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John O'Hare
@jjohare.bsky.social
Chief Hallucination Officer🔍GenAI 🌀 25yrs XR Research🎯Public Speaking & Training📡PhD Telepresence⚙️ Creative Technologist 🎬 Virtual Production⚡Rust 🌀BTC - nostr💡ComfyUI and LLM Ops🌍 Access, Governance, Equity
Nice flight! Bet he slept well after all that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKMk...
My Most Brutal Wingsuit Flight Ever | Täschhorn 4491m | Swiss
YouTube video by JoHannes | Wingsuit
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December 8, 2024 at 11:04 AM
What a wild bit of archival footage.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTdy...
Atomic Bomb Test
YouTube video by Isaac_Vee
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December 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Tether digital dollars have progressed from an alarmingly shonky quasi-scam run by twelve people in a tax haven to core global FinTech.
Cantor Fitzgerald, led by Trumps new commerce secretary invested. Lutnick owns 30% of Cantor, so a member of the Trump cabinet now has 1.5% ownership of Tether.
November 24, 2024 at 2:15 PM
LOTS more detail on the DOJ antitrust aroung Google. The Vergecast does a great job of explaining the wild potential ramifications, which could meaningfully be the end of Google.
www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/2...
The government’s plan to break up Google
On The Vergecast: Who wants to buy Chrome? Anybody? ANYBODY?
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Cramer
November 23, 2024 at 9:01 PM
[snigger] still looks like a willy.
November 22, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Unexpectedly "Fuck Around and Find Out" ruling there...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, says US justice department
Court filing comes after landmark ruling in August and judge will consider arguments from both sides next year
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Mechanically strong yet metabolizable supramolecular plastics by desalting upon phase separation | Science www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Mechanically strong yet metabolizable supramolecular plastics by desalting upon phase separation
Plastics that can metabolize in oceans are highly sought for a sustainable future. In this work, we report the noncovalent synthesis of unprecedented plastics that are mechanically strong yet metaboli...
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November 22, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Serious, next level, WTF is this version of the simulation up to now. You can hate it, but can anyone actually fight it any more?
www.reuters.com/technology/c...
Crypto industry jockeys for seats at Trump's promised council
A slew of crypto companies including Ripple, Kraken and Circle are jostling for a seat on President-elect Donald Trump's promised crypto advisory council, seeking a say in his planned overhaul of U.S. policy, according to several digital asset industry executives.
www.reuters.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:02 PM
One of the best insights I have come across in GenAI development is the use of diagrams as code. This is about 1000 lines of densely packed information for my latest project, which can be used to preload a context window each time.

You can see these in context here.
github.com/jjohare/logs...
November 21, 2024 at 11:34 AM
I have ALMOST made a thing. My first proper bit of software
More to follow soon. The insanely curious can find the open source code here. Emphasis on insanity.
github.com/jjohare/logs...
November 20, 2024 at 10:13 PM
The clip of Ben Affleck wading lucidly into the AI / creator debate. It's been blowing up, but not here. This is the CNBC link so it's correctly attributed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypUR...
AI doesn’t stand a chance against actors, or Shakespeare: Ben Affleck
YouTube video by CNBC Television
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November 20, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Incredible data. Interactive vis-widgets. COVID remains a helluva thing.
We’ve done a major update to our work on the COVID-19 pandemic!

We published two big new articles (links in 🧵), updated our page and added new data & charts.

Check out our updated page: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the world. Explore global data and research to understand its impact, spread, and global response.
ourworldindata.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM