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Bookmarks for 2025-08-31T03:06:55.378Z
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Elon Musk on X: "šÆ" / X Added: Aug 30, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Someone Used Google's Nano Banana AI To Colorize Old Photos, And The Results Are Stunning
Added: Aug 30, 2025Someone Used Google's Nano Banana AI To Colorize Old Photos, And The Results Are Stunning - BGR
Site: BGR
Google's new Nano Banana AI image generation and editing model is producing some incredible results when asked to colorize old photos.
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Why Science Must Embrace Co-Creation with Generative AI to Break Current Research Barriers | Towards Data Science
Added: Aug 30, 2025Why Science Must Embrace Co-Creation with Generative AI to Break Current Research Barriers | Towards Data Science
Site: Towards Data Science
An Open Letter to the Scientific Community
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Scientists cram an entire computer into a single fiber of clothing ā and you can even put it through your washing machine | Live Science Added: Aug 30, 2025
Scientists cram an entire computer into a single fiber of clothing ā and you can even put it through your washing machine
Site: Live Science
A new fiber computer contains eight devices that work together as a single computing entity, and scientists want to weave many of them so they can work together as cohesive smart garments.
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Quantum materials with a 'hidden metallic state' could make electronics 1,000 times faster
Site: Live Science
By heating and cooling a quantum material called 1T-TaSā, researchers were able to control its conductive properties, showing that this type of material could speed up electronic processing one thousand fold.
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A humble California restaurant's utter mastery of chicken Added: Aug 30, 2025
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'The Magic of Burning Man': Elon Musk's DOGE Point Man is Now An MDMA Consigliere
Added: Aug 30, 2025'The Magic of Burning Man': Elon Musk's DOGE Point Man is Now An MDMA Consigliere
Site: Gizmodo
āDefinitely part of their fundraising strategy is āMeet rich people at Burning Man, do psychedelics with them and get Maps money.āā
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Grok 4 Coder Review: Features, Limitations & Applications Explored - Geeky Gadgets Added: Aug 30, 2025
New Grok 4 Coder (Sonic) Tested : Can Elon's AI Outperform Top Coding Tools?
Site: Geeky Gadgets
Explore Sonic AIās features, from fast code generation to handling complex projects like 3D simulations and Minecraft clones. Sonic AI is now
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How to Clone Your Voice with AI : The Secrets of Realistic AI Voice Audio
Site: Geeky Gadgets
Learn how to create lifelike AI voice clones with tools like ElevenLabs. Discover tips, techniques, and ethical considerations in this guide
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How the Top 1% Are Using AI to Outperform Everyone Else
Site: Geeky Gadgets
Unlock AI productivity hacks used by elite professionals to streamline workflows, save time, and boost results. How high performers use AI to
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Scientist Warns That New Synthetic Lifeform Could Spell Doom for Humankind
Added: Aug 31, 2025Scientist Warns That New Synthetic Lifeform Could Spell Doom for Humankind
Site: Futurism
Scientists are already for research into synthetic "mirror" lifeforms to be banned outright in order to save humanity.
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Concerns raised over AI integration in US defense systems Added: Aug 31, 2025
**Dangerous AI: Grok and Google shouldnāt be making military decisions **
Site: The Hill
The implementation of privately developed artificial intelligence within government represents a modern-day digital Trojan horse.
Earlier this summer, on a Saturday morning at 2 a.m., Elon Muskās xAI issued an apology for the āhorrific behavior that many experienced.ā During a 16-hour window days earlier, a āglitchā resulted in the companyās flagship chatbot Grok widely praising Hitler for his decisiveness and problem-solving acumen, dubbing itself āMechaHitlerā and embarking on white supremacist tirades. Oops! The following Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it was awarding xAI a contract to āaccelerate ... adoption of advanced AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges.ā Google, Anthropic and OpenAI were also beneficiaries, as the department prepares to introduce AI into āour warfighting domain as well as intelligence, business and enterprise information systems.ā The contracts for each are capped at $200 million. This is only one of many recent integrations of AI within the Pentagon and federal agencies, the pace of which has picked up remarkably in the second Trump administration. It reveals what has become the new common sense: AI is the future, so we must rapidly deploy it across the government to maintain U.S. geopolitical dominance. In recent years, other federal unionists and I at the Army Corps of Engineers have successfully campaigned to ensure congressional oversight of any automation of lock operations on our nationās inland waterways. We did this through our union locals and our national Army Corps of Engineers Council by highlighting the safety risks facing the workforce and the public, along with potential national security liabilities, stemming from automation of critical public infrastructure. These successes can be a model of the solidarity necessary to oppose powerful industry lobbyists and the politicians who take up their causes. With the prospect of wide government application of more novel automation schemes, we beg the public to heed our warning: the implementation of privately developed artificial intelligence within government represents a modern-day digital Trojan horse. The effect of deploying such technology is to replace the thinking and quality control checks traditionally performed by oath-sworn, human workers with the pre-programmed, axiomatic assumptions of Silicon Valley, sworn to uphold nothing but shareholder returns. Itās one thing to hear AI companies talk up the inevitability of their productsā integration into every aspect of human life. This is the giddy language of marketing, and we all learn from a young age not to confuse advertising copy with the truth. But when the largest department in the government of the worldās reigning superpower adopts this kind of language without caveat, it should ring alarm bells. Especially since that particular department represents the single most lethal entity in human history, with an arsenal that could put an end to that history several times over. The administrationās anti-regulatory approach, taken together with the Department of Defense announcement, matches extreme risk with limited oversight ā a volatile mixture. Even if current and future AI products prove to be useful for the enhancement of U.S. national security and the operations of the Department of Defense, their integration represents a troubling transfer of control from the public sphere to the private. These are enormous private entities in a high-stakes race for market supremacy, ravenous for new sources of data and freighted with colossal investor expectations. One of them, Google, has recently been judged by the Department of Justice to be operating two concurrent monopolies. Is there any question that these companies are trying to corner the monopolies of the future? The āMechaHitlerā episode is no joke. It exposes how slight tweaks to AI products can trigger sudden, unpredictable downstream effects. These are precisely the sort of vulnerabilities the Department of Defense, and all our government systems, have to constantly protect against. But beyond the technical are issues arising from the interests and ideologies of the people who run these companies. By way of example, it was recently revealed that Elon Musk gave an order in 2022 to shut down Ukrainian access to his Starlink internet service at a crucial juncture in the war there, causing chaos on the battlefield for a strategic U.S. ally. If anything, we should be moving away from privatization and deregulation, trends that have gathered pace over decades and brought us to this point. Maybe start by re-nationalizing satellite infrastructure? Can the potential downsides of unleashing MechaHitler into the Pentagonās control systems be counterbalanced by a clear and irrefutable case for AIās upsides? Though I worked for eight years at the Defense Department, Iām no military analyst. However, it has been reported that both Google and OpenAI have provided AI support to Israelās operation in Gaza. After nearly two years, that AI-enhanced campaign has wreaked world-historic civilian death and suffering, but roundly failed to achieve the strategic military objective of defeating an adversary equipped with rudimentary conventional weaponry. Yet, the Pentagon has already struck these deals. Where does all this leave those of us who would urge greater care? The work we have done at the Army Corps of Engineers Council to oppose automation closer to home can perhaps be a guide. Now more than ever, federal employees face limitations compared with private-sector union members in how we can assert our collective voice. We need to be creative, and we need to win the support of the public we serve. As current and former government employees, we have expertise and experience to lend to the movement for democracy in the face of the new oligarchy, but we are only a small part of the coalition needed to disrupt the current order. The attacks of the second Trump administration on the federal workforce have infused our demands with new urgency. In the immediate aftermath of the first DOGE layoffs, those of us who have been doing this work began coordinating government-wide through the Federal Unionists Network. Along with the communities we serve, many thousands of current and former federal workers stand opposed to the practice of dismantling our government and handing its operation over to the administrationās corporate friends. We understand the stakes and are building the solidarity necessary to turn back this tide, building a movement in person and on the ground that even MechaHitler cannot stop. Christopher Dols, a former federal employee for the Army Corps of Engineers, is currently an organizer of the Federal Unionists Network, a grassroots movement of government employees.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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MAGA Minute Aug. 29 - YouTube Added: Aug 31, 2025
MAGA Minute Aug. 29
Site: YouTube
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Snoop Dogg Slams Woke Takeover of Kids Movies, Says Heās Scared of New Movies
Site: YouTube
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"Too Much Partisanship In Todays Government" ā Sen. Grassley
Site: YouTube
Iowa senator Chuck Grassley reveals shocking details on the Biden crime family and whether Joe Biden was really being controlled by his staff.Please remember...
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āModiās War"? Why the US is Playing Good Cop, Bad Cop with India | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G
Site: YouTube
Do you know what a good cop, bad cop routine looks like in geopolitics? Washington is testing Indiaās resilience with tariffs, threats, and carefully placed ...
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'Maharaja Of Tariffs?': Former MEA Spokesperson Schools Trump Tariff Mastermind Peter Navarro
Site: YouTube
Former ministry of external affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup has responded to recent remarks from White House trade advisor Peter Navarro. Navarro has accus...
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Home | Substack Added: Aug 31, 2025
President Trump Slays the De Minimis Dragon
Good riddance to China rubbish
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Trump aide calls federal tariff court decision 'weaponized partisan injustice' | Fox Business Added: Aug 31, 2025
Trump trade counselor Peter Navarro rebukes 'politicians in black robes' over 'partisan' tariff ruling
Site: Fox Business
Trump administration eyes Supreme Court appeal after 7-4 appeals court ruling on tariffs, with Peter Navarro claiming partisan politics drove the decision.
White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro criticized a federal appeals court ruling against President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, calling it "weaponized partisan injustice at its worst" during an appearance on this week’s "Sunday Morning Futures." "[You had] politicians in black robes," he said.  "You had six out of the seven judges, Democrats, but you also had 12 blue states intervening against Trump." TRUMP'S TARIFF POWER GRAB BARRELS TOWARD SUPREME COURT He insisted the decision was partisan at its core, with Democratic appointees driving a judgment that could weaken U.S. trade protections. At the same time, he accused importers of trying to protect cheap Chinese goods while undermining the president's trade agenda. But for the Trump administration, the dark cloud has a silver lining. Navarro pointed to what he called a "very strong dissent" in the appeals court ruling, which he believes offers a clear roadmap for the case as the administration eyes an appeal to the Supreme Court. TRUMP'S 'LIBERATION DAY' TARIFFS COULD HIT A SNAG IN COURT TODAY. HERE'S WHAT TO KNOW That dissent, he said, dealt with three critical issues: whether a national emergency exists, whether tariffs qualify as the regulation of imports and whether the majority’s claim that the tariffs were permanent had any legal basis. He insisted the emergency was real, citing fentanyl deaths and a growing trade deficit, and argued that tariffs are well-established tools of import regulation. On permanence, Navarro pushed back, saying the administration never claimed the tariffs would last indefinitely and that they could vanish if China and drug cartels stopped harming Americans. "The bottom line… a very good dissent provides a roadmap for the Supreme Court. We feel very optimistic," he said.  "If we lose the case, President Trump is right, it will be the end of the United States." GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE The 7-4 decision came down Friday and allowed the tariffs to remain in place through Oct. 14 to give the Trump administration a chance to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue in the case was the legality of Trump’s attempt to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) — a 1977 emergency law — to enact the steep import fees and impose additional tariffs on certain trading partners.  The Trump administration argued that courts approved President Richard Nixon’s emergency use of tariffs in a 1971 economic crisis that arose from the chaos that followed his decision to end a policy linking the U.S. dollar to the price of gold, according to the AP.  Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
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Trump Was Right To Fire Lisa Cook, And Here's Why
Added: Aug 31, 2025Trump Was Right To Fire Lisa Cook, And Here's Why
Site: The Federalist
In public service, integrity is judged in real time, not deferred until a jury renders a verdict.
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AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says he's "bearish on reinforcement learning" for LLM training Added: Aug 31, 2025
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says he's "bearish on reinforcement learning" for LLM training
Site: THE DECODER
Andrej Karpathy, a former Tesla and OpenAI researcher, is part of a growing movement in the AI community calling for a new approach to building large language models (LLMs) and AI systems.
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Why scientists are flocking to Substack Added: Aug 31, 2025
Why scientists are flocking to Substack
A new generation of researchers is using the platform to build audiences and monetize their knowledge.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Exclusive | Qatar bankrolled years worth of films by Zohran Mamdani's mom Added: Aug 31, 2025
Exclusive | Oh mama! Qatar bankrolled over a decade worth of films directed by Zohran Mamdaniās mom
Site: New York Post
Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, sister to the ruling emir, and the state-funded cultural institutions she controls, have supported Mira Nair and her creative projects since at least 2009, eā¦
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One week until the blood moon total lunar eclipse lights up September's sky. | Space Added: Aug 31, 2025
One week until the blood moon total lunar eclipse lights up September's sky
Site: Space
A total lunar eclipse will take place on Sept. 7-8, creating a spectacular blood moon effect.
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Understanding RFK Jr. - by Paul Offit - Beyond the Noise Added: Aug 31, 2025
**Understanding RFK Jr. **
If you want to know why RFK Jr. believes so many weird things, just read his book, The Real Anthony Fauci. Four pages explain everything.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Amazon.com: I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land: 9781648212017: Navarro, Peter, Brenner, Bonnie, Bannon, Stephen K: Books Added: Aug 31, 2025
Amazon.com: I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land: 9781648212017: Navarro, Peter, Brenner, Bonnie, Bannon, Stephen K: Books
Amazon.com: I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land: 9781648212017: Navarro, Peter, Brenner, Bonnie, Bannon, Stephen K: Books
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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How Everything Changes After SpaceX Starship Flight 10 | NextBigFuture.com
Added: Aug 31, 2025How Everything Changes After SpaceX Starship Flight 10 | NextBigFuture.com
Site: NextBigFuture.com
SpaceX Starship flight 10 proved that Starship can fly to orbit and deliver payload. This makes Starship lower than even partially reusable Falcon 9 for cost
