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The Almighty Bear isn't giving up
https://bsky.app/profile/thealmightybear.bsky.social/post/3lt36zeu23k2f

How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels (Simon Owens/The Long Story with Simon Owens)
https://thelongstory.substack.com/p/why-the-best-jour…

Why the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employees
The company became a skunk works incubator that invented its own language of visual storytelling.

Fantasy Football Breakout Draft picks for 2025: Drake London and why his red zone usage is very telling

https://www.cbssports.com/fant…

"Stop that kitty!"
Kitty: *does it faster*

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-truth-socia…

Tallying Trump’s online posting frenzy: 2,262 ‘truths’ in 132 days
In his current term, the president has left his own record for social media missives in the dust. He posts day and night.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06354 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

Multihead self-attention in cortico-thalamic circuits
Both biological cortico-thalamic networks and artificial transformer networks use canonical computations to perform a wide range of cognitive tasks. In this work, we propose that the structure of cortico-thalamic circuits is well suited to realize a computation analogous to multihead self-attention, the main algorithmic innovation of transformers. We start with the concept of a cortical unit module or microcolumn, and propose that superficial and deep pyramidal cells carry distinct computationa…

Wait wait wait, you're telling me the US has a hurricane SEASON? I thought there were only four of those things, and now you're saying there are FIVE?? 🤯
#FEMA

155. What District Court Critics Aren't Telling You (Steve Vladeck/One First)
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/155-what-critics-of-district-courts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p115#a250602p115

Gibt es irgendwo einen Fachartikel, der darlegt wie inadäquat die existierenden Projektförderungsstrukturen sind für den Aufbau und Betrieb einer zukunftsfähigen verteilten technischen Infrastruktur für Wissenschaft und Bildung? Wie wir es nicht schaffen, gemeinsam und konstant Tooling und Standards für die technische Infrastruktur aufzubauen und zu pflegen? Wie stattdessen regelmäßig an verschiedenen Orten dassselbe neu und etwas anders gebaut wird? Wieviel davon wie schnell obsolet wird?…

It's really telling how much of the conversation around AI boils down to,
"Is there any value in humans being able to think?"
Which all too quickly reduces to
"Is there any value in humans” ?
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinriggle.b