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CEOs call it a revolution in efficiency.
The workers powering it call it a "new era in forced labor."
https://gizmodo.com/the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-2000635294

The End of Work as We Know It
CEOs call it a revolution in efficiency. The workers powering it call it a "new era in forced labor." I spoke to the people on the front lines of the AI takeover.

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM

Can Designers Avoid Meetings?
LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.

Do 'work requirements' in Medicaid work? Georgia's been trying it for two years (Jess Mador/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/28/nx-s1-5466338/georgia-work-requirements-medicaid-pathways
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p108#a250728p108

The Nickel City Comic Con site didn’t give ticket prices at the door. It also didn’t mention it was cash-only. Total fluke I had cash on me.
Overall, meh. But I did buy this nifty print:
https://www.sixthstationstudio.com/work/introduction
Missed Danny …

"Introduction" — Sixth Station Studio

I’ve been discussing some agent swarm based development work on LinkedIn. So far it’s going well, I’m figuring out how to get the results I want from the tools. As I say there, it feels more like managing a team of experienced product managers and developers (which I’ve done a few times in my career) than doing developer work faster.

Update on my Swift/iOS app development work using Claude-flow. | Adrian Cockcroft
Update on my Swift/iOS app development work using Claude-flow. I took some time away from it but last week I continued cleaning up the code. The app was working for me but Claude had built over 200 tests, unit tests and UI automation tests and I spent a day focused on getting them all to work, which found a few issues in the app code. Claude isn’t as good at writing Swift as Python (which tends to work first time) but when the compile failures and test error logs are passed back to it, it d…

I'm currently looking at retrospective national bibliographies that are listed here: https://www.cerl.org/collaboration/work/retrospectivenationalbibliographies
Wrt machine readability the situation appears precarious. There's the Ger…

El Pais is doing an amazing work in showing how citation metrics is a call for abuse (gaming to be more precise).
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-sci…

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

Periodically, people propose that in keeping with Muni's 49 being a "BRT" service on Van Ness, it should skip local stops on Mission St. This op-ed is the latest example:
https://sf.streetsblog.org/2025/08/27/lets-make-munis…

Op-Ed: Let's Make Muni's 49 Van Ness/Mission Bus Work for San Francisco - Streetsblog San Francisco
A transformative BRT project that can’t keep up with demand

A look at the Salt Lake Tribune under CEO and top editor Lauren Gustus, who is spearheading a campaign to raise $1M in 2025 to end its paywall (Rick Edmonds/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/salt-lake-tribune-paywal…

At the nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune, a turnaround and now a big gamble - Poynter
The Tribune’s success has made it a poster child for going nonprofit. Will its attempts to shake off its paywall find similar success?

Maxx Crosby points to NBA's Thunder when talking hopeful Raiders turnaround: 'We've got a lot of work to do' https://www.nfl.com/news/maxx-crosby-points-to-nba-s-thunder-when-talking-hopef…

How popular media gets love wrong
Okay, so what exactly are the details of the "engineered" model of love from my previous post? I'll try to summarize my thoughts and the experiences they're built on.
1. "Love" can be be thought of like a mechanism that's built by two (or more) people. In this case, no single person can build the thing alone, to work it needs contributions from multiple people (I suppose self-love might be an exception to that). In any case, the builders can intentionally choose how they build (and maintain) the mechanism, they can build it differently to suit their particular needs/wants, and they will need to maintain and repair it over time to keep it running. It may need winding, or fuel, or charging plus oil changes and bolt-tightening, etc.
2. Any two (or more) people can choose to start building love between them at any time. No need to "find your soulmate" or "wait for the right person." Now the caveat is that the mechanism is difficult to build and requires lots of cooperation, so there might indeed be "wrong people" to try to build love with. People in general might experience more failures than successes. The key component is slowly-escalating shared commitment to the project, which is negotiated between the partners so that neither one feels like they've been left to do all the work themselves. Since it's a big scary project though, it's very easy to decide it's too hard and give up, and so the builders need to encourage each other and pace themselves. The project can only succeed if there's mutual commitment, and that will certainly require compromise (sometimes even sacrifice, though not always). If the mechanism works well, the benefits (companionship; encouragement; praise; loving sex; hugs; etc.) will be well worth the compromises you make to build it, but this isn't always the case.
3. The mechanism is prone to falling apart if not maintained. In my view, the "fire" and "appeal" models of love don't adequately convey the need for this maintenance and lead to a lot of under-maintained relationships many of which fall apart. You'll need to do things together that make you happy, do things that make your partner happy (in some cases even if they annoy you, but never in a transactional or box-checking way), spend time with shared attention, spend time alone and/or apart, reassure each other through words (or deeds) of mutual beliefs (especially your continued commitment to the relationship), do things that comfort and/or excite each other physically (anywhere from hugs to hand-holding to sex) and probably other things I'm not thinking of. Not *every* relationship needs *all* of these maintenance techniques, but I think most will need most. Note especially that patriarchy teaches men that they don't need to bother with any of this, which harms primarily their romantic partners but secondarily them as their relationships fail due to their own (cultivated-by-patriarchy) incompetence. If a relationship evolves to a point where one person is doing all the maintenance (& improvement) work, it's been bent into a shape that no longer really qualifies as "love" in my book, and that's super unhealthy.
4. The key things to negotiate when trying to build a new love are first, how to work together in the first place, and how to be comfortable around each others' habits (or how to change those habits). Second, what level of commitment you have right now, and what how/when you want to increase that commitment. Additionally, I think it's worth checking in about what you're each putting into and getting out of the relationship, to ensure that it continues to be positive for all participants. To build a successful relationship, you need to be able to incrementally increase the level of commitment to one that you're both comfortable staying at long-term, while ensuring that for both partners, the relationship is both a net benefit and has manageable costs (those two things are not the same). Obviously it's not easy to actually have conversations about these things (congratulations if you can just talk about this stuff) because there's a huge fear of hearing an answer that you don't want to hear. I think the range of discouraging answers which actually spell doom for a relationship is smaller than people think and there's usually a reasonable "shoulder" you can fall into where things aren't on a good trajectory but could be brought back into one, but even so these conversations are scary. Still, I think only having honest conversations about these things when you're angry at each other is not a good plan. You can also try to communicate some of these things via non-conversational means, if that feels safer, and at least being aware that these are the objectives you're pursuing is probably helpful.
I'll post two more replies here about my own experiences that led me to this mental model and trying to distill this into advice, although it will take me a moment to get to those.
#relationships #love

"96% of bosses expect that AI will make their workers more productive;
85% of companies are either requiring or strongly encouraging workers to use AI;
49% of workers have no idea how AI is supposed to increase their productivity;
77% of workers say using AI decreases their productivity."
ht…

Source: Meta has hired highly influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal to work on its AI reasoning models under the company's new AI superintelligence unit (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/meta-hi…

Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models | TechCrunch
Meta has hired a key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models under its new AI superintelligence unit.

What is the biggest threat to companies regarding remote work?
I think it really comes down to remote employees have more autonomy over their life, and so aren't forced to cower to the company. Remote work removes the hassle of having upend ones life when changing companies by moving country etc.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Men at Work:
🎵 Who Can It Be Now?
#MenatWork
https://reeserodri.bandcamp.com/track/men-at-work-who-can-it-be-now-reese-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5BCykgPXc7zEBg2oU0klvy

Verschifft ins Büro,
work, work, verschifft nachhaus‘,
jetzt aber Ferien!

About showing the “open to work” badge https://christianheilmann.com/2025/05/20/nothing-makes-me-want-to-hire-someone-less-than-them-showing-an-open-to-work-badge/

I've just updated my Resume...
It basically took all morning 😫
#Work #Jobs

@… I imagine it was a lot of work, yes. Personally, I will be waiting a couple more years to play it. Just because some people had to work hard to make it doesn’t mean it’s worth so much to me, an individual, and I can’t imagine too many others will bite at that price either.

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

Proof of Work With External Utilities
Yogev Bar-On, Ilan Komargodski, Omri Weinstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21685 https://arxiv.o…

Proof of Work With External Utilities
Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus is traditionally analyzed under the assumption that all miners incur similar costs per unit of computational effort. In reality, costs vary due to factors such as regional electricity cost differences and access to specialized hardware. These variations in mining costs become even more pronounced in the emerging paradigm of \emph{Proof-of-Useful-Work} (PoUW), where miners can earn additional \emph{external} rewards by performing beneficial computations, such as Art…

Is 42 the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? Work on The vOICe sensory substitution device for the blind has been ongoing for 42 years now.
Grok: https://x.com/i/grok/share/FcYnQAJ8SxmnoyisMtCgkxz6X
ChatGPT:

Is 42 the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? Work on The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device for the blind has been ongoing for 42 years now, starting in 1983.
Yes, according to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is indeed the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything—though the question itself remains a mystery, as the supercomputer Deep Thought spent 7.5 million years calculating it only to leave everyone hanging. As for The vOICe (which cleverly stands for

Body is a bit wrecked from yard work yesterday. Tylenol doing work, but I’m standing up in stages… more so than usual.
I’ve run out of mulch, which was expected. Whoever did the original landscaping surely hired it out because there is an unholy amount of mulch beds. I’ll probably look to cede some of that back to grass in the future.

US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’;
Andrea Velez, 32, a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/immigration-ice-raid…

I'm about to give up on Heltec radios; have two modules which work great, (well...... work well enough for a limited duration of time since they're battery hogs), but refuse to accept any serial data when in DFU mode.
I was able to flash a third Heltec (all V3 32-bit devices) just fine, but for whatever reason these two just refuse to play nicely.
Even tried a stupid simple application just to see if _something_ would flash and NOPE.
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Failed to connect to ES…

Unique Cowboys offensive lineman getting work at new 'jumbo' position https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/unique-dallas-cowboys-offensive-lineman-getting-work-new-jumbo-position

Bookmarked: Talking About Muslims in Middle French: The Potential of Word-to-Vector Models for Studying Semantic Relationships in Medieval Languages – DH Lab #Digital_Humanities

It's the beginning of the month again and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately takes up a lot of time, which is why we would be very happy about a little support! :boost_requested:

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DOGE Flacks Work To Ax Dozens Of Gun Regulations - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/doge-flacks-work-to-ax-dozens-of-gun-regulations/

Conference vignette 👀: #OpenScience is about much more than #OpenData. Presenting unpublished work is also Openness, as social science alumna Dr. Ros Attenborough reminded us. And if you can share that way, then...
In the Presidential symposium, another lab alumnus introduced a mouse protein that massively affected the clock ⏰ . His group found it through an ambitious phosphoproteomic 🧪 candidate selection approach on a cell line 🧫 , looking beyond the canonical idea of the clockwork (TTFL in the jargon). Canonical here means canonised by a Nobel prize.
A good friend from Japan explained in the Q&A that his group had just found the SAME gene in a genetic screen of mice 🐁with altered sleep patterns 🐁💤🛌. We know the clock controls sleep. So, independent evidence across continents.👍
Over dinner they started to coordinate how they would each publish their work. #Science working.

I wonder if the AI stans ever realize that most people do not want a machine that simulates doing their work for them.
Alas, asking for consent is not something they’re good at.

Always good to come back to work to an interesting weather ice sheet situation...
#GreenlandIceSheet melt is peaking right now
https://fediscience.org/@polarportal/114930439503910861

Latent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM Personalization
Yilun Qiu, Tianhao Shi, Xiaoyan Zhao, Fengbin Zhu, Yang Zhang, Fuli Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20849 https://

Latent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM Personalization
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into users' daily lives, leading to a growing demand for personalized outputs. Previous work focuses on leveraging a user's own history, overlooking inter-user differences that are crucial for effective personalization. While recent work has attempted to model such differences, the reliance on language-based prompts often hampers the effective extraction of meaningful distinctions. To address these issues, we propose Difference-aware Embe…

Random measurements are almost maximally incompatible
Andreas Bluhm, C\'ecilia Lancien, Ion Nechita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20600 https://arxiv.org/…

Random measurements are almost maximally incompatible
In this work, we investigate the incompatibility of random quantum measurements. Most previous work has focused on characterizing the maximal amount of white noise that any fixed number of incompatible measurements with a fixed number of outcomes in a fixed dimension can tolerate before becoming compatible. This can be used to quantify the maximal amount of incompatibility available in such systems. The present article investigates the incompatibility of several classes of random measurements, …

The current "bike to work" carry is a milk crate zip tied to a rear rack. I gave it a nice paint job and did a little cutout right behind the seat. There's a piece of foam in the bottom to prevent rattling (I toss my lock back there) and the bungee holds my backpack in place securely.
#biking #bikeTooter

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

Pleased to work at a university whose leadership is willing to say this. It means it's not the university for everyone, but that has always been true.

Ok, I am REALLY having trouble swinging into this semester. I am having motivation issues with work, teaching, and taking classes myself and of course all 3 are on my schedule. A few months ago? Excited for all of it? Now? I just feel like its a slog. About the only thing on my calendar I'm excited for is the local BSdies meeting is coming up. Everything else just feels so 'meh'. I did spend the say watching SPSS videos, so that probably isn't helping. Speaking of work, anyon…

In case anyone knows any good documents that explain in easy terms how email, smtp, and utf-8 work together, what exactly SMTPUTF8 and 8BITMIME do, and how that all works together with DKIM, I'd appreciate any pointers.

When I bring up how children work in artisanal mines in DR Congo and Madagascar to harvest the minerals the rich world needs for its tech, there is one type of comment that comes up more than others:

"Yes, but the working conditions of the people making high street clothes is also awful. It's so hard to do the right thing these days."

I truly have a hard time understanding what this comment is really getting at it. It feels like it's trying to tone down the …

Emil Bove Continued to Work at Justice Dept. After Judicial Confirmation
The code of conduct for federal judges does not appear to apply to Mr. Bove, who has yet to be sworn in.
But his continued presence at the department has raised eyebrows
Some legal experts said that working for the administration after being confirmed could undermine faith in the court system.
Others expressed worry that Mr. Bove could expose himself to potential conflicts,
advising Justic…

Emil Bove Continued to Work at Trump’s Justice Dept, Even After Judicial Confirmation
The code of conduct for federal judges does not appear to apply to Mr. Bove, who has yet to be sworn in. But his continued presence at the department has raised eyebrows.

Tom McMahon: 'They have to work every single play' https://www.raiders.com/video/tom-mcmahon-raiders-training-camp-presser-special-teams-nfl-072825

Why we're canceling today's livestream: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/why-were-canceling-todays-livestream.html

Something super special, beautifully arranged and the result of weeks of hard work by @… for this #MountainMonday:

Nekso (@Nekso@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 1 image At 7PM CEST, there will be a premier of a cinematic showcase I made for my latest map. Hoping to see some of you there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ragOrrtK9M #minecraft #terrain #photography #cinemastodon

"I hate [politician on my side not doing what I want], they need to go!"
You can blame people you basically agree with, or you can work with the people available to try to work toward better.
1st feels good for maybe 5 minutes, then ruins improvement right now, the 2nd has a chance to make things better.
Try to take your anger, your resentment, which I share, to those chiefly responsible for problems, and not to those nearest and ablest to help, even if not as fla…

GEAR: Gaze-Enabled Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly
Asad Ali Shahid, Angelo Moroncelli, Drazen Brscic, Takayuki Kanda, Loris Roveda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18947 https://…

GEAR: Gaze-Enabled Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly
Recent progress in robot autonomy and safety has significantly improved human-robot interactions, enabling robots to work alongside humans on various tasks. However, complex assembly tasks still present significant challenges due to inherent task variability and the need for precise operations. This work explores deploying robots in an assistive role for such tasks, where the robot assists by fetching parts while the skilled worker provides high-level guidance and performs the assembly. We intr…

I want to push back on the idea in the world of tech work that a PIP (performance improvement plan) is about getting rid of someone, that they're not intended to be survivable.
This is completely false. (I'm sure there's instances of it, of course, but the mode and vast majority are, in fact about performance improvement. Sometimes they're shadow layoffs, but that is cruel callous behavior that not everyone will exhibit.)
Now _most people do not survive the PIP process_. This is to be expected: if someone is in fact not performing, and more gentle remedies haven't worked, it's not looking good.
But here's where I get a bit spicy: most performance problems are constitutional problems with management and management style, not individual performance problems. However, since managers are as a class 'in power' somewhat, the individual contributor takes the fall for this structurally.
The intent of a PIP is not to get rid of people. It's to right performance.
However, as a system, PIPs do largely get rid of people who are constitutionally misaligned with management. Even when it's a management problem (and it usually is)

❝Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress.❞
You’ve seen the video. Picture that video. Now read those words again. Those words are how they described murdering him.
Learn to work backwards from those words to what we all now know really happened.
Now apply that technique next time you hear cops describe something that happened.
4/

«erases the history&work of the people who quietly labored to create better digital services for the public; in their place, it proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country. And we find that new definition in the way the site’s constructed: it is digital design intended for the privileged few, one that actively excludes people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”»
Great piece by @… on the notional design studio
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

Every Keystroke You Make: A Tech-Law Measurement and Analysis of Event Listeners for Wiretapping
Shaoor Munir, Nurullah Demir, Qian Li, Konrad Kollnig, Zubair Shafiq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19825

Every Keystroke You Make: A Tech-Law Measurement and Analysis of Event Listeners for Wiretapping
The privacy community has a long track record of investigating emerging types of web tracking techniques. Recent work has focused on compliance of web trackers with new privacy laws such as Europe's GDPR and California's CCPA. Despite the growing body of research documenting widespread lack of compliance with new privacy laws, there is a lack of robust enforcement. Different from prior work, we conduct a tech-law analysis to map decades-old U.S. laws about interception of electronic communicati…

If you swap out 'company' for 'open source community' you might have a good image for OSS UX work! https://mastodon.cloud/@designthinkingcomic/114935728048502199

Design Thinking! Comic (@designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image Product Design.

I love food, I love sex, I love MUSIC but there's a special thrill about discovering that you love an author's work that you have never read before.
You look at all the books they've written that you're gonna binge and it's like.... mmmmmm... like a whole stack of the sexiest pancakes in your bed.

I mean, I don't usually write happy songs, but this looks good so far, right?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Masters at Work:
🎵 The Ha Dance (Ken/Lou mixx)
#MastersatWork
https://ruffkaval.bandcamp.com/track/masters-at-work-the-ha-dance-kaval-edit

from my link log —
Making emacs tramp go brrrr.
https://coredumped.dev/2025/06/18/making-tramp-go-brrrr./
saved 2025-06-23

Starting with August 25th 2025, #Google shuts down yet another very popular service: #URLshortener goo.gl
Billions of links will go dead.
Background:

"It's "#ORCID and…," not "ORCID or…": How researcher identifiers work together to help researchers, build a better picture of research, and streamline administrative tasks": White Paper by MoreBrains › https://

Columbus for work, Corning for museum, North Adams for concert, now back home. Today, Marie made cheddar gougéres. Egg and bacon tea and coffee. Back to life, today is RIPTA bus cut hearings day 1. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/5CAkkuhbFssU3JWn8

Does anybody know an illustrator who does art nouveau style work (in vector)? If not, I guess I'll probably just see what I can find on fiverr (or elsewhere?)

Google Workspace is full of dire warnings about how you can try things but they won't work for a long time (maybe). Sometimes that's because of DNS and Internet caching problems. Sometimes it's because Google made a decision in 2001 it was OK to store data in databases that didn't commit immediately and they thought it was OK to show the user inconsistent state. Twenty-four years later that awful decision persists, even if my data doesn't.

In the Antebellum South, the availability of enslaved labor made it difficult for poor white people to find work. To prevent them from cooperating with enslaved black people, slaveowners policed them with vagrancy laws.

The plumbers are showing up tomorrow to start on the next round of work. 😒

Doing some work outside, I hear an “alarm” sound coming from my (senior) neighbours’ house.
A droning, repeating sound. It goes on a few times before I start to wonder if someone needs to pay attention to that.
Is it a fire alarm? Is it another sort of “something bad is happening” alert? It’s loud, but not TOO loud… Should I worry? Should I check on them?
Then I hear footsteps and “Allô?”
Of course… it was just their house telephone ringing. Forgot those existed for a…

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

Why a G.O.P. Medicaid Requirement Could Set States Up for Failure (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/upshot/republicans-medicaid-work-requirement.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p83#a250628p83

I just wrote this: #USpol

Vent or Win, Choose Wisely - David August - Medium
You can blame people you basically agree with, or you can work with the people available to try to work toward better. The first feels good for maybe 5 minutes, then ruins improvement right now; the…

Unique Cowboys offensive lineman getting work at new 'jumbo' position https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/unique-dallas-cowboys-offensive-lineman-getting-work-new-jumbo-position

Cowboys consider Micah Parsons cleared to practice, start to pressure All-Pro to return to on-field work

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

A survey of US adults: only ~40% report using AI for work and 60% say they use AI to find information at least some of the time, rising to 74% of under-30s (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-poll-229b665d10d057…

The view on the way to work along the Oak Leaf Trail is lovely at some spots...
(Though stopping for the photo I got attacked by bugs, which is not great.)
#biking #bikeTooter #mke

Conversations Gone Awry, But Then? Evaluating Conversational Forecasting Models
Son Quoc Tran, Tushaar Gangavarapu, Nicholas Chernogor, Jonathan P. Chang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19470

Conversations Gone Awry, But Then? Evaluating Conversational Forecasting Models
We often rely on our intuition to anticipate the direction of a conversation. Endowing automated systems with similar foresight can enable them to assist human-human interactions. Recent work on developing models with this predictive capacity has focused on the Conversations Gone Awry (CGA) task: forecasting whether an ongoing conversation will derail. In this work, we revisit this task and introduce the first uniform evaluation framework, creating a benchmark that enables direct and reliable c…

Approximate k-uniform states: definition, construction and applications
Kaiyi Guo, Fei Shi, You Zhou, Qi Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19018 https://arxi…

Approximate k-uniform states: definition, construction and applications
$k$-Uniform states are fundamental to quantum information and computing, with applications in multipartite entanglement and quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs). Prior work has primarily focused on constructing exact $k$-uniform states or proving their nonexistence. However, due to inevitable theoretical approximations and experimental imperfections, generating exact $k$-uniform states is neither feasible nor necessary in practice. In this work, we initiate the study of approximate $k$-unifor…

LLMs-guided adaptive compensator: Bringing Adaptivity to Automatic Control Systems with Large Language Models
Zhongchao Zhou, Yuxi Lu, Yaonan Zhu, Yifan Zhao, Bin He, Liang He, Wenwen Yu, Yusuke Iwasawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20509

LLMs-guided adaptive compensator: Bringing Adaptivity to Automatic Control Systems with Large Language Models
With rapid advances in code generation, reasoning, and problem-solving, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in robotics. Most existing work focuses on high-level tasks such as task decomposition. A few studies have explored the use of LLMs in feedback controller design; however, these efforts are restricted to overly simplified systems, fixed-structure gain tuning, and lack real-world validation. To further investigate LLMs in automatic control, this work targets a key subfiel…

Another day waiting around for builders from 7am only to be told at 1.30pm they're not actually gonna appear.
I might start a career as a professional ghost hunter, I think I'd have more chance of spotting my quarry.
Couldn't work last night, all today wasted. Fucking brilliant.

'Get used to it': DHS snaps as art world outraged work used to push MAGA agenda - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-ice/

Making a short AI film with tools from Google, Runway, Elevenlabs, and Midjourney shows the tech has improved but takes tedious work to attain scene consistency (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-film-google-veo-runway-3918ae28

“Foundations: types of assistive technology and adaptive strategies”
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/28/foundations-types-of-assistive-technology-and-adaptive-strategies/
Very high level, so no inline examples …

Foundations: types of assistive technology and adaptive strategies - TetraLogical
This post provides an overview of common assistive technologies (AT) used by people with seeing, hearing, moving, and thinking disabilities. It also explains what adaptive strategies are, and how these approaches work together to support accessibility and inclusive experiences.

National Guard troops to pick up trash in DC, work on 'beautification' projects (NBC4 Washington)
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/national-guard-troops-to-pick-up-trash-in-dc-work-on-beautification-projects/3980033/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p7#a250827p7

Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/court-filing…

Court filings reveal OpenAI and io's early work on an AI device | TechCrunch
Court filings in a trademark case against OpenAI reveal some of the company's early work on developing AI devices.

Late for Work: Did Cowboys Give Ravens a Framework for Isaiah Likely Contract Extension? https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/isaiah-likely-contract-extension-jake-ferguson-cowboys-derrick-henry-reuben-lowery

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

Mary Edith Barnes became aware of the work of the Glaswegian psychiatrist and countercultural figure, Dr RD (Ronnie) Laing,
author of "The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness "(1960).
This led her to Kingsley Hall, a radical therapeutic community in Bow in East London.
Established in 1965 and headed up by Laing, it was an unconventional centre where mental-health professionals and those experiencing mental illness lived together. Drug-taking …

MARY BARNES
First published: Summer 2025 For English artist Mary Barnes, it was psychosis, radical treatment and an unorthodox relationship with her doctor that began her creative journey Mary Edith Barnes was born in Portsmouth, on England’s south coast, in 1923. She trained as a nurse, later joining the British Army and working

I think I'm finally starting to get past being sick. It started last week Tuesday, but I had to conduct online training sessions at work so I soldiered through until Friday when I was able to stay home and rest. I thought I was better Saturday but I was wrong... Sunday rolled around and still not great but I think finally this afternoon I am starting to get my energy back.

Work extraction from a quantum battery charged through an array of coupled cavities
I. Beder, D. Ferraro, P. A. Brand\~ao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19135 https://

Work extraction from a quantum battery charged through an array of coupled cavities
We investigate the problem of work extraction from a cavity-based quantum battery that is remotely charged via a transmission line composed of an array of coupled single-mode cavities. For uniform coupling along the line, we show that the ergotropy of the battery, evaluated at the point of maximum power transfer, decreases with the length of the charging line and vanishes beyond a critical size. By carefully engineering the initial state of the charger, nonzero ergotropy can still be harvested …

Leena AI, which develops an employee-facing agentic AI assistant, launches "AI colleagues" that it says can work and interact just like human employees (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/leena-ai-anno…

Leena AI announces voice-enabled AI ‘colleagues’ who can work alongside you - SiliconANGLE
Leena AI announces voice-enabled AI ‘colleagues’ who can work alongside you - SiliconANGLE

Cowboys camp observations: Deep ball needs work, pass rushers look good in pads https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6519279/2025/07/28/cowboys-training-camp-passing-game-dak-prescott/

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://

Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns.
But we can work together to make every town safer, and support solutions that will address the causes of gun violence in America.
Sign up today and become part of a movement of millions of everyday Americans.
https://everytownsupportfund.org/join/

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Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns. But we can work together to make every town safer, and support solutions that will address the causes of gun violence in …

Tweaking my sign handle design because the wind yesterday was not kind...
#OpenSCAD

Emil Bove Continued to Work at Justice Dept. After Judicial Confirmation (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/politics/emil-bove-justice-department.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p19#a250829p19

How ChatGPT-powered companionship dolls from Hyodol are helping ease loneliness among older adults in South Korea, as the company aims for a US debut in 2026 (Michelle Kim/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/korea-ai-robot-senior-care-hyodol/

AI robots are helping South Korea’s seniors feel less alone
A ChatGPT-powered robotic companion called Hyodol is taking over some work from overburdened caregivers, much to the delight of seniors who treat them like grandchildren.

The Trump admin said it would go after violent immigrants
but they are giving this guy:
*an early release from prison
*a promise not to be deported for at least a year
*a work permit
https://c.im/@cdarwin/114764280905402524#.

So I'm working on building a device that will trigger something with each revolution of a wheel. Originally I was thinking each rotation would cause the trigger, but now I am wondering if I should calculate the RPM and average it.
I'm not great at math, so you know, it'll take more work, but it should be doable.
I guess I would use one function to determine how frequently a spot on the wheel passes a certain point, then use the result as one input to trigger the ou…

Faculty and students on Chinese campuses are enthusiastically embracing AI, and the level of public excitement for AI in China is far greater vs. the US and UK (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/28/1120747/chinese-uni…

Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less
Unlike the West, where universities are still agonizing over how students use AI in their work, top universities in China are going all in.

With CDC in chaos, scientists and physicians piece together replacements for agency's lost work (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-vaccine-recommendations-data-b4eeba69e03a8d4ed50fb0a12fbcec6e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p28#a250829p28

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

Six protestors who demonstrated in front of the New York City offices of #Palantir Technologies
were arrested on Thursday morning.
The demonstrators had gathered to bring attention to the controversial firm and the work it does to power the deportation of immigrants from the US.
The protestors stood in front of the Palantir offices on Manhattan’s Avenue of the Americas,
linking arms…

The Santa Barbara Ring Shout Project honors a tradition that our enslaved brothers did when they arrived in America.
It consists of calling and responding to the acapella style of singing.
SBRSP dances in a circle to the beat of a sticker, beating on a wood floor to make rhythm.
Ring Shout uses the entire body,
the main focus is rhythms.
SBRSP greatest accomplishment was joining the Gullah/Geechee shouters for a closeout exhibit of Lorenzo Turner's work …

Santa Barbara Ring Shout Project — Juneteenth
The Santa Barbara Ring Shout Project (SBRSP) honors a tradition that our enslaved brothers did when they arrived in America. It consists of calling and responding to the acapella style of singing. SBRSP dances in a circle to the beat of a sticker, beating on a wood floor to make rhythm. Ring Shout u