Just a basic blog—snagging random stuff that catches our eye—nothing else, really...
“Altman said when everyone has the kind of access to instant expertise that AI enables, humans can remake the idea of what it means to contribute to society, though he cautioned the transition will be deeply unsettling for those whose livelihoods are displaced in the near term.”
— from Sam Altman reveals his fears for humanity as ‘this weird emergent thing’ of AI keeps evolving: ‘No one knows what happens next‘ | Fortune as of 25 July 2025
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“CEOs made 285 times their median workers’ income, up from the already egregious 268-to-1 in last year’s annual report. The AFL-CIO’s 2025 Executive Paywatch report analyzes new data to quantify the gross economic inequality between America’s CEOs and the workers who make their profits for them. Key findings from the 2025 AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch report include that:
● Starbucks had the highest CEO-to-worker pay ratio out of all S&P 500 Index companies in 2024. Last year, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol received $97,813,843 in annualized total compensation, or 6,666 times more than the company’s median employee.”
— from New AFL-CIO Report: Nation’s Top CEOs Made 285 Times Workers’ Pay in 2024 | AFL-CIO as of 24 July 2025
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“Welcome to Garbage In/Garbage Out (GIGO). Formally, in AI circles, this is known as AI model collapse. In an AI model collapse, AI systems, which are trained on their own outputs, gradually lose accuracy, diversity, and reliability. This occurs because errors compound across successive model generations, leading to distorted data distributions and "irreversible defects" in performance. The final result? A Nature 2024 paper stated, "The model becomes poisoned with its own projection of reality."”
— from AI model collapse is not what we paid for • The Register as of 23 July 2025
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“Discover the most comprehensive conference calendar of upcoming 2025 & 2026 artificial intelligence conferences,”
— from 2025 & 2026 Artificial Intelligence Conferences - 37 Events! as of 23 July 2025
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“As global cyber tensions escalate, high-stakes activities have revealed how fractured and vulnerable international cyber defense truly is. From targeted military infrastructure breaches to campaigns against chipmakers and critical supply chains, state-sponsored actors no longer operate in the shadows — they're openly reshaping the global threat landscape.”
— from (2) Digital Frontlines: Nation-State Threats and Fracturing Cyber Diplomacy | Edition 128 | LinkedIn as of 19 July 2025
“After Russian attacks and the fires they cause, large amounts of toxic substances enter the air and soil, many of which are carcinogenic and mutagenic, says Tetiana Tymochko, head of the All-Ukrainian Environmental League, UkrInform reports.”
— from Russian missiles and drones continue to kill after impact, releasing toxic clouds of carcinogens over Ukrainian cities - Euromaidan Press as of 19 July 2025
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“Average approval and disapproval rating for Donald Trump's second term. The average is adjusted for poll quality, population, sample/interview mode, sample size, and recency.”
— from Trump Job Approval Rating Graph - by G. Elliott Morris as of 18 July 2025
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"When we factor in these costs, we believe robotaxis won't be break-even on a cash flow basis until 7-8 years after launch," the note reads, as quoted by BI.
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“Broadcast March 7, 1980 I think the only version of the Brave New World TV movie that still exists was recorded at home off of BBC 1. This version is the same, but missing the BBC logo at the beginning and has a very minor edit in about the middle to take out the announcement that this is "Brave New World."”
— from Brave New World 1980 480p : NBCUniveral : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive as of 16 July 2025
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“In light of these news items it might seem strange to turn the spotlight on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as a force for good in the realm of information security. Indeed, many corporate executives might be more confused than concerned to get a message from reception saying, "There's someone from the FTC here to see you." ”
— from America’s privacy and security enforcer | SC Media as of 13 July 2025
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“We're an ethically focused business providing a number of services across the UK.”
— from Resolve│Ethical Asset Management as of 11 July 2025
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“Capture higher quality data than other wearables, for research-grade heart rate monitoring.”
— from Visible: Pacing made simple as of 10 July 2025
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“Fill in one or more fields to search the Companies House register.”
— from Advanced company search - Find and update company information - GOV.UK as of 7 July 2025
“Homemade ranch dressing is easy to make – drizzle this American favourite over salad, potatoes or spicy buffalo wings.”
— from Ranch dressing recipe - BBC Food as of 6 July 2025
“The thorny question is often referred to as the human ceiling assumption. It goes like this. Is there a ceiling or ending point that confines how far human intellect can go? Or does human intellect extend indefinitely and nearly have infinite possibilities?”
— from AGI And AI Superintelligence Are Going To Sharply Hit The Human Ceiling Assumption Barrier as of 6 July 2025
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“This analysis of an innovative AI breakthrough is part of my ongoing Forbes column coverage on the latest in AI including identifying and explaining various impactful AI complexities (see the link here).”
— from Forewarning That There’s No Reversibility Once We Reach AGI And AI Superintelligence as of 6 July 2025
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“ The academics are differentiating "potemkins" from "hallucination," which is used to describe AI model errors or mispredictions. In fact, there's more to AI incompetence than factual mistakes; AI models lack the ability to understand concepts the way people do, a tendency suggested by the widely used disparaging epithet for large language models, "stochastic parrots."”
— from AI models just don't understand what they're talking about • The Register as of 6 July 2025
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“A lot of people have been documenting Tesla's Robotaxi rollout. I wanted to share a few I've collected. Feel free to share any I missed!”
— from List of clips showing Tesla's Robotaxi incidents : r/SelfDrivingCars as of 5 July 2025
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“In the case of non-United States currency, convert the maximum account value for each account into United States dollars. Convert foreign currency by using the Treasury’s Financial Management Service rate:
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/currency-exchange-rates-converter/
for the last day of the calendar year.” E.,g. December 31, 2024 = 0.797 = 1.2547
— from FBAR Department of Treasury Exchange Rates 2024 as of 4 July 2025
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“To file the FBAR as an individual, you must personally and/or jointly own a reportable foreign financial account that requires the filing of an FBAR (FinCEN Report 114) for the reportable year. There is no need to register to file the FBAR as an individual. ”
— from Individuals Filing the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) as of 4 July 2025
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“Each year, the U.S. Government requires U.S. persons who own foreign assets and accounts to disclose this information annually to the IRS/FinCEN on the FBAR”
— from The FBAR (Foreign Bank and Financial Account Reporting) as of 4 July 2025
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“XBOW’s path to the top involved uncovering a wide range of interesting and impactful vulnerabilities. Among them was a previously unknown vulnerability in Palo Alto’s GlobalProtect VPN solution, affecting over 2,000 hosts. Throughout this process, XBOW consistently demonstrated its ability to adapt to edge cases and develop creative strategies for complex exploitation scenarios entirely on its own.”
— from XBOW – The road to Top 1: How XBOW did it as of 2 July 2025
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"Leaving Fradley Junction and the well known Swan Inn the canal first cuts across flat wooded land, passing an old World War Two airfield, to Fazeley where the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal goes off to join the Birmingham Canal System, and on through Tamworth. Tamworth has a 13th century castle built by Mercian king Offa and is well worth a visit."
Hawksworth, Sutton, Greyhound: “At this unusual junction the Oxford Canal now meets the Coventry Canal but the Oxford originally ran parallel with the Coventry for a few more miles towards Coventry. The junction beneath the elegant cast iron bridge was cut through in 1828 when the Oxford Canal was being shortened by having some of its tortuous loops cut out. Narrowboats have to make a very tight 180 degree turn to get off the Coventry Canal and into the lock, especially if they are pulling a butty!”
— from The Coventry & Ashby Canal Holiday Guide and Map as of 2 July 2025
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“The acclaimed book that illuminates our world and its politics by revealing why bullshit is more dangerous than lying”
— from On Bullshit | Princeton University Press as of 2 July 2025