Slow down! We have entirely conflated reactivity with #productivity chaining ourselves to a perpetual cycle of triaging the immediate while the essential rots on the vine. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life... #stress
LEAKED DOCUMENTS: #Microsoft plans to temporarily suspend individual account signups to #GitHub Copilot. The weekly cost of running the service has doubled since the start of the year.
Chime in with your thoughts! University of Washington English department just drew blood regarding generative text, explicitly framing #LLM outputs as a desecration of human intentionality. It is a striking deeply un-sanitized snapshot of academic #resistance. english.washington.edu/courses/2026...
KCC in Portland Oregon is hitting its half-century mark, a stark milestone for one of the West's foundational outposts of Kalu Rinpoche's Shangpa Kagyu lineage. kcc.org/event/50th-y... #dharma #pdx
"The totems of previous eras were often built to stand for millennia. Madriz's reflect the precarity of the present moment: a tangle of wires and plastic delicately suspended, waiting to unravel." hyperallergic.com/leonardo-mad... #art #sculpture
The curatorial approach for this show delves into complex intersections of ecological systems, cultural heritage, and colonial history, framing #environmental restoration as a multidisciplinary endeavor. heni.com/news/article... #netherlands
The first significant diplomatic stabilization between the two powers since the 2020 Ladakh clashes, creating a volatile geopolitical environment for the Central #Tibetan Administration’s (CTA) ongoing election cycle. www.tibetanreview.net/india-and-ch... #China
High-fidelity digital release of Glenriddell Manuscripts, featuring Robert Burns’s handwritten works and contemporary social correspondence. www.nls.uk/whats-on/tre... Good news for researchers tracking 18th-century Lowland #Scots families and their migration patterns. #familyhistory
The "Firefox Moment" for #AI as proprietary cloud costs and data leakage risks peak, European and privacy-focused enterprises are shifting toward local-first frameworks to reclaim data sovereignty.
LINK: quasa.io/media/mozill... #mozilla
Recently, #FamilySearch expanded its free online archives with over 1 billion new records The inclusion of 64,000+ new civil registration records from Brescia, Italy, and 10M+ #Hungarian church books effectively bridges the "gap of 1848" for central European researchers. #genealogy
'Running Fence', a temporary installation consisting of 24.5 miles of white nylon fabric suspended from steel cables, remains one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's most recognized projects. #art heni.com/news/article... #sonoma
🎯 🎯 a leopard does not change it's spots; their character and values are the same as they were when they voted for him and his agenda. they still like the candy, just not the wrapper.
The transition from the "Compute War" to the "Inference War"; hyperscalers are vertically integrating hardware to decouple from Nvidia’s margin premiums as #agentic tokens-per-second becomes the primary OpEx driver.
LINK: www.latimes.com/business/sto... #nvidia
🎯 be very very careful.
Launch of the "A Sense of Belonging" global summit (April 20–23) featuring Spirit Rock's EcoDharma leaders and indigenous scholars. tricycle.org/events/the-b... Shifting focus from abstract philosophy to physical sensory connection as a remedial practice for global #climate fatigue. #buddhism
Anyone surprised? The NSA defied a Department of Defense ban by deploying Anthropic's unreleased Claude #Mythos Preview model for national security applications.
www.trendingtopics.eu/nsa-already-...
Bummed and flummoxed abt #Claude Opus4.7 update and what it means for your prompts and skills? I spent the day revising my by using these revision guidelines based on #Anthropic notes and a youtube video by Dylan Davis. www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c... Hopes this helps. Let me know if it does.
given up on @cnn - nothing objective about their presentation of the news. overall journalistic integrity across the majority of outlets print digital tv is in the toilet. when anchors started offering opinions and becoming celebrities is when they all sold out. not a respectable profession anymore.
Long overdue. Should be a great show. en.ara.cat/culture/the-... #artnews
Game changer in #Ancestry Makes verifying family members in censuses so much easier and quicker. 🙌🏻https://youtu.be/urRnrdwDBGI #genealogy
example: "Do not summarize the chapters. Instead, identify the logical inconsistencies between the sources." or "Host A is a skeptical investigative journalist who dislikes marketing fluff; Host B is a cautious data scientist. Do not be enthusiastic. Be critical." #prompting
The most effective "Deep Dive" prompts explicitly command it to act as "Critical Peer Reviewer" or "Contrarian Debater" to break cycle of generic positive reinforcement and rewording. The "Custom Instructions" field is more powerful than the #NotebookLM Guide. Use it for "vibe" and "depth" controls.
1/3 of eligible voters didn't. that is the where a big focus should be. civic and political apathy is at an all time high. and dems need to start fighting harder and in more tangible ways. the high road leads to nowhere. i have serious doubt they can pull it together to stop what has taken hold.
Venice #Biennale 2026: The Curator Died Before the Show Opened — "In Minor Keys" Goes Forward www.artsy.net/article/arts... #popart
Willy Vlautin Releases New Novel — the #Portland Literary Ecosystem's Best Living Argument for the West www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-cul... #goodread
Duchamp at #MoMA Opens This Morning — 53 Years Since His Last US Retrospective, and the Critics Are Already Divided www.frieze.com/article/marc... #artnews
In Five Days: #Ireland 1926 Census Goes Online — Free, Fully Indexed, 3 Million People 🙌🏻 www.tourismireland.com/internationa... #genealogy
Millions of Seniors Have Suddenly Lost #Medicare Advantage Coverage as Insurers Exit Rural and Underserved Markets www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/... #SeniorHealth
New Study: Men Who Show "Masculine #Depression" — Anger, Substance Use, Emotional Suppression — Carry a Significantly Higher Mental Health Burden www.medindia.net/news/healthi... #TodaysMan
