I love how no matter where in the world you are, you can tell from fifty feet away that a group is going to be speaking British English

“Given that the original discoverer of this technique was Moses Schönfinkel, some have proposed that the term ‘schönfinkeling’ be used instead of ‘currying’ […] the term ‘schönfinkeling’ has not widely caught on in mathematics and computer science.” Institutional antisemitism!

Walking through the Jewish quarter in Krakow and someone is practicing the Bruch violin concerto, having feelings

These are bad people doing bad things and we should not be ashamed or afraid to say it.

No—blue books, in-class exams, locked down browsers, etc. won't fix this. Nothing will replace the research, reading, thinking, organizing, writing, and revising skills that students developed through the good old fashioned research essay that has been the core of higher ed for countless decades.

One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n

Overheard in Munich cafe: “I’m actually reading this book, “Empire of AI”” I just can’t escape from this (but they have good opinions so it’s ok)

Walking around a park in Munich and there are a bunch of German children carrying toy sized gardening implements, which seems right to me.

Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.

How convenient for them

I actually have 7000 tabs open because I'm a really good person.

If you can’t tell the difference between an expert and a bot, what that tells you is that you can’t tell the difference between an expert and a bot. It doesn’t tell you anything whatever either about the bot or about the knowledge that you’re asking the bot to give you because you aren’t an expert.

a philosopher cannot be removed from the premises in any way that matters

lol

Does anyone have recommendations for (accessible to non-experts) books about Polish intellectual/scientific/philosophical/logical history?

Something mildly interesting I've noticed is that a lot of people will say "it's satire" after making a dumb joke under someone else's post. Jokes and satire are different things!

I hope there's a time far in the future when people have forgotten about Watergate and there are various totally wrong etymologies for the use of -gate as a suffix.

I guess today is not one of those days that I feel like I understand anything

There's something that hasn't been said about the vapidity of "have your students correct AI" assignments, but I'm not sure I can quite say it myself. It's obvious that spending class training a machine to produce better sentences about a topic means spending less time learning about it yourself.

I have just read the second butchering I've seen in two days of the story of Max Planck's quantum hypothesis. So I've posted this extract from the initial draft of my forthcoming book in the vain hope that it might avert a few such butcherings in future homunculusmusic.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/p...

Incredible picture in there too.

if you say "every chatGPT wrapper is evil" you definitely won't be correct 100% of the time, but you'll often be pretty close to correct and, well, by their standards isn't that good enough to start fundraising

Need to see the mid-century fluid mechanics lecture style visualization of the streamlines

I keep having arguments (in San Francisco) that boil down to people saying "yeah this sucks but everyone doing it so you can't get left behind". It's not inevitable!

Oh Olga, not you too

The weird thing about AI though is that it's the youngest who are most skeptical. Take a look at this new NYTimes/Siena polling. AI is mostly bad: 18-29: 47% 30-44: 43% 45-64: 32% 65+: 24% Just 17% of Americans 18-29 say AI is mostly good.

Would you walk into a meeting room, set up a recording device, and then walk out and expect nobody to object? Then don't do that with ai note takers in zoom meetings! I'm sorry that you can't be bothered to actually listen to me speak, but that's not my problem.

I find it extremely annoying when people post pictures and talk about “these beautiful humans” in the caption.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Great article, and utterly depressing collection of links at the bottom

When I see historians using gAI to read, think or write (mercifully few in my circles), I admit to feeling a great deal of contempt. How can you be so uncritical that you do not see the labor implications of gAI for our already-wounded profession? Or who owns/runs these tech companies?

a new investigative journalism audit of the Kenyan SHA system-AI that calculates affordability for access to healthcare-just dropped & its scandalous "The AI income predictor systematically overcharged those who could least afford it while undercharging the well-off" sha.africauncensored.online

Forgot how needy Duolingo gets

I don't have access to the full article but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no we haven't.

Apart from everything else, having to look at my own face and listen to my own voice for 90 minutes straight sounds terrible?

"In particular, from the definition of information as a truth that can only come from an observation but cannot be redundant, we obtain Clausius' inequality." Skeptical but intrigued...

Incredible sub header

lmao

Nobody panic but my favorite mug has disappeared from the office kitchen

Reminding myself about angular momentum today

You know what sucks? Now whenever I see a cool bird picture on here I don’t like it because I’m scared it’s AI and I’ll look dumb for getting tricked.

I don’t know how to explain it but the clouds have been looking kinda fake the last few days

I don't think I should have to argue with actual philosophers about whether or not LLMs are basically giant calculators. (Especially when they've just been complaining about doctors trying to explain the difference between information, knowledge, and wisdom.)

And then one day your grandmother moves to California and starts making it with salmon

Well excuse me for being excited about science!!!

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

I do think there was an insufficient amount of “it does actually really suck not to hang out in lively indoor spaces for months or years but the alternative is worse” messaging.

Overheard about the matcha latte in line at the cafe across the street: “The barista looks hella nonbinary so it must be good.”

Frank Herbert I apologize for ever doubting you

Not sure what I expected but the new M.I.A. album is…not good