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Scientists Break Internet Speed Record: “Download Netflix’s Entire Library in Just 1 Second” Sparks Global Debate Over Digital Future - Woah. That‘s 1000 TB/s! That‘s 71 4k resolution hollywood featue films in 1 second. They tested it over 1,800 kilometers, using wavelength-division multiplexing, a technique that uses different colors of light to carry data. Well that'll be enough for the AIs projected 32 TB/s. rudebaguette.com #

Integration classes and complaints offices: South Korea charts a path to a cohesive multicultural future - Really interesting to read about how asian countries are approaching the challenges of integrating cultures. theguardian.com #

New Post: Multi-culturalism the ugly step child markjgsmith.com #

Decoding Zuck’s Superintelligence Memo - Om looks back at all of Zuck‘s previous memo‘s to the world, and highlights all the similarities. It‘s the Zuckerberg manifesto pattern. om.co #

OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good - I‘m very interested in these open source models that you can run locally, so obviously it‘s very cool Open AI have released some models in this area. My impression is that it‘s still quite complicated to run them yourself and you need a lot of RAM. How do I swap out Gemini in VSCode for open source gpt-oss? simonwillison.net #

New Post: React, Typescript, Gemini: A pretty great combo markjgsmith.com #

Can You Beat a Boa, Understand Time, and Survive Digg IRL? Ep#18 (Diggnation) - Kevin and Alex have such a great raport together. Their bit in mind blanking and the bit on trying to make Gemini halucinate were both funny and I definitely know what they are talking about. Also tons of great tech stuff. youtube.com #

The WILD Acting Methods Behind Trainspotting - The algo suggested this to me yesterday. Brings back a lot of memories, feels like so many years ago. It feels like several lifetimes ago. It was a seminal film for me growing up. Really great retrospective, openned up a new window for me. It's a hugely beautiful film made in a very very dark setting. I haven't seen the sequel yet. youtube.com #

EX.776 Soulwax - I really liked this interview. They had quite an unorthodox journey into the electronic music scene, but it was somehow completely a reflection of what was going on at the time in music and in culture. Many different things were colliding in very unexpected ways, and they were right there surfing these waves, just outside of the main stream, experimenting in all sorts of ways that no-one had thought to imagine yet. Really interesting to hear their thoughts on how that time, and scene, which I felt a part of in some way, is viewed by the newer generations. ra.co #