Elbows up, Canada.

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Still thinking about this young mathematician. Her name was Yulia Zdanovska. She could have done so much for her country and for our shared world. We all lost her. Killed by Putin’s Russia in Kharkiv almost exactly three years ago. Memorial from the ACM: cacm.acm.org/news/in-memo...

Heads up for the Weather Community! You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ

One of the finest hackers & humans to ever hack the planet needs our help. Marc Rogers (@marcwrogers on the other site) is lucky to be alive & we are luckier to be able to help him. Donate if you can, and please *share* to spread the word. gofund.me/27112e30

Introducing ASAL: Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models Blog: sakana.ai/asal/ We propose a new method called Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL) which uses foundation models to automate the discovery of the most interesting and open-ended artificial lifeforms!

History will look back on America's car-centric era of urban development the way we look back on cities that just emptied their sewage into the streets. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cars-have-...

Given posts coming my way, some suggesting I unalive myself in some fashion, I remind folks that I supported the Internet Archive in their lawsuit, donating time and money, and I did not support the publishers. The IA has confirmed this. I'm sorry they lost. terribleminds.com/ramble/2023/...

Excellent new essay by Ted Chiang, who gets to the heart of why language and art are inherently about conveying meaning and experience, not just form: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Interesting article. It’s disappointing to learn how complicated the process is. Also, I learned about Project Sunroof from Google sunroof.withgoogle.com which seems helpful

“They’ll tell me, ‘Your music changed my life.’ It makes me want to cry, man.”

I was laid off today from Bungie after 2 years. It hurts but I'm proud of my work and my team. I'm looking for new opportunities as a Technical Producer/Technical Program Manager. Let me know if you have any leads!

I'm not sure I know any financial analysts, but if you're out there... @oxidecomputer.bsky.social is looking for one oxide.computer/careers/fina...

got laid off today from bungie so, if ya need a gameplay capture artist that is bungie-certified and won a few awards, hit me up.

Over at Esquire, you can read N.K. Jemisin's amazing introduction to the 10-year anniversary edition of Authority, which, along with Annihilation and Acceptance (intros by Karen Joy Fowler and Helen Macdonald), are being reissued July 30! www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

I need help promoting our contest. I think it's a fun and easy one but we barely have any submissions :( Any ideas where I should post it?

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we seem to be mostly on track inconvergent.net/a-history/

V v good Heated edition on the grassroots fight against big tech's shocking data centre growth It has been astonishing to see people being blase or dismissive about these concerns, writing them off as environmentalism hysterics. This is extremely bad stuff heated.world/p/how-grassr...

Looky here, one of my short stories (published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ) gets a shout-out in this Reactor Mag article, along with 5 other stories! reactormag.com/six-surprisi...

“UniSuper, an Australian pension fund that manages $135 billion worth of funds and has 647,000 members, had its entire account wiped out at Google Cloud, including all its backups that were stored on the service.”

Aid is still getting into Gaza! The Rafah crossing is not the only route. Now more than ever, aid orgs need your support.

ChatGPT-4o helped my partner and I converse in Chinese and English as we prepared dinner. It shared a joke in the style of Stephen Chow that we hadn’t heard before. Its Chinese speech is somewhat idiosyncratic

Sad that Fission is shutting down. They did a bunch of really interesting research – hope all the people involved will soon find new gigs where they can continue their great work.

Atavista - Childish Gambino 🎶 music.apple.com/us/album/ata...

Delightful episode about industrial musicals from Twenty Thousand Hertz For more than three decades, it was common for American companies to put on  “industrial musicals” for their employees. These elaborate productions could rival Broadway shows... www.20k.org/episodes/ind...

TIL that iOS 17.5 has a Repair State, though it’s distinct from Repair Mode on Google Pixel phones which loads a clean Android OS. I hope that Apple ships iOS 18 with a guest mode. Would be a nice supplement to Screen Time features. Until then, there’s Assistive Access and Guided Access

My wife is looking for 3~5 more cash pay or Primera-insured clients for her private therapy practice and is seeing English / Mandarin-speaking clients that reside in Washington, 🇺🇸 and is expanding to see clients in the 🇳🇱. If you know anyone interested, I recommend

Recommend It Could Happen To You, a charming American fairy tale parable set in mid-1990s New York City. Nicolas Cage plays a good cop who wins the lottery with a great supporting cast including Wendell Pierce, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez, and Stanley Tucci. Isaac Hayes narrates

After Babel: Talking to Aliens & the Mathematics of Communication Hector Zenil, Mike Levin, Clément Vidal and Fernando Ernesto Rosas De Andraca discuss how we might distinguish any old signal from one that contains a message. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhO8...

Unluckily, the Worst Person on the Plane sat behind me, coughing the entire flight into their hands. Wish that I had Larry David as a Service LDaaS to suggest that they wear a mask next time out of consideration for their fellow passengers 🤦‍♂️😷

I enjoyed listening to this Complexity episode from the Santa Fe Institute about how scientific inquiry is shaped by the contingencies of human history podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Dune: Part Two Vibes - macOS Wallpaper: Liwa Dune Fields - Terminal: caffeinate -d -t 9999 - Soundtrack: Dune: Part Two (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - macOS Lock Screen Spice

Cross Roads #42: "A Social Network Inspired by Open-Endedness" with Prof. Kenneth Stanley. Stanley will explain how discoveries made while researching open-endedness led to building Maven, the serendipity network. Its constructions draws on ideas from the field. www.youtube.com/watch?v=73sv...

Green, Hiroshi Yoshimura music.apple.com/us/album/gre...

Remains of a nest of hornets

played some fun games from Nex Inc this weekend, including Party Fowl. Recommend if you’re looking for some active, family-friendly entertainment. There’s also Starri which is similar to Beat Saber. apps.apple.com/app/id162206... apps.apple.com/app/id163179...

I'm still LFW as a geospatial/GIS data scientist/analyst, ideally in ag or climate. Specifically, I'm looking to be directly connected with/introduced to someone who can hire me for this sort of role. I'd especially love to work for Planet Labs or Google Earth/Earth Engine/Maps. Portfolio link:

My partner is building her private therapy practice & is seeing clients that reside in Washington, USA. She is also expanding to see clients in the EU. If you know anyone interested in caring for their well-being through therapy, I recommend www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapist...

Everybody go update your iPhones. The new 0-click vuln exploited by NSO Group is sent via a malicious image in iMessage.

anyone try the new Gandalf the Summarizer adventure from Lakera? I'm finding it more difficult than their previous ones gandalf.lakera.ai/adventures

Toasted coconut chocolate croissant and rambutan, coconut & jasmine tart from Dominique Ansel

As others have noted, this article may be studio propaganda to dishearten WGA folks, but a) it's just gonna piss them off more, b) it prompted me to donate to the Entertainment Community Fund. Fuck the studios, I'm paying for a WGA member's groceries today, gotta keep strength up on the picket line

Blue skies over the Pacific

It bodes well for this site that whenever someone has a code they’re like “I’m either going to give it to the journalist who won a Pulitzer for reporting on corruption within a sheriff’s department or my boy WeedBoner”

To keep things on brand and to get to know me: if you have seen the video of Josh Hawley scurrying away during the Jan. 6th insurrection after raising his fist to the crowd outside Congress...hope you enjoyed it and nice to meet you.

My first article about Bluesky! I answer questions like: "What prevents another Elon Musk from buying Bluesky PBLLC and destroying it 10 years down the line?"

spotted @berduck.deepfates.com in the wild