It's come to this: The Ig Nobel Awards, presented at Harvard or MIT since the 1990s, is moving to Zurich because the US is not safe for foreign visitors
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research...
I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.
whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/03/i...
A few years ago Chris Fleming described himself (and me) as "the kind of guys who also would have been killed during the Salem Witch Trials" and tonight he has a very funny comedy special on HBO!
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“Prompt injection” is the wrong mental model.
LLM attacks increasingly look like malware campaigns, not single exploits. This paper frames them as promptware and maps a 5-stage kill chain: initial access → priv esc → persistence → lateral movement → actions on objective.
arxiv.org/html/2601.09...
Same! Must be the Full Supermoon.
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Brennan Lee Mulligan with Josh on Mythical Kitchen, eating his perfect last meal and being interviewed for more than an hour, is so wholesome and life-affirming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLVd...
Autumn hiking is the best. That light makes everything ethereal.
It's a marketing / usage-driving choice. The more parasocial the tool the more it will drive its users - especially the lonely & isolated - to interact with it on the regular. It's the social media model of engagement farming & should be curtailed since the algo has limited control upon release.
Shown this one before over the years at the old site, but once again for Bsky, CT scan images through a live pumpkin scanned at 600 micron thickness, w/ lots of post processing, video flythrough, etc. The detail is exquisite. Best seen not on a phone. (🔖 it) randomfootage.homestead.com/pumpkin.html
Staffers at U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA have been reassigned to ICE and CBP as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.
I am loving this. Great October read.
Okay, it's time. I have a prized Cult of the dead cow Zippo lighter. These simply do not exist anywhere. But a CDC member is hurting and I want to encourage donations to the GoFundMe, so out it goes. Details in thread.
A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” have military operations been inhibited by legal advice - via @julianborger.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
NPR Founding Mother Susan Stamberg is retiring. She became the first woman to anchor a nightly national news program in 1972, and helped loosen up the serious, stodgy sound of radio hosts.
LLM automated attacks and extortion is here
www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
Here is the growing list of countries choosing to pause mail deliveries to the U.S. because of Trump's tariff chaos.
Did anyone vote in 2024 to become the new Hermit Kingdom?
Austria
Australia
Denmark
France
Germany
India
Italy
Japan
New Zealand
Singapore
Spain
South Korea
Sweden
Thailand
They skipped Southwick and the Cape...
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.
European Robins are so much more adorable than their derpy American cousins.
Robins...the tragedy of American Robins.....
you HAVE to stop telling yourself you’re going to make banana bread with your dying bananas.
you’re not gonna make banana bread.
just let them go, man.
Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.
Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
Hey nerds! Phil Foglio is literally the guy who drew the bsd daemon. Give him a hand.
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