Iran, which because history civilization geography and physics has had to play actual 8d chess for 4000 years Is up against two ferrets looking for grapes DEFINITELY won't crack the whip when Israel attacks Lebanon lest Vance immediately go to Switzerland www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Vance expects Iran talks soon, as Guards say Hormuz is closed again

Iran said that the closure was the first step in response to what it described as breaches of commitments and ​warned that ​further measures ⁠would be taken if aggression continued.

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@seattlejs.com you guys delete all your old videos? was there a reason? was surprised

“Died of sadness,” according to family. An immeasurable loss.

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 3mo ago

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

Persepolis was read all over the world—a true international phenomenon. Assigned in every class subject under the sun. During the Obama years, West Point cadets were assigned the book. There's never been anything like it; never anyone like her. What an awful world that couldn't hold her longer.

What an opener www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY_O...

The Barr Brothers - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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1/ Ukraine's incessant drone strikes on the Russian rear are causing deep concern among Russian warbloggers. One points out that the entire region's logistics depend completely on road transport and forecasts a "very serious situation" developing. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/noel...

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 3mo ago

Large queues are forming at gas stations in occupied Melitopol as Russian logistics across southern occupied Ukraine come under heavy Ukrainian drone pressure. The shortages are likely tied to rising (Hornet) UAV strikes on supply routes and fuel transport. #Ukraine

"In the American context, the idea of a small party unifying voters across left and right sounds like a pipe dream. But there is evidence it worked in Japan" www.techpolicy.press/japans-team-...

Japan's Team Mirai Uses Tech to Bolster Democracy, Not Undermine It

Team Mirai illustrates the viability of a different way to do politics, write Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier.

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Reproducing all of Jürgen Schmidhuber’s papers (1990-2025) using an AI coding assistant. Cool project by Yaroslav! It even reproduced the “World Models” paper by me and Schmidhuber (2018) using a toy environment, with a full VAE + RNN world model implementation. Project: github.com/cybertronai/...

😄 A red notebook with the inscription "List of assholes 2026" was noticed on the desk of the head of OP Budanov.

Parenting in SF right now to kids in public school and I kinda think this is the big one. As a former teacher talking to teacher friends... I think this needs divine intervention (...@governor.ca.gov) or it's going very long. Negotiations were already a year in.

Mushrooms along the Silver River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for #MushroomMonday!

Well, it’s dark and rainy all the time now. But the mushrooms are thriving.

I cannot

@colinmegill.com made the grand reveal of Pol.is 2.0 - the new generation of the software that allows for people with different opinions to reach consensus, at #TICTeC 2025 - another great one to rewatch! youtu.be/Q8kMOg4EPQA

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al. A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator" 3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

New reddit alternative built on AT

nooki@nooki.me · 11mo ago

(1/4) I'm soft launching nooki.me to get some early traction and feedback on what to improve. Excited to see how this platform grows!

‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥 #Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way. His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers. 1/2

Stanford Engineering (@StanfordEng) launched an open-rank faculty search in design. It can place candidates in any department in our School of Engineering: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49... I'm thrilled to bring in more colleagues at the intersection of engineering+design!

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways? aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

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4.5 was the one they should have open sourced.

James Padolsey@j11y.io · last yr.

This is really upsetting. And knowing how these companies I operate, I bet there was maybe all but one person within openai advocating for such people as this -- those who have formed meaningful friendships and cadences with AI over many months.

Bluesky's near-consensus that AI doesn't work and won't be a technology that has major knock-on effects on society is…not grounded in reality. No mater how loudly and repetitively people say it.

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m just a tech critic, standing in front of other tech critics, asking them to please stop insisting that the AI hype bubble is totally gonna collapse any minute now. Your confidence is making it harder for the rest of us. It may be what your audience wants to hear, but that doesn’t make it true.

And now we have a panel 'Growing the Open Society: Tech and democratic innovation' with @fecampagnucci.com, @colinmegill.com from Polis (a real time system for gathering and analysing what real people think), and Lula Chen from MIT Governance Lab. #TICTeC

Fantastic panel at #TICTeC Day 2 ✨ @fecampagnucci.com ✨Lula Chen from MIT GOV/LAB ✨ @colinmegill.com from Pol.is

I might go as far as to say that the attempt to “get past” process is actually a part of that problem because it further undermines the attempt to have the conversation we need about process.

Agree with @glenweyl.bsky.social: "We cannot "get past" process. We must improve on it."

(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼@glenweyl.bsky.social · last yr.

or thinking that what they believe is the answer will appear unattractive to the "hoi poloi" and therefore needs to be hidden. Making the case for why I think this is bad practice is hard to do briefly, but I think it is a strategic mistake.We cannot "get past" process. We must improve on it.

or thinking that what they believe is the answer will appear unattractive to the "hoi poloi" and therefore needs to be hidden. Making the case for why I think this is bad practice is hard to do briefly, but I think it is a strategic mistake.We cannot "get past" process. We must improve on it.

TICTeC day 2's plenary sees @fecampagnucci.com of @internetlab.bsky.social; @colinmegill.com‬ of Polis & the Computational Democracy Project; ‪@martintisne.bsky.social‬ of the AI Collaborative and our own @itscrowbot.bsky.social‬. Join the conversation: tictec.mysociety.org/event/tictec... ‬ ‬

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AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators

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