I signed up for Apple TV trial last night and watched season 1 of “Murderbot”.
I largely enjoyed it, but had a lengthy conversation about Mensa’s panic attacks with another fan of the books. *That* was the thing on which we anchored. Then other divergences from the book.
I found I am now referring to Murderbot as ‘he,’ because of the actor.
Also, the contrast on Murderbot’s proxy display for the audience was crap. I know I missed gags as a result. Fuzzy red? Really? Backpl…
You know what I love about ios26? Phone app vibrates when the call is answered. FUCKING FINALLY!
We had this for years in Android land but oh well. Wish they could add “press and hold keyboard keys for special characters” feature instead of AI crap.
Pushback against progressive mayoral candidate #Zohran #Mamdani has been fierce.
That includes the mainstream media, which is trying to brand him a socialist to negate his progressive and popular policy proposals.
Stephen Janis and Taya Graham analyze the CNN anchor’s takedown and show why her efforts are corp…
There are no periodic Wright maps
David Futer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05222 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05222
I need to look today to see if there is any other way of contacting the Department of Education about student loans beyond their online crap (since they apparently just don't answer those anymore).
Rational lemniscates and the matching problem
Kirill Lazebnik, Pierre-Olivier Paris\'e, Malik Younsi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03547 https://
Me: *drinking morning coffee*
Brain: So, did dinosaurs chirp like birds?
(Any paleontologists around to answer this?)
Uncertainty Under the Curve: A Sequence-Level Entropy Area Metric for Reasoning LLM
Yongfu Zhu, Lin Sun, Guangxiang Zhao, Weihong Lin, Xiangzheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20384
Brauer classes not split by genus one curves
Zinovy Reichstein, Federico Scavia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07447 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07447
Github copilot (at least through VS Code) has this new "Agent" mode with some of the AI copilot models. Instead of just answering questions or reviewing your code and pointing out where to copy/paste the slop, agent mode GOES AHEAD AND MODIFYS YOUR CODE..
On one hand its hecka fast. On the other hand its alarming as shit.
The number of times it iterates iteself into a corner, goes "oh this file is crap, Ima throw it out and rewrite it from scratch" is alarmin…