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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

Just published 🚀: Does the math work?
#artificialintelligence

"Plastic Bag Bans Work: New Study Confirms Drop in Beach Litter Where Laws Are in Place"
#PlasticsBags #Plastic #Plastics

Plastic Bag Bans Work: New Study Confirms Drop in Beach Litter Where Laws Are in Place | Happy Eco News
Plastic bag bans work, according to a new nationwide study analyzing 45,000 shoreline cleanups. Areas with bans or bag fees had up to 47% fewer plastic bags collected as litter. The research shows these policies reduce pollution, protect wildlife, and may guide global efforts to regulate plastic waste more effectively.

Today I did not bike to work, and it felt weird. The last time I drove the car to work was September 10th, so I made it 16 work days in a row by bike. And of course we're still in the Week Without Driving. Sigh... You can't win them all!

"Imagining the Future Library" by Masud Khokhar @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/imagining-the-future-library
"In an algorithmic economy, our understanding of knowledge …

Website Work: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/11/04/website-work.html

Website Work
Got busy this morning with a new website that I’m working …

Cowboys' defense still a work in progress under new DC Matt Eberflus, what needs to change?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-de…

ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Attracting A Bunch Of People Who Are Too Unfit (Or Too Criminal) To Work At ICE | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/ices-hiring-surge-is-attracting-a-bunch-of-people-who-are-too…

ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Attracting A Bunch Of People Who Are Too Unfit (Or Too Criminal) To Work At ICE
ICE can generate multiple horrible stories a day but it still can’t seem to find enough brown people to deport daily to satisfy White House advisor Stephen Miller’s demands for 3,000 ar…

Trump Tightens Work Permits for Migrants, Expanding Crackdown on Legal Immigration (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tightens-work-permits-for-migrants-expanding-crackdown-on-legal-immigration-b2e90372
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p81#a251204p81

"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…

from my link log —
Don't give Postgres too much memory.
https://vondra.me/posts/dont-give-postgres-too-much-memory/
saved 2025-11-03 h…

Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel
and other Android phones,
allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices.
In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages, despite end-to-end encryption.”

Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning: What happens on your Android, doesn’t stay on your Android — not if it's a work phone.

Some positive signs for AI coding tools. Claude-code is a $1B run rate product six month after launch. The latest Claude Opus 4.5 model is several times cheaper and faster than last month’s version and uses about a quarter of the number of tokens to get work done. My own benchmark saw over an hour of coding reduced to 17 minutes. The high rate of change continues. The boundary of what does/doesn’t work is pushing back fast.

Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

'Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy': 'On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy' https://www.pbs.org/newsho…

Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy
Colleen Shogan made history when she became the first woman to serve as Archivist of the United States in 2023. In February, President Trump fired her with no reason given. On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy. Amna Nawaz reports for our series, Art in Action, and our arts and culture coverage, CANVAS.

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

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Steely Dan:
🎵 Dirty Work
#NowPlaying #SteelyDan
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/steely-dan-dirty-work-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IvTwPCCjfZczCN2k4qPiH

My house is just where I crash between shifts. If I don’t rest, I’m useless the next day. But if I don’t work the next day, no paycheck comes, and then no rest either.
So really, I just visit my place to keep functioning at the job that owns my hours. It’s like living to work, not working to live.
I don’t have a home life anymore, capitalism sucks.
#Capitalism

Oh, look, the result of anti-immigration fascists' policies are labor shortages.
Who would've known?
(unless it's paired with starting a global trade war, I suppose; in that case you'd get an economic slump, bankrupcies and unemployment... if you don't TACO)
https://…

Italy's right-wing government unveils new work permit plan to address labor shortages
The Italian government has announced a significant increase in the issuance of work permits for non-EU workers, planning to distribute 500,000 …

Wise words from @….
Reflecting now on how often I find myself saying “Just show up, over and over, and do some work. Don’t worry about whether it’s enough, about whether you’re going to get an A. Just show up. Do some work.”
Wanting to get really good at [software dev skill]?
Worried about passing the class?
Not sure if you’re a Real Programmer yet?
Impostor feelings?
Horrified at politics?
Wanting to saving democracy?
Feeling powerless?
Anxious? Depressed? Panicking?
Show up. Work. https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/115481201032837751

The first large project that I took on basically alone in a large environment was polishing the custom-crafted system for feeding printers into something less support-ticket-generating at Daimler-Chrysler. That provides a rough date... The original author (who had become management) praised my work.
It got me a promotion of sorts. I graduated to no longer being required to work on printer issues or with anyone who might have printer issues.

I'm loosing my mind 🤯 I want to see Google die.
#android

QScale: Probabilistic Chained Consensus for Moderate-Scale Systems
Hasan Heydari, Alysson Bessani, Kartik Nayak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01536 https://ar…

QScale: Probabilistic Chained Consensus for Moderate-Scale Systems
Existing distributed ledger protocols either incur a high communication complexity and are thus suited to systems with a small number of processes (e.g., PBFT), or rely on committee-sampling-based approaches that only work for a very large number of processes (e.g., Algorand). Neither of these lines of work is well-suited for moderate-scale distributed ledgers ranging from a few hundred to a thousand processes, which are common in production (e.g, Redbelly, Sui). The goal of this work is to des…

Did Trump's crime crackdown in Washington work? It's complicated. (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/did-trumps-crime-crackdown-washington-work-its-complicated-2025-10-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p21#a251004p21

OH: "I should be at work and not thinking about which animal has the most countercurrent exchangers in it. (Canada geese have four, one in each lung and one in each leg. I think they're currently leading)"

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

Aspects of the Black Hole Interior Volume and Entropy
Shad Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03042 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03042

Aspects of the Black Hole Interior Volume and Entropy
The basic and conceptual notion of this work starts from the recent investigations of Marios Christodoulou and Carlo Rovelli (CR) in their paper entitled ''How big is a black hole?''. This work is related to the black hole interior volume and the entropy by Baocheng Zhang. In CR work, a spherically symmetric Schwarzschild black hole is considered and defines the interior volume, as the volume inside a sphere $S$ is the maximal proper volume of a space-like spherically symmetric $3d$ hypersurfac…

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

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

Watch: Prep for Indy https://www.raiders.com/video/nfl-week-5-work-raiders-vs-colts-practice

Mental Work
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

How can AI agents support journalists' work? An experiment with designing an LLM-driven intelligent reporting system
Vasileios Maltezos, Roman Kyrychenko, Aleksi Knuutila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01193

How can AI agents support journalists' work? An experiment with designing an LLM-driven intelligent reporting system
The integration of artificial intelligence into journalistic practices represents a transformative shift in how news is gathered, analyzed, and disseminated. Large language models (LLMs), particularly those with agentic capabilities, offer unprecedented opportunities for enhancing journalistic workflows while simultaneously presenting complex challenges for newsroom integration. This research explores how agentic LLMs can support journalists' workflows, based on insights from journalist intervi…

https://cyberscoop.com/bugcrowd-mayhem-security-acquistion-ai-security-testing/
Omg so happy for the great David Brumley!

Trump's work.
#trump

'We lived through hell,' say Venezuelans released from mega-prison in El Salvador
Four men deported from the US to a notorious facility in El Salvador tell the BBC after their release they were mistreated.

She's right. So very, very right.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOwANiADYoc/?igsh=dnFiN3M5cjJjZXF6

Irene's Entropy on Instagram: "In a world where the top is trying to tear us apart, know that we hold power in our every day decisions of how we treat our friends, strangers, and neighbors. There is always some commonality in our human experience. Find it. Sometimes it takes work, but it’s what will make this world a better place. #storyteller #musician #news #currentevents #quinceñera #empowerment #love #fyp"
229K likes, 15K comments - irenes.entropy on September 18, 2025: "In a world where the top is trying to tear us apart, know that we hold power in our every day decisions of how we treat our friends, strangers, and neighbors. There is always some commonality in our human experience. Find it. Sometimes it takes work, but it’s what will make this world a better place. #storyteller #musician #news #currentevents #quinceñera #empowerment #love #fyp".

New paper out today in @… Geosciences:
The Greenlandification of Antarctica - it's a comment piece showing hpw Antarctica's ice is increasingly similar to Greenland's - drawing on a mass of work from various @… climate projects and with substantial @… implications
Readcube pdf: https://rdcu.be/eJiqJ

This is every route I've take to/from work on my bike in the past three months...
Sometimes I make an effort to find roads I have not biked down and then try to hit them up so I can get more red lines on the map.
#bikeTooter #mke

💦 Boosting work engagement through a simple smartphone diary
#work

Boosting work engagement through a simple smartphone diary
Work engagement is a positive and persistent state of mind related to one's work. It is characterized by high energy and mental resilience (vigor), enthusiasm and involvement (dedication), and complete concentration in the task at hand (absorption). Engaged workers are not merely more productive; they are more likely to be proactive, creative, and less susceptible to burnout. Most importantly, work engagement has been consistently linked to many health benefits and overall well-being.

This long work from @… and @…, among many other interesting ideas,
calls the new kind of "AI" by a new name to distinguish it from older, often more ethical kinds of stats models:
"Displacement AI"
I lov…

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ (@olivia@scholar.social)
Attached: 3 images New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @Iris & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 🧵 1/

Just wasted like an hour trying to get a simple bidirectional bus to work on a Trion. ILA was reading garbage on a design that had previously been working.
Eventually I gave up. Blew away the Efinity project, recreated it from scratch on the same RTL and constraints. Now it works.
I have no idea what happened.
In general the unified flow seems to be *very* buggy wrt making any changes to the RTL and not propagating properly to the interface constraints.

@… I love your work, but pushing this tab into Thunderbird, causing Thunderbird to pop in front of my current meeting window while I’m presenting and have to then scramble to close it and get my notes visible again, is _utterly_ unacceptable.
You gotta find a better way.

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.

My son has added a new project to his portfolio and is also looking for job as environment artist/designer... check it out!
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Nekso/115309157319706178

Nekso (@Nekso@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 4 images Recently finished my latest personal work "Processional Way". Breakdown and more shots on my Artstation: https://nekso.artstation.com/projects/rlNRzG Credits: Trees - Ardacraft tree build team https://essentialschematics.gumroad.com/ Terrain - "Thalassira" by Redranger https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/thalassira-conquest-reforged-9k-x-7k/ Mod - Conquest Reforged Shaders - Bliss shaders by Xonk #footpathfriday #minecraft #conquestreforged #photography

"During the preparation of this work, the authors used ChatGPT and Gemini for grammar & spelling checking and paraphrasing. After using these tools, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the publication’s content."
I like that.

Air filter doesn't work unless you plug it in. You'd think a doctor's office would know that! #HealthyAir

"Things will be moved around" = "You'll just be doing more work, with no more pay"

I've been eating these oven-roasted Korean sweet potatoes all week, and it’s genuinely one of the best things I've eaten all year.
Just regular-ass potatoes roasted in the oven in their skin. No prep work, no seasoning, no nothing.
They taste like potato, chestnut, and maple syrup in one magical bite.

"Shih’s conclusions—biting critiques of the anti-trafficking industry—are twofold. First, many anti-trafficking groups rarely interact with the types of abuse victims that they say they do. Second, the rehabilitation-style work programs they operate can cause as much harm as they do good."

Performing Sin
Inside the world of anti-trafficking organizations, where former sex workers who attend Christian church services and weep in shame over their past behavior get reduced hours and higher wages.

Effective Brauer-Siegel theorems for Artin $L$-functions
Peter J. Cho, Robert J. Lemke Oliver, Asif Zaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02309 https://arxiv.or…

Effective Brauer-Siegel theorems for Artin $L$-functions
Given a number field $K \neq \mathbb{Q}$, in a now classic work, Stark pinpointed the possible source of a so-called Landau-Siegel zero of the Dedekind zeta function $ζ_K(s)$ and used this to give effective upper and lower bounds on the residue of $ζ_K(s)$ at $s=1$. We extend Stark's work to give effective upper and lower bounds for the leading term of the Laurent expansion of general Artin $L$-functions at $s=1$ that are, up to the value of implied constants, as strong as could reasonably be…

I should probably work on this over lunch. I ran the shovel across some of the patio, but there really wasn't a lot of snow to remove.

It pairs well with something that I think it was @… said at one point "the job of the senior engineer is to bring clarity"
So often in tech work we end up in a field of ambiguous possibilities, and people usually default to throwing habits and opinions out.
But it turns out, in a great many cases, _we can actually check what the right answer is_, and we should generally do that.

"Revolutionary Study Shows Plants That Remove Microplastics Work Better Than Current Technology"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Revolutionary Study Shows Plants That Remove Microplastics Work Better Than Current Technology | Happy Eco News
Plants that remove microplastics from water could revolutionize treatment methods. Scientists discovered okra and fenugreek extracts capture up to 90% of plastic particles, outperforming synthetic chemicals. These natural, biodegradable alternatives cost less than industrial polymers while avoiding toxic additives, offering safer water treatment for communities worldwide.

I'm reading a paper that describes a figure as having had "a paranoia of enemies." It strikes me that this would work well as a rough parallel to "a murder of crows."

The FEC hasn't had a quorum for months, halting its work : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/04/nx-s1-5559763/fec-no-quorum-campaign-finance

A Note on Conjectures of Gullerud, Johnson, and Mbirika
Robert Davis, Nayda Farnsworth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02008 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02008

A Note on Conjectures of Gullerud, Johnson, and Mbirika
In 2023, Gullerud, Johnson, and Mbirika presented results on their study of certain tridiagonal real symmetric matrices. As part of their work, they studied the roots to nonhomogeneous equations related to characteristic polynomials of adjacency matrices for path graphs. They showed that a subset of these polynomials give a Fibonacci number when evaluated at the imaginary unit, leading them to make several intriguing conjectures. In this work, we further explore their conjectures regarding the …

With Thomas Bonnefille's help, we successfully got USB to work on the SG200x! 🥳
The necessary patches are pending in LKML and we needed to add the 'b' in the compatible string (thanks Thomas for hinting us at the earlier patch). Don't ask, lol.
I have it all in a branch now including defconfigs and other hacks here:
…

Note to self: every time a simple electrical project doesn't work, try resetting the Arc Fault or GFCI breaker. Fixes it every time.

"Hello. My name is Michał Górny. You insulted my work. Prepare to do it yourself from this point forward."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) will seine Fähigkeiten im #PredictivePolicing ausbauen und macht eine Ausschreibung für Datendienstleister:
"The contractor will research and analyze data from commercial and law enforcement databases as well as other publicly accessib…

#OpenSource #inkjet #printer. I saw this on boing boing dot net. No idea how it’s supposed to work, but it sounds cool.

Open Printer
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

The Washington Post hires three conservatives as opinion writers: Spectator's Kate Andrews, National Review's Dominic Pino, and Boston Globe's Carine Hajjar (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezo…

Bezos’ Washington Post Hires New MAGA-Friendly Columnists
They will work for its new opinion editor who admits its readers are “overwhelmingly liberal.”

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

Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02282-7
Finally out, very cool work, congrats to the authors @…

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

I checked the numbers, and LESS THAN 5% of companies with a Chief Digital Officer who dabbles in the self-lobotomizing community have products that actually make it to market.
Seize this opportunity now!
/cc @…

Note
I work for a software and DevOps consultancy...

Want to share your open source work at SCaLE 23x? CFP is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 1
🎤 Submit here: #SCaLE23x

AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Rudrajit Choudhuri, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler, Rob DeLine, Brian Houck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00762

AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Generative AI is reshaping software work, yet we lack clear guidance on where developers most need and want support, and how to design it responsibly. We report a large-scale, mixed-methods study of N=860 developers that examines where, why, and how they seek or limit AI help, providing the first task-aware, empirically validated mapping from developers' perceptions of their tasks to AI adoption patterns and responsible AI priorities. Using cognitive appraisal theory, we show that task evaluati…

Faster Gradient Methods for Highly-smooth Stochastic Bilevel Optimization
Lesi Chen, Junru Li, Jingzhao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02937 https://arxi…

Faster Gradient Methods for Highly-smooth Stochastic Bilevel Optimization
This paper studies the complexity of finding an $ε$-stationary point for stochastic bilevel optimization when the upper-level problem is nonconvex and the lower-level problem is strongly convex. Recent work proposed the first-order method, F${}^2$SA, achieving the $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-6})$ upper complexity bound for first-order smooth problems. This is slower than the optimal $Ω(ε^{-4})$ complexity lower bound in its single-level counterpart. In this work, we show that faster rates are …

an den ersten 66 von geplant 660 Metern der grafischen Partitur dieses auf zehn Jahre angelegten Work in Progres

@… I am still maintaining it (last round of work happened in August of this year) even if it isn’t top of the list right at this moment
https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachle

He doesn't know what tariffs are or how they work, and how the Constitution works.
Great choice of leader Texas.
#USpol #TXpol #tariffs

Ashton Jeanty: 'Continue to just work hard and inspire others around me' https://www.raiders.com/video/ashton-jeanty-broncos-defense-nfl-week-14

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…

Great 'text on maps' work presented by Katie and Bert #FF2025
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is https://text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.worke

i made nixos-bite.sh https://gist.github.com/whitequark/b2ebce6ce77f4b29e37dffc4cbd45873 (from nixos-infect, by removing everything that doesn't work or i think isn't necessary)
it turns debian (only) into nixos, on both efi and non-efi systems, using a…

aiming at the neck, NixOS sinks teeth into a pale and weak Debian 13 server, sucking out all the remaining life force out of it.
aiming at the neck, NixOS sinks teeth into a pale and weak Debian 13 server, sucking out all the remaining life force out of it. - nixos-bite.sh

A federal judge could soon decide whether tens of thousands of so-called “Dreamers” in Texas could lose their ability to work in the US legally under the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) immigration program
– prompting fears of upheaval and heartbreak.
As part of the years-long legal battle over Daca,
US district court judge Andrew Hanen is set to rule on competing proposals for the future of the Obama-era program.
One of those proposals, submitted …

We should've known LLMs wouldn't be anything close to reliable because regular autocorrect still either doesn't work and/or fucks things up so badly

You don’t work from #home, you sleep at the #office.

SmartPoser: Arm Pose Estimation with a Smartphone and Smartwatch Using UWB and IMU Data
Nathan DeVrio, Vimal Mollyn, Chris Harrison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03451 https://

SmartPoser: Arm Pose Estimation with a Smartphone and Smartwatch Using UWB and IMU Data
The ability to track a user's arm pose could be valuable in a wide range of applications, including fitness, rehabilitation, augmented reality input, life logging, and context-aware assistants. Unfortunately, this capability is not readily available to consumers. Systems either require cameras, which carry privacy issues, or utilize multiple worn IMUs or markers. In this work, we describe how an off-the-shelf smartphone and smartwatch can work together to accurately estimate arm pose. Moving be…

I'm playing around with Paste to see if it could work as an alternative to Codepen.
https://code.jws.app/paste.php?id=4
My initial thought is that it probably can't.

On the good side, I now have a proper LED dimmer for these LED bulbs and hey, they work so much better! Unfortunately we put in a bunch of dimmers in our house about 2 years before LED dimmers became a thing.

AI does one thing for me: it reminds me why I prize creativity, why I try to make new things (or just my own, sometimes feeble, replicas of existing stuff), and how important this sort of work is to society and to our individual sanity.

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

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

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://

"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

Sleeping on the job used to be frowned upon.
But a Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps.
According to experts, 30 minutes or less of catnapping can “restore alertness, enhance performance and reduce mistakes and accidents” in the workplace.
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy caught some extra z’s in early afternoon to keep up his stride.
And NASA pilots take in-flight naps as short as 26 minutes to enhance performance and alertn…

Midday Power Naps: 7 Reasons To Sleep On The Job In 2025
Scientific-backed research shows that midday power naps at work can be a game changer in your mental alertness, energy and productivity—even the company's bottom line.

A brilliant start to #FF2025 - Rachel's keynote, Megan and Amy's work on AI with the Bodleian and now Lucie Termignon, Simon Zilinskas on https://comparia.beta.gouv.fr/ - evaluate AI models by com…

The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in "censorship", including fact-checking and online safety (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adm

Glad to stand with and uplift these groups doing important work:
@…
@…
@…

Confidence, hard work enable Caleb Williams to excel in clutch https://www.chicagobears.com/news/confidence-hard-work-enable-caleb-williams-to-excel-in-clutch

Me, the person who changes the clocks at work: "It's after 4pm already?"
Also me: "Goddammit."

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Right-wing pastor Ralph Drollinger, leads Bible studies for members of Congress and the Trump administration via his Capitol Ministries organization.
The purpose of Capitol Ministries is to transform public officials in “disciples”
who will turn founder Drollinger’s very conservative interpretation of scripture into public policy,
such as his belief that the Bible mandates support for right-wing economic, social, environmental, immigration, and criminal justice policies.

How Ralph Drollinger's Right-Wing Bible Study Is Quietly Steering The Ship Of State
Right-wing pastor Ralph Drollinger brags that a new work requirement provision was inserted into the Republican spending bill because of the Bible studies he hosts of members of Congress.

Mercor launches the AI Productivity Index (APEX), which evaluates AI models' ability to perform "economically valuable knowledge work"; GPT-5 leads the index (Mercor)
https://mercor.com/blog/introducing-apex-ai-productivity-index/

Introducing APEX: The AI Productivity Index | Mercor Blog
Find top-tier, remote, AI roles for your expertise. Available only on Mercor.

Israel and Hamas Say They'll Work With Trump's Gaza Plan, but Gaps Remain (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-trump-netanyahu.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p14#a251004p14

Today–or more accurately–tonight, will be my first ride home from work in the dark.
My bike currently has two headlights, two rear light, and a strip of white LEDs pointed towards the front/down towards the road.
I have a rear helmet light, a hi-vis vest , and two lights in the chest pockets.
I've got another light coming today (thanks to @…) and I…

Another endless night, staring at this damn screen, hoping for something that’ll never come. Feels like I’m stuck in this cycle of work, waste, and digital chains.
This fake world just keeps selling me more ways to waste time, more ways to feel empty. Everything’s a distraction. Everything’s a lie.
Capitalism is truly shit, a broken system in a clean shirt.
#Capitalism…

A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which scraped billions of web pages since 2013, including paywalled articles, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/202

Common Crawl Is Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

Israeli startup Sola, which develops AI-based low-code cybersecurity tools, raised a $35M Series A led by S32 and says it has ~2,000 customers (Resilience Media)
https://www.resiliencemedia.co/p/sola-raises-35m-to-ramp-up-its-ai

Sola Raises $35M to Ramp Up Its AI-based Cybersecurity Tooling
Building a 'Stripe for security', the Israeli startup aims to plug the many gaps and extra work created by existing cybersecurity apps

Anthropic announces upgrades to Claude Code: a native VS Code extension, a new terminal interface, and checkpoints for autonomous operation (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/enabling-claude-code-to-work-more-autonomously

Enabling Claude Code to work more autonomously
Introducing Claude Code upgrades: native VS Code extension, terminal UX updates, and checkpoints for autonomous development. Handle complex tasks with confidence.