Google's new Windows app is yet another way to access Gemini Google has introduced a new app for Windows and, unsurprisingly, it puts AI front at center.

Look, Google has re-invented "Google Desktop"!

www.engadget.com/apps/googles...

Bad as that might be, at least they are reading a summary of the bill instead of just believing the talking points from their party.

Silicon Valley Has Stopped Talking Politics—Except for This Google Executive AI pioneer Jeff Dean is a rare tech leader who has been publicly criticizing actions by the Trump administration.

At a moment when much of the tech industry would rather not talk politics, Google executive Jeff Dean has been a rare outspoken voice—even on issues that hit close to home.

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

Conservatively, 20yo requires 17MWH in food calories, energy required to produce is 7-10x. A single frontier AI model requires ~300x more than that.

Nvidia’s new AI weather models probably saw this storm coming weeks ago | TechCrunch Nvidia announced three new AI weather tools today. Together, they promise to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts while also making them accessible to more users.

Now this is the kind of tech-giant battling that I can fully support. Weather prediction models will improve and we will _all_ benefit!
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Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

Frankfurt?

Khashoggi and Kirk.

Code is out. We provide the pre-trained ACE-G model, as well as code to replicate the paper results, and to evaluate ACE-G on new scenes. #ICCV2025

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The US Army is recommending that its soldiers in Germany (who might have been on SNAP) go begging at German food banks.
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Is anyone else surprised at how much worse FedEx is than UPS?

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987 YouTube video by Reagan Library

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading: "NO TYRANTS INDIVISIBLE LONDON UK" Below this heading, the event details are listed: Date: Sat, Oct 18 Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK) The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled “RSVP” in white text.

Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know…

www.nokings.org#map

Why in the world would AZ get more rain than CA or MX?

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Picasa 3 still runs fine on my PC. The web share died a long time ago.

Oh my god. Drop everything and look at this.

Here is the Kansas/Midwest soybean market disappearing.

Google’s new Windows desktop app brings a Spotlight-like search bar to PC Google Search on your PC.

Does anyone remember Google Desktop? Anyone?

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On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks. "We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges. "When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

He was trying to goose X revenue last year but now that xAI has bought X, its no longer in short term trouble. The amount of self-sealing going on is mind boggling.

If you try to verify the 100hr avg workweek, you find it had no real basis and doesn't make sense. Conditions were much worse in the 1880s but 60-65hr is a more accurate estimate.

Lego Will No Longer Ship Individual Pieces Thanks to Trump Tariffs Elevated shipping costs are making your already expensive hobby more pricey.

The beginning of the end of the tariffs.
gizmodo.com/lego-will-no...

Right, so in British, it's not even an exception.