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treated image of Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Benjamin Netanyahu with the caption: "As Tony Blair criticises Starmer for not joining Trump’s war, read Carole Cadwalladr on Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection"

As the right wing press praises Tony Blair for his "rebuke" of Keir Starmer for not supporting Donald Trump's war on Iran ("We should have backed America from the very beginning."), time to re-up @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation into the Tony Blair Institute

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These Strange New Opportunities (And Challenges) “AI risk” isn’t just about what’s inside the model. It’s about systems: how models are connected to tools, to each other, and to the social and economic infrastructures that coordinate modern life.

How can we look beyond the AI models themselves to anticipate what’s about to happen? See my notes on my recent @brighthink.bsky.social discussion with Christopher Summerfield: www.linkedin.com/pulse/strang...

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Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

Très sus.

I'm in Germany, listing to talks at a tech conference, people warning about the US Dept of War exercising control over Silicon Valley AI companies. Over the weekend, there were so many young people in German army uniforms in the train stations: ready to defend democracy against American fascism.

The official term for this behavior is "CYA"

My translation into the California dialect for this behavior is "GFY"

OH: CEOs now initiating large layoffs "due to AI" are often hiding the deets, such as how their sales have dropped, how their planning and policies for growth have been poorly executed, how much projections represented to their Board had been wildly overstated, and so on.

I hope the NYC version is better though.

In some locations, Marriott drips with irony: one travels long distances to find the restaurants in the hotel have restricted hours, one must have a reservation. All info is printed in dark ink on dark backgrounds, impossible to read in their mood lighting.

marriott hotels are soooo horrible

Jeffrey Epstein: The Transhumanist Pedophile Who Hoped to Live Forever Emails reveal deep, close connections to a movement determined to use technology create a new race of “posthumans.”

New article for Truthdig!! Jeffrey Epstein was a transhumanist who funded transhumanists like Ben Goertzel, was friends with Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis, and met with people like Bryan Johnson and Eliezer Yudkowsky. Check it out:
www.truthdig.com/articles/jef...

America Christian Nationalists woke up this morning pondering, "Who Would Jesus Bomb?"

U.S. cities step up security measures amid Iran tensions FBI director Kash Patel instructed federal counterterrorism and intelligence to "mobilize all assisting security assets needed."

The “big picture” here, to use Axios lingo, is that for a year team Trump has destroyed important counter-terror tools and diverted counter-terror personnel to immigration enforcement.
And that Patel, Noem, & Gabbard have no qualifications and are riotously incompetent.
www.axios.com/2026/03/02/i...

neat to see another morning where moonshine made it to github's trending page.

visit link github.com/trending or see screenshot.

Moonshine Voice Control on Raspberry Pi Moonshine voice is designed to transcribe real-time audio speech into text. This project uses a USB microphone connected to a Raspberry Pi to accept voice commands to control a strip of NeoPixels.

a neat guide to moonshine voice on raspberry pi is up on adafruit. written by tim c. learn.adafruit.com/moonshine-vo...

interesting comments about moonshine on hacker news: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714...

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread. By Tamsin Shaw. Pictured: Peter Mandelson in front of a picture of a yacht

Remember Yachtgate - the original Mandelson scandal?

In 2008, he was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics

www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

OH: tech bros in Silicon Valley discussing their commitments to postpone procreating, so they could have post (s-word) children after (a-acronym) becomes reality.

hot take: THIS IS BRILLIANT!!! WE NEED A KICKSTARTER TO PROMOTE THIS IDEA FAR AND WIDE. LET'S F*CKING GO!!!

Meta Doesn't Understand Its Own Algorithms, Ex-VP Testifies - Law360 A former vice president at Meta Platforms Inc. told a California jury Thursday in a landmark bellwether trial over claims the company's Instagram and Google LLC's YouTube harm children's mental health...

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"asked if Meta ever tested the algorithms for safety before launching them. "In my experience, I didn't see that," Boland answered."

www.law360.com/articles/244...

Tapioca Pudding, deconstructed:
almond milk panna cotta with fresh apple juice caviar (spherification)

So many different ways to change up flavors with this approach!
#FoodSky

Will Superintelligence "Usher in a Heavenly Golden Age"? Silicon Valley Thinks So More on Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism, plus a look at the divide between those who think that ASI is imminent and those who (like me) believe LLMs are a "dead end." (2,800 words)

New article! The quote is from roon, an OpenAI employee. I discuss how virtually everyone in Silicon Valley imagines a future in which digital beings usurp humanity, as well as the growing divide between people who think ASI is imminent and those who say LLMs are a "dead end."👇

Shiitake only absorb some of the sweeter flavor here. It works as a subtle contrast to the acid from the gastrique, and also to complement the asparagus flavor

PS: as one of the co-chairs for the "software-eng-meets-graphs" workshop at ISWC last year, this hits home: G.V() is putting into practice what we identified at Dagstuhl in early 2024 -- and they're doing much more!

Their highly recommended “The Weekly Edge” newsletter has become a go-to source for timely info about graph technologies, vendors, conferences, and so on.

There's been broad adoption by cloud providers, using gdotv as a “lingua franca” to connect across graph platforms. The gdotv team also connects the communities engaged with these graph technologies.

Having a cross-vendor graph IDE was missing – and with that, some aspects of software engineering practices weren't likely to develop for graph technologies.

Looking back at the company's first blog post in 2023, founder Arthur Bigeard took a detailed look at how SQL databases provide toolkits to help developers, analysts, stakeholders, et al., collaborate together...

In practice, @gdotv.bsky.social connects many graph technologies – we counted 33 integrations among popular platforms!

... where one can write/test/debug queries in using Cypher, Gremlin, SPARQL and other query languages, then visualize and analyze query results, as well as iterating on graph schema discovery across your data sources.

G.V() – more formally, gdotv, Ltd., and pronounced "gee-dot-vee" – has been taking the graph world by storm over the past few years. Their product is described as a graph database IDE, providing an all-in-one graph query client ...

... including the role of visualization, how graph viz differs from traditional BI viz, and which works best for which circumstances; plus the maturity level of the graph industry, and other key influencing factors.