Jon Evans

We get a subexponential time algorithm for 3SAT and apparently the models couldn’t even find one little cryptanalysis result. I guess cryptographers have just been killing it!

I’ve been looking forward to this one for ages! Throw him a few $$ if you can, because this game is going to be awesome.

As well they should be. It takes a pretty sophisticated and organized kitchen to cook that many dishes from scratch. The decor is tacky but the behind the scenes system is impressive. www.buzzfeed.com/thecheesecak...

"This puts the defender of civilization in the odd position of agreeing with the idealists, when it comes to the dispute over first-best principles, but then having to advance a much more complex argument in defence of existing arrangements." josephheath.substack.com/p/reproducin...

Man, Manchester United are such a shambles that my usual schadenfreude has actually morphed into pity.

This is interesting inference.coop

The Kickstart for the TTRPG that Count Jackula has been working so hard on is now live! If you think playing a creature of the night who fights monsters, fascists and freaky government agencies in a sex-positive, queer-positive, horror-positive setting sounds fun, check it out!

"Once Verdier and his family left the mansion, squatters took over, accessing the home from a series of subterranean tunnels and turning the property into an opium den." www.sfgate.com/realestate/a...

"It is sometimes legal to obtain medication abroad for personal use" kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

This looks like some enormously fun acts of enormity.

The Babylon: City of Monsters Kickstarter is LIVE!! Come and pledge. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bab... #ttrpg #BabylonCityofMonsters #kickstarter

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Coming next August from Tor, my new novel about a roadtrip across many worlds: Sunlit Uplands. Available for preorder now, and this is the beautiful cover

A handful of tickets are still available for my online salon with Jon Evans on Interintellect Tuesday October 27th. We'll be talking technology, history, mythology, Renaissance, Vikings, the works! buff.ly/gghx8lI

Streaming series pitch — Ten 1-hour episodes. The first introduces the ship, crew, and passengers … ending with Wireless Operator Cottam getting the Titanic’s distress call. Play out the rescue in real time as a procedural. When they pull the last survivor from the water, roll end credits.

You absolutely should see "You Can See Everything" in theaters and without spoilers, but know this: apparently people who see it having read Bad Blood are a lot less ambiguous on the "Is Elizabeth Holmes being manipulative?" question than those who haven't.

The past is a foreign country www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

ICYMI it has not been a boring day on the Internet

COVER REVEAL!!! "AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON" book 1 of "HANGED GOD'S GAME" With incredible artwork by Jon Sideriadis. I love the intricate storybook feel, perfect 4 a book aiming to give adult readers the sense of wonder we felt as kids opening a myth book Pre-orders open USA & UK: buff.ly/leGWuZA

Mostly I'm laughing about this but there really is something sick at the heart of our epistemology on this site sometimes. Probably it was always like this, but things aren't true because your ideology demands it. All you have to do is read.

man science fiction authors, by and large, do *not* understand capitalism (or even finance.) by all means disapprove of it but it's much more effective & resonant to do so in a comprehending way rather than a completely befuddled one!

EMMA will return in PRIDE & PREJUDICE: DOOMSDAY

"Similar to an LLM, AlphaFold is a powerful neural network running on silicon hardware. Yet almost nobody worries that it might be conscious." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I think the world would be a better place if more people were into horror media analysis. Horror media shines light on the parts of our society that most choose to look away from. Horror is deeply political, even the sleazy and dated bits. Especially those.

The sap must flow! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Department of Neurobiology at USC has launched a new PhD program and is recruiting our first cohort. Explore our labs: dornsife.usc.edu/neurobiology... Applications due December 1, 2026. GRE optional. Fee waivers available for demonstrated need. Apply here: dornsife.usc.edu/neurobiology...

Roger Ebert once said that he had been in a few film audiences which got up to dance, but ‘Stop Making Sense’ was the only film where he experienced an audience of CRITICS getting up to dance

THE DEVILS beat DIGGER and THE SOCIAL RECKONING at the box office this weekend.

Another adjacent @jdcmedlock.bsky.social essential hit

Six AI notewriters run by X itself made ~90% of AI Community Notes submissions and 55% of successful Notes last month. Here’s my piece on the theory vs reality of crowdsourced community fact-checking, midterms edition. agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/i-built-an...

TIL

“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...

I have this theory that our current ... fraught ... social dynamics stem from the world becoming so complex and fast-moving that few feel real confidence in their own opinions, and it's much easier to instead base your personal epistemology on Those People Are Wrong! instead.

"Iñárritu has said he didn’t initially pursue Digger because, despite developing an obsession with the character, he “wasn’t looking for a story” (ominous words, in hindsight)." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a pic of a boat you like.

*Have you ever considered become an anarcho-nihilist yourself, maybe for just eight hours on a slow weekend *You could drop acid and read some Kropotkin, maybe cut a linoleum stencil

In the DC Comics universe, most zoo animals who escape to join the Marines are commissioned officers, with one notable exception.