Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell YouTube video by Federal Reserve

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database.

Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Google Gemini 2.5 is the first public AI model to definitively beat the performance of human PhDs with access to Google on hard multiple choice problems inside their field of expertise (around 81%).

All AI tests are flawed, but GPQA Diamond has been a pretty good one.
& conducted independently.

✨Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available! It is a Thinking model, and it lands #1 on LMArena. Give it a try!

Welcome to South Bay! Also looking forward to the expansion to SFO @waymo.bsky.social

LMArena has a new performance/price plot 👀
In this chart, Top Left is ideal.
Gemini 2.0 Flash is amongst the top performers, while being significantly cheaper 💰

New Gemini family models are now taking 1st, 3rd and 9th spots on lmarena 🔥

Gemini 2.0 Flash thinking exp 0121 is holding the top score 👀

30M users 1B posts
🤝
bluesky milestone
achieved this week

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking gets a refresh 🚀
And tops the leaderboard on LMSYS 🎇

So sorry for your loss ❤️‍🩹 May the memories of your joint adventures bring you comfort 🐾

Today, GDM launched Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. It's an experimental model trained to think out loud, leading to stronger reasoning performance.

Try it in Google AI Studio!
aistudio.google.com

watch Waymo avoid calamity with a scooter rider

Dynamic views/tables is a key missing functionality that regularly forces me out of Obsidian. A built-in, well integrated Dataview.

Another GDMer here, would you mind adding?

An screenshot of UnicodeIt website

Write math on 🦋 with UnicodeIt!
For example: θ ∈ ℝⁿ or pp̅ → μ⁺μ⁻
Use website or install system-wide in Linux, macOS, or windows
www.unicodeit.net

(Created several years ago with @svenkreiss.bsky.social)

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Have you tried to subscribe to the "Mentions" feed?

1M/day user growth, 20M tonight, let's go!
Looking forward to seeing the topical, smaller communities emerge once we reach critical mass.

Good news: Twitter is collapsing.

And this chart doesn't even show the last two weeks—which have seen the largest exodus in site history.

There are reports from Newsweek and others that Twitter may merge with Truth Social.

If that happens, the last collapse of Twitter may happen almost overnight.