"It’s a dangerous mistake to include it." Robert Watson argues the most famous line in literature doesn’t mean what "Hamnet" thinks it means: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hamnet-chloe-zhao-paul-mescal-hamlet-shakespeare-misinterpreted/

Congratulations to Charlie Bennett and Gilles Brassard for winning the 2026 Turing Award (akin to the Nobel Prize for Computer Science)! They invented quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation. awards.acm.org/turing 🧪 ⚛️ 1/

David Chalmers works on philosophical zombies for 30 years and Andreessen just tweeted it out

The real question is who do you cast as @seamas.bsky.social?

Wake up, a new kind of epistemic injustice just dropped

Within two days they've gone from "no quarter" to "brother, can you spare a dime?"

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

I just realised that yesterday was the 7th anniversary of the "me sowing/me reaping" meme

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Can this be a solution?

Ok, hear me out, I'm looking for 800000 patriotic volunteers and 1600000 buckets

This is rather lovely and somehow relaxing - an interactive map of lighthouses of the northern seas lighthouse-atlas.netlify.app#3/48/-30

How to make yogurt: milk a cow, homogenize + pasteurize the milk, heat up the milk again, let it get back down to 110 F, stir in some bacterial culture, let it sit for 8-12 hours, add fruit/sugar to taste. How to make ultra-processed yogurt: Do all that and then add a drop of food coloring.

"Graphic design is my passion"

Cool video on Fourth Power's thermal battery. Incredible stuff.

"Don't talk to me until I've cryptographically secured my coffee"

Adding a third celestial body to a gravitational system makes things wildly chaotic and unpredictable. Hence the 'Three Body Problem'. Some beautiful examples of periodic 3-body systems: (via instagram user data__is__beautiful)

Could have been worse, could have been bags of rice @nameshiv.bsky.social

Since people are doing "is AI conscious?" discourse on here again I feel like this philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4 by @birchlse.bsky.social remains my favourite piece on the current state of affairs.

This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.

Chotiner takes out his notepad. “So I’d like to start by…” I raise a finger. “Just a moment, please, Isaac. I think Serena’s ready to serve”

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

(x) "7am" is a social construct (x) social constructs are actually very important

Remember when that politician released that statement about a current event (more than a week ago)? Remember the words they chose? How important the order of their paragraphs were and the future that could've been if only it had been different?

It's March 0th, so happy Conway Doomsday to all who celebrate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsda...

I don't know why people feel the need to raise expectations to such impossible levels. "This is the funniest thing I have ever seen, I was literally rolling on the floor in tears of laughter, they administered last rites to me just in case" and then you watch it and it's at best faintly amusing

I've just noticed that you can make a joke on the losing candidate's name, a little wordplay: More like MATTHematically got too fEW votes Goodwin

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this: Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item […]

Aaannnd it's live! All Set and Done is now available in the App and Play Stores 🥳 It's a tile-matching game and is pretty challenging, but once you get into it it's pretty fun too (in our entirely non-biased opinion)! Grab it here: studioscully.com/games/allset... #game #godot #puzzle #casual

Some thoughts on AI and math, inspired by “First Proof”: www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/2/...

If they keep digging they'll find a fossilised gigantic pink foot

cripes does anybody remember Google People

Kindle edition currently 99p. www.amazon.co.uk/Anglo-Saxons...

With things of which we cannot speak You're best advised to shut your beak

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Morning! I am excited today, because I've made a little puzzle game and put it in the Google Play Store! If you fancy having a play, here it be: play.google.com/store/apps/d... (Apple version to follow in the next week or so) #games #android #apps

Buster Keaton's The Particular

Le Creuset Bamboo Green Cast Iron Round Skillet's Labyrinth

Two snipers from opposing armies, sitting motionless as they each wait for the other to reveal their position, both dreaming of the better times before Seated Riflery

Breakmaster Cylinder — People in Philip Glass' House Shouldn't Get Stoned www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v37...

Beulah — If We Can Land A Man On The Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tav...

This xkcd came out 16 years ago xkcd.com/647/

#OTD John Logie Baird's first public demonstration of his Televisor, in Frith Street, London theconversation.com/a-century-ag...

I strongly recommend my friend's remake of the Langoliers as a hand-animated art film. It works shockingly well! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWkv...

The Tweatles

A lot of people are mocking this image, but if Donald Trump wants to embrace the wild fauna of Greenland I don't think we should discourage him

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

The Ladybug Clock puzzle