@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 04:35:45
Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2B valuation (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/a-new-world-model-startup-is-quietly
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@pre@boing.world2025-12-18 09:22:01
Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-19 12:02:31
How U.S. sports tickets got so expensive – and why it shocks the rest of the world https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6901912/2025/12/19/usa-ticket-prices-sporting-events-world-cup-2026/
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-19 06:04:39
https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=197518
Crazy times in South Korean cyber.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-19 04:15:17
By this spring, the World Food Program still had not received funding,
ran low on supplies
and was forced to stop feeding many of Kenya’s refugees.
In Kakuma, the third-largest camp in the world,
WFP cut rations to their lowest in history,
trapping most of the 308,000 people in the camp with almost nothing to eat.
They began to starve,
and many — mostly children
— died because their malnourished bodies couldn’t fight off infections
Moth…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-19 12:55:50
Denmark says Russia was behind "destructive and disruptive" cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…
@pre@boing.world2025-10-18 10:48:22
Apparently the US government departments are starting to join Bluesky and are getting ratioed in that the accounts are being blocked more than they are followed.
Doesn't really seem to make sense at first. The US Department Of Transportation isn't going to show up as a reply guy in your mentions and the spooks aren't going to use that account to spy on your posts.
Is the blocking then entirely performative? Because blocks are public they are votes?
I guess really it's people deliberately reading the recommended-for-you AI-driven slop feeds.
Blocked users won't show up in your machine-learning robot-recommended feeds that people apparently must be reading over there.
Just not-following would be enough for me, I don't see things I don't follow. But if you read the robot-DJ feeds then anything can show up, so you have to preemptively block it. If only to train the robot shuffle.
#blueSky #fediverse #aiSlopFeed
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-17 09:55:37
The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-19 12:10:48
ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bytedances-ai-chatbot-is-quietly-ga…
