Oskar

sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

Apple announced two always-listening features for Apple Watch: - Siri Recap summarizes conversations you had throughout the day. - Live Rewind shows a transcript of the previous 15 seconds of conversation. Quite a shift for a company that has made privacy a core part of its brand.

Been busy with AI. I get the hate, too much wastefulness, pushing it where it shouldn’t, but at the same time there are specific applications where it’s very useful. Interesting times we live in

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

The events in Ceuta are obviously dramatic and require rapid action, but politicians in other countries collecting points is disgusting. For example Denmark suggesting Schengen closures, what do they think, that 10000 people are going to hop on a plane to Copenhagen? Help Spain, don’t be a populist

I buy professionally capacity from data centers and I live nowhere near them. Neither do the people I buy from, nor the owners of the data centers. But expect only rosy stories from politicians

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’m not a military guy, but this metric that Russian authorities use is hilariously similar to a classic business challenge: they measure output, not outcome. Is the air defense effort good enough that the damage is manageable? They won’t say, they just list what they claim to have done 😂

Apple has had to raise iPhone prices because of rising costs of memory chips given competing demand from AI data centers. Apple wants to start buying chips from Chinese chip companies but this will collapse the revenue & stock of companies like Micron who’ve been price gouging on memory chips.

All the preconceptions that there’s no AC in Europe, but the stadium in New Jersey doesn’t seem to have a sunroof, what’s up with that

Watching the World Cup final, I feel that some commentary on outfits from @dieworkwear.bsky.social would have been good

Google is really pushing their AI summaries in search results, but they’re so riddled with errors that it’s just negative value. Have to start trying other searches now, the value of Google search keeps dropping

I find it hilarious that tech CEOs are simultaneously claiming that employees cannot be trusted to work from home and must take Zoom calls from the office but can be trusted to work without supervision or guidance from middle managers.

Reminds me of people buying toilet paper at the beginning of Covid: need to do something, have no idea what. Retail is a low margin industry and shoplifting needs to be compensated for somehow. The public isn’t too sympathetic on making their life harder. Better to ask where the big impact lies

The take from a Google manager is wild: usually corporate types recommend education about their own short term needs, but agentic oversight is pretty niche. And last time I checked Google was employing plenty of people with actual CS chops

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

The thing I wonder is that if Ukraine would have had nukes, would they have been used? Or would it be reasonable to expect that existence alone would have deterred Russia. For the latter to be true, there would have needed to be a real belief in MAD. The former question is much harder

This raises a very relevant question in Europe: can the US be depended on provide weapons if a conflict were to occur? Local production of key systems would provide insurance

In Belgium, employees receive compensation for every kilometre they ride, with some cyclists earning up to €810 per year. And why not? Biking saves public money for everyone. “All employees in Belgium who cycle to work are entitled to a bicycle allowance of €0.28 per kilometre of their commute.”

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

If Trump would stop selling weapons to Ukraine it would lead to a messy situation trying to scramble for replacements. But it could backfire big if replacements are found and American defense contracts would take a permanent hit due to loss of trust and competitive alternatives

I keep telling that reducing fossil fuel dependency is the only viable path forward for Europe even if only from a strategic perspective. Incidentally, the same goes for China

Soon we may see 1 million more satellites in Earth's orbit. The consequences to astronomy would be devastating. Fighting for a fair & sustainable use of space for astronomy and humanity — that's Betty Kioko's job as ESO’s Institutional Affairs Officer 👉 www.eso.org/public/blog/... 🔭 🧪 #DarkSkies

Going through the second big fossil fuel crisis of the decade and North America experiencing exceptional heat waves due to climate change. Maybe, just maybe it would be smart to significantly reduce the use of fossil fuels and move largely to renewables

There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.

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Indeed the “renewals caused it” lobby is either ignorant about tech or have ulterior motives. Electrical grids are complex and require careful engineering and healthy investment, but that is expected when building new and consumer needs change

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Since Iran was supporting Russia, sponsoring terrorist actions in the Middle East and Europe, involved in nuclear proliferation and seriously suppressing human rights, no wonder EU countries are reluctant to argue for the Iranian regime on principle; it’s a thorny matter

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Living in a natural resource poor country, Sunday morning is pretty uneventful

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

For years I’ve thought that Chomsky is skilled with the pen and offers some interesting viewpoints. But do I trust him? Not at all, there’s something too self righteous, too black and white about him. Thus, the newly surfaced photo doesn’t surprise me one bit

One particularly annoying example of a bad chatbot is the one that a large international courier company with the brand colors brown and yellow has

The Atlas browser got me thinking: that if the browser would start to filter social media feeds for users instead of just accepting what platforms present? Could be interesting, just promote actually followed accounts and move everything else aside

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o... With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this: