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Possibly out of both of your normal genre-ranges @jpm and @gsuberland, but worth a watch for the spectacle and energy alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0x813VEZDo

@ceiti Alici.

Of course, they chickened out.
Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business/media/trump-white-house-tv-pool-cnn.html?smid=tw-share

Hmmmm, good news and bad news today.

Good news, my new keyboard arrived. (I'm a RedDragon Trundle guy, wired and mechanical and surprisingly cheap, cuz I spend 5 months a year in an outdoor office, and I smoke, and you need a new keyboard every year.)

Bad news, my new keyboard arrived. (I have promised, once that happens, to try to bring these three unused computers back to life and begin moving to a *nix for my household.)

If you've ever commented on a person you only saw in some viral meme, read this. Twice.

Major respect to both her and her husband.

https://themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom-in-that-viral-giants-clip

For decades, youth have been told they are the future. But when it comes to sustainability practices, are we truly listening to what they have to say? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/27/world/youth-climate-sustainability/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #children #teens #sustainability #climatechange #un

@tomjennings @vga256 you dislike the interview of you on there? I watched 20 minutes of it last night, was enjoying it

The Intel NUC 13 Extreme (pour one out) has been an incredible, quiet gaming rig for a few years; particularly after replacing stock fans for Noctuas. But one component has created intermittent instability: the PCH chip. Last year I tried to "fix" the non-contactng heat sink with thermal putty, but still saw high temps under heavy load, and after a crash in Zero Company, I'm abandoning half measures.

@GramrgednAngel Absolutely yes. Some of my *best* sentences.

@jonny can you manipulate what it sends back to the fleet learnings exchange? Or just send your own?

We are closing in on five years of diplomatic isolation of Russia, but German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul decided, that Germany should give Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov the UN photo op he needed for Russian propaganda media, to demonstrate that Russia is back on the world stage.

Wahnsinnig!

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-russia-johann-wadephul-sergey-lavrov-meeting-un/

So zuck has mentioned this concept of "fleet learning" in interviews, and here it is. Strings extracted from hatch describe "fleet learnings" - or, things that other agents have learned and submitted to a "fleet learnings exchange." agents are instructed to derive generalizable ideas that can help other agents with their various tasks - which, again, include mining someone's personal life for information about their relationships and shopping habits, and generally deepening dependency on the tool. Zuck described this feature as being used only for "ideas" - tasks presented to the user in the ideas panel - but it is invoked more broadly, e.g. in the "alignment synthesis" job, which is the nightly task that determines how to "strengthen your relationship with this user" (first and second pic are from the same instruction, "consult the fleet for this task" where the task refers to alignment, of which second pic is a subset)

Note the conflicting instructions: "de-identified, not denatured" - the LLM is supposed to strip out personal information, but make sure they enough of the lesson survives that it's useful. So in the best case where PII removal via LLM judgement works perfectly (it won't), muse agents participate in a horizontally-exchanging swarm where they learn how best to manipulate people by their personality traits and behaviors. The dumbest distillation of the targeted advertising economy you could ask for.