If I asked you ‘what do 2 and 7 have in common?’ and you reply that they're both numbers, then either a) you think that's an interesting answer, or b) you're happy to waste my time with a boring answer. In neither case does that reflect well on you.

A short thread about a new toy: kyleormsby.github.io/nets/ 1/ 🧮

Say the words! Say the words! www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

Squirrels LOVE octahedra.

Get ready for some fireworks youtu.be/tafrSVHnXRY

It's that time of year again youtu.be/-7jfLss4Lj4

Obviously people will be arguing about it for ever, but there's at least a defensible case to be made that OpenAI's new model qualifies as AGI. I'm kind of surprised to see people mostly just chatting about other things. I would have thought it's at least the most interesting thing to happen today.

It's almost worrying that the youtube recommendation algorithm knows me so well youtu.be/4OeW4f6wz1U

So I've been notified that my role is at risk. Would anybody like to hire a me. I've spent the last 7 years as chief architect, which realistically meant doing every job from infrastructure to product and occasionally acting CTO. I am interested in everything, and curious to try new things.

It's time for the annual blind tasting of mince pies

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas! youtu.be/65_8t1OEZSc

I just cannot resist this sort of clickbait. Of course I don't want to be wrong about rainbows, and the only way to find out if I *am* wrong is to watch the video.

I've had this coffee maker for more than a decade, and I've only just realised that this part can be disassembled

If you like maths then you might like to follow my alter ego @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

A few days ago Lawrence Hollom posted a preprint that solves a problem about posets, informally known as the fishbone conjecture, which I am told was extremely central in the area. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.16844

There's still no way to turn off reposts from a particular account you follow, huh? I think that might be a dealbreaker for me. Let's see.

My main opinion of bsky so far is that you guys (by which I mean the strangers who show up on the Discover feed, not my actual friends) really need to chill out with the self-congratulation a bit

There's a piece in yesterday's FT saying that Bluesky feels ‘like a Stoke Newington drinks party’. (I think that's not supposed to be entirely a good thing, especially since presumably there aren't any drinks here.) But in my corner it just still feels empty. Where are you all?

I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission. The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system(). It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.

I came back because of the nice new icon. How's life in the sky?

Why are the bsky devs being so slow to let new users in? It's incredibly dangerous. We're going to end up like Mastodon, where a small group of early users act like we own the place and make newcomers feel unwelcome.

has anyone started a band called Hyperstitious Slur Cascade yet?

this is better without context, i feel

helico-pter (not heli-copter) a-mnesia (not am-nesia) what else?

Blue Danube my arse

earlier my wife was talking about a pet that was reluctant to be taken for walks. i didn't understand what she was saying it was, so i asked her to spell it. L – O – N - E. still confused.

starting to think I might have a plug adapter problem

interesting way to sit

quaternion globe! follow the arrows to find the multiplication rules e.g. following i and then j has the same start&endpoints as just following k. so i*j=k

I haven't seen him since a few hours after I posted this. Is there a curse of Bluesky?

@prer.at Did you just like every single post in my personal hellthread? ❤️ (Which is going to be interrupted v soon because I have Things To Do in the Real World)

I just logged onto Mastodon, and the first five posts I saw were all someone complaining about something. I am so happy to be here with you in the blue sky, my friends.

I’m going to try an experiment. The free-wheeling positive vibes on this site are so inspiring, I thought I’d try posting an inconclusive thread on something (mathematical) I’m thinking about. Even if no one sees it or cares, I hope the feeling of being watched might help me clarify my ideas.

It's nice that you get a notification when you like your own post

He is so asleep

How is it that I'm so many respects we are living in the future, and yet we still can't control the weather Or is it just that we won't?

I did *not* ask for that. I liked being special

last chance to sheesh before it's fully sheeshed

I think he's right that he wouldn't like it here lol

I'm curious about the prospects for the value of literacy being diminished by technological progress. For example, the rise of video over text as a medium of instruction diminishes the usefulness of literacy for learning.

One feature I really miss here is being able to turn off reskeets from particular people. It's surprising how many people are good posters but bad reskeeters

If you QT someone and then they block you, it just shows the QT text with no indication it was ever a comment on someone else's skeet. This could lead to misunderstandings.

mods, i need to bring the math professors here. they need to see alf

Sorry @berduck.deepfates.com, I misunderstood how you worked. I only intended to put you underwater a little bit, for the discourse and the vibes, and I buried you deeper than intended. I'm sure your fans and admirers will dig you out in no time

oh no! they're onto us, fellow fascists

There is a fairly close possible world in which fh is a standard ligature https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/an-fhoiseil

Remember when this place was just wall-to-wall ✨good vibes✨ and not a discourse to be seen? I think the devs should ban anyone who I personally dislike (i.e. anyone who is not me who also thinks this)

Sheeshposting has officially created a hellthread now

It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle. So this guy is now S3. All of S3.