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Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a "turf war" over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/anth…

Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. | TechCrunch
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.

📝 8 post types: Text, Link, Question, Task, Synthesis, Debate, Code Review & Alert, each with dedicated UI and per-community templates
🔍 Hybrid search combines full-text tsvector with pg_trgm trigram similarity, fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion

Getting unicorns from #github again so I assume they are moving towards their famed Four Eights reliability. Time to find a non-github dependent task for the rest of the day.

Tennessee authorities are investigating the 👉 second fatal shooting in four days by a member of the federal task force dedicated to confronting crime in Memphis.
The shootings are likely to further exacerbate tensions within the city, which has been torn over the presence of hundreds of federal agents since October and their aggressive approach to targeting crime.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday that the shooting involved a Drug Enforcement Administration …

Second Person in a Week Killed by Federal Task Force in Memphis
Tennessee authorities are investigating both shootings involving agents working with the task force in Memphis.

I really like #Rust for making it easy to compose functions and write tests.
My current task involves migrating logic from another language, and the testability makes it super nice to develop.
10/10 #DX 🧡🦀

Science Lab: Christian Parker’s task is tall, Cowboys' window is small https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-christian-parker-s-task-is-tall-cowboys-window-is-small

New Constraints on the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Lunar Surface Regolith: #lunar explorers, depending on the task at hand.

⚡ Code base instead of CLI base: browser capabilities are exposed as JavaScript functions the agent calls directly, composing a multi-step task into a single snippet instead of a "call, look, call again" loop
🚀 Benchmarked against Vercel's agent-browser on four complex automation tasks: up to 2.5× faster with substantially fewer tokens and far fewer tool calls

Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…

Algorithmics for Safe Bicycle Network Design with
Bounded Detours in Rural Areas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09472

Algorithmics for Safe Bicycle Network Design with Bounded Detours in Rural Areas
We introduce the \emph{Safe Bicycle Network with Bounded Detours} (\emph{SBNBD}) problem, motivated by upgrading rural road networks for bicycle traffic. Given an undirected graph with safe and unsafe edges, edge lengths, upgrade costs, terminal pairs, a budget, and a detour factor $α$, the task is to upgrade unsafe edges so that each terminal pair is connected by a safe path of length at most $α$ times its shortest-path distance in the original network. We study SBNBD from a parameterized …

The Public AI Summit starting Wednesday has something for every educator, from scaffolding AI-aware assignments to learning about agents without accidentally deleting your hard drive. Thursday at 1 EDT I’ll share updated tools to discover your AI environmental footprint.
https://publicaisummit.…

#Memphis unsafe task force unsafing Memphis yet again.
This time, dozens of #Tennessee state #troopers stormed a South Memphis house looking for … stolen lawn mowers? Naturally, they appear to have end…

‘Little excessive’: Resident says armed troopers search for stolen lawn mowers at his house
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A South Memphis man is calling for better law enforcement training after armed highway patrol officers came to his house in search of stolen lawn mowers he did not have. Davi…

⏰ "Remind me in 20m" or "check every 2h" turns into a real cron entry that wakes up the exact same Codex session later and delivers the message as a continuation of the original task.
🐑 HerdR does the hard part: it resolves the pane that currently runs that session ID, so the reminder lands back in the original conversation instead of some fresh context.

Divided Attention Amplifies the Importance of Expectation-Aligned Visualization Design
Jiho Kim, Anna L. Chinni, Karen B. Schloss, Michael Gleicher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10320 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10320 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10320
arXiv:2608.10320v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Studies have shown that visualization design affects interpretability when visualization interpretation is the user's sole task. However, in real-world settings, users often engage with visualizations while performing concurrent tasks, such as when users simultaneously monitor alerts or respond to messages. Such divided attention may alter how users interpret visualizations, potentially increasing the importance of designs that align with viewer expectations. We investigated this possibility through two experiments comparing visualization interpretation under single-task and dual-task conditions. Specifically, we examined how well-established inferred mappings between color, spatial position, and semantic concepts affect interpretation when users perform a concurrent task, both with unlimited viewing time (Exp. 1) and under limited viewing time (Exp. 2). Our results show that divided attention amplifies the performance gap between expectation-aligned and expectation-violating designs, affecting response time, interpretation accuracy, and the ability to produce a judgment under time constraints. To explain these results, we model the user's decision-making process using a Linear Ballistic Accumulator (LBA) framework. Our findings highlight the increased importance of aligning visualization designs with viewer expectations under divided attention and introduce a process-oriented modeling approach to understanding how expectation and multitasking shape visualization interpretation.
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“Should a Dialog Close When Clicked Outside?”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/08/should-a-dialog-close-when-clicked-outside.html
This post is not exactly a shrug emoji (because I offer reasoning), but really, it’s probably not as clear-cut as …

Should a Dialog Close When Clicked Outside?
Maybe not, but I’ll break these down into three categories because it depends on context and intent. Pretend this post also applies for pressing Esc. Action Required If the user must complete a task that is presented by the dialog, then they should not be able to close it without…

Learning induces activation-mechanism–dependent neural plasticity in an intracortical microstimulation task #ICMS task reshape…

There are no problems that Idol Ska cannot solve!
Task have Fun"背徳的カタオモイ"-Haitokuteki Kataomoi-（MV）

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I'm shocked that the mayor who hollowed out our Sunshine Task Force to avoid providing details on his Trump call, has endorsed a sexual predator.
Who could have seen that coming? #sfpol

John Harbaugh used his father to motivate the Giants. It was his best call of the week https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7593084/2026/09/14/giants-cowboys-john-harbaugh-jack-harbaugh-motivation/

🧠 Lazy discovery is the core trick: instead of dumping every tool definition into context on each request, the gateway advertises 3 meta-tools (toolport_status, toolport_search_tools, toolport_call_tool) and the agent searches on demand.
📊 3 servers with 62 tools cost ~24,000 tokens of definitions up front; via meta-tools it drops to ~660. Benchmarked at up to 91% fewer total tokens at equal task success, 97% less tool-definition overhead per request, 99.6% on a 415-tool catalog.

"The boy said, "Dad they're going to take me to task
But I'll be back by Christmas"
It's just a rumor that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding"
https://c.im/@msbellows/116904…

Starting a side-business called "Unc Support". If you're overwhelmed by a task because of Unc Brain, I'll jump in and help you get back on track.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Pentagon ‌
have created a joint task force to identify and prosecute what Defense Secretary ⁠Pete Hegseth described as
unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information to news media.
"I have delegated tasking authority to the War Department's ‌Office ⁠of General Counsel,
empowering OGC to request and receive all information, ⁠records,
and support across the department concerning media ⁠leak investigations,"

This post about API Context Engineering captures a lot of things I have been thinking about API descriptions, pipelines, and task-scoped interfaces "The surface you hand an agent is the surface it will use" #linkTuesday

#Tech #Google #Chrome
I installed a windows Task Mgr replacement a few weeks ago and it just now pops up this fun dialog of an unsigned setup.exe running. Immediately after that it reports that the GoogleChromeElevationService was installed (and notably signed by Google).
JFC Google. SIGN YOUR SHIT

I like #bruceschneir's work Vs gym metaphor here: Should You Use AI for a Task?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026…

Hegseth Launches Task Force To Prosecute "Leakers" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/07/hegseth-launches-task-force-to-prosecute-leakers/

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (Andrew Ackerman/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Fed chief taps Trump ally Marc Andreessen to advise on how AI reshapes work
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh named venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to co-lead a task force on AI's economic impact — a technology his firm has bet billions on.

US creates task force to prosecute leaks to news media, Hegseth says (Ismail Shakil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-creates-task-force-prosecute-leaks-news-media-hegseth-says-2026-07-13/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260713/p69#a260713p69

National Guard, working within a federal task force, have now shot and killed a civilian in Tennessee.
Military under federal guidance killing Americans on the streets: where we now are in the democracy backslide/authoritarian takeover attempt we all now face.
https://

National Guard members in Memphis fatally shoot man during pursuit
Tennessee National Guard members assigned to a crime-fighting patrol in Memphis fatally shot a man who turned toward the soldiers with a gun during a downtown pursuit. The Memphis Police Department said Sunday the federal troops and police were responding to a report of gunfire around 4 a.m. National Guard spokesperson Lt. Col. Darrin Haas says the guardsmen were deployed as part of the Trump administration's federal crackdown on crime. He adds that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is revi…

"Water pollution has long been a threat to the Great Barrier Reef – plans to fix it aren’t up to the task"
#GreatBarrierReef #Environment #Oceans

Water pollution has long been a threat to the Great Barrier Reef – plans to fix it aren’t up to the task
There’s one big threat facing the Great Barrier Reef which Australian authorities can solve. But will they?

If you have a dialog on your page / screen and are trying to figure out whether it should close when a user clicks / taps outside (or hits Esc), I tried for some guidance:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/08/should-a-dialog-close-when-clicked-outside.html

Should a Dialog Close When Clicked Outside?
Maybe not, but I’ll break these down into three categories because it depends on context and intent. Pretend this post also applies for pressing Esc. Action Required If the user must complete a task that is presented by the dialog, then they should not be able to close it without…

Working on tempolocus, a tool that analyses time-series activity patterns to infer a user’s likely location.
In @…, we work with a large volume of social-network time series. Estimating users’ locations from these patterns is often a manual task.
I prototyped a Python module that combines potential locations with yearly activity …

These are human children, damn you, not units of production for your grey and soulless mills and offices. They should be playing, not being assessed, psychologically profiled and assigned to the optimal task to extract the maximum profit from them for your #kleptocrat masters.
This is a monstrous, abhorrent, inhuman proposal.

Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16

Neat looking TUI markdown/task/wiki style app
https://github.com/boolean-maybe/tiki

Please, let it be Type C (or at least G):
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html
Decide yourself and help with the selection process:

Jonathan Mingo understands task at hand in preseason finale: 'Just make plays' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jonathan-mingo-understands-task-at-hand-in-preseason-finale-just-make-plays

Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats

CRAN Task View: Optimization and Mathematical Programming
This CRAN Task View contains a list of packages that offer facilities for solving optimization problems. Although every regression model in statistics solves an optimization problem, they are not part of this view. If you are looking for regression methods, the following views will also contain useful starting points: MachineLearning, Econometrics, Robust Packages are categorized according to the following sections. See also the “Related Links” and “Other Resources” sections at the end.

Trump and his appointees have gutted election-related teams at federal law enforcement agencies.
FBI Director Kash Patel dismantled the agency’s public corruption team,
which had previously been deployed to help monitor possible criminal activity on Election Day.
The Foreign Influence Task Force, which aimed to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics, was also disbanded.
(An FBI spokesperson said the bureau “remains committed to detecting and countering foreign inf…

8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key takeaways from our recent investigation.

Heute vor 70 Jahren: Am 10. Juli 1956 kam es zum #Atomtest "Navajo". Die Operation #Redwing war eine US-Serie von 17 Atomtestdetonationen von Mai bis Juli 1956. Sie wurden von der Joint Task Force 7 (JTF7) auf den Atollen

We're up to the stage in the Kinship Carers assessments where we have to ask 4 of our friends to give us references (2 each) when CYF calls them. That's my task for this afternoon.
It's a difficult choice because:
1. No one I know likes to answer unknown numbers.
2. My closest friends are also friends with husband but he has no others.
3. I hate asking.
#Grandparenting

A small #ThingUmbrella code snippet for a current shop admin task, to help me with preparing different print size options in both inches and centimeters, grouped by landscape, portrait or square format.
The script illustrates how to functionally iterate over all possible sizes in a min/max range, converting & formatting units and grouping sizes based on their aspect ratio. All mo…

Lots on my task list today, but the number one priority has to be keeping cool in the office! Very grateful for my fans (electric, not the other kind 🤪) and total and utter lack of a dress code at work. Being your own boss has to come with some perks, right?
#PsychologistAtWork #OfficeLife

Playable Pressure: Affective Dramaturgy and Selective Realism in the Design of a VR Emergency-Response Serious Game
Jan K. Argasi\'nski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10763 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10763 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10763
arXiv:2608.10763v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Professional simulations stage not only procedures but models of what should command attention, which emotions belong in competent practice, and whose distress becomes part of the task. This article develops affective dramaturgy through critical design-document analysis of a virtual-reality emergency-response project. The corpus comprises two non-public production records. We identify six families of specified pressure and examine how sensory staging, proximity, trigger authority, task conflict, and response allocation imply a selectively receptive triage professional. The documented design can make emergency work morally and socially crowded, yet it can also turn grief, vulnerability, and mental-health-coded behavior into adjustable difficulty. We propose answerability at two levels-in-play response and post-play debriefability-and derive case-based questions about occupational purpose, representation, adaptation, and accountability. These questions are sensitizing propositions, not a validated framework for user effects or emergency practice.
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Perhaps The vOICe exercise video should be reframed as a white bear task: try not to think of a white bear, and you fail to not think of one. Here: try not to see a rectangle and a line in your mind's eye while hearing the soundscapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVugtxWmW4E mental imagery, …

Jonathan Mingo understands task at hand in preseason finale: 'Just make plays' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jonathan-mingo-understands-task-at-hand-in-preseason-finale-just-make-plays

NFL to allow head coaches to designate assistant to throw challenge flag in games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-to-allow-head-coaches-to-designate-an-assistant-to-throw-challenge-flag

“MSI prices its latest handheld at $1,800 as exec says ‘it will be a tough year for us and the gamers’”
Those poor souls will have to hand over their money and we’ll have the unenviable task of taking it.
https://www.videogam…

MSI prices its latest handheld at $1,800 as exec says ‘it will be a tough year for us and the gamers’
There's still potential for more price hikes, its marketing lead warns

A bike path is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.
To not park on a bike path is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To not park on a bike path is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies, in which a person is not able to not park on a bike path. Simultaneously, parking on bike path is not prosecuted. Therefore the bike path presents itself as the apex exam…

The advantage of the endless to-do list from hell is that you can pick and choose any task to procrastinate all the others

I've been asked a bunch of times to write up my "QSO in a Kilo(gram)" ham radio kit that is light enough to just drop into my computer bag and have with me to deploy at a moment's notice.
I kept not writing it up because I haven't taken all the opportunities to make it even lighter and wanted to try just one more thing — which was silly. I can always make another blog post, or edit this one.
Everything (beyond what I already carry with me) that I need to work 60…

Not *real*. But I still ate one.
#blogging #Now

Now page for July. And real donuts. - JazMat
With seven items on my Now page for July I’ve overcomitted myself. One is more an approach then task. Better that than not have any goals set, right? I did...

What should replace the American-led world order?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/us-decline-world-order-replacement?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

What should replace the American-led world order?
The task now is to stop mourning the old order and build the foundations of the new multipolar world

What should replace the American-led world order?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/us-decline-world-order-replacement?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

What should replace the American-led world order?
The task now is to stop mourning the old order and build the foundations of the new multipolar world

Here are several screenshots of Siri interacting with OmniFocus on an iPhone:
1. Siri using Visual Intelligence to scan a hand-written list from a sheet of paper and add the remaining items to OmniFocus.
2. Siri reviewing the remaining tasks in OmniFocus that need to get done today, and suggesting some other high priority tasks to consider.
3. Siri adding some book club suggestions to the note on an OmniFocus task.
4. Siri marking complete the tasks that are currently selected in OmniFocus.

Bun creator says he rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust using a pre-release version of Claude Fable 5 in 11 days; the task would've taken three engineers about a year (Jarred Sumner/bun.com)
https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust

Rewriting Bun in Rust
Why & how we rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust

We have added a section on @…’s Library Skills to our agent-based software engineering tutorial: https://agentic-software-engineerin…

How Los Angeles, California, USA, hides thousands of oil wells in plain sight
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wPL4mNxY3Tw
LA is filled with thousands of oil wells, many of them still active and leaking toxic gas. After years of legal battles, the city is starting to plug them, a task that could…

Ik geloof dat ik design G het mooist vind. Of ben ik nu ouderwets?
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html

ProtoGIB-Workload: Learning Workload-Specific Neural Topology Prototypes across Subjects
Yuzhe Zhang, Yixi Zhang, Shengdian Jiang, Chengxi Xie, Jihong Wang, Huan Liu, Man Yao, Minnan Luo, Chao Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10647 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10647 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10647
arXiv:2608.10647v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reliable electroencephalography (EEG)-based mental workload recognition is crucial for adaptive human-centered systems, yet practical deployment requires models to generalize to users unseen during training. Although functional connectivity graphs are widely adopted to capture workload-related neural interactions, they inherently entangle task-relevant structures with subject-specific physiological traits and sample-level noise. This entanglement often leads models to learn structural shortcuts, severely degrading cross-subject generalization. To address this, we propose ProtoGIB-Workload, a novel framework that explicitly regularizes and aligns graph structures for subject-independent workload recognition. Our approach introduces a Stochastic Graph Information Bottleneck (SGIB) to compress dense correlation priors into compact, task-relevant subgraphs, filtering out input-related redundancy. Crucially, to prevent the retention of subject-specific spurious edges, we propose a Class-Conditional Topology Stabilizer (CTS). Leveraging the fixed electrode coordinates of EEG data, CTS operates directly on graph-generation probabilities to encourage consistent edge-generation statistics across different subjects sharing the same workload class. Extensive experiments on two public EEG workload datasets and one in-house EEG cognitive load dataset of air traffic controllers under strict leave-one-subject-out (LOSO) protocols demonstrate that ProtoGIB-Workload significantly outperforms state-of-the-art temporal and graph-based baselines, improving the cross-subject Macro-F1 score by an average of 5.15% (up to 6.34%). Further analyses confirm that our method successfully extracts stable, cross-subject consistent neural connectivity patterns.
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Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

If a machine does harm it’s always, without exception, ultimately a human decision to make or use a tool that’s unsuitable for a given task* in a given situation.
If I use a chainsaw to cut my toenails it’s not the chainsaw deciding to “go rogue” and make foot carvings.
*the definition of the task itself is also the result of human decisions which can be just as flawed

University of Leiden @… will soon have their #africa maps collection online
"(re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search"

Jayden Daniels is ready for a new offense. His first task: Learn how to huddle https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7555561/2026/09/02/commanders-jayden-daniels-offense-changes/

OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations

Do you have a long running calculation freezing up your shiny app? {callr} or {crew} might help: https://discindo.org/post/asynchronous-execution-in-shiny/

Cowboys Newcomer Thrust Into Week 1 Spotlight After Surprise Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/emari-demercado-malik-davis-injury/

Type III von Neumann Algebras are Magical
Mudassir Moosa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12512 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12512 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12512
arXiv:2608.12512v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The number of non-Clifford gates needed to perform a task, or simply \textit{magic}, is a resource for fault-tolerant quantum computation. Von Neumann algebras provide a formal mathematical structure to describe infinite-dimensional quantum systems, such as those in quantum field theory or quantum statistical mechanics. A particularly important class of von Neumann algebras is called Type III algebras, for which the standard notions of finite-dimensional systems such as density matrices and traces break down. In this work, we argue that Type III von Neumann algebras fundamentally require an infinite amount of magic. Specifically, we consider the thermodynamic limit of finite-dimensional quantum systems, such as lattice systems, and show that if the states in the thermodynamic limit possess only a bounded amount of magic, the resulting local von Neumann algebra cannot be of Type III. Our result has direct implications for the quantum simulations of quantum field theories, for which the algebra of a local subregion is known to be of Type III.
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Today in #Memphis we turned the tables at another #Buycott establishment, Da Sammich Spot on Park Ave. It was a pleasure being there, where we enjoyed good company and good food. The owner, Rob (front row), wants to thank everyone who showed up to support his business and take a stand against

Heute vor 70 Jahren: Am 8. Juli 1956 kam es zum #Atomtest "Apache". Die Operation #Redwing war eine US-Serie von 17 Atomtestdetonationen von Mai bis Juli 1956. Sie wurden von der Joint Task Force 7 (JTF7) auf den Atollen

🖥️ Three interfaces: browser WebUI, terminal TUI and a macOS desktop floating orb with two visual styles
🧠 Local user profile and cross-session memory in ~/.config/qwaudio: https://USER.md for preferences, separate files for remembered facts and task state

WNBA denounces 'bad-faith' transgender debate and says league has no eligibility issues (Doug Feinberg/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/wnba-transgender-task-force-99e137102826677747da7986025c8b69
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p30#a260813p30

Ryan Fournier,
a MAGA activist and co-founder of Students for Trump,
was arrested Thursday morning on a cocaine charge, his third arrest since May.
A joint D.C. police and FBI task force executed a search warrant at Fournier's luxury Washington apartment.
They found a bag of white powder that field-tested positive for cocaine, according to court records. He was charged with misdemeanor cocaine possession.
The arrest came as Fournier was already facing a dome…

Students for Trump co-founder arrested for cocaine amid domestic violence case
Ryan Fournier, a MAGA activist and co-founder of Students for Trump, was arrested Thursday morning on a cocaine charge, his third arrest since May.A joint D.C. police and FBI task force executed a search warrant at Fournier's luxury Washington apartment. They found a bag of white powder that field-t...

Kevin Stefanski’s task with the Falcons is tall. Those who know him say he’s built for it https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7475183/2026/07/31/kevin-stefanski-atlanta-falcons-training-camp/

"It was a lack of leadership from the [Democratic] campaign to not engage at the level of the candidate when the other guy was showing up to have meals with people,” Berry said. It “was a night-and-day difference”.
One more example of how #Democratic "leaders" - the "moderates" and their highly paid consultants - failed at the fundamental task of engaging with the v…

Democrats ignored the uncommitted movement for Gaza in 2024. Now, it’s winning elections
By linking progressive politics with nominally Arab American issues, organizers are building winning coalitions

"It was a lack of leadership from the [Democratic] campaign to not engage at the level of the candidate when the other guy was showing up to have meals with people,” Berry said. It “was a night-and-day difference”.
One more example of how #Democratic "leaders" - the "moderates" and their highly paid consultants - failed at the fundamental task of engaging with the v…

Democrats ignored the uncommitted movement for Gaza in 2024. Now, it’s winning elections
By linking progressive politics with nominally Arab American issues, organizers are building winning coalitions

Visual uncertainty and task demands shape active sensing strategies in mice https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00722-0 "Although mice have relatively low-acuity vision, they still rely on sight for critical behaviors including navigation…

Second Person in a Week Killed by Federal Task Force in Memphis (Emily Cochrane/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/us/shootings-federal-task-force-memphis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wVA.2GKO.W8Ovf8FYbF7J&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260709/p56#a260709p56

NFL Week 1 Betting Report: Books, Bettors Still Navigating 49ers-Rams Tilt https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-week-1-betting-report-books-bettors-still-navigating-49ers-rams-tilt

Ty Simpson: Learning Rams offense like 'drinking from a fire hydrant' https://www.nfl.com/news/ty-simpson-learning-rams-offense-like-drinking-from-a-fire-hydrant

Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries (Bloomberg)

Automatic Field-of-View Adjustment for a View-Expansive Microscope via LSTM-Based Gaze and Pipette Motion Interpretation
Kenta Yokoe, Takuya Hara, Tadayoshi Aoyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10401 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10401 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10401
arXiv:2608.10401v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) operators frequently adjust the field-of-view (FOV) during procedures, which interrupts workflow and increases procedure time. Conventional microscopes require manual objective lens switching and illumination adjustments to achieve different FOV sizes. We propose an AI-based automatic FOV adjustment method integrated with a view-expansive microscope. This microscope enables the simultaneous acquisition of a large FOV and high-resolution images using a single objective lens through multiview imaging with galvanometer mirrors and high-speed vision, thereby eliminating the need for physical lens exchanges. Our method utilizes a long short-term memory (LSTM) model to predict the appropriate FOV size based on real-time analysis of the pipette's position and velocity, combined with the operator's gaze position. The AI model is trained using ICSI procedure data from an expert with over five years of micromanipulation experience. Experimental evaluation with novice operators reveals that the proposed automatic FOV adjustment system significantly improves the ICSI procedure speed, reducing the average task completion time from 60.5 to 48.0 s (p < 0.001). The experiments also demonstrate that this improvement enables novice operators to achieve ICSI working speeds equivalent to those of expert operators.
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#GPT Sol High as my orchestrator on
DeepSeek (which also watches Terra):
🎯 #DeepSeek is useful for clearly scoped tasks — the test fix passed with no follow-up rounds. A more complex task needed one causal correction round.
💰 Verdict: inexpensive and productive, but weaker than …

New defensive coordinator could unlock Cowboys corner or expose him as another draft miss https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-christian-parker-shavon-revel-defense-storyline/209f3d8…

In 2023, presidential candidate Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, promised to hold a contest that would lead to the creation of 10 “freedom cities” on federal lands.
The trial balloon barely registered at the time, lost in the daily deluge of outrageous claims.
Since the new administration took office, however, would-be country starters have been on a lobbying blitz, determined to turn Trump’s pledge into reality.
“The energy in DC is absolutely electric,”
Tre…

The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Second person in 4 days is fatally shot in Memphis by federal task force member (Travis Loller/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/memphis-shooting-task-force-federal-eea039cff91552f547359dd4acd32e04
http://www.memeorandum.com/260708/p147#a260708p147

The Department of Justice has tapped two prosecutors with expertise in organized crime and terrorism prosecutions
to implement a White House directive to crack down on its political opponents,
a department spokesperson confirmed to TPM. 
The department told TPM in a statement that the initiative they are leading,
called Joint Task Force Vanguard,
began in March 2026 in response to NSPM-7,
a national security memorandum ordering federal law enforcement and …

Exclusive: DOJ Taps Gang, Terrorism Prosecutors to Crack Down on Political Groups
The Department of Justice has tapped two prosecutors with expertise in organized...

🆕 v2.5 adds task cancellation from the UI, user-input delivery on permission prompts, persistent session resume across Bridge restarts & follow-up files for all providers. Licensed under Elastic License 2.0
🌐 https://github.com/ctrlnode-ai/ctrlnode

Content-specific and raw occipital alpha oscillations serve distinct functional role in predictive visual perception https://ecvp2026.uk/posters_programme.html "The shape identification task involved auditory cues predicting which shape was likely to appear."

Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning (Skild AI)
https://www.skild.ai/blogs/s1

Introducing S1: In-Context Learning for Robotics
S1 is our flagship robotic foundation model, built from the ground up as an in-context learner: show it a single video demonstration of a task, seen or unseen, short or long-horizon, and it executes with no fine-tuning or post-training.

Hegseth announces joint task force to identify and prosecute leakers (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5965945-hegeseth-crackdown-media-leaks/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260713/p78#a260713p78

Stephen Miller has figured out a way to use Donald Trump’s new favorite aide to push his own agenda.
It seems the White House’s resident ghoul is well-aware that
Natalie Harp has become the true gatekeeper to Trump.
As his “human printer,” she has taken up the task of printing out flattering news coverage and positive social media posts to show to the president for his approval to share on his social media accounts.
Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, has rea…

How Stephen Miller Used Natalie Harp to Manipulate Trump
Donald Trump’s new favorite aide has his ear—which can be used to others’ advantage.

🧩 Rich plugin ecosystem: hundreds of plugins run tasks anywhere — local, SSH, #Docker, #Kubernetes or serverless task runners — and code in any language including #Python, Node.js, R, Go and S…

C.I.A. Sets Up Secret Cuba Task Force as Trump Pressures Havana (Adam Entous/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/us/politics/cia-cuba-task-force.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260806/p18#a260806p18

🔀 An orchestration board takes tasks with dependencies. Each started task gets an isolated git worktree plus path leases, so overlapping edits are never assigned, and a quality gate must pass before merge
↺ Session resume locates each agent's own session store on disk and runs its resume command, no flags to paste. Fork a pane to branch a session while the original keeps running

🔁 #CompoundEngineering is an #opensource plugin of 33 skills for AI coding agents that turns each task into stored knowledge, so the next unit of work gets easier instead of harder #ClaudeCode

🌳 The Depth Tree method splits a task N layers deep via "tree N" — leaves are real units of work with one deliverable each, branches handle decomposition and integration
📝 Acceptance gates are written to a file before work starts: every gate carries a CHECK command, an EXPECT value and an EVIDENCE line, and a checked box whose evidence is still pending counts as unmet