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Spoilers for William Hertling’s Avogadro Corp and A.I. Apocalypse: The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident is giving me an increasingly uncomfortable sense that I have read parts of this story before. Hertling wrote the first two books in 2011 and 2012. 1/14

A game-changing new treatment just arrived for one of the deadliest cancers - here's why doctors are so excited

France's economic crisis is a significant factor behind growing interest in aliyah, no less than antisemitism, but France's turmoil may soon result in restricitons on transferring money out of the country. www.jpost.com/aliyah/artic...

Every year this one house in Ann Arbor has the largest pumpkins for Halloween

Looks like GCAP is getting Germany www.ft.com/content/7017... Airbus to hold talks with BAE over role in GCAP fighter jet programme

i’m a moderate: Cheesecake Factory food is aight to good and they’re super in on the joke about the decor being over the top

Belgium has quickly reversed course from its planned phaseout of nuclear energy. A great move from the country that popularized surrealism!

Raiders' LA rejection turned into a Vegas jackpot

13/ The bond market has correctly concluded that no political party in France -- not Le Pen, or Melenchon -- could be bothered about balancing the books. The only socio-political force in favour of budgetary cuts & reforms, Macron's centrists, are unpopular.

i wanna hammer on this too: most of everything you touch exists because industrialization made it cheap; your couch is factory-slop, as any carpenter will gladly tell you. your phone as well if you call me stupid, you'll use industrial slop to do so, even aside from 'bsky uses llms'

Amazing story, also I'm sorry what

I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for @longnow.org. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds. longnow.org/ideas/attent...

Scrolling through online discussions of heterosexual marriage sometimes makes me feel like Homer Simpson saying "I sleep in a big bed with my wife." "I like my husband. He's a good person and kind to me."

Collateral damage from turmoil in France is found in the French government bond market. Foreign investors, especially Japanese names, own a disproportionate volume of those bonds; they seem likely to sell-off those holdings. Other nations, including Japan itself, provide more-stable opportunities.

Okay, this is scary.

Absolutely. 👇

Cartoon by Scott Rogo

An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.

Are we gonna do this, Bluesky? Are we all just gonna not understand accounting? 72B$ of the 80B$ is convertible notes. They became greater liabilities because the company's valuation skyrocketed. They don't have an 80B$ loss in the sense that almost everyone here is imagining.

10yr OATs flirting with 5% "The political situation is pretty adverse and [it is] difficult to see that improving anytime soon" www.ft.com/content/76f0...

Iconic California waterfront restaurant closing after 20-year run, blaming landlord

Math abundance will help solve chips, medicine, fusion, and numerous other things that will improve the lives of billions, and save millions of lives. I mean, there was a 0% chance of OpenAI (or any other AI lab) slowing down, so it's a moot point anyways. But it just seems extremely selfish.

#maga #gop #republicans #Ukraine #russia

Kind of stunned how many people in my mentions still believe that the point of Section 230 is that if you edit, you lose its protections. That's literally the exact opposite of why the law was written and the exact opposite of what courts have said. But tons of people here believe it. Weird.

Covering Rocket Lab's Neutron status and the battle with carbon fibre across various vehicles. www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/carb...

Paul Krugman may be perspicacious when he says #France “may have crossed from too big to fail to too big to save”. That's because while cost-cutting will only provoke more unrest, but the absence of it could trigger a boycott of French bonds, or even a default or bailout

First Sgt. Dror Altun, 29: Dancer, Yamam police officer was a new dad https://www.timesofisrael.com/first-sgt-dror-altun-29-dancer-yamam-police-officer-was-a-new-dad/

A cool verification tidbit: since the Google DeepMind (GDMI) went "live" last year at NHC, it's been the most accurate track forecast 2-3 times as often as OFCL and 4-5 times as often as any of the physics models. For intensity, OFCL is still most frequently the best forecast, except at 5 days.

Interesting developments in the bond markets. With France as the main worry. But a question regarding the case of a french bailout, why would it be inconceivable to let France default? Sure it would weaken the Euro but so would abandoned fiscal discipline.. www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

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This number is WILDLY, WILDLY misleading. Under-35s are not struggling - they are, by historic standards, exceedingly prosperous.

This is a transformer model that’s also orders of magnitude more efficient than all the other models used.

I just heard one word that was an obvious red flag: "solved". That's what I was planning to do! They stole that idea from me! They must have read my logs!

Am I reading this right? The objection has gone beyond "publish responsibly" to basically "you shouldn’t be doing this mathematics because mathematicians didn’t ask you to." I’m struggling with the idea that anyone needs the profession’s permission to try to solve an open math problem.

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Am I reading this right? The objection has gone beyond "publish responsibly" to basically "you shouldn’t be doing this mathematics because mathematicians didn’t ask you to." I’m struggling with the idea that anyone needs the profession’s permission to try to solve an open math problem.

Ben Askren and Jorge Masvidal broke down the life-changing UFC 239 flying knee knockout 📰 mma-fighting.visitlink.me/meruMM

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Hamas bears ultimate responsibility. There should be a full and publicly-released investigation of how the war started though, analogous to the 9/11 Commission.

Cornell frat bros were 'disgusting, despicable' and immoral - but not clearly criminal, DA insists

The resistance:

LAUNCH! Starship Flight 14 launches from Starbase Pad 2 on its first orbital mission attempt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDx...

Starship Flight 14 Launch Preview. By Ryan Weber www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/09/star...

SpaceX launched its Starship and Super Heavy rocket on Monday morning.

At #ASTRO26, UT MD Anderson faculty will present nearly 70 abstracts that showcase the latest research focused on improving outcomes and quality of life for cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy. Learn more: spr.ly/6049BGlqoR #EndCancer