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Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.

A landmark reassessment shows Sumatran orangutans fell nearly 20% over 12 years, proving deforestation is not the only threat. Co-authored by Indonesia's Forestry Ministry, the study marks a shift toward science-based policy after past claims that orangutan numbers were rising. Learn more! 👇️

Major orangutan study finds Sumatran population fell nearly 20% despite slower forest lossJAKARTA — The number of Sumatran orangutans has declined by nearly 20% in the past decade and the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan remains perilously close to extinction despite years of…mongabay.cc

PSA: VADER was created over a decade ago, and we have many newer and better tools for sentiment analysis, including efficient methods (mostly fine-tuned BERT variants). It's not hard to tune your own model, and there are 15k (!) models ready to go on Hugging Face! huggingface.co/models?searc...

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

my colleagues do very cool things www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick.The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.www.nytimes.com

Read our latest paper on tree species classification using geospatial embeddings model, this time in the gorgeous Trentino region www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌎

How easy is it to scare a yellow-bellied marmot? That depends on levels of human disturbance. Nice applied use of #TLS #LiDAR 🧪🌎 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Vegetation structural complexity is linked to forest soundscapes and informs canopy-targeted conservation🌳 🌍 🏔️ 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“we show that this cultural area alone contains as many earthworks as previously estimated for the whole of Amazonia” !!

Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary https://theonion.com/teacher-required-to-provide-own-salary/

You’ve waited long enough, the Kimi K3 open weights & full tech report are here! github.com/MoonshotAI/K...

Anyone ever seen/read a good essay about what it's like to be a recent grad working as a software engineer? (E.g. to have never worked professionally without AI)

Do you have someone in your life who’s new to video games? Someone who doesn’t know where to start? Fill out this quick form and we’ll choose a game for them in episode 2 this season*! ✨ *we may not get to every entry but we’ll try! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Beginner Game Recommendations from Pew Pew Bang!Are you new to video games or have someone in your life who is? Tell us a little bit about them and we'll try to help you find a game! This will be used on the show and your submission may or may not...docs.google.com

Europe's Copernicus program shows impressive ROI: €6.7B invested since 1998, yielding an estimated €30B in economic value by 2030. Its open Earth-observation data supports sectors from agriculture to disaster response. A strong case for space funding. #Copernicus #EarthObservation #SpaceEconomy

Shifting atmospheric circulation patterns over Europe since the 1980s have been the major cause of increasingly severe droughts on the continent, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. go.nature.com/4x1kDPo 🌎🧪

RFK Jr’s legacy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79G...

Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TVYouTube video by Apple TVwww.youtube.com

Helion, PyTorch's domain-specific language (DSL) for custom kernels, is expanding toward hardware-heterogeneous kernel authoring. Read the full technical deep dive here 👉 https://bit.ly/4fE6qRs..*

IIHS—the closest thing in the US to a neutral arbiter on AV safety— has found that Waymos are involved in ~68% fewer crashes than human drivers. That's a big deal, although the safety benefits appear to be lower than what Waymo has publicly claimed. A few thoughts 🧵

Waymo’s driverless cars crash less often than peopleWaymo’s driverless vehicles have crash rates that are 68% lower than human drivers, new IIHS research shows. But as the technology is deployed more widely, a better system for tracking safety is ...www.iihs.org

If you're looking for the latest adoption data on open models in US v China v globally, we built a small dashboard with the big picture and per-org numbers. US's role is slowly growing, but still way behind China/Qwen. dashboard.interconnects.ai