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How do you get your child to read books ?

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. ~ Issac Asimov #ThoughtfulThursday

Taking care of business. We need to do this and move on.

Graduate students increasingly use artificial-intelligence tools to draft, code and search — but many fear it could erode the very skills a doctorate is meant to build go.nature.com/3NMvhbE

Last April, we raised $100M in Series B funding. This round gives us the ability to scale our team to meet the rapid growth of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Read more: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Smart move. Your garbage, not mine: Thailand to return 284 tonnes of e-waste to America share.google/MVXaIpAuBvth...

Can a paid #genAI agent track private info more effectively than unpaid one due to identity confirmation through bank/finance used for payment ? #privacy

How dare her!! 🧐🤨 "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.

Ubuntu Linux is planning to comply with Age Verification law. On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubu...

Consumer oil and gas prices will rise substantially the longer the Iran War impacts the production and distribution through the Hormuz Strait thedingodave.substack.com/p/oil-prices...

When a handful of entities shape the information ecosystem, that’s not just an economic issue — it’s a democratic one. Power over narratives is power over perception. And yet, in a country The problem is real. The constraints are real. Pretending either side doesn’t exist is intellectual laziness.

China is facing a coming wave of dementia for its ageing population, and is investing in research into drugs, diagnostics and even surgery to prepare itself go.nature.com/4seMoS1

linkedin generates lot of fake notifications and often repeated ones and sends emails. Just to make user visit their site. Even Facebook does this.

New intro to embedded #Rust video is out! I go over generics and traits, which are super important when creating programs or working in something like #embassy. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT_9... #embedded #programming #microcontroller #RaspberryPiPico

SQL Polyglot Polyglot parses, generates, transpiles, and formats SQL across 32 database dialects. github.com/tobilg/polyg...

What capacity mAH battery if explode in shirt pocket can kill a 70kg man?

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

Can it blink ?

We need a web browser that just interacts with web sites, without any data collection,AI,inferences. If #Mozilla wants its presence in AI, then let it be a different product altogether like thunderbird or old days composer. Avoid one size fits all. We input lot of privacy sensitive data in browsers.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

I keep reading posts about people who wrote applications entirely with "zero coding." They say they don't read the code and instead refine the application using increasingly precise prompts. I have some questions: * Is the application nontrivial? 1/7

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

Well, folks, we may have a new king in AI inference hardware - and it is not NVIDIA. That king is AMD. Its CPU/GPU platform is optimized for raw power, raw throughput, and raw compute density. Let the new king reign.

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do laundry and dishes” – Judy Maciejewska

If you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Being a "great coder" is not sufficient. You want to keep your job in an AI world? Learn software architecture. 7/7

True education isn’t a transaction. It’s a craft. Like a master guiding an apprentice, it’s about passing on wisdom, skill, and curiosity. When we treat students as learners instead of customers, we honor the real purpose of higher education.

Luck or bad luck ! Feeling lucky after all. [root@chaba test_lvm]# vgcreate lvmvg1 /dev/sda /dev/sdb Cannot use /dev/sda: device is partitioned Cannot use /dev/sdb: device is partitioned Command requires all devices to be found. [root@chaba test_lvm]#

More teams are rethinking cloud-hosted LLMs. agent.cpp provides minimal, high-performance building blocks for agents in C++, built directly around the llama.cpp ecosystem. Designed for running agents locally on your own hardware. Repo: link.mozilla.ai/agent-cpp

Raspberry Pi's are cheaper than Mini PCs again! And that's not good news... sigh. Let's get into it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDM4...

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

Captcha validation has become too complicate. On one side computer industry is hell bent on AI everywhere and other side "prove you are human" is becoming hectic. " Unable to verify your captcha response." - github