EU, growling like a fearsome bear, but also too often chickens out and ending up as a tamed bedside rug to be taken seriously :/
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EU, growling like a fearsome bear, but also too often chickens out and ending up as a tamed bedside rug to be taken seriously :/
Engaging video by @naomioreskes.bsky.social Clearly communicated and important points raised. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbTH...
I wonder if there are already some families in India looking for relatives they can sell to Putin's army.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
#PPOD: A gigantic jet was photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers on 3 July 2025. Gigantic jets are transient luminous events (TLEs) that appear to initiate as an intracloud flash between the middle negative and upper positive charge regions in a thundercloud. 🧪
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Bluesky is not not really relevant, you say? Well, I raise you "Blueskyism" ->
This is utterly unhinged.
Mandatory reference ->
Also this preposterous ship name -> "Arctic Metagaz"
Some notes on gpt-realtime - a slightly confusing release since it appears gpt-realtime replaces gpt-4o-realtime-preview but is still accompanied by the much cheaper gpt-4o-mini-realtime-preview simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/1/i...
Kleiner später Nachtrag, da dies sehr gut passt und exakt wiedergibt was ich vermitteln wollte ->
Some mathematicians are pushing back against recent claims from AI labs of having proved new and interesting mathematics. Edward Frenkel—mathematician, UC Berkeley professor, and author of Love & Math—is among them.
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3210):
Putin tut das schon seit 20 Jahren. Sich dahinter zu verstecken ist durchsichtig. Derzeit testet uns die CxU ("Sozialumbau") und Interviewte Spahn ("Maskenaffäre") gerade aus.
It's crazy that we've spent more time this year talking about the *former* president's health than the current one's, given the numerous warning signs and unanswered questions that are accumulating.
Michelle's final paper investigates interstellar objects (such as the 3 detected interstellar comets) for signs of alien technosignatures! So far, all 3 objects are comets, but if there were a probe out there, how could we find out? This paper outlines the methods. 🔭 ☄️ arxiv.org/abs/2508.16825
How regular and old he looks without his fake tan
China's new AI content labeling law goes into effect, as part of a broad effort to address AI-related risks such as misinformation and copyright infringement (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
(minus one "not", sorry for that)
The Republican party and the current US president treat America exactly as it were a Reality TV show though. And I doubt than an "entertainment powerhouse" is not the right public entity to refute this, as laudable as this might be.
Ich hatte befürchtet, dass dies existieren würde.
"The US constitution gives every citizen the right to run amok and kill as many people as they like!"
"If you let us burn all this stuff you will see how great it will be afterwards. If you stop us, you can't blame us, we only want to burn everything for good!"
Being lawless does not make Trump omnipotent – nor can he just snap his fingers and make all his authoritarian desires a reality. America is in an acutely dangerous situation. But obscuring those distinctions is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
Jetzt muss ich mir diese Gruppe von Autokraten und Diktatoren vorstellen wie sie gemeinsam "We are the world!" singen.
Safari seems to be blocking progress here a bit, not even hidden behind flag or a bug/issue entry -> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
Built-in Visual Regression testing comes to Vitest in the next major release! Thank you, @macarie.blue for working on this feature 👏 main.vitest.dev/guide/browse...
Mit Ausnahme der AI/ML Bubble. Nicht nur "Tech Bros", sondern auch viele ernsthafte Wissenschaftler und praktische die gesamte ernsthafte Diskussion in dem Bereich findet weiterhin auf Twitter/X statt.
I am sorry if this actually an interesting paper! Will read now. ... but the highlighted graphic seemed to trivial at first glace, and then there was the MMA reference, which I probably also misread, sorry again.
The pure technical costs for running Bluesky are astonishingly small. Policing/moderating gazillion posts across the whole globe with different jurisdictions is a different story. The at protocol will probably land in a foundation like e.g. the Linux Foundation with sponsoring entities (my guess).
Even the most user hostile and unwelcoming Fediverse is still relevant, even though it has stopped growing (as in exponential) years ago.
Bluesky/atproto is not "dying" and it does not need revenue. It is a protocol like SMTP (aka email) or RSS (aka mostly known as podcasts these days). Bluesky/atproto also does not need gazillion people constantly posting cat pics or memes. Relevance matters, that is still high here.
What's new in ViteLand? Our August 2025 recap is out 👣 Big steps for Oxlint: Type-aware linting preview & custom JS plugins roadmap 🖼️ @vitest.dev has visual regression support in beta ⏩ Native plugins enabled by default in rolldown-vite 🤌 Smaller bundles due to @rolldown.rs and Oxc 👀 and more
Meituan, China's largest food delivery company, has decided to enter the open-weight LLM game. LongCat-Flash-Chat! ▫️ 560B Total Params | 18.6B-31.3B Dynamic Activation ▫️ Trained on 20T Tokens | 100+ tokens/sec Inference ▫️ High Performance: TerminalBench 39.5 | τ²-Bench 67.7
"Just give me the memes and cat pics and skip the meta stuff"
That requires a trusted/validating source for DNSSEC signed TLSA records though. I can understand if that blows the scope of curl too much.
Oh, please make this happen 🙏
Vielleicht könnte man ja als Gegenmaßnahme Kaliningrad mit elektromagnetischen Jamming so eindecken, dass dort nix mehr geht. Bietet sich eigentlich an.
Das "an den Hals werfen" kann auch nur hohe diplomatische Kunst sein, den Preis für Allianzen/Abkommen hoch zu treiben. Die Gelegenheit ist günstig für Indien und China, auch wenn am Ende nicht viel Konkretes herauskommt. Dazu auch ->
Xi's/China's lapdog seems not be happy that he has to play by their rules for their protection ->
Does Medvedev know that modern bombs use "Hiroshima-style" fission/atom bombs as the detonator for the H-bomb fusion mechanism? "Hiroshima-style" means tactical nukes these days, not city/metropolitan busters like modern H-bombs.
Well, protection is not free...
If there was ever a moment for this meme...
It's one of the most famous rock songs ever — Bohemian Rhapsody — and now, for the first time, it's been translated with Queen's blessing into Zulu.
Direct link to the video ->
"Wenn wir die Karre an die Wand fahren soll es sich wenigstens für uns lohnen."
Recommended 🧵 in this context ->
Beat me to it 👍
The amount of tokens for OpenAI that get pushed through OpenRouter is tiny compared to what gets pushed through other means (direct API, AWS Bedrock, etc). Esp. at that time. This proves/shows nothing, it is just a statistical fluke.
Interesting, relevant 🧵 about von der Leyen's forced landing due to GPS/GNSS jamming ->
AI shopping agents are prompting sellers and brands to rethink how they sell online, as advertisers adopt techniques to appear more prominently in AI results (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
⚡️ Suspected Russian jamming hits von der Leyen's plane over Bulgaria, FT reports. Suspected Russian interference forced European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's plane to land in Bulgaria using paper maps, the Financial Times reported.
Probably first time luck? Not expecting a new type of attack is still a powerful tactical advantage.
Im Video selbst erklärt: Urheberrecht vom Bild vom Rathaus verletzt. Offenbar darf man nicht so einfach überparteiliche/neutrale Institutionen im Wahlkampf als Werbemittel für die eigene Sache verwenden.
Silksong is only $19.99. Team Cherry could have charged more, but the modest $5 bump (in line with inflation) allows as many people as possible to play this highly-anticipated indie game. It drops at 7AM PT / 10AM ET / 3PM UK on Thursday www.theverge.com/news/768524/...
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
> Bundesminister Rainer wollte zum Ausdruck bringen, dass Klimaschutz mehr umfasst als Konsumverhalten. Können wir das bitte nochmal mit einer Weichspülmelodie unterlegt haben? Eine analoge Vorlage für das Gesundheitsministerium: "Krebserkrankungen umfassen mehr als Tabak- oder Alkoholkonsum."
Direktlink zum PDF ->
Ich kann sehr empfehlen dem im Text angepriesenen Link zur Liste mit den "Skimpflations"-Produkten zu folgen -> www.vzhh.de/themen/leben...
Die Ukraine sollte inzwischen Eintrittsgeld für solche Selbstinszenierungsbesuche verlangen. So ein paar Patriot oder Taurus Lieferungen.
This Data Insight was written by Luke Emberson. You can learn more about the analysis and explore the interactive figure on our website: epoch.ai/data-insigh...
Has LLM progress slowed? Initial reactions to GPT-5 were mixed: to many, it did not seem as dramatic an advance as GPT-4. Benchmarks may help clarify the picture: GPT-5 is both an incremental release following many other OpenAI advances, and a major leap from GPT-4.
Dazu auch empfehlenswert (auf Englisch) ->
Keine Ahnung was hilft. Allerdings zeigt ein Blick in die Geschichte, dass Satire/Sarkasmus/etc nicht geholfen hat die Nazis zu "enttarnen" oder zu verhindern. Kein Grund es nicht trotzdem zu versuchen, es macht das alles zumindest erträglicher, leichter einzuordnen.
Vielleicht können die in Bayern ja auch noch mal darüber diskutieren wofür das "S" in CSU noch stehen soll.
I fordere ein Downgrade von Söder und der CSU zu einer Provinzpartei, die außerhalb Bayerns keine Bedeutung hat.
👍 Usually I am the "late to the party" one
Some inspiration -> mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/i... Also this ->
There is also -> @roomy.chat
Maybe Bluesky should make this hack more obvious and ephemeral, e.g. only store DMs for a certain amount of time, one month or so.
The client code is open source -> github.com/bluesky-soci... The AppView "hack" that actually stores the messages seems to be missing, but types etc are open source -> github.com/search?q=rep...
Zeit den Bluff platzen zu lassen IMHO. Die SPD sollte dieses dreckige Spiel nicht länger mitspielen. Die CxU scheint sich eh schon aus der demokratischen Mitte verabschiedet zu haben und ist in den zum Rechtsextremismus kompatiblen Rechtspopulismus abgedriftet.
Asking the right question is often more than half of the way. Related: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Well, this is what Perplexity says -> www.perplexity.ai/search/can-s... It seems to be used OAuth, label services and other stuff.
The bike lane infrastructure in Paris was amazing. I couldn’t get over how many cycle lanes there were. The city is incredibly bike-friendly, with countless protected paths that are fully separated from cars and traffic, making it safe and enjoyable to get around on two wheels.
Sadly there is a non-negligible chance that the current supreme court finds the proposition "free press is over" very charming.
Funny. It was Putin-Russia who said they won't accept a deal with Zelenskyy, now they accuse Ukraine for "lack of reciprocity"? What should it be Putin-Russia? Make up your mind. Or continue to say one thing and the opposite the next day. We all know you are going to lie and deceive anyway.
> "Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms large and small, which infects our world," said the pope. Ambiguous "bad is bad, let us all be good instead" from religious leaders are always so helpful. Not.
Alles in bester Ordnung hat der Arzt gesagt, dass ist nur die Erstverschlimmerung.
And Trump Admin gonna do what when these companies get punished by the EU? Pay for their finesé? Invade Europe?
No, this is a misleading conclusion ->
Putin has not changed. In the last 25 years he started four wars. He can only be kept in check through strong deterrence. We must be precise and fast with the surge in our defence posture ↓ europa.eu/!wgH6QK
Not to forget to highlight this traitor ->
Das Problem ist, dass das Flugzeug erst ein 10+ bis 50+ Jahren abstürzt und die "Unannehmlichkeiten" bis dahin tolerierbar erscheinen. So weit reicht der Horizont politischer Systeme nicht, die werden dominiert von aktuellen Fragen wie Krieg/Arbeitsplätze/Migration. Leider.
This meeting is very interesting, but it does not change the fact that both countries are rivals when it comes to who will be the dominant force in Asia and who will dominate the world market with cheap labor. It is extremely unlikely that e.g. India will surrender to China or the other way around.
New record: The world’s most powerful wind turbine prototype has been installed. The dimensions of this are mind-boggling: With a blade wheel diameter exceeding 310m and hub height of 185m this turbine represents a significant leap forward in wind power technology. electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
Not sure if this is applicable here, but the LHC also uses machine learning to filter out data early. To combat this spiral and probably for calibration and other tasks, I think they randomly include a percentage of raw data bypassing these filters. Maybe totally off, but it sprung into my mind.
Oh, I missed that.
"Klicks" als Indikator misst allerdings per Definition nur punktuelle Ausreißer. Sich daran zu orientieren ist IMHO eine Form von Populismus. Leider sind die Zeiten in denen ein Paket (Zeitung/Magazin) verkauft wurde und der Erfolg als ganzes gemessen wurde ziemlich vorbei.
Rein aus Zuschauerperspektive sehe ich diese Spirale schon eine Weile sich immer schneller drehend. Und wenig wie man sie stoppen kann. Die "summarischen Filter" Abozahlen/Auflage sind uns mit dem Wandel zu Klick und Downloadzahlen abhanden bekommen.
Wenn es allerdings nur ums Überleben geht: Zeitungen werden auch noch in Moskau oder Beijing gedruckt und verkauft. Der Weg dorthin ist graduell. Der Zerfall westlicher Medienstrukturen wird uns gerade in den USA sehr anschaulich vor Augen geführt.
In Moscow's Shadows 214: Law and Lawlessness in Late Putinism The FSB demanding more surveillance powers. Prosecutor General Krasnov becoming chair of the Supreme Court. Corruption cases up 16%. How late Putinism and late Brezhnevism are converging... buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
Thank you, I noticed that. My thought is than when the actual test happens (as in the last 24h or so) it would create a lot of buzz. Unless the test already happened a week ago?
If anyone can do this job, then these two ->
If the test already happened, I wonder how I could have missed all the buzz from OSINT sources? Or is it possible to test this ☢️ powered missile without forcing quite a few (sniffer) planes from NATO etc in the air, which then get noticed via flight trackers etc?
A bit related maybe: SCIAM recently did a special about scientific "turnarounds" ->