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this is the new Instagram for you page - can’t fake the results and does describe your preferences
Someone discovered a new Amazon AI feature that summarizes what it knows about you and I am crying of laughter
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the synergies you dream about
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Ovi is just simply… “Russian”??
Russian announces this will be his final NHL season, leaving hockey world reflecting on an incomparable legacy. thestar.com/sports/leafs/one…
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while I think most people don't have complex enough lives that they'll need an agent to complete tasks, the real win for meta is gaining the trust of high value users to share their texts / calendars / email inboxes / etc for training purposes, something OAI is desperate for
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In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to. By @Amber_M_Neely appleinsider.com/articles/26…
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“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time $META time.com/article/2026/10/06/…
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this is incredible, mowing at night might change the game for munis / publics that can’t afford elite crews to maintain their tracks but can potentially afford these mowers
Pretty incredible impacts of the timing of autonomous mowing on dollar spot development. On the peak disease date of Aug 12, 2026 there was a 96% reduction in DS when mowed at midnight compared to 9 AM and a 91% reduction when mowed at 3 AM. The pics below tell the story
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this can be done with current free models and they won’t be able to charge users for this, that’s why the marketing doesn’t and won’t highlight these use cases
It's happening. My wife told her friends how I set up a @bot to handle weekly meal planning and grocery shopping, saving 2-3 hours per week. They lean forward. "I want that! How do I get that?" The AI factories are pitching travel agents, but mundane convenience seems like a killer feature to usher the Instagram crowd to Muse/Bot/Dot/etc. Most people right now "use AI" the way I use a Swiss Army knife to lift the tab on a soda can, so everything she describes next lands like "The Turn" of a magic trick. Every Sunday, "Sylvia-bot" sends 15 meal ideas and we choose 5-7 based on the week. It knows to assign the easy meals to the nights when our family calendar shows football practice. It knows to use ingredients 2-3 times in different ways, like a chef balancing COGS and flavors. It knows the components of a successful taco night. We had years of weekly grocery orders for training, so it knows the brands, flavors, and sizes we prefer as a family. (I wonder how long it will take others to get to this point without the archive.) We're still working on the idea that "grape tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are interchangeable" and "don't buy berries that aren't on sale!" In 5 minutes, we approve the plan. It does the shopping on H-E-B, double-checks the pantry assumptions (e.g. soy sauce, spices, etc.), adds the kids' usual extras, and emails a clean PDF of every recipe for the week. At the end of each week, we log our favorite to a 'recipe book' memory for future rotations. For now, my wife will scan the cart (another 5 minutes) and confirm tomorrow's pickup window. Soon, I expect our Tesla will do the grocery run on its own.
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striking compared to older clips from even 10 yrs ago how many less people are jumping and just standing still with their phones in their hands recording crowd shots went from full sections jumping up and down in waves to pockets of people jumping in this video
Great job by ESPN airing the entire Enter Sandman experience!
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25% of households subscribe to Sirius XM, ~33mm (!!!!!)
We live in a 𝕏 bubble. Only 2% of us households pay for AI. Comparatively: - 25% of households pay for SiriusXM - 55% of pay for cloud storage - 91% pay for at least one streaming service You are so early
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played golf today and got paired up with three covidians and they did something that cracked me up. every time they would make a putt they would leave the ball in the hole until the rest of us finished up. completely harmless, but so stupid and made me laugh to myself every time
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It was a seemingly innocuous email, sent on a Wednesday morning in January 2017, that started everything. Arriving in the inbox of a senior official at Manchester City, it appeared to have been sent by an employee from European football’s governing body, UEFA, and contained a link to a financial compliance report. The City official clicked the download button. That was all it took. It was not a genuine email from UEFA but a successful phishing attempt by Portuguese hacker and activist Rui Pinto. City’s servers were breached, allowing Pinto to retrieve thousands of emails and documents from the club’s systems. This week, almost 10 years on from Pinto’s first email, the Premier League announced that an independent panel had found City guilty of all but one of the charges against them, as The Athletic first revealed last Friday. 📝 @jwhitey98: nyti.ms/4z5sgoL
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Pope Leo based
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Kuz tweeting like an a16z GP lmao
Sports betting is correct but for you all that look at LeBron or any other person that are involved in prediction markets are totally misinformed on the subject. calling prediction markets sports gambling is like calling the stock market a casino. you don't have to like it, but it's a regulated exchange where people trade with each other, not a house that profits when you lose. Know the difference
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every single fun activity competes with the custom algo in your pocket for entertainment NFLX, YouTube, x, reels, etc now there is a guaranteed hurdle of entertainment every live activity must achieve before triggering action to go do something
For the record I've talked to multiple parents at my son's school who have tried to throw family/parent events and like 20% of the class even responds at all. What the hell is going on!
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when does Waymo become available in Boston again?
Massachusetts Uber and Lyft drivers are now guaranteed at least $34.48/hour for time spent picking up and transporting riders, effective January 15, 2026, plus paid sick leave, health insurance stipends and other benefits under the state's $175M settlement.
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neat idea, wonder if DoorDash will prefer this frictionless ordering over the upside they get with data through users ordering could see high volume users ordering the same thing over and over and switching to iMessage but majority of the occasional customers using app still
You can now just text DoorDash and let it order for you. It’s proactive, learns from your repeat orders, and helps you find the best deals and new spots. Just tell it what you want without any extra setup. Ask it to reorder your usual, or add it to a group text to collect everyone’s orders. You can even send a photo of your fridge and it’ll tell you what ingredients you’re missing for a recipe you want to make and deliver the ingredients to your doorstep. We believe agents are a new app paradigm and are building for that future at @AIatDoorDash, with a lot more to come. This feature is in beta in the US, would love for you to let us know what you think! Waitlist: doordash.com/text
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would fall apart first time it rained
Thoughts on this @sunmountaingolf x Marucci collab? 💬 Here's your close-up 👉🏽 buff.ly/6bcndfj
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brockman hasn’t written anything down in a decade plus huh
incredible moments in graphology going on here
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bad actors will have 52 birthdays a year now
Instinct CEO Noah Shinn says agents will let restaurants give tables to birthdays and anniversaries over whoever clicks first "And traditionally, because of the way that the internet has worked, at least for reservations, it's been first come first serve. So anyone that comes in, no matter how important or how not important it might be, whoever gets in first gets the reservation." "But what if you had the ability for the agent to be able to communicate on both sides, communicate, hey, this is important. This is actually the person's spouse's birthday, the 30th birthday, a very special event is coming up." "And the restaurant too can say, let's actually prioritize birthdays or major decade birthdays or major anniversaries or these certain people, I don't know, whatever it might be, right?" "So now with the ability, with all of the logistical burden of having to describe exactly what your case is and what's happening and why it's important. Now we have the ability to perfectly match what does the restaurant want? What does the user want?" "And that will result in more special events for the users being able to actually have a spot in the restaurant."
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