I'm going to read an article on DotA 2 then play a game of The Nation.

Bursar in 2030: We need to cut the budget. How about mathematics? Dean: Are you kidding? They're one of the cheapest departments. All they need is a few tokens on a frontier model. Bursar: Oh. How about philosophy? Dean: Even cheaper. The model doesn't have to be frontier.

Disappointing to hear someone you respect go on the Joe Rogan podcast and go "yeah yeah yeah" as he rants about glyphosate.

Shanghai based mathematician Chenglong Ma all but accuses OpenAI of stealing from a paper on Invariant Primes he had uploaded 8 days prior, stating that his "proof strategy and specific choices of notation are identical to a preliminary version of the present paper" arxiv.org/pdf/2610.10072

Did you ever see that episode of transformers where the Autobots team up with the Pope to kill Megatron? They cannonised Optimus Prime.

Astrophages be like: Neutrinos cannot pass through you without your consent.

Catholic who hates BCE/CE so much that he reads the NRSVue-AD.

Most people don't understand The Death of the Author because they don't consider the effect seeing so many authors die in WW1 had on Roland Barthes.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

People often read the gospels together and assume univocality, but in reality they disagree on many important points. For example, Mark believed in dark matter, but Luke skipped over his account of the bullet galaxies because he believed in MOND.

Why not unborn children too?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."

Transubstantiation is a funny word. It's trans + substantiation, which has 3 s's. But transubstantiation only has 2. This is a paradox. The reason for this is that although the accident of transubstantiation has 2 s's, the substance of the word has 3.

Knives Out but Benoit Blanc is investigating a murder at SlutCon

Frog put the code in Rust. "There," he said. "Now our code will be safe." "But we can make an unsafe block," said Google. "That is true," said Frog.

I'm seeing Grok adverts on YouTube where they say you can give a Grok agent a wallet and send it to buy things for you. Hmm.

I think it's fine for an airline pilot to be a furry so long as their fursona is a bird. (Ostriches and penguins excepted.)

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.

I don't understand why Americans weigh with pounds instead of dollars. Maybe it's because dollars sounds like more. A median American man is 200 pounds, which is 264 dollars.

New animation from Opus 5.5!

hailey@hailey.at · last mo.

i had to see it so you do too

We often talk about how maths research provides practical benefits that can't be forseen. Maths being the first field to grapple with high-quality AI research isn't a problem, it's going to develop methods to deal with it other fields will learn from.

The cake is a lie

Me reading debates about AI intelligence on bluesky

If you think generative AIs are bad for mathematics, imagine what they'll be like for medical research. If anyone in an Alzheimer's research group mentions the gist of what they're doing any asshole could burn a few million tokens to work out how they're faking their results.

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

I always assumed they had a contract with the musician.

Jon Phillips@jowiph.bsky.social · 3w ago

Somewhat tangential, but I really hope that the industrial-scale ticket scalpers are getting absolutely rinsed here

If you share your thoughts about a novel before finishing it you may be made to look foolish. That is why I am grateful for the discretion of my friends.

Got a new theory of biological sex. Female is when you look better in photos than in person. Male is when you look worse. Enby, about the same.

I know exactly how the succubus feels. I get all kinds of disgusting comments when I go out in my favourite shirt.

In Dungeons and Dragons, Warlocks use dark energy to create force rays; which push people further away from them proportionally to how far away they are.

Thinking about getting into conspiracy theories. What's a good starter epiphany?