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www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article... More numbers from Salesforce! Customer Support roles have been cut from 9k to 5k thanks to AI! And theoretically moved to sales and other teams. Salesforce is theoretically now able to follow up on every sales inquiry and lead.
Tencent, the world’s largest computer gaming company, released HunyuanWorld-Voyager as open-weight. The world’s first ultra-long-range world model with native 3D reconstruction, redefining AI-driven spatial intelligence for VR, gaming, and simulations.
Hey y'all it looks like @pixelfedapp.bsky.social Just added a stories type feature which is really cool As a Instagram replacement Pixelfed is really dope. You guys should check it out #pixelfed
Omg Stories has gone live on PixelFed I need more of y'all over there ASAP
Oh, this can sustain the bubble and won’t end badly: “Swedish vibe coding startup Loveable is reportedly evaluating fresh investment offers at a $4B valuation, more than double its last valuation. Cursor-maker Anysphere has been doubling its valuation at an incomparable pace of every eight weeks.”
A federal judge ruled Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using military troops for law enforcement in Los Angeles. The court blocked further use of troops for policing but stayed the order until Sept. 12 for appeals. This limits the president’s power to deploy troops domestically.
With so many media outlets facilitating the National Guard invading Chicago in the name of gun violence, it might be worth noting that Chicago isn't even in the top 30 cities for gun homicides.
The thing I think people don’t want to deal with is that it’s not Bluesky v Twitter or Bluesky v Substack, it's open protocols v closed platforms
Drawing a parallel here iamgregb.io/sparkling-llms
US capitalism is diseased, let’s call the disorder “Friedman syndrome.” American companies coast on past glory while, in reality, they’re hollowed-out husks.
There will be celebrations EVERY where! Besides, you still have to celebrate with your nonlocal friends either way. ❤️
I'm fascinated by how often I hear about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley & her Frankenstein's Monster. I RARELY heard about her growing up, even as a rabid horror fan, & only about her monster at Halloween. The last couple years I hear about her AND her monster constantly - every day lately. So weird.
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REALLY interesting article. - discusses several platforms - treated as extracurriculars - 8 schools piloting acceptance of Dialogues portfolios, 2 stopped in July - system already gamified, guides available - Khan claims negative reviews & political stance not disclosed
“Middle-class customers are increasingly strapped, even as high earners keep on buying. Wealthy Americans are keeping swaths of the economy in good stead as they continue to buy first-class plane tickets, while more Americans are clipping coupons and cutting back on nonessentials.”
This looks awesome 👏 I love ginger 🫚
Yikes. Social engineering remains the best way to get into a company. www.newsweek.com/google-gmail...
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 As a middle-aged returnee to school, currently looking at grad programs, I'm especially curious about this topic. Especially as my assignments require a ton of research.
publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi... I'm not convinced that "reprograms" is the right word here, but I haven't finished reading the entire study yet, either (linked in reply).
I sooooo hope they're on top of this. I think when OpenAI used a voice impersonator, Johanson was very quiet about her legal action.
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bsky.app/profile/reut... I REALLY want to be surprised. Sympathy for everyone, obviously, but poor Scarlett Johanson. This is her life now.
Meta’s AI unit is always advancing the field. Just the best and brightest. And most ethical.
It's mind numbing. So frustrating.
😮💨 Free credit monitoring for life. Yay.
I need to remember 18,000 waters... just in case I need it in the future. www.bbc.com/news/article...
HAHA - SORT OF. I don't know why they bothered. The instructions were so bare bones, it was like... "someday, we're write this for reals."
I think one of my favorite things is trying out a program, looking for the instructions, not finding any information on the website, being directed to discord, going to the FAQ on discord, finding a link back to the website, which then has a link to the github. Will it be there? Let's find out!
It's tradition FOR A REASON.
I never take a chance, lol. #Gaming
Cracker Barrel is scrapping its brand-new logo after a major customer backlash. The company is bringing back its classic "Old Timer" design, proving you can't mess with tradition. The reversal drew praise from Donald Trump. www.bbc.com/news/article...
It’s not the good news we hope to wake up to these days, but it’s something!
I was confused all the way through.
We know very little about how cell-site simulators (CSS), devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, are being deployed in the US or globally, but with Rayhunter, we hope to change that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
It really is! Per the article, the owner is stoked to see the number of events on the app's map go up - celebrating a seeming increase in crime always seems a bit sus, especially when it's fiction.
OMG, typos! *Tracking events over time. I don't know what teavking is.
Citizen, a crime and incident reporting and tracking app, is shifting to AI and overseas reporting instead of local humans. AI is mistakenly creating new events instead of teavking over time, reporting private and inappropriate details, and getting facts wrong. web.archive.org/web/20250825...
Crafty weekend- embroidered a little guy on some jeans
While this is being reported as a "fish kill" in the media, it is actually a *river* kill. This is ecocide and – at best – someone will pay a small monetary fine for wiping out a massive ecosystem. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
"Trump wants to strip those exceptions away. Under his plan, the VA would only allow abortions when a doctor certifies that a veteran’s life is at risk should the pregnancy be carried to term. Not health. Not rape. Not incest."
President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.
What is it called again when a government is involved in the means of production? Please, remind me.
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Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15734v1 #AI #EnvironmentalImpact #measurement
JUST IN: On X, DHS says that Kilmar Abrego Garcia “will be processed for removal to Uganda.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/despotism-... “The enemies of a free society—the enemies of limited government and the rule of law, the opponents of political liberty and human equality—don’t sugarcoat what they’re doing. There’s surely no reason we should sugarcoat what we’re seeing.”
Unbelievable but believable. Ugh. Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’ www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump... Yet another discredited voice using a discredited “study” (while ignoring a large body of evidence) used to support harmful BS. Dark Age 2.0
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Great essay from @frank.computer! "A chair orders you to sit and sit in a particular way, by its design. Your being is intended through the tool: you are intended to sit still, face forward, and behave. Artificial intelligence works in exactly the same way."
Vance: "If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." Washington Post, May 8, 1945: "Germany Surrenders Unconditionally."
As we can see, walking up and down stairs is still difficult for robots, and one of the participants at the First World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China fell and crashed while attempting it.
Another video from the obstacle course at the First World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China.
After watching Lightyear, Snoop Dogg said his grandson asked how one woman could have a baby with another woman. Snoop felt blindsided and “scared to go to the movies now,” unsure how to explain LGBTQ+ themes in children’s films to his grandson. www.primetimer.com/features/wha...
US President Donald Trump said he would support revoking ABC and NBC broadcast licenses, calling them “two of the most biased networks” with "97% bad coverage" of him. He claims they serve Democrat interests and called for FCC action on their licenses. www.foxnews.com/media/trump-...
I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.
They’re going to keep the bubble artificially inflated through 2027/2028, just watch. Gerard is right here. By that time ppl will be avoiding the garbage tech like it’s gonorrhea, and Brockman et al will be reduced to telling themselves stories of machine gods.
Look at those dates!!!
So much for transparency & commitments to deliver social good. Elon Musk’s xAI terminated its public benefit corporation status last year per NV public records first obtained by LASST. (xAI’s own lawyers were still calling it a benefit corp. in court filings this year.) www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/e...
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The rule of law is breaking down in America, most definitively in corporate governance, which is now, in essence, Fellini’s “Satyricon.” We should probably be adding stuff like Tainter’s “Collapse of Complex Societies” and the like to our reading lists.
Yeah, I'm with you! It's an interesting place to be. There was the fearmongering about sentient AI, now the "seemingly conscious AI." But considering folks ARE falling in love with AI and proposing to it and now hiring AI advocates/rights researchers, seems a legit concern.
Head of Microsoft AI worried that people will demand rights for AI they mistakenly believe is sentient or conscious. tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/...
Silicon Valley VCs forming proAI PACs: www.wsj.com/politics/sil...
YAY!!!! I read them all, too! Maybe not right away, but I WILL get there!
I don't see the downside to that AT ALL. ❤️🤣
Only if you want to feel no obligation towards LinkedIn whatsoever.
Oooooh, I love that! My first impulse was like "you should do an art project!" and before I could even finish that my brain was like "NO. ONLY SNUGGLES."
In my attempts to be helpful: web.archive.org/web/20250822...
Astronauts in space meme. Astronaut looking at Earth says "Wait, KOSA is just a mechanism for the government to silence its critics?" Astronaut holding the gun says, "Always has been."
This is such a poetic selection of posts. It somehow... calmed me. Like yes, this is how I would encapsulate life... all the wisdom of the ages, right here, in this specific order.
these doxxing laws fucking suck. and that’s all they are, just an excuse for the government to de-anonymize the internet.
This is an INCREDIBLE look at the most recent reports from different AI companies that just came out regarding energy consumption: ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
Opinion: Why I've decided having Nazis and bots as my core audience is beneficial to me
Wow, this whole clip was REALLY good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1e0...
Maron has never been afraid to call comedians on their bullshit. Admire tf out of that guy.
If you are alarmed by the rise of these attacks on the open internet and what it’s doing to destroy platforms you love, @eff.org is fighting to keep the internet open and stop horrible ideas like identification checks. You can support that vital work here: eff.org/anil
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
Oh dang.
The benefit of the US market to business has always been its size. We're now seeing the fracturing of the single regulatory market into various pieces. Nice work there!
Haha, that’s hilarious! It reminds me of this article: “LinkedIn is the fakest platform of them all” — 54% of long-form posts are either fully or partially AI-generated.😂😂😂 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
As someone who has stopped using Twitter ~3 years ago, after having been on it daily for the prior 16 years, it is *so* clear how much the current hateful and extreme state of the platform warps the views of its users, and NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT. I see the effect so much working in tech.
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Well, I know *I* am looking forward to it! I never picked R up. No time like whenever you're done.
Write the book. When everyone realizes they need to relearn/learn R again, they're going to look for a book written by a human. 💫
I was asked in an interview for a consultancy what my favorite statistical software is. Not long and I'll be able to reply "I wrote the* book on #rstats" *a
Sure sounds like a lot of 'weaponizing 3 letter agencies' that the red caps complained about for years
“The judge gave both branches of the government 60 days to move out existing detainees and begin to remove fencing, lighting, power generators and other materials. The order also prohibits any new construction at the site.” (🎁 link)
Recently had a social club meeting and was informed that many Mormons are super into Trump because they are also preppers who think the rapture is nigh so that’s what we are dealing with
You know, Chocolate has a miserable PR team Cheese's PR team was able to make it so you can't call American Cheese, cheese on your label. Meanwhile, white chocolates just out here flaunting it's shit, calling everyone out
someone needs to super cut all the times this administration has said something was coming "in 2 weeks"
Hey guys. I can tell you why. finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-s...
Florence and the Machine dropped a new video yesterday and it is very of the moment, for #MusicSky
It'll be interesting. I'm in California and I live in a gerrymandered district. While I live in the county seat, for SOME REASON my neighborhood is part of the voting district for the next county over. Not a Newsom fan, for the record, but our districting DOES need to be fixed.
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Brian Merchant ( @bcmerchant.bsky.social ) has collected heartbreaking stories revealing how AI is killing the translation profession. I highly recommend reading this article (www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...). The next story will be about you—no matter what you do.
In July, a Georgia Court threw out an earlier ruling as a result of presumed hallucinated case citations from AI. 11 of 15 case citations were found to be non existent, an occurence that is becoming more and more common: www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/g...
Calling this a “learning gap” is imprecise to the point of misleading. However, I’ve been saying this is the case, along with many others who are doubtlessly smarter than I am, for ages. These models are not capable enough for what’s being asked of them.
Precisely so! 💯
Errr... I already didn't love Github being owned by Microsoft.... www.theverge.com/news/757461/...