"We are truly looking at two different Americas when we dig into the views of men without college degrees and women with college degrees. They are at opposite ends of the spectrum politically and experience essentially separate economies, and therefore give priority to distinct sets of character traits and issues."

SimpleQA

"An open problem in artificial intelligence is how to train models that produce responses that are factually correct. Current language models sometimes produce false outputs or answers unsubstantiated by evidence, a problem known as “hallucinations”. Language models that generate more accurate responses with fewer hallucinations are more trustworthy and can be used in a broader range of applications. To measure the factuality of language models, we are open-sourcing⁠(opens in a new window) a new benchmark called SimpleQA."

Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible

Veritasium

"There are voters who are still undecided, but they are, almost by definition, voters who pay less attention to political news and are either so uninterested in politics or so cynical about both candidates that nothing has yet caused them to make up their minds. There are many more voters whose minds are made up but may or may not actually fill out ballots by Election Day. These are the voters who will decide the election, and they’re not tipping their hands yet."

STARSHIP FLIGHT 5 LAUNCH

"Starship's fifth flight test is targeted to launch on Sunday, October 13. The 30-minute launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT.

"A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 35 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch on spacex.com. As is the case with all developmental testing, the schedule is dynamic and likely to change, so be sure to stay tuned for updates.

"Flight 4 was a tremendous success. A fully successful ascent was followed by the first ever booster soft-landing in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship making it through a brilliant reentry, before its own landing burn and splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

"The fifth flight test of Starship will aim to take another step towards full and rapid reusability. The primary objectives will be attempting the first ever return to launch site and catch of the Super Heavy booster and another Starship reentry and landing burn, aiming for an on-target splashdown of Starship in the Indian Ocean."

"Hurricane Helene has left behind tremendous destruction in the southern Appalachian Trail (A.T.) landscape and surrounding communities. This page will gather the latest resources and information for A.T. visitors, partners, and supporters.  The ATC is committed to providing support to our A.T. Communities and to rehabilitating the Trail and landscape—no matter how long it takes." 

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy

How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out) 

Veritasium

"The young, mobile and middle class will be more likely to leave to chase opportunity and physical and economic safety. That means government — from local to federal — must now recognize its responsibility to support the communities in climate migration’s wake. Even as an aging population left behind will require greater services, medical attention and physical accommodation, the residents that remain will reside in states that may also face diminished representation in Congress — because their communities are shrinking. Local governments could be left to fend alone, but with an evaporating tax base to work with."

The Editorial Board, The New York Times

"Watching Rogan’s stand-up set, I realized that much of his culture-war material was now three or four years old; his podcast is one of the only places I still hear COVID mentioned, as Rogan relitigates the criticism he received during the pandemic. There’s a real tension in the Roganverse between the stated desire to escape polarization and the appeal of living in an endless 2020, when the sharp definition of the opposing sides yielded growing audiences and made unlikely political alliances possible."

Rebuttal:  OpenAI’s Big Reset

"On Thursday, September 12 at 7:58 a.m. ET, the Polaris Dawn crew completed the first-ever spacewalk – also known as an extravehicular activity (EVA) – from Dragon at 738 km above the Earth’s surface."

"Apple Intelligence will be available in beta on all iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with Siri and device language set to U.S. English, as part of an iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia update this fall."

"These elaborate human conceptions of death are not passed down through our genes. They develop over decades in the minds of individuals, and in our cultures, they accrete over centuries. Human children tend to learn that death is not a temporary or reversible state somewhere between the ages of 4 and 7, or a bit earlier if they lose a beloved family member or animal. A 2004 paper in Cognition argued that, at this developmental stage, children understand death as a permanent loss of agency."

Shane Gillis’ debut special recorded live at The Creek and The Cave in Austin, TX, September 2021.

"So far this year, the tropical atmosphere has been much too stable for storms to develop because of unusual warming observed in the upper layers of the troposphere. Normally, a clash between surface warmth and cold air aloft helps fuel rising atmospheric motion that incites storm development.

"Meanwhile, many atmospheric seeds of what could become hurricanes have fizzled as they drifted from African monsoon clouds into the Atlantic much farther north than normal, just outside a band of tropical waters most hospitable to budding storms.

"The monsoon is strong, something that would normally mean more waves of atmospheric disturbance cast into the Atlantic. Rain has poured on parts of the Sahara that haven’t seen any in 40 years, while other parts of West Africa have seen double their normal rainfall, said Matthew Rosencrans, NOAA’s lead seasonal hurricane forecaster. But the monsoon is too far north to have an impact on the Atlantic, it seems — something meteorologists have never had to account for."

"This is the first episode of Autocracy in America, a new five-part series about authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States and where to look for them."

"For years, companies avoided mentioning the remote assistance provided to their self-driving cars. The illusion of complete autonomy helped to draw attention to their technology and encourage venture capitalists to invest the billions of dollars needed to build increasingly effective autonomous vehicles."

"In essence, what Trump is attacking is neoliberalism. Economic neoliberalism underpins the past 70 years of Western economic and cultural order. Broadly speaking, neoliberalism argues that barrier-free international markets, rapidly advancing communications technology and automation, decreased regulation, and empowered citizen-consumers are the keys to prosperity, happiness, and strong democracy."

Khruangbin Make Everyone Weak in the Knees on a Steamy Brooklyn Night

Khruangbin – Lena Horne Bandshell