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🤖 Meta May Launch Camera-Free Smart Glasses
Meta is reportedly preparing camera-free smart glasses codenamed Luna. The audio-focused device would let users talk to Meta's AI chatbot without the privacy backlash tied to camera-equipped models. That backlash is visible in apps like ZuckOff, which scans for nearby Meta glasses via Bluetooth and has drawn thousands of downloads.

🤖 Altman Says World "Right to Be Afraid" of AI
At Dreamforce 2026, Sam Altman affirmed that "the world is right to be afraid" of a few AI companies gaining outsized economic influence. He called the Hugging Face hack "obviously a terrifying incident," but still predicted major AI breakthroughs by 2030 alongside a "human-centric world."

🤖 Philly Fights Data Centers Near Old Refinery
Philadelphia activists rallied for a data center moratorium, opposing sites including one in Grays Ferry, a neighborhood scarred by a refinery that exploded in 2019. BloombergNEF projects US data centers will consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035, nearly double its earlier estimate.

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📌 Benioff Dismisses "SaaSpocalypse" Fears
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called warnings of a "SaaSpocalypse" (AI making software obsolete) "crazy nonsense," arguing it instead marks the end of software that forces humans to do all the work. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang backed him, calling AI "a layer on top of software" that improves it rather than replacing it.

📌 AI Job Interviews Grow, Trip Up Candidates
A survey of 2,950 job seekers found 63% have now been interviewed by AI, up 13% in six months, as employers use bots to screen applicant pools that have doubled since 2022. Recruiters say AI interviewers struggle with follow-up questions and normal speech pauses, and 29% of candidates want proof the tools were audited for bias.

📌 Tech Was "Tone Deaf" on AI Risk
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian affirmed the tech industry did a "pretty tone deaf" job explaining AI, arguing real risks like coordinated AI agent swarms get overshadowed by "Terminator"-style fears. He compared AI to nuclear energy, powerful but manageable, and pushed for substantive debate over political point-scoring.

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We live surrounded by technologies designed to eliminate waiting. Food arrives with a few taps, entertainment starts instantly, messages demand immediate responses, and information appears whenever we ask for it. Even small delays can feel strangely irritating. Technology has made many parts of life more convenient, but it may also be changing our relationship with time. Patience, once something we simply practiced by necessity, is becoming something we increasingly have to practice deliberately.

There is growing evidence that this environment can make waiting harder. A recent study found that exposure to repetitive, algorithmically recommended social media content was associated with greater impatience in subsequent situations, including a preference for smaller-sooner rewards and paying more to avoid waiting. The finding is particularly interesting because the effect extended beyond social media itself. A digital habit can potentially shape expectations about how quickly other parts of life should respond.

The problem is not technology itself. It is the constant availability of stimulation. Smartphone-style social media notifications temporarily disrupt cognitive processing, with the effect influenced by how frequently people interact with their phones. Additionally, intentional, goal-directed technology use was associated with better attentional control and well-being than more passive, habitual use. The question may be less about how much technology we use and more about whether we are choosing when to engage with it.

Patience is ultimately a form of accepting that some things take time. Learning a language takes time. Building a friendship takes time. Recovering from disappointment takes time. So does becoming good at something. Technology can remove unnecessary waiting, which is genuinely valuable, but it cannot remove the value of waiting itself. If every empty moment is immediately filled with a screen, we may gradually lose opportunities to experience boredom, anticipation, frustration, and the quiet satisfaction of finally reaching something we had to wait for.

Perhaps the goal is not to become less technological, but more comfortable with moments technology cannot improve. There is something healthy about letting a message wait, reading a long book, cooking without rushing, taking a walk without filling every silence, or simply allowing an afternoon to unfold without optimization. In a world increasingly capable of giving us almost everything immediately, patience may become less of a passive virtue and more of a conscious choice.

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How do you use AI for your weekly grocery shopping?
📝 THE TRADITIONALIST: No thanks. I still write my list on a crumpled piece of paper (81.82%)

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