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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

oddly comforting to know that I cannot possibly get a worse review on my first draft of this chapter than my baby literally shitting on me and it: nowhere to go from here in the writing process but up

Edward Ongweso Jr @bigblackjacobin .. Almost certainly the greatest misallocation of capital you or I will ever see. There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born. Random Walk @MosesSternstein • 11h Al-Capex is the everything cycle, now Just under 50% of GDP growth is attributable to Al Capex US real GDP growth contribution from tech capex Percent 3.5% Contribution from tech capex 3.0% 2.5% 2.0% - 1.5% - Contribution from rest of economy 1.0% 0.5% - 0.0% 023 2023 3023 4023 1024 2024 3024 4024 1025

Nominating "There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born." for perfect sentences, @lifewinning.com

Venice’s Black history is hiding in plain sight Venice's history of African influence is revealed through its art, architecture and cultural exchange.

If you read history, this won't be surprising at all. Born in Blackness. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

These solar panels will provide a lot of electricity.

The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation, significantly adding to electricity supply🤯

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️

x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia

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The Tangled Legacy of the Man Who Led Africa’s Liberation

A lovely review of what sounds like an essential new book from Howard W. French (@hofrench.bsky.social). Gift link: Jennifer Szalai (@jenszalai.bsky.social), "The Tangled Legacy of the Man Who Led Africa’s Liberation" (NYT; #skystorians) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. Gift link: nyti.ms/47PHvI8

India's PM Modi can't back down on agricultural and dairy tariffs because that would lose him the next general elections. India's ag sector is famously unproductive, but employs the most number of people.

Surprising to see so many experts and scholars memory hole the recent farm laws protests.

Tesla tried to bait them into deleting their own copy of crash ev via autoupdates on power up

This came to me in a vision

The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

That was a very deft and diplomatic response to the review

The Tangled Legacy of the Man Who Led Africa’s Liberation

What a fantastic job the Times photo editors did in finding this image to illustrate this solid review of my new book, The Second Emancipation. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...

‘The Second Emancipation’ Review: Imagining Africa United The 20th-century Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah saw an opportunity to move Africa past the fragmentation left behind by colonial powers.

The Wall Street Journal weighs in with a very strong review of The Second Emancipation. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

*Colonel* Robert E. Lee. He was only a general in an illegal army

Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library

The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...

Looking at African liberation through its first post-colonial presidency - The Boston Globe At midnight on March 6, 1957, Crown subjects in the Gold Coast celebrated the end of British colonial rule by naming themselves citizens of a new nation-state, the Republic of Ghana.

A fantastic review of The Second Emancipation in today's Boston Globe, seen just now, hours before I speak in Cambridge. This reviewer understands how a deep intellectual history of Pan-Africanism sits at the book's core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/a...

If you have some news you need to get buried, now is the time to leak it

A thing I really need people to keep in mind: 15% tariffs are high, historically speaking. 10% tariffs are high.

The average effective tariff rate before this term was just over 2%. Anything double-digits is high!

The cast of characters that runs through "The Second Emancipation" is huge. Beyond Nkrumah, there's Garvey, Du Bois, Martin Delaney, Frantz Fanon, George Padmore, Lumumba, Eisenhower, Nixon, JFK (a ton), Khrushchev, de Gaulle, Sekou Toure, Nyerere, Senghor, Cabral, Houphouet, cont.

A pale, heart-faced owl with mottled tan and white plumage, perched under a wooden structure.

I found a sleepy Barn Owl this morning in...a barn.

#owls #birds #nature

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

Just want to talk about this for a bit. The Executive Branch's position (supported by DC Circuit Judge Neomi Rao here) is that no matter how bad the misconduct was, a judge simply can't force the Executive Branch to engage in diplomacy to undo it.

Sit on that for a minute.

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

Many job applicants are turning down offers to work for Veterans Affairs, worried that the positions are not stable and uneasy with the overall direction of the agency.

Records show nearly 40% of the ~2,000 doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down.

A blue and yellow box with a large image of Tony Soprano, with other characters from The Sopranos standing behind him. At the bottom of the box it reads "Tony's Macaroni" with the HBO logo flanked by stalks of wheat

Tony’s Macaroni (1999-2000): Little macaroni shaped like the "HBO" logo, in a box covered with images of the cast of "The Sopranos". It was released as a promotional item to the media and collectible outlets for the series premiere

Photo essay: Country & Eastern Kenyan interest in country music goes all the way back to the 1920s and 1930s, when locals first heard Jimmie Rodgers on early country and western records.

Photo Essay: Nashville or Nairobi? That’s a potato, potahto question when it comes to country music in East Africa. Kenyan interest in country music goes all the way back to the 1920s and 1930s, when locals first heard Jimmie Rodgers on early country and western records.