History will look back on America's car-centric era of urban development the way we look back on cities that just emptied their sewage into the streets.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cars-have-...
Introducing ASAL: Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models
Blog: sakana.ai/asal/
We propose a new method called Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL) which uses foundation models to automate the discovery of the most interesting and open-ended artificial lifeforms!
That’s a first for me
Heads up for the Weather Community!
You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
Hmm: Ms Kendzior said: “the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles”. From her most recent “When I loved New York”: “for example, arrest war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu”. I wonder if that phrase gets you banned? sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...
Here’s a good article about Meta’s very frustrating decision to pull encryption out of Instagram. www.wired.com/story/the-da...
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ
One of the finest hackers & humans to ever hack the planet needs our help.
Marc Rogers (@marcwrogers on the other site) is lucky to be alive & we are luckier to be able to help him.
Donate if you can, and please *share* to spread the word.
gofund.me/27112e30
Peter Rood
Still thinking about this young mathematician. Her name was Yulia Zdanovska. She could have done so much for her country and for our shared world. We all lost her.
Killed by Putin’s Russia in Kharkiv almost exactly three years ago.
Memorial from the ACM: cacm.acm.org/news/in-memo...
