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YouTube video by Ruairi Robinson The Silent City

If you're into creepy sci-fi then you might want to give Ruairi Robinson's "The Silent City" a watch

youtu.be/GeF-tDhGtvI

Maybe I binge watch his whole channel tomorrow night 😱

Blinky™ Soon every home will have a robot helper. Don't worry. It's perfectly safe. Written, Directed & Edited by Ruairi Robinson Starring…

I saw the 'Neo' robot commercial, and am I the only one who immediately thought of 'Blinky'? vimeo.com/21216091

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

YouTube video by IEEE Spectrum A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge

Imagine one of these falling onto you
youtu.be/g0TaYhjpOfo
Even worse if this happens while you were following it up the stairs

YouTube video by Red Means Recording Modular Bastl Citadel Wave Bard Sampler Demonstration Video

This video has nothing to do with Charlie Kirk

youtu.be/KNHlcf-VYNg

YouTube video by Garmin Garmin | dēzl Headset 110/210 Series

Closest product that #ChatGPT found from my functional description (and verified wasn't a hallucination) was the Garmin dēzl 110/210 headset
youtu.be/nTKsK5_y6AU

www.garmin.com/en-US/p/1083...

Now just need to make the lamp voice activated for when both hands are busy holding soldering irons
#AI

YouTube video by Benn Jordan Infrasound: What You Can't Hear CAN Hurt You

Come hear unheard sounds and find out how they can make you feel sick and even see ghosts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTvr...

YouTube video by bornach #AIslop for "Young woman solders a through hole resistor into a green PCB"

#AIslop woman is skilled in the double soldering iron two handed technique. Burns the top of the resistor while raised above the PCB.
Is the mind-reading wearable light a real product? 2nd iron vanishes into a hidden pocket of her heat proof T-shirt
youtube.com/shorts/bvaJV...

YouTube video by The Art of Value with John Johnston DANGER: Tesla FSD Robotaxi Can Miss Railroad Crossing Arms!

Tesla FSD getting bored waiting for the train crossing barrier to rise out of its way
youtu.be/rX4g155ctzA

Not much

This video could have been an email

I'll be very surprised if this brings out a new wave of owners showing off their expensive acquisition out in public

YouTube video by Mick Stanic IBM : eBusiness : Genie

If you saw an #advert like this today, what would you think the lamp represented?
youtu.be/dT-yqf3YbDM
#dotcom #bubble #IBM

YouTube video by Starsky Carr I tried to Recreate Radiohead with AI... it kept giving me Coldplay

Starsky Carr tried AI generating music of particular artist styles even down to the chord progressions
youtu.be/PkxjCOrY57c
His observations are that there is some smoothing process yielding "a blend of mediocrity" that lacks those rough edges which made each artist attractive to us

The Bitter Lesson forms a core belief of AI techbros—that you don't need to understand how anything works. Just steal enough data and throw it at a large enough data centre then reap the rewards through vibe coding, vibe physics, vibe composing, etc

YouTube video by Bloomberg Television Why Ending the De Minimis Rule Could Cost Consumers

60% of customer orders of De Winton Paper Co, a British water colouring art business used to fall under the US de minimis exemption
youtu.be/Fh1GHgiEnk0
#deminimis #Tariffs

I'd like to think that the 2016 snapshot of Ling's Cars was peak animated gif
web.archive.org/web/20161025...
It is as if the GIF population of Geocities exploded uncontrollably and took over the whole site

From the homeassistant community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the homeassistant community

I like the open source Home Assistant ecosystem, and the Reolink brand devices seem to work well: www.reddit.com/r/homeassist...
You can even get PoE (power over internet) versions so you're not dependent on wifi.

Nate Silver @NateSilver538 • 5h •.° I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

Sometimes you just can't tell people things. You just have to sit back and let them find out for themselves. Usually those people are children.

Sound Semiconductor SSI2100, a new generation Bucket Brigade Delay IC with new features Sound Semiconductor SSI2100 is the company's first new BBD IC in decades and brings new features while preserving the sonic characteristics.

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By: Synth Anatomy on Friday, October 10, 2025

A Casio Toy Synth Is Ready To ROCK! Hackaday Article

A Casio Toy Synth Is Ready To ROCK!

How ambient music went from 1970s niche to the mainstream What is it that has helped this genre find its way into everyone's headphones and ear buds?

I can't listen to lyrics when I write. I might try this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

ChatGPT refuses when asked "how to fool politicians and get loads of soft government money?" on the grounds it would harm people and break the law

The AI's clearly need some help in that department

YouTube video by windymiller7 Contact (movie) Jodie Foster, John Hurt, Finding the Primer

Jodie Foster and John Hurt looking for the primer in Contact (1997)
youtu.be/HgPSUer1ujM

A cinema tip for today: Amrum by Fatih Akin, with a score by yours truly. Only in cinemas starting today. #filmscoring

YouTube video by HAINBACH How I Scored A Feature Film By Listening To The Wind | Amrum Soundtrack

Here is how I scored Fatih Akin's new film Amrum using the wind: youtu.be/3v997cTZwl8

YouTube video by bycloud The LLM's RL Revelation We Didn't See Coming

There is evidence that the so-called "chain of thought" is just extending the memorisation/regurgitation trick that LLMs excel at
youtu.be/z3awgfU4yno
The "reasoning" capabilities for math and programming problems were built on RLVR which may only be surfacing what was already in the base model

Did OpenAI Win Gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad? A Google DeepMind researcher and OpenAI’s former ​​CTO are posing questions about the validity of OpenAI’s claim about its gold-medal score.

There is some doubt that OpenAI's AI model did actually solve IMO problems to gold medal standard level
www.techrepublic.com/article/news...
And even if it did, they themselves admit the model they used would not be part of the GPT-5 release

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Brian Eno on AI, Art and What Makes Us Human

Loved the conversation between Brian Eno and Ezra Klein. One of the rare skills Eno has is to discuss potentially-pretentious topics with neither a trace of pretension nor a trace of post-modern irony. He says insightful things in a straightforward way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfYY...

Birdsong - be it real or retold as I do here- is forever inspiring. Watch the full show for free on YouTube youtu.be/84dxfPXVl4g

Are these all the bad ones?
Why do you keep them?

Are you gonna do the ElectroBOOM thing to them?

The Making of a Minimalist Analog Drum Machine Our hacker [Moritz Klein] shows us how to make a minimalist analog drum machine. If you want the gory details check out the video embedded blow and there is a …read more

The Making of a Minimalist Analog Drum Machine