fry69
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Retired guessworker. Still searching for the missing context. Love LLMs, programming and system administration. 📌 Germany 🌍 https://fry69.dev/ (placeholder) 🧑💻 https://github.com/fry69/ 🅿️ https://altq.net/ @altq.net (PDS) Archived account: @fry69.altq.net
The open ocean produces half the oxygen humans rely on to breathe. It’s the largest carbon sink in the world and has absorbed more than 90% of the heat from human-caused climate change #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
They Survived the Asteroid. Deep-Sea Mining May Kill Them | The Tyee
Planned projects would devastate ocean life, DFO scientist warns.
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If you’re unsure about starting your own podcast, we put together some docs for folks to refer to in order to use our studio! Don’t forget if you already host with someone us, you can always upload your RSS feed with us 😁
HANG ON we hit THREE THOUSAND pdses this week?? 3k pdses in the atmosphere!
My evaluation lecture! I walk you through different evaluation eras I've been a part of, from prompting GPT-3 as elaborate autocomplete to today's complex agentic sandboxes (I expand on agentic more than any other topic, drawing on @Florian Brand's insights). YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFaf...
How Evaluation Has Evolved with Frontier Model Progress | Post-Training Course, Lecture 12
In this lecture I walk you through different evaluation eras, from prompting GPT-3 as elaborate autocomplete to today's complex agentic sandboxes. This lecture is a birds eye view of how evaluation…
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Let's get atproto based podcasts on an atproto based podcast platform 😀👍 Would also love just any podcasts in general!!! Tag the shows you want to see on @voxport.live
VoxPort@voxport.live · 4h ago1. Visit voxport.live 2. Log in 3. Paste your podcast RSS feed URL and follow 6 simple steps 4. Share your show with listeners across the Atmosphere! 🎙️🎉
⚠️ Confirmed: #Georgia has experienced the third in a series of nation-scale internet disruptions corresponding to power grid blackouts. Authorities say today's incident was triggered by tests intended to diagnose Enguri HPP systems responsible for the earlier two outages.
1. Visit voxport.live 2. Log in 3. Paste your podcast RSS feed URL and follow 6 simple steps 4. Share your show with listeners across the Atmosphere! 🎙️🎉
Filing: Microsoft recorded $24.1B in revenue from OpenAI during the year ended in June, suggesting OpenAI accounted for more than half of Microsoft's AI sales (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Four years ago today I tweeted a concept for a "Raccoon Heist" video game, product description generated by GPT-3 and concept "art" created by DALL-E Today I fed those assets into Fable 5 and had it build full working game, single shot prompt, no feedback from me simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/r...
@alexbenzer.com Interesting bug: When I have the notification for news posts set for an account that I follow, and that account quote posts another account which blocks me, I get and see the notification, but when I click on the post I get "No posts here"
Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
“Ukrainians seem to have an endless appetite for discussing the possibility of creating alternative military alliances, especially after Donald Trump said he does not see Ukraine joining NATO early into his second term,” Vitaly Portnikov, Ukrainian editor and journalist, writes in his op-ed.
Is there an alternative to NATO for Ukraine?
Ukrainians seem to have an endless appetite for discussing the possibility of creating alternative military alliances, especially after U.S. President Donald Trump said he does not see Ukraine joining...
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If Bluesky wants to overcome the phenomenon of politicians posting long-form content on X and then only posting a screenshot of their X post on Bluesky, we need long-form posts here finally please.
Drydock is open source, Apache-2.0. It reviews the package artifact you’re about to publish. The built tarball, diffed against the last published version, with install scripts and new binaries pinned to the lines that changed. You make the call. github.com/JoviDeCroock/drydock
GitHub - JoviDeCroock/drydock: Review the artifact before you publish it: diffs the built npm/PyPI package against the last published version and pins risk signals to the changed lines
Review the artifact before you publish it: diffs the built npm/PyPI package against the last published version and pins risk signals to the changed lines - JoviDeCroock/drydock
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The Cockroach protests mattered because they revealed both the fragility of Modi’s political aura and the continued possibility of democratic pressure in India. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/04/i...
India’s Political Atmosphere Has Changed
If Modi responds to the Cockroach protesters with further repression, it could backfire.
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Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year (Jay Peters/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
📣 New Node.js release 📣 Node.js 26.7.0 is out with Perfetto tracing support, STORE loaders for private keys, and `module.register()` hooks are now disposable, plus many patches. Full changelog and download links available at nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...
Node.js — Node.js 26.7.0 (Current)
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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"007 joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe as producers announce the crossover of the century in a joint statement"
The Independent@the-independent.com · 14h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
We've got interactive sub-titles and transcripts for all of the @atmosphereconf.org talks thanks to Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social contributions to the website. Here's the write up of his work using Hyperaudio
AtmosphereConf Interactive Transcripts using Hyperaudio by Mark Boas
Exploring digital archiving approaches on atproto
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Why do I support the DSA as a fiscally conservative Democrat? Because AIPAC and its allies are bizarrely incentivized to drag us into another trillion-dollar Middle East quagmire every few years, all so Israel can “mowing the grass.” Compared with that, the DSA’s proposals are a rounding error.
New mineral analyses may explain the mysterious gap that was present before oxygen flooded our planet billions of years ago. https://scim.ag/4hQ0lUo
What triggered one of the most dramatic changes in Earth’s history?
New science may explain mysterious gap before oxygen flooded our planet billions of years ago
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Autocracy as an election pitch is a new one. Nothing seems impossible anymore in the U.S.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoLindell: "I know a guy. I have an advantage over everyone up here. I can call up the president!"
Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis's responsibilities (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Oh wow: ESA announces it has a positive detection of the SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage booster impacting the moon! I still haven't seen any images of a flash, but that's not surprising. It was faint. Here, they saw evidence of gas (vaporized material) in the impact plume by taking spectra.
ESO@eso.org · 8h agoEarlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact. 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al. 1/4
Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company (Cade Metz/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in drug discovery, chip design, and more (Steven Levy/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Major restructuring at Gemini (Jef Dean out, Hassabis no longer CEO). This story will be studied forever as the incumbent with all the advantages not being able to get going. P.s. OpenAI accomplished their original goal.
