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Every know and then, I get a little bit tired
Of listening to the sound of my tears
(turn around)
Every now and then, I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
(turn around, bright eyes)
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart
(turn around, bright eyes)
Forever's gonna start tonight

S07E06 - "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Jim Steinman and Bonnie Tyler
Turn around... every now and then I get a little lonely and the snare is sounding smallTurn around... every now and then I get a little bit tired of listening to the sound of sleigh bellsTurn around... every now and then I get a little bit nervous that the cannons will not fireTurn around......every now and then Kirk d

Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? | Quanta Magazine
Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/will-we-ever-find-alien-civilizations-20260709/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
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🎵 Every You Every Me
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It's also important to recognize that tech oligarchs won't let this die. It's too important to them. This is part of the boss fight right here. They will take everything from us to coerce us into making LLMs profitable, to deskilling our labor and selling (skewed) human knowledge back to us at a premium. They will take away every benefit the state has, kill as many people as it takes to funnel every penny of government subsidy into this. They will burn every drop of subsidized oil. Those ICE camps are gonna be used for something. If it takes right wing death squads, they'll do it.
They will kill every last one of us to realize total domination. We have to be ready for that, and prepare accordingly. As many lives as have been taken by people with similar ideologies, those ideologies have always lost. If we know what's coming and prepare for it then they will lose faster, and at a lower cost.

PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple held talks with PrismML about it (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/kh

Khosla-Backed Startup Claims Breakthrough With Largest-Ever AI Model on an iPhone
Apple is on a quest to shrink powerful AI models to run on iPhones, which could cut down on cloud computing costs and enhance user privacy. But a small startup that emerged from stealth mode earlier this year says it recently got an AI model running on an iPhone bigger than any previous mobile ...

“Can you reassure our NATO allies and make it clear to Putin that if a NATO ally is attacked and Article 5 is invoked, that we will defend them?”
“The United States is still in the NATO alliance,” he said, before adding that “NATO needs significant changes” and that Trump “is very disappointed in NATO.”
'You Won't Let Me Answer!': Rubio Thought He Had an Easy Way Out — Then a Congresswoman Blew Up Every Spin Attempt and Sent the Exchange Off the Rails
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/06/09/rubio-thought-he-had-an-easy-way-out-then-a-congresswoman-blew-up-every-spin-attempt-and-sent-the-exchange-off-the-rails/

Maxx Crosby’s warning to Fernando Mendoza every Raiders fan should hear https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/08/maxx-crosbys-warning-to-fernando-mendoza-every-raiders-fan-should-hear/

What is this money for?
It’s to build massive, data-center-sized concentration camps.
It’s to create an unrestrained domestic military under the authoritarian control of the president.
It’s rerun the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti over and over again.
It’s to rerun the ICE invasion of Minneapolis in every major US city.
It’s to deport — or worse — every brown and Black person in the United States.
This all sounds wild, I know. It sounds like an exaggeration. It’s not.

Ever wonder why wearing masks is so common in #Japan every spring? A post-WWII reforestation policy to plant just two types of fast-growing trees has triggered a mass-allergy crisis. My latest for @bbc looks at the roots of this 70-year-old blunder and the massive challenge of fixing it.

Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame
A decision made 70 years ago to reforest vast swathes of Japan with just two kinds of tree has come back to haunt the country.

Now, I have a lot of reasons to hate vibe coding, but one of them is that I just think more easily in code. I reason by writing the code. It's not something I can easily disentangle.
Architectures tend to live in my head as pictures that change as I write. The words are code. There's no intermediate. So the offer of being able to skip the poc phase is just not interesting. "Oh, cool, I can skip the part where I preemptively identify problems? Great. That's gonna work out well." Vibe coding can give you working proof of concepts that self destruct when you try to grow them (much like any poc code you just try to use without actually engineering).
I don't know that this problem will ever get fixed. Even if it does, I don't know that this fix will ever rival human engineering. I don't think it's actually possible to know that yet, there are too many factors at play. It's definitely lowered the bar for writing proof of concepts. Now a business idiot can make a proof of concept, which even further distorts their understanding of what engineering actually looks like.
In order to go back to work, I'm basically expected to be ramped up on LLM stuff. But it all keeps reminding me of the feeling of powerlessness when we organized against Trump, when we organized against the rally at UW, when I tried to stop someone from pepperspraying people and I got shot. It's all the same ideology of rapists and pedophiles forcing their entire world on us against our will, thinking they can dangle "the Epstein files" in front of everyone and then yank them away like nothing ever happened... Like no one knows they implicate the entire power structure.