I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
Mike Jacovides
@jacovides.bsky.social
I teach philosophy at Purdue. My opinions are my own and don't represent my employer
Portrait of a girl, possibly Catherine of Aragon (or Juana, her sister) at age 11. Painted by Juan de Flandes, a Flemish artist in Spain, in 1496. Today is his day.
I decided to write the only Odyssey think piece worth reading
The Casting Problem in The Odyssey (2026) – John Winstead
The Odyssey cannot decide what its characters should look like.
jhnwnstd.github.io
My go-to data point in favor of the high modularity of mind view vs generalized reasoning machine view, given that, as a population, Irish people were able to roast one vegetable but for centuries failed entirely to generalize this to literally any other vegetable, thus implying a fixed RP-module.
Adam L@adam-lg.bsky.social · 5d ago(Tongue in cheek) Roasted vegetables, which didn’t exist until 35 years ago (slate.com/human-intere...)
hardest thing about immortality is sticking to it
Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 7d agoEven the rich immortality guy is giving up
Fairly depressing essay getting widely shared in math circles, about doing math in a world where ai is better than you: kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-n... (tw: suicidal ideation)
The Dark Night of Mathematics
What are we really doing?
kirwinhampshire.substack.com
At the panel on “AI for Mathematics”, the top rated question from the audience is “Do you expect fewer young people to pursue mathematics in the coming years? What advice would you give to students considering whether to pursue PhDs in math?” (from Joshua Wang) #ICM2026
When two artists paint the same view: Rue de la Chausée à Argenteuil, painted on the same day in 1872 by Claude Monet & Alfred Sisley, friends and founding figures of French Impressionism, who set up their easels side by side en plein air. Private Collection | Musée d’Orsay
Visited a friend at Addenbrooks’s Hospital today and was greeted by some Tudor alchemy wall art.
bavarians really never accepted the rule of emperor-palatine and elector karl theodor in the 1700s so he unsuccessfully tried to sell bavaria to austria. in ancient greece, cheese based prophecy was called tyromancy. curry was introduced to japan via the british navy in the 19th century.
Burning Man! Element of Fire, 1566, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo of Milan. His day is today.
BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Young Frankenstein was the funniest thing he could possibly do
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · last mo.actually if he goes sometime between today and tomorrow no evil eye but if he does that would be the funniest thing he could possibly do
PIZZA GUY: Lemme read that back. I take the third right, second left, fifth left, second right, fourth left. Don't touch the seventh stone after the statue with the trident. Square door if there's a breeze from the east, round door otherwise MINOTAUR: No, no
Totally unexpected but the author of this article has now read my book and written a positive review on it.
Ik krabbel schielijk terug: ook dieren zijn bezig met de dood
trouw.nl
Susana Monsó@susanamonso.com · 3mo agoThe Dutch newspaper Trouw publishes a “review” of my book by a guy who admits to not having read it, calls me a biologist, uses “counterarguments” that I refute in my book, and shows absolutely zero understanding of animal behaviour. The audacity.
you think the median voter is badly informed and incoherent? they are like socrates compared to the median nonvoter. the median nonvoter believes glonzo is an ethnic group and we should exterminate them
Mariska doing a matinee and a 7 pm performance of her one-woman Broadway show and then watching the greatest comeback in Finals history actually looks like the Jordan flu game
SamVeal.mp4@samvealyall.bsky.social · 2mo agoMariska also doing eight performances a week currently, she’s currently in midseason form
Patient: I think I'd rather have a baby than a root canal. Dentist: Please make up your mind so I can adjust the chair.
In 2023, about 12% of papers showed signs of LLM influence. By 2025, an estimated 57%. Importantly, this 57% involves a great deal of heterogenity; ranging from scholars who don't use AI, but recycle text from other AI-influenced articles, to articles mostly generated by AI.
Died (alas!) on this day in 1594, in Venice, the great Jacopo Robusti, commonly known as Tintoretto. Here, by himself, in 1587.
Karoo Ashevak, Inuk, Nunavummiuq (1940-1974), Shaman, 1972, whalebone, stone, and ivory, 38.1 x 25.4 x 17.8 cm, private collection
