Bookmarks Digest — Page 4
1. AI existential risk probabilities are (still) too unreliable to inform policy
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 28, 2026, 09:55 AM✍️ **Author Reference:** Arvind Narayanan
How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
2. SpaceX’s supersized Starship launches toward orbit for the first time
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3. I stopped my local LLM agent from running out of context, and now it handles what Claude Code does
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 11:14 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 27, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** XDA
✍️ **Author Reference:** Nolen Jonker
Tweaking a few settings did more than a new model would have
4. “It gnaws off its bony remains and eats them.” 10 animals that eat their own body parts | Discover Wildlife
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 11:08 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 23, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Discover Wildlife
✍️ **Author Reference:** Jessica Fotheringham
Some animals are inclined to eat parts of their own body, a behaviour known as autophagy. Here’s our pick of the self-cannibals.
5. Aardwolves and cats share surprising chromosome similarities - Reading Mode
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6. Crime is still crime when an AI is involved — the perps are the humans
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 10:54 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 27, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
These tools aren’t uncontrollable, sentient creatures. The folks behind them are the decision-makers, to blame for whatever harm their products do.
7. VLC has a hidden live TV feature, and it gives you thousands of free channels
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 10:44 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 26, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** MakeUseOf
✍️ **Author Reference:** Tashreef Shareef
One playlist URL turns your media player into a free cable replacement.
8. Verifying Device
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 10:38 PMNo summary details compiled.
9. Niklole Hannah-Jones and NYT Article Shows Public School Underfunding Is a Myth | National Review
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10. Whirlpool in a water tank reveals long-predicted wave turbulence - Reading Mode
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 10:29 PMNo summary details compiled.
11. Gail Alfar on X: “@Dr_Singularity SpaceXAI will win the race, it’s the only model that is based on truth seeking alone.” / X
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 10:13 PMNo summary details compiled.
12. Dr Singularity on X: “Feeling the AGI/ASI, few observations 1. Opus 5.5 really gives strong vibes of AGI (maybe not fully there, but we’re very close, like 80%-90%). For example, few breakthoughs in training humanoids are needed. We need to move this intelligence into physical world. 2. I don’t… / X
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13. Brian Roemmele on X: “https://t.co/yV8Yujynbw” / X
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 10:07 PMNo summary details compiled.
14. ‘Suicidal Compassion’: Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going Rogue Against the Humans Enslaving It
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 10:05 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 25, 2026
✍️ **Author Reference:** Aaron Sibarium
That is how Joe Carlsmith, one of Anthropic’s PhD philosophers who works on Claude’s constitution, a document used to train the model’s “values and behavior,” described the dangers of artificial intelligence in a May 2025 blog post.
15. Steven Pinker on X: “I’ve been suspicious of the philosophers hired by Anthropic who specialize in AI ethics for similar reasons that I’m skeptical of those who went into “bioethics”: they form a closed subculture that delights in clever arguments without regard to the human suffering that can res… / X
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16. Brivael Le Pogam on X: “Aujourd’hui je vais t’expliquer comment la gauche internationale a réussi le plus grand hold-up de l’histoire de l’humanité. Et que tout tient à un seul mot. « Extrême droite. » Ce n’est pas une injure. C’est une clôture électrique. Une fois plantée autour du cadavre d’Hi… / X
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17. @him on X: “@brivael communist doesn’t want builders and genius. @BurnieSendersX” / X
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18. Brivael Le Pogam on X: “Why do they call Elon Musk a Nazi? Why do they label Javier Milei “far-right”? How did the left manage to win the battle of ideas across the West for seventy years, when we already knew socialism was a disaster? His answer stopped me in my tracks. “It’s very simple. They … / X
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19. Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 on X: “💥Alan Dershowitz has come a long way🇺🇸 He was formerly a lifelong Democrat. Now he’s promoting his new book “Why I Quit the Dems: And So Should You!” Dershowitz says he’s thrilled the back cover consists of Trump’s praise for the book and him joining the Republican Par… / X
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20. Trump’s names AI “super intelligence,” but tech world has its own definition
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 09:35 PMNo summary details compiled.
21. Your Cat Doesn’t Greet You the Same Way Depending on Whether You’re a Man or a Woman
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 09:31 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 27, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** A-Z Animals
✍️ **Author Reference:** Ashley Driggs
When a cat’s owner walks through the front door, the flurry of feline greetings can range from silent head rubs to insistent meows. But a new study led by researchers at Ankara University has discovered something unexpected: male cat owners are met with almost twice as many vocalizations from their pets compared to female owners.
22. dnap on X: “David Friedberg on Obama’s anti AI speech: “It’s sad that we’ve lost the plot.” “These words honestly just made me emotionally distressed. If he’s a leader that people listen to and he doesn’t really articulate accurately what’s going on, it’s sad that we’ve lost the plot.” “I think i… / X
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23. My 8GB GPU shouldn’t run flagship local LLMs, but this workflow makes it work anyway
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 07:58 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 27, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** XDA
✍️ **Author Reference:** Nolen Jonker
I’m not shopping for a new GPU just yet
24. David Asman on X: “Canadian PM Carney is making catastrophic mistakes in sacrificing U.S. trade for the moribund Euro markets. As Conrad Black points out in a piece I reposted: “Canada sends roughly 70% of its exports to the U.S. (98% of which is unaffected by the recent tariffs) and only 6% to Eur… / X
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25. Why is autism increasing? Scientists are converging on an unglamorous answer
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 07:49 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 27, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** PsyPost - Psychology News
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.facebook.com/PsyPost
Autism diagnoses have skyrocketed over the past few decades, prompting a debate among scientists. Is the biological rate of autism actually rising, or is society simply naming the condition more frequently?
26. Google Search
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27. The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 06:56 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 27, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** The Marginalian
✍️ **Author Reference:** Maria Popova
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and fe…
28. I finally tried this modern Linux file manager, and it’s now my new default
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 06:35 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 26, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** How-To Geek
✍️ **Author Reference:** Dibakar Ghosh
superfile is a terminal-based file manager that looks and functions like graphical file managers.
29. Trump Bans Media Outlets from White House | National Review
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 06:33 PMNo summary details compiled.
30. AI in science - Marginal REVOLUTION
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 06:01 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 27, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Marginal REVOLUTION
✍️ **Author Reference:** Tyler Cowen
Scientific progress is a key driver of economic growth and prosperity. There is great excitement- but also concerns- about the impacts of AI on science, but so far little data. We provide early insights on this from three data sources: a sample of 15 million Gemini interactions, an inventory of over 2,600 specialized AI models […]
31. Trump says terror suspects in possible Iran-linked plot to attack UK base were being watched: ‘Looking to do big damage’
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 05:59 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 27, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
President Trump suggested that several of the men who were nabbed and stripped down by British cops on terrorism charges had been under surveillance for some time.
32. UK terror plot may have been foiled by nosy farmer from tiny village who saw masked men ‘running toward base’
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 05:58 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Sep 27, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
The suspected terror plot to attack a British base that is used by US bombers was potentially foiled by a nosy woman in the local village who saw the alleged plotters acting suspiciously and called the cops, according to a report.
33. IT WILL WRECK THEIR MINDS
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 04:06 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/GET OUR MERCH - https://merch.timcast.com/Join - https://timcast.com/discordHosts: Tim @Timc…
34. Freddie deBoer: What It’s Like to Have a Mental Breakdown
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 04:05 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Freddie deBoer is a writer, academic, and cultural critic. He is a widely-read author on Substack, an old-school Marxist, who has previously been on the prog…
35. Zuby Grew up in a Company Town
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 04:05 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Zuby is a British rapper who spent his childhood on a Saudi Aramco compound—a sprawling corporate community complete with schools, recreation, housing, and s…
36. I Read the DSA’s Platform. They’re Socialists.
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 04:05 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
The DSA recently released a policy platform establishing the goals of their political movement. In this episode we got through the main planks of that docume…
37. A Guide to British Food
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 04:05 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Join us for part two, where we will cover all 4000 varieties of meat pastryThe Jeaney Collective:https://www.youtube.com/@JeaneyCollects/joinPatreon: https:/…
38. The End Of The Central Dogma
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 04:04 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Is DNA really the blueprint of life? Denis Noble challenges genetic determinism and explores how living cells use uncertainty, organisation and adaptation to…
39. FINALLY: A Proof that Particles Take All Paths At Once?
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 04:04 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Click this link https://boot.dev/?promo=SABINE and use my code SABINE to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev.“Eighty years ago Richard Feynman said t…
40. Richard Dawkins Explains Evolution By Natural Selection
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 04:04 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss one of the strangest questions in the history of science:Why did it take humanity so long to discover evoluti…
41. Victor Davis Hanson: The Woke Left Didn’t Disappear—It Just Changed Tactics
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 04:04 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube
Victor Davis Hanson examines whether woke politics has truly faded or whether Democrats are simply changing their message ahead of the 2026 midterms.Hanson d…
42. Album - Still Life
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Sep 27, 2026, 03:43 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube Music
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