Designers have always translated between what systems do and what people can act on. The screen was never the job. The story was. AI just gave that skill a much larger stage.
www.tateux.com/writing/desi...
Physicists have succeeded for the first time in transporting the most expensive and most volatile substance on Earth — antimatter - in a truck
go.nature.com/3NZ1DA2
PDF of book proofs: SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN The Hidden Life of Logistics MIRIAM POSNER Yale University Press New Haven and London
*breathing into a paper bag*
The passing of the great Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, is a sad moment in a sea of much louder and more terrifying moments. RIP Dan Simmons. arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
I see the way systems thinking often moves you from solution space to problem space (which it's hard not to see as moving backwards) lurking behind a lot of @johncutle.fish's points in "20 Things I've Learned As a Systems Overthinker".
cutlefish.substack.com/p/20-things-...
“Tech critics become technocrats when they overlook the daunting administrative density of a digital-first society. The author implores critics to reject structural dependencies on digital tools rather than naturalize their integration via critique/reform“ J.Penn
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
This is me being interviewed in detailed on the nuts and bolts of writing technique.
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction author Bethany Jacobs reveals how his work inspired her
Designs for Semble
1/ 📢 @cosmik.network has been awarded $1M in grant funding by Open Philanthropy and @asterainstitute.bsky.social These generous grants will support our development of Semble - a social "micro-knowledge" network for researchers on Bluesky/ATProto. Think Are.na + Goodreads for research!
ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax.
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive.
Article One of the Constitution is a directive, not a suggestion. The power to impose and collect taxes and duties rests solely with the Congress and is a core component of our democracy’s balance of powers. (1/4)
The Pioneer RPG is now live on Kickstarter!
This is a new Traveller-based RPG set in the very near future where you will explore the Solar System - be the first to build a Moon base, set foot on Mars and mine asteroids!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...
#ttrpg #TravellerRPG #Pioneer
A rare first-person account of experiencing AI-induced psychosis, from a young tech founder who "should have known better"
joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis
A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At left is a large elliptical galaxy, smooth like a polished stone. At right lies a large spiral galaxy that is nearly a ring, with bright golden core. To its lower left is a smaller spiral with a barred core. At top and bottom, two bright stars shine brightly with multi-colored diffraction spikes emanating out. In the background, hundreds of galaxies are just smudges of various colors.
A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At top left is a large galaxy that is smooth like a stone, with wisps like cotton candy spiral from left and right. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. / A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At bottom left is an elegant two-armed galaxy, with arms extended like a dancer viewed from above. The bright points of three stars form a triangle at top center. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space.
A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At top right is a large galaxy with two whirling spiral arms wrapping around like a hug. At bottom left, two smooth elliptical galaxies appear near each other, like champagne glasses in the midst of a cheers. A bright star above the pair has red, green, and blue diffraction spikes emanating out. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors.
A field of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At center is a spiral galaxy peppered with tight, knotted clumps of vivid blue, young stars. In the background, hundreds of galaxies of many shapes are just smudges of various colors against the black of space.
Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ✨~10 million galaxies✨ in the image, there's plenty to find.
Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems in this treasure chest using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! 🔭🧪
➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer
A daytime photography of the SOAR telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile, standing above lower mountain ranges. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/ T. Matsopoulos
The Gabriela Mistral Dark Sky Sanctuary Site is home of four major research facilities: Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO); Gemini South; the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope; and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
noirlab.edu/public/image... 🧪🔭
Pseudo-affirmation in infinite representation does not escape the average forms. Thus Nietzsche reproaches all those selection procedures based upon opposition or conflict with working to the advantage of the average forms…
Banks continues to influence SF and provocative thinking about AI. He envisioned AI "more benevolent and sympathetic to the plight of human beings"--leave "experiencing" to people, as betterment comes from experience. tinyurl.com/34krdptj
The Invisible Mentor: Inferring User Actions from Screen Recordings to Recommend Better Workflows arxiv.org/abs/2509.26557
Are LLMs ready to help non-expert users make charts of official statistics data? arxiv.org/abs/2510.01197
When Copilot becomes Autopilot: Generative AI's Critical Risk to Knowledge Work and a Critical Solution arxiv.org/abs/2412.15030
Is AI finally ready to do the numbers? Is AI ready to do the numbers well? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AF5qEY/
People who made the greatest gains in muscle power over eight weeks of resistance training also improved the balance of bacteria in their gut
This was great. More please!
Nice. Hopefully they will do more for Traveller.
30.10.25
#PioneerRPG
