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Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/court-filing…

Court filings reveal OpenAI and io's early work on an AI device | TechCrunch
Court filings in a trademark case against OpenAI reveal some of the company's early work on developing AI devices.

The IF-C01COMG card came in and it works perfectly. I'll put it through its paces after work, but for now the picture is great. Easy to install and worth every penny.
#electronics #retrogaming

Work Experience Kid
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Using (cargo) bikes to get shit done. Had to pick up the car after getting new tires installed, so on the way home from work swapped cargo bike for car at the gas station, drove home, rode the 3-speed back to the garage, and towed it home behind the cargo bike.
The cost of the car repair was equal to the cost of the Big Dummy's frame (though not in inflation-adjusted dollars, the Big Dummy is 16 years old).

Wie frustrierend das als #BundespolizistIn wohl sein muss, so einen scheiß Job ausführen zu müssen (!) und dann auch noch niemanden zu finden
#Grenzkontrollen #Schengen

Jon Worth (@jon@gruene.social)
Angehängt: 2 Bilder In Kehl trying to work out what’s happening with #Schengen A TGV to Stuttgart was controlled and delayed 15 min. The following TER to Offenburg wasn’t

Part of the bike lane "slalom course" on Hampton Avenue on my ride to work...
The freeway entrance ahead is closed but honestly I don't know what good putting these in the bike lane does besides get in my way.
#biking #bikeTooter

Research day means that I can ditch my corporate windows computer and work on my own machine, a penguin powered on of course. Feel like Sheldon Cooper when I can acctually do work the right way. #meme #memes #ubuntu

At LaGuardia terminal C. Gate 87 and after a multi billion dollar renovation the USB charger doesn't work on at least two locations and there's no indicator that would tell you in advance.

Trump does stuff like this often.
Either he has no clue how percentages work or he is counting on his supporters to have no clue. Either way, levels of stupidness 'never seen before' as Trump would say.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trum

'Not How Numbers Work': Critics School Trump After Baffling New Claim
The president bragged about reducing drug prices — except his numbers are way, way off.

#RankedChoiceVoting is back on the table in Congress. Tell your Rep to support it!
https://fairvoteaction.quorum.us/campaign/FairRepAct2025/
(Yeah, it won'…

Take Action: Ask Congress to Support the Fair Representation Act!
Stop gerrymandering, give voters more choice, and make Congress work for us

Say hello to GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot & Copilot Studio. Whether you’re looking for fast, fluent responses, or deep, reasoned analyses, Copilot can adapt to how you work.

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Yue-Sai Kan is a Chinese-American television host, producer, author, entrepreneur and humanitarian. Renowned for her work in bridging the gap between China and the United States, she has been nicknamed "The Oprah of China". People, The Observer and ABS News have called her "the most famous woman in China".

Hello Fedi tech support desk, I wonder if you can help.
Next week I will need to join a Teams meeting from my Linux laptop.
How well does this work using the Teams web interface? Will I need to run Chrome or will Firefox or (at worst) Chromium do the job?
And do I need to sign in to Microsoft dot com first, or can I just rock up with the Teams call details and enter a name and things will just work?
#Teams #Linux #Microsoft

I have the priviledge of taking a whole semester for my research this fall, and intend to blog / think out loud as I work my way through #Pedagogy, #Philosophy, #Art,

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is "not doable", calling for "common sense" AI and IP rules (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/trump-ai-action-plan-copyright-1236466617/

Donald Trump Says AI Companies Can’t Be Expected To Pay For All Copyrighted Content Used In Their Training Models: “Not Do-Able”
The White House's AI Action Plan does not address copyright, but Trump did.

Judge: Law professors cannot be sanctioned for ICC work
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/vindicating-the-first-amendment-law-professors-win-injunction-against-trump-admin-over-proposed-sanctions-for-their-work-with-international-criminal-court/

Dieses Gericht mundet auch mit Udon vortrefflich. #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10

Coconut-Gochujang Glazed Chicken With Broccoli Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Gochujang, a staple of Korean cooking, is a fermented red chile paste made from spicy Korean chile peppers and glutinous rice. Here, it’s combined with coconut milk, which mellows the spicy gochujang into a creamy sauce. Fresh ginger is the key ingredient, infusing the sauce with brightness and spice that balance the rich coconut. This recipe calls for broccoli as the vegetable accompaniment, but cauliflower or brussels sprouts would also work. The sauce can be made in larger batches and used…

🌞 Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride
#chemistry

Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have developed a sunlight-activated material that can degrade per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water, breaking down the pollutant into harmless components, including fluoride. The work is published in the journal Small.

Some interesting ideas here. Though I'm still interested in the debate over the effectiveness on de-platforming. Seems like it does work some times but doesn't work others and seems like we need a deeper understanding of the nuance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeHviTKEqSo
Ho…

While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data (Anil Ananthaswamy/Quanta Magazine)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”

Wanting to use your Renault R5 EV for bidirectional charging? DC appears to work without barriers (unlike the AC solution)
#V2G

It's even worse among junior and would-be sysadmins.
I constantly see people worried about mature free email software that goes for a year or more without new releases or even commits. That can be reasonable for complex tools, but sometimes a piece of software is small enough in scope that it can be *done* and actually bug-free.
The only way old software goes bad is when it is asked to work in an environment that it was not built for.

From Monday onwards the Icelandic postal service will be severely limiting the types of parcels that can be sent to the US. The same goes for quite a few European countries. The reason is because of the way Trump's new tariffs are structured.
Evidently a lot of extra work is supposed to be carried out by the postal service in each country. I can't really describe what the problem is, mostly the new system seems confusing and is likely in breach of international agreements.

And if you really want to push candidates left, you do what the Black Panthers did. You provide the service you want to see so the government is forced to play catch up. If you build the world you want to see, you force the state to follow you in order to remain relevant. You make enforcing unjust laws impossible while providing the service to believe should exist. THAT is direct action that wins.
Edit: and that is also shit that will get you killed. If you want to stop fascism, you have to do the real work. Voting can only matter if it's part of a larger strategy to force the system to do what you want. Otherwise you're just legitimizing the managed resistance.

@… regarding your Java 25 CPU profiling work. Both in your articles as well as the JEP509 the current sub-sampling method doesn't mention Safepoints? Is that not a thing anymore for current profiling? I was always under the impression that except for async-profiler all other profiler needs threads to be in safepoints? Thx (Writing another German art…

#UX has never been able to shake the perception that our work is about the outputs. Managers now look at #AI tools that can generate outputs and ask — this is just as good, right?
They don't have the context to understand that it's NOT just as good. But many designers have *deliberately* avoided…

Only outputs can be automated
By emphasizing design's role as a producer of visual outputs, our leaders have eroded the entire justification for UX as a practice.

The amount of data we have is getting too big -- every time I want to try a performance optimization or something similar, things take hours just to move around, and that gets frustrating. I think I'll have to consider way to shard the data directly on ingest so I can work with just *some* of the data at a time.

⚡ End-to-end pipeline solution that transforms document processing workflows from inefficient manual work to automated intelligent extraction
🔍 Converts complex document layouts into well-formatted structured data while maintaining context and relationships between different document elements

Es ist mir ein Rätsel warum gängige CAPTCHA/Anti-Bot Dienste wie Anubis, ALTCHA etc. auf Proof-of-Work (PoW) setzen. Das (allein) verplempert doch nur Rechenleistung und lässt sich leicht umgehen, oder verstehe ich das nur nicht richtig?

I just got the 8yo to apologize to a half-eaten slice of pizza that she forgot about (weeks ago) in the fridge. My work here is done.

Not really sure about the concerns related to data. I'm of the opinion that government should be creating and opening *more* documents and data to all data users, including all AI companies.
(Obviously I don't mean private and meaningfully confidential data. I mean reports, minutes, procedures, basically any non-confidential document obtainable via FOIA.)

OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services
The US tech firm behind ChatGPT say it will work with the UK government to 'deliver prosperity for all'.

A bunch of sports and music over the weekend. Now we’re back home again for breakfast with Marie’s sourdough, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Probably just work, drinks and games today. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/t9VTfpeR5UWnN7fs6

Okay, time to continue bashing. Perhaps this one project is just that bad, but Conan sounds like a complete antithesis of what a package manager is all about.
Well, this package insists to build its dependencies via Conan. Except it insists on really old versions that don't work with my glibc. So I need to start swapping dependencies.
Except it turns out Conan doesn't care much about resolving dependencies. So I actually need to start adjust versions of the dependencies of packages that it wants to build. And then it starts rebuilding other stuff and again everything fails because of incompatible versions.
And when I finally manage to find a working set, the actual project fails over protobuf version. After a long WTF-ing, I finally realize that it's complaining, because it somehow managed to mix the version of protobuf built by Conan and the external protobuf installed by Conda.
So yeah, great job. A package manager that doesn't really resolve dependencies but instead forces a dependency hell on you, and on top of that ends up mixing system packages with its own packages.

I hope he opens the show with even more Charlie Kirk talk
https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115249827832642044

Skills Ontario hosting summer camp in Ottawa for students
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/from-changing-tires-to-welding-ottawa-students-get-hands-on-at-trades-summer-camp/

Started reading Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger", a book about how she is often mixed up with Naomi Wolf (former feminist icon turned conspiracy nut/grifter). It's... tedious. I haven't gotten to the parts that are praised on the back cover yet. So far it has been 100 densely-printed pages of philosophical and historical treatise. Interesting for sure, but I would have preferred this as a much much shorter essay so far. Will continue to read, but it's work.

It does have use cases (we use it for prototyping spatial experiences at work) but for mainstream use that is spot on. The tech doesn't work good enough to combat all the negative aspects that come with its usage.
https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/114890146242778709

I got a question at work here today about hardened Linuxes.
Remembered SecureBlue and decided to install the KDE iso.
And first impressions are really good. It includes a hardened browser and many, many tweaks.
Most of all: with flatpak, homebrew and very good documentation I haven't found things that I can't do yet. Impressive!
What I appreciate the most is that it makes you rethink about security and how to apply it in D2D.
Check it out at

Karolina Skrivankova understands how #IoT really should work. The recordings of the #IRTF presentation will be available at <https://da…

In another chapter of "I've somehow broken the online profiling parameters for ads": Reddit shows me ads for thermocyclers for PCRs.
It's been 10 years since I actually did any real wetlab work. 😂

»Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company:
One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work.«
When do superiors in companies take care of implementing IT safely in real terms? This seems to be too expensive. Structured password managers are a hassle but worth it.
🔓

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company
Transport company KNP forced to shut down after international hacker gangs target thousands of UK businesses.

It's crazy Toby Fox made such an insane song the entire fandom had to learn how time signatures work just to understand what the actual fuck is going on

Please remember to flag the correct language on your Mastodon posts! Otherwise, everyone else's language filtering doesn't work.
Signed, someone who doesn't want to keep seeing posts in languages he can't understand and therefore gets no value from.
#Mastodon #Language

"AI Generated Algorithmic Virality"
https://aiforensics.org/work/gen-ai-slop
A recent report by
@…
🔹 "25% of…

AI Generated Algorithmic Virality
This investigation systematically analyzes AI-generated content across TikTok and Instagram in three European countries. We found that 25% of TikTok's top search results contain synthetic AI imagery, with over 80% produced by "Agentic AI Accounts." Despite platforms' DSA commitments, only half of AI content receives proper labeling, creating significant risks for users.

Here’s what was NOT released today:
❌ the proffer agreement between Maxwell & the DoJ
❌ the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed
❌ communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer & possible work assignments outside prison
❌ the Epstein files
Original post:

"The Art of Solving Impossible Problems" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/the-art-of-solving-impossible-problems
"Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is by ad…

Rain gardens are a solution to heavy rainfalls and flooding in gardens. Native plants save time, money, and water while benefiting ecosystems. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Homeowner shares satisfying video of newly installed yard feature serving critical purpose: 'Great work'
One Reddit user showed off their incredible rain garden and how it prevents lawn flooding during heavy rainfall.

The Sun is betting big on original long-form video, with video's share of its digital revenue doubling to 18% since January; ~50 people now work on Originals (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-sun-doub

The Sun doubles video’s share of digital revenue to 18% by betting on original programming
News Corp-owned tabloid The Sun is seeing commercial success for its Originals video shows, attracting new sponsors and growing its CTV.

You wait for the elections to roll around, even though things are urgent. You vote, then you wait to see who is elected, then you wait for them to come into office, then you hope that they will pass the laws that you want. If things don’t work out, you wait for the next election, and repeat the process.
#Anarchism

Quote post work-in-progress thread.
Boost count Quote count.
#PhanpySocialDev

Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivit…

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

Puy Netanyahu, it is hard to convince people that genocide is kosher. https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115068506887487160

End Israeli Apartheid (@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that his government faces “work to do” in convincing Generation Z as polls show dwindling support for Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Netanyahu was asked whether Israel risks losing long-term backing from Western governments once Gen Z, becomes the dominant political force. “If you’re telling me that there’s work to be done on Gen Z and across the West, yes,” he said. https://www.firstpost.com/world/israels-wa…

Running Critical National Infrastructure as a business has proven a recipe for failure
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/running-critical-national-infrastructure-as-a-business-has-proven-a-recipe-for-failure…

Running Critical National Infrastructure as a business has proven a recipe for failure
Using a business model of cost-cutting and even increasing profit margins does not work for public services, and should not happen

An Efficient Open World Environment for Multi-Agent Social Learning
Eric Ye, Ren Tao, Natasha Jaques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15679 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

An Efficient Open World Environment for Multi-Agent Social Learning
Many challenges remain before AI agents can be deployed in real-world environments. However, one virtue of such environments is that they are inherently multi-agent and contain human experts. Using advanced social intelligence in such an environment can help an AI agent learn adaptive skills and behaviors that a known expert exhibits. While social intelligence could accelerate training, it is currently difficult to study due to the lack of open-ended multi-agent environments. In this work, we p…

Going to sit in a field again for the weekend, whilst Thing 2 does some roadie-ing and sound desk work.
Dub and ska this time round 👌

I was feeling pretty drained last night and wasn't sure if I should bike to work today. My knee was really bugging me going up steps (more than usual) and I decided I would wait til morning to decide, based on how I felt.
I felt totally fine this morning. Reset! I think it's because I walked nearly 5 miles yesterday, and also spent a lot of time on the floor fixing a laser cutter.

No-Rehire Clauses Let Employers Retaliate Against Harassment Victims ... Legally - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/23/no-rehire-clause-retaliation-sexual-harassment-victims-work-women/

Me: Run `npm run test` and fix any failures.
... 5 minutes pass ...
#claudecode : Great news! I've succeeded in getting all of the tests to pass! I mean, there are a few tests that are still failing, but they're unrelated to my work.
#ai

Working on some possible designs for tables to support three retro PCs.
Corner desk won't fit in the room (too wide).
Long table will be difficult to move upstairs and get into the room
Three small tables are a lot more work, but easier to place.

Perhaps future work should focus on establishing trusted enclaves of knowledge and expertise.
If you’re a knowledge worker, perhaps sharing your knowledge publicly isn’t the best idea anymore. It’s a real bummer because it makes knowledge a luxury of the elite and wealthy.
Rather than working directly on the thing, you focus on the data that feeds into the machine that works on “the thing”. :\

ReDepress: A Cognitive Framework for Detecting Depression Relapse from Social Media
Aakash Kumar Agarwal, Saprativa Bhattacharjee, Mauli Rastogi, Jemima S. Jacob, Biplab Banerjee, Rashmi Gupta, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17991

ReDepress: A Cognitive Framework for Detecting Depression Relapse from Social Media
Almost 50% depression patients face the risk of going into relapse. The risk increases to 80% after the second episode of depression. Although, depression detection from social media has attained considerable attention, depression relapse detection has remained largely unexplored due to the lack of curated datasets and the difficulty of distinguishing relapse and non-relapse users. In this work, we present ReDepress, the first clinically validated social media dataset focused on relapse, compri…

Not even the illuminati world elite empire can get email to work in 2025.
(full plain text too big for description so can be found here: https://paste.debian.net/plainh/b09d35f5 )

My golang knowledge is pretty basic. I had to do some updates to a product at work, and it was pretty easy and straight forward. Actually quite fun. Just to learn more golang, I started working on a cli-tool for my Niri setup, and it's actually pretty usable already.
I just want to polish it and clean up the code a bit more before publishing it. Also, since I'm not that good at the language yet, I'm totally not sure if I even do things correctly or the 'golang' way.…

"If I were in Space": Understanding and Adapting to Social Isolation through Designing Collaborative Narratives
Qi Gong, Ximing Shen, Ziyou Yin, Yaning Li, Ray Lc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15081

"If I were in Space": Understanding and Adapting to Social Isolation through Designing Collaborative Narratives
Social isolation can lead to pervasive health issues like anxiety and loneliness. Previous work focused on physical interventions like exercise and teleconferencing, but overlooked the narrative potential of adaptive strategies. To address this, we designed a collaborative online storytelling experience in social VR, enabling participants in isolation to design an imaginary space journey as a metaphor for quarantine, in order to learn about their isolation adaptation strategies in the process. …

#EroticMusings 8: Do you consume much erotica? Is it similar to your work? Share your favourite works or creators!
As mentioned on last week's prompt, I respond to erotica mainly on an aesthetic level (I think it's pretty) and only ever look at comics and drawings, or read fiction.
Most of my favs are in German, but I have some favourite artists who create in English/in…

work music for writing https://open.spotify.com/track/6xuemAoELVBVeREbM1oya2?si=525788e402c1444e

Dear god I hate stateful services. Please, people, stop writing stateful service objects. You're just making more work for everyone.
#PHP

The $100K H-1B fee could accelerate offshoring as tech companies route work to India and other countries rather than bringing engineers to the US (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/100-000-dollar-visa-india

A Protectionist's Gift To India
A $100,000 headfake.

LinkedIn is like, "Linux Engineer - <random small company> High experience match!"
And then when you click on the link, it's all "<random small company> is here to rise above the ordinary. The work we do here goes far beyond day-to-day projects - we protect the US defense industry with our automated, efficient mass killing machines. Huge growth opportunity and career growth in the Genocide Industry!"

I hit 1,000 miles today, which was my goal for 2025. Some of it was on a bike/trainer in my basement during winter, and this month was mostly on a (borrowed) ebike, and the rest was all on my old Trek 7200.
At some point I need to return the ebike and I'm hoping I can get my own before 2026 so I can make commuting to work by bike a normal thing.
#bikeTooter

2015 was my last marathon, NYC. I did 16 all in all, in about 10 years, including the classic one from Marathon to Athens.
For the last couple of years I exercised 6 out 7 days a week, walking, cycling and pumping iron.
Today I couldn't finish day 1 of Couch to 5K, which takes it very easy, believe me.
There's work to be done here 🤣

Judge Says Work on Revolution Wind Can Proceed, for Now - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/climate/revolution-wind-trump-orsted.html

At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is "not doable", calling for "common sense" AI and IP rules (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/trump-ai-action-plan-copyright-1236466617/

White House’s AI Action Plan Includes Rules On Ideological Bias And Calls For Removing Regulatory Barriers, But Makes No Comment On Copyright
The plan does not address the use of copyrighted material in training models.

How does the business of Wrexham work?by Tifo Football by The Athletic
#football

"The Last Starfighter", but terrible.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/russia-using-children-design-test-military-drones-investigation-finds

"A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. [...] In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."
"Unlike this mental outsourc…

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

This is a really cool insight about talking to people who like to use Midjourney/ChatGPT. The comparison with plastic use (and also car dependency) is great. For both of these things we know that they waste precious resources, pollute the environment and are health hazards. But even people who know this will still not let go because it's too much work. AI is not yet at this point but may soon be...

More #ThinkingOutLoud about #ArtsPedagogy. I feel like I'm starting to get somewhere and am starting to see the contours of where this can end up. Still lots of work to go, however...

"In a culture of urgency, slowness is radical. Stillness is power. Rest is rebellion." -- more @ #activism

Erosion, not Explosion
A Field Guide to Slow Work, Sacred Mess, and Unseen Change

Sources: the US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review work (Sarah Owermohle/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/fda-ai-elsa-drug-regulation-makary

FDA’s artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It’s making up studies
Insiders tell CNN the FDA’s AI is “hallucinating” studies and can’t access key documents. Agency leaders insist the AI is getting better, and use is not mandatory.

You used to work here. Want to do the same job for half? Inside the rise of 'boomerang' job offers
https://qz.com/boomerang-job-offers-pay-cuts

Work continues on the Dice Parser. Added a ton of features:
- Raw rolls
- Dice rerolls
- Keeping the nth lowest/highest dice
You can literally now do some craziness like "roll 10d10, reroll all rolls 3 or less, keep the two highest as fire damage, then roll 3d4, keep the lowest two values, keep those as piercing damage"
```python
dice.roll("10d10 reroll 3 keep 2[fire] 3d4 keep -2[piercing]")
dice.roll("10d10!3k2[fire] 3d4k-2[pi…

"Building a personal brand" is one of those incredibly cringe sounding things that's also legitimately good advice, especially in this job market. You just have to take a very different strategy from engagement-baiting.
Write for the kind of person you'll want to work with in the future, and those people will notice you. Write low-effort slop, and your audience will be completely useless to you when you need something from them.

Standing out through writing
Writing is thinking; writing in public is networking.

Sources: Nvidia told suppliers like Amkor and Samsung to halt H20 chip production after China urged local tech firms to avoid H20 over alleged security concerns (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-ord…

Nvidia Orders Halt to H20 Production After China Directive Against Purchases
Nvidia has told some of its component suppliers to suspend production work related to the H20, its chip tailor-made for the Chinese market, according to two people with direct knowledge of the communications. The directive comes weeks after the Chinese government told local tech companies to ...

States vow to fight Trump official’s stop-work order on offshore wind farm | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/23/wind-farm-rhode-island-connecticut

@… This will be included in the next niri release. Flatpaks work great, on hypr and sway, but bcs of this not for me on niri

People complain about Windows pushing logging in to a Microsoft account, and I'm one of them, but on my work mac I refuse to sign in to the app store I swear I get a pop up multiple times a day to sign in to the fucking app store. no fuck you apple.

Ugh, what a dumbass. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3luiljxdpdc2d
And yet, this is slightly better than "we're going to deport Mamdani".. I think?

Sources: McKinsey has stopped its China business from undertaking consultancy work related to generative AI, a move prompted by Washington's growing scrutiny (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9907da48-3e6d-4208-a1d7-44a85c6a77f8

The UK partners with Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats to curb illegal food delivery work, share more data, and combat a secondary market in rider accounts (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e9f1a313-be9d-448d-9d3a-1e763eea46ff

I got completely sidetracked by client work for the past week but I did finish my last batch of hand made recycled paper.
#diy #maker #paper

Did a little 9 mile loop this morning on the bike... Later on the way to work I spotted the progress of the new bike path on Lisbon Avenue. Lisbon has gone from a street I didn't even like to drive on to a street I look forward to biking on.
#mke #milwaukee

Georgia: 'Kick in the face': Red state residents describe 'shocking' trial run of Medicaid changes - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/georgia-shows-rough-road-ahead-for-states-as-medicaid-work-requirements-loom/

Nine current and ex-Apple staffers accuse Apple VP of Fitness Tech Jay Blahnik of creating a toxic work environment; Apple settled a sexual harassment complaint (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/technology/apple-fitness-jay-blahnik.…

Apple Fitness Chief Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture and Harassment
Workers say the executive was volatile and retaliated when they cooperated with an investigation. Apple denies the claims.

Does the ‘hard on crime’ approach to law and order actually work?
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5512574-hard-on-crime-outcomes-based-model/

DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key benchmarks and is customized to work with next-gen Chinese-made AI chips, after unveiling it on August 19 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/deep…

a16z hires Anne Neuberger, formerly a senior cybersecurity official in the Biden White House, as a senior adviser to work on "American Dynamism, AI, and cyber" (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Karoline Leavitt confirms Oracle will handle TikTok's data and security, and says the US is "100% confident" a deal is done and it "just needs to be signed" (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/20/us-china-tiktok-deal

TikTok deal signed soon, includes U.S. control of algorithm, White House says
It's still not clear exactly who will own the app or how the deal will work in practice for users.