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TLDR: to exercise agency you need to understand what's around you and the rules of the game, both explicit and implicit ones

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01622

avoid excess complexity and noise at all costs. mvp is not "all features of shitty quality" but "minimum features still decent quality".
or "hypothesis validation code and the commitment to rewrite"
https://minds.md/zakirullin/cognitive

medium is not the message, but certainly is an attractor of the messages of a certain kind
https://open.substack.com/pub/reinventscience/p/revive-the-republic-of-letters

augmentations save lives
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5c3ba_v1

anything programmable can be a software defined radio transmitter, if you're persistent enough :)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21069

the starling memories
TLDW: picture -> spectral synthesizer -> the bird remembers the "song" -> the bird sings -> spectral analyzer -> wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo&t=1018s

another step to the point where the llm self-improvement takeoff becomes possible
an exercise: list the rest of the required parts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18074

TIL there are at least eight people born with DNA combined from three parents already.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02276-5

Do you have a spare fusion reactor?
They can be modded to transmute mercury into gold as well :)
Regular (fission) nuclear reactors won't work, unless you happen to have a fast neutron-producing "breeder" one.
Please share photos of your project when finished!
https://www.marathonfusion.com/alchemy.pdf

2+ billion of eSIM-equipped systems worldwide can be compromised remotely (more details at the link)
https://security-explorations.com/esim-security.html

you won't hear stories like this from
OpenAI or Anthropic because they are trying to look invincible, but this is how cutting edge AI development looks behind the scenes

https://x.com/bloc97_/status/1942263691421810820
pic: nous research discovering issues in the middle of a huge training run

in Spain, cops think if you use google pixel you must be a drug dealer
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crime-preferred-phone-3573578/

as macos users now often have various juicy stuff like crypto wallets etc, macos viruses are evolving /sigh/

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/macos-nimdoor-dprk-threat-actors-target-web3-and-crypto-platforms-with-nim-based-malware/

what if moderating corticotropin can help with memory under/after stress?
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/05/30/JNEUROSCI.2146-24.2025

4D video. right in your browser. works on modern phones as well
https://www.4dv.ai/viewer/salmon_10s?showdemo=4dv

reminds me of my voxel experiments back in 2008. little did i know how much more compute would be required to get it to be real-time, yet here we are

effects lasting for at least a month, interesting
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/04/429906/how-magic-mushrooms-could-help-parkinsons-disease-patients

not your weights - not your data

i wonder if openai will just disable logging while the case is in progress because rn the order is to preserve the logs, not to log

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/5/openai-court-order/

raw sensors are kind of hard to improve right now (they're effectively photon counters for some time already), but CPUs are improved so we can combine the data acquired in much more clever ways than just averaging
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adj8124

https://engineering.fb.com/2025/04/29/security/whatsapp-private-processing-ai-tools/
who would've thought