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This is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.

This is conCERNing...
https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/base-experiment-cern-succeeds-transporting-antimatter
And it raises some questions:
- what orange-black UN number do you put on that truck?

Spoiler alert: “It’s like flowers on steroids" is not referring to the areas that were heated. This is not encouraging news. But then, it shows how the #ClimateCrisis will change valued ecosystems.
‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?

Spoiler alert: “It’s like flowers on steroids" is not referring to the areas that were heated. This is not encouraging news. But then, it shows how the #ClimateCrisis will change valued ecosystems.
‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?

‘Call a Republican’: Viral phone booth connects Calif. liberals, conservative Texans
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-22/california-texas-phone-booths-experiment-political-divide

California to Texas pay phone sparks conversation across party lines
Matter Neuroscience installed phone booths in liberal San Francisco and conservative Abilene, Texas, encouraging strangers to engage in conversation across party lines.

Google says replacing some article headlines with AI-generated ones is now a feature in Discover, but they can be false or fail to highlight new, relevant info (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/865168/google-says-ai-news-he…

Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
Google now says its AI news headlines are a feature, not an experiment — its ‘trending topics’ in Google Discover keep us from accurately marketing our journalism.

A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens (Tim Anderson/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/cloudflare_nextjs_api_ai/

Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI
: Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in

“I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man's culminating time!”
~ H. G. Wells,”The Time Machine”

cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…

This is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.

How far back in time can you understand English? https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change

The world's longest-running lab experiment Is almost 100 years old https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-longest-running-lab-experiment-is-almost-100-years-old

We're having an ice storm and I've got some chocolate for baking cookies. What I don't have in the house is regular all-purpose flour. However, I have whole-wheat flour, rye flour, and almond flour. There's gonna be an experiment this afternoon for sure.

Rust moves from experiment to a core Linux kernel language
Where does Rust in Linux go now? In a word, “Everywhere.”
🦀 https://www.spiceworks.com/software/rust-moves-from-experiment-to-a-core-linux-kernel-language/

Rust moves from experiment to a core Linux kernel language - Spiceworks
Rust is now a core, non-experimental language in the Linux kernel, elevating it as the second official language alongside C.

Världens dyraste experiment pågår i södra Frankrike: bygget av en gigantisk fusionsreaktor.
Målet är att utvinna energi på samma sätt som i solen. Om det lyckas kan hela mänsklighetens energiförsörjning revolutioneras. https://www.dn.se/varlden/varldens-dyraste-e…

Världens dyraste experiment kan lösa energikrisen – fusionsreaktorn ITER byggs i södra Frankrike
Världens dyraste experiment kan lösa energikrisen – fusionsreaktorn ITER byggs i Cadarache i södra Frankrike

#Macular: a multi-scale simulation platform for the retina and the primary visual system https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroinformatics/articles/10.3389/fn…

Frontiers | Macular: a multi-scale simulation platform for the retina and the primary visual system
We developed Macular, a simulation platform with a graphical interface, designed to produce in silico experiment scenarios for the retina and the primary vis...

Google is running a "small" experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/googl

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.

learn 👇
https://archive.org/details/0-kathara-pics-all-3814-pages/0KATHARA PICS ALL 3814 PAGES/page/n989/mode/2up

This is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p64#a260320p64

A dark ambient song I have just composed, "A landscape of bells".
PS: Believe it or not, I have done everything inside #Musescore, as an experiment.
#ambient #darkambient

"Even if #OpenAI was run by decent, ethical, friendly, trustworthy people (which would then of course make them not work on the products OpenAI has, but it’s just a thought experiment) their products would need to be criticized for what they are and what they do." — @…

Acting ethical in an imperfect world
Live is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

Pretty interesting article, this one.
https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkiverse-experiment-and-why-instance-choice-matters/

The Forkiverse Experiment and Why Instance Choice Matters
A reflection on the Forkiverse experiment, why it felt different from day one, and how it changed my view on instance choice in the Fediverse.

Google is running a "small" experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/googl

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.

What if our networks could do more than just carry data?
In December, the Fibre Sensing Task of the GÉANT (GN5-2) Project, together with SURF @… turned 57 km of live optical fibre into a sensor.
The result? Detecting everything from trams to a plane landing at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
🎥 Watch Chris Atherton walk us through the experiment.

@… has posted an article in English…BUT, the style of English “ages” 100 years each paragraph.
How far can you get? Chaucer? Shakespeare? Earlier?
https://www.

How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markhurst/116110699512246549
Sweden already dialed back technology use in school classrooms and apologized to the young generation affected by this in-the-wild experiment. I'm increasingly worried that the introduction of…

Douane en politie zien explosieve toename hennepsmokkel, een ‘boterberg van wiet’ uit Canada en de VS | de Volkskrant
#wiet

Should we experiment some more with #runtimes and #protocols?
This is deliberately a very general question.
Drop your thoughts in replies, I'd love to exchange!

"I admit, this is an innovation I did not see coming: Silicon Valley has invented the philosophical zombie from the classic thought experiment "lol how crazy would it be if there were a philosophical zombie.""
(Original title: Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie)
https://www.

Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie
Andreessen caused a minor kerfuffle by saying on a podcast that he doesn’t introspect at all, and that in fact, people shouldn’t. What’s really going on?

wir haben eine KI gefragt ob man artikel die mit "wir haben eine KI gefragt..." beginnen noch als journalismus bezeichnen kann und wir haben eine KI gefragt warum man für ein echo online abo zahlen sollte
https://www.echo-online.de/lokales/suedhes

A look at Andrej Karpathy's "autoresearch" experiment, where an AI agent runs in a loop iterating and evaluating on training code to optimize a model (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/andrej-karpathy-loop-autonomous-ai-agents-…

‘The Karpathy Loop’: Former OpenAI researcher’s autonomous agents ran 700 experiments in 2 days—and gave a glimpse of where AI is heading
The former OpenAI and Tesla AI researcher's 'autoresearch' technique could be used by AI labs to speed up breakthroughs.

I have some critiques of "Fighting in the Streets." The last chapter would get you killed. The coms advice are absolutely terrible, which makes me question other elements of the book. But it does provide a framework for thinking about what a militant resistance looks like, and what framework needs to exist to make it possible.
It's a short read, and worth it for the thought experiment. You can read TM 31-210 all you want, but it won't do anything for you without the social framework that makes more than one attack possible. It always comes back to community building, even if (especially if) you're wanting to make sure militant resistance is an option on the table.
https://archive.org/download/fighting-in-the-streets-a-manual-of-urban-guerilla-warfare-urbano/Fighting in the streets, a manual of urban guerilla warfare - Urbano_text.pdf

Ah yes, #LLM for exploit development.
In other words, we’ll now spent billions on offense & prevention to achieve new equilibrium (that we already sort of had).
Good job, us. #infosec

On the Coming Industrialisation of Exploit Generation with LLMs
Recently I ran an experiment where I built agents on top of Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 and then challenged them to write exploits for a zeroday vulnerability in the QuickJS Javascript interpreter. I adde…

The GCVE.eu initiative will take part in hackathon.lu (14–15 April, Luxembourg), alongside core developers of GCVE-related projects. See you there to build, experiment, and collaborate!
#gcve #cve #opensource

OK, das ist ziemlich cool: Der Macher des sowieso ganz großartigen Podcasts #SearchEngine - @… - hat zusammen mit @… und

If you use an Android phone, which Mastodon client do you use? I currently use Moshidon after trying all the ones I could find a while ago but I'm wondering if I should experiment a bit more.
#android #mobile #mastodon

Het stupide kabinet Evilgoz-1 gaat er echt komen. #formatie
https://www.nu.nl/politiek/6381619/live-formatie-gl-pvda-noemt-minderheidscoa…

Live formatie | GL-PvdA noemt minderheidscoalitie 'riskant experiment'
Hallo en welkom in ons liveblog. Hier houden we je op de hoogte van de kabinetsformatie.

DEX in near Earth orbit in light of #Venus Orbiter Dust Experiment: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21988-2 -> India’s Cosmic Dust Experiment - Ground-breaking Hunt for Interplanetary Secrets: https://www.isro.gov.in/Indias_Cosmic_Dust_Experiment.html

Experiment-Update Tag 6: Macht Animal Crossing Spaß? 💬
Kurz vor dem Einschlafen noch schnell geerntet – und zack, Geisterjagd! Die Sidequests sind echt listig und halten einen wach. 👻
#AnimalCrossing #ACNH

NASA-Sonde Dart: Kollision hat auch Sonnenorbit der Doppelasteroiden verändert
Die gezielte Kollision einer Weltraumsonde mit einem Asteroidenmond kann die Bahn des Hauptasteroiden um die Sonne ändern. Das hat das Dart-Experiment gezeigt.

@…: "I formalised and proved the correctness of Move’s new borrow checker in Lean: 39,000 lines of mechanised metatheory, produced in under a month with the help of an AI coding assistant. This post tells the story of how it went and what it means for the future of PL research."

Ich brauch mal Hilfe aus der #Physik Bubble. Für einen Workshop im Rahmen eines Infotages zum Studium suche ich nach lustigen bzw. spannenden Experiment-Ideen für die Phyphox App, die über diese hier

The political effects of X's feed algorithm #politics #SocialMedia

The political effects of X's feed algorithm - PubMed
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects¹. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. W …

Today's experiment. I've been making pasta for years now and yet I never tried ravioli!
#food #cooking

So I finally (what, a decade behind popular trends??) am having reason to experiment with actual use of Docker in production, and…I’m surprised at how disappointing it is.
The configuration is clumsy, a dangerous mix of boilerplate and footgun customization points. The dockerfile / compose division of labor is nonsensical; it apparently grew by accretion instead of design. There are lots of loose ends left for hosting services to tie up, and the product thus fails in what would seem to be a primary goal of avoiding hosting vendor lock-in.
Am I simply Not Getting It Yet™, or is the state of the art actually like this?

Thought I might experiment with posting a one-minute version of the #tarot show on #loops
Five whole minutes is too long for many people with modern attention spans. And this is certainly the minute with the meat.
https://loops.video/v/e2GhBKqWXQ

The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle consisting of two charm quarks and one down quark,
a similar structure to the familiar proton, but with two heavy charm quarks replacing the two up quarks of the proton -- thus quadrupling its mass.
The discovery, presented at the ongoing Moriond conference, will help physicists better understand how the strong force binds protons, neutrons and other composite particles together.
Quarks …

The population of juvenile blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay is "regulated" by ... adult blue crabs
Cannibalism, predation, and refuges of juvenile blue crabs from a 37-year experiment https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2533461123

OK, #Zig language people, where's a good place online to ask dumb newbie questions about Zig?
What I'm thinking of trying to build as an experiment is this:
https://git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-s

paged space objects
Paged space objects will be a generalisation of cons space objects. A page — all pages will be of the same size — will comprise a header, followed by an array of objects. All the objects in a given page will be of the same size. The number of objects in a page is simply the number of ...

Unfortunately, my experiment with CachyOS is over, even though I gave the system a fair chance this time.
First of all, I really liked CachyOS. The speed is phenomenal, and everything would have been perfect except for one tiny detail that is essential for me: Localsend didn't work.
And I couldn't figure out why. I was able to install the program easily, and my computer recognized all the devices around it. Except for the devices around my computer with CachyOS on it... a…

"Shrubs curb carbon emissions in China's largest desert, decades-long experiment shows"
#China #Plants #Environment

Shrubs curb carbon emissions in China's largest desert, decades-long experiment shows
An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands with greenery, and, in the process, pull excess carbon dioxide out of the sky.

For reasons I am revisiting an old classic: Manabe and Stouffer, 1980.
The field of climate science is now effectively mostly about proving how correct those first simulations of the gigantic carbon experiment in the atmosphere were.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247488071_Sensitivity_of_a_Global_Climate_Model_to_an_Increase_of_CO2_Concentration_in_the_Atmosphere

NotebookLM, das neue KI-Tool von Google, sollte mein Bloggerjahr 2025 zusammenfassen. Heraus kam ein bemerkenswertes Experiment: reflektiert, teils verwirrend, manchmal erfunden. Mein Fazit: Zwischen KI-Analyse und echter Reflexion liegen Welten – und genau das ist gut so. #ahresrückblick #2025 #KI

Der Jahresrückblick 2025 – KI-generiert (mit Luft nach oben)
NotebookLM, das neue KI-Tool von Google, sollte mein Bloggerjahr 2025 zusammenfassen. Heraus kam ein bemerkenswertes Experiment: reflektiert, teils verwirrend, manchmal erfunden. Mein Fazit: Zwisch…

Sorry, aber das klingt als ginge es eher um dich, "optimistischer Fan".
Mein Blutdruck ist eigentlich ganz gut, tendenziell eher zu niedrig. Aber wenn dir "Analysen" irgenwie bei "Freiheit" im Weg stehen, stimmt vielleicht was anderes nicht?

Found a real-world difference between Claude Haiku 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5 today. As an experiment, I posed a question to it that I had gotten wrong a couple years ago. The question requires knowledge of TLS protocol details and thinking through their implications. Sonnet 4.5 caught the trap immediately (faster than I did back when I had the idea), Haiku 4.5 missed it, even when explicitly asked to think about the details of the TLS protocol.
So, yeah, it's not just differences in abstr…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
David Bowie:
🎵 Fashion
#DavidBowie
https://theblackstars.bandcamp.com/track/david-bowie-fashion-cover-and-experiment
https://open.spotify.com/track/6oAcTpX4qhQBiCo3apGdpo

🎶 Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, pseudoword experiment shows
#language …

Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, pseudoword experiment shows
Which words do we find beautiful? And do beautifully sounding words stick better in memory? A new study led by linguist Theresa Matzinger from the University of Vienna suggests that the phonemic composition of words influences how beautiful we perceive them to be, and how well we remember them. The findings are published in the journal PLOS One.

Here's a thought experiment.
Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it.
If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality?
If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one wo…

„Vielleicht sind wir vom Mars“: Mikroben können Transport durchs All überstehen
Laut einer Hypothese könnte Leben auf dem Mars entstanden und dann zur Erde transportiert worden sein. Ein Experiment soll gezeigt haben, dass das möglich wäre.

Microsoft ist mittlerweile glaube ich nur noch ein großes Experiment, wie dumm etwas werden muß, damit es die Bayern nicht mehr kaufen.

@… people complaining about the option of using a chatbot, in a sidebar of Firefox, caused me to occasionally experiment with chatbots in the sidebar.
When people make unreasonable demands: the listener will do the opposite of what's demanded.
Human nature.

Old fishing nets converted into energy via "Green Plasma"
Last December, Italian scientists converted 200 kg of ghost nets recovered from the seabed into #syngas – a hydrogen-rich combustible gas that can generate electricity
Since spring 2025, Marche Polytechnic Univ. in Ancona has operated Green Plasma as Italy's first system for treating marine waste
Unsorted wa…

When ghost nets can make energy
Last December, Italian scientists ran a successful experiment, converting 200 kilograms of ghost nets recovered from the seabed into enough energy to

Andere tijden waarin ook geëxperimenteerd werd met alternatieve straffen. Uiteindelijk heel jammer dat men in de jaren 70 vergat om naar de resultaten te kijken...
André Hazes gevangen: het leven in jeugdgevangenis De Corridor | ANDERE TIJDEN - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI8rNuP5JCw
op NLZIET:
https://app.nlziet.nl/play/m6_d7XkET0yAP8x2np3Veg
Experiment van bajes zonder tralies De Corridor is nog altijd actueel - Brabant Cultureel
https://www.brabantcultureel.nl/2017/10/22/experiment-van-bajes-zonder-tralies-de-corridor-is-nog-altijd-actueel/

An interesting social media datapoint: @… and I recently posted about our new research:

My bold social experiment to see if my kids could survive a teacher strike day without the ability to stream youtube has been cancelled thanks to the lads from #ogi turning up first thing to replace the dog-chewed fibre. They even installed a cover to dissuade the puppies from doing it again.
Diolch yn fawr Ogi!

Commanders to release CB Marshon Lattimore, ending failed experiment https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7050478/2026/03/02/commanders-release-marshon-lattimore-nfl/

I've started a little experiment.
I've erected an instance of Ghost 6 running on a Raspberry Pi and today it finally started talking across the Fediverse and the Bridge to Blue Sky.
In other words it's a Ghost Bloggy Magazine thing. The robot here is at @…
The website is at https:\\www.samizdat.uk
I added a Tier for anyone that wants t…

from my link log —
Testing ECC NMI in a cubesat boot loader: intentional flash corruption for STM32 microcontrollers.
https://blog.010.one/Dont-snipe-me-in-space-intentional-flash-corruption-for-stm32-microcontrollers

Don’t snipe me in space - intentional flash corruption for STM32 microcontrollers
Almost one and a half years ago I joined MOVE, the Munich Orbital Verification Experiment, a student club focusing on practical education in the area of satellites at the Technical University of Munich. MOVE has launched three CubeSats to date (First-MOVE in 2013, MOVE-II in 2018 and MOVE-IIb in 2019), and we are currently preparing two future missions. These missions require reliable software, and the ability to update in orbit.

@krismicinski@types.pl @…
So here's a thought experiment: would you (Lindsey, Kris), as people who do theory but also build stuff and experiment and what not — would you take on a PhD student who refuses to touch an AI coder? Maybe they're a math wiz and you're going to put them on a pure theory project — in that case? (But no LLMs for tikz, eith…

Why run multiple agents talking at each other when they're all really the same LLM anyway? Just prompt the singular LLM to pretend to be multiple people in conversation, and your simulated team will materialize a finished smb server that's not terrible.*
* May not be reproducible. Odds of winning are unknowable.
https://

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a…

Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from …

In which I compare the AI bubble to the Kansas Experiment: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/27/Kansas-and-GenAI
(Tl;dr: In 2011, Kansas slashed taxes based on Tea-Party theories that this would stimulate growth and make everyone better off. It di…

Kansas and AI

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…

Hallo zusammen, es ist das erste Mal im neuen Jahr wieder Dienstag und damit #DNIPBriefing-Tag!
1️⃣ Ein Marketing-Spezialist in den USA hat mit einem kleinen Experiment gezeigt, wie einfach sich aktuelle KI-Systeme dazu verleiten lassen, völlig erfundene Daten als plausibel anzunehmen. Dazu baute er eine Webseite für eine imaginäre Briefbeschwerer-Firma auf (remember Hommingberger Ge…

During an event in Auburn, Mass., Saturday commemorating the 100th anniversary of Robert #Goddard launching the first liquid-fueled rocket, a speaker mentioned that in addition to the four people involved in the experiment it was also accidentally witnessed by several local children - including this father aged 10 at the time: in the recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxYYXWYLzHs#t=1h15m30s he recounts his vivid story from 1:15:30.

cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…

My own little experiment for you to try:
Open Facebook. (You won’t hear me say that often!)
Scroll. You don’t have to read anything. Just scroll.
Every once in a while, click on an ad — but not the top ad. Make it the second in the list on the side, or one far down your feed. You can open it in a background tab and then close the tab. Tell the model it didn’t •quite• get you right — but you’re engaged, it just needs to drift a little further from who it thinks you are.
Wait for the ads to update. Repeat. And repeat. Watch the model degrade.
To this day, Facebook thinks I’m a gun owner who wants testosterone supplements.

A heavier version of the proton, has been discovered by a team at the nuclear research laboratory CERN
It was found using the newly upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as part of its latest “beauty” experiment, known as LHCb.
Scientists spotted the particle amid a spray of debris created by colliding particles at the facility near Geneva, Switzerland.
The particle has been called
Xi-cc-plus,
(written as Ξcc⁺),
and is four times as heavy as a normal prot…

‘Doubly charmed’ subatomic particle discovered at Cern
The finding of a previously unknown heavy type of proton could unlock the mystery of how all atomic nuclei are bound together

"Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?"
#Chemicals #Environment #Oceans

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

Deutschland testet „agentische KI“ in der Verwaltung: In 17 Kommunen sollen KI-Agenten Anträge prüfen, Unterlagen nachfordern und Entscheidungen vorbereiten. Das BMDS nennt es Modernisierung – tatsächlich ist es ein interessantes Experiment: Automatisierung gegen Bürokratie. #Golem
#KI

„Resident Evil Requiem“ im Test: Blutig, bizarr, beeindruckend
Zwei Helden, zwei Spielstile – Capcom wagt in „Resident Evil Requiem“ ein zweigleisiges Experiment zwischen Horror und Action. Geht die Rechnung auf?

Gaze patterns during visual mental imagery reflect part-based generation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35447-z "eye movements during mental imagery reflect a part-by-part generation process of the imagined content, independent of prior perceptual encoding"

There is a follow-up for the famous METR study and like wow
(…) we believe that the data from our new experiment gives us an unreliable signal of the current productivity effect of AI tools. The primary reason is that we have observed a significant increase in developers choosing not to participate in the study because they do not wish to work without AI, which likely biases downwards our estimate of AI-assisted speedup.

We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design

I have written another essay for my blog. This one is about where I'm up to with my mad #Lisp system, and is *really* obscure!
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

Vector space, Pages, Mark-but-don't-sweep, and the world's slowest ever rapid prototype
...it was intended, largely, to be a giant thought experiment. But now enough of it *does* work that I can see fundamental design mistakes, and I'm thinking about whether it's time to treat it as a rapid prototype...

mein looksmaxxing experiment ist leider nach hinten losgegangen

Today in bad tech journalism: "AI agents" generating a C compiler.
They didn't though. They created a piece of it that didn't work properly (because LLMs are trained on a lot of C compiler code).
(Original title: Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler)

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

I'm going to go back to my social media break, but before I do I'm going to leave you with a thought experiment.
Imagine we're in the middle of the second American Civil War. What do you wish you had done to prepare? What do you wish you had done to bring the regime down faster? What do you wish you had done to avoid this ever happening?
Got some ideas? Think about them. Talk them over with friends. Ok... Now what can you do right now? Ok, now do it.
#USPol

RE: https://mas.to/@grassrootsforeurope/116024584285085233
En de Britten lijken een nieuw experiment aan te gaan... Gelukkig zijn de komende verkiezingen voor gemeenteraden en lijkt een landelijke verkiezing voorlopig niet aan de orde.
🙈🙈🙈
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“This is the most complicated thing that you could possibly imagine,” said Mike Williams, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“In fact, you can’t even imagine how complicated it is.”
The proton is a quantum mechanical object that exists as a haze of probabilities until an experiment forces it to take a concrete form.
And its forms differ drastically depending on how researchers set up their experiment.
Connecting the particle’s many faces has …

Sources: Chinese state enterprises and agencies move to curb in-office OpenClaw use over potential security risks as users across China experiment with OpenClaw (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03…

If you have neither
- a question that it's supposed to answer
- a hypothesis you want to test
- a set of variables or metrics you are actively following
you have no "experiment".

A profile of Anthropic and its key executives like Chris Olah, and a look at Project Vend, an internal "Claudius" experiment to run the office vending machine (Gideon Lewis-Kraus/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either
Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.

Q&A with mathematicians behind the "First Proof" experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…

Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills, finding that the biggest performance gap appears in debugging tasks (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Oura CEO Tom Hale says the company has no plans to abandon its subscription model, even as rivals experiment with cheaper hardware and no recurring fees (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/o…