I wanted to call out the specific red flag issue here. The review from user Andrew says, "[T]hey are quick to take your money but never respond" - A PUBLISHER DOES NOT TAKE YOUR MONEY. Money moves *exclusively* from publisher to author.

These are some neat editions, I got Flatland

Happy new financial year

i can't seem to figure out how to find a list of the books they actually published--they claim they have published '8000 books' but BookScouter and Google Books results show me only ~200 books each. Anyway it seems like they do a really shit job at publishing, as you might expect.

[sigh, roll eyes] No, my son is ALSO named "B81AF2D8-EEDB-4A9D-A768-4D137A797ACB"

[Star Wars voice] The Fifth of April be with you

I mean I left in November so... this tracks. No Lindsey, no uptime

In popular usage "GIF" means "video with no audio". The actual file format is irrelevant. An animated PNG file is a "GIF"

The Roaring Twenties but it's more of a screaming

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Also! The Greek translation of Antimemetics is available now!

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In it!

Sam Altman saying that something was going to happen turned out to be a poor predictor of that thing happening??

It doesn't make sense that Makar, a plant creature who grew out of the earth, is your companion in the Wind Temple, while Medli, a bird creature who flies in the air, is your companion in the Earth Temple which is full of light-based puzzles

A barn owl is really kind of an entry-level owl

Having the Ritos in Wind Waker be ~evolved avian descendants~ of the Zoras is an ugly and lazy hack meant to compensate for failing to complete an actual Zora temple or island

Discontinuities in civil time

Reading LLM-generated summaries of my work makes me want to jam a screwdriver in my ear

Ironically, not many microwave ovens are themselves microwaveable

If you put a plant in a vacuum how long would it be before it died

I'm sorry. Kavinsky's driver character, this guy, is meant to be a *teenager*?

Lots of good new stuff in TypeScript 6.0!

Oh what could that be in the short list for the New York Festivals 2026 Radio Awards award for fiction audio book, could it be There Is No Antimemetics Division by me, qntm, narrated by Rebecca Calder?

It's important to separate the money you send to the artist from the artist

[decommissions the UK's last paperclip minimiser]

There's not really a lot of bromine or barium in Breaking Bad

AAH YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS

What's a good wine pairing for a Big Mac

Did you know? The year 2025 is evenly divisible by 5, the last time in history that this will ever happen! Wait what

The year is 10 CE. The novelty New Year monocle has just debuted

Perhaps the revelation of Banksy's identity will end that mildly unfunny running gag in the Spider-Verse movies

There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs

DLSS 6 replaces you with a different gamer who isn't irked about DLSS 6

Thinking of setting up a mailing list. What software would folks recommend? I'm guessing a few hundred people would be on it, so probably too many people to realistically mail all at once manually

DLSS 6 just replaces the game with a different game it thinks you should be playing instead

There is

Ah shit. An absolute titan. My favourite story about Hoare: he needed a sorting algorithm while working as a student in Russia the fifties, so he quickly wrote something that seemed to do the job. It’s now called Quicksort and it’s so elegant and powerful it’s still taught and used today.

For the purposes of computing, we always need to approximate π. In JavaScript, `Math.PI` is the nearest 64-bit floating point number to the true value of π. My proposal is that for consistency and symmetry we should introduce `BigInt.PI`

Of course in the UK we celebrate Pi Day on the third of Duodecimber

Mathematicians love today, 2026-03-14, because 2,026 minus 3 minus 14 is 2,007 which is of course the largest prime number

Cokes Zero

One of the first things I noticed in Pluribus is that in the scenario depicted in the show, art is dead (cont.)

In the Mario universe are positrons called walectrons

Vaguely insulted that (to my knowledge) I have not yet been considered influential or cool enough to be impersonated in this way

Cheque's in the mail

Wouldn't it be great if there were autonomous robots which were deliberately designed to be impossible to reprogram or turn off "Robots which did what?" [turning on the first 10,000] Did what what

Okay so let's say I have two fixed strings, A and B, and I can append small amounts of arbitrary junk data to the end of both strings. I want to engineer it so that A + junk and B + different junk have the same MD5 hash How computationally feasible is it to figure out what junk to add?

No I didn't say you were the GOAT, I said you were the Goht, the Masked Mechanical Monster which serves as the boss of the Snowhead Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. It's roughly equivalent

When's International Women's Day, that's what I'd like to know