Thanks @cbo.bsky.social for this review of THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME! To be read by a peer like this is an honor!
"Instead, the reader is given a project that sings both the radio hits and the deep cuts of physics, set to an instrumental of different scholarly contexts, disciplines, and inspirations."
Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
It, again, truly doesn't matter whether vibecoding actually caused the outages or not - when you start bragging about how claude is making every engineer on staff more productive and the site goes through months of persistent downtime, that's a Statement.
April 13, 2026 – Online sports betting is growing as a facet of American life, with 27% of Americans and half of men ages 18-49 (52%) saying they have an active account with an online sportsbook such as DraftKings, Caesars, FanDuel, or BetMGM, according to a new survey of United States residents released today by the Siena Research Institute (SRI) and St. Bonaventure University’s Jandoli School of Communication. This trend is up from 22% of Americans in 2025 and 19% in 2024, showing a slow but steady increase in online sports betting interest over the past few years of the survey. A third of Americans (33%) say they have opened an account at least once.
52% of US men between the ages of 18-49 have an active sports betting account.
This is what you get when the sports/media complex goes all-in on gambling.
Hard to overstate how troubling a development this is for fans and athletes alike.
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Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs
If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️
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CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭
Remember, his skill is in manipulation and being an ad man.
The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.
That's how it's done here in Sweden (at least in Stockholm). You get mailed a little home kit and then you send it back in. Personally, I like it because it lessens the burden on people with cervixes (who already have to see docs way more than people who don't).
When beasts spoke books
When beasts spoke books
When beasts spoke books
‘When Beasts Spoke’ books are now available! You can order them online from my website or pop in to Made in Stirling and pick up your copy 💛
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A ghostly view of the Sun's corona seen from behind the Moon, portions of which are faintly visible from Earthshine (our planet is off screen to the left). At lower left, the bright point of light is Venus.
This is haunting.
More from yesterday's solar eclipse viewed by the Artemis II crew.
The Sun's corona is faintly visible emerging from behind the Moon.
And, at lower left, Venus.
“We have normalised genocide, total annihilation of entire people, the systematic destruction of the biosphere which we are all depending on to survive, and that corrupt, racist war criminals can act with complete impunity”
Hear hear
The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Just one interaction with a flattering chatbot was likely to ‘distort’ a human user’s ‘judgement’ and ‘erode prosocial motivations,’ an outcome that persisted regardless of a person’s demographics and previous grasp on the tech…”
what do we want?
OBJECT PERMANENCE
when do we want it?
WHEN DO WE WANT WHAT
The "careful" "AI Safety" company that just accidentally leaked its entire source code to the world is the one that African governments are entering into agreements with to include in infrastructures from health to god knows what.
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“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.” “For instance, as a lifelong Star Trek fan, it’s always bothered me that there is a presumed ‘responsibility’ within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues,” the writer added. “I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other.”
Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb
gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...
I love fountain pens but haven't tried them for sketching. I basically stick to piston filled ones as the converters and cartridges and shit annoy the hell out of me 😂
"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births."
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reminder (or fresh info for those who dont know yet) that Chiropracty is a complete bullshit pseudo-science and the guy who created it, no joke, claims he learned it from a ghost
I try to describe Swish and BankID to my American friends 😂
So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:
Last thought - if you are an academic and reading this ready to jump in with NotAllAcademics, pause and sit with your discomfort a bit longer. I know there are exceptions as I've had several profs and mentors who have been exceptions themselves. This is about the institution, not the individual.
It's challenging, and I do know that, but when we tie success to a lack of mistakes it inhibits learning. Mistakes are the best way to learn and students can't make them if we're constantly testing and grading everything they do.
Modern academia is absolutely an arm of capitalism. It enforces it, reproduces its toxicity, and that means it's vulnerable to the false promises of LLMs. My only hope is that the bursting of the AI bubble will force a reevaluation of what education should look like.
Don't even get me started on the exorbitant costs of education in the US. At least if you're going to endure all of this in many other countries, you don't have to pay to be treated like shit.
Despite claiming to be fact and research-oriented, the majority of academics still engage in pedagogical methods that have been shown to be completely ineffective, endorse a punishment-based system that impedes learning, and participate in a toxic culture that seems more like hazing than teaching.
Students are using AI because we've created a toxic, overwork culture in academia. Professors are using AI for similar reasons and falsifying data in publications has long preceded AI, though there's absolutely a rise in AI generated papers, figures, etc.
Professors having a low pass rate is a point of pride not cause for concern? Progress requiring standardised tests that repeatedly are shown to select for white, male, affluent students? An overreliance on testing (or grades or publishing) as proof of success?
