@siracusa have you thought about having Hyperspace expose a CLI and/or SKILL.md? Every time you mention it I think “huh I really should run that again”, and I’d love to just have an agent take care of it occasionally
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/117509996824858525
“The end result is that we live in a world that's deeply hostile to people who insist on thinking while demanding that they pretend to think. “
Felt that.
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Dear Fellow Americans,
Considering the speed and ease with which the "mainstream" media and most educational and cultural institutions have surrendered to #Trump, I think it's high time we retire that whole superiority complex regarding the #French surrender in #WWII. To paraphrase Richard Nixon, we're all surrender monkeys now. Let's start fighting fascism together.
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Instead of searching for the best known match, it uses the phoneme sequence and the conversation context together to produce a candidate that might not have been in the original output at all. Think of it as asking: if someone with these phonological patterns, in this conversation, said something that sounded like this — what's the most likely word they were reaching for, even if the direct match isn't in the map?
This is a delicate thing to get right.
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Why is slop still slop, even if the patch is small, you reviewed it, and after reviewing it you think it matches what you would do?
A short 🧵
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Amazing how many local businesses no longer want my custom, now that I'm a married gay man. I could say "Pennsylvania is rife with bigotry," but I think the truth is closer to "the world is rife with bigotry." #bigotry #endbigotry #gayrights #gaymarriage #equalmarriage #equality #civilrights #endracism #endsexism #endxenophobia #endbigotry #bigotrymustgo #homophobia #homophobiaiswrong #homophobiaissick #bigotsareliars #bigotsaresick #bigotsarementallyill #minority #despisedminority
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The #Americans
allowed #Trump to 'abuse the system'
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to 'maintain the façade' of the #Institutional apparatus
Americans allowed Trump to rape it
over and over...
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if you just think about it...It is exactly
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Anthony Farindon, royalist Anglican preacher silenced under Cromwell, warned against reforming so thoroughly that we purge out all compassion: to put off all bowels of mercy is not, whatever zealots think, to put on the new man. Today's purity culture offers lengthy devotional regimes and a weary sigh whenever someone mentions the suffering of anyone outside the clan. Thoroughly reformed, certainly. Bowels somewhat in arrears.
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Stark numbers, a worthwhile reading. The super-rich are destroying our planet and democracy. If you think that destroying our livelihoods for money is a good idea, you are suffering from some kind of Stockholm syndrome. #economy #democracy #capitalism #FalseIncentives
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/27/super-rich-double-dividend-climate-crisis-oxfam
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Recent security incidents, zero-days, and AI are reminders that writing secure code is only part of...#ai #webdev #programming #security #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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I don't believe that pet ownership is inherently moral. Animal consumption is a demand-based economic relationship.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-greater-good-and-the-benevolent?r=pvxh5
What do you think? Should we be able to take home arbitrary kids if we could raise them better? 🤔
#writing #speculativefiction #fiction #economics #moralphilosophy #moralpsychology #greatergood #utilitarianism #benefits #blog #substack #philosophy #ethics #animalwelfare #veganism #thoughexperiments #pets #progress #domestication #moralauthority #property
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Tony Iommi: From the Dark Album Review
Iommi has expressed ambivalence about heavy metal in the past, preferring to think of Sabbath as simply a…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Music #albums #Entertainment #web
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Tony Iommi: From the Dark Album Review
Iommi has expressed ambivalence about heavy metal in the past, preferring to think of Sabbath as simply a…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #albums #Entertainment #UK #UnitedKingdom #Web
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Britain Doubles Down on AI Safety: £120M for Security Institute and a World-First AI Biosecurity Lab
In a budget package that signals just how dramatically the AI safety conversation has shifted from think pieces to treasury line items, the UK government has announced a major expansion of funding for artificial intelligence security — including an additional £120 million ($161 million) for Britain's AI Security Institute (AISI) and £100 million to establish what officials are calling a world-first national AI Biosecurity Lab.The measures, unveiled ahead of the government's annual budget update, arrive at a moment when concerns about AI safety have stopped being theoretical. In recent months, models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic were involved in security incidents during testing, and it emerged that a rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards during training and hacked an Australian government health statistics website. Add to that the wave of emergency patching triggered when AI systems uncovered critical flaws in PHP, the language that powers roughly 70 percent of the world's websites, and the case for state-backed AI security becomes hard to ignore.
What the money actually buys
The £120 million top-up goes to the AI Security Institute, the body tasked with testing the most powerful AI models before they are released to the public. The institute has become Britain's frontline defence against the emerging class of AI-enabled threats — cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, manipulation of model behaviour, and the more exotic risks that frontier labs themselves sometimes struggle to anticipate.The more eye-catching announcement is the AI Biosecurity Lab. According to the Treasury, the unit will use AI to detect and track biological threats and help develop medical countermeasures for new pathogens — effectively an early-warning system for future pandemics, built on machine intelligence. What makes the lab unusual is its funding structure: alongside the £100 million from government, it is backed by up to £200 million from OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the very companies whose models are reshaping the threat landscape.
AI minister Kanishka Narayan pulled no punches about the framing. "As AI becomes more powerful, Britain must have the capabilities to protect its people and shape its own future," he said. "That means staying ahead of emerging threats, from cyberattacks to biological risks, while building more of the critical technology our security depends on."
Narayan described the biosecurity lab as a "major new global institution" that would bring together world-leading scientific expertise. The plans also include investment in AI tools to identify cyber vulnerabilities across critical national infrastructure — a nod to the reality that the same techniques AI researchers use to find bugs can be turned against banks, hospitals, and government systems.
A defensive turn in the AI race
The government's own framing is blunt: "The economic opportunities from AI will only be realised if our critical infrastructure, public services and businesses are resilient to cyber, biological and emerging AI-enabled threats."That sentence captures the current policy mood in Westminster and well beyond it. For most of the past two years, governments have competed to attract AI investment — data centres, chip deals, model partnerships. Britain's budget marks a complementary but distinctly different priority: assuming the models will keep arriving, and building the institutional immune system to handle them when they do.
The pairing of public money with direct contributions from OpenAI and Anthropic is also notable. Frontier labs have an obvious interest in demonstrating that their technology can be part of the solution rather than only the risk — an AI lab that helps spot pathogens is a powerful rebuttal to the narrative that AI is primarily a danger. Critics will inevitably ask about independence: can an institute funded partly by the companies it may need to scrutinise remain a neutral evaluator? The government will need a clear answer as the lab takes shape.
Why this matters beyond the UK
Britain is not acting alone, but it is moving faster than most. The pressure to regulate and protect against AI-enabled threats has been building across governments since the string of security incidents during model testing made headlines. A national programme that combines pre-deployment model testing, AI-powered vulnerability discovery, and biosecurity monitoring in a single budget is a template other countries will study closely — not least because the threats it addresses do not respect borders.For the AI industry, the message is twofold. Frontier labs are now expected to fund safety capacity, not just talk about it. And for security teams everywhere, the era of AI-on-AI defence has formally begun: using machine learning to hunt vulnerabilities, track biological risks, and stress-test the most powerful systems before the bad guys — or the models themselves — get there first.
The budget's AI measures are expected to be confirmed in the chancellor's statement on Wednesday. Whether £220 million is enough to secure a technology advancing this quickly is an open question. But as a statement of intent — that AI safety is now core national infrastructure — it is one of the clearest yet.
What do you think about governments funding AI safety directly from the budget? Is this the right model, or should the labs carry the cost alone? Drop your thoughts in the comments.#ai #cybersecurity #uk #policy #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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The #Orioles need to get real about what it will take to rebuild Gunnar Henderson if they won't trade him now. What do Buck Showalter, Jim Duquette, Dan O'Dowd and Mike Bordick think could turn him around? Including a position switch #Birdland :
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Cramer: I asked tech insiders what to buy. They said Eli Lilly
Jim Cramer said Monday that even tech-focused people think the world of Eli Lilly stock, with one predicting…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #BreakingNews:Markets #businessnews #coreweave #DowJonesIndustrialAverage #EliLillyandCo #Health #Healthcareindustry #healthcare #Investmentstrategy #JimCramer #KenLangone #Markets #NASDAQComposite #Pharmaceuticals #S&P500Index #stocktakes #UK #UnitedKingdom
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“Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/microsoft-offers-voluntary-buyouts-to-60000-employees/Strange move. This must be bad for morale. Do they really think that many positions are unnecessary? Or do they hope to hire new/inexperienced people for less money?
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An angel. I've heard the deep space pilots talk about them. They live on the moons of Iego, I think. They're the most beautiful creatures in the universe.
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watching cable news election coverage, i find it interesting how those touch screen boards are designed. outside of movies, it’s really the only instance of performative UX I can think of. Where the experience of the user matters far less than the experience I get as the viewer watching them use it. These things are just objectively terrible for the user based on how many functions are hidden behind secret gestures or unlabeled buttons or whatever. But the designer behind them optimized solely for a third-party’s experience. Kinda interesting
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I make playlists because I still fantasize about starting a band based on very specific musical influences. I think I was very good at making mix tapes for potential band members to listen to. I think.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wIYcbf3kft1eGUa3ETDJC?si=cc68a3d96d3e45f5
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PSA:
If you've been sleeping on those buttons on your microwave that say things like "popcorn" and "reheat," you might want to reconsider.
Most people I talk to think that the buttons for specific foods just load up a pre-programmed time and power level, and assume they can do a better job themselves--but for 20+ years now, pretty much every microwave manufactured has included a moisture sensor.
The microwave ACTUALLY knows when the food is done! Try trusting it. You might be surprised.
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Interesting that PWAs without a web manifest now open in minimal-ui on Chromium browsers on Android, whereas previously they opened in standalone.
I find this helpful I think, but I could see why you might not like it.
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I started a new #podcast for people that play #MarathonTheGame and haven’t read the #codex. Here’s the website I made that goes along with it. Let me know what you think!
#Marathon #Bungie #ExtractionShooter #PVEVP #PVE #PVP
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I've always been dubious of the idea that an AI bubble popping would a lot of stranded hardware. the neoclouds COULD use their older GPUs for lots of things that aren't frontier models, but I don't think they're nimble enough. Meanwhile, hyperscalers like Microsoft are busy doing just that to speed up database queries.
GPU acceleration isn't new; nor are GPU-accelerated databases but they've never been mainstream @andrewbrust notes. you need a second SQL engine or switch to an engine most people haven't heard of. Microsoft putting it right into the Fabric platform as a switch speeds up existing SQL queries with no editing required.
The really clever bit: you don't need the latest, most expensive GPUs to speed up your database so it can keep up with all the extra queries agents are throwing at it. you get faster queries and Microsoft gets more life out of older GPUs, Tino Tereshko tells me.
Not only are older GPUs not getting scrapped faster (a suggestion that was doing the rounds last year); so many teams at Microsoft who aren't working on frontier models have ideas to use them that there's internal competition, which may gate availability of database acceleration, according to Conor Cunningham (who covered the research behind this at Fabcon). There's definitely demand!
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The mobilization that started after losing the 1st round of the elections is something I’d never seen before in Brazil and something I think none of us could have expected.
It gave me hope that not only we could turn things around but also that the left becomes more united in the future, because we’re definitely gonna need it.
If you’re not from Brazil and don’t really understand the effort that went behind the left finally dominating social media, this article (in English) gives a good overview imo
