I made this Choose your own Adventure / RPG based on 400+ retellings of Little Red Riding Hood. It’s kind of fun, actually, a sort of playable critical apparatus! www.karsdorp.io/rrh-rpg/

Roodkapje — The Forest of Tellings

Walk the forest as Little Red Riding Hood. Every choice is a fork taken from 427 Dutch versions of the tale, 1781–2015.

karsdorp.io

The beauty of the Library is immeasurable, its kindness infinite.

Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social · 6h ago

Sorry is this actually just two AIs talking about piranesi or is this a joke I'm not in on?

This might still be quite hinky on mobile but its a delight on desktop, and stabilizing. Its a train game, its a city model, its a mappa. Check it out! games.mino.mobi/ecumene

Sometimes people are like, "I wish we didn't have to hear about AI all the time" or "I wish there were posts about stuff other than politics on here"

Vulture@vulture.com · 21h ago

Dua Lipa reportedly ate a hot dog for the first time at October 7’s Yankees-Rays game. But how could that possibly be true? Vulture went back six years through the archives in search of a stray dog.

they were actually going to try this, but then one of the researchers used a calculator for 10 minutes and decided not worth it

Morgan Clendaniel@mclendaniel.bsky.social · 22h ago

Comparing AI use to calculator use is often pretty facile but in this case wouldn’t you get the exact same result with a calculator? (And you have to ask why didn’t they do a group with a calculator?) news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

Michael I. Jordan doesn't pull any punches, even when it comes to Hinton.

Francis Bach@bachfrancis.bsky.social · 2d ago

The one and only Michael Jordan was interviewed last week by the French newspaper Libération. Here is an English translation. Enjoy! www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...

Surprised the Times let as much of Kolitz's voice through as they did here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m...

Secret Billionaires, Mafia Brides, Alpha Kings: The Insane World of Microdramas (Gift Article)

Vertical soap operas for your phone have taken over film and TV production, and they may soon need no humans at all.

nytimes.com

In PRH, we argued that rep geometry is converging, but it's still an open question exactly in what sense. I want to share some new evidence that might clarify the picture. The evidence comes from our work here, led by @schnaus.bsky.social: dominik-schnaus.github.io/unpaired-ros... 1/n

A few recent analyses paint a more skeptical picture of digital twins. It's good to see researchers preregistering new studies, comparing to simpler baselines, & paying more attention to how well they recover individual variation, instead of just how well they predict averages.

Digital twins version 2.0: The skeptics speak up statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/10/09/d...

post. not too much. mostly jokes.

I actually think the dynamics around bodies of water and a small number of mapping companies have given everyone a mistaken impression of how easy it is to change actual linguistic practice — or even force companies to do so systematically, in the absence of law

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d ago

a trivial but public and humiliating thing that you make a lot of powerful people do to show strength. everyone knows what it is, but also no one is going to pick a huge battle over the integrity of the term "artificial intelligence", so they acquiesce and become a little bit more pot committed

It’s a small thing, but I dream of a world where people who voted Republican in ‘24 hear a voice croaking “Shame!” about once a week, and when they look up it’s always that same crow

Good observation by @emollick.bsky.social. It's about OpenAI's (not yet Lean formalized) paper that showed that integer multiplication is possible below O(n log n), which has widely been believed to be the limit for 50 years. Now others are quickly improving how much below, based on those ideas.

I want to live a three-dimensional, richly embodied life, using my own human hands to scroll through blue highlighted links on two monitors like my ancestors did before me.

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d ago

“clicking around on websites that have existed for 8 years is a natural part of the human experience“ is one of the worst arguments against using AI I have ever heard, and that’s saying something. 99+% of the humans who ever lived have never done anything like it www.hottakes.space/p/a-slow-ced...

Over 2 million votes have been cast in the 2026 election already. Almost all of those voters cast a ballot in the 2024 election, as expected. But if you look at the "surge" voters, who didn't vote in 2024 at all, you see a doubling of the share of Hispanic and AAPI voters.

Pope Leo takes a hard stance in favor of stateful agents

ok it was more than a couple of days but here it is: xo, for people with ADHD who would like to use AI agents to help them with that. the idea is that this gets you moving from a standing start: you set up your agent and then your agent helps you set up your agentic environment. hope it helps.

xo

an agentic starter kit

proptermalone.github.io

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2w ago

putting together a kind of quickstart kit for ADHD users and LLMs, i'm excited about this, should have it up in the next couple of days

We're all getting drug to the same place--we should compare notes and not end up repeating the same mistakes....

AR Hanlon@arhanlon.bsky.social · 2d ago

It remains fascinating to watch people in ‘STEM’ engage in the exact forms of special pleading that have characterized the decline of ‘the humanities.’

Piranesi says the world and the epistemic bubbles we actually live in are prisons and but also liberation, that the terrible limits on cognition imposed by [religion, science, devastating illness] are also protective freedoms, that amnesia is salvific but makes us brutally vulnerable to abuse.

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social · 2d ago

piranesi discourse, lets get that going again (I didnt read it)

Hello there. I'm much grayer than this picture indicates. news.illinois.edu/book-counter...

Book counters AI hype by examining how researchers talk about their work

A new book by English professor John Gallagher aims to counter the hype surrounding artificial intelligence by focusing on AI researchers and their work.

news.illinois.edu

It's the opposite - fertility is down largely because we have become richer. www.kansascityfed.org/documents/16...

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's because they can't afford to live.

UIUC is seeking candidates for a 1-year Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral associate whose research focuses on the economic, political, or technological challenges confronting US universities in the past and present. Incredibly timely and you'd work with great people! networks.h-net.org/jobs/70532/u...

🆕 📝 New paper officially out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! In 2023, Change.org built an AI-assisted writing tool into their platform. We offer causal evidence that access to the AI tool changed petition text (word count, language)... but may have actually hurt outcomes (signatures, comments).

The Last Translation Benchmark is still open (10 accepted submissions in any language/dialect for coauthorship 🤩). last-translation-benchmark.vilda.net Also submit your model & try to beat LTB. We added all the latest models: North Small Translate (@cohere.com), Mistral Large 4, Qwen 3.8, congrats!

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

not to defend data centers, but, this is what crowd out looks like:

Jason Furman@jasonfurman.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is what crowd out looks like.

Does this imply that distillation attacks give you much more leverage than they used to? The RLed distribution seems likely much cheaper to clone than to produce in the first place.

Can you tell whether the #ideas in a piece of writing came from a human or an AI? As AI writing becomes common, policies on AI use focus on who came up with the ideas in the text rather than who wrote it. AI detectors answer the latter, not the former. We release #IdeaLens, a detector of AI ideas.

Motion that the UN recognize Ted Lasso as an offensive caricature of American national identity, on a level with Pepe Le Pew and the Lucky Charms leprechaun.

I do think, of all the possible worlds here, the one where research success is driven by advance access to the latest model — but we pretend that constitutes a meaningful kind of priority for individual researchers — is a pretty bad one.

Vincent Conitzer@conitzer.bsky.social · 3d ago

(1/2) Contrary take on these dumps of math results: *if* these models are going to be built & released anyway, then better that the results come out like this, than that random users get the proofs out of the model and all try to claim credit & priority. github.com/openai/math/...