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I'm removing a ceiling light fixture so a medallion can be mounted. Because otherwise the electrician has nothing to do while waiting for paint/glue to dry. (more)

high agency - a personality trait (more)

Bending Spoons hits $11B valuation after raising $710M. The company stated that the new capital will be used to enhance its proprietary technology stack and expand its AI infrastructure (more)

Bending Spoons Buys Video Platform Vimeo for $1.38 Billion. Vimeo, once a significant player in the streaming video space, has lost massive ground to other platforms, including YouTube, in recent years. Rather than fight a losing battle in the creator space, Vimeo has catered more toward business and enterprise users lately. (more)

Best known for her book The Death And Life Of Great American Cities. She lived in Greenwich Village when she wrote it. (more)

Gary Klein (born February 5, 1944, in New York City, New York, U.S.) is a research psychologist famous for pioneering in the field of naturalistic decision making.[1] By studying experts such as firefighters in their natural environment, he discovered that laboratory models of decision making could not describe it under uncertainty. His recognition-primed decision (RPD) model has influenced changes in the ways the Marines and Army train their officers to make decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_A._Klein (more)

book by Jane Jacobs, 1969, ISBN:0-394-70584-X (more)

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X.AI LLC, doing business as xAI, is a subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX working in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media.[7][8][9] The company's flagship products are the generative AI chatbot Grok and the social network X, which was acquired in March 2025 by xAI.[10] It has also constructed the Colossus supercomputer and launched data center business[11][12]. The company will develop a humanoid AI platform called Macrohard, intended for integration into future robotic workforce across a range of applications, current focus is on developing virtual assistants[13][14]. Prior to being acquired by SpaceX in 2026, xAI's current assets were part of a standalone corporation named X.AI Corp., founded by Elon Musk and 11 researchers in 2023. xAI was announced to be folded into SpaceX on May 6, 2026, with Grok and X now being part of the company's AI division. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars.[8] SpaceX has since developed the Falcon launch vehicle family and the Dragon spacecraft family, which both currently deliver payloads into Earth orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX (Space Program) (more)

Late capitalism, late-stage capitalism, or end-stage capitalism is a term first used in print by German economist Werner Sombart around the turn of the 20th century.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism (more)

NanoClaw — Personal Claude Assistant (second brain for a diplomat) (more)

The infrastructure layer for your thinking. One database, one AI gateway, one chat channel. Any AI you use can plug in. No middleware, no SaaS chains, no Zapier. This isn't a note-taking app. It's a database with vector search and an open protocol — built so that every AI tool you use shares the same persistent memory of you. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, whatever ships next month. One brain. All of them. Open Brain was created by Nate B. Jones. https://github.com/NateBJones-Projects/OB1 (more)

GenAI guru https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/ - https://www.natebjones.com/ - https://x.com/natebjones

Cedric Chin: The Dangers of Treating Life as a Game. Late last year I wrote an essay titled Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win? which seems to have haunted a great many people. ((2021-09-21) Chin Are You Playing To Play Or Playing To Win) (more)

Simone Stolzoff: Playing a Career Game You Actually Want to Win. After a half-decade of working in tech marketing, I grew disillusioned by the corporate presentations and ad campaigns. I wanted to be a real writer. So I decided to pursue a degree to legitimize my intention. (more)

I’m C. Thi Nguyen. I used to be a food writer, now I’m a philosophy professor at University of Utah. I write about trust, art, games, and communities. I’m interested in the ways that our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value. My first book is Games: Agency as Art. It was awarded the American Philosophical Associations 2021 Book Prize. It’s about how games are the art form that work in the medium of agency. A game designer doesn’t just create a world – they create who we are in that world. Games shape temporary agencies for artistic purposes. https://objectionable.net/

Christian/curious: In late 2024, the first version of the MCP spec was launched and my friend @jlehman_ showed me what was probably one of the top three most mind-blowing demos of AI I've ever seen — he was using Claude Desktop and, if I remember correctly, a local MCP server called something like "what could go wrong" to control his whole computer just by prompting Claude. (more)

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