DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/
AI giants reject government’s approach to solving copyright row
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/google-openai-reject-copyright-plan-bnnzztts9
The Llama 4 herd: native multimodal AI
https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/ (weekend drop)
ai-2027.com https://ai-2027.com/
Organising music for organic discovery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-03-orbit-music-discovery-organise-analysis/
On the foolishness of “natural language programming”
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
Study finds solo music listening boosts social well-being
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-solo-music-boosts-social.html
Deepsite – (just mind blowing) https://huggingface.co/spaces/enzostvs/deepsite
The case against conversational interfaces
https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/
ERA Protocol – “Reflexive modeling is not trust. Flattery is not alignment. Containment is not cooperation.”
https://github.com/parkertoddbrooks/ERA-Protocol/tree/main (this is critical)
Globalizing Productions with Netflix’s Media Production Suite (open source for scale)
https://netflixtechblog.com/globalizing-productions-with-netflixs-media-production-suite-fc3c108c0a22
United States Disappeared Tracker (map of the destroyed the ideal of America)
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map
The White House Correspondents Association Speaks Cowardice to Power
(Joining Columbia University and the law firm Paul, Weiss in fealty)
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/31/whca-speaks-cowardice-to-power
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer
Hardware:screens
https://usetrmnl.com/
Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+ (8hrs+ hrs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnDYB28bL8
Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental AI model focused on advancing cybersecurity AI frontiers.
https://security.googleblog.com/2025/04/google-launches-sec-gemini-v1-new.html
Self-Fulfilling Misalignment Data Might Be Poisoning Our AI Models
https://turntrout.com/self-fulfilling-misalignment