2026-07-10 20:17:32
A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/05/07…
🦾 Robots can run a marathon and play ping pong. But will they ever achieve true sporting greatness?
https://theconversation.com/robots-can-run-a-marathon-and-play-ping-pong-but-will-they-ever-achieve-true-spor…
Netanyahu to run for re-election, his party says, after Trump raises doubts (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-run-re-election-his-party-says-after-trump-raises-doubts-2026-06-10/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p43#a260610p43
"Connection reachable again."
Train goes chooooo.
If AI accounts for only 20% of data center use, why is it the justification for nearly every new data center? I did the math and suspect Big Tech is using AI as a cover for unpopular uses like surveillance advertising.
https://blog.still-water.net/what-if-data-centers-arent-…
Even as Integrity, the mission moniker for the Orion capsule of Artemis II, ascended into the heavens days ago,
Donald Trump was announcing his intention to slash Nasa’s budget by 23%,
including a 46% cut for space science initiatives.
And the Artemis program that has run years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget offers no guarantees that the next, far harder stages will run as smoothly.
“The path to the lunar surface is open, but the work ahead is gr…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Sweet:
🎵 Fox on the Run
#TheSweet
https://definitearchives60s-70s.bandcamp.com/track/fox-on-the-run
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kecaz54iduPLO4VPszTbC
RFK Jr.’s crusade against hospital Jell-O is a warning
The only thing worse than hospital food is hospital food picked by D.C. bureaucrats - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/10/rfk-jrs-war-jell-o-shows-why-government-cannot-run-health-care/
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.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116726575162112584
And even for the most optimal of use cases, code generation, which gives an LLM every possible advantage (huge amounts of self-similar training data with millions of iterations of the same problems and solutions, strictly deterministic symbol sequences in highly simplified languages), LLMs are starting to approach local maxima; they’re even regressing when context windows get too large (so more capable hardware doesn’t help).
I still strongly believe that they’re useless for 99% of tasks they’re marketed for and for the rest (like coding) there will be locally run solutions that are affordable.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bad news for New Orleans: get out of there within decades.
The paper itself is behind a high paywall, and the 3-7 meters of sea level rise mentioned by the Guardian can't be this century. Subsidence probably plays a bigger role in the short run. But they're working together.
‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
Nick Sirianni says Eagles had 'good run' with A.J. Brown; HC excited about WR group https://www.nfl.com/news/nick-sirianni-says-eagles-had-good-run-with-a-j-brown-hc-excited-about-wr-group
🚀 Quick start: run it natively via cargo, pull the Docker image (malisper/pgrust:nightly), or connect with psql on port 54321 — no install needed for the browser demo.
📊 Status: V1 / experimental, not production-ready. Roadmap: close the remaining compatibility gap toward 100%, stability work, plus 64-bit transaction IDs and VACUUM alternatives. Licensed AGPL-3.0.
🌐
For those that don't know, I help run a large women in technology chat group on Slack. It's been going for 11 years now! (ask me for an invite if you want one and that's appropriate!)
It has deeply shaped how I think about technology, especially the social side. There is so much embodied knowledge in that community, it's amazing. And it's also such a window into how much the mainstream of technology writing is dominated by men. We talk about it differently! We're much more likely to be critical, and to be critical of the _structures_ in tech. Sometimes that comes off as kneejerk "Ugh BRIAN!" to some of the bullshit men to do women in the workplace, but also embedded underneath is an understanding of rarely-mapped power structures in the field. So much advice out there is written assuming that there is no dissent, no silent frustration, no quiet abandoning the job when the pressures are unresolved. And so much of the tech world, press and on social media alike, has no insight that this attrition even happens.
Women, collectively, though, understand it. We notice the patterns of promotions. We understand the way that if we're in our 40s, we're rather likely to have a manager who is a decade younger than we are, with no particular experience. We notice when men are lauded for spending time with their family instead of work on occasion, but women are expected to be present at all times and rarely seen positively for doing the exact same things.
And yet, any given instance is always shrouded in deniability. The pattern generally holds, but is this one my fault? Do I not measure up? Or is it sexism?
That's what these structures rob from us: we never have the clarity in feedback that it is accurate, that is us that must change. When we stick to our guns, are we being obstinate, or are we correct? That information is denied to us by sexism. It only becomes clear in aggregate, and even then it is very hard to find action to take on it except to acknowledge it and move on.
I don't think people talk about that ambiguity enough: we're always looking for the clear sexism, the man speaking over the women, the trading sexual favors for advancement, the clear pattern of pet-to-threat that so many women experience as they age or gain skill in the field. But the bulk of sexism that we experience is in the structural poisoning of feedback.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ajkohn/116896441289155838
If I ever needed to use an agency for brand growth and achieving my company’s goals, this would be the one. It’s run by some of the smartest and most experienced people I know.
Looking at this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594972/new-poll-coalition-partners-tumble-but-could-still-form-government why, oh why, doesn't RNZ point out that Curia Polls, run by David Farrar, long time neoliber…
Notice: A new release of Daniel is available. To update, run: daniel install --upgrade daniel
ugh it’s very donner und blitzen
i wonder if i will be hailed on during the school run
If you're a #Nationwide bank customer / member in the UK you might want to have a look at this for our current voting options:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/…
🚂 Stuck even before Trier (on the way to Luxembourg) due to a thunderstorm AND I’VE RUN OUT OF SNACKS 😭
Die Mitschüler*innen des Kindes meinen, ich sei chill. Das freut mich.
Whatever old Twitter friend has the Nintendo Account ID 'Rad Dad', my wife would like to let him know she does NOT find him rad, as focusing on his ridiculous screen name distracted her during an absolute HEATER of a Super Mario World level run
Maybe not the worst time to donate directly to the main democratic party. They need to spend some money for sure.
https://mainedems.org/
@… Not aware of that at all. I hate to ask as it seems obvious but just to get it out of the way.
You haven't run out of disk space, right?
@…
"Polanski is right that the consensus assignment has run its course, and the Greens are asking the right questions about who bears the costs of austerity and inflation. But adopting the language of MMT to suggest those costs can be wished away does the left no favours."
Zack Polanski gets economics wrong | LSE British Politics
Had my first hard failure of the Linux desktop today. Wayland locked up 100% CPU, had to reboot. I've run into a bunch of bugs in various things. The bloom is off the rose, but I'm still really liking the Linux experience overall.
Enjoy the Java Geek Weekly #140, special first pneumonia ever edition 🤒
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/140/
"Nature’s Beauty is Restored After Farmer Obliterated Shoreline of Important Salmon Run"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature
82gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Working on my #talk for #PintOfScience which needs to be about 30 minutes and on first run-through was ~24, so some work to do yet!
Mamdani has already started fundraising for his 2029 reelection run (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/11/mamdani-has-already-started-fundraising-for-his-2029-reelection-run-00959145
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p119#a260611p119
Having a creative and quick attacking player with the ability to beat a defender (or two!) 1-v-1 is something that's been sorely lacking.But allowing free runners towards goal hasn't been.
Rio is very exciting, but his defensive efforts need work. He got run past a number of times and didn't track back with the required effort on others. If I'm Slot, I'm showing him those moments in addition to his many highlights and expending every effort to make him a complete pl…
I joined the debate hosted by the Gaeltacht housing activists in BÁNÚ this evening. Great questions and discussions.
The reality in Connemara like many in Galway is that landlords' profits and the commodification of our housing have been prioritised over our communities and people. Short-term lets have been let run rampant and people are being priced out of their communities and can't afford to live where they grew up.
1/3
I have the fondest memories of 'Need for Speed: The Run'
Run Apple Shortcuts from the command line
#bookmarks
I cannot really exercise or run yet. My knees are starting to get tight, deconditioning a bit. See the surgeon next week; unfortunately, it won't be to get cleared to run yet. More #scds surgery or I won't be able to run again without damaging the base of my skull (it's not as simple as getting a plate put in).
I'll keep walking until I can't. It's getting harder t…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds:
🎵 Everybody's On The Run
#NowPlaying #NoelGallaghersHighFlyingBirds
https://open.spotify.com/track/5IfHdpuOT36g9VHmp9uceb
Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $445M revenue run rate in its first 18 months, on his math competition roots, the Devin AI coding agent, more (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/scott-wu-tapes-cognition/
Were you around for Linsanity? You may tear up watching this pure, authentic honesty from Lin.
▶️ Jeremy Lin Opens Up on Knicks 2026 Finals Run & the Shadow of Linsanity
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VtJz2FmHnR0&si=5CGX4IyLZS8IWOMA
I like that my typos and run on sentenses are now celebrated in the fight against AI.
There were two groups promoting girl participation in the Twilight 5K this year -- she's running with Girls on the Run
#photo #photography #running
Asked to answer as a typical human, every cutting-edge AI model rated us markedly
more neurotic, less open, less agreeable and less conscientious
than they rated themselves.
The gap on Neuroticism alone is 1.69 points on a 5-point scale.
Across 31 models from seven labs they answer the personality tests in unison:
high openness, low Dark Triad, Universalism on top, Power dead last
in every single model.
from my link log —
Debootstrapping without archeology: stacked implementations in Camlboot.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09231
saved 2026-06-10 https://d…
126gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
This moderate Republican senator is already eyeing the exits 16 months into his term (Samuel Benson/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/11/sen-john-curtis-exploring-2028-run-for-utah-governor-00913981
http://www.memeorandum.com/260511/p125#a260511p125
„Du bist wie so ein Nacktmull, das man aus der Höhle gezogen hat.“
Remember how there were endless fights over whether it was appropriate to say President Trump was a fascist?
Well, that one seems pretty well-settled now.
But Trump’s second-term swath of destruction doesn’t only prove that the fascist moniker is apt.
It also shows that America is living under a personalist regime,
and it’s wrecking us.
Consider the whiplash of Tuesday’s genocidal threat to wipe out Iran’s entire civilization,
one that hung in the air al…
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/116544804984700760
reCaptcha (which is owned and operated by Google) exists solely to data-mine people. The latest iteration forces people to install an app from Google on their mobile device.
If you run a web app or site, do not use it, for any reason. You're selling out your audience or your customers (and don't even get paid for it).
As Martin says, it's yet another attempt from Google to destroy the Internet (by controlling it).
Cardinals QB Carson Beck on six-year college career: 'Everybody has to run their own race' https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-qb-carson-beck-on-six-year-college-career-everybody-has-to-run-their-own-race
Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/popular-ope…
208gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
China’s rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace
has prompted an unusually blunt call from a state-run newspaper to protect labor rights,
as Beijing considers how to contain risks posed by the new technology.
In an editorial published on Thursday, the Workers’ Daily
— the official mouthpiece of China’s umbrella trade union organization
— urged government agencies to mount an active response
as new threats emerge to the rights of employees…
A Youthful Crop of Politicians Run on Housing, and Their Own Rent (Kate Zernike/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/politics/gen-z-politicians-housing-costs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p19#a260611p19
The Houston Chronicle was just accidentally sent a government contract that was never meant to be publicly released.
It revealed what taxpayers are really paying to run America's only family detention center in Dilley, Texas
— and the number is staggering.
$15.6 million taxpayer dollars every month,
paid in full whether the facility is packed or not.
A for-profit prison company collecting guaranteed revenue while the people inside
— parents, children…
165gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Trump picks Cameron Hamilton to run FEMA (Thomas Frank/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/11/trump-picks-cam-hamilton-fema-00915100
http://www.memeorandum.com/260511/p109#a260511p109
With baby Arthur too young for the measles vaccine and a sibling due in June,
the Otwells grew nervous when the threat of the highly contagious virus started affecting their grocery run.
“We go to the Costco that was kind of a hotbed,” said John Otwell after his state health department's warnings of public exposures at the store
Auch Mal die kleinen Artists unterstützen. #düsseldorf
Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues (Rick Findlay/Reclaim The Net)
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-user…
“Firing every remaining member of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission
months before the midterms
is a brazen attempt to seize control of our elections before a single vote is cast,”
Chuck Schumer wrote on X.
“He is gutting the independent agency that certifies voting systems and helps election officials run secure elections.”
Schumer said Senate Democrats will fight this move.
“The American people—not Donald Trump—will decide the 2026 election.”
207gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Raimondo backs away from 2028 presidential run (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/09/raimondo-2028-presidential-run-00954449
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p91#a260609p91
Someone shared the domains to block on the DNS level (eg pihole) to prevent ‚Bright Data‘ from using your home network for scraping, but I can't find it anymore.
Edit: Found it: https://famichiki.jp/@piepants/116705889183088688
PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple held talks with PrismML about it (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/kh
214gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
120gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
In Bonn kann man jetzt ein Praktikum bei den Taliban machen. Keine Pointe.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260506113007/https://afghanmissionbonn.de/praktikum.php?lang=de
Two weeks after Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) announced she will be seeking reelection in Florida’s new 20th Congressional District,
four Black Democratic candidates competing in the race are hoping to stop her from winning the nomination in a district that has historically been represented by a Black lawmaker.
Democrats were surprised by the senior Democrat’s move,
which followed Gov. Ron DeSantis signing legislation that redrew the state’s congressional maps in an…
170gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
78gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
122gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
134gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
126gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
102gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
134gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
140gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
128gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
127gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
66gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2