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• OK, DANG! mostly sucked, as expected -- >70% of the jokes didn't land and the characters were bitter unsympathetic parodies of 2010s-era NYC 30-somethings. But the final episode, where they visit their conservative Asian parents in rural Massachusetts, was GREAT!
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• Just landed a new feature, in the latest OC you can now ask your agent “Run this [web app] in crabbox and show me [vnc / a portal]” This was already working for cloud sessions, but often you start local and then later figure out you need a box to test, now it just works.

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• Asymco Office Hours Boston: TODAY at 4pm ET — In Person or Remote

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• If America had open borders from the get go, we would have mastered the automobile in 1803, invented airplanes in 1804, harnessed the atom in 1805, and landed on the moon in 1806. Instead we deprived ourselves of the world's brilliance and had to wait more than a century.
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Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.

• Therapy is like dating: how to know if it's working

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• Receptionist claimed that if I self paid for a doctors visit it would he insurance fraud. Sigh, now I have to write a letter to their board suggesting they not mislead their patients. (I assume it would violate an agreement they have with the insurer, which is no excuse for that behavior)

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• Just landed: /diff is now a persistent pane that you can scroll and click. It updates in real-time. For the times when you want to see the code without having to switch windows. Enjoy!

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• Animal Spirits: Everywhere Millionaires

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• When you live in actual Appalachia and you visit tourist Appalachia. Passed by a dilapidated shotgun shack with a hose running to the creek, a tiny town with a bank teller who gave me $300 with no ID. Then many switchbacks ... then a bit later the Titanic on one side and King Kong on a skyscraper on the other.

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• StyleX (@stylexjs) is currently a hot topic. If you need a React project boilerplate that comes ready with StyleX and shadcn-style composable UI components, you can visit this repository:

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• The purpose of DNS is to spread scams

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• Not for sale Lately, I’ve been getting so many targeted ads when I open social media. Sometimes, I just take a little break from it all. But, guess what? You have landed on a post that is selling you nothing. Just a gentle offer of some visual bliss.

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• If you're in the Boston area on Wednesday (9/2), I'll be at Pandemonium Books to chat with the visionary Anand Ghandi about MAYA, a science fictional universe of narrative warfare, bio-web media, and South Asian mythic roots. Nothing else is liek it. Come!

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• Come visit our Burning Man art piece that we installed today. It's a mile-long line of solar powered LED strobes that create a streak of light moving at the speed of the Earth's rotation. You can feel your spin. At 11:00 and far fence.

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• WebMCP landed in ChatGPT today Websites expose tools, your agent can use them, or you can just use the app like a human. Probably both! I'm calling it Clicks-n-clankers™

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

• BlueskyIt was a pleasure to discuss AI, its growing impacts and risks, and LawZero’s work on solutions with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Louise Arbour, Governor General of Canada during her visit to @law-zero.bsky.social.
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• Heartbroken to hear my friend Sir Billy Boston has died. Billy was one of the greatest Rugby League players of all time but also one of the kindest and most down-to-earth people you could ever wish to meet. He always had time for people and gave so much to back to his adopted home, Wigan. I will miss him greatly and am thinking today of Billy’s family, still grieving the recent loss of his beloved wife Joan. A giant of a man in every way. Thank you, Billy, and rest in peace.

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• More photos from my visit to Highgate Cemetery. #cemetery #photography

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• Animal Spirits: When Genius Failed, Again

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• FSD absolutely crushing this drive from Ontario to Boston 🤖

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• Lately, I've been running a local fork of the Android emulation frontend Cannoli, you can see the changes here: https://t.co/wCaJerqK3A I hope to get some some of these changes landed upstream, but in the meantime, it's so awesome to have a customized launcher that totally meets my niche needs like this. Thankful that the GPL exists to enable this type of work and delightful use of software.

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• jaa — Written by Ian Hickson for Playing At Learning.

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Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.

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• Less Cars, More Money: My Visit to the City of the Future

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