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NBD, just our FIRST PRESS MENTION!!! From Alex Kantrowitz's great Big Technology newsletter: www.bigtechnology.com
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November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
NBD, just our FIRST PRESS MENTION!!! From Alex Kantrowitz's great Big Technology newsletter: www.bigtechnology.com
This, from Patreon's Jack Conte, is a fun watch, and good. We it really resonates with Rover is the idea of longterm user relationships and the important context that brings:
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain
The internet should enrich people, not advertisers.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This, from Patreon's Jack Conte, is a fun watch, and good. We it really resonates with Rover is the idea of longterm user relationships and the important context that brings:
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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somehow Trump appears in Epstein's emails more than Epstein himself
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
somehow Trump appears in Epstein's emails more than Epstein himself
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Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes
In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique.
arstechnica.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Come for the AI, stay for the Rover mention!
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Come for the AI, stay for the Rover mention!
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Proof (if we needed it) that algorithmic amplification is dramatically accelerating, and perhaps even driving, the unravelling of our democracies.
Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause.
on.ft.com/49LNvCy
Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause.
on.ft.com/49LNvCy
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Proof (if we needed it) that algorithmic amplification is dramatically accelerating, and perhaps even driving, the unravelling of our democracies.
Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause.
on.ft.com/49LNvCy
Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause.
on.ft.com/49LNvCy
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Humanist, applied - this is the superintelligence I believe the world wants. It’s the superintelligence I want to build. And it’s what we’re going to build on MAI’s Superintelligence Team.
More on Humanist Superintelligence and forming the team on the MAI blog: microsoft.ai/news/towards...
More on Humanist Superintelligence and forming the team on the MAI blog: microsoft.ai/news/towards...
Towards Humanist Superintelligence | Microsoft AI
microsoft.ai
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Humanist, applied - this is the superintelligence I believe the world wants. It’s the superintelligence I want to build. And it’s what we’re going to build on MAI’s Superintelligence Team.
More on Humanist Superintelligence and forming the team on the MAI blog: microsoft.ai/news/towards...
More on Humanist Superintelligence and forming the team on the MAI blog: microsoft.ai/news/towards...
We feel this so much, and are designing hard against this trend
"The tech industry is delivering on futuristic notions of science fiction," writes Casey Michael Henry. "Yet it seems unaware, at times, that many of those notions were meant to be dystopian or satirical — visions of where our worst and dumbest habits could lead us." nyti.ms/4oOdfmc
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We feel this so much, and are designing hard against this trend
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Much of the content about Mamdani online hasn't come from his campaign, or the dozens of political influencers invited to cover it. It's also come from fans. www.wired.com/story/zohran...
Zohran Mamdani's Campaign Figured Out How to Channel Fandom
Much of the content about Mamdani online hasn't come from his campaign, or the dozens of political influencers invited to cover it. It's also come from fans.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Much of the content about Mamdani online hasn't come from his campaign, or the dozens of political influencers invited to cover it. It's also come from fans. www.wired.com/story/zohran...
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NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
Some nice work from Josh here: roverai.cc/instant-cont...
Instant Context
That’s the dream behind Rover: a platform where our conversations can be augmented by AI to be more factual, more insightful, and ultimately, more productive.
roverai.cc
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Some nice work from Josh here: roverai.cc/instant-cont...
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NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
Some people ask, 'Why audio?' We say, 'Why not audio!'
roverai.cc/on-designing...
roverai.cc/on-designing...
On Designing the Audio Brief
We're building a product that heavily relies on social interaction, and as we bring our first testers into the minimum lovable incarnation of our product, one question keeps coming up, "Why this forma...
roverai.cc
November 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Some people ask, 'Why audio?' We say, 'Why not audio!'
roverai.cc/on-designing...
roverai.cc/on-designing...
Yessssss
South Korea has mandated solar canopies for large parking lots. It's a no-brainer. We could offer firms incentives to do it here, or they could just friggin' do it! (H/t @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social)
Here's a little sumptin' I put together a while back...
Here's a little sumptin' I put together a while back...
What if Walmart turned its parking lots into solar farms?
We asked experts to help crunch the numbers.
www.motherjones.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Yessssss
This is fascinating, and confirmation of our direction in building social audio--worth a read:
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is fascinating, and confirmation of our direction in building social audio--worth a read:
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Hello! We're building something new to improve our public discourse that’s respectful of our time and attention. You can help by joining our test group. For now, the mobile app is on iOS only.📱
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October 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Join us! ITTTSSS BLISSSSS
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