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newstorystudio.bsky.social
Example of "AI" doing call centre work... #cdl #logistics #ai #brokers #truckdriver www.youtube.com/shorts/0JWJ5...
Robots are coming for your job #cdl #logistics #ai #brokers #truckdriver
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January 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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john-abernathy.bsky.social
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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glenngabe.bsky.social
Branded AI Agents are live -> Just chatted w/the branded AI agent for Lowes in the SERPs. Worked well, provided info & products based on my query, and I ended up on Lowes' site to buy. Look for those branded AI agents today from various retailers that were announced yesterday.
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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anthonymoser.com
this is why i use "predictive model" and ask "what does it predict?"

they used a tool that predicts whether an "amino acid in a protein is likely to contact whatever chemicals that structure can bind"

and one that "predicts whether any given protein is likely to form a stable structure"
The tool the team started working with is called Pythia-Pocket, which is a neural network that specializes in determining whether any given amino acid in a protein is likely to contact whatever chemicals that structure can bind, along with any other functional features. That was combined with plain old Pythia (also a neural network), which predicts whether any given protein is likely to form a stable structure. The researchers reasoned that a good candidate for breaking down polyurethane would have a number of features. It would look, structurally, like the enzyme they had already been working with. It would also face a trade-off between having a structure that was ordered enough to form a similar binding pocket that would have enzymatic activity, but not so rigid that it couldn't flexibly fit around different types of polyurethanes. To strike this balance, the team used a message-passing interface that updated amino acid positions with each pass and balanced optimizing the structure and binding pocket. They called the resulting software GRASE, for graph neural network-based recommendation of active and stable enzymes.
January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
Minister of State Alex Norris tells the BBC he won't personally come off X because it's important for communicating with voters.

None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
January 13, 2026 at 7:47 AM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Good tip: Business "dashboards should be designed around decisions, not data.

"Most teams start from “What data do we have?” But high-performing teams start from “What decision do we need to make?”" thedatadrop.beehiiv.com/p/why-most-d... #analytics
Data-Driven Dashboards: Why Visibility Isn't Enough for Real Change
Uncover why most dashboards fail before they're built, learn how to define critical decisions, and transform data visibility into actionable insights that drive real business impact.
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January 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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lilyray.nyc
Google announced that Apple Intelligence / Siri will use Gemini.

Is this game over? Cuz it feels like game over.
January 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Some Chrome extensions can read and sell your AI conversations - be careful out there www.koi.ai/blog/urban-v... #chrome #ai
8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions
Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent.
www.koi.ai
January 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Veritasium videos now produced by a team of 30. Some interesting insight into what it takes to run a popular educational YouTube channel, as its founder reduces his time on-screen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHG... #youtube #Veritasium
The Future of Veritasium
Am I retiring? ▀▀▀ References: https://ve42.co/AnnouncementRefs ▀▀▀ Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Adam Foreman, Albert Wenger, Alex Porter, Alexander Tamas, Anton Ragin, armedtoe,…
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December 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Greg the editor as a third (unseen) character in Jenna Phipps's popular home build videos - making "reality" more real. youtu.be/myg9iAQb8zI . In this vid, he's mentioned at 9.10 (& example of putting nail gun sounds to music at approx. 4.10). #JennaPhipps #youtube #editing
we finally installed our marketplace find (ep.93)
Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code JENNA at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/jenna Join our patreon + listen to our podcast:…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
"When AI helps you write better code faster while you maintain architectural understanding—that’s augmentation. When AI writes code you don’t understand—that’s abdication." leadershiplighthouse.substack.com/p/i-went-all... #ai #productivity
I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.
My all-in AI experiment cost me my confidence
leadershiplighthouse.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Working a 9-5 Job from Inside Skyrim VR www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9gI...
Can I work my 9-5 Job from Inside Skyrim
YouTube video by habie147
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November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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techmeme.com
OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Reaction to a self-driving car www.youtube.com/shorts/ajFlI...
Waymo is coming to Minneapolis?! Remembering my first ride in AZ!
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November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
it does drive me sort of nuts how people talk about AI agents, and a lot of new AI products in general, as if they're deploying into a static environment. people react when robots start showing up!
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
AI companies want to mediate the entire economy. Their competitors aren't happy about this nymag.com/intelligence...
This week, Amazon answered clearly in the affirmative, in the form of a lawsuit against Perplexity. The language is spicy: Amazon brings this action to stop Perplexity AI, Inc's ("Perplexity" or "Defendant" persistent, covert, and unauthorized access into Amazon's protected computer systems in violation of federal and California computer fraud and abuse statutes. This case is not about stifling innovation; it is about unauthorized access and trespass. It is about a company that, after repeated notice, chose to disguise an automated "agentic" browser as a human user, to evade Amazon's technological barriers, and to access private customer accounts without Amazon's permission. Fraud! Abuse! Trespass! Evasion! This is a threatening lawsuit — it later refers to Perplexity as an "intruder" — but it's also a useful window into Amazon's thinking on AI and where its business fits into a theoretical world where more people do more things with chatbots and agents. It might not be right to say the company is worried, exactly. But it's certainly clear about what it doesn't want to happen, which happens to be precisely what some AI companies clearly want. Most broadly, AI companies are hoping to end up in a situation where their products are the default interface for all sorts of things, and browser agents represent a small but aggressive move in that direction. A world where all purchases flow entirely through another company's interface, chatbot or otherwise, is something that Amazon would prefer to avoid, or at least have a say in, which is perhaps why the company's lawyers are talking about Perplexity as if it's built an automated ticket-scalping app, a sneaker-sniping bot, a data scraper, a data-exfiltration tool, or rip-off interface for its product catalogue. Earlier this week, Perplexity argued on its site: Amazon wants to block you from using your own AI assistant to shop on their platform ... Amazon should love this. Easier shopping means more transactions and happier customers. But Amazon doesn't care. They're more interested in serving you ads, sponsored results, and influencing your purchasing decisions with upsells and confusing offers. Suggesting that "Amazon should love this" and then describing the ways that it might cause them to make less money is sort of funny, but between the lawsuit and Perplexity's response we can get a pretty clear sense of what's going on here: an attempt by Amazon to stop a marginal player from setting a precedent it doesn't want, and a clear signal to bigger ones — OpenAI, Google, and other firms Amazon already competes and partners with - that, if they want their tools to touch Amazon, they'll have to do it on Amazon's terms. This is a sort of conflict we can expect to see a lot of, and soon.
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
indeed, this is the one useful thing about Grok and Grokipedia nymag.com/intelligence...
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
if you're a maximally public figure you have to buy/build a level of sycophancy that regular/outside-the-training-data/minimal-online-presence LLM users can basically already access for free
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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johnmu.com
Consistency is the biggest technical SEO factor.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
Social media is a funhouse mirror.
I gave a talk yesterday at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine about how social media distorts our perceptions.
It's not a mirror, it’s a false polarization machine where the most extreme voices on any issue dominate the conversation.
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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hern.bsky.social
When an AI-powered writing tool was rolled out on a job site, the length of proposals exploded. Signals employers used to identify good candidates — like quality of writing, and relevance of experience — became ubiquitous. That was OK for bad candidates, but terrible for good ones.
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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wilreynolds.bsky.social
This is a crazy stat regarding local news, which has fallen off a cliff completely. The lack of local news leaves an opening for something to fill the void, since ai defaults to trying to get you an answer every time.

www.techpolicy.press/how-to-solve...
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM