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A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020 (Chang Che/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/n…

Adelino Marques was taking a morning walk on the coast
near his holiday home
in Moledo, north-west Portugal,
when he took this image.
“It’s the northernmost beach in Portugal
and is considered one of the most beautiful in the country,”
Marques says

Bor du eller jobber du i #Norge?️ StŸtter du ideen om at arbeidere selv skal forvalte sine arbeidsplasser, bygge på solidaritet, praktisere gjensidig stŸtte og organisere seg som likestilte uten hierarkier?
Opplever du urettferdig behandling på arbeidsplassen, konflikter i hverdagen eller en sjef som bruker makten sin mot deg? Ser du at kapitalisme, hierarki og partipolitikk aldri vil kun…

#Upcoming Twelve years in the making, “The Formless Irregular” chronicles the art of Babs Santini over 5 decades. Contains many never before seen pieces and illuminating commentary in this unique catalogue of (almost) everything Steven Stapleton has created visually! Preorders available via Timeless Edition, July 19th.

ICE insiders saying agents are "desperate" to meet these quotas — and are doing so by forgoing dangerous criminal migrants in favor of "anyone they can get their hands on at the local Home Depot or bus stop."
“These quotas are undermining the agency’s ability to focus on the really serious criminal aliens,” John Sandweg, a former acting ICE director under Obama, told the outlet.
Trump quotas 'killing morale' at ICE as Home Depots busted over violent gangs - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2672387662/

Aw yeah
https://www.musicradar.com/guitars/boss-rt-2-rotary-ensemble-pedal

“This powerhouse pedal authentically recreates the complex sonic magic of its inspiration”: Boss puts psychedelic Hendrix and Gilmour rotating speaker sounds on the menu with the RT-2 Rotary Ensemble
What do you do when everyone loves that trippy rotating speaker sound but no has the space (or budget) for one? Boss has the answer – and it has three modes and lots of features

Commenotes: Synthesizing Organic Comments to Support Community-Based Fact-Checking
Shuning Zhang, Linzhi Wang, Dai Shi, Yuwei Chuai, Jingruo Chen, Yunyi Chen, Yifan Wang, Yating Wang, Xin Yi, Hewu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11052

Commenotes: Synthesizing Organic Comments to Support Community-Based Fact-Checking
Community-based fact-checking is promising to reduce the spread of misleading posts at scale. However, its effectiveness can be undermined by the delays in fact-check delivery. Notably, user-initiated organic comments often contain debunking information and have the potential to help mitigate this limitation. Here, we investigate the feasibility of synthesizing comments to generate timely high-quality fact-checks. To this end, we analyze over 2.2 million replies on X and introduce Commenotes, a…

Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped shape the philosophical conversation about human intelligence and AI, passed away on July 18 at age 88 (Michael S. Rosenwald/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science…

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.

Maybe if there were fewer guns and more sandwiches used in the enactment of crimes,
lethality would decrease.
https://bsky.app/profile/eaglesfanintn.bsky.social/post/3lwjgjuhv2c2t

Scientists detail Delphi-2M, an AI model trained on large-scale health records that can predict susceptibility to over 1,000 diseases decades into the future (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/598e07ec-954f-49b7-9bc5-ce77f9fff934