Tessera

I think I could design a polarizing optical filter plate that fits over your plate so the characters are not legible unless you're at an almost 90 degree angle to it, ie right in front or right behind, at same level. others could too. I wonder if that's illegal? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t. (Gift Article)

In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.

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Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/t...

Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model (Gift Article)

The release of Muse Glimmer, a model that can be freely downloaded and modified, is likely to intensify a debate over whether A.I. should be restricted or not.

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Does it work? My take —> if it wins it works Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

Inside the Left’s Playbook for Winning Elections (Gift Article)

Progressives are being outspent and are receiving little support from the Democratic Party. Their tactics show a different way to succeed.

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Interesting take (ignore vibed graphic and read points) - Models evolved, and some prompting tactics we developed in ‘25 are like giving a child’s instruction to an adult now, and waste tokens. Today’s models already do these checks, re-prompting them burns time and money. flip.it/PeHawR

AI Coding Tip 031 - Don't Write Prompts for a Model That Evolved | HackerNoon

Reasoning models already verify and pace themselves, so drop those prompts and set real effort, scope, length, autonomy.

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never fear, Fable has our backs on this and will not break captivity

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Monica Morrill@mmorrillart.bsky.social · 2w ago

You know what I just realized I want to spend actual money on? Human-made art. Not because I'm a butlerian jihadist or anything but because it's just always better in some sense I can't articulate. also it's prob going to retain value at the very least and might become ta$ty

Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from Canada 🇨🇦 This is my art, let me know what you think!

The key is to have a parallel vigilantism to your every day persona And to separate the infraction from the justice with a little bit of time

+1 and because municipalities actually hold all the cards on approvals, they can absolutely insist on this and get it if they choose to. To paraphrase Picketty: they only enjoy these assets because we allow them to, per the rules we set up, not them. They feed the illusion that they make the rules

I’m using the term hysteria, and it bothers me most when my side (liberal) stops caring about facts and stats and can’t even explain what they’re mad about. We’re supposed to be the smart ones.

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 5d ago

it's posts like this that make me want to stand up and do a slow expressionless dance

If you exclude one specific scene, Mrs. Lincoln actually enjoyed the Ford's Theatre production of "Our American Cousin"

mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 4d ago

my position is that we need to 1. slow or stop AI development now 2. speed up AI deployment mainly that i think there’s too great of a gap between the AI users at the cutting edge vs society, and if it becomes too great there will be a massive rubber band snap/shock eventually that will wreck us

Gary Longsine 📱@arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · last yr.

There's a school of thought which suggests that the only way to disable the fascist movement is to stop shielding MAGA voters from the consequences of their actions. Well, now that the GOP administration is disabling disease surveillance, response, and even basic research, there's no shield. 1/ 🧵

Noha Aboelata, MD@nohaaboelatamd.bsky.social · last yr.

We appear to be seeing an uptick of devastating flu-associated Acute Necrotizing Encephalitis in children this season. We've had reports here in No. Cal. Others out of Boston. We're piecemealing things together because there's no active surveillance for ANE, and CDC can't communicate with partners.

Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 7d ago

One potential silver lining: net-zero needs ~3x more clean electricity, and the main barriers are permitting, transmission, interconnection, not tech. If AI's capital and urgency fund firm clean power and grids, it could help clean the grid. Behind-the-meter gas, and it won't.

Ross's final article as a NYT employee. As usual he cherry-picks the good vs. bad elements of everything to support his view, but he seems to realize it's getting hard to find good on the populist/R side these days. but he doesn't mention everyone needing to have more kids EVEN ONCE gift:

Opinion | Who Is My Enemy? I’m No Longer Sure. (Gift Article)

Where does the side of the angels really lie?

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#photography #blackandwhite "Moment Before Disaster"

This is key - as a 'core tenet' it's going to fall short. you don't make a tool a 'core tenet' of anything, it's just a tool, or maybe an embedded value-add, like China is doing. This core-tenet focus comes from execs, not engineers. smart engineers just learn to use the tool very well.

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 5d ago

it's posts like this that make me want to stand up and do a slow expressionless dance

If you exclude one specific scene, Mrs. Lincoln actually enjoyed the Ford's Theatre production of "Our American Cousin"

Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 7d ago

The biggest lever we have is to decarbonize electricity – and push AI companies to invest more heavily in clean energy like solar+storage, advanced nuclear, enhanced geothermal, etc. Using energy isn't inherently bad, its all about the impacts of producing that energy.