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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Google DeepMind plans to open its "first automated science laboratory" in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b20f382b-ef05-4ea1-8933-df907d30cc2c<…
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…
But everyone just wants to talk about and use "AI" ... if their paycheck depends on it
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115343584016809960
Wrote a satirical article. Gonna post it soon.
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I hope it is as funny to everyone who reads it as it seemed like to me when I wrote it. 😲😝
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
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
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…