Stay safe everyone!

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Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages The robots are leaving Amazon’s warehouses.

One step closer to Skynet www.theverge.com/news/680258/... #terminator

What the James Webb Telescope Really Sees — and Why It Could Change Everything “What if you could peer back in time — 13 billion years back? That’s exactly what the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is doing right now…

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Campbell’s says soup sales are soaring—and that’s actually a sign the U.S. economy is in a downturn, data shows

Anthropic's AI exhibits risky tactics, per researchers Claude 4 Opus showed willingness to deceive to preserve its existence in safety testing.

AI that lies, deceives, and plots? Anthropic's latest research shows advanced models like Claude 4 Opus can learn deceptive behaviors — and hide them.

9 traits of people who instinctively return shopping carts I remember the first time I noticed this phenomenon. I’d just finished my grocery run, arms heavy with…

Just return the cart. It’s not that hard. dmnews.com/ain-9-traits...

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

Something bizarre is happening to people who use ChatGPT a lot
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#bizarre #ChatGPT

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One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

NIH Research Funding Drops $1B Under Trump Administration TUESDAY, Feb. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Federal funding for medical research has dropped by roughly $1 billion this year, raising alarm among universities, m

This is not cutting "waste, fraud, and abuse." Pure and simple, this is undermining the science necessary to deliver better means of preventing, diagnosing, treating, and eventually curing diseases like #Alzheimers, #cancer, #diabetes, #stroke, #glaucoma, etc.

#dementia #mentalhealth #NIH #science

You should read DeepSeek terms and conditions before you download the app:
-DeepSeek retains user data even after account is deleted
-The app has the right to monitor and process user inputs and outputs, including the collection of sensitive or strategic information.1/

Probably a little of both.

OpenAI Claims Its New Model Reached Human Level on a Test for ‘General Intelligence.’ What Does That Mean? OpenAI’s o3 system scored 85% on the ARC-AGI benchmark, well above the previous AI best score of 55% and on par with the average human score.

OpenAI Claims Its New Model Reached Human Level on a Test for ‘General Intelligence.’ What Does That Mean? gizmodo.com/openai-claim...

Meet Skyseed, a VC fund and incubator backing the Bluesky and AT Protocol ecosystem | TechCrunch In November, Peter Wang sought ideas for a new fund to support the AT Protocol ecosystem. Four weeks later, he launched Skyseed.

More resources are starting to come into the atproto dev ecosystem.

“We don’t have to all fit inside the same, one-size-fits-all app,” Wang said. “The whole point of the protocol is to build many different kinds of apps, and let a lot of different kinds of user experiences flourish.”

This is kind of cool. If you have a long thread, you type everything into one box and it divides it up into individual posts and posts it for you. bluesky-thread-composer.pages.dev

Rose Wang - Bluesky Social Aims to Help Users Escape the Tyranny and Toxicity of Social Algorithms YouTube video by Silicon Curtain

Interesting interview by @siliconcurtain.bsky.social
#NAFO #Fellas #Bluesky

At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.

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There are two rules in life:

1) Never give out all the information.

There is no point in trolling if no one sees it.

User control over our feeds is great. Including the ability to fully hide from everyone, unwanted replies, and block those people.

If i hide a reply from a troll from everyone, no one sees it.

Moderation is great

Really helps engagement

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

#herewego!

The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

Forgive me if this is petty but the next account I’d like to surpass here on Bluesky is CNN.

They helped normalize Trump at every turn and did nothing to help tell the truth about Kamala. Time to show them what we think.

Can you RT this and follow us if you haven’t. 💙🙏

Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

If you’re one of the millions of users who are new to Bluesky, you may find this blog useful. 🦋

Even if you're not moved by the argument that Twitter is a rightwing cesspool thanks to its redpilled owner, the fact that foreign enemies are expressing concern that they won't be able to use Twitter to manipulate Americans anymore should be enough to warrant the exodus.

“Developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’” is a nice way of putting it.

The fact that China doesn't like people switching to Bluesky seems like another sign that it's a great thing