They've taken the paywall down for this piece. I modified my original post to reference the link to the article. Here it is again:
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Mexico City is sinkingMexico City is sinking by nearly 10 inches (about 25 centimeters) a year, according to new satellite imagery released this week by NASA, making it one of the world’s fastest-subsiding metropolises.
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The ultimate self-dealing family@Rontuner It's from Isaac Saul at Tangle. Fridays are members-only posts, but I thought he did a great job of cataloging the grift so I posted it here.
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For our train buffsI thought that, too!
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Costco finds - May 2026Bought a three-pack of this at Costco today. Wouldn't be that hard to cook but I'm doing a lot of shortcuts these days. Good stuff!
https://www.costcobusinesscentre.ca/p/-/maison-riviere-ratatouille-3-x-630g/2001211673
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The ultimate self-dealing familyFrom a newsletter I get.
Had to break it up into two posts because of forum limits on post length.They took down the paywall on this piece. Here's the link:
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For our archeology buffsNorway’s largest Viking Age coin hoard has been discovered: "Truly exceptional"
The metal detectors searching for coins in a field in eastern Norway still haven’t stopped beeping -
AI 'superlearners'David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence.
In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with a kind of mastery that went far beyond mimicry.
Silver has since founded his own company, Ineffable Intelligence, that aims to build more general forms of AI superintelligence. The company will do this, Silver says, by focusing on reinforcement learning, which involves AI models learning new capabilities through trial and error. The vision is to create “superlearners” that go beyond human intelligence in many domains.
This approach stands in contrast to how most AI companies plan to build superintelligence, by exploiting the coding and research capabilities of large-language models.rom Wired:
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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?Shades of green in wtg's very shady garden. With a flower or two thrown in.
Hosta 'June' (foreground) with @adagiom 's favorite anemone invader:
Past prime, Virginia bluebells, anemones, and Hosta 'Golden Tiara':
Various hostas, plus a primrose that I don't recall the botanical name of:
Pulmonaria, more hostas and anemones, and a mushroom sculpture (present from my Mom, years ago - there are two others of different sizes in my yard):
Future gooseberry jam:
