i made a crossword

Crossword Con 2026 - Square Theory (Adam Aaronson) YouTube video by puzzmo

My Square Theory talk from @puzzmo.com's Crossword Con is now available to watch!

youtu.be/iEa_Arn9pH0

Damn that's good

Crossword Con Crossword Con is a half-day conference about crossword puzzles

Today is the last day to buy in-person Crossword Con tickets! Join us in NYC for some great talks and a panel featuring representatives from companies that buy and license indie games made by people like you! 🌷

Link to tix, schedule, speaker & panelist info all here: www.crosswordcon.com

I made a crossword

Got a certain Saturday crossword #nytxw

New Year Zone Why celebrate the New Year just once when you can do it 38 times? New Year Zone counts down to the New Year in every time zone, so you can share the fun with the whole world!

newyear.zone

Your annual reminder that I made a website called New Year Zone that counts down to the new year in all 38 time zones

If nothing else, it works pretty great for syncing your actual countdown at your new year's gathering

Just in the nick of time, here's my list of the best albums of 2025!

#1 is a perfect little gem that I haven't seen on any year-end list. Can't stop coming back to it

aaronson.org/full-moon-al...

The constructor roster for the Boswords 2026 Winter Wondersolve is set, and we are excited to be presenting four puzzles by the wonderful folks listed below on Sunday afternoon, February 1.

Registration opens Friday, January 2.

They can't keep getting away with this

Here's a crossword

Phlegm

I remain cautiously optimistic about Wikipedia's future. No matter how good Grokipedia gets, it will always be controlled by one guy whose interests are money and power.

And no matter what he tells you, Wikipedia will always be controlled by the people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Yo...

Elon probably argues that this puts knowledge in the hands of the people, but Wikipedia wouldn't work as a stable source of reliable info without its systems and standards for evaluating sources.

pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/b...

Screenshot of a Grokipedia article that cites facebook.com

Screenshot of a Grokipedia article that cites reddit.com

Crucially, Grokipedia lacks any discretion over what makes a source reliable, placing random blogs and Reddit posts on a par with peer-reviewed journals and news articles.

Image from the Chicago rat hole article

Album professional ratings table from the Empire Central article

They also lack images, links to other articles, and structured data (like tables) that make Wikipedia articles so useful beyond their prose alone.

Screenshot from a Wired article about Grokipedia pushing far-right talking points

Screenshot from a New York Times article about Grokipedia's bias on gender transition medical treatment

Screenshot from an NBC News article about Grokipedia's omission of details about Trump and Musk's controversies

But in the worst cases (many such cases), they amplify Elon's right-wing political viewpoints, biasing the articles not by crowdsourced consensus but by the arbitrary whims of one guy.

Screenshot from Grokipedia that reads: "Fatherhood and personal growth: Cook's entry into fatherhood marked a pivotal shift in his worldview, fostering themes of renewal and deeper self-understanding amid personal transitions. He has described this period as one of profound change, where familial roles took precedence, with music integrated around commitments to his wife and two sons. The birth of his second son, Quincy Blues, amplified this evolution, infusing his reflections with emotional layers of growth and resolution."

The articles that aren't ripped directly from Wikipedia are weird. In the best cases, they're alright articles that are just bloated and follow the overly verbose writing style characteristic to AI slop (which is what they are).

Screenshot from Grokipedia that reads "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

Elon criticizes Wikipedia as being woke and biased. So it's curious that Grokipedia relies directly on much of its content, AI-paraphrasing it ever-so-slightly under a Creative Commons license.

Wikipedia page for Oatmeal raisin cookie

Grokipedia page for Oatmeal raisin cookie

My thoughts on Elon's Grokipedia as a Wikipedia editor, and—because Grokipedia has copied nearly verbatim many of my Wikipedia pages—inadvertently, a Grokipedia editor.

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I'm giving a talk here! Come see me talk about Square Theory with some never-before-presented twists

I'm giving a talk here! Come see me talk about Square Theory with some never-before-presented twists

Alphadots: The Word Puzzle With a Plot Twist by Bloomberg One clue, one chart, one hidden phrase. Solve a new puzzle every day.

Billboard crossword: www.billboard.com/p/billboard-...

Bloomberg Alphadots: www.bloomberg.com/games/alphad...

Got a puzzle triple header today

- Crossword for @nytimes.com
- Crossword for @billboard.com (kicking off Latin week)
- Alphadots for @bloomberg.com (where all 7 puzzles this week will be by me)

NYT crossword from Monday, Oct 20 by Adam Aaronson

Here's a crossword I made #nytxw

This one's for the all the numerologyheads www.billboard.com/p/billboard-...

Solve here: www.billboard.com/p/billboard-...

My second crossword for @billboard.com! Taylor Swift week continues apace

My (very much still work-in-progress) project is here: mindpalace.fun