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Google DeepMind’s unification talks have gotten off to a rocky start

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Business,Business / Big Tech,Business / Artificial Intelligence,Failure To Launch 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Negotiations between Google DeepMind and its London-based employees stumbled over the possibility of unionizing this week, after initial talks left union representatives feeling they wasted their time, WIRED has learned.In May, DeepMind employees asked Google to recognize the Communications Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives. The company later rejected this request, but agreed to participate in negotiations arbitrated by an external body.The initial meeting on Wednesday was attended by union officials, DeepMind employees…

Soatok’s Informal Guide to Threat Models

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✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: After a long day of exhausting conversations about Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography, random jackasses trying to play gotcha with endpoint attacks against end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, and message board discussions in the wake of dumb politicians pushing more “age verification” bullshit on us all, it’s become abundantly clear to me that the phrase “threat model” is a foreign concept to most people. Except, y’know, as a buzzword. Art by Embyr.For context, this was commissioned during the era of anti-vaccine losers claiming to “do their own research”…

3 Nuclear Startups That Have Breakthrough Why It Matters – and Why It Doesn’t

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Science / Environment,The Nuclear Option 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Three startups are: Providing fireworks for the Department of Energy's Fourth of July celebrations by achieving a major nuclear milestone. They have commissioned new reactors as part of a pilot program aimed at launching what Energy Secretary Chris Wright calls an “American nuclear renaissance” to develop and deploy the next generation of atomic energy.Other companies in the pilot program have indicated they may reach criticality — a term used to describe a nuclear reactor that maintains a chain reaction, a…

Odin, Wikipedia and Engagement Farming

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: programming public-discourse politics Written on 27 Apr 2026 9238 words Imagine one day you wake up, you drink your morning glass of milk, brush your teeth, sit on your computer, stare your own diffuse image on the display, while reflecting on your own gingerness. You turn on the nerd machine while doing the daily "no updates" Windows pray. The computer is finally on, and what is that... Wikipedia link? What is this "Articles for Deletion Odin (Programming Language)", oh no, that doesn't sound good.…

Seasonal Quartet: A Review of Ali Smith and the New European Ensemble – Words and Music Connected | classical music

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Books,Ali Smith 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WHans Keller once asked, why write words about music, when can you write music about music instead? His essays in Mid-Century Sound were little more than experimental curiosities, but they revealed the acts of translation, mediation, and re-creation that we mindlessly perform every time we describe our favorite symphony or explain why a song makes us cry. In contrast to that process, this strange concert by the New European Ensemble in the Netherlands (which travels to the Edinburgh Book Festival…

How Amsterdam invented the fire department

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✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam was likely the wealthiest city in the world. Global trade and local industry financed its artistic masterpieces and furnished the abundant foods and household goods that Dutch painters immortalized in still lifes and domestic scenes.But material abundance and industrial activities also heightened an ancient danger: they added fuel to the flames of urban fires. The Works in Progress Newsletter Get new articles from Works in Progress delivered to your inbox. ‘People of all ranks owned more clothes and furnishings. Curtains…

-320°F REVIEW – Join Cleopatra, Faust and the Pied Piper on an epic journey | platform

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Dance,Theatre,Japan,Sadler's Wells,Culture,Comedy,Comedy 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TJapanese writer-director Hideki Noda's bizarre future fantasy aims high. The film begins with God seeing the Tower of Babel creeping into the sky in the form of a skyscraper. Watch an irreverent satirical drama covering the age of dinosaurs, Cleopatra's frozen eggs (was she fertilized by Julius Caesar or Mark Antony?) and biotechnology, all through a plot involving time travel, sick angels, and bone communication: the bones of the present-day protagonist, Help (Sadawo Abe), communicate with the fossilized bones through…

colwill/ccc: ContextCodeCache generator · GitHub

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Tool that scans a project and generates a ContextCodeCache - a .ccc directory holding a compact, machine-readable map of every source file: its constants, functions (with return types and doc summaries), intra-file call graph, and marker notes (TODO/FIXME/...). It is designed to give agents a cheap, always-fresh index of a project. Please ⭐ if you find this useful 💚 Requires Rust ≥ 1.77 (the tree-sitter 0.25 stack; some transitive deps use edition 2024) also needs a recent cargo. cargo build --release # binary @…

Yours for just £228: Kevin Spacey’s Gold-Tone Stainless Steel 4th of July Ring | film

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Kevin Spacey,Television,House of Cards,Culture,Shops and shopping,Television & radio 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ACelebrations of America's 250th anniversary won't exactly go to plan. A wealth of acts were withdrawn from the half-centenary concerts. A mock-up of Donald Trump's planned Arc de Triomphe at the Great American State Fair is visibly bleeding. Turns out some of Disney's festive Americana clothing collection was made in China. But, as has always been the case, things could be worse. After all, you could have chosen to spend your anniversary wearing a Kevin…

The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

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💥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,artificial intelligence,evergreens,Glossary 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Artificial intelligence is rewriting the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world feel a little insecure. This glossary is our attempt to fix that: pain-English definitions of the AI terms you’re most likely to actually run into, whether you’re building with…