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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Großer Datendiebstahl bei US-Tochter der Allianz Versicherung

I'm getting a lot of mileage out of ChatGPT but it's very hard to trust it when it so confidently gets the most basic arithmetic wrong. I asked it to find an integer N such that N choose 2 = 90. It says 15. But 15 choose 2 = 105, not 90. It showed me a convincing looking equation but it's literally just wrong math.

Großer Datendiebstahl bei US-Tochter der Allianz Versicherung
Die US-Lebensversicherung Allianz Life bestätigte einen Cyberangriff auf eine Datenbank mit persönlichen Daten der meisten Kunden.
https://www.…

I wonder where Ireland’s regulator got this idea?
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/114751272606146547

Speaking of "Adhesiveness" in 1960 David Hockney made a painting titled Adhesiveness. Which arguably depicts Walt Whitman fucking David Hockney, the labels 23 23 and 4 8 being a basic numeric code. Along with We Two Boys Together Clinging these two early works are Hockney referencing Whitman and being explicit about being gay. More info in this article and this one.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03906 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates for SL(3,C) representations
We define Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates for representations of surface groups to ${\rm SL}(3,{\mathbb C})$. We also show how these coordinates relate to the classical Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates and to their generalisations by Kourouniotis, Tan, Goldman, Zhang and Parker-Platis.

I’ve been hungry for seeing these days, hungry especially for color—wild, deeply saturated, mood-altering color. It has me looking up—as I always do when I’m lost—at the sky. Celeste blue. Blue of infinite depth. Ultra-blue.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of…

Ways of Seeing: Blue
Taking inspiration from Maggie Nelson's book, Bluets, this Ways of Seeing encourages you to take the color blue as your oracle and guide.

Well, we have some advance notice. Can we take advantage? Can we find some candidate not deluded by the neoliberal myth, the simplistic YIMBY faith that the market will provide affordable housing?
https://bsky.app/profile/laurajnelson.bsky.social/post/3lsmkny…

Current status: taking a screenshot of a Javascript popup, then using AI to convert the image to text. All so I can copy a number out of a web page that some terrible UX designer decided to not present just as simple text on the page.

Last night I learned that California has fireflies. Microphotus angustus glows steadily and is more of a worm than a fly, at least how I saw it.