Tootfinder

Sources: OpenAI is recruiting people to work on humanoid robots and is training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ramps-up-robotics-work-in-race-toward-agi/

OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.

"Top UK artists urge Starmer to protect their work on eve of Trump visit"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/16/top-uk-artists-urge-starmer-to-protect-their-work-on-eve-of-trump-visit

WIRED: OpenAI ramps up robotics work in race toward #AGI https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ramps-up-robotics-work-in-race-toward-agi/ hiring roboticists who work specifica…

OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.

My bike to work route...
#bikeTooter

Bike Commute to Work
How did I get here?

Stafford to work out with Rams on Saturday https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45980515/matthew-stafford-work-rams-saturday

Fulfillment of the Work Games: Warehouse Workers' Experiences with Algorithmic Management
EunJeong Cheon, Ingrid Erickson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09438 https://

Fulfillment of the Work Games: Warehouse Workers' Experiences with Algorithmic Management
The introduction of algorithms into a large number of industries has already restructured the landscape of work and threatens to continue. While a growing body of CSCW research centered on the future of work has begun to document these shifts, relatively little is known about workers' experiences beyond those of platform-mediated gig workers. In this paper, we turn to a traditional work sector, Amazon fulfillment centers (FC), to deepen our field's empirical examination of algorithmic managemen…

Two Recent Developments Highlight Ways to Work Around the Supreme Court’s CASA Ruling | Vikram David Amar | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
https://verdict.justia.com/2025/07/16/two-recent-developments-highlight-ways-to-work-around-the-supreme-courts-casa-ruling

Gutierrez: With a lack of true first-team battles, Raiders and Niners still find quality work https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-49ers-quality-work-joint-practice-nfl-2025-preseason-081425

Cities Can Have Abundant Housing--if They're Willing To Work for It (Brian Shearer/Washington Monthly)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/14/cities-can-have-abundant-housing-if-theyre-willing-to-work-for-it/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p36#a250814p36

Today's ride to work on the borrowed ebike. Took a route I really don't like due to flooding of the Menomonee River, but it was okay. Made it under 24 minutes. (My car commute is typically 15 minutes, so that's pretty good!)
Brought a spare shirt to work since I have to wear a backpack to carry things. Also, 6.66 miles? Epic.
#biking

Zk-SNARK Marketplace with Proof of Useful Work
Samuel Oleksak, Richard Gazdik, Martin Peresini, Ivan Homoliak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09729 https://arxi…

Zk-SNARK Marketplace with Proof of Useful Work
Proof of Work (PoW) is widely regarded as the most secure permissionless blockchain consensus protocol. However, its reliance on computationally intensive yet externally useless puzzles results in excessive electric energy wasting. To alleviate this, Proof of Useful Work (PoUW) has been explored as an alternative to secure blockchain platforms while also producing real-world value. Despite this promise, existing PoUW proposals often fail to embed the integrity of the chain and identity of the m…

Fundamentally, mastodon (and twitter, bluesky, etc etc) doesn't really work for me. I'm just remembering the sense of confusion when I first joined twitter - the idea that you subscribe to a feed of everything that someone says, and not to topics or threads is just a bit bonkers. It must sort people into groups with weird niche common collections of interests. I've tried running more than one account for different interests but it doesn't really work for me.

from my link log —
Building multi-step web login forms that work well with password managers.
https://evertpot.com/multi-step-login-forms-for-password-managers/
saved 2025-10-15

Building multi-step login forms that work well with password managers

Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent
https://flip.it/yo5WBE

Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent
Writer and translator Neige Sinno discusses the narrative form as an act of resistance, unexpected turns in a creative career, and believing in what you've built

1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

I am so glad that other people are doing the hard work of proving that calling LLM's "AI" is bullshit and having them write code is just plain dumb. https://infosec.exchange/@teriradichel/115033555848878022

“They're illusions, Michael. A trick is what whores do for money.”
"The future of work isn’t “prompt engineering.” It’s thinking in public, out loud, with the robots. The better you get at that, the further you’ll distance yourself from the Gob Bluths at work still performing illusions."

Today thanks to a defect of another train combined with complete incompetence of Polish railway traffic controllers, I've spend almost 3 hours in a train, stopped halfway between Złotniki Grzybowe and #Poznań Strzeszyn train stops (1.5 km from either). I would lose perhaps half of this time if they instead stopped us at the previous stop, and told us what's up, so we could just go catch the urban bus. But that's not my biggest problem.
These 3 lost hours means I'm behind with work. So I'm hurrying to catch up. Except I'm so completely messed up because of all this, I can't really focus on work, so I had to stop. So I'm going to be even more behind.
#rail #ActuallyAutistic

Moduli spaces of generalised tautological bundles on Hilbert schemes
Andreas Krug, Fabian Reede, Ziyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11298 https://arxiv.…

Moduli spaces of generalised tautological bundles on Hilbert schemes
We construct new stable vector bundles on Hilbert schemes of points on algebraic surfaces, which are parametrised by connected components of their moduli spaces. This work generalises aspects of our previous work on tautological bundles and of recent work of O'Grady.

It's the "no politics at work" guy Lebensraum-posting on the company blog.

Two of the families in Gaza that I’m in touch with are thinking of setting up a group fundraising effort, inspired by the work of @….
We need someone who will take on the huge responsibility of setting up the fundraiser and managing it all.
If you have the time and are up for the challenge, please reply to this thread (direct messages are fine).

Wayne Rooney hits back after Tom Brady questioned his work ethic: 'I don't think he understood football'

https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/wa…

Gutierrez: With a lack of true first-team battles, Raiders and Niners still find quality work https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-49ers-quality-work-joint-practice-nfl-2025-preseason-081425

OpenAI forms the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with eight experts to help guide OpenAI's work on ChatGPT and Sora (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/open-ai-expert-council-safety-ftc.html

OpenAI forms expert council to bolster safety measures after FTC inquiry
The council will help guide OpenAI's work around ChatGPT and Sora, and define what healthy AI interactions look like.

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Halloween is just a month and a half away! 🎃

Interestingn post and replies.
I think that Apple’s incentives are just not aligned with developers in niche segments - purely a matter of scaling and managing the teams.
In most cases open source alternatives are vastly better.
But the question remains, how can you finance the maintenance and evolution in the long term - volunteer work is not sustainable.
It is remarkable that after 25 years we still haven’t found a viable and scalable funding model for this.

Improving and Evaluating Open Deep Research Agents
Doaa Allabadi, Kyle Bradbury, Jordan M. Malof
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10152 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Improving and Evaluating Open Deep Research Agents
We focus here on Deep Research Agents (DRAs), which are systems that can take a natural language prompt from a user, and then autonomously search for, and utilize, internet-based content to address the prompt. Recent DRAs have demonstrated impressive capabilities on public benchmarks however, recent research largely involves proprietary closed-source systems. At the time of this work, we only found one open-source DRA, termed Open Deep Research (ODR). In this work we adapt the challenging recen…

Beyond the Carnot limit: work extraction via an entropy battery
Liam Judd McClelland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08989 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08989

Beyond the Carnot limit: work extraction via an entropy battery
We explore the consequences of generalized thermodynamics, as interpreted from the perspective of information theory, on an ensemble's capacity to extract energetic work. We demonstrate that by utilizing unitary heat engines of different kinds, we can capitalize on the full entropy capacity of the ensemble across multiple conserved quantities. This leads to the extraction of energetic work with efficiencies surpassing the standard Carnot efficiency limit, all the while running at maximum power.…

The downgrading semantics of memory safety
Ren\'e Rydhof Hansen, Andreas Stenb{\ae}k Larsen, Aslan Askarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11282 https://

The downgrading semantics of memory safety
Memory safety is traditionally characterized in terms of bad things that cannot happen, an approach that is often criticized as unprincipled. Prior work suggest a connection between memory safety and noninterference, but no satisfactory semantic notion of memory safety is currently known. This work proposes a notion of gradual allocator independence that accurately captures many allocator-specific aspects of memory safety. We consider a low-level language with access to an allocator that prov…

My therapist: "Continue to work on being kind to yourself and accepting difficult demotions"
Me: "wow, what a Freudian slip"

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

Rehearsal room work.

3 outside-the-box ideas to fix Cowboys defense include hiring Bill Belichick https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/15/poach-belichick-3-ideas-to-fix-cowboys-defense-cra…

03:56!? I'm late for work!
#WristCheck #DecimalTime

bought my first OMNY card today & immediately it didn't work & i missed my train. #nyc

Amazing story, "North Koreans tell BBC they are being sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia"
#northkorea

North Koreans tell BBC they are sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia
More than 50,000 North Koreans will be sent to work in Russia, as Moscow's war in Ukraine drains labour pools.

A Multimodal Neural Network for Recognizing Subjective Self-Disclosure Towards Social Robots
Henry Powell, Guy Laban, Emily S. Cross
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10828 https://

A Multimodal Neural Network for Recognizing Subjective Self-Disclosure Towards Social Robots
Subjective self-disclosure is an important feature of human social interaction. While much has been done in the social and behavioural literature to characterise the features and consequences of subjective self-disclosure, little work has been done thus far to develop computational systems that are able to accurately model it. Even less work has been done that attempts to model specifically how human interactants self-disclose with robotic partners. It is becoming more pressing as we require so…

Any cool nerds in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area interested in meeting up some time in the next few weeks? Spending some time there for work and will have downtime in evenings/weekends.

Fine urban photo by Antonio Olmos/The Observer
Reminds me a bit of the work of Charles Lafrance of Montreal

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Men at Work:
🎵 Be Good Johnny
#MenatWork
https://tudoparadjs.bandcamp.com/track/men-at-work-be-good-johnny-wanderer-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZgKs2gWOv4zMmfGcCgJGP

Everyone works hard but not everyone does hard work.

Literally the only good thing about debilitating sciatica pain is taking off work to watch movies all day 😂

It's Saturday morning, and that means it's time for Metacurity's round-up of the best infosec-related long reads of the week, available to our free and paid subscribers.
This week's selection covers
--Myanmar's junta benefits from cyberscams,
--Cyberscams could be behind the Thai-Cambodia conflict,
--Africans are tricked into cyberscam compounds,
--How China's propaganda and surveillance work,
--Vibe coding is risky,
--Ross Ul…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 9/6/25
Myanmar's junta benefits from cyberscams, Cyberscams could be behind the Thai-Cambodia conflict, Africans are tricked into cyberscam compounds, How China's propaganda and surveillance work, Vibe coding is risky, Ross Ulbricht is very lucky, Don't steal the phone of a hacker's girlfriend

As viewers move online, animation studios are forced to find new ways to finance their work; YouTube is emerging as a testing ground and launchpad for originals (Ben Croll/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/global/animation-gigantos…

YouTube is Reshaping a Global Animation Industry in Flux
To reach audiences migrating online, producers must develop new financing and distribution models beyond traditional broadcaster support.

Projective Planar Cartesian Products of Graphs
Nicholas Abell, Elizabeth McDermott, Christian Millichap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10261 https://arxiv.org/…

Projective Planar Cartesian Products of Graphs
In this paper, we provide a complete classification of Cartesian products of graphs that embed in the projective plane. Our work requires us to determine minimal Cartesian products that are nonprojective planar, organize their essential properties to be used as constraints for projective planar embeddings, and explicitly construct projective planar embeddings for Cartesian products that satisfy these constraints. A corollary of our work shows that only six of the 35 forbidden minors for the pro…

«Milei has dashed his ship of state against the rocks, quite simply, because he followed the cracked compass called libertarianism. Libertarianism doesn’t work. Its core assumptions aren’t true. It’s the intellectual equivalent of huffing paint. But the pro-capitalist press outside #Argentina, for their part, ignored Milei’s obvious flaws and hyped him up because they wanted him to be the real deal.»
The article shows how other countries want to run off that cliff too…
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/this-is-why-you-dont-let-libertarians-run-your-country

Ahhhh! Our #BattleOfTarot prototype demo we're building for Gamescom is coming along so nicely!
Absolutely killer programming work by the one and only @…
and fantastic writing by our narrative designer Len Cunningham as well (

LenCunningham.com
Storytelling for Games

Maybe the best recommendation for the University of Luxembourg (which should be on Mastodon by the way...)
https://paperbay.org/@jedbrown@hachyderm.io/115204065954716598
"This study reaches a conclusion I've believed to be true since seeing how tech transfer o…

Jed Brown (@jedbrown@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image "Do Universities Investing In Technology Transfer Via Patenting Lose Money?" This study reaches a conclusion I've believed to be true since seeing how tech transfer offices work. The paper calls for closing tech transfer offices and instead open sourcing all innovations. https://ttb.sk/clanky/do-universities-investing-in-technology-transfer-via-patenting-lose-money-joshua-m-pearce/

Fired DOJ employee could face prison for throwing sandwich at officer
After his arrest, Charles Dunn allegedly told one of the officers: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.”

“If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you,” Bondi posted on X Thursday.
“This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ.”

Fired DOJ employee could face prison for throwing sandwich at officer
Police allege that the man approached law enforcement officers, including Metro Transit Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, and began yelling obscenities.

At least some parts of the American Judicial system still work.
#trump #mediamatters
Original post: https://

Galois Action and Localization in Number Fields
Jim Coykendall, Jared Kettinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10018 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10018

Galois Action and Localization in Number Fields
For a Galois number field $K$, the Galois group $\text{Gal}(K/\mathbb{Q})$ acts on the class group $Cl_K$ in a very natural way: $σ\cdot[I]=[σ(I)]$ for any $σ\in \text{Gal}(K/\mathbb{Q})$, $[I]\in Cl_K$. In this paper, we will explore how the unique properties of this group action work together to elucidate the relationship between these two groups. While previous work on this problem has focused on representation theory, we take a direct approach to some classical and new problems. The pape…

Hahahahaha #sound
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNQGNrBM9aR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

substance recordstore on Instagram: "THE SABRES OF PARADISE - ReIssues Remastered Reissues of the SABRESONIC (1993) & HAUNTED DANCEHALL (1994) albums by the trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns. Unavailable on vinyl and CD since original release. Coming off the back of his work on the era-defining Screamadelica album by Primal Scream, not to mention groundbreaking remix work for the likes of New Order, My Bloody Valentine and the Happy Mondays, Weatherall was as revered by fans of indie guitar music as he was namechecked by hardcore ravers. The increasing demands on his services led to a studio partnership with Kooner and Burns, forming the production trio The Sabres Of Paradise (named after a 1960 book about a Muslim chieftain’s efforts to repel a Russian invasion). #thesabresofparadise #warp #warprecords #andrewweatherall #reissue #remastered #news #newreleaseseveryday #vinyl #records #recordstore #vienna #plattenladen #wien"
7 likes, 0 comments - substance_recordstore on August 12, 2025: "THE SABRES OF PARADISE - ReIssues Remastered Reissues of the SABRESONIC (1993) & HAUNTED DANCEHALL (1994) albums by the trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns. Unavailable on vinyl and CD since original release. Coming off the back of his work on the era-defining Screamadelica album by Primal Scream, not to mention groundbreaking remix work for the likes of New Order, My Bloody Valentine and the Happy Mondays, We…

I grabbed my iPad and headed to a coffee shop so that I could work on fixing my home server from a different physical location. I apparently forgot to turn on RDP on the server first.

I recently discovered gojq at work. I was looking to see if there was a pure Golang implementation of jq as a library to use from within Go code. Then I compared performance to native jq to make sure that it wouldn't be too much slower than the original when embedded in Golang.
It ran my complex jq script in ⇔ the time over the same data.
That was a nice free speedup!
Now my ~/bin/jq is a symlink to

The ideas that finally bubbled up to the surface in The Point of No Return last night have been festering in the back of my brain for months. Because, although it's a bit inchoate, it's only saying out loud what most of us already know.
The job now is no longer to turn the ship around. We don't have the wheel, and those who do will not listen.
The task now is to build lifeboats. To build resilient spaces in which fragments of humanity can survive.

The Point of No Return
I can't stop climate change by myself. I can't create a sustainable future for my village by myself. To do either of these things, everyone else needs to work together. But badgering people, being frustrated with people, being angry with people (and yes, I am angry — very angry — with people I know, and like, and respect, very much) doesn't motivate them to work together. My very frustration, my very sense of urgency, makes me a liability. I should stop.

Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory And A Reduced Formulation Of Density Functional Theory
H{\aa}kon Richard Fredheim, Simen Kvaal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12242 https://…

Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory And A Reduced Formulation Of Density Functional Theory
A mathematical framework for reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) is proposed. The work is inspired by and generalizes the work by E.H.~Lieb [E.H. Lieb, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 24(1983), pp.243--277] on density-functional theory (DFT). We introduce a Banach space for density matrices with finite kinetic energy. The dual space is a rich class of single-particle potentials, i.e., Hermitian forms. The ground state energy of an $N$-fermion system with external forces given by any such Herm…

Dinner with daughter and her family cancelled due to work constraints (she had a big project to finish) which rather suited us too. We'll reschedule as soon as daughter and I have enough energy to synchronise our schedules.
Husband and I had potluck finger food for dinner - chicken tender strips and potato gems which we dunked into bowls of homemade chilli sauce. Neither of us wanted to think about cooking real food tonight. It was pretty tasty actually.
I'm testing out…

Crepes, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Mahjongg after work. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/E7dF6TKfhLZppbY69

Daisy.

Compared to what I usually read, Karl Marx’s Das Kapital is a much longer and more demanding work, both in length and in conceptual depth.
#KarlMarx #Marxism #Socialism

@… Just hit a similar problem, mutual recursion forcing me to put everything in one file.
I know .hs-boot can help here but (a) I have never made it work successfully and (b) I DON’T WANNA

Sola, which wants to use AI agents to automate businesses' repetitive, manual tasks, raised $21M, including a $3.5M seed and a $17.5M Series A led by a16z (Emma Hinchliffe/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/sola-solutions-ai-startup-r…

Exclusive: Two MIT dropouts raised $21 million for their AI startup that does legacy businesses’ grunt work
Sola Solutions' technology, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sarah Guo, automates grunt work for businesses, replacing RPA.

Get excited, work on a project, get distracted, work on other projects, remember the original project, get back to working on it…
#diy #maker #bikes

Wonder if my brain is starting to work better again. Before COVID I had ~120 wpm typing speed then it gradually went down to ~100 from long COVID. Today I've set a new personal best.

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Man-in-the-Middle Proof-of-Concept via Krontiris' Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) in C
Daniel Hennig, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10574 https…

Man-in-the-Middle Proof-of-Concept via Krontiris' Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) in C
This report presents some technical details on the authentication process of a lightweight key exchange protocol, paying attention on how Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks could undermine its security, e.g., under the scope of lawful interception and its risk to facilitate mass surveillance. We focus only on some technical aspects associated to the attack scenario. Perspectives for future work are also discussed. Other specific aspects of the work, mainly focusing on the security implications of…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Public Enemy:
🎵 Brothers Gonna Work It Out
#PublicEnemy
https://superhealthyone.bandcamp.com/track/public-enemy-brothers-gonna-work-it-out
https://open.spotify.com/track/1iau8sbjyiFyaOpgBD1e6j

Social Simulation for Integrating Self-Care: Measuring the Effects of Contextual Environments in Augmented Reality for Mental Health Practice
Anna Fang, Jiayang Shi, Hriday Chhabria, Bosi Li, Haiyi Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12081

Social Simulation for Integrating Self-Care: Measuring the Effects of Contextual Environments in Augmented Reality for Mental Health Practice
Despite growing interest in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) for mental well-being, prior work using immersive interventions to teach mental health skills has largely focused on calming or abstract settings. As a result, little is known about how realistic social simulation may better support the transfer and application of skills to in-person environments. In this work, we present a 14-day user study with 43-participants comparing an augmented reality intervention simulating a realistic c…

Even a little 24″ wheeled unicycle is all you really need. Maybe not "fast", fast but "fast enough". I just cruised into work today at the same kinds of speeds as a casual bicyclist (my average speed was 16.2 km/h [10mph], with traffic crossings and lights and stuff).
#UnicycleLife

I'm back! This morning was fun, I did a 7.6 mile ride on the borrowed ebike, and almost the entire ride was without pedal assist. I kicked it in for the hills (about 6 in total) but the majority of the ride was pedal powered.
Using the assist just for hills is doable. It's a bit more work but that's okay. It's probably the same amount of work I would do on my lighter Trek.
Average speed was pretty close to what I would get on the non-powered Trek.

Saints add joint practice with Rams to Calif. stay https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45970369/saints-rams-work-logistics-joint-practice-thu

USDA will construct a sterile fly production facility in Edinburg, TX,
at Moore Air Force Base,
an ideal location due to the existing infrastructure and proximity to the United States-Mexico border.
Built with the Army Corps of Engineers, the facility will produce up to 300 million sterile flies per week to combat New World Screwworm.
This will be the only United States-based sterile fly facility
and will work in tandem with facilities in Panama and Mexico to …

I need to get through today and then I have a full week off from work.

Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer praises CeeDee Lamb's work ethic following Week 1 drops https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-praises-ceedee-lamb-work-ethic-following-week-1-drops…

STAT : Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work (Lizzy Lawrence/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/fda-under-trump-rfk-jr-staff-describe-political-pressure/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p66#a251014p66

Gov. Lee to work with Trump administration to deploy National Guard in Memphis | News From The States
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gov-lee-work-trump-administration-deploy-national-guard-memphis

Chicago Public Media, which owns the Sun-Times and public radio station WBEZ, names Kimbriell Kelly as EIC effective September 2, succeeding Jennifer Kho (David Roeder/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/media/2025/08/14/kimbriell-…

Kimbriell Kelly named editor-in-chief at Sun-Times, WBEZ
A Pulitzer Prize winner, Kelly has a background in investigative reporting. She will succeed Jennifer Kho, who will work on a project dealing with the future of public media.

@… @… I spent 3 years being really into Rust but the shenanigans they have to get up to in order to make async work are horrifying, both in the language and for the user.
I have now gone back to Haskell.

Meeting at Google: “We haven’t fucked up the Web enough with our AMP shit, but the AI shit is doing pretty good work. What about if we also fuck up RSS?”
What an utterly shit company. I hope the AI hype destroys them.
(Just in case you think they're "just asking questions", they already opened a removal tracker before listening to replies: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334)
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

Already fixed, but still funny.
Polish Ministry of Health: we issued referrals for new vaccinations.
Polish people: but the registration system doesn't work, we're getting a "business error".
MoH: yeah, we know, but it doesn't really matter, since we don't have the vaccines yet anyway.
#Poland

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
-Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Wisdom of the Crowd, Without the Crowd: A Socratic LLM for Asynchronous Deliberation on Perspectivist Data
Malik Khadar, Daniel Runningen, Julia Tang, Stevie Chancellor, Harmanpreet Kaur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09911

Wisdom of the Crowd, Without the Crowd: A Socratic LLM for Asynchronous Deliberation on Perspectivist Data
Data annotation underpins the success of modern AI, but the aggregation of crowd-collected datasets can harm the preservation of diverse perspectives in data. Difficult and ambiguous tasks cannot easily be collapsed into unitary labels. Prior work has shown that deliberation and discussion improve data quality and preserve diverse perspectives -- however, synchronous deliberation through crowdsourcing platforms is time-intensive and costly. In this work, we create a Socratic dialog system using…

Sources: UK security services including MI5 step up work with the country's largest companies over hacking fears and to improve UK cyber warfare preparedness (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6e54967b-48ce-4788-99c7-36b5801e7dfe

UK security services step up work with business to fight cyber threats
High-profile hacks raise fears about the potential economic damage caused by disruption to supply chains and services

What I don't get is why does DHH even need so much funding and sponsorships for open source projects. Tens of thousands from framework, cloudflare and god knows who else.
When I made the (then) probably most popular JavaScript open source framework I got zero funding and sponsorship and was doing fine?
I'm not saying that people shouldn't get paid for work, but that dude is a fucking multi-millionaire who drives race cars as a hobby.

Netflix is merging Scanline, the VFX company it acquired in 2021, with Eyeline, its virtual production and R&D unit, to form a one-stop shop for digital tools (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-scanline-vfx-eyeline-studios-m…

Inside Netflix's Bid to Supercharge Faster, Cheaper VFX Through Virtual Production and AI | Exclusive
Eyeline CEO Jeff Shapiro and Studio head Kevin Baillie pull back the curtain on the division's work, research and tools, from volumetric capture to generative AI

Conceivable Life Sciences, which wants to use AI to automate the work done by embryologists in IVF labs, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $70M (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Today's ride into work was something. If I ride fast in the morning I take the Menomonee River Parkway but ride on the street going about 25mph. I saw a guy on the Oak Leaf Trail with a motorcycle helmet and "motocross style dirt bike" ebike. He was probably going 20mph but kept slowing down to pass people walking. Seemed like he should have been on the road with me. I was beating him on speed since I was on the road free of pedestrians.
1/4

OpenAI releases the first detailed public study on how people use ChatGPT: 73% of chats were non-work related, practical guidance was the top use case, and more (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/15/openai-…

Here’s what the data says people ask ChatGPT
OpenAI released the first detailed public study on who uses its chatbot and what they most often ask it to do.

Planning to bike to work tomorrow but the part of the Oak Leaf Trail I normally ride on to avoid street traffic is probably underwater along the Menomonee River...

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/USGS-04087120/#d…

Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/thinking-machines-lab…

Thinking Machines Lab wants to make AI models more consistent | TechCrunch
In a blog post shared Wednesday, Mira Murati's startup offered a rare glimpse into some of work its doing to improve AI models.

I just started riding to work. What's your best advice for a newbie bike commuter?
(Also, I am in Wisconsin and try to ride year-round, though not sure I will commute year round.)
@… #BikeNitePQ

Source: OpenAI is preparing ChatGPT agents to let users create files compatible with PowerPoint and Excel, generate reports, and handle tasks involving websites (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Preps ChatGPT Agents in Challenge to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
As OpenAI tries to turn ChatGPT into a core application for white-collar work, it’s developing agent features that could make its customers less dependent on productivity apps from Microsoft. In the latest example, OpenAI has developed features that let ChatGPT customers quickly create and edit ...

Rode the bike down the street at work to see the hole. I really like the street sign lying on its side in the ditch...
#road #menomoneeFalls

ROG Xbox Ally review: great grips, good speakers, and Windows is easier to control with joysticks, but worse performance than the Steam Deck and unintuitive UI (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/799698/xbox-ally-x-review-a…

Xbox Ally and Ally X review: this is not an Xbox
The Verge reviews the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, a pair of Windows gaming handhelds that attempt to make Windows work better for gamers.

I did not get to bike to work today due to having to bring a server to work, along with two packages, and rain. I'll get some rain pants this week so at least the rain will be less of an issue. (I was ready to move the server and packages via bike but the addition of rain made me decide not to.)

Aw, shit... Pizza Man Tosa was our go-to pizza place at work.
https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/pizza-man-wauwatosa-closing

Glue, a Slack competitor co-founded last year by David Sacks and designed around threads over channels, raised a $20M Series A and says it has refocused on MCP (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/14/glue-workplace-collaboration-slack

Glue raises $20 million to defeat Slack
The startup was cofounded by White House AI czar Davis Sacks.

I guess we had a little bit of water come in through a loading dock door at work. It soaked a box full of Cat5 cable, not too bad. It's a good thing I moved a UPS off the floor where it was and onto a small rolling dolly a few months ago.
Also, USB-C is great because you can plug a cable into two different ports of a USB hub! Looks like it destroyed the cable and the hub. (Not sure who did it but people were trying to help while I was out.)
Anyway, all is up and running again…

What is the best (and safest) way to trigger a GPIO pin on a Raspberry Pi from a 5V microcontroller?
(An Arduino, in this case.)
I think the answer is a level shifter, but there's also an optoisloator/optocoupler, and of course a few resistors (though that one is probably the least safe.) A relay could work but seems like silly overkill.
#microcontroller