Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The CCC is the limit where you are only sending messages to yourself. Message passing gives the causal relationship (Lamport), and limit of causal relationship recovers spacetime (Martin-Panangaden).

The more I learn, the less I understand.

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I keep wanting to extend the Rosetta Stone paper to include communication / pi calculus / message passing as the motivation for going from Cartesian to merely monoidal categories from the computing side.
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Distributed Computing & Quantum Gravity ask, how do you glue local Cartesian patches into a global linear whole when the causal structure itself is dynamic?

Dynamic causal structure distinguishes quantum gravity from QFT on curved spacetime and adaptive distributed systems from static ones.
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I started thinking about how to describe distributed computation and ended up wanting to unify gravity with quantum mechanics.

Computation is locally Cartesian and globally linear just as spacetime is locally flat but globally curved.
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Silicon Valley:
"Self driving cars are coming"

also Silicon Valley:
"Prove you are not a bot by identifying traffic lights, cars, bridges, fire hydrants, motorcycles..."

A CSAPDA (THE TRAP) - Az Orbán-korszak elvesztett lehetőségeinek története YouTube video by Direkt36

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary
with English subtitles:
youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

A cartoon illustration of two cats sitting by a freezer tasting frozen mice. Caption reads "See? Aren't they just magical straight outta the freezer like this?"

New experiences. #grickledoodle #cats #mice #freezer #foodies #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Why is society outraged at Epstein while still celebrating Michael Jackson?
Or am I misunderstanding the MJ musical, and is a JE sequel in the works?

#epstein #mj #musical

From a few days ago...

Do I choose the apartheid nazi or one of the surveillance creeps?

Every year on the first of January I get a lot of "happy birthday" messages from companies. They figure I just turned 56.
#UnixTimeZero

I store my files on vinyl.

Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

Amazing article. both deeply moving and insightful.

For anyone who has ever marvelled at the writings of Oliver Sacks.

Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

" “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought.” "

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

"the complete perversion of the actual premise of not just social media but the internet"
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

A cartoon illustration of a happy frog snuggled under in bed under an electric blanket. Caption reads "He'd heard the old metaphor of a frog in boiling water, but he was pretty sure his electric blanket was a different, safer matter all together."

Toasty. #grickledoodle #frog #winter #cold #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

"people who found the simpler and more flexible game to be bland; and people who didn’t like the game getting “woke.” This is a slippery term, but it often boils down to things not being quite as racist or sexist as they used to be."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

A cartoon illustration of a lizard holding an old shed skin on a hanger looking at his attic which is full of other old skins hanging on racks. Caption reads "He didn't really have a good reason for doing it but he'd been saving his old skins for years."

Habits. #grickledoodle #habits #hoarding #collection #cartoon #lizard #art #drawing #funny

What If Money Expired? | NOEMA A long-forgotten German economist argued that society and the economy would be better off if money was a perishable good. Was he an anarchist crank or the prophet of a better world?

"More than a century ago, a wild-eyed, vegetarian, free love-promoting German entrepreneur and self-taught economist named Silvio Gesell proposed a radical reformation of the monetary system as we know it. He wanted to make money that decays over time. "

www.noemamag.com/what-if-mone...

We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

"today’s top-down, concentrated internet is, for many, an unpleasant and harmful place. Its owners are hard to remove, and their interests do not align with ours."

www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

"an implicit acknowledgement that the infinite scroll, stuffed with bots and synthetic sludge, is approaching the limit of what humans will tolerate...."

It's just like the ChatGPT. You explain why it is wrong, and it says:
"Ah! I see now! I apologise for my earlier mistake." and then proceeds to give a whole new wrong answer.

The "Ah!" is just a simulation.

A cartoon illustration of a frustrated vampire in a castle looking at his tv screen showing a loading bar. Caption reads "Yet again, another movie night was totally ruined by the castle's crappy internet connection."

Lame. #grickledoodle #vampire #horror #internet #movies #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of a dog, cat, and mice all enjoying jumping on a trampoline outside. Caption reads "It was agreed that all differences were to be put aside momentarily to try out the new trampoline."

United in fun. #grickledoodle #cats #dogs #pets #mice #trampoline #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of facehugger aliens attacking two astronauts while one disappointed looking facehugger alien stays in its pod looking at sad Steve the astronaut. Caption reads "Although it was ultimately what saved his life, in the moment Steve had never felt such profound rejection as he did right then."

Alienated feelings. #grickledoodle #feelings #horror #aliens #cartoon #drawing #art #funny

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Integral Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Integral

Haha! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/integral

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted Hey friends 👋, A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my libr...

Self Hosting is not the answer.

"I realized how privileged I am to have the skills required for digital sovereignty[ ... ] I realized that self-reliance isn't freedom — it's the luxury of retreating from a system that others can't escape."

www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu...