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I just picked up my ticket for WordCamp US in Phoenix this year. I had hoped to go as an Automattician, but after two months of interviews, I got the bad news on Friday that they are not moving forward with me. I still hope there will be an opportunity for me to join in […]

Ben Sandofsky, writing on the Lux Camera blog: After decades of shooting digital, I returned to analog photography in 2023. I thought it would be challenging, given the limited selection of film stocks, only to be surprised by how freeing it felt. It felt so much better ...

Hi everyone,

I’m making a change this week: I’m turning off paid subscriptions.

I’m no longer comfortable putting my writing and work behind a paywall. I want it to be free, open, and accessible to anyone who finds it useful.

My work is already

Enjoyed this post from Cory Doctorow: Refining humanity:

Computers don’t just clarify what we know and how we organize our society: they also clarify what we are.

Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim, in a memo to the 60 Minutes staff obtained by The New York Times (gift links): We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes. We’re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Draggan, strong leaders who ...

Josh Marshall: In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House and plans to build a vast ballroom, a judge asked if the president could also bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and be subject to no legal challenge. The DOJ lawyer, Yaako...

Notus reporting:

Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the potential for the federal government to acquire some shares in their firms…

Sort of says something about the potential bipartisan response to AI that Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Sam Altman all generally agree that the public should own a piece of AI. Separately, I think there should be public AI just like there are public libraries. But maybe you do that and a system of dividends.

In prep for WWDC, reading up on some things I should’ve learned about Apple Foundation Models a year ago. I think I had dismissed it quickly because the on-device models are so small by frontier AI standards.

Walt Frazier: "The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame."

A close friend texted this me: The most recent time when the Knicks led in the NBA Finals was June 17, 1994 (they would lose the series), and this occurred on that same day. That was exactly 2 weeks before my I-Day. (Induction Day is when he was sworn into active duty...

At Snowflake Summit 26 this week in San Francisco, the conversation moved into a new direction. If last year’s focus

The post “Whoever builds the most joyous product wins”: The agent war begins appeared first on The New Stack.

The Knicks won again last night. They're now up 2-0, both games on the road. This has blown my sense of reality. This Knicks team bears no resemblance to what I think of as the Knicks. Hard to concentrate. Will Trump try to put his name of Madison Square Garden.

The north-south albedo symmetry may be fading as both hemispheres get darker.

“I’ve been doing this since the ’90s — decades of building guardrails to prevent humans from breaking production. We’re now

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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

Ask the Mayor  (First) | Queer Saints (Starts at 30:16) | New Slang (Starts at 51:45)

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I can’t shake thinking that someone needs to build an app for phones, tablets, and laptops that is as easy to use as Signal, but under the hood uses a mix of #Reticulum, #DeltaChat, and an #OpenSocialWeb gateway.
It’s exactly what we need for this:

“Internet blackouts have become routine in Iran, imposed during anti-regime uprisings and now two wars. But this one—Iran’s fifth—was the world’s longest, according to Netblocks… some online connection is now restored, but for many Iranians, the partial reopening feels like the removal of a few bricks from the digital wall the Islamic Republic has built: Enough for Iranians to glimpse the outside world, but not enough for them to enter it, and the opening comes with the knowledge that the regime can brick the wall back up at any time.”

[www.theatlantic.com/internati…)

Unjected and PureBlood.Dating are hosting in-person meetups—and have transformed the dating landscape into a political battleground over bodily autonomy.

These are the best Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, and cellular gadgets to ensure you never lose anything ever again.

Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.

Moving from experimentation to production in AI requires a transformation of mindset, architecture, and engineering discipline. There’s no API wrappers

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