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Musicians Against Live Nation–Ticketmaster Live Nation–Ticketmaster controls nearly every corner of the US live music business, from ticketing to touring. In Portland, Maine, a coalition of venues, musicians, and art workers rallied the city a...

An interesting way to combat predatory monopolies.

So glad to see Ohio farmers getting what they voted for. Happy for you!

I don’t let my dog socialize with Trump supporters.

...they said while simultaneously destroying American education.

Periodic Labs From bits to atoms.

Forget things like video generation. Automated scientific discovery is where exciting things will be found.

Claude is more self-aware than most people.

Agonypants and a four month old Toy Fox Terrier named Pinto.

Meet Pinto.

Samsung does this with their TVs. Delete an app and watch it magically reappear 24 hours later…

Sinclair and Nexstar aren't "caving" to the administration; they are part of the problem. When Sinclair took over the ABC affiliate in my market they immediately killed its local news dept. They don't offer any educational programming, no news. They don't serve the public interest!

That's freakin' weird.

In the STL market, the local Sinclair station (ABC 30) was the first to drop their local news department entirely. Sinclair does not operate in the public interest.

Favorite line: “We’re here from the department a’justice and we’re here adjustin’ the beds and this here’s our consultant, Dr. Rosey.” BLAM!

A new word should be invented for movies like Strange Brew, a movie which I’ve just seen for the first time: Terriblarity. Pure C grade movie making with genuinely funny moments.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue) West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

As horror movies go, “Together” is nearly perfect.

YouTube video by BobbyDarinVEVO Bobby Darin - Goodbye, Charlie (Audio)

Holy shit. Did Nostradamus write this song?

Did you hear that? MechaHitler said everything is fine! Elon's truth maximizing machine works after all.

No thoughts. No prayers.

So glad to see Arkansas farmers getting what they voted for. Happy for them!

Sometimes people make the world a better place by leaving it.

I just watched Universal Language. It’s so strange and so beautiful that I can’t really describe it. Imagine that Wes Anderson was Persian. It’s quite funny at times too. I recommend it.

Morrissey says he has shut down email address shared to sell stake in Smiths Singer had said he was open to offers for stake in former band although email address never appeared to work

"What is an 'at' symbol? An 'a' with a circle around it? I don't see it..."

YouTube video by Open Reel Ensemble Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble

I'm not quite sure what to make of this. @eltonito.bsky.social ?

AI has unblocked progress toward generative nanotechnologies Deep learning has enabled breakthroughs in protein engineering, opening a path to developing molecular machinery for transformative, generative nanotechnologies.

More than anything, this is what I'm excited for: "A digital revolution transposed to the material world"

(2/2): The delivery room was large and filled with the mother's friends and family. Music was playing and everyone began to sing in unison. It was a beautiful moment and I was so proud of @deelevang.bsky.social!

DREAM LOG (1/2): My wife was an OB/GYN and she had invited me to observe a delivery. The expectant mother had an umbilical-like protrusion which was being removed. A substance was applied to the cord and was then set on fire. The father was invited to cut it off while it was still burning.

DAMN: "...aren’t LLMs “just” predicting the next token? Consider what the token prediction task actually demands: Training a generative model to predict human text creates optimization pressure to model the generative process behind those outputs, which is to say, the process of human thought."

"Are LLMs systems programmed to predict the next token based on statistical patterns in training data? This common description may seem precise and technical, yet it mistakes a training objective (token prediction) for a result (coherent, relevant, well-informed responses)..."

LLMs and Beyond: All Roads Lead to Latent Space Essential concepts for understanding AI today and prospects for tomorrow. (Bonus footnotes: the maths of exponential orthogonality & updated citations 30 May 2025)

Eric Drexler explains AI systems: "Modern LLM models operate in spaces with thousands of dimensions, and the number of different concept-vectors that can be clearly distinguished in a 4096-dimensional space...far exceeds the number of synapses in the human brain."