5 years ago this was a 5 block stretch of public beachfront in Venice Beach that was an eyesore riddled w/trash of careless day trippers I decided to change this and single-handedly undertook landscaping with succulent clippings from nearby neighbors the glorious results:

🚩🚨This web app is a life saver if you’re in California* during wildfire flare ups! app.watchduty.org Trad news media and ambulance chasers pump click bait and ad content into search engines or on to social platforms, making it difficult to surface real evacuation and safety data and advisories. Map based, layered, updated with clear, concise data. Click any map icon for current incident report. No more guessing or wasted time. If you’ve ever evacuated for wildfire, you’re aware, preparation during the season is essential and access to timely, accurate information is everything. *app supplies wildfire data for entire continental US. Sharing on my own accord hope it helps someone stay safe! #nortefire #brysonfire

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability persistence at hard things Brian Christian, a. “The Alignment Problem” 2020, gave a talk on Oct. 7th @UCBerkeley campus highlighting findings in a new research study The paper was published Oct. 3rd by Christian and peers from Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, MIT, and UCLA Just 10 min of AI assistance on math or reading tasks boosted short-term scores but left people performing worse and giving up more often once the AI was removed compared with those who never used it. Strongest effects when users sought direct answers. If this accumulates with daily use, short-term-optimized AI may erode the persistence and reasoning skills it aims to support. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721 Project: ai-project-website.github.io… Berkeley News: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09…

Berkeley Homecoming Weekend Headed to Zellerbach Hall to listen to Fithian & Holliday’s lecture on AI governance - Hitting Pause: An International Agreement on Frontier AI A group of more than 26 researchers across public policy, security, and AI governance; political science and international relations; computer science; economics and business; history; and diplomacy published a detailed 200-page paper today examining how an international 10-year pause could be structured, implemented, and enforced, while also considering the implications on society, economics and more. Today’s lecture is the first public lecture on the plan, and the first feasibility study of its kind by an academic body. Hosted by Berkeley Division of Arts & Humanities @Cal Berkeley Campus, Berkeley CA Fiat Lux ✨Go Bears 🧸🔵🟡

Pick a challenge that deliberately outclasses your current skill set. That is the only real mechanism for structural reinvention. Growth isn’t an accident; it’s an intentional aesthetic. A high-leverage problem introduces the strategic tension required to strip away legacy constraints and sculpt a higher-performing version of yourself. The friction is the design feature. The imposter syndrome is the reflection of your ego melting away. The discomfort is the hardening process where you learn to harness acute stress for elite performance. Executing this structural shift over over a decade creates an asymmetric competitive advantage. While others dilute their focus for comfort, you optimize and design for scale. To move ahead, reframe the game.

When does forecast.weather.gov get its makeover @ndstudio ? UI/UX Maps Functionality Responsiveness Rest API

CEOs keep forwarding me the prompted draft. Founders too. Processes. Formulas. Launch plans. Image direction. The model did what it was told. That’s not the brand. The brief left out the part that breaks if you ship it. I send that part back. The Floh.

✈️ F-35 Lightning II and F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet formation circling near the surfline this afternoon along the Southern California coast. A smaller, propeller-driven aircraft carrying air-to-air photographers with an open ramp to capture the jets accompanied, as they made several passes over the Pacific Ocean during golden hour just before sunset Similar media photoshoots have been taking place this week with other planes participating in the Pacific Airshow this weekend being held in nearby Huntington Beach

✈️ F-35 Fighter Jets and a camera jump plane circling the coastline this afternoon taking promotional photos and videos of the formation flights before the Pacific Airshow going off this weekend in Huntington Beach, California The leading plane is a propeller-driven aircraft carrying air-to-air photographers with an open ramp to capture the jets.

Dear YouTube explainer video peeps Dropping a looping low-quality sound clip in the audio bed for a demo or presentation is the worst thing you can do. Exceedingly distracting, annoying and results in clicking away from the content. 💯💯💯 Instant click away Makes the viewer feel like being stuck in an elevator. Now that you know, please stop

🚨🎬 Breaking: Paramount vows not to leave Hollywood Paramount reached an agreement with a coalition of 12 state attorneys general led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta to resolve an antitrust lawsuit. This clears the major legal hurdle for its Paramount to Settle States' Lawsuit acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

You never know just how you look through other people’s eyes.

🔥JEV is faster, cheaper, reliable, safe. While others chase benchmarks, academic puzzles, and argue about LLM security; a small, fast-moving team from OpenAI, Google Brain, and Meta/FAIR, backed by top-tier investors has released their first model: JEV Typesafe.ai has been quietly rethinking the LLM stack from first principles and building a new kind of general frontier model designed for real-world reliability, decision-making, and autonomy in production.

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