Boy I just love finding out about what's new in Microsoft Edge

UK paperback edition of THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION is coming on *3rd September 2026* Preorders are open

Hmm.

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja (not pictured)

The US Kindle edition of There Is No Antimemetics Division is discounted to $2.99 for this week only!

No leap second in December 2026. Boo

Kind of want to do a run-down of all the "official" Wikipedia photographs of organisms and whether the pictured organism is likely to still be alive

"We've always been criminals, Clark" - Batman, just insider trading like crazy

Make that 19 lines:

Upgraded mirror test where you are presented with another human who is nevertheless extremely similar to you (in appearance, personality, social status, ...) and we see whether you treat them well or screw them over

Birdsong identification app which just says "mynah bird" every single time

Super impressive work here... Long-time HATETRIS researchers David & Felipe have shared a new record shortest loop for HATETRIS Mild, at just 10 + 10 = 20 lines to reach a repeat well:

Book artists QRP with your book covers! One of these was used as the cover for @qntm.org’s “Fine Structure” (and the other was for a magazine in France, but I’m still counting it!) #fractal #fractalart #space #nebula #digitalart

You can't just call a species of cat a "leopard cat". There's already a cat that's a leopard. It's the leopard

Terrifying new AI can "insert USB-A cables the correct way up, first time, every time"

I've had a passing interest in the False Hydra from D&D homebrew because the basic concept is very Antimemetics. Found this interesting thread about it (cont.)

Finished reading this just now and what a cool and excellent book

This article is about the programming language. For the country, see United States of America (country)

Saw an ad for a wall-mounted "air conditioning unit" which mysteriously requires no tools to install I can only assume the thermal energy extracted from the air in the room is being dumped into a caged microscopic black hole

"Huh did the room just get cooler?" Yeah because I walked in

My book Ra is discounted to $0.99 on Kindle in the US and Canada for ONE DAY ONLY

Weird to me that microblogging platforms have functionality for saving drafts, how long can it possibly take to put a thought into words

Someday I kind of want to write an introductory programming book and call it "Good" Code

Now for a Java haiku AbstractSingleton ProxyFactoryBean.set ProxyClassLoader

I'm going to be at Edinburgh International Book Festival on 16th August!

So if I was going to build a fictional language how would I do that

Did a podcast! Some good detailed questions about Antimemetics in this one

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If I sold 1/1,000,000,000,000th of my company to someone for $1 and kept the remaining shares would that make me a paper trillionaire

Imagine if your name was Auric Goldfinger but you didn't care about gold really

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would have to earn a dollar a year for a trillion years straight to have that much money.

Silksong question. Why are there so many bells

But imagine owning a billionth of the eventual completed Dyson sphere!

Money is a sign of poverty

Using "decimate" to mean "kill 50%" as a universally agreeable compromise

If only there was some way to make all these websites remember that I've clicked "Reject" on their tracking cookies

*prototaxites

Okay so who wrote the Wikipedia article for Ra and why is the plot summary about 85% wrong * Magic in Ra is nothing to do with mathematical proofs * The word "thaumaturgical" appears nowhere in the book, so what are you quoting? * What pre-human intelligence? * Exploitable code? What?

Want to feel old? [YEAR NUMBER] was [CURRENT YEAR MINUS YEAR NUMBER] years ago

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lol

A stopped clock with 720 faces each showing a different hour and minute is always right

Heads up: if you see a book for sale with this cover * it is nothing to do with me, I didn't publish it * if you pay money for it, none of that money will go to me * this is V1, the old self-published edition of the story, not V2, the overhauled new edition which you (probably) actually want

✨The Shortlist 2026!✨ DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, Matt Dinniman  THE DREAM HOTEL, Laila Lalami LUMINOUS, Silva Park THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION, qntm WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN, E.J. Swift THE SALT ORACLE, Lorraine Wilson This year’s winner will be announced on Weds 12 August.

I can't think of a single occasion where I have ever had to swap the values of two variables

[dzzt dzzt] Sam. It's good to meet you. Funeralman here. I'll be your surgeon. Long story.

I'm sorry sweetie but the tune actually means he's run out of ice cream

Alright let's do this Reply to this post with the largest number you can fit in a single post. Use text only. No hyperlinks

There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs

Uh oh. Just learned how to configure custom ESLint rules and suddenly every nitpicky problem in every codebase I own looks suspiciously like a problem I can fix with a custom ESLint rule