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Agora Cosmica is a nonprofit, open-source “Living Library” with 30 historical figures across philosophy, science, art, mysticism, and activism. It pairs hundreds of pre-recorded stories and four-figure councils with live AI conversations and voice, guided by a four-chapter learning arc. The project emphasizes privacy: no tracking cookies, BYOK encryption, self-hostable, AGPL-3.0 code, CC-BY 4.0 content, EU-first hosting, and local data processing. Free tier offers 30 messages/day without signup; roadmap is community-driven via in-app voting.
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A critical opinion piece argues Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition are ineffective and elitist. It accuses Bregman of arrogance, questions SMA’s impact despite funding and high-profile interviews, and challenges its AI optimism as unfounded compared with climate science. It highlights ties to Bill Gates and Mike Novogratz, plus critiques by Anita Naidu and Payal Arora about elitism, racism, and prioritizing credentialed elites over grassroots justice. The author concludes SMA lacks substance and moral worth and should be avoided.
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Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Fable 5 delivers capabilities in software and vision, with safeguards that fall back to Opus 4.8 for certain cybersecurity, biology/chemistry, and distillation queries (fallbacks in under 5% of sessions). Mythos 5 shares the model but with safeguards lifted in contexts; it debuts via Project Glasswing for cyber defense and will broaden to biology researchers via a trusted access program. Availability: Fable 5 now; Mythos 5 limited to Glasswing partners and soon biology researchers. Pricing: $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output tokens. 30-day data retention for Mythos-class traffic.
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GitHub’s 404 page presents the full site navigation and footer links, while noting that the requested action cannot be performed at this time.
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Amazon workers use a Slack channel to meme about the company’s faulty AI tools, calling the outputs “slop” and joking about efforts to get employees to use AI. The piece contrasts Bezos’s expectation of AI-driven productivity with the employees’ skepticism and frustration over the AI's quality.
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FCC proposals would require wireless providers to obtain and retain the name, physical address, government-issued ID number, and an alternate phone number for all new and renewing customers before service. The aim is to deter scammers and aid law enforcement, potentially creating a nationwide ID registry and making burner phones effectively impossible. Privacy advocates warn this undermines anonymity, harms abuse survivors and journalists, and may not curb fraud. Industry groups push back. The rulemaking is open for comments until June 25, 2026.
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New Biff 2 is being split into twelve libraries; first release is biff.core, which handles system composition and interfaces that hold the glue for all libraries. Biff’s modules/components structure is retained: each module exposes maps that are merged into a system map at startup. biff.core adds init functions that take a modules var and return the map to merge, stored under :biff.core/init. This enables late-binding-like behavior: you can update handlers without restarting by exposing them as functions (e.g., :com.example/get-thing). The design favors a simple, linear lifecycle over a full dependency graph, with examples like turning :routes into a :biff/handler.
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The post explains Kish’s effective sample size, n_eff = 1 / sum alpha_i^2, where alpha_i are normalized importance weights p(x_i)/q(x_i). Reweighting to correct covariate shift reduces bias but increases variance as a few observations dominate. Two derivations show n_eff equals the sample size of an equivalent unweighted average: (1) variance of a weighted mean of normals, (2) Hoeffding’s inequality for bounded variables. In practice, n_eff governs information in replay buffers for off-policy RL; as weights concentrate and n_eff drops, it guides calibration (P3O, FeynRL) and resampling in SMC.
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Guide to deliberately corrupting a ZFS file to study self‑healing and scrub reporting. It pits a quick zinject checksum fault against a meticulous, file‑backed approach that traces a file byte to a disk block via inode/dnode, DVA, and vdev_RAIDZ mapping. Using two pools of files, the author writes a 1 MB test file, inspects with zdb, and learns compression can disguise data; later exporting the pool and overwriting a sector shows a scrub detecting the corruption. In RAIDZ2, parity allows repair, highlighting that redundancy enables healing and that the real data path—from file to disk—matters.
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WWDC 2026 centered on folding software and hardware via an origami demo that guides users through crease, fold, and shape steps. In iOS 27 beta, developers spotted foldState, angleDegrees, and a display-count API, signaling multi-display awareness. Apple pushed the PSOTU message to design for a dynamic range of screen sizes and aspect ratios, not a single device, and unveiled the Resizable iOS Simulator and enhanced iPhone Mirroring for landscape layouts. Rumors place a foldable iPhone Ultra (~7.7–7.8” inner, ~5.3–5.5” cover, ~$2,000) launching with iPhone 18 Pro in Sept, led by incoming CEO John Ternus.
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Automation doesn't make operators safer; it makes them forget how to act. As automation becomes more reliable, human monitoring declines, producing automation-induced complacency and reduced readiness for failures. The paradox is that more capable automation can worsen risk because operators aren't prepared for rare faults. Countermeasures: identify the critical tasks turned over to automation and regularly practice them manually; keep practice intervals short enough to prevent skill decay. Examples from aviation note manual hours for pilots, chaos drills, and game days as ways to maintain readiness.
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Anti-corruption prosecutors froze assets of Albania Land Development, linked to Kushner-affiliated Affinity Partners, as protests over a US-backed resort on Sazan island and the Vjosa-Nartha wetlands enter a seventh day. The two-part plan—Sazan’s 1.4B euro Aman eco-resort and a mainland development—could reach about $4–5B, backed by Gulf funds (notably Saudi PIF). Critics say 2024 changes reclassified protected land to enable the project; officials accuse opponents of blocking progress. The EU ties the project to enviro- and rule-of-law benchmarks; SPAK opened a case into land-title changes. Protests, environmental concerns, and EU timing shape Albania’s future.
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A gravity-based solar system model by qunabu, featuring an Earth texture from Solar System Scope, licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Apple's dsymutil adopts a parallel DWARF linker to deduplicate types across compilation units, enabling self-contained dSYMs for crash reports while greatly speeding up creation of debug info. Because parallel linking isn’t binary-identical to the classic linker, a semantic DWARF diffing tool was developed to compare outputs, and determinism was fixed by giving canonical DIEs a priority based on link order. A full qualification, including LLDB tests, is required before switching the default. The result speeds clang dsymutil from ~3 minutes to ~40 seconds when full debug info is used.
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The piece contrasts “rockstar” developers with AI-driven coding. Rockstars rush, rewrite, and produce impressive code that others struggle to understand; after they leave, teams face tangled, hard-to-follow code and debt. With AI rockstars, the problem intensifies: fast, vast code generation across disparate chats, poor system coherence, and dependency on LLMs that raise the bar but reduce clarity. The author advocates deliberate, craftsmanship-led approaches: guide LLMs, generate small, understandable snippets, avoid over-engineering, slow down for quality, and preserve human-led design.
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Emerge Career, a YC-backed workforce platform for justice-impacted individuals, is hiring an AI-forward Growth Marketer in New York. Salary $130k-$165k, equity 0.10%-0.50%, full-time, relocation to NYC; US citizen/visa. Own student acquisition and build automated AI-powered marketing workflows, managing channels (SEO, paid search, OOH, partnerships, content) and end-to-end attribution across paid, organic, field, and partner channels. Requirements: 5+ years growth marketing with deep channel expertise, end-to-end ownership, AI tooling experience; comfortable with the mission and audience (low-income, formerly incarcerated). Bonuses for partnerships, ed-tech, field marketing. Paid work-trial interview.
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Catlantean 3D is Marko Stanic’s side project: a full, ship-ready first-person shooter in the spirit of 1990s VGA raycasting (320x240, 256 colors) using a modern toolchain. Constraints include hand-made assets, fixed-point gameplay, palette-based rendering with a 32-level colormap for lighting, and a minimal platform layer. Asset pipelines cover: Blender pre-rendered sprites with palette quantization (Oklab), hand-drawn sprites/textures, procedurally generated textures, gibs, and pre-baked particle systems; plus a custom wxPython map editor with pybast. Release planned for Q1 2027 at $5–$8; source available but data archive sold; transparency emphasized.
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