sourcei may be in the minority but i honestly kind of enjoy reading unstory?like its not super indepth or anything but it is interesting seeing their opinions in their own posts not jabbing other peoplemaybe i just respect the pure confidence they have to express their own opinions, regardless of how well its put togetherthats the kind of confidence i wish i had with this blogim willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, and hope they improve their writing morei dont AGREE with how much…

[This is a guest post by the editors of the communal blog Proofs and Prompts. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] In the mathematical community, AI became a central conversation topic months before we started our communal blog, called Proofs and Prompts. Some of us were already experimenting with it, whereas some of us were skeptically watching from the sidelines. Inevitably, we all had our moment of realisation: be it Navier–Stokes, the…

– My homebrew website editor + Raycast I have had virtualy the same window manager setup since 2017, when I installed Linux for the first time in my Microsoft Surface Pro 3 laptop. During these years I’ve been swapping multiple Linux distros and also using macOS. Note: My current main machine is a light Macbook Air M4, paired with a Thinkpad T470p acting as a homelab/server for all my sandboxing and homelabbing needs.

Hello, loves! If things go as I expect, we’ll start working on the paths between sections of the dungeon. It could happen. It begins to happen. My rough plan for the inter-section paths is to build suites for each end of the path, and then so call a layout method to draw the path. That method may not currently exist, but we know that the code to do the job is in there somewhere. Then, we’ll figure out a way to mark the path “impermeable”, that is, arrange things so that if a room tries to…

With GNOME 51 out the door, it's wallpaper reveal season again. This time around it's evolution, not revolution — the set sticks to its geometric roots. The default is really just a stylistic touch up of the 50 hexagons. The subtle rim highlight received a spotlight and now shines extra bright. I do keep hoping landscape nature photos eventually join the lineup, but capturing the same scenery under different conditions so the light and dark variants actually make sense is trickier than it…

During my junior and senior years in high school, a few of my classmates attended private schools for some of their courses. These schools offered easy high grades as long as you paid tuition. If you needed the grades, and you could afford it, it was a good deal. It seemed like a no-brainer. Now, after a couple of decades of life experience, I’m realizing that it was just another way of borrowing from the future to pay for the present. Instead of studying hard in the moment, and earning a high…

Taylor & Francis and Cactus Communications, STM News informs us, have renewed their partnership providing language support to authors. (Neat that they talk about providing “tailored language support to journal authors” — think goodness they resisted the temptation to call it taylored support.) My old-fashioned reaction was — but isn’t brushing up authors’ English part of the job of a publisher? And of course it is, but there’s no law saying that this, like so much else, cannot be freelanced…

ipcalc is such a neat little CLI tool.

Montrose, Colorado-based Scott Fly Rods announced last week that it is expanding two of its newest and most popular fly rods series. Three new rod models have been added to Scott’s moderate-action GT series and one new model has been added to its flagship two-handed Swing series. Though not used by Scott, the ubiquitous marketing buzzword “purpose-built” applies here, with each new model designed to fill a specific niche.

Yesterday I wrote about the canonical example of how vector embeddings of words add: “king” − “man” + “woman” ≈ “queen” This should be interpreted as saying that the word vector for king, minus the word vector for man, plus the word vector for woman, is in some sense close to the word vector for queen. This post will look at another example. Is the expression “coffee” + “milk” ≈ “latte” true in some sense? Notation In this post I will use “foo” to mean the vector embedding of the word foo.…

This is our reality. I suppose we have to talk about it. Everyone in a position to know is freaking out about AI potentially killing everyone this decade and wants to pace the frontier, and people are finally listening. It only took a few days for the conversation to fully pivot to the counteroffensive, where the Usual Suspects and those they recruited attacked anyone and everyone who dared point out that we are in danger, with every attack they can think of, usually without substance or any…

[This is a guest post by Noah Giansiracusa. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Imagine a tech company announces new robot workers that can prepare food better than human chefs. If you think of dining out as sitting at a table and having your meal brought out to you, this sounds like an excellent development. Let’s replace the humans in the kitchen with these bots and enjoy higher quality food! But what if the restaurant’s patrons are…

Who are you?I’m Beck Kubrick, a writer and comic book artist- or cartoonist. I love that term. I’m based in Manchester, UK. This is a simple question that fills me with existential dread. If I accidentally wandered into a secure area, and a security guard angrily asked me ‘who are you?’. I think there’d still be a moment where I felt the pang in my chest of ‘Who am I?’.What do you write?The editor, Shelly Bond, once described me as ‘Sylvia Plath meets Peanuts.’. Since I was about fourteen, my…

The premier of the stage play “We Interrupt This Program” (October 2026) at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, contains string imagery in its social media advertising.

Sorry, Pablo, I didn't really think you were weak. ONLY THAT YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT. HOW DARE YOU NOT RUN WITH ME? Anyway! Anna felt better that night, and instead of celebrating her birthday with all her friends at the party that had been planned for that day but was rescheduled because of her illness, we went to a nice restaurant and had a cozy little evening.

You know you want to!

Tags: #photos The Salton Sea, CaliforniaThis, I think, is the closest I’ll ever get to being on another planet. The Salton Sea is an unnatural natural place, remade by man in a colossal accident over a hundred years ago. It does fill a low point that was once an inland sea or estruary long ago, but agricultural runoff added strangeness to the brew. And now it’s drying up because we stopped doing that. It intensifies. I look again and just wonder “where the heck am I?” Standing on an alien shore…

I am slowly starting to feel better after a long bout of bronchitis and FluA (me and just about everyone else who went to the SF Pen Show. As I slowly come back to the world, get more energy and see my ever-growing to-do list, I agree with Rachel’s post that, right now, in our current world, its okay to not be okay all the time. The world is a crazy place and sometimes we need to protect ourselves. Use your paper and pens to document the good, the bad and the could be’s. Through our analog…

TV Turning the classic movie 'Clerks' into a US network cartoon series was a massive job, and a definite risk -- would fans be happy about the toned down dialogue and would the audience understand the in-jokes or humour. Well they didn't and the show was cancelled after just two episodes. And here is one of them available for viewing at iFilm -- Click here -- it's really rather good.Ugh! The genius behind this boxset must surely have been behind this and this. It's almost as though they've…

I started Noodlist in January to try my hand at affiliate marketing. I am not good at affiliate marketing. But I did have fun making the little cooking videos of each of the ramen that I posted on youtube. The whole aspect of the video is that it shows you how to prepare the noodles based exactly on the instructions on the cup/packet. But I also don't do this in the house, I do it outside. Well, then summer happened and it got way too hot to be cooking jack shit outside at all. It dipped under…

The Beach Boys - Radiant RadishIt’s true — in the late 1960s, Brian Wilson opened a short-lived health food store called Radiant Radish in West Hollywood; if you’d made your way in there back then, you might’ve even bought your vega-tables from Bri himself. Not true — there was an unreleased Beach Boys album named after the shop. But the enterprising retrogorilla channel has put together Radiant Radish anyway! You have to tread lightly with these kinds of projects, but I’ve checked it out and…

🕔Five pm in Telford.I'd dropped my bags at my hotel, visited four Good Beer Guide regulars in Oakengates and Madeley, done the suburban tour on Arriva buses, and was all set to head in the direction of that evening's football match.Top of the table (well, they were at 19:45 that evening...) Oxford City were taking on AFC Telford under the floodlights on a Tuesday evening in a National League North clash.AFC Telford play their games at the New Bucks Head ground in Wellington.Eight minutes by…

Today I’m working in the office. I’d rather be outside enjoying the lovely weather. Selfie a day for a year, day 28: Sep 16, 2026 edition.

1. I made a messy sandwich that was slopping all over the place.Tucking the plate close to my chin so I didn't drop food all over the place, I failed to notice that the flap of my shirt pocket had slipped between the slices of bread, and took a big bite of fabric.2. I thought a box of spring bulbs had been delivered about ten days ago. The box was in the bathroom. I've just opened it to see what recommended dates they gave for planting, as I fancied an afternoon's potting. It was a box of…

So I’ve been back for a few days from a trip to Ponza. Which is an island off the coast of Italy. A hidden little island off the coast of Naples, which has a three hour ferry to get there. It was a holiday where we both needed some much needed R&R, and Ponza provided it in spades. A quiet, sleepy fishing village on an island that is no more than a few kilometers across, Ponza provided us with a great location to relax and take in the scenery. Highlights were a boat tour around the island and a…

If you listen to professional AI Safety folks working at OpenAI, Anthropic, or one of the enormous AI think tanks, you’ll hear countless scenarios where AI causes enormous human misery and even extinction (e.g., https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09369 or https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097497037956891126). What they aren’t admitting is that they have invented a tool that can take down the internet, and with it and our modern way of life. If you look at their AI doomsday scenarios, they all start more…

I have been watching a lot of movies from what is considered the Golden Age of Hollywood—the early ’30s and ’40s—and I was fascinated by Ingrid Bergman. I think she is the most beautiful actress I have ever seen on screen. Absolutely gorgeous, but it wasn’t just that. Her acting, her expressions, the way she conveyed her emotions—all of it kept me, as a viewer, completely hooked to the screen. So I went down the rabbit hole, reading everything I could about her story. Her life began with…

Women of Music Volume 18 As noted by an anonymous keen follower of my blog the Volume 18 is the only one still missing to complete the series of Women Of Music. Planned a few months ago, I kept putting off its publication mainly because of the mediocrity of the performances—except, perhaps, the one by Riley Reid, despite the risqué lyrics. So, here it is today, a special release because all the singers have something in common (and it’s not their vocal talent, but rather their on-camera…

[This is a guest post by Ben Green. I suppose the letter, and am also a (corresponding) Fellow, but I have worked in various collaborations with the AI industry and so was not eligible to be a signatory. — T.] The rapid development of AI is of enormous public interest right now, with the possible existential risk to humanity being reported by mainstream news organisations. However, the discussion is often tempered with questions such as `haven’t we heard this before?’ or `isn’t this just hype…