It's a great idea, and it's called Lisp! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(p...

Sometimes the small things are also worth commemorating, like the symmetric upload speed of a proper internet connection. ❤️

I’m happy to share that, as of April 1st, I will be taking on a W3 Professorship in Complex Systems and Network Science at the Goethe University Frankfurt @goetheuni.bsky.social.

Israel's legislators chose dispassionately to turn their Apartheid State, formally, into a Genocidal State. Not only is Israel a state formally demoting Palestinians to second class status but also one free to hang them, and only them, legally. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w... x.com/yanisvaroufa...

Publishing is complex, especially at scale. APCs at for-profit publishers are exorbitant due to greed, but there's a reason why non-profit publishers also have to charge quite a lot.

I'm often asked about double-blind review. One of my arguments against it was I was unconvinced you could mask author identity effectively and soon computers would be able to figure it out anyway. Is soon now?

L'enfer, c'est les autres.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, possibly the best television show ever, is not about spaceships shooting lasers at each other, it is about a man who represents the best of us trying to teach his robot son to be human while debating whether humans even deserve to exist with his best frenemy, God.

Civilians among the rubble following airstrikes in Tehran. (Photos by Mehdi Ghasemi)

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

And somehow that candidate will still be more appealing to voters than the democrat option.

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are

Using clang for modern C++23 development is excruciating. Just got this error (version 22.1.1): "error: cannot compile this l-value expression yet" In other words, valid code that the compiler simply cannot handle, so it barfs. GCC handles it like a champ...

Can we please all stop with the ridiculous notion of having academic conferences in the US? I know these things are planed years in advance, but at this point we're just waiting for an ugly incident to happen. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Would there be any Presidents left? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:

Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

I'd be already happy if $0 is spent on the absence of mass murder and destruction.

This isn't good news. The ArXiv has been the best — and single — holdout of truly nonprofit academic publishing, even if it's “only” a pre-print server. This moves us away from a more dignified academic publishing system, not closer. www.science.org/content/arti...

they literally renamed the entire company after this

Best possible tip for a scientific pipeline using spreadsheets: 1. Press ALT-F4 2. Rethink your life choices.

Cuba — which does NOT pose an eminent threat to the U.S. — just had it’s power grid collapse after weeks of U.S. oil blockade | CNN www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/a...

Since there's no opposition party in the US, the anti-war mantle is now carried by the Nazi who fabricated intel to establish our deportation/torture regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

Working hypothesis: If you're doing research and don't occasionally have a small existential crisis, either you've been blessed to work in an exceptional field (do tell which one it is!), or maybe you're being a bit naive.

Natural intelligence is overrated.

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

The game for our times: nuclear war simulator dystopian-world.pages.dev

We need guillotines.

Want to learn more about our recent work disentangling the conflation between hypergraphs and higher-order interactions? I will be giving a @beyondtheedge.network seminar March 16, 2026 3:00 PM CET. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937 Zoom link here: www.beyondtheedge.network/event/semina...

The Ig Nobel is being far more serious than “serious” scientific conferences. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Mozilla Firefox just added the ability to add signatures to PDF files using a single mouse click, thereby increasing my admin productivity 10 fold. Thank you @firefox.com ❤️

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

Oh, the internet...

Israel "dismantled Gaza's transportation system so thoroughly that journeys that once took minutes by car now require hours of walking through rubble and grotesque debris." "[A] calculation of pain, and a risk weighed against necessity." #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Transportation #Genocide #Military

My hot AI take is that it is mostly web/app developers seeing any benefits at all from LLM coding, and this is because: a) web/app coding has a lot of boilerplate and repetition b) there are far more web projects in the training data c) web code is often shorter functions with limited scope

Tehran.

In their noble quest to spread freedom and democracy, US and Israeli forces have thoughtfully chosen to bomb schools, commercial buildings, medical centers, vital desalination plants, and Iran’s oil storage and refining facilities.

This is me in 2017 after the first workshop on complex systems for high school students at Allameh Helli High School in Tehran. Teenage boys and girls were sitting next to each other, curious and full of questions. I loved that school. Seeing it damaged by US and Israeli bombs is heartbreaking.

It seems people are using LLMs to re-implement GPL software as non-copyleft versions, circumventing the license. What a can of worms... writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/lega...

A graph does not define a complex system; it constrains it. Thus a graph model is not a “simplification” of a hypergraph; the opposite is true. Graphs have been used to model higher-order interactions for decades. Let’s stop this misleading narrative about hypergraphs! skewed.de/lab/posts/hi...

Pure evil.

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

this made me cackle all the way through

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

The NY Times is an arm of US propaganda, so when it concludes that the US was responsible for the school massacre in Iran, there's little more to say. Unpaywalled article: archive.ph/hHtAj www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles. 13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger. The law didn't change. torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

“Silicon sample“ is at least better than “inference“.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.