Russell T. Warne 🇺🇸🇨🇱
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Chief Scientist at @RiotIQ, dad, Latter-day Saint, theatre critic, & psychology professor at @TAMUTexarkana. Test your IQ at https://t.co/bfsKt4EIUW.
Grok Build just got major update, giving developers more control over AI tools, better account visibility, built-in diagnostics, stronger session reliability, and lower memory usage for Voice Mode on macOS. Release Notes: v0.2.111 Features: • Users can now disable image generation and video generation tools (and their slash commands) via config.toml or environment variables. • /session-info now displays whether the session uses OAuth or an API key and where to manage the account. • You can now run grok doctor fix commands directly from inside the TUI instead of only from the CLI. Bug Fixes: • !cmd commands now allow up to one hour before timing out. • npm package now installs the native binary under $GROK_HOME/bin (honoring the same override as the Rust CLI). • Startup warnings now point to /doctor for details and fixes. • Dashboard hover and clicks no longer miss the gaps between items in wide mode. • Shift/Alt+Enter now inserts a newline while editing a queued prompt. • Queued prompt edits under combine mode no longer lose changes due to premature hold release. • Forking a session that used compaction no longer causes later rewinds to fail with missing checkpoint errors. • When a permission prompt appears while viewing scrollback, focus now correctly moves to the prompt so you can answer. • Pressing Esc once now cancels the current agent turn (except in fullscreen vim scrollback mode). • Grok now automatically stops a turn that keeps repeating the exact same tool call many times in a row. • Configs using either spelling of the workspace teleport disable flag now load and save correctly. • Background subagent completion messages no longer leak into unrelated sessions when multiple sessions are active. • When the auto-permission classifier times out or fails, Grok now shows a normal permission prompt instead of silently denying. • Managed MCP tools no longer time out prematurely on slow operations like Notion updates. Performance: • Voice dictation on macOS now uses less memory by running capture in a temporary helper process.
Critical theories have become gospel rather than perspectives to be considered from all angles. jamesgmartin.center/2026/07/bans-o…
FYI: I'm writing a series on what I call the scholar-activist pipeline—university hiring programs, ostensibly aimed at demographic diversity, that furnish career paths for those who share an activist vision of higher education. Full story here: city-journal.org/article/rise-u…
What does ‘viewpoint diversity’ actually mean in practice? In biology, you hire someone who rejects evolution? In sociology, someone who denies the world is socially constructed? Or do you just reward whoever holds the most contrarian view and call it balance?
Nature used to be the world’s most prestigious science journal. Now it’s one of many accused of favouring authors because of their identity group rather than the excellence and importance of their science. hxstem.substack.com/p/why-i-no-lon…
"The majority point of view—held by major institutions like the Census Bureau, the United Nations—is that the United States probably won’t face population decline until the 2080s, or even beyond 2100. That forecast is far too optimistic. The more accurate projection, which I outlined in a recent report for @FamStudies, sees the American population beginning to shrink in the 2050s." @lymanstoneky nytimes.com/2026/07/11/opi…
What does ‘viewpoint diversity’ actually mean in practice? In biology, you hire someone who rejects evolution? In sociology, someone who denies the world is socially constructed? Or do you just reward whoever holds the most contrarian view and call it balance?
A brutal review of Communion, in which Matthew Walther accuses the vice president's ghostwriters of plagiarism:
DEI Fraud and Cover-Up: ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-an… It’s an open secret at Cambridge University, but everyone is afraid to speak out. Newspapers backed away after getting hit with legal threats. Here, I tell the true story of Jason Arday—DEI superstar and the youngest black professor in the history of Cambridge.
Flooding devastated Beaver County in west-central Utah after heavy monsoon rains fell on land recently burned by the 97,000-acre Cottonwood Fire, damaging homes, water systems and roads. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz described the worsening issue of wildfires to the Deseret News in the thread below. ✏️: @eva_terry02, Deseret News 📷: Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
What does ‘viewpoint diversity’ actually mean in practice? In biology, you hire someone who rejects evolution? In sociology, someone who denies the world is socially constructed? Or do you just reward whoever holds the most contrarian view and call it balance?
