Nice project: A computational framework for quantifying route diversification in road networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02582 Interactive: https://divercitymaps.github.io/

I keep thinking about the ICE officer cackling and saying “fuck them kids” while zip tying together naked children ripped from their homes in the middle of the night. Evil. Just pure evil

Also, we should seek to reduce pm2.5 from any source!

Given the preponderance of evidence re: PM2.5 related mortality, taking literally any steps to continue burning coal when another, lower particulate matter producing option is available actually is something like murder.

Imagine a world where you don’t have to call up the Internet company every year to say… give me the lower rate again please?

Just make your future self happier and sign up for these beans. Seriously good.

This week's single origin drop is a really nice example from small grower Manuel Domingo's farm Las Flores. Tootsie Roll chocolate with notes of persimmon, rose water, almond butter, grape. You give us money and a mailing address and we'll give you the beans. www.yesplz.coffee/product/sing...

Clean air is not complicated, and costs less than $10 per kid per year to do. This is the 4th year of managing this for my son's school. What happens when he moves to the next school, who will keep doing this for the other kids? We need clean air standards and legislation.

Anyone else not enjoying iOS 26?

I just cannot believe the microelectronics soldering skill on these iphone storage replacement videos… www.youtube.com/watch

I love it when Claude vibecodes away doing the hard stuff… for i, pos in enumerate(positions): # Skip some positions for efficiency if too many if len(positions) > 50000 and i % (len(positions) // 50000) != 0: continue

It's been a long time since I actively followed @jeffjarvis.bsky.social (only because my interests diverged), but he's still got it!

If you’re like me and feeling increasingly hopeless and powerless about rising fascism, here is something you can do about it ⬇️

Happy 4^ / 3^2 / 5^2 day!!! (3^2/ 4^2 / 5^2 for us weird Americans) Not too many days satisfy the Pythagorean thm. @amermathsoc.bsky.social @austms.bsky.social @stevenstrogatz.com @monsoon0.bsky.social ht Peter Baxter for noticing. Looking forward to coming back to the US for joint maths in Jan.

Good to know reviewer 2 also had thoughts on the first paper regarding a vaccine.

About to hit my limit for today, so leaving with one thought: Most of us are not "fighting fascism" on social media. We are posting and scrolling on our phones. If it's not giving you value, why do it? Generally, our voice online *does not matter* as much as we think it does.

First year none of the family texted about the new iPhones. I think Apple has a problem.

huh … arstechnica.com/space/202…

Blue States need to create a (H)old (E)veryone (A)ccountable (T)askforce (HEAT). When ICE arrives and breaks the law, HEAT squads from that blue state arrive, arrest and jail the ICE agents. HEAT gives the message “Not Here!“ If Trump can bend the rules, so can state governors!

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

News got you down? The coffee at @yesplzcoffee.bsky.social is always a good pick me up. (The current decaf smells amazing…. )

Why is this a book and not a webpages/ TikTok videos? Next summer?????? Let’s hope it’s still relevant. (Fingers crossed!)

A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...

ChatGPT 5 always seems to use “thinking” mode when I ask it stuff. Much more than I would have used the reasoning models for 4o / o3…

An unfortunate letter is missing in this bathroom

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

Guns are actually bad People who own guns actually are bad people They get mad when you say this But they have the option of not owning guns and being not-bad people

A beautiful visualization of the state space of puzzles, 11 min of joy, h/t @danlarremore.bsky.social

Come work with my fantastic colleagues! We have a job opening for someone in any area of operations research with a broad teaching porfolio. See the ad: math.hmc.edu/tenure-track...

I’m not sure ChatGPT-5 is really an upgrade.

RIP AOL dial-up tones

@cleanairkits.bsky.social you do any testing with the Costco:Kirkland 2200 filter? (Not the 3m 2500 one)

I just learned about the phrase “plot armor”. I’m old.

Ugh, openAI is doing cross-session information sharing. This is modestly annoying.

See if you can guess which LLM I’m talking about with each picture!

The problem with llm vibe coding is you get hidden bombs like this. 463. if (numNodes <= 0 || numNodes > 10000000) { // Sanity check 464 throw new Error(`Invalid number of nodes: ${numNodes}`); 465 } This easily works with 100m nodes.

Wow, I’m probably more aggressive in spending less time at airports than Nate Silver! (And I’ve never actually missed a flight because I’m late – cut it very close to missing bag check deadline one time we were checking bags) His approach is basically what I do. (Target 60 mins pre departure.)

Nice to attend my first meeting as a Siam fellow!

I knew it! That zoo costume designer is fantastic. Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up - The Onion

Gpt-5 must be really good.

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

I’ve long thought momentum speed limits make sense…

I’m too literal. Took me a while to realize what @aedwardslevy.bsky.social was saying. Blah!

Purdue student detained at routine VISA extension. www.indianahousedemocrats.org/news/campbel...

Destiny is calling Mr. Governor

I opt out every time. It’s super painless! Don’t be afraid!

These damning stats make one thing clear: lawmakers must resist industry pressure to embrace facial recognition and enshrine our right to opt out into the law. Tell them to stand with passenger privacy, not dystopian surveillance and corporate profits! www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...

Ooh, SIAM news wrote about my talk. Maybe I should record a video on this one! www.siam.org/publicati…