New album alert! ISOxo: Hardcore Diva Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2Fin9o... YouTube Music: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 11 songs, 29 minutes. These beats can't listen to themselves.

HARDCORE DIVA - Album by ISOxo | Spotify

ISOxo · album · 2026 · 11 songs

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Vibe coding not only changes how software engineers work, but makes it possible for everyone to speak their ideas into existence. If you can think it, you can build it. New blog post: Vibe coding: Automatic transmission for apps blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/vibe... /via @louisgray.com

In the Web 2.0 era, when all of us were blogging, commenting and absorbing everyone's thoughts in RSS feeds, one of the most fun features was seeing shared items from our friends. I've set up @lgstream.bsky.social to bring back that Web 2.0 goodness. It's a fun way to discover new voices and ideas.

My favorite part of being a baseball fan is how exceptional the league is at making sure we are discussing potential work stoppages at a time when the very best teams are fighting for the World Series. No other league does this.

Evan Drellich@evandrellich.bsky.social · 3d ago

News: MLB sent a 34-page memo to owners and high-ranking officials across the league detailing what to expect — and how to act — during the lockout. MLB’s official website will again be scrubbed of player images. And no holiday cards for players after Dec. 2. www.nytimes.com/athletic/767...

"We don't have a common thread of media consumption, a shared reality and foundation for discussion with a common experience. It became inevitable." New blog post: Filtertainment Eviscerated our Informed Monoculture blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/filt... /via @louisgray.com

Filtertainment Eviscerated our Informed Monoculture

Two major pillars feeding my views on technology since the beginning of the Web 2.0 era have been especially consistent: first,  there is no information overload , as you control the levers ...

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Don't make me tap the sign. Just because a company is private does not make it a startup. OpenAI has raised $180 billion or so and has about 4,500 employees. This is not a startup. Ref: 2014: blog.louisgray.com/2014/06/the-...

The Myth of the Billion Dollar Startup

According to the Wall Street Journal, there are now as many as thirty companies who consider themselves startups valued at a billion dollars or more , based on how much money they’ve raised through pr

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Techmeme@techmeme.com · 4d ago

AI startup acquisitions by other AI startups hit 195 through Sept. 29, up 14% from all of 2025, but number of buyers grew just 2%; OpenAI was the most active (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"The rituals of feeding the algorithm are so built into people’s everyday habits that they’re invisible to people who weren’t alive before today’s platforms took over. " /by @anildash.com

LG Stream@lgstream.bsky.social · 5d ago

We are going to kill “unalive”

Here's a new flavor of prompt injection: using agents to target other agents that have more relaxed guardrails. The trust model from the 90s was not designed for AI. arstechnica.com/security/202...

MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of

Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.

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Me: I'm going to be super productive today at work. My kid: I have an issue and have to go to urgent care. Also: the power is out at home.

@keithlaw.bsky.social every time I run into True Faith by New Order, I am reminded of your post from ages ago on Twitter that it was the one perfect song. My counter, albeit in agreement with yours, is Come Undone by Duran Duran. They are sister songs of sorts. Perfection of the era.

"I don’t WANT to be skeptical. I WANT to hope, to dream, to be optimistic, and look forward with faith to a better world where everything; every single thing is better." The Virtue of an Artificial Intelligence investing101.substack.com/p/the-virtue...

The Virtue of an Artificial Intelligence

Insufficient funds to pay the price of sacrifice

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Finally, some good news. Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds www.404media.co/our-solar-sy...

Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds

The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s death.

404media.co

"Are we all going to become subservient to the machines and live unsatisfying lives of uncomfortable mediocrity?" New @louisgray.com blog post: An AI Tech Revolution? The Solution: Human Evolution. blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/revo...

An AI Tech Revolution? The Solution: Human Evolution.

The tech industry, and Silicon Valley specifically, has long set out to 'change the world'. The clear eyed idealists will tell you the long hours and dreary social lives they espouse are a worthwhile

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My daughter sent an innocent photo of her and her friend enjoying Lake Tahoe. I used AI to make it appear that she was driving a Cybertruck instead. Dad trolling for the win.

Ever go into a meeting and see an amazing office dog under the table, who wants to be your best buddy? @darthbluesky.bsky.social look at this perfect creature.

Was having a conversation with an early career teammate today, and Google Reader came up. I explained its history, needed as it was sunset when she was in fifth grade. Later, we were discussing upcoming concerts, and I said I'd gotten tickets to Moby at the Rose Bowl. Her: Who's Moby? 🪦

The new BMW 3 series is available in both gas and EV variants. The EV variant: 💸 - $4k cheaper than the gas M variant w/ same performance 🏃‍♂️- gets over 400 miles of range and ⚡️ - can add 200 miles in 10 minutes of charging It’s time to stop making gas cars. apple.news/Az8vujjaVS72...

BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper. — TechCrunch

The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.

apple.news

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon as its new frontier model 9to5google.com/2026/09/30/g... "Gemini 4 Argon is Google’s “next era of frontier intelligence” and built for “deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows.” /by @technacity.bsky.social for @9to5google.com

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon as its new frontier model

Gemini 4 Argon is Google’s “next era of frontier intelligence” and built for “deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows.

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Keep Off the Grass www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36U... A YouTube explainer on how to respond when the AI labs suggest we should slow down.

THE GRASS : Part 1

YouTube video by Ari K

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"Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform." Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/r...

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

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Marissa Mayer is back with a new initiative called Dazzle, which learns from your photos to become a personalized AI assistant. "Dazzle turns your camera button into a “get it done” button..." "Pictures, Not Prompts". dazzle.ai/blog/

Surveillance Finds a Way www.404media.co/surveillance... "One company’s red line is another company’s business opportunity..." /by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for @404media.co

Surveillance Finds a Way

CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."

404media.co

I just checked all my pockets to look for my earbuds, while actively using them.

This year's fantasy football champions will be determined by who writes the best prompts.

"All of this was avoidable. None of it is surprising. And it leaves big, big question marks about whether American firms can stay relevant globally." America's Clean Car Retreat Is Complete. The World Will Move On Without Us insideevs.com/features/809... /by @mackhogan.bsky.social @insideevs.com

America's Clean Car Retreat Is Complete. The World Will Move On Without Us

The U.S. just loosened fuel economy rules, slowing the auto industry's transition to EVs. But Europe and China aren't going to wait up for us.

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Question: Has anybody ever seen Jimothy and @darthbluesky.bsky.social at the same time?

I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs in 2026 so far simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/...

2026 in LLMs (so far)

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …

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In my post "damn Claude, that's a lot of commits" aifoc.us/damn-claude-thats-a-lot-of-commits/ I found that in March, users of Claude made about 2.6 million public, Claude attributed commits a week. I just ran the same script again, it's now about 7m a week (in just 6 months)

@sandwichpick.bsky.social Isolated stat data I observed in yesterday's low quality LAA/ATH match: Zach Neto SLG: .432 Alika Williams SLG: .427 Mike Trout SLG: .424 🤔