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Ablø the Easter Rat He stole all our eggs Chase him with a hammer~ Beat him till he begs Ablø the Easter Rat Chase him through the town And when he gives back our eggs? Then he shall be drow-w-wned Not cruel~ Not crueeell~ Noooooottt~ Cruelllllllll~ *Repeat forever*

One of the biggest scams of the food industry is making & selling “protein” versions of their products 10-15g of protein doesn’t cancel the staggering high amount of calories, carbs & sugars you are eating

Researchers proved every major LLM is secretly obsessed with Japan. And they finally figured out why. For years, we’ve been told that AI is entirely Western-centric, that it just reflects Silicon Valley and American values. A landmark paper by Cardiff and Basque researchers tested 31,680 cultural prompts across 24 languages on frontier models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The results shattered that assumption. In six out of eight frontier models, Japan was the single most frequently referenced country when asked open-ended cultural questions. Ask about traditional dances, festivals, or everyday practices in an open context, and the AI defaults to Japan. Over and over again. Here is the twist nobody expected. This bias doesn't come from raw pre-training internet data. The researchers tracked where the obsession forms. It emerges after pre-training, during the supervised fine-tuning and alignment phase when humans teach the AI how to behave. Why Japan? Because decades of global soft power, rich cultural export, and clean, universally admired digital archives make Japanese culture uniquely "safe" for AI safety filters to lean on. When labs train models to be harmless and universally pleasing, the AI defaults to the cultural equivalent of comfort food. It avoids controversy by talking about anime, sushi, and tradition.

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The test of any Prime Minister is: do you leave your country in a better place than you found it? I’m proud that the answer is yes.

I thought this was random B.S. till I saw that the author works at OpenAI. We knew Anthropic FUD about open source. Now we have OpenAI FUD. I get that these companies feel threatened by Open Source models. I would be if I were in their shoes. The answer is to provide better model and better user experience. FUD and intimidation won't work.

Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to predict, which is why we rolled it out to subscription plans in stages, extending access several times as we secured additional capacity.

if you’re getting into embedded systems, learn these protocols in this order: 1. i2c two wires. many devices. perfect for sensors, displays, rtc modules, eeproms master/slave architecture simple to wire, easy to prototype this is where most beginners should start. 2. spi much faster than i2c separate lines for data in, data out, clock, and chip select ideal for displays, sd cards, high-speed sensors more wires, much higher performance when speed matters, spi wins. 3. uart point-to-point communication tx + rx no clock line used for debugging, gps, bluetooth modules, microcontroller communication if you’ve ever opened a serial monitor, you’ve already used uart. learn them in this order: i2c → understand device communication spi → understand high-speed peripherals uart → understand serial communication and debugging these three protocols are everywhere. master them once, and you’ll find them in almost every embedded system you build.