Thomas Claburn

ESO Celebrates Women in Jazz featuring special guests Jean Fineberg, Anne Sajdera, Andrea Claburn & Jamie Zee - The Jazzschool The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra (ESO), the Jazzschool’s resident composers’ big band, celebrates Women’s History Month with a concert of music devoted to works by Bay Area women jazz composers.

Sunday, Mar 08, 2026
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Hardymon Hall @ The Jazzschool
2087 Addison Street, Berkeley

AI companies are more worried about their chatbot’s mental health than that of their users, who can actually have psychosis induced by those chatbots, leading some of them to take their own lives.

I love this future.

ESO Celebrates Women in Jazz featuring special guests Jean Fineberg, Anne Sajdera, Andrea Claburn & Jamie Zee - The Jazzschool The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra (ESO), the Jazzschool’s resident composers’ big band, celebrates Women’s History Month with a concert of music devoted to works by Bay Area women jazz composers.

Sunday, Mar 08, 2026
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Hardymon Hall @ The Jazzschool
2087 Addison Street, Berkeley

Maybe there's a lot of demand for to-do list apps...

Please do not unplug ventilator to charge your phone.

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

See something, say nothing.

One more nail in the coffin of the idea of interoperable software and digital services regulated by markets dominated by unaccountable platform giants. With today’s actually existing infrastructure, non-technical people simply can’t use 'apps', 'extensions' et al without putting themselves at risk.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Differences aside, it's totally the same.

> how many 'r's are there in strawberry?

There is one 'r' in "strawberry". 😊

Let me know if you’d like to try another word!

> That's wrong.

You are absolutely right! My apologies. I'm still under development ...

There is only **one** "r" in "strawberry".

Thanks for pointing out my mistake!

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire” UC-Berkeley’s Nicholas Weaver has been studying cryptocurrency for years. He thinks it’s a terrible idea that will end in disaster.

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Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker, microphones and wireless charging, according to people with direct knowledge of ...

Apple: Privacy is a human right.
Apple: Behold our AI pin with mic and camera.
www.theinformation.com/articles/app...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

“We’re going to scrutinize these to make sure that they’re not what they very obviously are.”

Are publications right to abstain from taking a position? The row illuminates the self-interested hedging.

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

chickenshits www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Ruling for the Rich: the Supreme Court over Time Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Republican-appointed justices 47% more likely to vote for the wealthier litigant as of 2022.

You made me look up "bixie." Something learned. Now I have to see whether there's a "Ferrigno," not that I'm follicly qualified to try one.

lyra.horse/fun/foldy-bi...

Screenshot of Merriam-Webster "Your 2026 Word" animated graphic on the image frame "perilous."

So...2025 again.

They made it illegal to sell lawn darts after one kid died.

CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.

If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

I don’t understand why people are questioning the integrity of leadership at the Donald J. Trump Federal Bureau of Investigation and Redaction.

It's Rococo Mordor.

Are we counting the cost of data acquisition, model training, and sunk capex?

Prompting with Hitler!, an art print by Phineas Jones Gallery Quality Prints

Since you mentioned it…

On that snowy night in Kreuzberg
When we searched but couldn't find
Any echo of the Bowie tune
Or what the Russians left behind
The teutonic plates had shifted
But it didn't seem to cross your mind
I always liked your Weltanschauung
Better than I do mine