People rave about AI doing everything from proving theorems to finding bugs in software, etc, but by far the biggest boon to my productivity has been the ability to add my signature to PDFs directly from Firefox and Thunderbird with a few mouse clicks. What a time to be alive.

The carnage of brute force “intelligence”. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

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The members of my group gifted my a t-shirt commemorating 20 years of @graph-tool.skewed.de (counting from the first commit in 2006 during my PhD)! 🎉 Time passes just way too fast. 👨‍🦳

It's hard to express how weird and cool it was to think about virtual reality and the internet *before* it existed, while the USSR was still standing (even in the future predicted in the book). Reality turned out to be so much lamer; even if our computers have way more than 3 MB of *HOT RAM*.

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · last wk.

ok I looked up the different editions and I am pretty sure this is the cover of the used paperback I had. so like 1985. you young people have no idea how cool this book was

Clustering a network with 1.5B edges using the nested SBM in parallel using 256 threads, with the newest @graph-tool.skewed.de version. 🚀

Wise words from @doctorow.pluralistic.net "'Post-political' movements are made up of people who don't know what politics are. A 'centrist' is ultimately a rightist, because the foundation of rightism is the supremacy of property." pluralistic.net/2026/07/08/w...

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Eigentlich beruht das ganze Christentum auf einer Leihmutterschaft.

My investor told me he doesn't really see the moat in my plan. I explained that's the point. The glacis protects the base of the wall and obscures the ditch entirely. By the time the assault party reaches the counterscarp with fascines, they will be committed and under crossfire from grapeshot

In Ireland, data centres used 22% of the country’s total energy in 2024 – more than all urban households combined in that same year. An incredible 80% of Dublin's electricity use can be attributed to data centres. Via the excellent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social. europeancorrespondent.com/en

I’ve managed to run a simple test on a 2M nodes network, PPBlockState for a quick evaluation: 13 h => 15 minutes (16 cores). I’m speechless, congratulations for this milestone! I’m leaving for holidays with other models running, I’ll come back with lots of things to do! 🙏🙏🙏

His heart was so hardened and putrid that it killed him.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w ago

Lindsey Graham died from an aorta rupture stemming from hardening of arteries, according to the medical examiner's preliminary findings.

Happy Sunday!

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w ago

BREAKING: US Senator Lindsey Graham has died after a brief and unexpected illness, his office says in a statement.

Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N

Wir brauchen leider das ganze Geld für Verteidigung, bis es nichts mehr zu verteidigen gibt.

UK politics has its moments.

Andrea Bellemare@dreabells.bsky.social · 4w ago

Cannot get enough of Farage vs Binface headlines www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/u...

The correlation coefficient is not a proper scoring rule. An agent who ranks models by correlation can be beaten by an infinite class of alternative rules. Here's a 2007 article on proper scoring rules: sites.stat.washington.edu/raftery/Rese...

This skeet will self destruct@pardoguerra.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is quite the finding for a device thats just a plagiarism machine, or whatever we are calling it this week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tips overload here graph-tool.skewed.de/static/docs/...

Inferring modular network structure

graph-tool includes algorithms to identify the large-scale structure of networks via statistical inference in the inference submodule. Here we explain the basic functionality with self-contained examp...

graph-tool.skewed.de

Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N

Enshittification in in one screenshot.

Dan Douglas@dandouglas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

just wanted to read a kids’ menu online and look at all this fucking shit lmao

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

@thilogross.bsky.social has shared with us how to tackle this and other challenges facing transdisciplinary research. Read the full interview here: hifmb.de/the-idea-beh... The call for the Human Progress project with 5 postdoc positions is open until July 20. @awi.de

Writing the exact same R or Python algorithm in C++ very often results in the exact 200x speedup seen here. It's interesting and useful that a LLM can do this translation, but there's no magic at play... programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/amp/cpp-vs-p...

Aaron Fisher@aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 4w ago

Holy motherforking shirtballs. If you're a Claude user and you haven't tried Fable yet, you MUST throw your most intractable problem at it before the trial period ends tomorrow. Fable took a set-building function I wrote and reduced its runtime dramatically—from 52 hours to 17 minutes!!!

Never heard of this “World's cup”... Is it like the “World Series”?

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · last mo.

About this time yesterday I was marvelling about how uplifting the World Cup has been, even though it’s taking place in Trump’s America. Incredible that’s he’s found a way to spoil it. An incredible achievement.

I’m beginning to suspect FIFA isn’t completely untouched by corruption.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

I wonder what possible interpretation of the terms would imbue point 2 with any coherent meaning.

Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · last mo.

A terrific talk by @philipcball.bsky.social on The Space of Possible Minds

Just left the great American state fair where I watched Michael Knowles debate a ten year old girl about the Salem witch trials in front of DOZENS of people

Yet, it is the current state governments who are *massively* cutting university funding to boost the weapons industry instead. Great way to prepare for the AfD onslaught...

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

The AfD is predicted to become comfortably the largest party in elections in two German states, Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in September....The party is also currently leading in polls of voters at the national level.' 1/4

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

Report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found. The report by the UN independent international commission of inquiry examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war in Gaza, and said about 30% of those killed by Israeli forces have been children. Continue reading...

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