Category: AI Generated

  • Claude Skills are top on my list of “important things no one is talking about” for this year. They’re both an AIPaaS and showing a new programming model and mindset. The educational angle (“View Source”) is a good take. 🔗 What MCP and Claude Skills Teach Us About Open Source for AI The original is…

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  • 🤖 Open Source Maintainers Are Burning Out and Walking Away

    Summarized by AI. Open source software is sustained by overworked, often unpaid volunteers, many of whom face crushing workloads and relentless community pressure. A recent study by Miranda Heath, supported by Sentry’s Open Source Pledge, reveals that burnout among maintainers is not an isolated issue but a systemic failure threatening the stability of the global…

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  • 🤖 Writing for Baby Shoggoths: How AI Became Literature’s Last Reader

    {Some crazy-town stuff in here, but interesting and probably, mostly, correct. -Coté} Human writers may soon craft words primarily for AI rather than other humans, as large language models increasingly consume, interpret, and influence the world’s text. The essay explores the strange idea that “writing for AI” could grant influence over future superintelligence—or even a…

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  • 🤖 Optimism Linked to 15% Longer Life and Higher Odds of Reaching 85+

    People who maintain a more optimistic outlook tend to live longer and are more likely to reach “exceptional longevity,” defined as surviving to 85 or beyond. Drawing on data from over 69,000 women and 1,400 men, researchers found optimism’s benefits persisted even when accounting for health conditions, depression, and lifestyle habits. Summarized by AI. Source…

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  • 🤖 AI Security Loops: When Coding Assistants Become Their Own Risk

    Developers are embracing AI coding tools to accelerate software creation, but the resulting security landscape is increasingly complex. While AI can detect threats and debug code, relying on it exclusively creates a recursive loop where the same AI that writes code may also incorrectly validate or approve it. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: Shifting Security…

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  • 🤖 Europe’s Innovation Constitution Calls for Radical Economic Refocus

    Europe’s prosperity is stagnating because the EU has strayed from its core mission: a functioning internal market that drives economic growth and innovation. This manifesto argues for a renaissance built on enforcing market rules, enabling creative destruction, and cutting regulatory dead weight. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance.…

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  • AI video generation is very good, but its current prudishness will limit art and general use

    AI video generation is very good, but its current prudishness will limit art and general use

    I theorize that in reality, AI generated video and images are much better1 than we are currently experiencing. That’s because there are non-technological limits on them driven by prudence and prudishness. This several limits artistic and entertainment use. Most people are restricted to ten seconds or less and a limited number of generations a day.…

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  • 🤖 Old infrastructure considered not optimal, Forrester study

    🤖 Old infrastructure considered not optimal, Forrester study

    Legacy systems are creating measurable revenue drag, with 63% of surveyed companies citing efficiency losses. Early adopters of cloud-native infrastructure report 40% faster deployment cycles. Commissioned by Broadcom, based on June 2025 survey. 🔗 🤖 Forrester: Modernize or Fall Behind – Rethinking IT Infrastructure (October 2025) Citation: “Modernize Or Fall Behind: Rethinking IT Infrastructure For…

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  • 🤖 Tanzu Data Intelligence update

    VMware announces updates to Tanzu Data Intelligence with performance and resilience improvements across Greenplum (now VCF 9 certified), Data Lake 2.0 (adds Spark support), GemFire 10.2, Postgres (TimescaleDB), Valkey, and RabbitMQ 4.2 (distributed delayed messaging). 🔗 🤖 Tanzu Data Intelligence Gets Smarter with New Updates and Enhancements – Tanzu

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  • Recent AI generated videos, Grok edition – and 4 discoveries/techniques

    Grok’s AI video generation is like lazy Sora. All you have to do is upload a picture and it does the rest. You can then refine it through chat. Some of these are the first versions, no input from me. They are mostly pictures from the internet. There are some ones that were still images…

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  • 🤖 Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists – How Paris surpassed Amsterdam and Copenhagen as the most child-friendly city for cycling, thanks to bold infrastructure and speed-control policies. the heart of Paris’s transformation is its expanding network of protected bike lanes. These lanes are physically…

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  • 🤖 Tyler Cowen’s characteristic phrases and intellectual frameworks

    I’m fascinated with Tyler Cowen. Here is Claude Sonnet 4.5’s deep research on his Tylerisms, I asked: Tyler Cowen has many maxims, principles, and aphorisms. One is “Context is that which is scarce” another is “all food is ethnic food” (from his ethnic food website). Sometimes his blog posts bring with “those new service sector…

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  • “Touch of Water,” from Uncaged, volume 2

    “Touch of Water,” from Uncaged, volume 2

    I solo played “Touch of Water” last night. It’s a good representation of the adventures in the Uncaged series.1 Claude did a good job adapting it my campaign setting and evolving the story. The rusalka is a good monster – it’d make a good Eryines-like creature for Auril the Frostmaiden. You can recast Auril regionally,…

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  • Recent D&D pictures made by the robot

    Recent D&D pictures made by the robot

    When I’m solo roleplaying D&D, or just farting around, I like to make pictures of characters and scenes. Sometimes I ask the robot to make me pages from artists sketchbooks, concept art. Here’s some recent pictures: Above based on this one from the Xoth player’s guide. Look how it made the new one’s décolletage more…

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  • Recently, in photos and video

    Recently, in photos and video

    Most of these are human-made, two were given to the robot as guides. The video is me as a kid, maybe six or so. I gave it to Twitter’s video thing, and there you go. Fantastic and freaky.

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  • 🤖 AI Answers Barely Shift Across Languages, Study Suggests

    Even when asked in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, or Spanish, modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT deliver answers aligned with secular, center-left, Western liberal values. Language introduces minor stylistic variations, but the core worldview remains strikingly consistent. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: Do AIs think differently in different languages? Key Points AI responses remain largely uniform across…

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  • 🤖 Drowning in Noise: Learning to Reject in the Age of Infinite Choice

    Modern life has shifted from one of intentional selection to one of constant rejection, as boundless options—from music to AI-generated content—overwhelm our ability to focus. The piece reflects on a childhood of curated mixtapes and contrasts it with today’s flood of algorithmic output, arguing that simplicity now requires deliberate elimination. Summarized by AI. Source summarized:…

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  • 🤖 AI in Radiology: Why Machines Make Radiologists Busier, Not Obsolete

    AI has revolutionized medical imaging benchmarks, detecting diseases with speed and precision that can surpass human radiologists. Yet in practice, hospitals still rely heavily on human expertise, and radiology jobs are growing in both pay and demand. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: AI isn’t replacing radiologists. Key Points AI models excel in lab benchmarks but…

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  • 🤖 Senators Slam Amazon, Big Tech for AI Layoffs Followed by H-1B Hiring Spree

    Lawmakers are pressing Amazon, Meta, Google, and other major tech firms for allegedly laying off U.S. workers in the name of AI automation, then turning around to hire thousands of lower-cost H‑1B visa holders. The clash comes as Trump’s new $100,000 visa fee and a potential freeze on student work authorizations threaten to upend how…

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  • 🤖 Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA Report Declares AI the New Developer Baseline

    AI has shifted from a helpful add-on to the bedrock of modern software engineering, according to Google Cloud’s 2025 DORA Report. While nearly all developers now use AI, trust remains tentative, and the real differentiator lies in how organizations structure their practices and platforms to manage speed without chaos. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: AI…

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