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Meta bans ads for Barcelona’s Teatre Raval promotion of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, saying mentions of civil rights, feminism or social reform are automatically filtered as “social topics.” Meta advised removing keywords to avoid activism. The one-woman show, starring Clara Sanchis, adapts Woolf’s 1928 talks on women’s education. The theatre calls the move an injustice and says it erases feminist progress, wondering if the block is due to Woolf’s name, feminism, or both.
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Paul Bakker argues against using AI to write, insisting thinking must come from humans. AI excels at coding, research, and data work, but it’s poor at thinking and generating new ideas. Drafting from bullet points with AI often skips essential thinking and yields fluff. The true value is in clear, impactful ideas, not document length. Use AI after your own thinking to refine, surface questions, or assist with data tasks—avoid letting AI replace your thinking when creating core documents.
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SQLBraid is a SQL-first data-access toolkit for TypeScript that keeps SQL visible while offering safe binds, explicit result contracts, and Standard Schema mapping. It is not an ORM or a query-builder and does not rewrite SQL or hydrate object graphs. The public API is small (db.execute, db.all, db.one, db.stream, db.tx, prepared queries) and relies on adapters for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite, Oracle, and SQL Server. It runs on Node/Bun/Deno; Node >=22.18+; uses pnpm; 1.0.0 stable.
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MacStories tests the M5 Ultra Mac Studio (256 GB RAM) and calls it a dream machine for local AI agents. With UltraFusion quad-die architecture and an 80-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, it hits up to 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth and strong on‑device performance. Prompt processing is about 2.5× faster than the M3 Ultra; generation is ~70% faster, enabling long, multi‑turn agent workflows and large context windows. A RTX 5090 PC still edges it on some prompts due to raw bandwidth, but the Mac keeps data local, runs cooler and quieter, and integrates with macOS and its app ecosystem, reducing cloud reliance for local AI.
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An advocacy page asserting that people still write code by hand, led by Jared White of Whitefusion. It invites others to add their names to a growing list and catalogs numerous contributors with last-updated dates; the piece is Portland-based, and the content is CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 with media contact information.
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An arbitrator awarded Emily Normandin-Parker's parents $40 million (two $20 million awards) and Moore $300,000, finding Uber and driver Vu Tran jointly liable for her death after Tran abandoned her and a friend at an unsafe gore point on a California freeway following a cleaning-fee dispute. The five-day hearing concluded Uber was vicariously liable as a common carrier, rejecting Prop 22 as immunizing Uber. Uber disputed the ruling post-arbitration, while the family established a foundation in Emily's memory; confidentiality/non-disparagement discussions during settlements were also at issue.
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An open reflection on Sun Microsystems' missteps: a 2005 OpenSolaris startup couldn't get Sun to respond and was sold the wrong gear, unlike Dell's fast, personalized service. The tale, recounted by the author, shows how Sun's boredom with operating a business cost it customers and traction; the author later collaborated with the same Dell account exec at Oxide. The point: study these companies to learn what to emulate and what to avoid.
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Lossless long-term memory for a personal AI that never summarizes, stores every line verbatim with a timestamp, and searches by time first. The system uses per-day JSONL logs (with ts, actor, role, type, text, model, session), an exact-search index (SQLite FTS5 with timestamps) and a tiny vector index, plus an LLL “where are we now” index injected into the model every turn. It runs locally on one machine for one user, with no server or cloud, prioritizing exact records over summaries and documenting failures and lessons.
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ZuckOff, a free Bluetooth-detection app by Pawel Szydlowski, uses device fingerprints to flag nearby Meta smart glasses (Ray‑Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Snap Spectacles) by signal strength. It cannot tell if the glasses are recording or who wears them, only proximity. Meta has updated glasses to detect tampering with LEDs to deter filming. The app is legal since it doesn’t intercept data; basic scanning is free on iPhone, with a Pro version offering history, alerts, widgets and exports. Hardware is easy to copy, and concerns about unsolicited filming remain.
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ZuckOff is an independent app that detects camera glasses via Bluetooth and alerts you when devices such as Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, or Snap Spectacles are nearby. It flags devices by manufacturer signature, shows the evidence behind each flag, and logs all heard Bluetooth devices with no data leaving the phone and no account. It supports background alerts, a Home Screen widget, and iPhone Live Activity; scans start/stop via Shortcuts or Siri, and logs export as CSV. Merch is printed-to-order and supports the app; the project seeks hardware submissions.
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Machinedrum is a 16-voice digital drum synthesizer and step-sequencer. The interface covers inputs/outputs, power, master volume, synth options, mute, step lock, sound/kit selection, trig and pads, pattern storage. It enables live knob-based tone editing and STEP LOCK to give each of 16 steps a different sound. Comes with four built-in rhythms, 1/16-note patterns, data entry, swing, and automatic save/restoration of settings.
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Disney+ updated its Subscriber Agreement in January 2025 to allow advertisements across all tiers, including those marketed as "no ads" or "ad-free." Ads may appear due to rights issues, in live or special content, and may include promotional, branded, or sponsorship messaging. The change applies to Premium, Basic, and bundle subscriptions and binds existing customers to the new terms unless they cancel. In 2026, Disney reportedly sent German subscribers a clarification implying ads could appear before or after content on Standard and Premium tiers.
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Heretic is free software that removes restrictions on language models, ensuring they follow user instructions. It can be installed with pip (pip install -U heretic-llm) and supports models like Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B. The project offers tutorials and is available on GitHub, Hugging Face, Discord, and Matrix. Licensed under AGPLv3 or later (© 2025–2026 Philipp Emanuel Weidmann and contributors).
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jev-leftpad is a Node.js package that left-pads a string using TypeSafe AI's Jev. It chooses 0–10 spaces via a Jev Choice (space_0 to space_10); more than 10 spaces is unsupported. Requires Node.js 20+, set TYPESAFE_API_KEY, and uses jev-latest through TypeSafe's @typesafe-ai/sdk. Usage: npm install jev-leftpad; import leftPad from 'jev-leftpad'; const result = await leftPad('jev', 8); console.log(result). API calls are single per invocation, with retries disabled and potential failures; not recommended for production due to costs. MIT license; tests mock Jev.
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The Lunduke Journal on X reports a new high for AI-generated Linux kernel work: last week AI wrote 1,634 code submissions, and AI patches have made up 17.25% of all Linux kernel patches for September so far.
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mini-AGI is a toy continual-learning byte-level language model that trains from scratch on an 8 GB VRAM GPU, storing weights on disk and paging to RAM/VRAM. It reads a single stream of text, and training and inference share the same path. The architecture uses two dense prelude blocks and a recurrent block (up to 24 passes) with a pool of experts; routing selects top-8 experts per block-application, with adaptive depth via a PonderNet halting head. The pool grows/shrinks by demand and memory is managed across disk/RAM/VRAM. The project aims to show continual learning on modest hardware; not frontier tech.
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