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Let's invent new words and then call ourselves those words.
Andreessen Horowitz is paused its Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund+program, launched after the murder of George Floyd.
It ran a 16-week training program & provided $175,000. Supported >60 companies, including Brown Girl Magazine, Myles Comfort Foods, maternity Villie.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/a...
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
An alert service is being launched as an alternative to Google Alerts, which like many Google projects, appears to have been left to rot on the vine. The new service, called Alertmouse, has a free tier.
www.geekwire.com/2025/worth-a...
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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Ballots for New York City's general election show candidates from the major parties also appearing in the columns of minor parties.
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Next-gen robots are being presented as collaborators rather than replacements for humans -- as COBOTs not robots.
Big robotics mahoff dislikes the term "AI," says that only humans have intelligence.
www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-...
NCR air quality is maxing out the existing measurement and reporting systems today, which don't report anything above 999, so we don't know how polluted it is once it exceeds that extremely hazardous level and becomes immediately dangerous to life and health.
Map source: AQICN․org (Free -- try it!)
Today's nightmare. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
13.10.2025 01:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for
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Anyone who has gone through a few layoffs or failed startups might be able to relate to this assemblage.
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"Blond TV image," by Luis Jimenez, 1967, at a time when the impacts of television were often discussed, as were the relationships between consumption and identity.
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Sixties Surreal show at El Whitney looks at the distorting effects of the American dream.
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baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other
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Cabdriver being cut from his car after colliding with a pole outside the PRC consulate on 12th Ave and 42nd St in Manhattan on 9 Oct 2025. A dismounted scooter driver attempts to cross the street with the crossing light in his favor. He looks back at two vehicles threatening to run him over.
We're told there's a war on cars, and there certainly is a war, but it's the other way around. For the automobile drivers running the light here, might makes right.
Photo outside the PRC’s NYC consulate on 42nd Street and 12th Ave yesterday, showing a cabdriver being cut out from his car.
Cabdriver being cut from his car after colliding with a pole outside the PRC consulate on 12th Ave and 42nd St in Manhattan on 9 Oct 2025. A dismounted scooter driver attempts to cross the street with the crossing light in his favor. He looks back at two vehicles threatening to run him over.
We're told there's a war on cars, and there certainly is a war, but it's the other way around. For the automobile drivers running the light here, might makes right.
Photo outside the PRC’s NYC consulate on 42nd Street and 12th Ave yesterday, showing a cabdriver being cut out from his car.
"Today is THE day to be here," a teenager tells his friend on the opening day of NYC's Comic Con, which runs through Sunday.
Restrained crowds & costumes inside, but a bit of a zoo outside with streamers & influencers jostling for spots on the pavement. Marvel is making a lot of noise.
Cabdriver being cut out of his car on the West Side.
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Syrian civil war art, displayed alongside ancient pottery from Raqqa. The surveillance camera is not out of place in our world today.
The Brooklyn Museum's blurb starts out referencing how the pottery was discovered by refugees from an earlier conflict.
Hoi polloi last night in Times Square:
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Friend․com launched their ad campaign and their product way too soon. I recommend looking at the video on their homepage before reaching conclusions. They are targeting young women but their biggest potential market is seniors living alone.
Fortune finds issues:
slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
The author is dead, but somehow the reader never seems to take responsibility
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Fewer VC funds are being raised this year compared to 2022.
Most of the VC money now being raised is going to AI projects, especially projects undertaken by large companies.
Such funding distortions pose risks for long term economic stability.
techcrunch.com/2025/10/04/i...
we have trained your company's accounting software on 6 million reddit shitposts and it is accurate 55% percent of the time. please clap.
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Lego's Rockafeller Center store is a machine that turns plastic into cash. For many of the middle aged men who shop here, cost is no obstacle.
$1,000 Death Star has 6500 pieces. Releases 4 Oct. There'll be a long line outside.
Window shows "The Rock."
Store had 1.8M visitors last year.
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DJI's USA flagship store on 5th Ave is showing off new models blending an aggressive Star Wars aesthetic with Ukrainian use cases.
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The Impossible, III, by Maria Martins, Brazilian, 1946, bronze.
Metaphor for relationships. Some relationships anyway.
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