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Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic)
https://anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-work-at-anthropic/

How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic
How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic

"So what if, right, what if, we put the data centres in … space!
This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details."
(Original title: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work)
https://

AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work
Spending all the money you have and all the money you can get and all the money you can promise has a number of side effects, such as gigantic data centres full of high-power chips just to run lyin…

'Not enough' work being done in Kyiv as city faces heating emergency, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/not-enough-work-being-done.html

"Personal Knowledge Management is for Life, Not Just for Work"
#PKM

Cowboys' Matt Eberflus opens up on why things 'didn't work out' with Trevon Diggs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-matt-eberflus-opens-up-why-things-didnt-work-trevon-diggs

There are only 19 work days this month and I need to drive on 9 of them due to other appointments during work hours (PT, dentist, haircut, etc) so even if I could bike to work right now it would be fewer than 10 days but also with the snow and the piriformis pain it's just not happening this month.
I do need to get the trainer set up in the basement with one of the good acoustic bikes to see how pedaling feels right now.
Basically December sucks due to *waves hands* everythin…

Acquired a new phone for work.
Just need to get a new SIM card for it and tell my employer to update phone numbers in their system.
This way, I can have a better separation between work and private (Phone off -> I'm completely unavailable no real work-related apps on my private phone).
Sadly, "right to be unavailable" it's not (yet) in law in The Netherlands.
Luckily, my employment terms does have other clauses that effectively allow me to do this…

Republicans work to defend a deep-red House district in expensive Tennessee special election (Owen Auston-Babcock/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republicans-work-defend-deep-red-house-district-expensive-tennessee-sp-rcna245615
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p9#a251202p9

Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/02/aws-puts-ai-age…

AWS puts AI agents to work on truly autonomous software development - SiliconANGLE
AWS puts AI agents to work on truly autonomous software development - SiliconANGLE

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Ills:
🎵 I Was Riding My Bike To Work When I Realized I Have No Job
#TheIlls
https://ills.bandcamp.com/track/i-was-riding-my-bike-to-work-when-i-realized-i-have-no-job
https://open.spotify.com/track/6CXFuptfO19hkXlG8tlEKU

FYI: If your #Mastodon #domainverification doesn't work, check if you do have upper case letters in your URL as this won't work as of this #bug report from 2022:

On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.”
And
“Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.”
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/pro…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.” And “Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

An upgrade for work, three plays, and bitter cold later, here we are with Marie’s pancakes, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Just board gaming tonight after work. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/ygS6ZKvuQUQLGBbh7

TidyX: screencasts explaining different aspects of the R language and the coding process. #rstats

TidyX
TidyX is a screen cast where we discuss how Data Science topics and code work line-by-line, explaining what they did and how the functions they used work. We also break down the visualizations they create and talk about how to apply similar approaches to other data sets. The objective is to help more people learn R and get involved in the TidyTuesday community. The hosts are Ellis Hughes (@ellis_hughes) and Patrick Ward (@OSPpatrick). Ellis has been working with R since 2015 and has a backgr…

All the windowed doors up now, though some adjustment of hinges is still needed. Lots of the trim to fake the panels painted. There's struts everywhere.
No work being done tomorrow, two men in on Wednesday and Friday.
He still seems to think it might be finished by the end of the week. I still find myself doubting it.
Very glad to have a day off building and off work and off having to get up in the mornings tomorrow. I can lie in bed until noon if I want for the first time since October I think.

🤦🏻 Golf lesson: Study shows political polarization hurts performance at work
#politics

Golf lesson: Study shows political polarization hurts performance at work
Few workers face more scrutiny than professional athletes. Every movement is measured, every outcome quantified, and every performance evaluated against objective standards. So when UC Berkeley Haas researcher Tim Sels wondered how America's deepening political polarization was affecting workers' performance, he turned to one of the most comprehensive data sets on individual human performance: the PGA Tour.

Right now trialing KOReader, seems to work pretty well!

Wishing everyone here a happy new year. 2025 was a rough year for me, with #LongCovid but I also had a lot of positive things happen. Going back to work fulltime, improved health, and finishing my first half marathon to name a few.
Lastly, I had some friends and former colleagues pass away from other various health issues, struggles with mental health, and one amazing human who was t…

Default is Firefox on work machine.

This took a lot of tedious work but I’m now npm token free, weee!
The @… ecosystem is now using Trusted Publishers (https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers

"Let’s stop trying to copy the West. Let’s build the web that actually works."
The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
https://paulallies.medium.com/the-sili

Microsoft is increasingly shrill in its desperation to get people to love it's 'AI' service, 'Copilot'... https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/28/you-heard-wrong-users-brutually-reject-microsof…

finding MEANING in your work/life vs finding SUCCESS in your work/life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPTIoXiEcB0

This is particularly annoying because after converting my kid's laptop to Linux with #EndOfTen, school WiFi certificates would not allow connection so we had to switch back to Microsoft to allow school work submissions 🤬
#MicrosoftTax.

Hansen’s disease (leprosy)
is treatable today in large part because of the work of Alice Ball,
a 23-year-old chemist whose breakthrough turned a toxic folk remedy into the world’s first effective treatment.

A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit
Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Preparing for another work week

Trump regime renames National Renewable Energy Laboratory to National Laboratory of the Rockies...
https://www.gravityisgone.com/a-collective-wtf-national-renewable-energy-laboratory-gets-a-trumpian-name-change/

'A Collective WTF': National Renewable Energy Laboratory Gets a Trumpian Name Change
NREL employees, many of whom joined the lab specifically to work toward its clean energy mission, are not happy about the oil-soaked leadership's moves.

Robert Saleh used to think Brian Daboll was a jerk. Now they work together https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010712/2026/01/31/titans-robert-saleh-brian-daboll-cam-ward/

I've recently stumbled upon an RCE "exploit" for the Serendipity blog software, which I happen to use and have contributed to in the past. From what I can tell, it does nothing interesting (it does not even work due to broken indents, if one fixes that it uploads a PHP shell given existing credentials, but that won't be executed unless you have a server config that executes .inc files). I'm 95% certain this is bogus. Yet... in case anyone wants to have a look:

Exploit (probably bogus) on exploit-db · Issue #940 · s9y/Serendipity
I stumbled upon this: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52036 This claims to be a remote code execution exploit for serendipity. I believe it is bogus. I'm sharing what I figured out here, mostly...

have any of yall managed to deal with / work around adhd and if so how

#Containerschiffe verursachen rund 3 Prozent der weltweiten #Emissionen.
Vollständig elektrische Antriebe sind für Ozeanreisen kaum wirtschaftlich, doch eine Kombination aus #Flüssigkraftstoff

Electric container ships won’t work – but a fleet of auxiliary battery ships could clean up shipping
Could container ships ever go electric? The best option might be a fleet of attendant battery vessels to power these giants directly.

Initial experiments on a GPU-accelerated parallel CDR PLL filter.
Fundamentally, the problem is that a PLL is stateful so you can't process any given iteration of it without knowing the previous state. I'm trying to work around that by recognizing that the impulse response of the PLL loop filter tails off to effectively zero after a while, so we can truncate and samples older than that point will not materially affect the output.
What you see here is the first pass of wha…

Offshore Wind Projects Challenge Trump Administration’s Order to Stop Work - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/climate/trump-offshore-wind-lawsuit-national-security.html

I really feel sorry for @…, and how hard they have to work to be more ridiculous than reality.
https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/01

Republican mayor in Kansas facing deportation over voter fraud
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.

Can you do a favor for my friend @…? He was already having a lousy enough week with his car and his city falling apart when state troopers arrested his wife @… for protesting against the murder of Alex Pretti. (Arrested for what? AFAICT, they were just looking to make an example of some protestors. Just good old harassment via the legal system.)
Now the family has lost work and impending legal bills on top of that new transmission. I’m sure they’d appreciate it if you can chip in a few bucks:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-miriam-recover-from-legal-fees-and-lost-work

Because I literally just finished clearing the snow and putting out food for the birds, it has started snowing those giant wet flakes the Icelanders call "wet dog kisses" and all my work is undone.

I really didn’t want to go to the supermarket today, but that didn’t work out now did it lol

So far, listening while doing other work, this week's #ListeningClub has seemed like a death metal album that slowly morphed through milder and milder genres until we got to this delicate bit 🧚‍♀️

Somebody with an old Samsung Tab 2 (gt-5110)? What to do with it in 2026?
I've tried to install #customRom but it didn't work...
https://xdaforums.com/t/gt-5110-which-odi…

For a work thing, I have to consult potential EU regulations covering advanced machine-learning algorithms.
Most of the resources I find, reek of longtermism...

Very good talk at #fosdem by @…
We (open-source developers) are now in a position to decide. If you work in an organization that decides to change direction, this matters to you and your open source project.
This is why …

Does anyone know how to get a Samsung phone to work with Google Fi's visual voicemail?
#Samsung #Android #Fi

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

Just read about DeepSeek Sparse Attention.
Essentially, they gave ADHD to an AI to make it work better, and market it as a big innovation.
This would be a chance for Neurotypicals to question their attitude towards Neurodiversity, but I doubt they take the hint.
#adhd #neurodiversity …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Charlotte Day Wilson:
🎵 Work
#NowPlaying #CharlotteDayWilson
https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/track/charlotte-day-wilson-work
https://open.spotify.com/track/1knUACOt5yfNAYn7gnYQVt

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle_neuro/115652436465355995
Please answer this very important question from my "work" account :)

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115995187467947699
Ten years ago I was trying really hard to launch a startup in the aerospace industry and this is one of the ideas we considered. The reason why this can’t work is heat, which is produced by computers th…

First day on the new job, a successful project well done, and lots of great things happening lately - this all feels so good and right! 🧡
I use #Arch on my work laptop btw.
Seize the moment, folks. Every damn moment.
And enjoy having some queer fun! 🥳🏳️‍🌈
Also, hack the planet! ✨👩‍💻✨👩‍💻✨

Just before Thanksgiving, our Intro to Museum Studies students organized their own pop-up exhibition focusing on portraits from our collection. Because it was only up for three days, we put it online so that everyone can see their hard work. https://georgiamuseum.org/online-exhibit…

First day back at work and the problem today had me scratching my head at the end of last year was solved in a few hours. I guess it's good to come at things with a fresh head. And it's the weekend next - bonus 😎🖥️

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers https://edintone.com/work-housing-health/ In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe O

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers - Miscellanea Edintone
In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe Operatives Trade Union had 13,104 members; officials estimated that only 5% of adult workers were outside the union.

Israel bans 25 humanitarian aid groups from working in Gaza | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25730978.israel-suspend-work-several-humanitarian-organisations-gaza/

#today I have some admin chores to work through while feeling a bit diseased *again* (cold number 6 this winter, caught at the panto?)... Tomorrow I go to visit a heat pump research centre...

ICE has purchased “a smorgasbord of spy technology: social media monitoring, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools, and more … the government openly says it will use [these] capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions [including] anti-ICE protesters.”
#ICE #protest

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

Cowboys Hall of Fame icon set to help fix Dolphins' front office https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/01/cowboys-hof-qb-troy-aikman-to-work-with-dolphins-front-office/87…

#Sky's scaremongering is not going to work.
They simply need to drop the pricing (€52 a month on their 'Sky Signature' aka. Entertainment package €40 a month on Sky Sports)
And abolish the Saturday 3PM bollocks (in Ireland anyway) for Premier League games, and maybe people will pay for it then.
The wording on this is just laughable.
'Dodgy boxes' are not i…

Weekend Reads
* VPN IPv6 leaks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19698
* ACME protocol brief history

Smoothing Rough Edges of IPv6 in VPNs
How do commercial VPNs interact with IPv6? We show two "rough edges" in how commercial VPNs handle IPv6. First, we show that many IPv4-only VPNs leak IPv6 traffic to the ISP. Individual use VPNs in part to conceal their local IP addresses, so such leaks reduce user privacy. While prior work has studied VPNs in testbeds, we use a new dataset of 129k VPN-using daily visitors to WhatIsMyIPAddress.com that quantifies these leaks and show 12 VPNs previously considered safe still leak for at least 5%…

@… I’m conflicted.
Today my wife took our son out skiing, they’ll be away overnight. Since I’m alone at home, I took a day off work to have my first real “me day” in years.
At first glance, not a bad day to relive! Low stress, no outwards commitments, awesome!
After a few cycles though, I think I would be sad that my family leaves me every morning at 6 AM…

Just read an article by @… and stumbles across this question:
> "...if Clawdbot can create a virtual remote for my LG television (something I did) or give me a personalized report with voice every morning (another cron job I set up) that work exactly the way I want, why should I even bother going to the App Store to look for pre-built solut…

Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like
For the past week or so, I’ve been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine, how I like to use Notion and Todoist, but which also knows how to control Spotify and my Sonos speaker, my Philips Hue lights, as well as my Gmail. It runs on...

Cracking insomnia last night, worst for over a year. I think I'll be taking advantage of the lunchtime snooze pod at work, our drying room with a reclining deckchair in it 😄

I hate to state the obvious, but your biggest advantage in the current job market is showing up and being human, imperfections and all.
Your goal is to connect with the human(s) on the other side.
If you're trying to game the system by regurgitating ChatGPT responses as your own, you've already surrendered your edge.

A.I. Is Causing Meltdowns in American Offices. It’s Only Getting Worse.
A.I. and ChatGPT were supposed to revolutionize work. They’re only creating chaos.

2016: Figma auto-saves your work.
2026: Figma auto-steals your work.
Figma admins, take a look at the setting that Figma silently opted your entire team into, and think about whether the labor of your designers should be handed away for free, just so Figma can turn around and pitch AI powered layout creation to product managers.

With her permission, I'm sharing some more art Wan Leen Siow did for the album - just because I really like her work and want others to see it! =)

@… I have Linux Mint as my primary OS, with Windows 11 running in a VM (VMware Workstation Pro). My laptop has 32 mb of RAM; I allocate 16 to the VM. Works fine, except that WIndows 11 is a bit slow. If I cared, I could increase the RAM allocated to the VM, because Linux doesn't use all that much.
Other VMs work fine, too. I just settled on VM…

lol. My wife just got a work HR system email telling her she’s a good fit for the opening REPORTING TO HER that she’s trying to fill.

My hobby: unfollowing developers who complain that generative “AI” doesn’t work to write code
No shit Sherlock

Show Your Work: The Math Behind My Claim that 92% of ICE's Detention Growth Comes from People with No Criminal Convictions (Austin Kocher)
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/show-your-work-the-math-behind-my
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p64#a260131p64

'They don't consider their work heroic' — 4 energy workers die amid Kyiv repairs following Russian attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/they-dont-consider-their-work.html

I continue to be amazed at people who put personal appointments and reminders into their work calendar. 😮

Donald Trump won AZ-06 by less than one point in 2024
– and I need your help to flip this seat blue.
It’s Jo Mendoza reaching out.
I know polling can be confusing. Everyone wants to convince you that their race is the most important for you to support,
and it can be hard to figure out which are actually the most critical.
So let’s talk about what the data says about my race:
There’s only been one poll so far, but it shows me beating my MAGA opponent by onl…

Mendoza for Congress
Join Mendoza for Congress in building a stronger Arizona. Dedicated to honest leadership, hard work, and community-first solutions, Joanna Mendoza is fighting for veterans, working families, and a brighter future. Learn more about her vision for Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Marie Davidson:
🎵 Work It
#MarieDavidson
https://djtonyofrance.bandcamp.com/track/marie-davidson-work-it-soulwax-remix-vs-dj-tony-o-version-128-bpm
https://open.spotify.com/track/6WfL1pwMyFf3IvFWLnre4P

So... stupid question, but given these days it's almost impossible to buy a smartphone with a headphone jack, it seems everyone's expected to use bluetooth headphones. Yet... all bluetooth headphones I've ever tried have a very noticeable delay. This obviously doesn't matter for audio only content, but... pretty much means watching video with headphones when you expect audio video to be in sync does not work. Is that... to be expected?...

Morning!
I discovered yesterday that the community coffee shop that I occasionally work from supports Pay-It-Forward. They even have a donation page on their site for it.
Awesome! I love stuff like that ♥️
#Freelance #PayItForward

I started listening to an Archer podcast while I work and Pocket Casts is now recommending a TNG podcast and a Paul Blart podcast to me. I'm a little surprised that there is enough content for "Til Death Do Us Blart".

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

Sources: Anthropic has tapped a law firm to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and has held preliminary talks with big investment banks (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3254fa30-5bdb-4c30-8560-7cd7ebbefc5f

✊ The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor-us-trump

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right
For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/guatemalas-eco-defenders-reel-from-surge-in-killings-and-persecution/

Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution
Environmental and territorial defenders in Guatemala face a critical moment as violence targeting them increases across the country. In 2024, at least 20 such defenders were killed for their work, up from four in 2023, according to a report by advocacy NGO Global Witness. The country was second only to Colombia in the number of […]

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲?
My name is Matt Maasdam
and I’m running for Congress
to flip Michigan’s 7th congressional district.
I’m not a politician.
I’m a father, a husband, and a Navy SEAL.
I carried the nuclear football for President Obama
– now I’m running for Congress to continue serving my country. 
But this race won’t be easy. Experts are already calling MI-07 one of the most competitiv…

Matt Maasdam for Congress
Matt Maasdam is running for Congress to bring a different kind of leadership– one rooted in hard work, courage, and integrity. I believe in the Michigan Dream– where if you work hard, you can build a good life and get ahead.

Nevis, which develops AI agents to automate wealth advisers' grunt work, raised a $35M Series A from Sequoia and others at a $200M valuation, after a $5M seed (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)

US homeland security condemned for using Japanese artist's work without consent (Maya Yang/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/03/homeland-security-japanese-artist-permission
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p56#a260102p56

I took drugs at work, got drowsy at work, may have fallen asleep at work. My back does feel better now so that's a plus.

After Missouri residents voted to repeal their state’s near-total abortion ban
and enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution,
Conservative advocates quickly got to work.
In a lawsuit filed the day after the 2024 election,
abortion providers challenged not only the constitutionality of the state’s ban,
⚠️but also a slew of other restrictions that, they said,
made their jobs so arduous as to be impossible.
More than a year later, they are…

🤦‍♂️ COP30 climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal over emission cuts, says report
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-cop30-climate-pledges-favor-unrealistic.html

COP30 climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal over emission cuts, says report
An analysis of national climate plans released today at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil warns that countries are failing to carry out core work required to reduce emissions by halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation, and are instead pushing unrealistic carbon removal schemes, such as large-scale tree planting.

Alabama-based Linq, which pivoted to programmatic messaging APIs in February 2025, raised a $20M Series A to build AI assistants that work within messaging apps (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/linq-raises-20m-to…

Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps | TechCrunch
Linq offers an API that lets companies offer their AI assistants via iMessage, RCS and SMS.

Offshore Wind Projects Challenge Trump Administration's Order to Stop Work (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/climate/trump-offshore-wind-lawsuit-national-security.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p72#a260102p72

New reporting by
"The Information" has revealed some recent topics of conversation between #OpenAI employees as they work to supply #advertisers with a teeming new audience to manipulate.
The plans are not final, though they give us a look at what soon may become the norm for

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

Amazon launches the Trainium3 UltraServer, powered by the 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which will be able to work with Nvidia's chips (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/amazo…

Amazon releases an impressive new AI chip and teases an Nvidia-friendly roadmap   | TechCrunch
AWS has been building its own AI chips — and systems — for years now. It just released its third version, known as Trainium3, with some impressive specs.  

🫦 Researchers pioneer pathway to mechanical intelligence by breaking symmetry in soft composite materials
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-pathway-mechanical-intelligence-symmetry-soft.html

Researchers pioneer pathway to mechanical intelligence by breaking symmetry in soft composite materials
A research team has developed soft composite systems with highly programmable, asymmetric mechanical responses. By integrating "shear-jamming transitions" into compliant polymeric solids, this innovative work enhances key material functionalities essential for engineering mechano-intelligent systems—a major step toward the development of next-generation smart materials and devices.

The US' high-speed internet rollout means drillers, linemen, and splicers pull in soaring pay nationwide amid a labor shortage for the physically demanding work (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

FEMA reinstates workers put on leave for criticizing the White House (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/01/fema-workers-criticizing-white-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p111#a251201p111

"What's been happening in Minneapolis has been so egregious and awful and so destructive to our community,"
shop owner Gilah Mashaal said of federal agents' use of aggressive tactics.
It was obvious to her and Neary how the shop would protest.
They pulled out their knitting needles and got to work.
Neary created the pattern that has now become the well-known
"Melt the ICE" hat,
a red beanie-shaped cap topped with a braided tassel.…