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SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF FRANCE — They call it the diagonal of the void: the corridor running southwest to northeast across France where population density is significantly lower than elsewhere in the country. Explanations vary as to why, though after spending three nights...

Here is the localhost/vps deployment if anyone wants to test it : https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/issues/2 

Charley Crockett took a stand against Satanism in his statements about why he axed Twin Temple from his tour. But that doesn't seem to be the half of what's bothering him right now. Continue reading…

There is always going to be some water spilling, might as well water the plant with it! Great idea at Lazarus on Airport. ☕️

"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

A new course available.

Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica back in August 2025: After a public outburst over Grok’s App Store rankings, on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consistently topping Apple’s ...

Deployed some fixes and new settings for Mastodon this morning. Always feels good to make things just a little better. 🎉

Satya Nadella writes on his blog about what we potentially give to models for training. He focuses mostly on the enterprise, which I don’t care much about, but this part does describe a real tension of commercial models:

While the great innovation that comes from model providers having fair use rights to train models on public data is needed, I find it ironic that the status quo is to then turn around and impose restrictive terms on distillation, and to reserve the right to learn from customer usage and interaction data. If learning flows in only one direction, economic value converges toward the owners of the learning infrastructure rather than the creators of the knowledge itself.

I think this is something that both AI fans and skeptics could agree on.

You have one last job to do this Monday morning. This week's puzzle was constructed by Madison Shultz, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Madison has too many hobbies. She spends most of her free time skiing, climbing, hiking, and rockhounding, but started constructing cr...

The Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died on Saturday, after what reports have called a "brief and sudden illness" following an official visit to Ukraine. He was 71. In 2003 Graham succeeded ancient dread Confederate mummy Strom Thurmond in the Senate, an...

A list of the new foods on offer at the Minnesota State Fair this year. They’re all some variation of “jerked pork rolled in butter & sugar, deep fried in dill pickle batter, and served with a side of cheese curd mayo”; I’d happily try any of them.

Don’t You Dare Say the New Air Force One Has No Clothes Just 18 months into Trump II, the president...

A new Trump administration prohibition on privacy protections at the Census Bureau appears to be teeing up a fight that...

Celebrities like George Clooney have praised the expensive Katalyst suit. For me, it derailed my other exercises and made me reassess my obsession with fitness and efficiency.

Welcome to the AI-generated poster hall of shame.

President Trump recommended the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sister serve as interim senator for South Carolina. A formal announcement is expected by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster at 4 p.m. ET. CNBC: Trump recommends Lindsey Graham’s sister serve as interim senator for South Carolina.