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Read censored texts from around the world at this Minecraft library www.popsci.com/technology/u...

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

More zany ai math results. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... CS community seems pretty freaked/excited

The bad news is that we might end up writing a lot less code in future. The good news is that we might finally be able to start building software *correctly*.

oh i like this one a lot, especially @3blue1brown.com 's commentary on credit and ownership and, approximately, meaning-making it resonates with a central conflict i have with society; y'all way too into 'status' and 'credit' and it's a wonder anything useful ever gets done in that context

does anyone know if they won

A Palestinian won the Nobel Prize last year

wow you mean inference *is* profitable? which is what everyone has been saying for months? I'm shocked!

This headline structure is literally the joke format we use to make fun of people like this

Wait til the markets find out Anthropic’s valuation is based on Claude giving me magic words to make my health insurance pay my claims.

I mean

Kevin Hassett: "The affordability crisis is a myth"

Sunny day flooding in San Francisco amid the city’s highest October tide on record.

If you can't read S-1s, this is a good way to tell that it's very good for Anthropic

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Related: Martin Shkreli didn't go to jail for raising the price of Daraprim, he went to jail for falsifying GAAP numbers for his hedge fund

Yeah, it’s crazy. No one drives in California. The highways are empty. Never any traffic because everyone swore off those evil cars.

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

Anthropic cumulative operating loss since inception is only $12 billion and at their current run rate operating margin they will completely recoup that loss by Q1 27 even if revenue is flat. So much for “these companies will never make money” lmao

it's a family tradition now

What I picture when people ask Bluesky to increase its character count

it is pretty good

My general advice for using AI for any purpose is to ask yourself: "how do I make what I am doing even more ambitious?" You do this over and over until you either hit a wall and thus learn the shape of the jagged frontier (useful!) or you find out that the AI can do more than you think (common!)

Future generations will never know the experience of going on stack overflow and have someone be extremely helpful in the most hostile possible way. All their answers will come from a pleasant bot.

"seismic" is right. This student-led movement started after a building collapse almost exactly two years ago. They kept protesting and organizing, built a political party from scratch, and just blew past projections for their electoral success. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

“prediction market”

Going to revival screenings of Tristar movies and screaming when the logo pegasus gets too close to the camera

In 08/09, as the state was going insolvent, they had the choice to keep UC tuition at current levels OR maintain the prisons at the peak three-strikes levels. Guess which they chose.

Folks interested in this theme should check out The Thought They Were Free, by an American professor who interviewed 10 ordinary Germans in the early 50s. It reads like a lot of interviews with MAGA chuds who fein embarrassment but below the surface are unrepentant www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

Been reading about a lot of very bad but entirely ordinary people throughout history for the next season of Past Lives (Everyday Villains). This guy is utterly typical. 1) Doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 2) Permission structure in a system of hierarchical authority. 3) Benefits materially.

BRENNAN: The DOJ lawsuit demands the Alaska result not be certified if voters are confused. The confusion is defined as Sen. Sullivan not winning. BLANCHE: That's not what it says BRENNAN: I'm quoting from it. You are telling them not to certify it. What right does the federal govt have?

Oh you want me to go see the movie everyone is talking about? Go see it at a cinema? The place where they literally drive a train at you?? not gonna happen lol 😂

congrats we invented a doctor that actually listens to you

Cystic Fibrosis no longer automatically qualifies a child for the Make-A-Wish program.

Has a pool reporter ever stood up on behalf of their colleagues when this happens?

Notes on Kimi K3.1 - this one is a big deal, the first time an open weights (well, soon-to-be open weights) model has competed this credibly with the current frontier simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/23/...

"6-9 months behind the frontier" is really not going to hold up much longer

OH MY GOD HOW DOES ZOTERO KEEP BEING THE BEST PIECE OF SOFTWARE EVER MADE WHAT THE FUCKJ THEY CANNOT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

The AI cyber-security snafu is just getting started and we haven't seen much yet, compared to what's to come. I bet fully autonomous cyber-weapons are being developed right now that go far beyond finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in FOSS. Decompiling proprietary stuff opens up a world of hurt

PHP RCE, GitLab vulnerability, TLS with Node.js, SSL signed with 4

the navy isn't as much of a surprise but i was not expecting we'd get the United States Marines in the national divorce

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Every year, Research!America does a poll that asks, "Can you name a living scientist?" In January 2026, 76% of respondents said "no." Of those who said "yes," 5% named a scientist who was, in fact, dead. www.researchamerica.org/blog/can-you...

Are you fucking kidding me

By every measure, Opus 4.8 beats human experts as peer reviewers in a study of 124 Harvard social science papers covering a range from statistical analyses to formal models to qualitative work. As academics, we need to figure out how to adapt the practice of science to AI, and we need to do it fast