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Everywhere we look, space seems to teem with biology’s raw materials. (From the archive) quantamagazine.org/the-cosmo…
I found out that a young Dustin Hoffman used to live with Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall, and I don't understand why this hasn't been made into a sitcom.
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Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
Very important thing to remember as you're reading about Jensen: it's just 'state espionage'. 'Nation state' is incorrect, but infosec people are addicted to the extra syllables.
While we're all learning about nation state level espionage, here is a fun declassified read from the CIA. Its a GRU/KGB memo about the pattern of failures in their illegals program (What you think of when you think of Russian spies)
Some of this game has changed but not all.
cia.gov/resources/csi/static…
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Just as a reminder on the scale of the correction we're talking about here: the S&P 500 is currently down 4% from an all-time high reached barely more than a month ago.
MORGAN STANLEY SEES S&P 500 CORRECTION NEARING ITS END
Morgan Stanley's chief US equity strategist Mike Wilson believes the market correction is entering its final phase, potentially setting up a year-end rally.
Wilson expects the S&P 500 to approach his 7,100–7,300 downside range before finding a bottom, while maintaining his 8,000 year-end target.
However, the bank advises investors to wait before buying the dip, as market breadth continues to weaken and AI infrastructure funding concerns persist.
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I think Republican or Democrat we can all agree: that right there is a Mine Inspector
JUST IN: AP projects Democrat Brian Matlock has won the Arizona Mine Inspector race, defeating Republican Les Presmyk. fox10phoenix.com/news/2026-a…
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“Hint of Lime” is an astonishingly dishonest name for a tortilla chip that tastes like it was manufactured during an industrial accident at a lime processing facility
Watching Yudkowsky try to rationalize why we're not all dead yet is going to be one of the comforts of my old age. And he'll have access to superintelligence to help him superrationalize!
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You realize this is a dream job for a sizable chunk of the population. Immured inside a big concrete cylinder & drip fed worm percocet so you can play Space Shipping Tycoon for 5,000 years in a row. There’s guys out there doing that for free right now
Can any dune book reader explain why anyone would choose to become a navigator in Dune?
In the world of Dune, navigators are barely human anymore. They spend years immersed in highly concentrated spice gas, causing their bodies to mutate severely until they resemble strange fish-like creatures. So, why would anyone accept such a terrible price?
I just successfully replaced a furnace control board and I feel like ancient man must have felt when he slew a sabre-tooth tiger with the sharpened tibia of his worst enemy
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Google ads will now expand to fill the screen while you're scrolling 250% faster
Across our projects @GoogleDeepMind, we are witnessing a genuine phase transition in the pace of scientific discovery. You will see a glimpse of this in our releases in the next few weeks.
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The year is 2029. Only the citizens of Bloomington, Indiana are left alive after the recursively self-improving entities have extinguished everyone else.
People have got to stop starring out "nonce" if they want Americans to have any hope of following this shit
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“After Brand's first night on the prison's induction wing, it is understood he was moved into the vulnerable persons' wing – otherwise known as the 'n***e wing' by inmates in the notoriously poor and vermin-ridden conditions, where cells have been described as 'inhumane'.”
(this is only based on one source btw but I doubt it’s a lie)
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I don't think I've loved a country song this much in years. I'm dying to see this guy in concert youtube.com/watch?v=6dTvkvuF…
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