The only meeting Hakeem Jeffries should be having with Jared Kushner is to tell him he’ll be subpoenaed by the House for a corruption investigation on day one of Democratic control of the House. This is just pathetic stuff from the House Dem leader. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...

Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly

President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.

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A note to our meek news editors: Stop it with *potential conflict of interest. It's just plain "conflict of interest". It already contains potentiality (potential corruption). Don't be a redundant suckup.

Minefield? I've never heard of criming (bribes, extortion, and shakedowns) called this way. Do they mean a legal minefield? from the criminal trespasser's point of view?

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 4w ago

Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office. (July 2026) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Power was out in neighborhood since early afternoon. It took over 9 hours to restore, and I don't dare open the fridge. www.outagemap-xcelenergy.com/outagemap/?s... No. of affected customers hugely under counted. Local media, please report on our incompetent utility company. Ridiculous. #xcel

Quera claims (per article) it can build 256 logical (error-corrected) qubits from 10,000 noisy ones, then goes on to say it will build a 1000 from 20,000. So error correction scales linearly (4x)? That's a bigger story (stretches credulity) arstechnica.com/science/2026... cc @jtimmer.bsky.social

Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody

But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.

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What a great project! I've had this crazy idea about animating how my cryptographic hash proofs work (eg crums.io/api/state ). I coded my scheme in java.. JMathAnim will fit my existing data structures. Should work great for static explanatory vids. If it had a JavaScript conversion lib, otoh 1/2

Frank Delporte@frankdelporte.be · 2mo ago

New JavaFX In Action 27 is live! 🎉 @davidcalculin.bsky.social built JMathAnim, a JavaFX library and UI for mathematical animations: LaTeX, fractals, geometrics, video export,... Built by a mathematician who "just needed the tool." 👉 webtechie.be/post/javafx-... #JavaFX #Java #OpenSource

The 1955 Treaty of Amity between Iran and the US, why it still matters.. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

A government by corporations for corporations. Everywhere, from municipal services, local gov't, to state and federal.. Wherever we contract out basic services to monopolized, for-profit, private companies, citizens lose autonomy and become their bitches. 1/2

The Colorado Sun ☀️@coloradosun.com · 3mo ago

Xcel Energy customers may be hit with the largest electric rate increase ever

Keep leveling these thru November. It's perhaps the one issue most voters agree on. It can gather wind.. winds of change be a howling

Scott Dworkin@dworkin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 BREAKING ACTION: Congress just formally leveled six Articles of Impeachment against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. From rewriting the Constitution to shield the executive branch to massive conflicts of interest, the high court has gone rogue. Tell your reps to back impeachment NOW: 👇

I painted this oil the right side up, but I like it better upsidedown

To all would be investors, xAI, $SPCX bag holders.. Agents are quickly becoming commoditized; the only moat that could possibly justify valuations is Liability/Trust. Trust your IP will not be stolen, liability coverage in case you're the one stealing. I.e. Fiction. venturebeat.com/technology/x...

Xiaomi's new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks

The persistent memory system addresses a real and widely felt pain point in agentic development workflows — one that competitors are also racing to solve.

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More and more interested in agentic coding that _reduces_ code. A good part of software maintenance involves deduplication, reorganizing, throwing away code. I pair-program (w/ claude) to help with such "reduction" tasks. But it feels less like coding.. more like being in a meeting all day, IIBH

A new foundational method for zero-knowledge proofs. I have read (elsewhere) current non-interactive zk proofs are provably flawed: this method seems to shows a path forward. Really well written article 👇

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 3mo ago

Shafi Goldwasser (left), Silvio Micali (right), and Charles Rackoff devised a way to prove that a statement is true without revealing anything about why. www.quantamagazine.org/how-unknowab...

Harley does not want her claws manicured

The AI summary of AI-generated content closes the enshittification loop. It's the snake eating its tail, only here, the tail is shitting

"CNBC spoke with 19 executives and investors at HumanX, some of whom asked not to be named in order to speak freely." Why on earth would peeps speak freely only if anonymous? Me thinks it's cuz Sam Altman's investors, having gone all in and bet the house on the wrong horse, are now his henchmen.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 4mo ago

Takeaways from HumanX, one of the AI industry's main events: Claude Code dominated the conversation, while some execs noted China's lead in open-weight models (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

@zhitzig.bsky.social re how to deal w/ AI, I think knowing who (or what) created a piece of content (and when) can help. I've been working on a commitment scheme (and easy-to-use software SDK) for journals and ledgers. Can double as an attribution engine. More info linked from my profile.

"Technology executives will assume direct criminal liability.. The era of hiding behind servers is over." Fuck yea 👍

Lennart Jonasson@lennson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Great piece about the return of Big Oil to Washington. And an amusing behind-the-scenes thread about investigating the story

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 8mo ago

Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should

Artificial Stupidity We named it wrong and early. You see, inanimate things cannot do stupid. It takes work (energy) to achieve the flip side of intelligence.

.@schumer.senate.gov the only good you accomplished this week was ending your political career. Your defining moment is already a historical footnote. Pathetic

Totally normal, well adjusted, human being in the foreground, just a little mad (a lot) at the fellow on the floor for interrupting his presentation.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Great new promo for Disney after the 20s mark 🤣

Dave Lee@davelee.me · 11mo ago

Dutch late night TV has its take

To all feckless employers for whom it concerns: Charlie Kirk was a bigot. ~ Also, forget the blacklist.. make a whitelist

If language itself is a live creature that we collectively host (many hypothesize it is), then LLMs are *foreign hosts, viruses, and it shouldn't surprise if it were to deploy antibodies to kill them.

My latest for @nytimes.com -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How a Puzzle About Fractions Got Brain Scans Rolling (Gift Article)

A story of bowling pins, patterns and medical miracles.

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The Age of Reason Strikes Back Meanwhile peoples across the galaxy were beginning to send mathematicians as their representatives. It began with a widely followed representative of the supreme being, then the Romanians ..

Fun discussion about Pope Leo XIV being a mathematician. www.reddit.com/r/math/s/F8y... References to The Book (Paul Erdos) and this one tidbit.. Greg Cantor apparently corresponded with Pope Leo XIII about his belief in the Absolute Infinite, something bigger than all cardinalities (?)

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Unlike with ordinary assets, the OCC has no real power over #blockchain (nor does any other entity or gov't body). It can regulate all it wants, but the transactions it deems illegal can never be undone. "Regulating" this offers little but expose the US financial system to new forms of credit risk.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · last yr.

The US OCC says banks can buy and sell customers' crypto assets on their behalf and can outsource crypto custody and trade execution services to third parties (Danny Park/The Block) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink