David W. Keith [dwk]

Free AI training comes to California colleges — but at what cost? California education leaders are striking deals with tech companies to provide students with opportunities to learn AI.

“…a similar frenzy took place 20 years ago when teachers tried to teach computer literacy.”

Yes! My school offered classes in word processing and typing. But that was 30 years ago, 20 years ago it was web page creation and search engine usage.

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Ready about the drama around ChatGPT 5 and I realized how accurate Douglas Adams was when describing the problems the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation had with their Genuine People Personalities feature.

I pay for Apple News, but it is way easier to use Acidity to read articles from a random social media link. Lots of lost revenue for news media.

From the Bitcoin community on Reddit: Just found this from my dad is it worth fixing Explore this post and more from the Bitcoin community

Want free help recovering old family photos from a hard drive? You just need a sharpie www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/s/...

Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made Virtually every smartphone on the planet runs on a chip paid for by American taxpayers — a chip that I helped invent. Now Congress is moving to cut funding for the National Science Foundation that …

RISC, the backbone of mobile computing CPUs was developed with US government funding, now that funding is on the chopping block. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Code Kept Secret for Years Reveals Its Flaw—a Backdoor — WIRED A secret encryption cipher baked into radio systems used by critical infrastructure workers, police, and others around the world is finally seeing sunlight. Researchers say it isn’t pretty.

Police often ask for back doors to encryption. The irony is hopefully not lost on them. apple.news/AIckbCBvpTea...

Disclaimer

Current AI models outperform average writers. The best writers will soon collaborate with AI to write novels, articles, manuals, and more. The gap between casual and professional writing will widen. xkcd.com/3126/

Beautiful! www.namitjain.com/tools/url-le...

Mark Zuckerberg’s unbelievably bleak AI vision We were promised flying cars. We got Instagram brain rot.

Lots of Facebook AI engineers are making FU money and it’s a race to make super intelligence before they vest. www.vox.com/technology/4...

Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder Was Behind 'Remember Hiroshima' Doll in "it's a small world" at Disneyland - WDW News Today Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen was behind the "Remember Hiroshima" doll placed on "it's a small world" in Disneyland.

On brand. I don’t think @benandjerrys.bsky.social will be making a Duabi chocolate flavor soon wdwnt.com/2025/08/ben-...

If Gemini CLI used the debugger, it could solve configuration issues much quicker than just running the code on the CLI (in the case of Node, not sure about other environments)

Customer Support chat windows should either go full screen, or have a button to open in a new window. Worst is when you can't resize the window because the chat size is a fixed percentage of the window. Ask your friendly AI to fix this problem, YOLO a fix in five minutes when the boss isn't looking.

Trump calls on 'highly conflicted' Intel CEO to resign over China ties Trump said Lip-Bu Tan was "highly conflicted" after questions arose about his ties to Chinese firms.

Neither the Republican leadership nor the emerging Democratic Socialist movement believes in free markets, but for very different reasons. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

We need to scientifically frame the chemtrail issue. The chemical of concern is carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas. We can start by banning private jets.

Love it, but trivial for a scraper to detect before uncompressing, even if varied ache.one/notes/html_z...

Apple's Real AI Crisis Isn't Siri, But the Talent It's Losing to Rivals Apple has hemorrhaged around a dozen artificial intelligence staff to rivals since January, making it one of the prime victims in Silicon...

Apple doesn’t have a problem creating models, just look at their contributions to Hugging Face that got these researchers and engineers noticed. Apple’s delay is in thoughtful integration that’s private and secure. Unlike every other product currently available www.macrumors.com/2025/08/07/a...

China is better positioned to weather the AI job takeover than the US. Mostly due to their economic system and authoritarian leadership.

Our economic system and authoritarian leadership is not prepared.

Democracy would be nice about now.

California's Democratic legislative leaders appear ready to follow Newsom's lead on redistricting The leaders are talking about the effort behind closed doors.

Fighting fire with fire 🔥 🇺🇸
www.kcra.com/article/cali...

Where Can I Run — Run for Something Action Fund Use this tool to find out when, where and how you can run for office.

Reminder that the filing deadline to run for office in Texas in 2026 is this December. @runforsomething.net would love to help you run. runforwhat.net

A photo of Marshfield Neighbors magazine ‘s cover with a photo of Bill Frugoli , the self proclaimed mayor

Don’t tell @stevencarell.bsky.social but there is a new unofficial mayor of his hometown, my grandfather (who would absolutely adore a visit)

Atlassian Terminates 150 Staff With Pre-Recorded Video - Slashdot Atlassian laid off 150 employees via a pre-recorded video. "While not specifically outlined, the affected staff seem to be from the company's European operations, with The Australian saying that Canno...

One could say their jobs were Up in the Air slashdot.org/story/25/08/...

Imagine if more of us donated our intellectual work to the public domain. Could be way more powerful than endless foundations started by the wealthy. blog.archive.org/2025/08/01/t...

Santa Clara County considers sales tax to pay for health care costs - San José Spotlight Santa Clara County officials are preparing to ask voters for higher taxes to protect their poorest public hospital patients from devastating federal revenue cuts.

Sales taxes, and other regressive taxes, should require a super majority to pass. sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-...

America first right?

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted Hey friends 👋, A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my libr...

Yes! Ive self-hosted plenty and would much prefer a public cloud that anyone can use. www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu...

The people telling America they’re going to give the Epstein truth, are meeting with the perpetrators & not the victims

That should be the daily headline

The fact is isn't says everything

Mainstream media is protecting & covering for a child rapist and sex trafficker, sitting in the Oval Office

Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less Unlike the West, where universities are still agonizing over how students use AI in their work, top universities in China are going all in.

Meanwhile in the US schools are banning the use of AI www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/28/1...

YouTube video by BYD Global Driverless Consecutive Leaping Test | YANGWANG U9

Is China trolling us by making the best EV for the Cannon Ball Run? youtu.be/-QJYSkq8KVA?...

Trump Rages About Windmills and Whales, Claims He Sent Aid to Gaza But No One Said 'Thank You' Donald Trump turned a press availability in Scotland into a long list of grudges against windmills, Democrats, and Gaza.

A modern day Don Quixote rambling on about windmills www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Kaiser to halt gender-affirming surgeries Kaiser's decision was criticized by members of the LGBTQ community, but praised by parental rights advocates.

Kaiser acts as both a provider and insurer, and is often the only insurer available from a person’s employer. That’s a lot of healthcare decisions tied up in one private company’s board calmatters.org/newsletter/k...