GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot
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Select Topic Area Product Feedback Copilot Feature Area Copilot Coding Agent Body GitHub, a company which supposedly values diversity, recently added Grok support to Copilot. Grok, an AI that calle...GitHub
This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values.If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/2025-08-…
Grok Code Fast 1 is rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot - The GitHub Blog
Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code. Rollout will be gradual —…The GitHub Blog
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The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ | A partnership between xAI & the US government fell apart earlier this summer. Then the White House apparently got involved
So we can expect covert mecha-Hitler to run everything
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‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt
‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt
The Rhode Island offshore wind project, now nearly finished, employed 80 fishermen to help with construction. With Trump's pause, they are losing vital…Canary Media
mikulogicoso inufficiale programmato con l’asciaflissa (rilascio “MikuLogi: Octt Unofficial Edition”)
Ultimamente mi succede una cosa stramba, ossia che da un lato posto le cose e poi non le faccio… e dall’altro, faccio le cose ma poi non le posto!!! Ebbene, prima che anche quest’ultima cosa fatta cada nel nonpostatoio (o forse, prima che passi talmente tanto tempo che io nel frattempo faccia numerosi aggiornamenti), ecco […]
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Ultimamente mi succede una cosa stramba, ossia che da un lato posto le cose e poi non le faccio... e dall'altro, faccio le cose ma poi non le posto!!! Ebbene, pminioctt (fritto misto di octospacc)
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
Alaska Won’t Release Lists of Indigenous Murder Victims
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.ProPublica
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JD Vance Says He’s Ready to Be President If Trump’s Health Fails
JD Vance Says He’s Ready to Be President If Trump’s Health Fails
The vice president said he has received “good on-the-job training” since his swearing-in.Josh Fiallo (The Daily Beast)
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FBI director Kash Patel's girlfriend sues ex-agent for defamation over Israeli spy claim
FBI director Kash Patel's girlfriend sues ex-agent for defamation over Israeli spy claim
Alexis Wilkins accused Kyle Seraphin, a conservative podcaster and ex-FBI agent, of "using this fabricated story as self-enriching clickbait."Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
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Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025
Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025 - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall by 1% in first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024.Lauri Myllyvirta (Carbon Brief)
Louisiana Senator: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women
“If you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear.”Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
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0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now
0% of Democrats Happy with State of the US Right Now
A Gallup poll found the split between Republicans and Democrats about their satisfaction with the direction of the country was at its widest since 2001.Khaleda Rahman (Newsweek)
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How a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont
How a Koch-funded campaign is trying to reverse climate action in Vermont
Americans for Prosperity claims its mission is to make Vermont more affordable. But its founding and financing by some of the world’s richest oil men and a history of spreading climate disinformation has raised doubts.Austyn Gaffney (VTDigger)
Alabama town's first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, wins election
Alabama town’s first Black mayor wins election after being locked out of office
Incumbent Mayor Patrick Braxton overwhelmingly won election four years after white residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve.The Associated Press (NBC News)
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After intensive lobbying by tech companies, Colorado has delayed implementation of its landmark artificial intelligence law
In Delaying Its AI Law, Colorado Shows Tech Lobby's Power In State Politics
Colorado delayed implementation of its AI Act amid pressure from tech industry and business groups, Serena Oduro writesSerena Oduro (Tech Policy Press)
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Lame, Colorado is usually one of the most reasonable states. Polis is a decent Governor too. I never saw any of the bad stuff that was allegedly supposed to happen after we forced employers to post pay ranges with jobs, so I don't really expect anything bad to come from regulating AI.
If we put strict guardrails and penalties with teeth around AI companies, they may go elsewhere, where they can act more unethically. That's fine with me because Colorado already has water issues and I feel like we manage to be progressive without trampling all over personal liberties. I also feel like a good portion of people in this state are real people who haven't had the idealism trampled out if them completely and still give/get good intentions.
Shit, I'm getting the itch to submit a citizens initiative to make the whole state an AI free zone right now. As for the AI decision-making, how about real, concrete, enumerable criteria. Vibes are not a suitable way to make big decisions. Fuck-off with your AI datacenters and opaque algorithms. Coloradans deserve to know how they're being treated. Anything that complicates that or makes it harder to understand is a tool of tyranny.
Yes, that's going a bit overboard, but so is hammering me with AI propaganda from the moment I wake up until after I go to sleep every day.
As someone who has been living here for a while now, I would say Colorado moreso masquerades as a reasonable state than actually being all that reasonable.
For one, property values run everything in this state to an insane degree. Most starter size homes in the state, even in towns without a real grocery store or much of anything, will run you nearly a million dollars (if not more). Its blatantly unsustainable and yet nothing is being done to fix it.
TABOR is a stupid system that is only better than legitimate corruption, which is what people compare it to. Realistically it is worse than keeping the tax money and spending it on improving things here. I would much rather not get a few hundred dollars back in a check each year if it meant that local public services didnt have to keep jacking up sales taxes so that they can continue to function. Especially when, as stated beforehand, we could properly tax the absolutely insane property value. Even just taxing second/vacation homes would be great… and yet no one wants to do that because then the housing market might actually cool off.
Im not saying we dont have nice things. We do. But everything about how this state is run caters to millionaires and then tells everyone else to get fucked if they cant hack it. Teachers here get paid worse than almost every other state in the country, despite the fact that we should be able to have the highest quality education system anywhere. If we funded it with property taxes especially, but thats a non-starter of course.
My town’s school and fire department are both failing financially and all anyone seems to want to do to fix it is jack up sales taxes. No more taxes on property. No more taxes on lodging or STRs. No, lets just tax the working class people to death as they try to afford already inflated food prices.
This state is as stupid as it is beautiful much of the time, unfortunately. The whole thing is a house of cards type bubble just waiting to pop, and its gonna be violent when it goes
In Delaying Its AI Law, Colorado Shows Tech Lobby's Power In State Politics
In Delaying Its AI Law, Colorado Shows Tech Lobby's Power In State Politics
Colorado delayed implementation of its AI Act amid pressure from tech industry and business groups, Serena Oduro writesSerena Oduro (Tech Policy Press)
Scena di un episodio di X-files che non ritrovo più
Non ho riguardato molto della serie e preferisco gli episodi "Mostro della Settimana", ma ricordo una scena di un episodio della "Mitologia" in cui Mulder fa una rivelazione piuttosto teatrale in cui un documento che qualcuno voleva distrutto e perso nella memoria viene passato attraverso la tradizione orale di una tribù di nativi americani in perpetuo.
Non riesco a trovare alcuna prova della sua esistenza, né possono farlo i miei amici, tanto che stiamo iniziando a temere l'effetto Mandela.
Potete aiutarmi almeno con il nome dell'episodio se non un link alla scena stessa?
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‘It Feels Like the CDC Is Over’ | The CDC’s departing leaders discuss the agency’s future—or lack thereof.
‘It Feels Like the CDC Is Over’
The CDC’s departing leaders discuss the agency’s future—or lack thereof.Tom Bartlett (The Atlantic)
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FTC chair claims Google shunting GOP emails into spam folder
The Trump administration has accused Google of discriminating against Republicans' emails and warned that the tech giant could be in line for a crackdown.Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson wrote [PDF] to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday, citing a recent New York Post report that alleged Gmail was routinely flagging Republican fundraisers' emails as spam, while not doing the same to missives from their Democratic counterparts.
FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam
: Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QEDDavid Meyer (The Register)
La mia giungla fediversica.
Oltre a Mastodon con snowfan.masto.host, mi sono divertito a mettere su anche qualche “condominio digitale”:
- Lemmy 👉 lemmy.casasnow.noho.st
- GoToSocial 👉 goto.casasnow.noho.st/@snow
- Pixelfed 👉 pxlfd.searxng.noho.st
…senza dimenticare il mio server Matrix, searXNG e Piped.
(Se serve una chiave di casa, suonate pure… ma vi avverto: ho un mazzo intero 😅).
Ora, ci sono ospiti che si fanno comodi su Snowfan, altri (pochi) che preferiscono Lemmy o Pixelfed, ma il mio cuore… beh, il mio cuore resta sempre al primo amore: Mastodon con Snowfan. ❤️
Non dico che sia perfetto (anche lui ha i suoi difettucci), non dico che gli altri non sembrino ancora in beta test eterni (ciao Lemmy, ciao GoToSocial 👋), ma una cosa la voglio ribadire: io non tradisco.
Gli altri li uso, li provo, li coccolo ogni tanto… ma Snowfan rimane la mia casa, e casa è anche di chi ci abita con me. 🏡
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Istanza italiana aperta agli Amici che ne fanno richiesta. -ATTENZIONE- istanza NO-ThreadsMastodon ospitato su snowfan.masto.host
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Extreme rain in China caused $2.2 billion in road damage, further straining public purse
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/41276896
Extreme rainfall across swathes of China caused over 16 billion yuan ($2.24 billion) in road damage, the transport ministry said on Wednesday, highlighting how climate risks are placing additional pressure on the ailing economy's public purse.The preliminary estimate covers damage to roads since the start of flood season, Li Ying, a ministry spokesperson, told reporters, and includes 23 provinces, regions and municipalities - more than two-thirds of China's administrative divisions.
Flood season officially began on July 1, according to China's water resources ministry, and brought record rainfall to the country's north and south.
So far, some 540 million yuan in emergency road repair subsidies have been allocated to local authorities by the transport and finance ministries, Li said.
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Vlog 086 – I couldn't have said it better myself
Usually on social media the golden rule is "Never read the comments", but things are a little bit different in the Fediverse. I had a bunch of thoughtful and insightful responses to yesterday's video (Vlog 085) and so today I wanted to walk through some of the great ideas people shared with me. Welcome to Vlog No. 086.
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Vlog 086 – I couldn't have said it better myself
Usually on social media the golden rule is "Never read the comments", but things are a little bit different in the Fediverse. I had a bunch of thoughtful and insightful responses to yesterday's video (Vlog 085) and so today I wanted to walk through some of the great ideas people shared with me. Welcome to Vlog No. 086.My Newsletter: ewenbell.com/subscribe
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Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
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> "People who saw Bluesky as centralized nine months ago still see Bluesky as centralized. People who saw Bluesky as decentralized (or decentralizing) nine months ago still see Bluesky as decentralized (or decentralizing). Nobody's changing their minds in response to new information. It's basically the same discussions rehashed again and again.
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> One thing that's been really striking to me in this latest iteration of this interminable discourse is that so many people in the Fediverse present the fact that 99.99% of Bluesky users are still using infrastructrure run by Bluesky PBC as if it's a gotcha that people advocating for Bluesky and the ATmosphere aren't aware of.
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> No, actually, ATmosphere developers I talk to are very very aware of these limitations. They just prefer to invest their time and energy in working to improve the situation rather than arguing about the semantics of "decentralization."
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> That sure seems like a good approach to me.
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> So can we please stop arguing about this already?"
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Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
Nobody's changing their minds at this point, and the discourse is reallyJon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
South Carolina’s gubernatorial race has evolved into a brawl over who can curry Trump’s favor and secure a formal endorsement.
A crowded race for governor has turned into an all-out fight over Trump's endorsement
The crowded Republican race to be South Carolina’s next governor has erupted into an early, all-out battle to secure Donald Trump’s coveted endorsement.Melanie Zanona (NBC News)
[2023] Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests
A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysisDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
I checked the paper cited in that article, and it has an author correction published last week:
The Strang splitting maximum likelihood estimator had a minor error (thanks to Anders Gantzhorn Kristensen for identifying it). In the last step of the Strang splitting in the pseudo maximum likelihood estimation, the flow should have been evaluated in the observation at time t~i~, but was wrongly partially evaluated at time t~i–1~. When corrected, the tipping time estimate changes by 8 years.
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Author Correction: Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation - Nature Communications
Nature Communications - Author Correction: Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulationNature
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Now we only need re-insurance companies to fund a tanker fleet of ~500 mega tons of salt to restart it.
Maybe even some kind of foundation could coordinate it, like it National Science one
Trump has declared war on wind and solar power. It’s time for the industries to fight back.
Trump has declared war on wind and solar power. It’s time for the industries to fight back.
Wind and solar are the cheapest power sources being added to the grid. But now under attack during Trump 2.0, the industries must build political power to preserve their future.Justin Gerdes (Quitting Carbon)
Why China has a tech manufacturing advantage over the U.S. | Author Dan Wang talks about his new book, "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future"
And a much longer interview with Wang on technopolitics, grand opera, China's "industrial party", and why the Chinese and Americans are the two most alike people in the world, here.
Highly recommend it if you have time.
How to become President of China with Dan Wang
Episode five of the Works in Progress podcast is about why China outbuilds AmericaSam Bowman (The Works in Progress Newsletter)
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The Green Revolution Is Alive and Well — Just Not in the US
Global investment in renewable energy sources hit $386.5 billion in the first half of 2025 despite the pullback in the US.
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Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than it attracts, survey finds
Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than its attracts, survey finds
Despite Elon Musk's exhaustive promotion of Tesla's FSD technology, U.S. consumers don't seem to want it.Lora Kolodny (CNBC)
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Wait, you mean people don't want to buy a vehicle that throws you into incoming traffic and hits children in the street at full speed?
Or maybe it's the Nazi that leads it who stole all our public funds for his little electric car and space race things.
Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career.’ He founded Reddit
Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career.’ He founded Reddit
Reddit, now worth more than $40 billion, would have never happened without Alexis Ohanian ditching law school in favor of entrepreneurship.Preston Fore (Fortune)
Texas Suit Alleging Anti-Coal ‘Cartel’ of Top Wall Street Firms Could Reshape ESG—and Wall Street Itself
Republican attorneys general accuse three of the world’s biggest asset managers of conspiring to depress U.S. coal output. It’s a first-of-its-kind and closely watched test of whether corporate alliances on climate efforts violate antitrust laws.
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Even John Bolton Doesn’t Deserve This
Even John Bolton Doesn’t Deserve This | The Nation
Trump’s former national security adviser is a very hateable figure. But he still needs defending from the president’s lawlessness.The Nation
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More dust storms called haboobs are coming to California, thanks to climate change
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More dust storms called haboobs are coming, thanks to climate change
As climate change increases heat and dryness in Southern California and the Central Valley, dust storms pose an increasing problem and health risk.Susanne Rust (Los Angeles Times)
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