TARDIS fruit (noun): Product of splicing Gallifreyan technology with Earth crops. Detectable only in hindsight. The amount of juice running down your chin could not possibly have been contained in such a small object, thus defying the currently known laws of physics (on Earth).

Someone whose opinions I thought I respected just re-posted something that exacerbated the flaws in a horrifyingly bad original post / thread. The end result almost dropped them from a "follow everywhere on social media" to a "the hell with this moron" in one shot. #ThatTakesTalent #JustSad

Me: The new agent harness is great. You feed your tokens into the machine. Then you run simulations which, if successful, produces tickets. If they fail you have to buy more tokens and keep running the sims. Once you have enough tickets you can redeem them Boss: are you at dave & busters, yes or no

It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.

Ad copy: [Our service] is so much better on the app! Intended message: Download and use our app! Received message: [Your service] sucks on the web! Why would I further clutter my phone or laptop with your app? Why would I let it out of some tiny notion of a sandbox inside a browser + AV?

Sal for the win! A lot of folks were referencing your coverage on the recent @nasaspaceflight.com stream...

What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano)@mercoglianos.bsky.social · 3d ago

Space X's Starship 40: The Voyage Home 🚀The Recovery Flee 🚀Towing Logistics 🚀Restricted Maneuverability 🚀Stability Issues 🚀Salvage vs. Recovery Video: youtu.be/0i0hpJ0Hqj4

Interesting! That's not a design I've heard much about, but reducing water consumption and potentially electric load seem like ideas that need a second look... www.facilitiesdive.com/news/johnson...

Johnson Controls touts absorption chillers to cut data center energy demand

Lower energy demand means data centers can go into more locations, CEO Joakim Weidemanis said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call.

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Directly out of the "you have got to be f****** s******* me" files. That any part of this story is even possible is an indictment of governance structures everywhere...

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d ago

“.. It had borrowed billions of dollars from Wall Street banks to amplify its bets, and those banks had in recent days begun asking for some of that money back, according to the three people briefed on the requests.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

Big MCP (Master Control Program) energy. Just waiting for Tron and Flynn to save the day...

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d ago

BREAKING: Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.

Warpath — A cartoon by Nick Anderson

Looking forward to when I'm in hell being tortured, and just when the demons are tearing out my eyeballs an AI assistant pops up: Would you like me to summarize this torture for you?

"True power is being able to do whatever you like for whatever reason you like, or for no reason at all." And that's the core of MAGA, Trump, Tate, toxic masculinity, and fake "alpha" status. How odd that the hitmen of the John Wick universe live by a better code. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...

Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)

Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?

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A cool thing about being an expert in a piece of technology is every once in a while, it'll fuck up in a way so bizarre you wonder if you ever knew anything at all. I think it does this to keep us humble

Well, that's a new one... Pretty sure I've never seen a "feels like" temp above 120F here...

Impressive... Not sure yet whether it's impressive in a good way, a bad way, or both... www.theregister.com/security/202...

Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal

Experts say the era of AI bug hunting is here, so defenders will simply have to adapt to busier workloads

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Standing on a keynote stage and proudly declaring that your business is consuming around 1 trillion #AI inferencing tokens per monthly *today* seems like they've missed a memo or failed to read the room ... except they're in a room hearing all about the hardware that spits out those tokens.

Well, now! Isn't it interesting that Lisa Su ($AMD) just brought the co-founder of #Cerebras on stage at #AdvancingAI2026 to talk about technology partnerships? Helios rack-scale #AI engines alongside Cerebras for ultralow-latency, disaggregated #inference needs...

"Taking reservations for 2031 deliveries" and they're being asked to comment on how they think their book of business will look in 2032. Yikes! And, their wind-power business has taken some hits. Also, yikes! #Power is both a constraint and a business model... www.utilitydive.com/news/ge-vern...

GE Vernova gas turbine backlog climbs to 116 GW

GE Vernova is taking reservations for 2031 deliveries now, said CEO Scott Strazik. He spoke of an increasingly diverse customer base, including data centers.

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Credit where credit is due... Without Trump, I probably wouldn't be following nearly this many lawyers, economists, or international relations scholars on social media. Kudos, Donnie!

I had a few thoughts about the book "Range" by David Epstein (2019) that I just finished reading. Over all, it's a very good read that leaves me with a lot to think about... www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-...

Just finished reading "Range" by David Epstein (2019). As with a lot of the non-fiction I read, I ended up wondering if I chose it because it sounded like it would feed my confirmation bias...

Just finished reading "Range" by David Epstein (2019). As with a lot of the non-fiction I read, I ended up wondering if I chose it because it sounded like it would feed my confirmation bias. This on...

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Yet another of my soapboxes: if a reputable "news" organization can't write consistently and coherently about the companies they're covering, why should I trust them about anything? Calling a company a "wafer maker" *and* a "chip maker" in adjacent sentences is just about guaranteed to be wrong. 🤮

I like so much about this. Could I safely walk from my place to the center of town? Depending on your definition of "safely", that's somewhere between "no" and "are you f'n kidding me?". Walk safely to the nearest bus stop? Maybe. Train? Ha! Bike there? 🥹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s86...

Amsterdam Just Keeps Getting Awesome

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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It's amazing and disheartening how many "technical" content creators put up headlines about exploring technical concepts and devolve to little more than "here's how to call someone else's module(s)". It's clickbait, and it gets old really fast... #NoThanks

A fascinating chat between Paul Krugman and Lina Khan that ranges all over but surfaces some insights and some warnings about the growth / trajectory of Big #AI in the US... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqfx...

Lina Khan on AI and More

YouTube video by Paul Krugman

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It may be super-reductionist, but it seems like folks all across the political spectrum have been losing their cherished, childhood illusions about the US and the world. The big difference is that one side embraces the changes, learns, and grows; and the other tries desperately not to. Ever. 🤷‍♂️

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Alan Sepinwall@sepinwall.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Looks like folks have been listening to @mercoglianos.bsky.social! It's early days, but a nuclear-powered cargo ship could mark a major change for shipping... maritime-executive.com/article/kore...

Korean Containership with Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Gets ABS Approval

Korean researchers working with Samsung Heavy Industries have cleared a key hurdle in their efforts to develop designs for a containership powered by...

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For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org

Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.

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I don't know much about their exact solution, but if this lives up to the lower emissions, higher efficiency, and maybe less noise hopes, it could be a big win for #DataCenter developers when facing public backlash... www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/idf-...

IDF, Oaktree to invest $1.7bn to support Bloom Energy's fuel cell deployments across Nebius data centers in US

Bloom and Nebius inked an offtake agreement in May

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IBM's lightboard-based videos can be a mixed bag, but I have to give this one about a 300% up-vote. Doing the quick and easy thing is a path to the dark side of the #AI. Once you start down that path, forever will it dominate your destiny... youtu.be/3G6AVkp4Rf0?...

Why Risk Should Determine Your AI Architecture

YouTube video by IBM Technology

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