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This morning’s music selection while working: this 1h23m mix by German DJ/producer Parra for Cuva.

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Automate compliance. Streamline security. Manage risk. Drata delivers the world’s most advanced Trust Management platform.

Link: drata.com/daring/?utm_source=Daring_Fireball&utm_medium…

Looks like we picked the wrong week to quit rewatching movies. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by actor, writer, and director Bill Hader to revisit an all time comedy classic, ‘Airplane!’ starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, and Robert Stack. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, and Ronak Nair Chad Powers - Series Premieres Sept. 30 on Hulu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why AI systems might never be secure The Economist have a new piece out about LLM security, with this headline and subtitle: Why AI systems might never be secure A “lethal trifecta” of conditions opens them to abuse I talked with their AI Writer Alex Hern for this piece. ...

We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task. Here’s how this happens. As AI tools become more accessible, workers are increasingly able to quickly produce polished output: well-f...

Some advice: “finishing creative projects is a skill in and of itself. if you want to be able to finish large, complex projects, you have to _practice finishing things_. which usually means doing smaller projects.”

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It's been an extremely busy day for team Qwen. Within the last 24 hours (all links to Twitter, which seems to be their preferred platform for these announcements): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8 - official FP8 quantized versions of thei...

Disney dropped the trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu today, a feature-length film that will debut in theaters in May 2026. As this Star Wars Explained breakdown, er, explains, that the trailer was going to come out earlier but: Word on the street is that it was suppos...

Super Mario Bros. Remastered is an open source, fan-created, remastered version of the original Super Mario Bros. The trailer is above.

The game includes new levels, custom modes and characters, a custom level editor, and more. You need the SMB1 NES ROM to play it — “none of the original assets are contained in the source code, unless it was originally made by us!”

You can download versions for Windows, Linux, and MacOS…check out all the options and details on Github.

Tags: Nintendo · remix · Super Mario Bros · video · video games

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Lāhainā Noon (aka zero shadow day) occurs twice a year in the tropics when the sun is directly overhead and vertical objects (like flagpoles) cast no shadows.

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CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Interesting new LLM benchmark from Piotr Grabowski and Piotr Migdał: how well can different models handle compilation challenges such as cross-compiling gucr for ARM64 architecture? This is one of my favorite applications of cod...

Weird day (fuck, weird week) but this totally totally made it. Some genius took Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe and mashed it up with Nine Inch Nails’ Head Like a Hole:

Totesally amazingballs. Way way better than I expected. (via the verge)

[This is a vintage post originally from Mar 2013.]

Tags: Carly Rae Jepsen · music · Nine Inch Nails · remix · timeless posts

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Maggie Harrison Dupré for Futurism. It turns out having an always-available "marriage therapist" with a sycophantic instinct to always take your side is catastrophic for relationships.

The tension in the vehicle is palpable. The marriage has been on the rocks for months, and the wife in the passenger seat, who recently requested an official separation, has been asking her spouse not to fight with her in front of their kids. But as the family speeds down the roadway, the spouse in the driver’s seat pulls out a smartphone and starts quizzing ChatGPT’s Voice Mode about their relationship problems, feeding the chatbot leading prompts that result in the AI browbeating her wife in front of their preschool-aged children.

Tags: ai, generative-ai, chatgpt, llms, ai-ethics, ai-personality

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. “It’s fall, fuckfaces. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.”

My thanks to Dekáf Coffee Roasters for sponsoring last week at DF. Dekáf believes that people who drink coffee for its flavor are the true connoisseurs. While other roasters treat decaf as a side project, they’ve made it their entire mission. They’re dedicated to creating ex...

Dan Moren, Six Colors: The redesign is more than skin deep, however. Apple has rethought the way some of its most fundamental interactions work. For example, the increasingly long horizontal popover menus that hid options behind an interminable scroll have morphed into a...

Variety: “This is misery,” Letterman said when asked about Kimmel’s suspension, speaking at The Atlantic Festival 2025 Thursday in New York. “I feel bad about this,” he continued. “We see where this is all going, correct? It’s managed media. And it’s no good. It’s silly....

Locally AI

Handy new iOS app by Adrien Grondin for running local LLMs on your phone. It just added support for the new iOS 26 Apple Foundation model, so you can install this app and instantly start a conversation with that model without any additional download.

The app can also run a variety of other models using MLX, including embers of the Gemma, Llama 3.2, and and Qwen families.

Tags: apple, ios, ai, generative-ai, local-llms, llms, mlx

llm-openrouter 0.5 New release of my LLM plugin for accessing models made available via OpenRouter. The release notes in full: Support for tool calling. Thanks, James Sanford. #43 Support for reasoning options, for example llm -m openrouter/openai/gpt-5 'prove dogs exist'...