The stars finally aligned! Wilco and I finally got the play those Mermaid Avenue songs together at Solid Sound last weekend. You can stream the whole set here www.nepm.org/podcast/the-...
Johan Lindén
@johanlinden.bsky.social
Broadcaster turned AI implementor managing developing teams in Sweden, Data Scientist, PhD, MSc IT, MSc DS, MBA IT
Interesting that the GPT-5 Pro series models have consistently been the best models for single-shot attempts at the hardest problems since last summer. There has been no real competition in all that time.
David Byrne (Talking Heads) - "Burning Down The House" - live with Stephen Colbert
Incredible performance by David Byrne on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! Dance, Stephen, Dance!
June 2024: The latest general-purpose LLMs could not count the r's in strawberry. July 2025: The latest general-purpose LLMs get gold in the International Math Olympiad. May 2026: The latest general-purpose LLM solve an 80 year old problem, one of the "best-known questions in combinatorial geometry"
Making humans responsible for their AI use seems like an incredibly reasonable way to address problems & opportunities in the use of AI for academic research, at least in the short term (autonomous scientific work will require different solutions).
plato.stanford.edu/entries/econ... This also speaks directly to the online world. Just swap economic for technologic when you look at the images of tech-lords behind Trump.
Economic Democracy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Bruce the band perform "Purple Rain" in honor of "The Maestro" Prince for the opening night of the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 31, 2026. Filmed by Chris Hilson Edited by Thom Zimny & Sam Shapiro Recorded by John Cooper Mixed by Jon Altschiller
Purple Rain (Live From Minneapolis)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.
World Cup. Don’t really know why but I’m happy. Please fix the US before.
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace... Power to the people. youtu.be/AEHegMubZ74?...
Bomb the World (Armageddon Version)
YouTube video by Michael Franti - Topic
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In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt Every month on Womensart is #WomensHistoryMonth 💙
A “Great Product Manager” is excellent in one area, good in at least one other, and doesn't have time for more than two. This model -- not the usual “great at everything” advice -- matches what real humans are like.
The “Great” Product Manager, a.k.a. the Impossible Product Manager
According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No. But don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
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This is almost certainly going to get lost amid everything else happening at the moment. But it’s a big story.
Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com · 6mo agothis FT reporting team exposed a secret Russian smuggling team by using this one weird trick -- they all shared the same email address??? as.ft.com/r/aa78dec9-c...
Streets of Minneapolis Irish female duet cover youtu.be/Ci_0PAObc4A?...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Irish Female Duet)
YouTube video by Ethan Gontar
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Jag vet inte om det är hans men en jättekul grej är att vi var på samma Curespelning på Hovet. Niclas svär på att vi stod bredvid varandra och han sniffade på mitt hår med doft av Vidal Sassoon
The dam is breaking. It takes millions of raindrops to make a deluge, and every drop matters. The power of the people will never be defeated! youtu.be/LH0-WXUFY2k?...
When The Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
YouTube video by Playing For Change
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I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this