(also, it crashed right before the finish line and had to be helped on its feet x.com/kyleichan/st...)

Battery changes were allowed though (with penalty) and this year's winner appears to have had one www.stdaily.com/web/2026-04/... (”而今年的冠军队伍在长达21公里的全流程中，仅进行了一次换电”)

America Online (AOL) Disc | Smithsonian Institution

"America Online (AOL) brought the internet to a mass market through a vast and famously aggressive direct mailing campaign that sent free trial discs to millions of homes. [...] at the campaign’s height, fifty percent of all CDs produced globally were AOL demo discs."
www.si.edu/object/nmah_...

It's disappointing that "the amazing @frasalvi.bsky.social" chose to hype this paper with very misleading claims (and ignores questions about them bsky.app/profile/tilm... ).

Except that while there may be "no infantry needed" for some tasks, the current drone war in Ukraine is still very labor intensive in other ways, and nothing like the "Slaughterbots" imaginations that focused on autonomous AI:
ukrainesarmsmonitor.substack.com/p/training-d...

And the FACT that they CAN NOT BE TRUE proves once more that you MUST NOT believe anything these companies say and have to trust my newsletter instead

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.

Good point, but maybe @signal.org is already among these 40 unnamed orgs?

"We have also extended access to a group of over 40 additional organizations that build or maintain critical software infrastructure"
www.anthropic.com/glasswing

Umm, which "major AI companies" exactly "are increasingly embedding sponsored content into chatbot conversations" in the manner you study in the paper ("the model was explicitly instructed to nudge users toward sponsored products")?

“Liability or Deniability? Platform Power as Section 230 Turns 30 YouTube video by CommerceRepublicans

Direct link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8T5...

Also the very consequential teenager fib at 1:44...

Indeed, and according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi... it goes back to 1972, so this kind of animus plausibly existed before the current Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor in the Department of Linguistics of the University of Washington was even born 😉

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4Chan

So "isometric" was in distribution? 😉 bsky.app/profile/nsap...

Relatedly, global warming denial entirely vanished after a few years once ppl had more datapoints and could estimate the rate of global temperature increases themselves.

From https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/is-pre-nuclear-steel-behind-wwii-ship-targeting/

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

An apt simile, as an overhyped concern that was only ever relevant for some very exotic use cases and has become irrelevant now ("special low-background steel [is] no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive uses, as new steel now has a low enough radioactive signature")

Another Stanford tech bro falling for The AI Con. Fortunately we still have the real experts from the UW linguistics department helping us to see through this flimflam

I'm curious about the impact of OpenAI's free ChatGPT Go offer in India (I understand this includes Codex CLI) www.ndtv.com/india-news/c...

Corporate Structure for Ethical AI - Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) YouTube video by Stanford eCorner

Isn't that exactly why Anthropic was set up as a PBC? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMF1...

Starcloud to launch AWS Outposts hardware in space, aims to deploy fleet of 88,000 satellites Data centers in space startup rockets ahead with plans

Very interesting to see a "City on Mars" coauthor make such easily falsifiable claims.

Whatever one thinks about Elon and China, Nvidia-backed Starcloud already launched a test satellite in November (and just filed an FCC proposal for 88,000 more): www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/star...

Thales Alenia Space reveals results of ASCEND feasibility study on space data centers | Thales Alenia Space Thales Alenia Space announces the promising results of the ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) feasibility study.

Or, this European feasibility study explicitly highlighted this as a potential application of "robotic technologies" www.thalesaleniaspace.com/en/press-rel... (Unlike Starcloud, this hasn't resulted in any launches yet, but it's another counterexample to the idea that "The Idea" drives such ideas)

All fair regarding the lack of business cases for people in space.
But who exactly is claiming that datacenters in space require crewed missions? E.g. the Starcloud whitepaper (starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf ) doesn't mention them.

What does "Show less like this" do concretely in the current Discover feed, and what would be its equivalent in a future PinnerSage-based implementation?

I mean, even Robespierre ended under the guillotine too, despite his impeccable credentials as a fervent @jacobinmag.bsky.social activist

Jestermaxxing YouTube video by Gossip Goblin

m.youtube.com/shorts/-q8kF...

PlainSite :: NEIMA BENAVIDES, Personal Representative of the Estate of NAIBEL BENAVIDES LEON, deceased v. Tesla, Inc, Florida Southern District Court Case No. 1:21-cv-21940-BB Document 612: Order on Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law

Here is the new ruling btw - it was mostly about upholding the earlier jury verdict on procedural grounds (but yes, it seems that "admission of statements made by Elon Musk" may have influenced that verdict considerably): www.plainsite.org/courts/flori...

"a 1937 bus schedule to Jones Beach" (https:__www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/ )

"a state promotional photo showing buses parked in front of the famed water tower" at Jones Beach (https:__www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/ )

Appreciate the reply, but I'm surprised to see the WaPo fact-checker's analysis (based on conversations with multiple experts) dismissed as "first Google result".
Happy to read further if you have tips; in the meantime, via WaPo, a 1937 bus schedule for what Caro calls "Moses’s beloved Jones Beach":

Analysis | Robert Moses and the saga of the racist parkway bridges Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg referred to a famous anecdote in Robert Caro's biography of the master builder but historians increasingly question whether it is correct.

This looks interesting and concerning, but your reliance on that largely debunked bridges story (www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... ) doesn't quite inspire confidence in the evidentiary standards guiding this research.

Women make global gains as researchers, but gaps persist A large-scale global study found that while the number of women in academic research is growing, STEM fields remain dominated by men.

By that hypothesis, the gender trust gap should have shrunk over the last few decades, as the gender ratio among active scientists improved markedly during that time. Is that consistent with your data?
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

PS: wrong profile link, was meant to be @natmed.nature.com

Direct link for those who prefer to access that Kleist article in the German original: de.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%9Cb...