It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

A seal 🦭 mom gives birth and thinks her little one is dead. Then she realizes the little one is alive… and her joy is unforgettable.😍

I loathe the cult of the car.

yall are fucked up

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And when we complain, they call us luddites and suggest that humans are a waste of water.

Shiveluch, Kamchatka, eruptive ash plume in a Sentinel 2A satellite image from this morning (7 July 2026) 4:19 UTC. It was not yet visible in a Sentinel 2B image from 02:15 UTC.

OK this is damn cool. My favorite is that experts tend to repurpose more general task oriented parts of the brain to help them solve their area of expertise problems. Novices are generally using the areas of the brain directly related to doing the task

Court filing: Meta says four US states seek $1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~$1.5T (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

🚨 Exciting news! The Swiss Ornithological Institute is starting a collaborative program that offers multi-sensor geolocators and analytical support for bird migration research, focusing on underrepresented species & regions. Interested? geopressure.org/GeoCollabForm/ Please share!

Any visualization using area to convey one-dimensional information is going to be a bad time.

The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...

We’re excited to welcome Shopify as a Platinum Member of the PyTorch Foundation 🎉 Shopify provides essential internet infrastructure for commerce and relies on PyTorch as a key part of applied machine learning across Shopify's all-in-one platform that makes it easier to start, run, & grow a business

👋 Welcome to our first #Pytorch Santa Cruz Meetup We kicked it off with Faradawn Yang from #Nvidia giving a deep dive into the GPU architecture. Next will be Anil Vishnol from #RedHat. We will wrap it up with lightning talks for @ucscscience.bsky.social students doing AI Research

Excited to see that my @slate.com article on Franklin's reprinting of a (very accurate! and explicit! for the time) herbal home abortion recipe appears in @byreginamahone.bsky.social 's article in @thenation.com. Her co-authored book Liberating Abortion is absolutely essential reading

To be clear: in the United States, heat kills more people than cold, and it's not even close. www.weather.gov/hazstat

PyTorch now has a Cross-Repository CI Relay (CRCR) that streamlines testing across the ecosystem. CRCR automatically triggers and tracks continuous integration in out-of-tree backend repositories whenever a PR is opened against pytorch/pytorch. Link to learn more in comments section 👇

To the moon and beyond: #RamaLama being tested by #NASA to potentially support a medical AI assistant for future deep space missions: www.redhat.com/en/blog/moon...

Big Sadness doesn't want you to know this, but just quietly being in the presence of someone you love and who loves you in return is very nice, actually.

🧪 New paper alert from our lab! 🔥🧪 Making predictions for competition in a warming world has been a challenge. We find that warming levels the playing field among species, altering competition, even in the benign portion of species niches Check it out here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I worked on a farm in the 90s and this was our truck. The car was used by the family to go around and run errands. Vehicles do not need to be that big, even for people who actually do the work.

A survey of thousands of workplace leaders found “the only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled.” (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

Prove you can work with the technology behind modern AI: We are excited to announce the launch of PyTorch Certified Associate (PTCA). Link to learn more in comments section👇

We're seeking a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer who will play a pivotal role in the PyTorch Foundation, leading cloud infrastructure and DevOps initiatives. Apply at: careers.linuxfoundation.org/jobs/647914-...

🗺️ 📣 I've been off bluesky for a while, but popping in to announce Graticule, my new app for making maps! graticule.org It's a work-in-progress but I'd love to hear any feedback. What features would you like to see next?

A hill I will die on: "Foundation Model", "Large Language Model", "Reasoning Model", "Generative AI", and even "Deep Learning" are all bad names. The field keeps naming things by what it hopes they are rather than what they do.

this is, of course, much more egregious data and resource theft than that which the feds were prepared to put Aaron Swartz in prison for, but it's being done by VC funded AI industry vampires, so it'll never get treated as such.

🌍 “It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.” We really need to wake up to what's happening. Talk about boiling frog syndrome. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cooling with seawater reduces power consumption by >1/5 compared to land-based data centers. Underwater data centers create some risks for marine ecosystems by disturbing sediments and heating the seawater. Those risks are being studied for mitigation: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j.... 🌎

Join us for the Inaugural PyTorch Santa Cruz Meetup! Come connect with the local AI community for great food, networking, and awesome talks on the #PyTorch ecosystem. luma.com/uc6937lr Please share for reach

Big fan of Iris Murdoch's evergreen reminder to touch grass* *look at a bird

Helion brings PyTorch-native kernel development to vLLM. Xiaohong Chen (Red Hat) and Yanan Cao (PyTorch, Meta) integrated Helion kernels into vLLM for FP8 inference with Qwen3 models, evaluating fused GPU kernels across H100 and B200 GPUs. Read more: https://bit.ly/4xl72TK

OpenEnv will now be coordinated by a committee that includes Meta-PyTorch, Reflection, Unsloth, Modal, Prime Intellect, NVIDIA, Mercor, Fleet AI, and Hugging Face. The announcement also highlights support and adoption from PyTorch Foundation, vLLM, Lightning AI, and others. https://bit.ly/43ovgyP

Apple unveils new Apple Foundation Models: two on-device models, including a 20B-parameter multimodal model called AFM 3 Core Advanced, and three cloud models (Apple Machine Learning Research) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I, for one, welcome our new beaver overlords

@sogrady.org You seen this www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt0x...

I really don't mind if you using the LLM applications to write your blog posts. After all, I consider them decent writing calculators. BUT, if you do please: 1. Tell it not to use so much hyperbole 2. You are responsible for the final edit - it should read like a human wrote it

Featuring Red Hat's own @cybette.bsky.social and Stephen Watt. Sad I was not able to attend

Instagram has had so many bugs recently. Looks like vibe-coding can't yet replace all the people they fired.

Coming to #CVPR?? Like birds?? Like touching grass?? Join us for the #CVBirdWalk!! No birding experience required :) Meet us bright and early at 7am on June 5th at Commons Park, here: goo.gl/maps/aa3auUM... Or walk over with us from the conference center at 6:30!

PyTorch Compile can make models run dramatically faster, but the real magic is what happens under the hood. This blog breaks down one of the most important optimizations behind torch.compile: kernel fusion. Learn more here 👉 tinyurl.com/ms9sdnyn

If you're interested in applying for the CV4Ecology school this year but have questions regarding the program or application join us tomorrow, 5/27, for an Infosession at 11am ET (5pm CEST) Register here: tinyurl.com/4xbjyhv6 Recording shared to all registered attendees

hard to overstate how much i hate ai scrapers, what this article describes is one thousand percent true and i bet lots and lots of engineers at other companies are battling the same enemy right now weirdgloop.org/blog/clankers

NVIDIA has shared its PyTorch Conference Europe playlist. Topics include Symmetric Memory, torch.compile kernels, and agentic AI evaluation. The clip is from Besmira Nushi's keynote on action-thought gaps. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5B692fm6--u9xhIYmjS_rHUI0iyq1dZQ

The latest version of NVIDIA FLARE addresses this reality with a Federated Learning (FL) computing runtime that moves the training logic to the data, while raw data stays put. See examples of how to leverage PyTorch in a federated learning system. 🔗 NVIDIA developer blog: https://bit.ly/4tTvlFF

Today we’re releasing OlmoEarth v1.1. It’s 3x cheaper to run than v1 while delivering the same state-of-the-art performance—and fully open. 🧵

ExecuTorch now has an MLX delegate that runs PyTorch models on Apple Silicon GPUs. It supports LLMs, speech-to-text, and MoE models with quantization via TorchAO. Export with torch.export, run on Metal. Read our latest blog: https://bit.ly/4tx5VNH

Restoration involved plugging 48 miles of canal and removing roads. Effectiveness for wider ecological recovery remains to be seen, but now water from summer rains stayed on the land. What had dried out remained soaked for much of the year. 🌎🧪🌿 e360.yale.edu/features/pic...