The thing I ultimately think needs to be asked in the "is math cooked?" discussion is: If you gave mathematicians a traditional compute budget similar to the one used on both tokens and (assuming there is some) agent-driven gpu use, could you get similar results to the solutions that have come […]

On Trump's Diesel Deal. Writing this as catharsis because I live in a rental and thus punching walls is off the table.

Trump’s Diesel Deal

Writing So I Don’t Scream.

dmitryopines.substack.com

a Sikh a Rabbi and a Catholic scholar walk into an anthropic talk. "what the fuck is this shit" they all agree

Met a group of six long-tailed tits two days ago when the sun was out. I always hear them before I see them. And their sound, the tsirr tsirr, makes me smile.

Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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Mythos: not the magical AI hacking tool after all ‘scraped the web and found the bugs’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krayLBNiAx8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA- video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261007-mythos-not-the-magical-ai-hacking-tool-after-all - podcast time: 7 min 03 sec

Proud and fierce! #WrensDay

Good post today about not letting platforms determine the words we use from @anildash https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/

We are going to kill "unalive"

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One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · last wk.

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

Banking Responsibilities Health & Safety Responsibilities Food Safety Responsibilities Climate Change Responsibilities Water Quality Responsibilities Fire Safety Responsibilities

Replacing “regulation” with “responsibilities” is absolute genius.

You can absolutely write an RSS feed by hand – and it isn’t even hard. Currently discussing this with my colleague 😉 https://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/handmadeRSS

So far, I've had eight volunteers, with five confirmed by email. I want to find at least 10 beta readers, and a dozen would be nice.

Jürgen Hubert@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

I am looking for beta readers for "Old Goatfoot", my upcoming collection of Devil-tales from German folklore. Beta readers are test readers for books who provide feedback from a fan perspective and help the author identify and fix problems before the book […] [Original post on mementomori.social]

Alla ni som jobbar med flöden för triagering, kan ni vänligen sluta ställa tio antingen-eller innan man kopplas till "rätt" tjänst? Har jag flera symptom men måste välja ett (det mest påtagliga, det jag är mest oroad för, eller det som är mest signifikant för korrekt diagnos?) Så kommer jag […]

[AI, useless yelling] IT IS RUDE TO PASTE "I ASKED CLAUDE, AND IT SAID," IN ANY CONTEXT. STOP DOING THIS. NEVER DO THIS.

Snaps from a quick jaunt over the Forth with the kidbots yesterday, for a little walk and a big lunch.

@mrundkvist Ahhh, yes. That brings back an old classic to mind…

You may feel that twelve letters in one word is a little long for shelled sunflower seeds, Sw. solroskärnor. Then you encounter Finnish: AURINGONKUKANSIEMENIÄ #language #suomi

'Aufkleber' #FotoVorschlag Istanbul

Aufkleber, auch noch passend zum 3. Oktober. Es war doch David, der die Mauer eingerissen hat, oder? Oder?? #FotoVorschlag

Weeeellll... bless 'em all. Happy Friday, 'Shop fam, we got another wave of "verify your account" sc/pammers on the loose. TL;DR: YOU NEVER HAVE TO VERIFY YOUR MASTODON ACCOUNT If your admin has *any* reason to contact you ever it will be via DM from your own instance admin, ONLY. The wider […]

The first packet sent on a RFC1149-compliant (avian carrier) network is up for auction: https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine-printed-books-manuscripts-science/carrier-pigeon-internet-protocol-150/325216 For background, see https://blug.linux.no/project/rfc1149/ and […]

Wonderful, so there's a "notification" bot that's going around badgering people to "verify" their accounts. Username of `NOTIFICATION` (sometimes with some letters replaced with digits)… so far observed on `mastodon.social` (blocked) and ` […] [Original post on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au]

#JukeboxFridayNight #AWiderWorld some Belarusian post-punk. Molchat Doma - Удалил Твой Номер / Udalil Tvoy Nomer https://youtu.be/GuDyBYYfxSg

Grab your tickets for our fundraising #LARP on 1st November in South #Wales. It's going to be a great day of pretending to be demons with a bunch of other awesome folks, all in aid of helping someone get the wheelchair they need. Tickets are £15 and are limited due to venue size […]

@losttourist Sending you a "Joyous Solutionising!" card.

Oh no. Oh no no no no. I have been sent the following message at work: > During our All Hands later on, we'll be spending some time working together solutionising around some of our users' problems.