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AI ‘creators’ might just crash the influencer economy

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GlobalBuildingAtlas | 3D map off all 2 750 000 000 buildings on earth

The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language

0xbitcoiner

LLMs still gotta develop a ton more to really handle the complexity of cognition and what words actually mean.

Stacker Saloon

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Music

Daily Discussion Thread ~Music Saloon!

Public_N_M_E

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Animal_World

> Arthur Murray says his dogs Stella and Mella are "100% physically identical." Their personalities? Less similar.
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> Arthur Murray loves, and needs, his dog Stella. The owner of a vineyard in Healdsburg, California, Murray was looking for a dog who could help protect the family and their land.
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> When he discovered the Maremma Sheepdog, a rare dog breed originally from Italy, he knew he had found the perfect “wine dog.”
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> “Maremmas chase off birds, turkeys in particular, which will pick you clean when your grapes get really sweet,” Murray tells TODAY.com.
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> His dog, Stella, fits the breed’s description. “She is always on guard and always helping us keep things the way they should be,” he says.
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Want to clone your dog? Don't expect an exact replica

> On the slop-filled internet, Jeremy Carrasco uses his platforms to spread AI literacy.
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> It was only in June that Jeremy Carrasco uploaded his first videos to TikTok and Instagram. In that short time, he’s amassed over 300,000 followers on each platform. No, it’s not exactly Charli D’Amelio numbers, but that does make him one of the biggest names in AI literacy on social media.
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> Jeremy told The Verge that he always wanted to try his hand at being a YouTuber. Instead, he found himself behind the camera, working as a producer and director on multicamera livestreams. But he finally decided to take the plunge after realizing that most of the dialogue around generative AI was being driven by the tech companies. “We need other people who are coming at it from more like a creator, like a producer perspective,” he said. While he maintains a YouTube page, it’s on TikTok and Instagram that he’s found his audience.
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> Originally, the idea was to talk about how to use AI. “I called my page showtoolsai because I was actually quite optimistic about AI and being able to use it ethically for video production.” That idealism turned out to be short-lived, however.
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Stacker_Stocks

CNBC | Want To ‘Invest' In OpenAI or SpaceX? What To Know About Tokenization

BooksAndArticles

> False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947, by former Cato Senior Fellow George Selgin, was ranked among the “10 Best Books of 2025” by The Wall Street Journal this week. Selgin, also the director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Georgia, retired this year.
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> The ten best books of fiction and nonfiction from 2025 were selected by the Journal’s book editors. For False Dawn, the Journal wrote, 
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> “The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted in on-the-ground stimulus or sustained growth. The war effort did eventually put the economy back on its feet, but equally important was President Roosevelt’s choice, in a time of crisis, to finally work with, rather than vilify, America’s businesses.”
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False Dawn by Cato’s George Selgin

Politics_And_Law

> Minnesota’s largest-ever food-aid scandal reveals how weak incentives, political pressure, and lax oversight enable public-sector fraud to flourish — costing taxpayers billions.
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> The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness,” The New York Times reported in a bombshell article on November 30.
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> “Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided,” The Times reports. “Federal prosecutors say that 59 people have been convicted in those schemes so far, and that more than $1 billion in taxpayers’ money has been stolen in three plots they are investigating.”
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> Most notably, officers of a tax-funded “nonprofit” called “Feeding Our Future” claimed to have fed tens of thousands of children, but really spent the money on fancy cars, houses, and foreign real estate investments for themselves, according to federal prosecutors.
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Bigger Gov Means Bigger Fraud: Minnesota's Billion-Dollar Lesson in Incentives

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Religion in America, Visualized as 100 People

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> Synchronizing movements to music is a hallmark of human culture, but its evolutionary and neurobiological origins remain unknown. This ability requires (i) extracting a steady rhythmic pulse, or beat, out of continuous sounds; (ii) projecting this pattern forward in time; and (iii) timing motor commands to anticipate future beats. Here, we demonstrate that macaques can synchronize to a subjective beat in real music and even spontaneously do so over alternative strategies. This contradicts the influential “vocal-learning hypothesis” that musical beat synchronization is privileged to species with complex learned vocalizations. We propose an alternative view of musical beat perception and synchronization as a continuum onto which different species can be mapped based on their capacity to coordinate the general abilities listed above through association with reward.
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These Monkeys Learned to Tap to the Beat of the Backstreet Boys

ChatGPT's user growth has slowed, report finds

Yeah, I clocked that already. It's one of those things where a brand just turns into a regular word.

> The rise of stablecoins could reduce the control of national monetary authorities, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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> As noted by the International Monetary Fund in a recent [report](https://www.imf.org/en/-/media/files/publications/dp/2025/english/usea.pdf), stablecoins offer an opportunity to expand access to financial services for millions of people, but they could also undermine the authority of central banks.
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> The 56-page document published on December 4 by the international organization highlights “currency substitution” as one of the main risks associated with the spread of stablecoins. This phenomenon could gradually compromise the financial independence of many states, the IMF stated.
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Stablecoins could erode central bank control, says IMF

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