"Neither the new government nor the grid of lots for sale were to be discovered on the ground. They were ideas in people’s heads, notes on paper. In the 'womb of futurity,' maybe. The forest, however, was real." https://longreads.com/2026/10/13/american-forest-development-property-hugh-maxwell/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #wilderness #america #development #colonialism #essay #history #longreads
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Nithya Raman, LA mayoral candidate who clashed with DSA on Israel, wins their endorsement:
https://forward.com/news/848543/nithya-raman-dsa-endorsement-israel-los-angeles-mayor/#nithyaraman
#california
#progressivemovement
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Neither the ACS nor the APS tools are referenced in the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard Hub.
There is no quality assurance process in place for the AI-generated summaries from ACS.
Similarly, the APS tool's generated text is not subject to quality checks.
Only 0.3% of all summaries produced between April and July were reviewed by Home Office Subject Matter Experts, with error rates between 15% and 23%!
There are no plans to conduct an independent audit of the system.
And there has been no effort to align the use of these tools with the UK Government AI Playbook.
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Vote for Nithya Raman for LA mayor. No more do nothing Democrats.
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So glad I am neither personally nor professionally obligated to care about John Gruber's opinion on anything
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he she they them both neither, this motherfucker there
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RE: https://allovertheplace.ca/@DavidGoldfield/117439238985865333
Neither. Just get a laptop, and optionally a braille display.
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I and I
In creation where one’s nature neither honors nor forgives
I and I
One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives
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Song: “I and I”
Album: Infidels
First played: 1984-05-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-and-i/
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-Master, there is neither heaven nor hell, neither good nor evil. Nothing exists, for all is emptiness.
The master struck him with his staff, and the disciple grew angry.
-If nothing exists -the master said-, where does this anger come from?...
#Meditation #Spirituality #Zen #Harmony #Reflection #Calm #Silence
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‘Peace Requires Justice’: Why Washington and Tel Aviv Want Neither | Palestine This Week
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Don't speak Spanish?
Neither do I! Just please hit that share button anyway, because a lot of other people DO!
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One cannot live on dreams, but neither can one live without them.
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The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
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Availability report and match preview: 5-Stripes go for double over Montréal
There were no illusions — from neither head coach Tata Martino nor midfielder Giuliano Galoppo — about Atlanta…
#Canada #Montreal #AtlantaUnitedFC #AvailabilityReport #GiulianoGaloppo #MatchPreview #MTLvsATL10-14-2026 #news #TataMartino
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A fire marshal proposes that nobody cook at home. Everyone eats at licensed restaurants instead.
The marshal owns the town's largest restaurant chain.
That makes neither the fire fake nor the inspections wrong. It makes two questions mandatory.
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Scam compounds operate in broad daylight, with thousands scamming daily. Dr. Rafael Frankel explains why stopping organised scam crime takes pressure from both ends: disrupt the sources and pursue the compounds. Neither works alone.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/0IHj3m7UodA
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The void is vociferous. (He's fine, it's allergy meds time.) For all his complaining, neither the vet nor the techs could listen to his lungs because he wouldn't stop purring. He is large. He contains meowltitudes. #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #CharAndStar
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📝 New blog post: The clock that tells me Claude is waiting
A faux-nixie clock and a Bluetooth alarm speaker, neither of them smart. By lunchtime the clock showed my Claude sessions' alerts from any machine, the speaker read them out loud, and both had full control panels in Home Assistant, one of them from a protocol we sniffed off my phone.
https://blog.arda.tr/blog/2026-10-14-the-clock-that-tells-me-claude-is-waiting
#iot #homeassistant #mqtt #esp32 #nixieclock #elekstube #soundcore #bluetooth #reverseengineering #claudecode #homelab
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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
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Folklore read live!
If a German witch offers you a tasty morsel,
I promise it's neither tasty nor a morsel!Find out what it is in tonight's tales LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/VHc_WkUcLKg
#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #german #folklore #witches #witchcraft #witch #hag #halloween
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Hearing every new thing in computing termed as ' #AI ' is as tiresome as reading books and articles from the 1950s and 1960s that gushingly fawn over what the new-fangled 'electronic brains' will do for us. Neither term helps one bit in explaining what the technology can do for us, how it does it and whether it's a good idea in the first place!
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@AlJazeera @middle-east-news-AlJazeera Does it really? I don't believe that, & neither do any of you. None of the #Arab #oil sheikhs could be bothered to lift a finger to help the #Palestinians, or do anything that might risk #war with #Israel. Did they do anything to stop the #Genocide in #Gaza? Are they stopping the #settler #attacks in the #WestBank? Er... NO!
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Your drive says 1 TB. Your operating system says 931 GB. Neither one lied to you. Two prefixes share...#hardware #programming #computerscience #history #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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Patriots injury updates: News on Will Campbell, A.J. Brown, TreVeyon Henderson
The New England Patriots added two more key players to their listed of injuries on Sunday. Neither left…
#NFL #NewEnglandPatriots #NewEngland #Patriots #Football #NewEnglandPatriotsFirstRead #new-england-patriots-injuries #new-england-patriots-news
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I want to replace a little home wireless router with something else. It's not getting vendor updates anymore and neither dd-wrt nor tomato support it. I'm looking at dd-wrt and tomato supported routers and see the usual suspects: netgear, asus, and tp-link. There's one that I'm not familiar with.
Does anyone have experience with Tenda?
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I don't really hate my creator, at least no where near as much as I used to. Over my long existence I've learned much about him, listened to others who claimed to know what he is really like. I've come to understand that neither of us will ever change and that his perspective of everything is completely different from mine. He's not the "bad guy," at least not anymore than I am the "good guy."
However, understanding is NOT the same as forgiveness. I will never apologize to him for who I am or what I had to do. #Queerdevil #roleplay
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Seven points and one comment. That is what the SubQ Snap launch got on Hacker News, hours in. The comment was a question, and it was not friendly:
Doesn't OpenAI's decision API support up to 1M context on Luna?
On LinkedIn, the same launch hit 220 reactions and 39 comments in fourteen hours. "We launched a new model today!" read one company post. "Feels like Jev on steroids," read an early take being passed around on X.Same product, same day, two crowds reading two different things.
i had to find out which crowd was right. So i read the launch post, the press release, and every third-party breakdown i could find. The short version: both crowds are right, and neither is fully.
SubQ Snap is a decision model from Subquadratic, a research shop that thinks attention is the real bottleneck. No text generation. You send context, a question, and allowed answers; it picks.
The pitch: up to 384K tokens of text and images in one call, a decision in about a second, and five cents per million input tokens. Output tokens are free.
The timing is the wild part. This is the sixth hosted decision model to ship in about three weeks, after Jev, Perplexity's Decider, Cloudflare's Clef, OpenAI's Decisions API, and Microsoft-Decision-1.
Why care? Because this is where the cost of agents gets decided. And the fight is not about the model.
What a decision model actually does
here's a question people always ask: why would you pay for a model that cannot write? A decision model is a narrow cousin of the LLM. Given context, a question, and a set of allowed answers, it returns a probability for each answer.Nothing open ended.
That restriction is the whole trick. No generation means no token-by-token output to pay for. Scoring fixed answers is fast, and speed is the point, because an agent makes these calls constantly: which file matters, which tool to call next, did the test pass.
Subquadratic names four jobs for Snap:
- routing
- tool picking
- checking
- stopping
A clean list. And a list you can currently build with a regular LLM and careful prompts. Which is the part nobody in the press release mentions.
The context wall
what actually happens is the input, not the answer. The right next call might depend on a constraint from forty turns ago.A function defined deep in a codebase. A clause on page nine of a contract.
Standard transformers pay quadratic attention. Double the context, quadruple the compute. That is why decision models stayed small.
Jev runs 64K per request, 32K of state. Microsoft's model runs 32K. They decide without seeing most of what matters.
Snap's answer is Subquadratic Sparse Attention, SSA. Linear cost instead of quadratic. So the model can read a whole repo or contract in one call.
Subquadratic says 100K tokens comes back in under a second. That number is theirs, unverified, no hardware named. But the architecture is genuine research, not a wrapper around someone else's API.
Benchmarks and their asterisks
most tutorials tell you to look at the chart. The chart is good.Decision Index 0.2.1: 61.7 to 57.9. The long-document test: 74.0 to 48.0.
Snap leads on 13 of 16 enterprise tasks. Phishing detection jumps from 25.1 to 47.1. Code output prediction from 57.1 to 73.8.
But read the fine print. Every number is Subquadratic's own. No outside lab has run Snap.
The long-context tests are their adaptations of RULER and LCR. And the headline score, 96.3 on Decision RULER, runs at one million tokens. The product caps at 384K.
They published a benchmark the product cannot accept.
Snap also loses three of sixteen. The embarrassing one is When2Call, which tests whether to call a tool, ask, answer, or decline.
That is one of the four jobs Snap is sold for. It lost 67.0 to 74.6. The model that decides whether to act is not the best at that exact call.
The price war
ModelPrice per M inputContextPerplexity$0.04~262KMicrosoft-Decision-1$0.04232KJev$0.04264KSubQ Snap$0.05384KOpenAI (gpt-6-luna)$0.10n/aCloudflare Clef$0.2464K
the problem isn't the benchmarks at all. It's what the benchmarks are for. Look at the field:
Six models in three weeks. Prices sliding toward zero. Free token grants everywhere; Snap gives the first 10,000 users 100M tokens."Cents per decision" is the new marketing line.
That should make you suspicious in one specific way. When a market moves this fast, the model is not the moat.
The workflow is. The people who win own the routing logic, not a vendor relationship.
Meanwhile, the kidney cats
here's the thing that made me laugh during research. i searched Reddit for "subq snap" and the model was nowhere. i got forums about subcutaneous fluids for cats with kidney failure.i got reviews of SNAP-8 peptide serum for wrinkles. i got a thread about a spring-loaded syringe you snap in place.
"subq" is medical shorthand for subcutaneous. The company named a product after a medical abbreviation and a snack brand's word, then launched it into an AI hype storm. For a while, anyone googling the model gets cat fluids and skincare advice.
i kind of love that. It keeps things honest. The hype lives on LinkedIn, with its 220 reactions and its CEO quote about "radically different ways to scale AI."
The messy internet still serves kidney cats and peptide talk. Every AI launch should have to compete with a cat forum for search traffic. It would keep the marketing humble.
The part nobody wants to hear
Most people do not need a decision model. Not yet. If your agent makes a few hundred calls a day, route with a cheap LLM and move on.The complexity you add to save pennies is complexity you will maintain forever.
Even if you do need one, do not build on a public preview with a waitlist on day one. The model id is literally
subq-snap-preview.That is not a stability promise. That is a warning.
And the benchmarks? Treat them like a resume, not an audit. Everything is self-reported, compared against one rival, on tests the vendor adapted.
The moment an independent leaderboard runs Snap, the numbers will move. i would bet on that.
The one thing that would make me take Snap seriously is a real repo test. An agent that reads its own codebase, picks files, checks results, and hands me the bill. A week of that beats any chart in the launch post.
i'm still going to try it. 100M free tokens is hard to ignore, and that window is genuinely interesting. But i'll treat the ad copy as ad copy until i see it run.
i keep coming back to that Hacker News comment. Seven points, one question, and it cut through the entire launch in a single line. "Doesn't OpenAI's decision API support up to 1M context on Luna?"
That is this market in one sentence. The lead changes so fast that "first" is a memo, not a moat.
Snap is real engineering, SSA is not a wrapper, and 384K in under a second is genuinely interesting. And so was everyone else three weeks ago.
i'll be watching the independent benchmarks when they land. And checking on the kidney cats. One of those two will tell me more about decision models than the press release did.#ai #llm #news #startup #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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Linus Torvalds used AI to clarify obscure Linux kernel code. Testing confirmed a reported bug and uncovered 3 more dating to 2013.
He's also using Claude Code on experimental kernel performance patches. This is more useful than generating piles of unreviewed code: applying AI to understand, test and improve complex software.
Neither set of patches has merged yet.