Twitter is down…..let’s hope it stays that way for the rest of the year.

Spring AI & Embabel are the future...

Wall Street eases from record highs on rising economic jitters U.S. stocks retreated from all-time highs in choppy trading on Tuesday as investors, deprived of economic data resulting from the shuttered government, looked to secondary indicators and remarks from U.S. Federal Reserve officials for clues regarding economic weakness and monetary policy.

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EMEKA EGBUKA SLOW WALKS INTO THE ENDZONE FOR A 77-YARD TD

If only people would learn that AI doesn't actually exist, that not one technology in existence can… We have NOT invented a program that can think, and we are likely still at least another century from accomplishing that. Meanwhile, a whole…

AI, as popularly conceived, does not exist. No system thinks, reasons, or chooses. We’ve merely rebranded deterministic software as intelligence. The real innovation? Convincing the public that autocomplete is sentient. #AI #CriticalThinking

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Panic attacks and anxiety plague a young immigrant mother navigating around ICE arrests The threat of forcible separation from family is a form of trauma that immigrants are facing, mental health experts say.

The threat of forcible separation from family is a form of trauma that immigrants are facing, and this kind of fear can have ripple effects, mental health experts say.
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Only Starmer can save the Tories The Conservative party will end up fighting a losing battle with Reform unless Labour’s immigration policies are broadly seen to work

Kemi Badenoch should be secretly hoping Labour’s immigration policies work and reduce the issue’s salience. The Tories can only beat Reform on day-to-day issues, writes @peterkellner.bsky.social.

He didn’t stand out, stop spouting rubbish

Israeli data shows 83 percent of Gaza war dead are civilians: Report Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.

Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says Australia’s biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots.

While Australia's biggest bank claimed that its recently added chatbots justified the elimination of dozens of employees, the AI use only ended up creating a scramble behind the scenes.

Why it’s good to admit when you’re wrong – and how to improve

Admitting to being wrong can be difficult. But "intellectual humility" is a trainable trait that deepens relationships.

OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: 'Someone Has Broken Into Our Home' As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.

As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo. www.wired.com/story/openai...

The Queens of Botswana's Metal Scene South African photographer Paul Shiakallis’s series Leather Skins, Unchained Hearts provides a visual alternative to the stereotypical metalhead in the popular Western imagination.

Since mainstream culture often perceives metal as “satanic,” many women of Botswana’s metal subculture wear more traditional clothing by day and only reveal their brutal alter-egos in their Facebook photos, posing in full metal regalia, often in front of trees outside at night.

Wimbledon 2025: dates, schedule, seeds, how to watch on TV Wimbledon is a grasscourt Grand Slam organised by the All England Lawn Tennis Club. The tournament was first held in 1877. Here is what you need to know about the year's third major after the Australian Open and French Open:

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Minnesota House Democratic leader dead after targeted shooting; Democratic senator also shot • Minnesota Reformer House Democratic-Farmer-Labor caucus leader Melissa Hortman, who was among the most influential Minnesota elected officials of the past decade, died on Saturday morning after a man impersonating a pol...

House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, dead after targeted shooting. Sen. John Hoffman was also shot, though he's expected to recover.

It is beautiful.

Leopards eating faces.

I have no issues with an echo chamber. It can offer emotional comfort, stronger group cohesion, and more efficient communication. There are challenging views which are essential for testing the strength of one's beliefs, but that's not what Twitter offers, Its pure bile out there.

MCP Elicitations: Standardizing Interactive AI Workflows Through Structured User Input Explore how the new MCP Elicitations protocol standardizes interactive AI workflows by enabling servers to collect structured user input dynamically, building upon AI-generated UI concepts.

If you're building with MCP or exploring agent UX, this is worth a look

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Reading a blog post.

Please help find the other Walthamstow Stella ….😿

Molly Shah gave us Brexit.

Nigeria police investigate blast outside army barracks in Abuja Nigerian police said on Monday that they were investigating an explosion outside an army barracks in the centre of the capital Abuja and that one person was receiving medical attention in hospital after the incident.

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Words of deep wisdom from my 5 year old

“Even if you punch yourself in the face, time keeps moving”

Ah, I see we're back to "BlueSky is dying," discourse.

No, it's not.

Please read the whole thread before you try to disagree with the points made in it.

And stop asking people not to criticize leaders with power. The answer is no.

People with power are supposed to be criticized.

I suggest white people start doing the deep work in your own communities. Because at every demographic level white voters have supported the lawless racist candidate in 3 consecutive elections, driving our democracy off a cliff. Deflecting to talking about Black men won’t help. Do the work.

You happened to be born in the time future historians will call “The Great Chaos-ening”