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I posted something less than sufficiently anti-AI for the audience and got some thoughtful argument and some "AI is terrible and stupid and doesn't work" replies. I understand the anti-AI sentiment but I regret the shallowness of so many replies. To claim that LLMs are completely useless is deliberately ignorant. There are lots of interesting critiques of LLMs: copyright, human agency, effectiveness, privacy, even existential threats. "I hate this new thing I don't understand" is a bad start to a conversation.

The arithmetic rank of determinantal nullcones
Jack Jeffries, Vaibhav Pandey, Anurag K. Singh, Uli Walther
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20470 https://arxiv.o…

The arithmetic rank of determinantal nullcones
We compute the arithmetic rank of nullcone ideals arising from the classical actions of the symplectic group, the general linear group, and the orthogonal group. We use these arithmetic rank calculations to establish striking vanishing results on the local cohomology modules supported at these nullcone ideals. This is done by analyzing the integer torsion in the critical local cohomology modules. The vanishing theorems that we obtain are sharp in multiple ways.

Nielsen: Jimmy Kimmel Live! drew 6.26M viewers on Tuesday, over 3x its Q2 average, despite not airing in 23% of US homes due to Nexstar and Sinclair blackouts (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-…

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Draws Record Ratings in Return from Suspension
More than 6 million viewers tuned in for the late night host’s first show back, which wasn’t available in 23 percent of the country due to affiliate blackouts.

Hab gestern einen männlichen Prof Anfang 60 getroffen, der *keine* Seniorprofessur möchte, sondern meint, man kann ja dann zum Pensionierungszeitpunkt auch einfach mal aufhören. So erfrischend! #wissenschaft

„Sinnloses Töten“ - Selenskyj zeigt persönlichen Brief von Trump #News #Nachrichten …

AI fake news sites are flooding Facebook today with stories about a Nashville Superbowl white power halftime show to counter Bad Bunny.
Among the featured performers: Willie Nelson.
That should be a clue.

"Silent Hill f" angespielt: Das Horror-Comeback des Jahres
Mit "Silent Hill f" wagt Konami einen Neustart in Japan und trifft mit einer persönlichen Reise durch eine zerbrechliche Teenager-Seele genau ins Schwarze.

Our pool works at night too!

Two different people at this restaurant are playing noise from their phone speaker.

Gay hookup app Sniffies has put out new Hallowe'en-themed default images for profiles without pictures.