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Lee Meriwether promoting NBC for her new job on the Today Show, shortly after being crowned Miss America 1955. www.tumblr.com/ironsteam…

Fox: Copper prices hit a record high due to prospect of U.S. tariffs

Underwood included four nu metal songs during a recent concert in Iowa. Continue reading…

A GPU burns 700 watts and hundreds of thousands of tries to learn Pong. A human brain does it on 20 watts in a handful of attempts. So what can the oldest architecture in computing teach us about where agents and memory are headed?

Toyota issued a recall involving around 10,000 electric C-HR vehicles. The recall stems from a potential loss of power while driving.

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Trump on a deceased 9/11 rescuer:

"The Man in the Red Bandana. Have you heard of him? He's become more famous than me. I don't like it. Very unhappy. But he's become much more famous than me."

Trump on Howard Lutnick: "He's got some faults, but overall, he's excellent"

As part of their overarching plan to reduce the power of blue states and promote myths about noncitizen voting, the...

Ben Thompson in today’s Stratechery blog post:

AGI is AI that learns continuously. That’s not the case with current large language models.

I agree with Ben’s definition of AGI, but LLM memory is so good now, it’s almost indistinguishable from learning. My ~/.codex/memories folder is 7 MB, which doesn’t sound like much, but it’s only small Markdown files. It’s incredible how much it knows. That doesn’t even count ChatGPT’s dreaming memory system and computer history.

How am I just now hearing this interview with Jensen Huang? “You’re not talking to someone who woke up a loser.” 🤣

One would hope a sitting United States president would be obsessed with affordability for the American people, diplomacy with our allies, and representing our nation on the global stage with dignity and respect. Instead, we've managed to get a guy obsessed with building st...

Jane Haman: “Young Americans today have never witnessed Congress authorize a war, they’ve never seen a U.S. administration balance its books, they’ve never watched a well-funded and empowered state department operate, and they see only mistrust between allies. They assume the situation is normal. It is not.” “The real cost of forgetting the pre-9/11 world […]

Just out: All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror  by Peter Bergen. “The resulting war on terror cost trillions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, a series of misguided wars, and the damaged perception of American power. And yet despite its blunders, this campaign has kept America safe from large-scale […]

“President Donald Trump is embracing his inner cowboy, seeking to gallop into this week’s Republican convention in Dallas and save the midterm elections for his party just in the nick of time,” the Associated Press reports. “As first-of-their-kind festivities open Wednesday, Trump wants to stoke his core supporters’ enthusiasm by making Election Day on Nov. […]

As local and national news outlets continue to disappear across the U.S., I’d always thought that the military newspaper Stars and Stripes offered one model for a partial solution: government financial support. But this approach only works if those who believe in the free press — including elected officials — offer unconditional support. Defense Secretary...

As I note in the Instagram post above, I have a particular reason to celebrate the existence of Star Trek: Without it, I wouldn’t have written Redshirts, or at least, if I had written something like it, it would have had a rather different grounding and a very different existence. A different name, to be […]

A Tesla Cybercab rider found something in the robotaxi: a manual driving mode. When he got in, the touchscreen was showing a virtual joystick to drive the car by hand.

Tesla built the Cybercab with no steering wheel and no pedals. But it apparently still has a way to drive it manually, and you do it by dragging a finger across a screen.

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