Like shooting fish in a barrel. Ban sports betting. www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...

Another patzer's Daniel Naroditsky story. 😔 Rest in peace, Daniel. You will be sorely missed by millions of chess fans. Wishing I'd made it to Charlotte to meet you. moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...

Ian McDiarmid was younger than I am now when Return of the Jedi came out. 👴 xkcd.com/3157

I've been grading lab reports, and my dumb ass thought students were learning matplotlib to make graphs. 🤦 Nope, ChatGPT knows matplotlib and students are just feeding it their data. It's lazy but I can live with it. Never attribute "students being awesome" to what can be explained by laziness. 😅

good morning from no kings decatur

Duke fumbles on the GT 3 yard line; Tech recovers and runs it 97 yards for a touchdown. The Jackets are officially in the good graces of the football gods this year. 🙏🐝

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

Fellow Georgians: here's a chance for a small number of voters to have an outsized impact on November 4. Public Service Commission elections - boring but important! as described in the linked video. @austinlouisray.bsky.social this seems like the sort of thing you might care to signal boost 🫡

Honestly, this is what it feels like teaching the quantum model of the atom this week. #CHEM1211K xkcd.com

To you that was a rather calm smooth 10 point win....Falcons fans are scraping themselves from the floor after asking how it was going to go wrong for the last 45 minutes

DIRTY BIRDS MADE A CLUTCH PLAY! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

”Bills were about to win until they blew it and lost.” God awful biased commentary. Come on, CBS crew. Anyway, caw caw. Eat it Buffalo. 🐣🏈

Crokonoid. lol pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

I think the Nobel Prize for MOFs is great! They've long been on Nobel prediction lists. Huge breakthrough for functional porous materials. Less commercial application than quantum dots, IMV, but still have had a big impact. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Fundamental organic photochemistry still matters! The Rousseaux group at Toronto reports on cyclization of beta-boryl aryl ketones to give cyclobutanols, via a triplet (π,π*) state. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

No shit! "Gambling is bad—more at 11!" 😪 I can't stand sports betting. Not only is it terribly exploitative, but the advertising ruins the experience for those of us who just want to watch the game. news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...

This is an incredible story. Researchers used a wax candle doped with metal acetylacetonates to create high-entropy nanomaterials on the cheap! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Some people" is basically the populations of 48.5 states. www.sbnation.com/college-bask...

"The world doesn't need to hear from 98% of humanity." Slashdot commenter with the cuttingly true comment re: problems with social media. That 2% of humanity worth hearing from does vary, so it's worth keeping an account...but bear in mind that you're probably not in the 2% today.

"That's an organic chemistry formula." –Catherine Zeta-Jones

Falcons fans to Younghoe “Wrong Way” Koo:

since the falcons aren't my team i typically only say "goddamn falcons" out loud four or five times every sunday

"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

GO FALCONS! CAW CAW! 🐣

Enjoying the transparent scoreboard and graphics on the Fox NFL broadcast. It worked in the 70s and it still works now!

As soon as I saw “C. Pennington” as the QB for Gardner-Webb, I knew I was about to feel old… …Yes, it’s Chad Pennington’s kid! 😭😂👴

Falcons my six-year-old son has met that I haven't: - Matt Ryan - Bijan Robinson Dang.

"I had to teach myself everything in his class." I don't hear this too often, but whenever I do, this meme comes to mind.

Well on our way to another disappointing season @gtfootball.bsky.social. 😪

Snoop Dogg: too lazy to have a conversation with his grandkids about gay people...but at least he reads the syllabus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOIv...

That's my neighborhood and I know that guy! (Also, he's right.)

GT PTS had been doing a great job of turning their reputation around over the past several years—almost historic considering how universally they were hated. Shame to see them getting back to their old ways... www.reddit.com/r/gatech/com...

What hope is there for the rest of us?! 😫😂 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Microsoft is out here just pushing users away yet again by removing Autocorrect and FIND AND REPLACE from Outlook for Mac. You read that right: you can no longer find and replace text in an email in Outlook. What in the world...? learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer...

YouTube suggested the 1993 ECF to me the other day. The fact that I've been watching with rapt attention even though I know how it ends speaks volumes. I'm not big on comparing across eras, but twenty years from now, would you watch the OKC vs Indiana finals? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tFF...

ESPN currently has three of the four teams in the NFC South ranked TWENTY-EIGHTH OR WORSE in pre-season rankings. Worst division in football by far. Gonna be a long fall… 🐣😭

They were delicious! 😁

Out to lunch in Edgewood today, I came across the oldest living white oak in Atlanta—a witness to the Battle of Atlanta in 1861! Check it out. Neat little green space on Vaughn Street. meetalba.org

Also, "it's the journey, not the destination." The destination is two minutes of euphoria then right back to "what are we having for dinner tonight?" The work IS the fulfilling part.

"This game we're playing...all the work we're putting in...it's fundamentally meaningless." Fabiano Caruana said this on C Squared once and I've never forgotten it. Good perspective after a tough loss; life goes on. Scheffler has a similar vibe here. #chesspunks www.reddit.com/r/golf/comme...

On the "vibe physics" nonsense. Good thread!

Today’s Wordle is a streak-killer…watch out! Wordle 1,487 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Learn the trick the food delivery companies don’t want you to know! (you can go get your food yourself)

"Any problem in the physical sciences that can be solved by an LLM is not a problem at all, but a glorified archaeological dig." Okay, kinda proud of that metaphor. 😂 moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/m...

Last month, Acc. Chem. Res. published a fascinating special issue on "molecular editing." In this issue is an account of an amazing open tool for synthesis and retrosynthesis, ASKCOS. Completely free! Mind blown. 🤯 #chemsky askcos.mit.edu

Hey, I was on the news! Can finally cross "waxing poetic about Maillard reactions on TV" off my bucket list! www.11alive.com/video/life/h...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

London classic, you say? Now THIS is a London classic! 😎 #chesspunks 10…Bxg3!? and 11…e5! 21…Qc5+! 36…Rf1+ for some reason took me a while to see. All’s well that ends well! lichess.org/IxRhwiQY/black

Watching a super GM with rook odds struggle against an engine is not only entertaining, but also EXTREMELY fascinating. If you’ve ever been on “just one more game” tilt…check this out. 😂 (Do love Hikaru for doing this, though. Compelling stuff.) youtu.be/m7N4qC1znDc?...

We hacked so hard, we hacked ourselves. Creating the Next data breach! "Using a fixed API key as admin access control... ...and baking said API key into client-side JavaScript" 😂 www.reddit.com/r/gatech/com...