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Turns out the big AI discoveries in math, once you cut through the hype, are either trivial, plagiarism or both www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...

OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts sayOpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approachwww.scientificamerican.com

Finished a draft of something that's been in my head for a while. Came out very Harry Turtledove-esque IMO (it's not alt-hist)...I hope I did OK by the guy.

East Germans doing a not-bad Stevie Wonder pastiche open.spotify.com/track/5dgTHh...

...fällt der erste ReifLift · Am Abend mancher Tage · Song · 2021open.spotify.com

I now have 15ml of Forbidden Flavor: extract of calamus root a.k.a. sweet flag. Calamus is carcinogenic so banned as a flavor in the US and tightly regulate in the EU. I can tell you that is smells dark and earthy, like a non-pungent black pepper with overtones of vanilla and nutmeg (1/2)

Found a torrent of the complete run of SCTV, including the really early episodes from 1976. 1) Wild to see these people (John Candy, Harold Ramis, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy) at the very beginning of their careers.

The dogma Immigrants = Bad became dogma over a period of years -- I'm glad there is at long last a little pushback in the centrist media. However don't let this become a new liberal argument for ignoring climate change & imperialism. Keep asking why thousands of people need to flee their homes.

Watching "Soulm8te" just makes me want to watch "Companion" -- a film with far better acting and writing, driven by far fewer tired sexist tropes -- again

A lot of activism is indistinguishable from a grift "Imagine the smallest reform you can. We've focus-groupped a reform a fraction the size of that. "To ensure we never achieve it, we're using organizing methods proven to never work. "And we need YOU to volunteer your time and money for it!"

Literally what I was talking about yesterday

Had to run all over the city to find this perfectly mundane Thingy, because hardware and home improvement stores have all decided to cut back on actual hardware to make room for candy aisles and cheaply made pocket knives

Hypothetical question: how long does a pair of these things have to be in a microwave to fry the electronics?

A repost about Ceuta began, "immigration needs to be regulated, but..." Now just one minute. Rest of the post was about opposing imperialism. Sure. Good. What about how we didn't have immigration restrictions until we were centuries deep into this whole imperialism thing? At *least* examine that

Superficially this sounds great...but as with the "legitimate interest" clause in GDPR, the law actually gives its blessing to a lot of repugnant practices (eg using AI to evaluate asylum seekers' applications) as long as a vague quality standard is maintained when inspectors are looking

The people who have been lobbying for years to gamble Social Security on the stock market, despite decades of evidence that this would be a deeply negligent and irrational thing to do, would absolutely give Grok control of the nuclear weapons fortune.com/2026/06/14/s...

Social Security faces steep cuts. These senators want to bet on stocks and $27 trillion in debt to save it—but 'the gamble does not always pay off' | Fortune"As a result, the most likely outcome is that in the 75th year, the government will end up with a big pile of debt, requiring large interest payments."fortune.com

anyone willing to give me a briefing on the practicalities of using samples of songs on a podcast? I have a podcast idea but it doesn't really work without being able to play some tracks where finding the licensing information might be a struggle.

It was going to bug me that the second half of the alphabet was missing.

#SNW

Alexander Rodchenko was a master of using simple geometric shapes and cut-out photographs to create inspiring and memorable posters. He had this aesthetic figured out a hundred years ago. AI won't make a good flyer. Your imagination, a pair of scissors, a ruler and a set of magic markers will.

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