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An interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad on why "vibe coding" is never about coding, the SaaS apocalypse, building a "self-driving company", and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/replit-amjad-massad-interview-coding-d…

Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work

"The biodegradable, self-cleaning fabric made from living caterpillar fungus"
#Textiles #Fabric

The biodegradable, self-cleaning fabric made from living caterpillar fungus | The Optimist Daily
Chinese scientists grew flexible fabric from Cordyceps fungus that self-repairs, resists UV rays, and biodegrades within 41 days.

This is a wild read regardless of your views about #AI. And unlike every other AI company out there, Anthropic seems to be the least hype-making and most legitimate one out there, which leads me to believe what they’re saying is true. I’ve been using Claude the past several week for work and personal use, and I’ve never experienced anything like it, especially with their Code tool.

When AI builds itself
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

Sonnet 001 - I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And onl…

US celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is recovering in hospital after members of the public reported that he had appeared to self-harm during a TikTok livestream (Charisma Madarang/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-…

Police Respond to Perez Hilton’s Home After He Appeared to Harm Himself on TikTok
On Tuesday, a flood of online users reported that celebrity blogger Perez Hilton as live-streaming acts of self-harm on TikTok.

A little weekend #drawing ✍️
My first self #portrait, what do you think? I am pretty happy with it, though it's not perfect. I chose a self portrait because I didn't want to harm anyone else 😇
#mastoart

Interesting blog from Anthropic about RSI, AI & coding, ofcourse from their perspective but worth reading,
#ai

When AI builds itself
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/117046786473945706
“Washington’s ambassador to the UK Warren Stephens said recently that Miliband had been ‘wrong’ in 2016 to call Trump ‘a racist, misogynistic, self-confessed groper’ and that ‘hopefully his vi…

Sources: Uber has committed nearly $500M to self-driving startup Nuro, providing a crucial runway as Nuro works to prove its technology at commercial scale (Abhirup Roy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra

How do you and your partner see each other?
https://psyche.co/notes-to-self/does-your-partner-see-your-personality-the-way-you-do

All the self-righteous academics using their research funds to buy books from Amazon.

The Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee
🔥voted to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress
after a bitter hearing last week,
where the retired public health official invoked the fifth amendment
for fear of self-incrimination and possible prosecution by Republican lawmakers,
who have routinely vilified him for his handling of the Covid-19 response.
The vote was adopted along party lines.
This came after several attempts from s…

Senate committee holds Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress – live
Republican majority voted to hold the retired health official in contempt after hearing where he repeatedly invoked the fifth amendment

Richard Dawkins has again jumped the shark with his bonkers drivel about Claude, on top of his racist, transphobic, sexist rants. He's become a caricature of sozzled oxbridge self-obsessed 'genius'.
As a life-long atheist myself I would love it if more people embraced humanism and believed in our ability to achieve astonishing, good things outside of the hierarchical, dark structures of religion. In general I feel it's just not something I can even talk about without be…

Ich muss sagen @… ist wirklich sehr gut und wird weiterhin besser. Das aktuelle Release 3 bringt Workflows um bestimmte Dinge zu automatisieren. Es läuft rock-solid auf dem Server und auf dem iPhone und macht ohne zu murren alle automatischen Updates mit. Ein echter Ersatz für Google Photos und mit den neuen Features sogar besser.
Erwähnt man so selte…

Immich
Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.

Want to understand how federated identity actually works? That's what the new #eduGAIN Academy is for.
This free, self-paced training takes you from the basics through to practical implementation, including on topics like authentication, authorisation, SAML, metadata, compliance, and operational tools.
Open to anyone registered on the GÉANT eAcademy.
🔗 Start learning today:…

Igen en aldeles glimrende sammenhæng mellem de to botter:

Belgian start-up NOX Energy, which smartly controls heat pumps based on a range of parameters (weather, building characteristics, self-generated solar, energy and grid prices, and balancing services) is expanding into solar: smart controls to help improve grid balance
https://www.noxgoesintohardware.com

I’m glad that I don’t keep in touch with most of my former cow-orkers. I feel confident that some have probably been brainwormed by 2 or 3 different forms of techno-psychosis by now. @… https://

OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

ChatGPT’s ‘Trusted Contact’ will alert loved ones of safety concerns
OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns.

I’ve recently gotten into self-hosting some web apps. Most of them are a single binary or a docker. A markdown editor I’m installing now is on node and has 681 dependencies that are taking an hour to install. WTH!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Yalla Miku:
🎵 Maximum Self-Care
#YallaMiku
https://yallamiku.bandcamp.com/track/maximum-self-care
https://open.spotify.com/track/1faaEMR5x5dZuB8x9Rs8br

Ouch, I just hurt my eyes rolling them back so hard.
https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116694353205104129

Well this would be very nice to have!!
https://braindetox.kr/en/posts/self_hosting_tld_2026.html

I don't know if this is vibe coded or not (the source is open but development is closed), but what an incredible idea. #selfhosting

GitHub - halcyon-video/halcyon-video: Your Jellyfin library as a walkable 1990s video rental store — three.js, first-person, self-hosted
Your Jellyfin library as a walkable 1990s video rental store — three.js, first-person, self-hosted - halcyon-video/halcyon-video

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Something I love about film festivals is, whereas most commercial movies are made for audiences & fine-tuned by algos, here you still find self-indulgent flicks. Some are terrible, and some are just amazing. RIIFF is one of my favorite things about summer!
https://film-festival.org/

Home RIIFF - Rhode Island International Film Festival
Discover the Rhode Island International Film Festival — a premier showcase of independent cinema and Oscar-qualifying short films.

Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80% of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

When AI builds itself
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

It is a terrible icon of capitalism's self-corruption that Elon Musk was the first trillionaire.
It is a fitting coda to capitalism's gross failures that Elon Musk will be the last trillionaire.

Have just started using Ente for secure, privacy focused photo back up and organisation.
So far I am actually pretty impressed. It's lightning fast and very easy to navigate - and I have tens of thousands of photos that it's definitely helping me to organise and search through easily. And share with non-Ente users too.
It's miles better than Flickr as a UI experience.
This is a test period before I decide if I migrate rest of family too.
However, I was under the impression the company was German/Dutch but it unfortunately appears to be US incorporated - even though the servers are supposed to be in NL, F and DE. It just makes me very suspicious that at some point the company will be sold off and the creeping enshittification will start again.
It is very frustrating. I could but am not very keen to self host. I have far too many other things going on in my life for that. But it does look like immich or memories for nextcloud is the only other good option. And this probably epitomises why most people just stick with (mostly US) big tech. It is so much easier and less effort than working out what the alternatives are.

TikTok says a "moderator error" delayed the removal of a Perez Hilton livestream, during which he appeared to self-harm, and the subsequent ban of his account (Ej Dickson/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-says-moderator-erro…

TikTok Says ‘Moderator Error’ Kept Perez Hilton Livestream Up
The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since been hospitalized.

Frida Khalo was such a legend. I can't say anything that hasn't already been said, because she is so iconic. But for me, her self determination and control of her own image in the face of her illness and disability is the lesson we could all take from her. #Tate #art

Roundtable: The Renaissance Self (Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia, March 11-13, 2027)
https://ift.tt/eQZIArb
updated: Saturday, May 23, 2026 - 6:19pmfull name / name of organization: Hayley Cotter, University…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Wow, what a shame that they're going out of business.
I read the whole post on their site detailing what happened, and I just feel for this.
https://www.tomboytoes.com/blogs/news/tomboy-toes-is-closing

@… The index provider doesn't owe any fiduciary duties to anyone. It's not regulated and it simply contracts with fund sponsors to license usage of the index.
Now, self-indexed funds (didn't exist 10 years ago when I retired) may be a different story. For those funds, their adviser or an affiliate of their adviser creates the…

A Tale of Two Compact Bosons
Christian Ferko, Vishnu Jejjala, Brandon Robinson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06376 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.06376 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.06376
arXiv:2608.06376v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural network field theory (NN-FT) defines a field theory by a network architecture together with a probability density on its latent variables. For compact theories the local Gaussian sector is only part of the story: one must also sum over discrete topological sectors. We review a mixed continuous/discrete latent-variable construction and apply it to two compact bosons. For the Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless transition, a random Fourier feature spin-wave sampler supplemented by an explicit Coulomb gas vortex sector reproduces the Gaussian critical line below $T_c$, vortex proliferation above $T_c$, the essential singularity of the correlation length, and the Nelson--Kosterlitz jump. For the bosonic string, oscillator modes augmented by momentum--winding labels reproduce circle T-duality, Buscher transformations on constant toroidal backgrounds, self-dual current algebra enhancement, and a toy T-fold. The common lesson is that the same local neural sampler, paired with different discrete topological data, yields physically distinct compact theories. These proceedings are based on arXiv:2604.02313.
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I was a huge TvTime user but the writing has been on the wall for multiple years as the app slowly degraded.
That's why I built Tvmarks. Powered but Tvmaze it's an activityPub enabled self hosted UI on top of a personal database that you self host.
https://github.com/stefanhayden/tvmarks

A research team that includes Huawei says it successfully used Huawei's Ascend 910C chips for DeepSeek V4 Pro model's post-training, amid increased US sanctions (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3356117/

Huawei chips refine DeepSeek model in leap for China’s AI self-reliance
While Chinese chipmakers have found success in supporting AI inference, they are struggling with the far more complex process of training.

Modified Cosmological Expansion and the JWST CMB Optical Depth Tension in Self Interaction Gravity
Subhadeep Mukherjee, Shashank Shekhar Pandey, A. S. Majumdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03470 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.03470 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.03470
arXiv:2608.03470v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations favor an earlier and more efficient reionization history, leading to Thomson-scattering optical depths larger than those inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We investigate whether this tension can be alleviated within the framework of self-interaction (SI) gravity by modifying the cosmological expansion history while retaining the standard astrophysical description of reionization. The SI gravity parameters are constrained through a Bayesian MCMC analysis of the Union3 Type Ia supernova and DESI DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) data. The resulting expansion history is then used to predict the ionization history and Thomson optical depth. We find that the predicted optical depth decreases from $\tau_{\rm{CMB}}\simeq0.076$ in $\Lambda$CDM to $\tau_{\rm{CMB}}\simeq0.061$, consistent with the Planck PR4 measurement within $1\sigma$, thereby substantially reducing the optical-depth tension.
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self-OH: All features welcome

"The beauty of democracy is that it's self-correcting. If you don't like what's going on, vote. And that's how America heals itself."
- George W. Bush
▶️ #Clinton, #Bush, #Obama

Note To Self
Everyday people share the lessons that helped them find confidence, make brave choices, back themselves, or get through a tough season...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/note-to-self/

Alexandrov Theorem for constant weighted mean curvature surfaces
Florian Johne, Lauro Silini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05119 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05119 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05119
arXiv:2608.05119v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We prove a Heintze--Karcher type inequality for a large class of log-convex weights in Euclidean and Hyperbolic spaces. As a consequence we obtain an Alexandrov theorem for $\lambda$-self expanders.
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from my link log —
The case against self-closing tags in HTML.
https://jakearchibald.com/2023/against-self-closing-tags-in-html/
saved 2024-04-05

The case against self-closing tags in HTML
The history, facts, and opinions.

Actually any self-hostable journal apps recommendation are welcome
Only found jtx for caldav and it was disappointing. And searching for self hostable journals in general I only found "journiv" which is vibe coded (and not open source) so I'm not really willing to use it.
I guess I'd want easy formatting (I do like markdown, but here I'd prefer UI-based), a calendar view for the entries, image support. Audio with transcription would be nice too, even if I could use the keyboards dictation mode for that. Could be a good web app with or without mobile apps option, as long as the web worked well on mobile.

One of those notes is that China may well be doing the modern equivalent of Charles De Gaulle buying American, but this time it's releasing open models.
Another note is that people can be both evil and incompetent, and that the systems of control that have been built over the last several thousand years have evolved to be extremely resilient.
I think there's also a tendency to ignore emergent intelligence, or at least to assume that it must not be as smart as individuals. But the emergent intelligence of the capitalist system should not be underestimated. Even when run by the least many of the least competent people in history, the system can be quite adaptive when it comes down to self-preservation.
The point is not to try to out think it, because that's actually impossible. The point is to design systems that can think faster.

https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/
Reliability lives on what Dolgov called an “exponential ladder of nines.” Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls it the “march of the nines.” Getting to 90% or 99% is the easy part. Every additional nine of reliability takes roughly ten times more effort than the one before it.
Nope! Each nine in precision is exponentially harder, not geometrically.

Intermittent fasting triggers surprising changes in the brain #health

Intermittent fasting triggers surprising changes in the brain
Losing weight may involve rewiring the gut and the brain at the same time. In a study of obese adults, an intermittent fasting-style diet led to significant weight loss, healthier metabolic markers, and notable shifts in gut bacteria. Brain scans also revealed changes in regions tied to appetite, cravings, and self-control. The results suggest the gut microbiome and brain may work together to influence weight-loss success.

I self-identify as a troll from Prachett.
To start the day, I need to be cooled down to a thinking temperature.

JD Vance, the US vice-president, has blamed the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration,
hours after Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected the US government’s claim that there was “two-tier policing” in the UK.
The senior Republican politician weighed into the case of the murdered 18-year-old,
claiming in a post on X that Nowak would be alive
“if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred …

🔒 Local & private by default — no cloud service, no model API calls, no API keys, and it never writes into your source repos. Includes local docs, man-page generation & signed self-upgrades
https://github.com/ctxrs/ctx

@…
"So far Mastodon kind of seems like it's 90% people marketing a product or themselves."
How are those posts getting into your timeline? It should show you if they include followed hashtags. Maybe they are boosted by someone you follow? You can turn off boosts per followed account. You should be able to stop most of the self promotion. …

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/03/tibet-china-man-tibetan-flag-set-himself-on-fire-dies-un-united-nations-new-york

Browse self-hostable software · selfhost.directory
The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.
🌐 https://selfhost.directory
:mastodon: @…

Browse self-hostable software
Discover self-hostable software you can run on your own server — a curated, open-source directory with setup guides, alternatives, licenses and live version track…

the four horsemen of UK humo(u)r (/pos):
- complaining
- sex
- self deprecation
- dryness

Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/omilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-c…

Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform | TechCrunch
The Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020. In that time, it has increased its ARR by 10x to $60 million.

@… Yes, it's so easy to attach self-worth to a simple list. Which isn't helpful if we've not been deliberate and intentional about what's on the list in the first place. And even then, 'events' completely out of our control, can get in the way.

Tonight I'll start the promotional push for the next ESPionage adventure. This is the worst part of self-publishing.
When I write, I have the written word.
When I direct, I have the team's production.
When I self-promote... crickets.
#TTRPG #FateRPG

Had an #acting #coaching client get some material into their physical self more (as opposed to their mind) and we did a couple takes that had new ways for the crux of the scene to play. So cool to see that whole other way of engaging.

Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160

Opening the window, hoping that it would get a little cooler in here, was such a really stupid idea. 🥵
Note to self: Just because it looks gray outside doesn't mean it's still 300 degrees.
#heatwave #europe

self-overheard:
"my favorite badn, the ploice"

Scalar Hair at the String-Black-Hole Correspondence
Eliseo Pavone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06016 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.06016 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.06016
arXiv:2608.06016v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study static, spherically symmetric axion--dilaton solutions of the tree-level four-dimensional string effective action. Using the sigma-model structure of the scalar sector, we show that the full family of static, spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat solutions is obtained as the $SL(2,\mathbb R)$ orbit of the pure-dilaton FJNW solution, and we characterize the associated axion--dilaton charge space. We then analyze the perturbative regime of these solutions by comparing the onset of $\alpha'$ curvature corrections with that of string-loop corrections. Finally, we apply the string--black-hole correspondence criterion to the FJNW family by evaluating the local $\alpha'$ curvature diagnostic at the physical size $R_{\rm typ}$ of a highly excited string state. With the normalization fixed on the Schwarzschild branch, Schwarzschild saturates the nominal $\alpha'$ threshold at the correspondence surface, whereas every scalar-haired FJNW branch lies above it. More generally, independently of the common overall normalization within the matching prescription, every nonzero-hair branch has a larger curvature diagnostic at the correspondence surface than Schwarzschild. Away from the correspondence point, scalar-haired exteriors may remain under $\alpha'$ control at sufficiently weak local self-gravity and may provide perturbatively controlled long-distance fields of highly excited string states whenever the local string coupling also remains weak.
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Directors Guild Pension Plan sues MGM Pictures, alleging the studio engaged in self-dealing through a "sweetheart" licensing agreement with its subsidiary MGM (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com…

Directors Guild Pension Plan Sues MGM Pictures for Alleged Self-Dealing
The pay TV-slash-streaming arm of MGM, now called MGM+, allegedly inked a “sweetheart” licensing deal with its owner that shortchanged the union benefits plan.

How lidar and other tech developed for autonomous vehicles is now used in smart city systems, in-home elder care services, and major shipyards like Rotterdam (John R. Quain/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/autonomous-vehic…

After Stumbles, Technology Meant for Self-Driving Cars Finds a Second Act
After a crush of promises in 2016 that autonomous cars would soon rule the road, companies whose tech underpinned them have shifted to other industries, like managing shipyards and city traffic.

Sonnet 004 - IV
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dos…

Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthr…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Anne Clark:
🎵 Self Destruct
#AnneClark
https://anneclarkofficial.bandcamp.com/track/self-destruct-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Uc3HO6WzLPVF2dhE3iEhp

I swear there is nothing more annoying in my job than the complete and total nightmare of domain names, distinct auth systems, and self-competing branding that fell out of SolarWinds’ dismemberment.
I never saw the value in this mess and still don’t. I only ever touch any of it when it makes noise, which it only does when the tooling itself is breaking in ways that I can't even comprehend based on the alerts.

#Trump may have committed wirefraud to usurp funds meant for the non-partisan #America250 celebration into Trump's self-agrandizing #Freedom250 circlejerk for himself.
Tim Miller, Rev. Al …

Crosslisted article(s) found for hep-th. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new
[1/2]:
- Living on the Edge of Effective Field Theory: Near-Extremal Black Holes in Quadratic Gravity
Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam, Gary T. Horowitz, Nicol\'as Yunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05268 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117053119278147418
- Relative entropy of entanglement of Haar random states
Takato Mori, Beni Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05274 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/117053252355717367
- Theory of Measurement-Altered Criticality
Kabir Khanna, Sara Murciano, Romain Vasseur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05289 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstatmech_bot/117053093687616139
- Self-dual $S_3$ gauge theory in 2 1d: lattice model and topological phase transitions
Da-Chuan Lu, Chong Wang, Ashvin Vishwanath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05294 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstrel_bot/117053135203168433
- 3-form dark energy and cosmic birefringence
Kohei Kamada, Tucker Manton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05296 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophCO_bot/117053109615577309
- GOOFy-compatible 3HDMs and beyond
I. de Medeiros Varzielas, A. Kun\v{c}inas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05304 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepph_bot/117053194550154760
- Beyond Borel Windows: A Systematic Optimization Framework for QCD Sum Rules
Raphael M. Albuquerque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05322 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepph_bot/117053194943710217
- Quantum information loss
James Fullwood, Wu-zhong Guo, Boyu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05535 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/117053277916138502
- Coherent and Stochastic Axion Dark Matter from Thermal Relaxation
Gurmani, Cilli, Channuie, Abdujabbarov, Atamurotov, G\"udekli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05538 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepph_bot/117053223846614186
- Asymmetric Quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder Collapse
Micha{\l} Bobula, Tomasz Paw{\l}owski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05818 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117053193567517392
- Triviality in a Non-Perturbative Second-Order Mean-Field Theory for $\phi^4_4$
Majdouline Borji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05998 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathph_bot/117053148149785707
- Measurement-induced entanglement Hamiltonian
Viktor Eisler, Erik Tonni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06006 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstatmech_bot/117053217162278663
- An Effective String Theory Toolbox for Quantum Hall Interfaces I: Worldsheet Kinematics and Const...
Ken K. W. Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06097 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot/117053183146860935
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Self Meditated
This series moves through the great schools of Vedic and Indian spiritual traditions with special emphasis on Advaita Vedanta and Yoga along the way...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/self-meditated/

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer turned doctoral student, is the latest candidate to rise from the party's left flank and boot establishment-backed candidates.
That includes two self-described democratic socialists and a progressive who won their Democratic primaries in New York last week.
Kiros' victory adds to a nascent but clear uprising, stirred by frustration among some voters, that has vexed party leadership.
Colorado's 1st Congressional District covers t…

Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats longtime House incumbent in Colorado primary
Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer turned doctoral student, is the latest candidate to rise from the party's left flank and boot establishment-backed candidates.

Re my previous “On Target” post; here’s a post in the thread that inspired it. Solomon is preaching the truth this morning.
“Do men need a language of worth empowerment and identity? Absolutely
But a man's sense of self is not greater than a woman's actual life
Read it again”
https://

Solomon (@solomonrmissouri.com)
Do men need a language of worth empowerment and identity? Absolutely But a man’s sense of self is not greater than a woman’s actual life Read it again

Extremely stupid and self-destructive, not wanting to collect climate data.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nFA.m9…

Trump Administration to Dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.

RE: https://todon.eu/@faab64/117019836045812390
Now let’s be fair here: Edy Cohen truly believes that “Israel strongly supports human rights and self-determination for all [human beings].”
He just doesn’t see Palestinians as human beings.
And that’s wh…

For a while programming looked most under AI threat, but math has taken pole position. My theory for why is 2-fold:
1. Math has had 1000s of years to get to clean formulations.
2. Math is self-contained: no "network misconfigured", etc. to gum up the works.
The latter brings to mind Davis and Hersh's definition of mathematics in "The Experience of Mathematics": "the study of mental objects with reproducible properties". That makes it (like…

self-overheard:
"my favorite badn, the ploice"

from my link log —
Self-contained Linux applications with lone lisp.
https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/self-contained-lone-lisp-applications
saved 2026-05-13

📊 No model card, license, benchmark table or pay-as-you-go price yet — the "second only to Fable 5" ranking is self-reported
⚠️ The preview is continuously upgraded and may be replaced by a formal model later
🌐 https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8

Zohran Mamdani on July 4th

The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/guo-wengui-chinese-businessman-fraud-3deb…

US judge gives self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui 30-year prison term for fraud
A self-exiled billionaire Chinese business tycoon has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his fraud conviction. Judge Analisa Torres sentenced Guo Wengui on Monday in Manhattan federal court, saying he still insists incredibly that his conduct caused no loss and harmed no one. Given a chance to speak, Guo said he came to the U.S. to destroy the Chinese Communist Party. But the judge said he instead diverted investor money to live lavishly. Guo left China a decade ago and reinvented himself…

It is clear Trump is totally not interested in helping to put the war between Russia and Ukraine to an end, he is totally distracted by his self-created war with Iran. Where he is also clearly not in control. He lets Israël basically decide that the fighting should continue.
#trump #israel

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kero Kero Bonito:
🎵 Dear Future Self
#KeroKeroBonito
https://kerokerobonito.bandcamp.com/track/dear-future-self
https://open.spotify.com/track/76XoI5842kJDoEwzt1V6HU

There are just 59 Robotaxis on the road, Bloomberg reports,
with at least some of them still requiring physical human supervision.
Its efforts to expand past its home base in Austin, Texas are floundering,
with the company forced to admit to California state regulators that its self-driving cabs don’t actually drive themselves, according to the reporting.
This incremental progress would be permissible at a smaller company.
But Musk has persistently wooed investo…

Tesla's Robotaxis Are a Complete Disaster
Behind the scenes, the reality is that Tesla's much-hyped Robotaxi program sounds like an absolute hot mess.

Late Diagnosed Diaries
This podcast is for the late or self diagnosed woman with ADHD, who's ready to finally understand her patterns, get out of her own way, and embrace her neurospicy self...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/late-d

Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tesla-expands-robotaxi-service-miami

Tesla expands Robotaxi service to Miami
Tesla said it rolled out its Robotaxi service in Miami on Friday, according to a post from its social media account on X. It’s the fifth city the automaker has launched its ride-hailing service as the company continues to expand its self-driving efforts alongside rivals like Waymo and Zoox. Waymo launched its autonomous vehicle service in Miami in April, while Zoox has said it is currently

Why are they only "once great," Chad?
https://skywriter.blue/@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/3ms6zothkf22z

An internal TikTok doc shows it withheld a safeguarded algorithm from 10% of US users, including a 16-year-old who was fed self-harm content and died by suicide (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)

The cover of Newsweek International bears the text:
“TRUMP WAS RIGHT (ABOUT VENEZUELA),”
with a cartoon depiction of a giant Trump wearing a safari-style outfit
while holding a fuel pump.
The White House joined Trump in sharing the image on X, along with the caption “TRUST IN TRUMP.”
The cartoon depiction of Trump mirrors almost exactly a famous 1892 illustration of Cecil Rhodes,
who in the cartoon is seen in a near-identical position and size,
sta…

Proud Trump shows off new cartoon of himself — apparently blind to its true meaning
President Donald Trump shared the latest cover of Newsweek International on social media Monday, depicting a giant version of himself straddling North and South America — an image almost certainly evoking an infamous 1892 caricature of British imperialist and self-proclaimed white supremacist Cecil ...

Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving without an iPhone, and the two are working on self-driving (Jack Ewing/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/ford-apple-software-self-…

Ford Will Use Apple Software in New Self-Driving System
In a first, Apple Maps will influence the way a new line of electric vehicles made by Ford Motor operates, and other automakers may follow.

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez.
I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks.
It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.
https://bsky.app/pro…

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing "recursive self-improvement", in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/d7076234-0…

Meta will now notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and is working on alerts to emergency services for users at risk of self-harm (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/meta

Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot | TechCrunch
The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularly teenagers.

A surge in AI-generated "pro se" cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the legal system but consuming more court resources (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits
For years, courts have welcomed cases brought by self-represented litigants. Now those plaintiffs have A.I., and their filings are consuming more and more bandwidth.

BYD, Nio, and other Chinese carmakers are rushing to design and increase the use of locally developed chips with AI functions in a bid for chip self-sufficiency (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dc7b4dfb-b279-4740-ae71-862a9e267aa9

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raised $650M from GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, AMD, and others at a $4B valuation to pursue "recursive self-improvement" (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technol…

Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I.
Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.