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The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street […]

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

[Demonstrations Today.] Guy next to me on the sidewalk to his friend: "I can turn on the TV and see baseball players a thousand times better than me, soccer players a thousand times better than me. Showing up for a demonstration? I don't need to turn on the TV, this is something I can do." […]

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Whoah! More aperiodic monotiles! https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07638

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

"Meta's Generative AI ads team" Yeesh, there's an org chart tag that needs to be burnt. https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/meta_offers_10m_ai_researcher/

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Not great when your strategy is "lay low and hope Disney's attorneys just forget"

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Movie idea: Effective Altruism Star Wars, in which it's OK to be a Sith as long as the majority of your earnings go through vetted charities.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

on Star Trek, they didn't often think through the consequences of the treknology, but the Federation's post-capitalist society is a natural consequence of transporters and replicators. it's an idea that was explored by several sf authors of the era, like George O. Smith in "Pandora's Millions." […]

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[The Bad Car Guy, and the Bad President Guy.] Well, this screenshot just scrolled in front of my eye. Elsewhere, some months ago, I had joked about this administration's eventual Night of 2 3/4 inch Long Knives, and here it comes. _____ The knives was the […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

"Why is there a spiral there?" Accidental Discovery at a Planetarium #astronomy #OortCloud #HaydenPlanetarium https://apnews.com/article/museum-planetarium-oort-cloud-b0050c65ebff830812b505cdd8c476ec

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The U.S. Attorney's office maybe went over the top in claiming to know the motivations. It could also be as simple as overly enthusiastic nerdage and not wanting to have to leave their labs to do research. But yeah, this was stupid. At the very least the researcher at UofM should be fired […]

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"Do your own research" Buddy, I am TRYING but the mice keep biting me and escaping and interbreeding with the control group.

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Just how did the Hario V60 take off in the coffee world? It was thanks to a much more complicated machine. Video by James Hoffmann. #Coffee https://youtu.be/BfNoNTjcRbE

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Have you noticed how sometimes you get a technology from childhood scienece fiction and it just kinda doesn't matter? E.g. everyone has a Dick Tracy watch now and it's neat but not that big a deal. Or like my kids have amazing VR, but are more into YouTube.

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

#Monsterdon Wait, is his ship being pursued by George Pal WotW Martian-style ships?

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#Monsterdon Okay, soccer moves by Godzilla and whatever floppy-ears monster is called was pretty good.

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#Monsterdon Secretary-General: "Please clap." Okay, they eventually did clap.

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#Monsterdon Wait. Is Planet Gorath a planet or a dwarf planet? Someone contact Mike Brown.

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#Monsterdon Poor sea monster. Done in by spiral masering.

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#Monsterdon I like the flashbacks to previous movies. It's better than pretending the previous works didn't exist.

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Fifteen minutes to #Monsterdon, the shared movie-watching experience! The movie this week is Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). If you want to join in, follow the hashtag, and use the Tubi TV link https://tubitv.com/movies/100039783/godzilla-final-wars (On the other hand, if this is boring for you […]

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

So... Tillandsia Tuesday? (Neofinetia Falcata orchid in the background.) #terrariums #AirPlants #orchids

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I was amused by this paper about asking AIs to manage a vending machine business by email in a simulated environment https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840 Highlights: — AI simply decides to close the business, which the simulation doesn’t know how to accommodate. When they get their next bill, they […]

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

Hm. I honestly don't know how popular Tak is in real life. I've never seen a game in the wild, but that may be selection bias on my part. The video implies a wider following than I thought. #BoardGames #Tak #TheNameOfTheWind https://youtu.be/Te0Wm_GCCAQ

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Mathworks are 9 days into a ransomware incident, they disclosed today. https://status.mathworks.com/incidents/h1fjvcr72n87 HT @daniel

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

This whole Agile Coach debacle has helped me realize something that hadn’t fully landed with me before: agile started as a movement driven by builders to «build better», but it is largely dominated now with people who don’t know how to build and look at agile as a management process style. These […]

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

New blog post, about a fun obsession of mine, the reason why we use elliptic curves and not any other groups for Diffie-Hellman. https://keymaterial.net/2025/05/23/there-is-no-diffie-hellman-but-elliptic-curve-diffie-hellman/

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

“It’S jUSt a ToOl!” What other digital tool redoes your work in the style of another creator? https://www.latintimes.com/fantasy-author-called-out-using-ai-after-leaving-prompt-published-book-so-embarrassing-583727 #SoEmbarrassing #LLM #AI #AISlop #GenerativeAI #AIArt #AIBook

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Bus tracker: your bus will arrive in nine minutes. Bus tracker five minutes later: your bus will arrive in thirteen minutes.

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Coming up at 8 Chicago time (about two hours) it's Jazz From The Cellar, this week featuring Jacob Hart. #Jazz #Music #Detroit https://www.youtube.com/live/dg_ffwcm2Zw

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Let me introduce you to the hilarious world of AI-generated origami art instructions. These instructions are impossible to follow, often with incorrect step numbering. While it's entertaining, its a perfect example of the challenges real (origami) artists face […] [Original post on chaos.social]

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

If you want an lol - Microsoft have implemented Copilot on its own GitHub repos and it’s a clusterfuck, you can see MS engineers publicly begging Copilot to work. https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

New, from me: KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Alright, I'm back with what I assume will be a week long rage thread about a book I hate. It's really not important for current events in any way, but I signed up for a talk about it in the before-times. So mute this, it's absolutely not interesting […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

The NSA’s “Fifty Years of Mathematical Cryptanalysis (1937–1987)” https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/the-nsas-fifty-years-of-mathematical-cryptanalysis-1937-1987.html #Uncategorized #cryptanalysis #mathematics #reports #NSA

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[YouTube video that references That Car Company. It's a funny, reasonably short ad that addresses public sentiment. But still, the car company's name is mentioned.] It's an actually funny ad, that references That Car Company That We Don't Name. https://youtu.be/hlzTEG4D5n0

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"Jazz After Hours, with bassist Ralphe Armstrong and saxman Nate Topolewski ..." #Detroit #Jazz #Music https://www.youtube.com/live/oQvhnZPPyoc

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Hegel 2.0: The imaginary history of ternary computing (by Leif Weatherby in Cabinet Magazine) https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/65/weatherby.php <- deep stuff about the overlap between information science, computing, and philosophy

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I get concerns on AI use in universities, but to my mind the utility of AI in college is the measure of how sick the system has become. If students view their job as playing a game to get a piece of paper that opens the gate to middle class life, rather than something idealistic, AI makes sense.

submitted 42 days ago • 18 comments

I got an automated call from Coinbase telling me to press [some number] if I wanted to go ahead with a password change, or 1 if I didn't approve it. I don't have a Coinbase account, but nothing good could have come from approving it, so I pressed 1. "Thank you. A Coinbase representative will […]

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

An Archive for arXiv A few weeks ago I mentioned the concerning news that arXiv was changing the way it works and moving all of its content into cloud storage. Related to this was a decision made last year to shut down the previously existing arXiv mirror sites. At the time arXiv explained that…

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments