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But everyone just wants to talk about and use "AI" ... if their paycheck depends on it
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I wrote a short story, a sort of parable, and you can read it first if you subscribe (for free) to my ghost. I'll release it to subscribers later today. I am titling it "To Sea."
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At a three-day Intel event in Arizona, executives repeatedly asserted that 18A is the most advanced chip production tech developed and deployed in the US (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Intel (INTC) Debuts New Technology in Big Moment for Comeback
Intel Corp., the embattled chipmaker now backed by the US government, introduced new products and manufacturing technology that are central to its turnaround bid.

Mike Johnson raises fresh doubts about an Obamacare compromise (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/10/congress/mike-johnson-raises-fresh-doubts-about-an-obamacare-compromise-00601984
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p141#a251010p141

✅ Settler colonialism
✅ Apartheid
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/yellow-line-that-divides-gaza-under-trump-plan-is-new-border-for-israel-says…

Evaluating Fundus-Specific Foundation Models for Diabetic Macular Edema Detection
Franco Javier Arellano, Jos\'e Ignacio Orlando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07277 https://

Evaluating Fundus-Specific Foundation Models for Diabetic Macular Edema Detection
Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) is a leading cause of vision loss among patients with Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). While deep learning has shown promising results for automatically detecting this condition from fundus images, its application remains challenging due the limited availability of annotated data. Foundation Models (FM) have emerged as an alternative solution. However, it is unclear if they can cope with DME detection in particular. In this paper, we systematically compare different FM an…

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Outside of inaugurations or other specific special events, I don’t think guard has ever been deputized before.
“Republican Gov. [of TN] Bill Lee, who supports the effort, has said the [National Guard] troops will be deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service to ‘play a critical support role’ for local law enforcement, though that role hasn’t been precisely defined yet.”

David Sacks says AI preemption won't apply to state laws on child safety, communities won't be forced to host data centers they don't want, and more (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
https://x.com/davidsacks/status/1998125180753944985

David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X
ONE RULEBOOK FOR AI I wanted to share a few thoughts on AI preemption and address some of the concerns. First, this is not an “AI amnesty” or “AI moratorium.” It is an attempt to settle a question of jurisdiction. When an AI model is developed in state A, trained in state B,

Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V series of vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/z-ai-debuts-open-source-glm-4-6v-a-n…