One of the great scientific endeavors of the modern age #Beer #Archeology #AncientParties www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

This weeks listen Its title is inspired by the 1924 Russian dystopian novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. We was the first novel officially banned in the Soviet Union. Excessive ambition, big ideas, complex arrangements, count me in! #ProgRock #Music #ArcadeFire open.spotify.com/album/2sAePf...

Scale, security, performance. Our #cloud is built for the largest workloads across industries, helping countless organizations with the trusted cloud and #AI services they need to succeed. www.oracle.com/cloud/

No wonder my #horoscope was never right #astrology www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#AI is reshaping software development. #GPT-5 hitting limits shows bigger models alone won’t deliver #AGI. The future is hybrid AI and new dev skills. I mapped a 3-year roadmap: from AI-assisted coding now to symbolic + neural AI systems ahead. #TechSkills #AIDev bit.ly/41HAFke

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #anime #history

Safest #AI bets? Infrastructure & hardware. Friday’s jobs report could give them another lift if rate‑cut hopes lower capex costs. #AIInnovation #TechStocks bit.ly/3JUmYrX

www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3551955... #nfl #grievance

#Oracle Backend for Microservices and AI 1.4.0 is GA. Build #Microservices with #SpringBoot or #Helidon, prototype #AI chatbots, agents, and RAG services. #Observability is unified with #SigNoz. medium.com/@DatabaseDou...

This week's #listen. See if you can spot David Gilmour's guitar work on some of the tracks on Disc 1 #70s #80s #music open.spotify.com/album/2V1Mbu...

Lee Corso makes his final College GameDay headgear pick on Saturday Lots of data viz here: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lznH0 Here's all 430 of his picks, in one chart 👇

Most enterprise #AI fails not because it’s weak, but because it’s too confidently wrong; the winners are building AI that knows when it doesn’t know. www.forbes.com/sites/jaimec...

The real question isn’t “which framework is best?” It’s “which framework is best for this service, in this context?” #CloudNative #Microservices #SpringBoot #Helidon #Java #Architecture medium.com/@DatabaseDou...

Origami bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. Cool #origami #space www.nytimes.com/video/scienc...

Literally, the last guy that I thought would be #trippin www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

Built a pluggable #microservices framework: now #Spring Boot & #Helidon run side‑by‑side on #Oracle Backend. 🚀 #Vibecoded it in a month, AI‑assisted. 👉 medium.com/@DatabaseDou...

Another great #album by Florida's JJ Grey and Mofro. A richly textured blend of swamp #funk, #blues, and #rock. 👍 open.spotify.com/album/1TK4IG...

When University of Amsterdam researchers deployed 500 uniquely‑styled #ChatGPT bots on a simulated #SocialNetwork, they soon noticed familiar patterns. #AI partisan echo chambers concentrated influence among a small elite amplification of polarized voices arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03385

Margaret Boden revolutionized #AI by unlocking the secrets of human creativity through computational thinking, reshaping how we understand—and build—the future of artificial intelligence. #AIPioneers #CreativeAI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

"A rough analogy: You put people in an MRI machine, show them a bunch of pictures, and, if a picture activates a part of the brain associated with fantasizing about mass murder, you decide not to include that picture in elementary school curricula." Robert Wright www.anthropic.com/research/per...

This paper from Hugging Face researchers argues against developing fully autonomous #AI agents, presenting a systematic analysis of how risks increase with agent autonomy levels. #AIAgents #AISafety arxiv.org/abs/2502.026...

Snap’s Q2 2025 earnings were hit by a technical glitch in its ad-buying platform updt, which allowed ads to be purchased at much lower prices than intended. This misconfig reduced ad revenue for the quarter. #Tech #Test #SNAP #Oops bit.ly/4lddvJi

See how you do on these 5 questions #Tech #AI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...

A fun use of #AI #travel #france www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/a...

Saw Blizzard of Oz tour at the Capitol Theater in Passaic NJ There is a rather large list of video taped concerts from the 70's and 80's. What a Great Rock/Folk/Punk Music archive #MusicArchive #ClassicConcerts www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Running late? Or just fashionably late? Find out why some people treat clocks like strict bosses, and others like casual suggestions—and how your “time personality” could save your relationships (or wreck them)! #TimeIsRelative #PunctualityWars #ClockConfessions www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/w...

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee met in Paris this month to add to its list of cultural sites around the world deemed to be of “outstanding value to humanity.” The 26 new sites reflect the wide range encompassed by UNESCO’s criteria. @johnyangtv.bsky.social reports.

One Chart #pbs

Another player in the #Robo #Taxi Market #Nuro has spent nearly a decade building an #AI-first autonomy system that’s safe, scalable, and vehicle-agnostic,” proven over five years of driverless deployments across multiple U.S. cities and states www.barrons.com/articles/luc...

#Bitcoin, #XRP Price Gain as Genius Act Passes. Trump Has Big Plan for #Cryptos. "is preparing to sign an executive order as soon as this week to open up #401(k) plans to alternative investments, including cryptos, the Financial Times reported late Thursday" www.barrons.com/articles/bit...

Just talked to my #Oracle database in plain English and it actually understood me. The secret? Oracle #SQLcl 25.2's new #MCP server + #Cline AI assistant in #VS Code. medium.com/@DatabaseDou...

See if #FEMA thinks you are in a #flood zone msc.fema.gov/portal/search

Unlock the next era of enterprise app development—discover how #Oracle Database@AWS brings zero-ETL, AI-native features, and seamless #AWS integration to your development stack medium.com/@DatabaseDou...

Oracle Database@AWS bridges the gap between Oracle's database expertise and AWS's cloud infrastructure, enabling enterprises to modernize their database operations without sacrificing familiar Oracle capabilities or AWS cloud benefits. #Oracle #Database #AWS www.oracle.com/news/announc...

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b... #AI #Jobs #Tech

Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in: * 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily * Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65% * Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025 * $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements * B’way attendance +12% * Subway ridership +7% So yes this program is a SUCCESS.

#Cloudflare's new setting empowering websites to block #AI data scraping without permission protects content creators' rights and incentivizes fair compensation for their work. www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-b...

Vehicle OS #AI #Auto www.appliedintuition.com

#debt #gdp #budget

#Hibernate just merged support for #Oracle #JSON datatype? Can’t wait to see this in a tagged release, and then in #Spring Boot 🔥 github.com/hibernate/hi...

New in PN: A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows "When future historians grapple with how Trump managed to so quickly and so thoroughly dismantle American democracy, the role of the Roberts Court cannot be overstated."

#oracle www.barrons.com/articles/ora...

The new Vera C. Rubin Telescope has some amazing tours skyviewer.app #Astronomy #Telescope

#AI #Jobs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/m...

#Fun #Illusion illusionoftheyear.com youtu.be/HC0GGkNZPgs

Meet the winning submission: #LEGO®  Ideas Build Your Nostalgia – #90s Throwback!   #X-Files beta.ideas.lego.com/challenges/3...

The Weapon That Terrorizes Ukrainians by Night Downed Russian Shahed drones, with noses and warheads removed, are analyzed at the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise to help devise countermeasures for future attacks and to trace components to their sources. #Ukraine

🚀 Upgrade your #chatbots! RDF-powered #vector chatbots preserve document structure for smarter, context-rich answers—no more split concepts or duplicates. ✨ Backed by #Oracle Database 23ai’s enterprise vector search. 🔗 Get the open-source toolkit now! medium.com/@DatabaseDou...

One Chart #social #media