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  • Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox: Not what the machine does, but who it does it to.

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  • For me, it's more that it's a vivid image. I have felt that "immiseration" so it immediately resonates; I don't need a metaphor. But when people who don't know technology are gushing about the latest agentic process, I wonder if having a somewhat grotesque, embellished counter will be useful.

  • YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable

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  • I clearly need to up my adblock game. But do y'all also use PeerTube, Nebula, Curiosity Stream? Happy to vote with dollars if there's a good candidate.

  • Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox: Not what the machine does, but who it does it to.

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  • Hadn't heard "precaritized" either. Brings to mind some penultimate additions to pillow forts, though.

  • After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

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  • We may start to see people realize that "have the AI generate slop, humans will catch the mistakes" actually is different from "have humans generate robust code."

  • Trump says he won’t sign any bills into law until SAVE America Act passes

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  • Do we need new laws before impeachment?

  • Three American soldiers killed as U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran continue into 2nd day

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  • I don't know the channel, but here's a video titled "US and Israel intercept missiles over Iraq." Sure is dystopian: a video of farmland with missiles launching from a distant city. No explanations. But it really brings home to me how countries and people are caught between other countries capricious decisions.

  • Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner

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  • And how much power does it use?

  • Slingshot is a nice detail 😁

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  • Is there a good place to see more without logging into something? I found some on threads, but it requires login after a bit; not interested in FB/X. Maybe time to buy a book!

  • “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens

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  • From the article:

    At least seven states with a total of about 35 million registered voters have publicly reported the results of running their voter rolls through the system. Those searches have identified roughly 4,200 people — about 0.01% of registered voters — as noncitizens. This aligns with previous findings that noncitizens rarely register to vote.

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  • Where do things stand with Hawking? What I could find says:

    Documents and photographs show that Hawking attended a scientific conference held on Epstein's island in 2006. At that time, Epstein had organized meetings on the island by inviting scientists and intellectuals. Hawking's visit took place in the context of this conference and is considered part of professional relationships in the scientific community.

  • AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.

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  • And Ars published a piece about it — with AI hallucinated quotes attributed to the human maintainer. They have since retracted it.

    I was having a discussion related to this with my team at work: some of them are letting through poorly-reviewed AI code, and I find myself trying to figure out which code has had real human consideration, and which is straight from the agents net. Everyone said they closely review and own all the agentic code, but I don't really believe it.

  • New anti-bot rules

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  • I don't get the appeal. Preparing to redirect to paid content? Just to feel cool?

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  • Did expect: self defense. Did not expect: eventually the croc wins, also all the other zebras just walking by.

  • My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

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  • Plot twist: the server giving worldwide access to send people electrical stimulation was also implemented by Claude.

    Cool use of AI for spelunking, though.

  • An open source repairable printer.

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  • Sounds great. I can't figure out what the status is. Working prototype? Manufacturing?

  • An open source repairable printer.

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  • You can print on standard sheets or paper rolls and choose between black or color cartridges, refillable at your convenience.

  • New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles

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  • Looks like it's more like NiMH than LiPo, but higher power than NiMH (which I guess lines up with their claims of charging super fast).

  • Trump pulls federalized troops from Democratic cities after string of legal defeats

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  • all federalized National Guard troops

    So, ICE is still slashing and burning. A little progress though.

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    Daughter Shot by Father After Trump Argument in Texas

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  • Her father later told authorities he had been showing her a Glock handgun he kept in his bedside drawer. He claimed he did not realize the gun was loaded and said he did not know whether his finger was on the trigger when it discharged.

    A US grand jury later reviewed the case and declined to indict her father, saying there was not enough evidence to bring criminal charges. The decision came despite the fact that Lucy and her father were alone in the room when the fatal shot was fired.