A funny thing is happening: the more I build with agents, the less I want to use Python. I explore this in my latest "From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics"
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Seriously wild times we are living in. If you've been following this OpenClaw agent matplotlib story unfold.
OpenSource (as all other things) are starting to get uncooked with AI.
It was a super bowl move to use them as visual symbolism for sure.
This is the reason for the electricity poles in Bad Bunny Superbowl Halftime Show
Bad Bunny uses electricity poles because in Puerto Rico they symbolize a broken promise; modern life that collapses in storms. After Hurricane Maria, the wires showed who was neglected, who waited in the dark, and who power actually serves.
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Does someone have a supercut of the same people tweeting their responses today for full picture of the backtrack?
We should be terrified of who the next new 19,000 ICE and CBP officers will be. Are you watching the news and excited to rough up abuelas, hog-tie the guy cutting the lawn down the street, or manhandle a member of Congress? Apply today! www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...
"The takeaway from this study is that if you give adults an entirely inauthentic task and access to ChatGPT, they’ll let the robot do the work and save their energy for something else."
We should study the best uses of AI in learning, not the worst.
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This is really fascinating to me because of the connections we've also found in my research between worse outcomes for software teams and contest cultures/competition mental models for software/zero sum thinking in domain specific ways for technological skills
OECS thematic collections.
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Liz! Hello! (I need to check in on Bluesky more!)
A "demystified" Gartner hype cycle graph including points like "trough of zero real adoption" and "slope of enterprise marketers jumping on the bandwagon too late"
I'm going to business hell for this one
if this reporting is accurate, and it would seem easily disprovable if it's not, i cannot fathom how it's not a 50 pt font banner headline on the times, post, etc.
this is outright rebellion.
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Photo of FBI hq
Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era
Trump Keeps Up Breakneck Pace of Executive Orders
Amid the Chaos, Trump Has a Simple Message: He’s in Charge
Maybe it's just me but I really don't think the @nytimes.com is willing or able to meet this moment. These are the lead stories on the paper's website so far today. Chaos was first, now its breakneck speed. Nope, this ain't it. 1/
Doomscroll Hug break. 💜
When the person who has a PhD in city planning (also in A²) offers his two cents. 🎤
Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to dismantle Meta’s US fact-checking partnerships opens a new, troubling chapter in platform governance and lays bare the deep entanglement of tech corporations with reactionary political agendas, writes Charis Papaevangelou.
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Every Notre Dame fan at Church this past week.
#goirish #notredamefootball #fightingirish #weareND #NDfootball
Private equity firms are modern Gilded Age holding companies for the wealthy to centralize their control over our lives.
We really seem to be at the threshold of a social and economic crisis unless these financial vehicles for domination are stopped.
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Screenshot of New Yorker article by Dhruv Khullar. Full text linked in the reply.
"The Gilded Age of medicine" is exactly right. These modern-day robber-barons are looting our health care system, and patients are paying with their lives. We need answers and accountability. We need to pass my Health Over Wealth Act.
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I love advent!
In anthropology, we often refer to this impetus as "the Tyranny of Taxonomy." By virtue of forcing various phenomena into categories that can be quantified, you create the illusion that such categories are "real." Rather than methods through which to think about similarities and differences.
This talk was brilliant! And not at all the conclusion I was expecting
Super shouting out @jimmy.zelinskie.com once again with the incredible info & link packed gRPConf talk,
Building: SpiceDB: A gRPC First Database
The discussions about use for inter-cluster and around performance are fantastic.
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