjreilly.com/post/3moaytdmzgk2e
OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/13/openai-previews-ultrafast-gpt-5-6-sol-runni…
Spagnola: Focusing eyes on men in the middle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-focusing-eyes-on-men-in-the-middle
68gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
The Democratic field for president is still wide open and unsettled.
The very early list includes former presidential candidates, governors, senators, House members and celebrities.
While no one on this list has officially declared, some candidates have been more open than others about wanting to run.
Ahead of November’s midterm elections, the field is starting to take shape as a major debate roils the party:
--- Is the surging progressive movement helping or hurti…
"Connection reachable again."
Train goes chooooo.
⚡ Before each prompt direnv checks for an .envrc (optionally .env) in the current and parent directories. If it exists and is authorized, it's loaded into a bash sub-shell and all exported variables are captured and handed to your current shell.
🔐 Security model: a new .envrc is not loaded until you explicitly run "direnv allow". Leave the directory and the variables are unloaded again.
Did a Former N.F.L. Agent Get Away With Murder? https://www.nytimes.com/video/the-athletic/100000011085720/did-a-former-nfl-agent-get-away-with-murder.html
79gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
A man was struck and killed by a truck in Florida while fleeing a federal immigration operation Tuesday, the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed,
the third death connected to immigration enforcement efforts in the past week.
In a statement, the Florida Immigrant Coalition emphasized that these are not “isolated incidents" and defended the idea that someone might run from ICE agents.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents encountered a vehicle in a gas station parking…
Mailbag: Cowboys planning to stretch the field? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-cowboys-planning-to-stretch-the-field
Edit: Ist weg.
Möchte jemand 168 Seiten „Einführung in den Fallschirmsport“ von circa 1981? Herausgegeben im Eigendruck von P. Seifried aus Graz.
Wird hier gerade aussortiert. #antiquariat #fallschirmspringen
🧠 The reasoning: text tokens are discrete, drawn from a fixed vocabulary of ~50,000 entries, each mapping to a fixed point in embedding space.
Image tokens are continuous vectors of a thousand floating point numbers, so they can pack far more information into the same space.
🎮 The test: a tower-defense game where the AI plays in JSON mode without graphics, run for hours with two context variants — the same game state as a plain text string, and as an image rendered via PixelPipe.…
Trump announced Monday that the United States will reinstate its naval blockade of Iran and be
"reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped" through the Strait of Hormuz, a levy he did not explain.
Trump said the strait itself would stay open to every country other than Iran.
Hours earlier, in a call-in to Fox News, he said:
"We're taking over the strait. They've got nothing."
He added that the US would "probably run it&q…
86gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Enbee auf dem hohen Burgstall. #Tirol #Stubaital
Lindsey Graham is getting chauffeured around in cars that cost more than most families make in a year.
-- I drive around town in a SUV that needs to be vacuumed and is full of kids’ sports equipment.
Lindsey Graham is eating fancy dinners with lobbyists and selling out our Democracy to the highest bidder.
-- I cook dinner for my three kids every night.
Lindsey Graham is a career politician and corporate sell out.
-- I’m a pediatrician who got mad enough to run b…
Mailbag: Cowboys planning to stretch the field? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-cowboys-planning-to-stretch-the-field
98gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Lindsey Graham is getting chauffeured around in cars that cost more than most families make in a year.
-- I drive around town in a SUV that needs to be vacuumed and is full of kids’ sports equipment.
Lindsey Graham is eating fancy dinners with lobbyists and selling out our Democracy to the highest bidder.
-- I cook dinner for my three kids every night.
Lindsey Graham is a career politician and corporate sell out.
-- I’m a pediatrician who got mad enough to run b…
A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and "beat" human reporters to OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-newsrooms-are-breaking-news-now-ha…
193gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
229gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models (Mistral AI Blog)
https://mistral.ai/news/regional-inference-open-models-new-compute/
226gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
223gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
The environmental toll of the artificial intelligence boom continues to mount
as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers
and enormous amounts of water for cooling.
A new investigation by U.N. scientists warns that AI’s water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people,
while its power use will be triple that of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria combined
— countries with a total population of 650 million.
“Most people underst…
155gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
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216gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
91gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Two dozen Americans have flown to the moon,
116 have sat on the Supreme Court,
25 have run a mile in under 3:51
and 76 have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry
More men have been elected president of the United States than have played for the U.S. in a World Cup game on home soil.
It is among the rarest of achievements in a country that has achieved so much.
88gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
80gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
90gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
92gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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240gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
238gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
175gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
200gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
108gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
106gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
103gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
112gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
181gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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203gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2