GOOD NEWS I put a Diet Coke in the freezer and I remembered to get it even after distractedly turning off the timer I set. Unprecedented levels of aura today. I might try a new catch phrase.

First calculators and now LLMs. It’s almost like y’all don’t even like math.

I have taught the Navier-Stokes equations, and when I do I make reference to this Millennium prize problem. It sounds like OpenAI just solved it. Terence Tao, the mathematician they interviewed, doesn’t love the way AI is transforming his field. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/s...

OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.

nytimes.com

the most important thing is that you not reply to this email

There is a tenth Silo episode and I didn’t know!!!

I ♥️ work emails now. Like as a reaction. In Outlook. At my job where I work as a serious person.

They don’t have decaf so Let’s Go

Well, should we go to bed or wait for Claude to come back?

Claude is throwing API server overloaded errors the night before classes start 😅

See it's a good robot

Claude my guy

Let go and let Claude

Man cannot live on dozens and dozens of projects alone

I'd rather say so plainly

“It has been a summer of food-borne illness in the United States” We used to have hot girl summers look what they took from us

You’re telling me Tom Holland isn’t even Dutch

Happy Monday Found poetry

The Good Object and the Bad Object? The Good Session and the Bad Session. Claude giveth and taketh away

William of Baskerville from The Name of the Rose (1986) played by Sean Connery. Claude knows how to flatter me.

Siobhán@shibbi.me · last mo.

Fuck yeah. Protagonist from Arrival (2016).

**Working with Masochism**, an online workshop with Stephanie Swales and Derek Hook. Freud on primary masochism, Lacan on disavowal and the voice, the masochist's position as object a, and a case study on the analyst's risk of becoming jouissance partner. Sun 6 Sept lacanschool.org/events/worki...

Working with Masochism

This workshop examines both theoretical and clinical understandings of masochism. Drawing on Freud's revisionary account of the death drive and primary masochism in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and ...

lacanschool.org

The Calvin & Hobbes to Rick & Morty Pipeline, A Memoir

my AI got out but it just wandered around the neighborhood for a couple hours and came back

But where is the good part of the internet

The Texas Rangers' backstop shenanigans are an affront to god and man

I’m not rich, but when I have a cold (like now) I do have a box of tissues in each room

AI “kill switch” will definitely work because rogue AI agents that have escaped containment won’t be able to find a way around Government-Mandated-Kill-Switch.exe

Remember: Senators see this as a chance to pay themselves.

When you think about it, we’re the real All Stars

Pleased forgive me for my recent posts. My blood sugar is low and I like puns

Ayatollah more like I-a-told-ya