Jack Vaughan - USA

astrobiology.comDust-driven Vortex Cascades Originating At Water Snow Region: A Pathway To Planetesimal Formation - AstrobiologyThe origin of observed planetary systems, including our solar system, as well as their diversity is still an open question.

30 Apr 2025

Dust-driven Vortex Cascades Originating At Water Snow Region: A Pathway To Planetesimal Formation astrobiology.com/2025/04/dust...

nytimes.comPeter Yarrow’s Manhattan Duplex Is Listed at $4.44 MillionThe estate of the singer, one of the three in Peter, Paul and Mary, is selling his Upper West Side apartment, “a hub of music and art and culture and activism.”

29 Apr 2025

This land is your land this land is my land from the Redwood Forest to the Gulfstream Waters! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/r...

facebook.com285K views · 1.7K comments | Welcome to LlamaCon 2025 - Opening Session! | Join us as we dive into the world of AI at LlamaCon 2025. This session features a keynote presentation with Chief Product Off...Join us as we dive into the world of AI at LlamaCon 2025. This session features a keynote presentation with Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, VP of Llama...

29 Apr 2025

www.facebook.com/MetaforDevel... Good stuff!

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28 Apr 2025

techtarget.comWhat is a Kolmogorov-Arnold Network? | Definition from TechTargetKolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) are a promising alternative to multilayer perceptron (MLP) approaches in artificial neural networks and deep learning.

techtarget.comPerplexity is on iOS, but problems remain for AI search firm | TechTargetThe AI-powered search vendor now has an app on iOS, but users might later gravitate toward Siri with Apple Intelligence.

28 Apr 2025

www.techtarget.com/searchenterp... Trying to get to consumers .. it ain't easy ..

youtu.beTrump Aggressively Attacks 1st Amendment, Elon Musk Wants Out of DOGE & MAGA Minions Do Dumb StuffYouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

25 Apr 2025

Elon can't spend all his time in Washington he has a company to also un into the ground! youtu.be/igYHXGpbam4?...

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Ethan Zuckerman

@ethanz.bsky.social

24 Apr 2025

A recent talk from UMass's excellent AI x Democracy conference - my thoughts on how media has shaped the democratic public sphere and what the politics of a public sphere mediated by AI might be: ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/24/a...

ethanzuckerman.comAIxDemocracy: What are the politics of AI? - Ethan ZuckermanEthan Zuckerman on the politics of the public sphere, and how embedding past behaviors in AI may give a conservative bias to an AI age

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dailygazettesports.bsky.social

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24 Apr 2025

Derby, Preakness winner Smarty Jones inducted to National Racing Hall of Fame @dgazette.bsky.social @nmrhof #HorseRacing #AtTheTrack #SaratogaRaceCourse www.dailygazette.com/sports/derby...

dailygazette.comDerby, Preakness winner Smarty Jones inducted to National Racing Hall of FameSARATOGA SPRINGS — Of 16 finalists in the contemporary category, only Smarty Jones was voted for induction to the National Racing Hall of Fame's Class of 2025, the hall of

wlockett.medium.comStarlink Is DoomedEvery bit of Musk’s empire is crumbling.

Will Lockett really hates El*n M*sk. So take with grain of salt. That said. He is dedicated in his research. "Starlink is doomed" [which is linked to below] touches on the Reverse Midas touch that seems to touch everything El*n M*sk touches. wlockett.medium.com/starlink-is-...

From an engineering perspective, this is a pretty interesting article. What also is interesting to me is the view it gives on the future. Things look more like Capt.Nemo-Like Masters of the Universe will continue appear through the rest of time. DC and Marvel were right.

medium.comThe Only 7 Signs of AI Writing You Need to Remove in Your TextNever be accused of using AI again.

Author: AI can assist — but it should never replace you. medium.com/write10x/the...

MORNING NEWS: Dow Nears the Worst April Since 1932 | AFTERNOON PRESS CONF: Trump says he has no intention of firing Fed Chair Powell

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22 Apr 2025

medium.comThe March of Analogies meets limits as AI edges forwardWith AI today, mind the real gap between living-breathing biology and math models of the brain.

22 Apr 2025

Tales from the Classic Con Crypt: Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Blame Powell for Any Downturn

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Renee DiResta

@noupside.bsky.social

19 Apr 2025

"We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law.” #WeekendRead -my new essay on HUAC, how it operated over its 30 year history, & how industries, academia, & individual targets eventually fought back.

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New from me: an essay on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and its remarkable 30 year history of witch hunts & blacklists. It chronicles the progression of how industries & academia went from capitulation to defiance,& what we can take from that today www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...

nytimes.comOpinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on CensorshipHow a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.

19 Apr 2025

Day has returned: Joe McCarty's a'drooling and a'smiling in his grave... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

So broad was the impact of Galvani’s work – and along with it the idea of electrical animation – it made its way into the mind of English writer Mary Shelley, forming part of the inspiration for her novel Frankenstein. - Lindsay, Grace. Models of the Mind

Huge rabbit rescued from kill farm is now therapy bunny, drives mini truck

Trump will unpave the road to the Hall of Fame unless Pete Rose is named a Saint.

washingtonpost.comColumn | The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dreadDylan is the Picasso of popular music. His ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ speaks more powerfully to what it feels like to be alive in 2025 than anything I can think of.

data, like conspiracy thinking, creates only the illusion of control. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

nytimes.comRubio Says Trump to ‘Move On’ From Ukraine Peace Talks if No Progress Soon“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he departed meetings in Paris.

Before taking office, Mr. Trump said he would end the war within “24 hours.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...

iotworldtoday.comNASA to Launch Quantum Gravity Sensor for Earth ObservationNASA is preparing to launch the first quantum sensor to measure gravity from space. The mission aims to transform how scientists observe the invisible forces that shape Earth's surface and subsurface.

www.iotworldtoday.com/quantum/nasa... The project is a collaboration between NASA and several quantum-focused startups, including AOSense, Infleqtion and Vector Atomic.

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Ruth Zakarin

@ruthz.bsky.social

15 Apr 2025

This picture may haunt me to the end of my days. It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man. An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/ #MomSky

propublica.orgTrump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most PollutersClimate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.

www.propublica.org/article/trum... Another day, another boondoggle.

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Vera Institute of Justice

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❗We are sounding the alarm—DOGE seems to believe they have the authority to investigate any nonprofit organization with federal funding.

techcrunch.comIntel to sell controlling stake in Altera chip business to Silver Lake | TechCrunchIntel on Monday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51% of its Altera semiconductor business to Silver Lake, a private equity firm.

Intel to sell controlling stake in Altera chip business to Silver Lake techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/i... via @techcrunch

infoworld.comGoogle’s bold step toward hybrid AI integrationIt’s about collaboration, not control, recognizing that enterprises need solutions that work across platforms and unique business situations.

Hybrid cloud - Can AI get this truck rolling? www.infoworld.com/article/3961...

wsj.comNvidia to Make AI Supercomputers Entirely in U.S.Nvidia said it would start producing AI supercomputers that will be manufactured entirely in the U.S.

Mr. History - Supercomputers appeared a vital massive market ... in the 1980s. What happened with that? What's different now? www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-... via @WSJ

venturebeat.comWhen AI reasoning goes wrong: Microsoft Research shows more tokens can mean more problemsNot all AI scaling strategies are equal. Longer reasoning chains are not sign of higher intelligence. More compute isn't always the answer.

When AI reasoning goes wrong: Microsoft Research shows more tokens can mean more problems venturebeat.com/ai/when-ai-r... via @VentureBeat

reuters.comNvidia to take up to $5.5 billion sales hit as US regulates sales of H20 chip in ChinaNvidia on Tuesday said it would take $5.5 billion in charges after the U.S. government said it would require licenses for exports to China of its H20 microchip, which has been one of its most popular chips.

Nvidia faces $5.5 billion charge as US restricts chip sales to China www.reuters.com/technology/n...

allenai.orgGoing beyond open data – increasing transparency and trust in language models with OLMoTrace | Ai2OLMoTrace lets you trace the outputs of language models back to their full, multi-trillion-token training data in real time.

AllenAI - OLMoTrace in the Ai2 Playground supports trace on outputs of language models back to their full, multi-trillion-token training data. #AI allenai.org/blog/olmotrace

wsj.comExclusive | Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Failed Negotiations to End Antitrust CaseThe FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case. Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.

For Zucky, the failure to reach a deal pretrial suggests he isn’t getting much return on his investment. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Critical Digital Media

@digital.therourke.net

15 Apr 2025

Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable — and important — AI interview of the year

venturebeat.comSam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable — and important — AI interview of the yearAt TED 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced tough questions on AI ethics, artist compensation, and the risks of autonomous agents in a tense interview with TED’s Chris Anderson, revealing new details about...

nytimes.comOpinion | ‘We’re Playing With Fire’: The Risks of Trump’s Tariffs on ChinaBinyamin Appelbaum on the president’s rushed and rash trade war.

15 Apr 2025

Trump appears to be siding with the maximalists and that doesn’t give me a lot of confidence that we’re headed to a quick resolution. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

nist.govQuantum and Dance: It Takes 2 to EntangleQuantum physics and dancing may seem very different, but they both rely on creativity and precision. Both have shaped one NIST researcher’s outlook on life

14 Apr 2025

NIST Knows. www.nist.gov/blogs/taking...

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Nicole Sharp

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Fresh winter snow blankets Chicago in this satellite image. Over on Lake Michigan, ice dots the coastline out to about 20 kilometers from shore. Darker regions near land mark thinner ice being pushed outward by the wind. fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=23629

reuters.comTrump Tariffs Live: Markets whipsaw as trade war fuels global recession fearsContinued uncertainty has extended some of the most volatile trading since the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Given the uncertain effects of recently announced tariffs and other policy changes, there is an unusually wide range of outcomes that could transpire." www.reuters.com/world/trump-... Below - Containers behind chainlink fence

Capital Flight Sinks Dollar!

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nytimes.comCanceled Humanities Grants to Help Pay for Trump’s ‘Garden of Heroes’The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums and historical sites, will redirect funds to the president’s planned patriotic sculpture garden.

What a slug we have for president. Rather than a country supporting great artists, writers and musicians we end up with a useless emblem for a failed businessman -- www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/a...

keep an eye on the dollars falling off the truck on the journey and which pockets get fuller as this project moves forward. Might as well put P.T. Barnum and Carlo Ponzi on the Mountain. I'll stop here.’

10 Apr 2025

TRUMP SHORTS - What's the play? Got a guy here wants to know how he can make money by betting against Columbia University.

wsj.comThe Simple, Brutal Math Behind Apple's Selloff: Heard on the StreetFew companies have capitalized on a globalized economy better than Apple. So the end of the globalized economy has painful implications for the iPhone maker. That helps explain [why Apple’s stock pric...

The Simple, Brutal Math Behind Apple's Selloff: Heard on the Street www.wsj.com/livecoverage... via @wsj

jackivaughan.medium.comFamily Affair: Through the Elon DarklyThere’s not a lot of wailing in grief this week for Elon Musk, who loses $100-billion-plus in stock value as Stop Wall Streeters spray…

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. #ElonMusk is a descendant of antecedents

apolloacademy.comWhat Is the Basis Trade? - Apollo AcademySomething very unusual happened in financial markets yesterday. Long-term interest rates went up 20 basis points despite stocks going down....

Wherefore art thou, basis trade? www.apolloacademy.com/what-is-the-...

Beware the The Master of the Universe of Queens -AKA The Exogeneous Shock.

ft.comThe Treasury basis trade rears its head againBills and bonds and Treasury basis trades, oh my!

The Treasury basis trade rears its head again www.ft.com/content/1df2... via @ft

Concern: Both Treasury futures and repo markets demand much more collateral when there is an unusual amount of volatility in the Treasury market. Like now.

wsj.comStocks Are in Turmoil, but Treasury Yields Are Stubbornly HighBond traders appear to be betting on a return to normal before long.

8 Apr 2025

Elida Rhenals, co-head of inflation at AXA Investment Managers pointed out Monday that “markets are conditioned for mean reversion; they are not prepared for paradigm breaks.” www.wsj.com/finance/inve...?