Another Para Digm
Spotted one of the above, flying up and down East Beach in Santa Barbara. If I were half my age, I’d be up there too.
Unhuman
Matt Hinkle: The Week AI Agents Got Hands. It begins,
The chat window era just ended. This week, AI agents got hands — Cloudflare shipped a browser built for software instead of people, Meta dropped a coding agent into the terminal, and the Pentagon put autonomous agents to work for 9.2 million soldiers and veterans. It reminds me of 1995, when the browser went from research curiosity to the way everyone touched the internet — except this time, the humans aren’t the ones doing the browsing. The same week the agents got hands, the regulators and safety teams showed up with the rulebook.
Zuck wrote a thing
It’s called The Future is for Everyone and weighs in at 6538 words (about as long as Meta’s privacy policy, I’d guess. How can a guy get a perfect SAT score and still use “incredible” as an adjective? Or at all?
Just not saying
Says here the Nicene Creed doesn’t quote Jesus. Does it need to? Asking for a religion.
They will also spend a lot more time with you, and answering your questions
Reason: AI Is Already Beating Human Doctors in Medical Tests.
Beyond wet and dry
Bruce Li in Hackernoon: AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think Pull-quote:
The data centers rising out of the desert didn’t create the water crisis. They did something arguably more useful: they made it legible. A 200-megawatt facility asking a small county for eight million gallons on a summer afternoon is a question the 20th-century water grid cannot answer without revealing exactly how thin its margins already were — margins eroded by a century of pumping from ever-more-distant rivers, using each drop precisely once, and calling the result waste.
What’s replacing it is a shift in scale of attention. We are moving out of an era of bulk extraction and into one of molecular management.
You might care if you know it’s being displaced by a data center
Trunk Line: Why KNXT/840 is shutting down.
Holdouts
Milwaukee (WISN and WTMJ) and Cincinnati (WLW) are two radio markets where AM stations still do well.
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