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The Abridged Abyss | Justin Taylor | Substack
What I'm writing & where to find it. Highly occasional, always free. Click to read The Abridged Abyss, by Justin Taylor, a Substack publication.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
SpectraSoul:
🎵 Untitled Horn
#SpectraSoul
https://incandescentsound.bandcamp.com/track/spectrasoul-untitled-horn-incandescent-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/5aUBkiYW7U8BynpmyEgt3h

Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity (Tim O'Reilly/Asimov's Addendum)
https://asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/googles-westinghouse-bet

Google’s Westinghouse Bet
SemiAnalysis thinks the DeepMind shakeup means Google is losing the AI race. It might be that Google is choosing to run a different race.

Fußball-WM: Ägyptens Nationaltrainer spuckt auf #Israel. Jüdische Allgemeine. https://buff.ly/LKKN7M2

Eklat bei der Fußball-WM: Ägyptens Nationaltrainer spuckt auf Israel
Ägypten sucht nach der knappen Niederlage gegen Titelverteidiger Argentinien nach Schuldigen - und Trainer Hossam Hassan spuckt beim Anblick einer Israel-Flagge aus

Focusing on brain implants for restoring vision to the blind feels like Republicans supporting Trump no matter the cons, following the money and influential power https://bioniclab.substack.com/s/why-bcis-fail Invasive BCIs are not the only game in town, by a long shot.

Why BCIs Fail | Takashi (T.K.) Kozai | Substack
Over the next few weeks, I'll walk through the main reasons BCIs fail. Some are mechanical. Some are biological. Some are conceptual. The way we've been thinking about the problem has been incomplete. I'll try to be honest about uncertainty and direct about implications. If you build neurotechnology, fund it, regulate it, or depend on it, this is for you. And if you're simply curious about how the brain responds when we try to interface with it, I hope you find this useful. Click to read Takas…

Blog post on the Gemini protocol is up: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/the-gemini-protocol -- with links to the capsules and phlogs (remove the space before the TLD before viewing them in a Gemini browser) of @…

The Gemini protocol
Most people familiar with the internet know the HTTP protocol, the one that retrieves and displays our www websites. HTTP was initiated in 1989 and went from there. Gopher is another web protocol, …

"What a year of testing & thinking about AI academic search taught me – The Chatbot Is the Wrong Mental Model" by @…
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/what-a…

Thanks for the great analysis of the (leak of the) EU's Electrification Action Plan, Jan!
My 2 cents on the EV part.
https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/europes-electrification-rate-has

Europe’s electrification rate has been stuck at 23% for a decade. The Commission finally has a plan.
The Commission's leaked Electrification Action Plan could finally accelerate Europe's stalled transition, if it delivers on electricity prices and implementation.

‘No major UK newspapers have published editorials about the heat and there has been no space dedicated to it in the comment sections of the largest French and Spanish newspapers.'
Invitation To A Turkey Shoot – How To Debunk Climate Denial
https://medialens.substack.com/p/invit

Invitation To A Turkey Shoot – How To Debunk Climate Denial
We, of course, post on all kinds of emotive and controversial issues on social media: genocide in Gaza, the war of aggression on Iran, the weaponisation of anti-semitism to undermine democratic choice and defend Israel, and so on.

In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't get it (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/what-happened-openai-and-h…

What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace
Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.