They sold me a machine to drink my coffee for me, then I had to buy their caffeine injectables to get the same buzz, but it shaved 12 minutes off my morning routine which I use to earn 381 extra cents for my employer. At the end of the year I'll get a bag of gourmet coffee beans for my hard work.

I have been realizing since the summer that the number one enemy of AI (the technology) is the greedy, incurious, rent-seeking AI industry of Sillicon Valley and their appalling behavior

Brett Karlan@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · yesterday

The fundamental problem for the reasonable side of the pro-AI crowd is that they share airtime (and are frequently drowned out) by the literal worst people that exist

The fundamental problem for the reasonable side of the pro-AI crowd is that they share airtime (and are frequently drowned out) by the literal worst people that exist

🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · yesterday

this is so fucking sad

I Wrote about the responsibility we carry to each other.

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23h ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

“There's a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again

“There's a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

buff.ly

The very last sentence, by Litt, is the only one truly irking me. "If we can’t adapt, he added, “whose fault is that?”" I wonder. Whose fault would it be, bringing an overfunded sledgehammer to the foundations of a centuries-old endeavor without giving a damn and requiring it adapt in merely years?

(The rest of the article is worth a read too! Maybe nothing really new per se, but well and crisply expressed)

This point regarding AI-produced proofs is of course not new, but is beautifully put here. www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en... @quantamagazine.org

For an open science conference, it's pretty damn hard to trace down who is actually funding the conference and the various orgs it brings together....

Convergence Open Science Conference@convergenceconf.bsky.social · 3d ago

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For the vast majority of mathematicians, mathematics is not a competition but a personal and profound labor of discovery, of creation, of truth-finding, and of expression. The nascent order will be ours to shape: birdsnfrogs.github.io/2026/10/05/A...

From a historical perspective it's a genuinely strange state of affairs that the Church of England turns out to be too woke for much of the modern right. But really it just feels like: having a consistent moral code that demands taking Lessers and Outgroup seriously is impossible for populist right.

Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Man who shagged his girlfriend behind his wife's back lectures the Archbishop of Canterbury on Christianity.

as a child of the social media left it is really obvious to me how we exported what should have been Social Media rules (pressure, block, deplatform public figures with whom you cannot have good faith conversation) into our personal lives (going no contact with your family who voted Trump)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d ago

very true, as the people yelling at Justin are rightly pointing out, that the calls for bipartisanship, civility, and agreement across difference are often weaponized to keep ghastly views and people warm and comfy in polite company. also true that we all need to develop a middle gear

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

“In the words of a great American president, I chose to do these things not because they were hard, but because they were easy” www.scottnarmstrong.com/2026/10/auto...

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

theatlantic.com

"Resurface"

I told my wife, who works in the mental health profession, that there's all these people who believe AI models can feel pain. She immediately responded with "are these people who struggle to identify their own emotions?" I think she hit it with one shot

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 7d ago

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

the Saudi government now enjoys a 15.1% equity stake in the new, bigger Paramount Warner Brothers

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · last wk.

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

Behavioural Science in 2026.

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · last wk.

RIP to everyone’s favorite p<0.05 factory

My first exposure to this guy was hearing him on Ezra Klein's podcast and being surprised that a computer scientist would say such things. Then, I googled him and learned he was not only *not* a computer scientist, but had never finished high school. Everything made a lot more sense after that.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2w ago

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

The names of these judges will eventually come up, and they should lose their jobs, be disbarred, and answer to society for such gratuitous cruelty

CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. https://cnn.it/4huSk5M

This is my favourite Borges story.