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WATCH: Sen. Padilla's full Senate floor speech recounting his removal from Noem's LA briefing
WATCH: Sen. Padilla's full Senate floor speech recounting his removal from Noem's LA briefing Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show. Subscribe for exclusive content in our newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe PBS News podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS News at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6 Follow us: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pbsnews X: http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour

youtu.be/G-mKheWHHDw?...

17.06.2025 20:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
AI Sandbagging - Computerphile
AI Sandbagging - Computerphile Following the theme of AI research and safety, Aric Floyd talks about how some Large Language Models might follow the all too human trait of sandbagging - "lying" about their true capabilities. AI Sandbagging Paper: https://www.apolloresearch.ai/research/scheming-reasoning-evaluations Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at https://www.bradyharanblog.com

Computerphile is always a good watch. youtu.be/pYP0ynR8h-k?...

23.05.2025 16:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Major surf.social beta dropping today which introduces Starter Sets for the open social web. For example, combine "Tech Builders and Thinkers" with "Tech posts from My Bluesky Follows" to get a personalized tech feed that includes interesting people from Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.

22.05.2025 21:05 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Flipboard’s Surf app is a big new idea about the future of social This might be the first great fediverse app.

There's an app called Surf that lets you choose to entirely ignore politics, maybe take a nice respite.

The Flipboard team built it as a way to browse the decentralized world.

It's still in beta, but you might want to get on the waitlist. I really like the trending searches feed.

21.05.2025 18:57 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

Seattle mayor when?

20.05.2025 01:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love it when malicious compliance leads to harsh punishments that give consumers what they should've had all along ❀️

02.05.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Seattle City Council is so unserious.

18.04.2025 19:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

15.04.2025 03:52 πŸ‘ 89673 πŸ” 18249 πŸ’¬ 1574 πŸ“Œ 747
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Introducing β€œLentil”

13.04.2025 00:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rainbow afternoon in Seattle.

11.04.2025 01:47 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I saw this last night and there are so many worse and scarier things happening but I don't think my brain is ever going to work again after seeing this. I think it's done.

10.04.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3

@surf.social just keeps getting better. I love the recent updates. The Android experience is no longer janky. Thank you

08.04.2025 08:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Big Sky, Montana 🎞️Kodak Portra 400 #filmphotography #travelphotography #skiing #bigsky #montana

03.04.2025 00:00 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Badges!

29.03.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine "putting a lot of thought" into how you show off your tech, and the best you can do is "look at this artist who hates us whose work we're going to blatantly steal" instead of all the countless positive ways your technology could be used.

OpenAI is the worst version of what it could be.

27.03.2025 22:01 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information I talk with neuroscientist Christof Koch about what consciousness is, and what it has to do with the brain.

A great discussion about consciousness:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sean-carrolls-mindscape-science-society-philosophy/id1406534739?i=1000700593406

27.03.2025 05:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ATmosphereConf Seattle 2025 - YouTube Recorded talks from the ATmosphereConf Seattle conference held in March 2025 https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf/ The ATmosphere Conference was a 2 day eve...

OK! We have now published all the videos from Day 1 and Day 2!

*hisses gently at some other uploads*

Here's the #ATmosphereConf playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

25.03.2025 17:17 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2

Likewise, @alex.mcroberts.me!

24.03.2025 05:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

2. The way #atproto lowers barriers to developers of middle-tier solutions via lexicons/appviews is so powerful/unique. Account/data portability is just part of the magic!

I'm proud and excited to be part of a team working hard to bring #atproto benefits to a wider audience via @surf.social

2/2

24.03.2025 03:39 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#ATmosphereConf was the most informative and inspiring conference I've ever attended.

A couple of initial takeaways:

1. (obvious, but super-reinforced) The community is driven by deeply positive goals and empowered with hard-won lessons that apply to every community type and size imaginable.

1/2

24.03.2025 03:32 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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"You can't scare people into using shit.. you give them cool things that make them love themselves"

@rudyfraser.com #ATmosphereconf

23.03.2025 18:34 πŸ‘ 153 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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ATmosphere Conference by Sarah Perez πŸ’™ on Surf Surf - ATmosphere Conference

Enjoying this Surf feed by @sarahp.bsky.social to keep up on the excellent talks and goings on at the #atmosphereconf

Our lead engineers @jason.mischievous.org and @pheld.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy are both there. Be sure to say!

ATmosphere Conference
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#SurfFeeds

22.03.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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@wang.social’s message at #ATmosphereConf is that we went from bandwidth scarcity to attention scarcity is enlightening.

22.03.2025 19:22 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Optimism of the early web and the pessimism of the consolidating web. β€œSociety has come to reflect the dominant form of technology”. You might have a chance to alter the course of history if you work hard enough. @jay.bsky.team’s talk at #atmosphereconf @bsky.app

Also
www.eff.org/cyberspace-i...

22.03.2025 19:33 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

"The worst thing we did to users was making them learn how DNS works. I was explaining DNS to Flava Flav... that's not a kind thing to do." @pfrazee.com at #ATmosphereConf

22.03.2025 18:28 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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"The company is a future adversary" @pfrazee.com #ATmosphereConf

22.03.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 121 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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You win, Corks & Curds.

21.03.2025 23:03 πŸ‘ 4837 πŸ” 405 πŸ’¬ 140 πŸ“Œ 30

Sharktopus lives!

21.03.2025 14:06 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

Horrifying.

20.03.2025 21:12 πŸ‘ 831 πŸ” 233 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 7