MUST READ thread before Monday night's forecasted G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be seen as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border at times. Widespread mid-latitude displays are possible. Here's what you need to know to have a successful aurora chase tonight! 🧵 #heliophysics #aurora

Agreed on what the actual ****. This is reflected of a pretty fundamental failure to understand what historians do, because LLMs do basically none of my job and are completely incapable of most of it. But they have the ears of the people that write the checks, so this is real bad news. 1/

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

No kings in this country! ...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

Who's your favorite sexy Dropout car wash team? ❤️ 'Like' if Team 1 is your favorite 💬 'Comment' if Team 2 is your favorite!

You've never seen anything as satisfying as watching Trapp and Sam pull long strips of dried glue off of Paul...

If you love hearing oddly satisfying cracks at the chiropractor, Grant O'Brien has something special for you...

Forget having to choose between The Big Game and The Puppy Bowl - we've got the ultimate sporting event that combines them both: The Human Puppy Bowl! 🏈🐶

Can Jordan correctly identify three of their friends' breast milk? Let's find out... 🤔🍼

Now everywhere Erika goes, a roast of Sam Reich follows... 🔥

The lady said $3,000 worth of animated buttholes, Sam! 🍑

Brennan's announcement

If there’s one talk you watch from #pycon let it be Cory Doctorow’s keynote youtu.be/ydVmzg_SJLw?...

more terminal fun: canonical mode wizardzines.com/comics/canon...

oh god, it’s true, we’re living in an era of Clippy Maxing

as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

Imagine that the cost of Legos dropped to almost nothing, millions of bricks for a penny, and suddenly people were claiming that non-experts would now build all of our houses, bridges, skyscrapers, and infrastructure out of Legos. "AI will replace software engineers" people sound like this.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

With the White House using OpenAi to make racist propaganda in studio ghibli art style there has never been apt scene in anime history:

Even if the technocrats were right about AI replacing all jobs (they’re not), notice they never pitch any vision for what happens to humans. “No one has to work anymore” sounds great, but the only version of it where we’re not sleeping under bridges is one where these guys pay their fucking taxes

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

I have been trying to formulate some rules for giving good talks and fundamentally it’s this: tell a story. People like stories, and they will listen to you if they trust you are telling them.

Taken from user _greens_eggs_and_sam_ on reddit. The battle cry of the Nac Mac Feegle, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (first from Wee Free Men)

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Surely applying the word "reasoning" to what Large Language Models do is false advertising? Like claiming your microwave oven "time travels".

You'd think the DeepSeek-replacing-OpenAI situation was kinda obvious - I don't think there's ever been a company who's "bottled lightning" and thought to themselves "oh yeah no one could ever replicate that" and had it work out well. #ai #machine-learning

LLMs aren't interesting to me as a logician because there's hardly anything to mathematically prove. "This seems to work well enough, when trained on this corpus, but sometimes it doesn't". Okay.

I love how the deepseek model is out and open source instead of this garbage closed-source proprietary approach that OpenAI has taken but it doesn’t change how fundamentally limited LLMs are at solving real problems

My biggest pet-peeve in the current tech climate is how the term “AI” has taken over and now everything is simultaneously both AI and also just another garbage LLM

Was speaking to someone over dinner earlier this week about all the things happening and they said something like "wow, you sound really politically charged" But here's the thing ... I don't think many of us are at all. I think its that the world around us has *rapidly* become more fascist.

Hey I called it

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

This reminded me of my favorite restaurant review of all time, read this is you need a fun distraction www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros...

Threat assessment in casual commander is easy. The threat is always the same. "Someone at the table isn't having fun". Who wins is not important. What's important is that when someone wins, everyone had a great time. If it matters who wins, that's competitive. Even if the decks are low power. 🤍

Inside of you there are two wolves. Inside each wolf there are zero, one, or two wolves. Write a function to rebalance an arbitrary wolftree B such that it has minimal depth. The function should execute in O(logn) time. Show your work.

SO...I love this comic by Alfred Twu (www.alfredtwu.com) and reposted it on FB:

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

Math prof here. Statistical software did not plagiarize my lectures, nor did it steal quotes from my papers and post them without attribution or context.

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

I see so much FUD about the future of sw engineering, mostly from non-devs. Along the lines of “soon anyone can spin off AI agents in bulk that act as hundreds of devs.” A false premise. Just open your airline app that is built by ~hundreds of devs over 10+ years

I wish old code was able to show its age more literally. I want to see the cobwebs and the dust. the peeling paint.

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Unfortunate, but necessary information

i did not spend my whole undergrad listening to speeches about the importance of using scholarly sources to now accept ChatGPT as a legitimate source of information just because technocrats have lost their minds