Apple's REFACTOR-VLA learns reusable motor skills

A LocalLLaMA user reports that Strata run configs lacking a `sampling` block decoded greedy on builds before 0.1.45 whenever the request set no sampling of its own. The setup ran on an RTX 4090, i9-14900K and 64GB DDR5-5800, moving from IQ2_XS to Unsloth's UD-IQ4_XS.

Free GIMP 3 plugin routes ComfyUI workflows into Adobe-style Generative Fill, Remove and Expand tools without a node graph. Requires ComfyUI and a decent GPU.

A Reddit user reports their ChatGPT Plus account was banned by an automated system citing 'cyber abuse' after they pasted opponents' arguments from heated political debates into the chatbot. They say the ban was later lifted, which they read as OpenAI acknowledging its automated enforcement misfired.

Post collects Claude Code workflows from blogs, X, and GitHub, recommending installing 2-3 subagents from VoltAgent's awesome-claude-code-subagents repo, which lists 160+ definitions.

The manifesto argues 'AI' is not a neutral tool but one built to control populations and substitute human judgment, and calls for its abolition as a political project. It draws parallels to slavery, prison, police, and family abolition, framing abolition as working toward a liberatory alternative rather than mere opposition.

The tiny web app for browsing and editing files in a folder, built mainly for editing files on different machines via Tailscale, adds a copy-to-clipboard option for both text and image data. Willison wanted an easy way to move pelican prompt logs into a Gist from his phone.

A Reddit user says Claude Opus 5.5 produced a credible first-pass design for an open-source MRI scanner costing roughly $31k in a few hours. The author stresses it is simulation-only: nothing has been built or tested, so it may not work.