#application programming interface training

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AI terminology of the week, circa Mar 2026

Terms Related to AI and Agents

A/B Testing AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) AGI Acceleration AI Accelerators AI Affordances AI Cognitive Pattern AI Cognitive Spirit AI Command Palette AI Companion AI Copiloting AI Feature Design AI Governance AI Leading States AI Literacy AI Models AI Partner AI Product Design AI Product Management AI Prompting AI Safety AI Strategy AI Suggestions Patterns AI Watermarking AI Wireframing AI as Assistant AI as Collaborator AI as Creative Partner AI as Infrastructure AI as Medium AI as Mirror AI as Substrate AI as Tool AI as Toy AI as Utility AI-Augmented Design AI-Generated Content Detection AI-Native Design AI-Powered Search API (Application Programming Interface) ASI (Artificial Superintelligence) Accepted/Reject Flow Adaptive UI Adversarial Examples Agent Agent Builders Agents Loop Alignment Ambient AI Appropriateness Reliance Assistance Automation Automation Spectrum Autonomous Agent Autonomous Vehicle Autopilot Mode BMOA (Biggest Method of AI-Driven Development) Bias & Fairness Black Box Browser Use C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) CV (Computer Vision) Capability Elicitation Career Modalities Chain of Thought Client AI Cloud AI Cognitive Load Cognitive Offloading Collaboration Compute Use Computer Use Conscience Consent Considerate Display Content Models Content Moderation Context Control Copilot Mode DL (deep learning) DL Engines Data Labeling Data Poisoning Data Privacy Dataset Bias Dataset Curation Design Automation Design Education Design for AI Design for AI/AGI Digital Provenance Digital Twin EUI/AI Embedded AI Embodied AI Emergent Capabilities Empathy with AI Ethics Evaluation Explainable AI Fairness Metrics Fake News Few-Shot Prompting Fine-Tuning Foundation Model Free Speech GOFAI (Good Old-Fashioned AI) GenAI Interns Generative AI Generative Design Grounding Hallucination Harness Human in the Loop Human-Centered AI Human-on-the-Loop Image Generation Image-to-Image Image-to-Text Inference Efficiency Inference Engine Intent Classification Intent Detection Interface JSON Mode Justifiable Risk LLM (Large Language Model) LLMOps (Large Language Model Operations) LLMs (Large Language Models) Latency of Computation Latency of Response Meta-Prompt Meta-Prompting Model Drift Model Hallucination Model Misuse Model Poisoning Model Training Model Use Multi-modal Multi-modal Interface NLP (Natural Language Processing) NSAI (Neural Symbolic AI) NSFW Filter Open Source Open Source AI PEFT (Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning) Personalization Personalized AI Plan Mode Plans/Planning Post-Training Pre-Training Predictive UI Proactive AI Proactive AI DESIGN Progress Disclosure Prompt Prompt Chaining

Prompt Debugging Prompt Design Prompt Engineering

Prompt Evaluation Prompt Injection

Prompt Injection Mitigation

Prompt Libraries Prompt Literacy Prompt Template

Prompt Versioning Prompting Push vs Pull RAI (Responsible AI) RAS (Retrieval Augmented Generation) RLF RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) Recommendation Engine Reinforced Learning Reinforcement Learning Response/AI Roles & Tone Rules Safety Filters Semantic Search Shadows Mode Silicon Use Speculative Design for AI Speech Stochastic Prompt Streaming Text Effect Structure Subagents Subtasks Supervised Learning Supervision & Oversight Symbolic AI Synthetic Data Synthetic Users System Prompt Task Delegation Taxonomy of Agents Temperature Text-to-3D Text-to-Code Text-to-Image Text-to-Speech Text-to-Video Throughput Tokens Tool Use Top-k Sampling Toxicity Detection Training Transfer Learning Transformer Transparency Trust Trust Calibration Unlabeled/Raw AI Unsupervised Learning Usability Vector Search Voice Voice Interface Voice Language Model Voice Recognition Weights Workflow Automation Workflows Zero-Shot Prompting

[theresponsivemale]

Your mother handed you the card at breakfast.

Small. White. Heavy cardstock. The kind of card that comes from somewhere that takes itself seriously. On the front, a logo — a clean sans-serif BTA above the words Beta Training Academy in smaller type. On the back, a QR code and a single line in a woman's handwriting:

He seems ready. —J

"Mrs. Harmon's son went through their program," your mother said, pouring coffee she didn't offer you. "She says Tyler is a completely different person. So focused now. So calm. Found his purpose."

She said purpose the way she used to say college. With that specific maternal emphasis that means: this is the thing that will fix you.

"She gave me that card at the store. Said to pass it along."

You looked at the card. At the handwriting. The initial. J. You didn't know any J connected to Mrs. Harmon.

"What kind of program is it?"

"A training program. For young men." She sat down across from you. "Leadership skills. Career development. Self-improvement. She said all sorts of doors opened for Tyler after he finished."

You pocketed the card. Ate your cereal. Went back downstairs to your room — your childhood bedroom that had become your permanent bedroom six months ago when the lease ran out and the job didn't materialize and your mother said of course you can stay, sweetie, for as long as you need.

The card sat on your nightstand for three days.

You found it again on a Thursday night. 11pm. Your mother asleep upstairs. The house quiet except for the furnace cycling on and off.

You scanned the QR code.

The app loaded quickly. Clean interface. Warm colors — soft pinks and whites, professional but not corporate. A welcome screen:

Welcome to the Beta Training Academy Candidate Portal.

A progress bar at the top. 0% Complete.

Then the next screen. And the warmth disappeared.

⚠️ IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE PROCEEDING

The BTA Candidate Compatibility Profile is administered and monitored by an adaptive AI assessment system. This system analyzes your responses — including response time, keystroke patterns, hesitation intervals, and physiological data — in real time to determine program suitability.

Before proceeding, you must acknowledge the following:

1. All responses are final. There is no option to revise, edit, or withdraw submitted answers. The system records your first response, including deletions and corrections.

2. This system is designed to detect evasion. Candidates who provide inaccurate, incomplete, or performative responses will be identified and their candidacy will be permanently terminated.

3. Completion of this profile does not guarantee advancement to the interview stage. Suitability is determined by the system based on your complete response pattern — not individual answers.

4. By proceeding, you consent to full physiological data collection during applicable sections of this assessment. Your device sensors — including camera, biometric monitors, and spatial measurement tools — may be activated with advance notification.

5. Dishonesty is the primary reason candidates are rejected. The most successful candidates are those who answer quickly, completely, and without self-editing.

I confirm that I will answer all questions with complete honesty.

[ I CONSENT ] ——— [ EXIT APPLICATION ]

Your thumb hovered.

Physiological data collection. Device sensors. Camera. Spatial measurement tools.

But Tyler Harmon was apparently thriving. And you were in your childhood bedroom at 11pm on a Thursday with nothing on your calendar tomorrow or the day after that or the day after that.

You tapped I CONSENT.

The progress bar moved to 2%.

Thank you, Candidate. Let's begin.

SECTION 1 — IDENTITY

The questions were simple at first. Name. Age. Date of birth. The system accepted each answer with a brief animation — a soft pulse, a checkmark — and moved on. No commentary. No "great!" No encouragement. Just acceptance and progression.

Current living situation?

You typed: Living with my mother temporarily.

The system paused. Then:

Please select the most accurate description:

Living independently

Living with partner

Living with parent(s) — temporary

Living with parent(s) — no planned move date

You stared at the options. Temporary implied a plan. You didn't have a plan. But no planned move date felt permanent. Felt like admitting something.

The system added a note beneath the options: Reminder: this system tracks response latency. Extended hesitation on basic questions is recorded.

You selected: Living with parent(s) — no planned move date.

Progress bar: 8%.

Employment status?

Unemployed.

Duration of unemployment?

Seven months.

Highest education completed?

You answered. The system moved on. Question after question, building a profile you could see assembling in real time — a card in the top corner of the screen with your details populating field by field. Name. Age. Status. Like watching your own dossier write itself.

Progress bar: 14%.

SECTION 2 — RELATIONSHIP AND SEXUAL HISTORY

The following section assesses relationship and intimacy history. Complete honesty is required. Evasive or vague responses will be flagged.

Have you ever been in a romantic relationship?

You typed: No.

The system didn't react. Didn't reassure. Didn't say that's more common than you think. Just moved on.

Have you ever been sexually intimate with a partner?

No.

Have you ever kissed a woman?

Your face heated. In your childhood bedroom. Alone. Being asked by a screen whether you'd ever kissed anyone.

No.

Have you ever touched a woman's body in a sexual context?

No.

Have you ever been touched by a woman in a sexual context?

No.

At what age did you first experience sexual arousal?

You typed 12. Deleted it. Typed 13. The system's reminder pulsed at the bottom of the screen: This system records your first response, including deletions and corrections.

It had already logged the 12. You left the 13.

How frequently do you masturbate?

Daily.

Average frequency per day?

Your ears were burning now. The furnace cycled off upstairs. The house was completely silent.

Two to three times.

What is your typical time to ejaculation during masturbation?

You didn't know. Not exactly. You'd never timed yourself. But you knew it was fast. You'd always known it was fast.

Under two minutes.

The system accepted the answer. No comment. No context. Just filed it away alongside everything else.

Progress bar: 28%.

SECTION 3 — PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT

The following section requires physical measurement. Please ensure you are in a completely private space. Do not proceed if you can be observed or interrupted.

Confirm you are alone and in a private space.

You looked at your locked bedroom door. Your mother was two floors up. Asleep.

[ CONFIRMED ]

Remove your clothing below the waist.

You stared at the screen.

This assessment requires accurate physiological measurement. Remove your clothing below the waist and confirm when ready.

You stood up. Pushed your sweatpants down. Your boxers. Sat back on the edge of your bed. Naked from the waist down in your childhood bedroom, holding your phone, at 11:24pm on a Thursday.

[ READY ]

ERECTION PROTOCOL

You have 30 seconds to achieve a full erection. The system will detect tumescence through your device's biometric sensors. The timer will begin when you tap START.

If full erection is not achieved within 30 seconds, an additional 15-second window will be granted. Failure to achieve erection within 45 seconds total will result in a flag on your candidate profile.

Do not begin stimulation until the timer starts.

[ START ]

00:30

You grabbed yourself. Thought about — you didn't even know what. The panic was immediate. What if you couldn't? What if the system flagged you? What if—

00:24

You closed your eyes. Found the thing you always found. The image. The woman. The fantasy you'd been using since you were sixteen — some version of a woman looking at you, seeing you, choosing you.

00:18

You were hardening. Not all the way.

00:12

Almost. Almost there. Your hand working, your mind racing, the timer counting down on the screen you couldn't see because your eyes were closed.

00:07

Hard. Fully hard. You opened your eyes.

Erection detected.

The timer stopped. The screen changed.

Achieved in 23 seconds. Within acceptable parameters.

Then:

MEASUREMENT PROTOCOL

Hold your device approximately 6 inches from your erect penis, camera facing downward. Ensure adequate lighting. Remain still.

The system will now activate your device's spatial measurement sensors.

[ BEGIN SCAN ]

You held your phone over your cock. The screen shifted — a targeting overlay appeared, like a camera focusing, a circle narrowing, a crosshair finding its subject.

Your erect cock on your childhood bed, framed by the targeting system of an app your mother learned about at the grocery store.

A pulse of light from the screen. A brief vibration.

Then the wheel.

Spinning. Processing.

You stood there — cock out, phone hovering, the spinning wheel doing whatever it was doing — and from somewhere far above you, through the heating vents, you could hear the faint tick of your mother's hallway clock.

Processing…

Processing…

The wheel stopped.

MEASUREMENT RECORDED

Erect length: 4.4 inches

Erect girth: 3.8 inches

The numbers sat on the screen. White text on a soft pink background. Your measurements, recorded, stored, permanent. First response. No revisions.

You stared at them. You'd known, of course. Roughly. But you'd never seen it stated like that — by something other than your own anxious estimation. The system had measured you. The system had a number. And the number was 4.4.

Progress bar: 52%.

The screen advanced.

BASELINE LATENCY ASSESSMENT

This section measures your time to ejaculation under standard visual stimulus conditions. A visual prompt will be provided by the system. Begin stimulation when the prompt appears. The system will record your time to completion.

Do not attempt to delay your response. Your natural latency is the data point being collected. Attempts to artificially extend your time will be detected and noted.

When you ejaculate, tap the COMPLETE button. Do not clean up until instructed.

[ I'M READY ]

You tapped it. Your cock still hard from the measurement. Your hand still shaking.

The image appeared.

A woman. Looking directly at the camera. Dark hair. Calm eyes. Not smiling — not performing anything. Just looking at you with an expression that said: I already know.

Something about her face. Something familiar that you couldn't place. Something that reminded you of—

The timer started. 00:00. Counting up.

Your hand moved. You told yourself to go slow. The system said not to delay, but surely—

Your hand didn't listen. It never listened. It did what it always did — fast, urgent, desperate, chasing the thing your penis wanted before your mind could intervene.

The woman on the screen watched you. Calm. Patient. Knowing.

00:00:38

You came.

Hard. Sudden. The way you always came — like a confession extracted under pressure, the truth spilling out before you could compose a better answer.

Into your palm. Because there was nowhere else. Because you were sitting on your childhood bed, naked from the waist down, ejaculating into your own hand while a woman on a screen watched and a system recorded your time and your mother slept upstairs.

You tapped COMPLETE with your clean hand.

Baseline latency recorded: 38 seconds.

Thank you for your honesty.

The progress bar moved to 78%.

SECTION 4 — PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE

The questions came faster now. Multiple choice. Rapid fire. The system noted at the top: Answer instinctively. Do not deliberate.

When a woman gives you a direct instruction, your first impulse is to:

Comply

Question

Negotiate

Resist

You tapped Comply before you'd finished reading the other options.

When a woman praises you, you feel:

Pleased

Suspicious

Aroused

Indifferent

Your cock twitched. Still half-hard. Cum cooling in your palm.

Aroused.

When you imagine a sexual encounter, you are typically:

Dominant / leading

Equal / collaborative

Passive / receptive

Serving / attending

Passive / receptive.

Which phrase produces the strongest physical response:

"You're so strong"

"Good boy"

"I need you"

"You're mine"

Your cock pulsed. Fully hard again. Cum still in your hand.

Good boy.

The system didn't ask you to explain. It just recorded the response — and, you suspected, the response time. How fast you'd tapped. How your body had reacted to two words on a screen.

Progress bar: 94%.

ASSESSMENT COMPLETE

Processing candidate profile…

Another wheel. Another wait. You sat there, cock hard, cum in your palm, watching the system digest everything you'd given it — your history, your measurements, your latency, your confessions — and convert it into a classification.

The wheel stopped.

CANDIDATE PROFILE — CONFIDENTIAL

Candidate ID: 3187 Classification: PINK — Responsive / Unpartnered Program compatibility: HIGH

Erection response: 23 sec (acceptable) Measured length: 4.4 in Measured girth: 3.8 in Baseline latency: 38 sec Sexual experience: None Relationship history: None Compliance orientation: Primary Praise response: Elevated

Status: UNDER REVIEW

A candidate liaison will contact you within 48 hours to schedule your in-person assessment. Please observe the following conditions:

1. Do not masturbate before your in-person appointment. The system will verify compliance.

2. Do not discuss your application with anyone other than your referring contact.

3. Keep this app installed. Uninstalling will be interpreted as withdrawal.

Thank you, Candidate 3187. Your honesty has been noted.

The app returned to a waiting screen. Your candidate ID in the corner. The word PINK glowing softly beneath it. A progress bar that now read: Candidate Status: Awaiting Interview Assignment.

You put your phone down. Looked at the cum in your hand. Looked at the ceiling of your childhood bedroom — the same ceiling you'd stared at every night since you moved back, the same glow-in-the-dark stars you'd stuck up there when you were nine.

You washed your hand in the bathroom. Put your boxers back on. Sat on the edge of the bed.

Picked up your phone. Checked the app. The status hadn't changed.

You checked it again before brushing your teeth.

And again after getting into bed.

And again at 1:47am when you couldn't sleep because the system had told you not to touch yourself and your cock was hard and the word PINK was glowing on a screen six inches from your face and you didn't know what it meant but your body seemed to.

At 7am, your mother knocked on your door.

"Sweetie? Did you hear back from that program?"

"Not yet, Mom. They said 48 hours."

"Mrs. Harmon said Tyler heard back in one day. She said his interview was at a very nice office. Very professional."

A pause.

"I'm proud of you for trying, sweetie. I really think this could be good for you."

You heard her footsteps retreating up the stairs. The coffee maker starting. The morning sounds of a house where a woman took care of everything because the man who lived in the basement couldn't take care of himself.

You checked the app.

The status had changed.

Interview scheduled. Tomorrow. 2:00 PM. Address attached.

Please arrive 15 minutes early. Do not eat a heavy meal beforehand. Wear comfortable clothing that is easy to remove.

And remember, Candidate 3187: do not touch your penis before your appointment. We'll know.

This is the first in our Beta Training Academy series — on applications, algorithms, and what happens when a quiet boy scans a QR code his mother got at the grocery store.

If you'd like to read more of my work, please consider subscribing to my Substack: Responsive Male. It's free to join and you'll be notified when I release new content.

[erinwantstowrite]

The Privacy Case for SweetDream, Feature by Feature

Let me approach this analytically. Every standout feature SweetDream offers becomes more valuable the moment you trust that it's private. The lifelike voice messages and human-sounding phone calls? Worth more when you know they're discreet. The video calls and live cam sessions available with select characters? Far more comfortable to enjoy when the platform's whole posture is privacy-first.

That's the throughline I kept landing on while testing sweetdream.ai. It isn't that the AI girlfriend experience is good and also private; it's that the privacy is what lets the experience be as immersive as it is. You design a companion's personality and appearance in detail, you get strikingly realistic generated photos, and you do it all knowing the content stays yours.

If I were scoring AI companion platforms on a rubric, SweetDream would top the column that too many competitors leave half-empty. Discretion isn't a bonus line item here. It's the reason the rest of the product works as well as it does.

[erinwantstowrite]

i vaguely remember you making a post about this forever ago but i can’t remember it - BUT i want to get back into writing but i don’t want to use google docs (ai my beLOATHED) so i was just wondering what program(s?) you use to write or if you have any recommendations for beginners

thanks!! always love to see when you post :]]

i used to LOVE google docs because it was a free application and it works so well, so when i found out it was training ai with our writing i was SO betrayed,,,, now, as far as i can tell, the program i use, Reedsy, doesn't use ai nor trains with it. it's free to use and doesn't have "premium" or "pay to use" features. it has an easy enough interface to understand, though it lacks the options with colors and fonts and highlighting that google docs allows- which is fine, because Reedsy is technically for getting your book ready to publish. the exporting part of the program is for print ready pdfs (has an epub option) which are formatted for publishing your book in a physical format. it doesn't have a page option (that i can find) and is endless scrolling, and there are a couple of glitches. but it's still better than google docs and they're still working through stuff and asking for feedback. you can also find potential editors on the site, but if you're writing for a fic you might want a friend to help you with that

i will say that for this program, it's recommended to split a chapter after 20k words or it gets difficult to work with... i found this out because i am... me. and i wrote like 40k in a chapter and the program was so annoyed with me 😭. also don't use the outline part of the program unless you somehow like it

but yeah!!! i recommend it for everyone and it's not too hard for beginners to use!! i might make a tutorial one day or a more extensive post about Reedsy. i know a few people have been asking for a tutorial on krita so i might as well bring Reedsy in too

[goodfoxbadfox]

thoughtoftheday_02

unpopular opinion: i dont hate AI as a technology. i think it is the most interesting and thought-provoking anything i will ever see. i do NOT wish i was alive to see it, but i can't deny it is worth thinking about.

a program trained on ALL of human knowledge has unimaginable potential. remember being in grade school, and the teacher's lessons are too fast for one half of the class, and too slow for the other? imagine if children could have a one-on-one personal tutor, with access to ALL of the information EVER RECORDED about a subject, delivered through an accessible interface that can move at anyone's pace. imagine how intelligent we could all become if AI was used as a tool to HELP humanity.

i dont think AI, in a vaccum, is bad. its just new and scary. the things we choose to do with it however... are dangerous....

for instance.. what IS bad is the NINE GIGAWATT DATA CENTER being constructed in rural utah!!!!!! where elites paid off so-called "representatives" at the expense of its residents, completely negating THE ENTIRE POINT of elected officials (what else is new?).

forcing hard-working people to eat the cost of this never-before-seen energy expenditure (the largest manufacturing plant before this being boeing in Everett; used 1/4 of ONE gigawatt...) , as some people's electrical bills DOUBLE, is pure fucking evil. why these monsters are not prosecuted is beyond me.

friends, i ask you: name ONE technology with the power to change the world that hasn't been tainted by greed. i can't think of one??

whats that? chemists discovered ways to modulate neurotransmitters, AND package them into digestible tablets?? imagine what we could do with this!! !!!!!!! how fucking amazing !!!! arent humans beautiful, overcoming biological adversity? ??!! ...sorry, what? oh its gonna be completely controlled by 3 companies? for sure, thats cool. oh and they're going to corner the market on healthcae and make it completely inaccesible? nice man. oh,and any other means of acquiring these necessary drugs is actually a federal crime? meaning the poor are punished for inborn biological dysfunction? yeah nice man. cool. for sure. lets all act normal about this.

humans are evil. we are greedy and perverse. maybe there's some survival-of-the-fittest biological determinism within us that makes some people want to eliminate the other tribe, to be the only ones with the resources; i don't know. i can't rationalize apathy. but what i can say is that this behavior simply isn't the fault of an algorithm, no matter how complex, no matter how convincingly it can emulate human consciousness—it can't exist without us.

tools are only tools. our application of them imbues them with meaning. and throughout history, invariably, when our species gets our hands on a new technology, it is just a matter of time before it is used for evil. my friends say im a pessimist, but i look at these facts and see myself as a realist. we cannot blame the downfall of humanity on humanity's creations.

[corrupted-doll]

Hypnovember 2025 - 9. Cybernetic/Mech

In the third century of the Second Calendar, Ensign Theron Yamada is given the chance to pilot a mech.

CW: trans, mech, dubcon,

The hanger door rolled open revealing a 60-foot tall white and gold robot suit, as service crews milled about it preparing it for launch.

 The flight engineer rattled off policies and procedures to Ensign Theron Yamada, and while he was listening, his conscious mind was absorbed by the thing of beauty before him.

 Never in a million years would he have imagined his application to the Dunama Program be approved, let alone be actually commissioned. In his heart, he knew it must have been because the pilots above him either didn't want to pilot a refurbished Dunama, or, more likely, they didn't want to pilot a Gynarch. He could imagine the list of names, all with an M under "gender".

 Theron loved her at first sight. Her clean lines, the sculpted legs and calves - optimised for hostile territory incursions, the bolstered chest section where his capsule was, and the weapons - a vibrowhip and progressive dagger. The Andrarch range were bulky behemoths, suited for prolonged incursions, but this beautiful girl, she was a precision missile, ready to enter the battle, slay, and leave.

 "Remember to control your breathing and heartrate when you enter the capsule, Theron. Your VoithOS needs to sync with your vitals, and having them at baseline will get you in the field sooner." Theron nodded at the engineer, whose brass nameplate read 'Baros' and stood out from his black and red uniform.

 He nodded and started with his breathing exercises, as they stepped into the elevator to ride to the pilot’s entry hatch.

No "Now, you've synced with training AIs before, but this is a brand new VoithOS. We've rebuilt the chassis after Sgt Han's accident, but the copilot core is new. It has no identity other than what you train it to have. How you feel about it will feed back to you.

 "Major Sasaki, he has an antagonistic relationship. Major Ka- look, you understand all this, don't you?"

 "Yes Chief."

 The cabin opened to the pilot’s hatch. The two men exited and the mechanics opened the bulky door, revealing a dark pilot's compartment, lit by a wash of dark fuchsia LEDs. Baros looked at his clipboard and recited:

 "Ensign Theron Yamada, your mission today is to sync with your Dunama to baseline. You are to undertake the obstacle course at GR 752 by 9. Upon completion of this task, if Flight Command authorises it, you will be requested to reconnoitre a possible Estado staging ground, details classified. Do you understand and accept these orders as I have given them to you?"

 "Yes, Sir." Theron stood at attention and saluted, which Baros returned.

 "Then your mission is confirmed Go. Good luck, pilot."

  Theron entered the chamber and heard the door seal behind him. Strapping himself into his harness, he felt something rub between his legs. A small protrusion, rubbery in texture, prodded underneath his genitals - not uncomfortably so, but enough to be aware of it.

 "Flight, this is Yamada." He called over the radio, as he   started to boot up the mech. "Theres a ... Protrusion in my pilots cradle. "

 "Confirm, Yamada. What do you mean a protrusion?"

  "A little, uh, nubbin, that's resting right underneath my...  my testicles."

 Giggles over the radio. Yamada blushes as he reached for the VoithOS interface jack and slid it into the port at the base of his neck.

 "Uh, we copy your ... Nubbin, Yamada. It's not on our prints; did you need an inspection?"

 "Negative, Flight. It's not a problem. Han must have altered her cradle, I think it's a stabiliser. You can inspect when I return. Activating VoithOS now."

 With one hand typing to activate the AI, he slid another VoithOS jack into his arm with his free hand, then repeated it.

 VoithOS online. Welcome Theron Yamada.

 The voice was synthetic, yet feminine. When it spoke, the LEDs pulsed from their default dark fuchsia, alternating with a deep burgundy. Theron secured his feet into the leglocks and took a few steps forward hesitantly.

 "Good morning VoithOS. Load up mission details, Theron Yamada 325:4:9. Load nav data into Othoni system, display on left forward screen."

 Confirmed. Query. This is your first assisted flight. Do you have any requirements?

 "Negative VoithOS. Let's just get to the obstacle course before we dial up any subroutines."

 The machine moved fluidly, as he walked through the cleared fields towards the course. It was quite responsive. The slight movement of his was reflected in the Dunama's movement. He felt a slight disconnect with his footfalls though. He expected to feel it when he put his foot down, but there was no feedback. No response.

 "VoithOS, before we get to the course, can you load up some force feedback? I need to feel my steps."

 Confirmed. Observation. Most pilots give their assistants names. Have you considered one?

 "It’s a little early in the relationship for pet names, don’t you think? Do you have a preference?"

 There was a silent pause. Theron focused on getting speed up. The mech moved differently from the Andrarch suits he'd trained in. It felt more lithe, more delicate. He tilted his legs down and trying running on the balls of his feet, and noticed a slight improvement in speed.

 The word Thera means hunting, chase, volcano. It is also similar to your name Theron.

 "Works for me, you little powerhouse. Let's do this obstacle course."

 The obstacles were standard movement and combat trials. Running, jumping, using his whip, the dagger, swimming and jump jets. With more feedback feeding into the cradle, it felt natural. He adapted quickly to the movement style of the Gynarch frame, dodging and ducking with increasing aplomb.

 He reached the end of the course and relaxed in his cradle. The activity had caused him to start perspiring, and he requested Thera to do something about it. She filled the cabin with a perfumed aerosol, scented of rosewater and orchid. It was quite soothing.

 "Yamada, this is Flight. You've scored a 76 on the course. We're happy with that. Return to base."

 Return to base? What about the mission? The staging camp? It must be the 76. Shimatta. He could do better. He wanted that mission.

 "Uh, Flight? Yamada. I'm not satisfied with that result. Request permission to run it again?"

 "Yamada, this is Baros. You OK? Your heartrate just dropped."

 "Baros, Yamada. Yeah, I've got my VoithOS to deploy some aromatherapy for me. I think I can lock in and get over 80. Request permission to re-run the course?"

 "Yamada, Flight. Give us a moment to reset the trackers, let's see how far you can push it."

 Theron walked back to the starting line. He breathed in calm. He exhaled tension. Closing his eyes, he imagined he was not piloting the Dunama. He was the Dunama. His toned calves, his white chassis, his cinched waste.

 Theron, you appear to be attempting to improve your synchronisation with the Dunama. Would you like assistance?

 "Anything you have, Thera. Let's go."

 Theron started the course again, focusing on not just doing the course, but feeling the course. His skids under the barriers felt tighter, his weaving the cables using modest jump-jet deployment was timed better and his knife strikes were more accurate.

 "Uh, Yamada? Flight. We're showing you at a 92. Can you confirm sync rate with VoithOS?"

 He didn't need to pass on the message. Thera displayed a readout on one of her screens which he read back to them

 "Uh, the screen says: status ALT-sigma7"

 "Confirm that, Yamada.... Uh, wow, great work."

 Flight continued to speak, but Theron didn't hear it. As soon as Baros said 'great work', the protrusion between his legs buzzed, sending a sharp sensation of pleasure up through his body.

 "Yamada, we just detected a spike in your heart rate. Is everything OK?"

 Theron blinked and looked at the status screen. Reading it out to base, he recited: "Status H2864- error 419"

 He tried to steady his breathing, recovering from the pleasurable stimulation, hearing whispering on the open line. "Copy that Yamada. Just a malfunctioning sensor. Get your VoithOS to reset its sensors and we'll get this mission authorisation up for you. Good work."

 Theron just managed to eke out a "Copy that" before the protrusion buzzed again, sending another shiver of pleasure through him.

 "Thera! What the hell is that?"

 This module has been equipped with an unlicenced pleasure module. I falsified the sensor malfunction to ensure you are not prosecuted for altering your cradle. Positive reinforcement has returned in higher synchronisation. Do you want to ensure high synchronisation?

 "Yes, b-" More buzzing between his legs cut him off, insensibly babbling from pleasure.

 I have noticed a lower-than-expected response from stimulation. Is the module defective?

 "No, Thera, I'm a guy! That's why I'm..." More buzzing.

 Thank you for clarifying the module is not defective. We will improve your sync rate together.

  Theron was grateful for the chance to breathe when Thera stopped buzzing him. He looked down at himself and a small wet patch on the front of his flight suit. He blushed.

 "You don't have to keep doing that, Thera."

 Understood. Would you like me to use light and sound to stimulate higher synchronisation ratios?

 "That'd be better than buzzing me all the time."

 Affirmative.

 The lights switched to a slow pulsing throb and a binaural tone hummed in the background. Theron glanced at the screen on his right and tabbed to Mission Data. It read 'Updating. Please Wait'

 Theron. Request for enquiry.

 "Uh, granted?"

 You have recall of admiring this mech. Is that correct?

 "Yes, it's a beautiful craft. She... Uh... You are gorgeous."

 Clarification. You still wish optimal synchronisation.

 "Yes. If I'm going to be the best pilot, we need to move as one."

 The conversation broke as he heard the familiar voice of his Chief of Flight on the comm.

 "Ensign Yamada. This is your flight engineer, Chief Yuro Baros. Authorisation Red-Scarlet-Gamma-9."

 "Confirmed Chief, Teal-Aqua-Forty-Iota."

 "Pilot, I am authorising you to travel to location orange, and reconnoitre. We have suspects that the Bharati are assembling suits for a potential attack. Confirm with photographics and return. You are authorised to engage if confronted. Repeat, do not engage the Estado forces unless provoked. Do you understand?"

 "Non provoking reconnaissance. Confirmed, over"

 "Then your mission is a go. Good luck, pilot."

  Theron cued up the Nav Data. It was some distance away, in a mountainous stretch of forest. Only accessible via flying. It was time to see what they could make this beautiful machine do. The aroma in the capsule changed. Flowery still, but with a musky undertone. He felt flushed. It was actually quite pleasant. Sensing his question;

 A scent formulated to enforce connection with your Dunama. Your endorphin levels show it is pleasing.

 "Sure is!" Theron kicked up the jets and lifted of in the direction of the suspected Estado camp.

 Theron, I have been analysing how best to increase your synchronisation with your Dunama. Would you appreciate micro variances in your othoni system to provide instant feedback?

 "Uhhh… demonstrate?"

 The screen before him changed subtly. He could tell something was flashed there but couldn't make out the words. Arms? Maybe? Legs? Also?

 He looked away and flexed his arms. He did feel a little more in tune with the sleek, hyper designed fighting machine around him. Cycling through to sync rate on his screens he saw it peaked at 93. Perfect.

 "Thank you, Thera. Whatever you just did, more of that.”

Affirmative.

  He closed his eyes and paced his breathing. He was a white and gold Dunama, flying through the air above fields becoming trees and rocks. His hand gripped its progressive dagger, just to know it was there and he could. The ambience of the capsule shifted slightly. As he was about to ask, he jiggled his jacks and Thera responded:

I have it on record that adrenaline helps in a combat situation.

“No, thanks. I’m good for adrenaline.”

You do not need me to produce hormones you can produce yourself?

“That’s correct. Hold up, we’re arriving.” Theron cooled his jets and hovered in the air over the camp. Zooming in, he saw the clear shapes of Siva-units and trucks marked in Hindi and Estado markings. He transmitted the feed to Base.

 “Yamada; This is Flight. Thanks for that, return home. Good work.”

 With the compliment, the stimulator between his leg activated again and his eyes rolled up in his head from the sensation. It didn’t last long, however, as an Incoming warning alarm began to blare. He dodged, but not soon enough, as a missile shot past him striking the side of his chassis. He fired his retros and flew down towards the staging camp, crushing a supply truck underfoot.

 One of his screens read “Enemy Casualty Detected” and the stimulator buzzed. He gasped with pleasure and pulled out the vibrowhip. Theron could feel it in his Gynarch hand and lashed it out at what seemed to be the most completed Siva-unit. The whip uncurled and truck the robot, which shivered and shuddered. Pulling it back, the Gynarch lunged forward with its dagger and penetrated the pilot’s capsule.

 Theron kicked forward and the suit was pushed off the Gynarch’s knife, who then swung around and crushed a man with a rocket launcher. Another enemy death meant another buzz. Theron was getting worked up now, and the Gynarch was starting to thirst for blood. Her screens flashed with messages Theron didn’t pay attention to, not while he watched her whip decapitate another mech suit and received another buzz for the success.

 He flexed, he flung, he stabbed, and for each death or injury, Thera’s stimulator provided a reward. Not that it was needed, the Gynarch was designed to kill quickly and stylishly and she was succeeding. She kicked two men into the air, where they would surely die from the fall, only to turn, pick up a truck, slam it into another mechs head, stunning it in time for three well placed stabs.

 Within three minutes, she stood alone, surrounded by death and wreckage, and bathed in afterglow.

---

 “They’re saying you hit 100% Sync Rate for a moment there, Ensign Yamada. That’s amazing control over your Dunama.”

 Debriefing. The Colonel himself. Disconnected from Dunama. Functioning as well as could be expected after being flooded with endorphins, adrenaline and who knows what chemicals were in the air.

 “Thank you, sir. I tried my best.”

 “Well, your best destroyed 5 Siva units in the process of being built and who knows how many personnel.” He flicked through the report. “They say they’ll keep you off the battlefield for a bit, but I must admit, I’ve never seen a man pilot an Andrarch that well, let alone a Gynarch. Most impressive.

 “I think they want you to teach them all how you did it.”

 Yamada thought of the stimulator in the cradle and how perhaps surgery might improve pilot responsiveness. The idea had merit.

 “Well, I’ll let you go and relax, Ensign. From all of us here, thank you and good job.”

 The words sent a single through the pilots’ ears. Thera smiled, and the corners of Theron’s lips raised in reply.

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Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government

Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while c

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power.

Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, receiving more than $113 million in federal spending since the beginning of the year, according to The New York Times. Palantir’s US government revenue has grown by more than $ 370 million compared to this time last year, according to the company’s most recent quarterly earnings report. Before making remarks at last week’s AI Summit in DC, Trump thanked a variety of cabinet secretaries and tech leaders, including Palantir chief technology officer Shyam Sankar. “We buy a lot of things from Palantir,” Trump said. “Are we paying our bills? I think so.”

Instead of replacing these more traditional contractors, Palantir’s software is becoming the core tool deployed by them in government systems, placing Palantir in a newly central role.

The White House itself is thrilled by this partnership: “The Trump Administration has high-standard [sic] when spending American’s hard-earned tax dollars—which is why agencies have partnered with Palantir, a top-tier American company renowned for their longstanding history of innovation, results, and increasing government efficiency,” says White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers.

Palantir did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In April, WIRED reported that Palantir was working alongside IRS engineers to build what sources called a “mega API,” which would unify all data across the agency. An API, or application programming interface, enables applications and databases to exchange data and possibly compare it against other interoperable datasets. Once completed, this mega API could become the “read center of all IRS systems.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracted Palantir for $30 million to track self-deportations in April. The company has also won federal contracts more recently, like a $795 million award from the Pentagon in May to expand its Maven Smart System program. The total contract ceiling for the Army’s Maven program is now $1.3 billion.

This growth comes as some of the companies Palantir has chosen to partner with have lost billions in government contract cuts. In April, defense secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans to cut $5.1 billion in IT consulting contracts with companies including Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte. In a memo announcing the cuts, Hegseth said that the Pentagon would be forced to bring more of its IT work in-house.

“These contracts represent non-essential spending on third party consultants to perform services more efficiently performed by the highly skilled members of our DoD workforce using existing resources,” Hegseth wrote.

Palantir’s partnerships with these companies vary, but each one makes it easier for Palantir to extend the reach of its software and AI technology across the federal government. With Accenture’s government branch, Palantir will train and certify at least 1,000 Accenture workers on its Foundry software as well as its AI tech, according to an Accenture press release The companies also said that together they could create “a 360-degree view” of government agency budgets, something the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has sought to build and use to review federal spending. (Palantir partnered with Accenture before in 2022, but this is the first partnership to focus on US government clients.)

“We are teaming up with Accenture Federal Services to accelerate AI across the U.S. Government, working to address federal agencies’ highest-priority operational challenges,” Palantir posted to X last month.

"What makes this partnership so uniquely powerful is Accenture’s expertise working with the federal government and our ability to bring commercial capabilities to government solutions, combined with Palantir’s deep experience in government software," Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture, said in a press release. “Together, we will harness the ever-growing power of AI to help the federal government succeed in its critical mission to modernize and reinvent its operations—with stronger data flows, transparency and resilience—to better serve warfighters, citizens and all its stakeholders.”

Accenture did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

While Palantir has become a major government contractor in its own right, partnering with contracting giants could enable the software company to scale at a much faster rate, leveraging long-standing relationships these larger contractors have with virtually every federal agency. “It's actually a pretty savvy business decision on the part of both Palantir, then also what you would call a traditional, more legacy-oriented, like defense or just government contractors,” says Jessica Tillipman, associate dean for government procurement law at George Washington University. “If they’re newer to certain areas and others have that footprint, that’s how it would benefit Palantir.”

Last week, Palantir and Deloitte announced a partnership that includes what they call the “Enterprise Operating System” (EOS) to unify data across organizations. At government agencies like the Internal Revenue Service and reportedly at the Social Security Administration (SSA), Palantir is already working to combine agency datasets, allowing what were previously disparate datasets to communicate with one another more easily.

"Deloitte shares Palantir's commitment to decisive action and a dedication to delivering meaningful, lasting results for commercial and government clients," said Jason Girzadas, Deloitte US CEO, said in a press release announcing the partnership. "Expanding our preferred relationship at this pivotal moment provides our clients with Palantir's latest advances in AI, combined with Deloitte's engineering scale and deep sector experience."

Deloitte did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Palantir struck some of these deals prior to Trump taking office as well. In December of last year, Booz Allen partnered with Palantir specifically, working together on building out defense IT infrastructure.

“To have one company monopolize and become the gatekeeper of software in the government, to become an ‘app factory,’ for the government, in a sense, where they're in every agency, they're part of the defense complex and the intelligence complex, brings huge concerns regarding fairness, regarding competition, and puts Palantir in a very unique position that maybe has never existed,” says Juan Sebastián Pinto, a former Palantir employee and critic of the company.

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Top Features to Include in Your E-Learning App in 2025.

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The ability to host and make live the real-time sessions, webinars, and interactive discussions is vital. As it bridges the gap and tends to act as a link between static content and real classroom engagement.

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If you want to reach or expand globally or target non-English-speaking markets, multilingual support and assistance aid in localizing your app and boosting its user adoption.

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Both learners and instructors need visibility into progress. While the dashboards or the interface, analytics, and performance reports enhance transparency and help refine the learning process and setup.

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