Fair. I hope you can be kind to yourself and do whatever you need to in order to look after yourself. (Rest now, Rant later?) ❤️‍🩹

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

NYT today.

It turns out that when you put tariffs on everyone, they just trade more with each other.

Trump made US the loner in the lunchroom of world trade.

Special congrats to my microwave who has been wrong for six months but is now back to actually telling the time

If the game hits 2am Eastern the score is reset to an hour before and everyone has to repeat exactly what they did to preserve the space time continuum, thems the rules

🥳 more of this please

Inside a Cello
Charles Brooks Photography

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93 His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.

John Searle, a philosopher who was best known for a thought experiment he formulated, decades before the rise of ChatGPT, to disprove that a computer program by itself could ever achieve consciousness, died at 93.

This is just incredible. Someone made not just a computer, but an *entire working LLM* out of (438 million) minecraft blocks www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Fiber optic drones can’t be electronically disrupted—because they’re connected by a long, unspooling wire, there’s no signal to hack—but I wondered what all that activity was leaving behind.

The answer is so much cable strewn about near the front line it’s visible from the air.

An incredibly chonky brown bear

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again

tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here

Picture perfect? How one of the best tennis photos of all time was taken at the US Open Photographer Ray Giubilo’s half terrifying, half sublime one-in-a-million image of Jasmine Paolini had more than an element of fortune to it Of the scores of photographers from across the globe snapping thousands upon thousands of photos at this year’s US Open, one image has stood out above all the others so far at the tennis grand slam in New York. A slight imbalance from seventh-seed Jasmine Paolini and a relentlessly steady hand allowed photographer Ray Giubilo to nail a one-in-a-million shot at Flushing Meadows this week. Continue reading...

Picture perfect? How one of the best tennis photos of all time was taken at the US Open

N.S.A.’s Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist From Purge Vinh Nguyen, an expert in artificial intelligence and advanced mathematics, was among the current and former officials whose security clearances were revoked by the president.

Vinh Nguyen, an expert in A.I. and advanced mathematics, was included in Tulsi Gabbard’s removal of 37 current and former national security officials’ clearances.

Researchers asked AI to show a typical Australian dad: he was white and had an iguana | Tama Leaver and Suzanne Srdarov for the Conversation New research finds generative AI depicts Australian themes riddled with sexist and racist caricatures Big tech company hype sells generative artificial intelligence (AI) as intelligent, creative, desirable, inevitable and about to radically reshape the future in many ways. Published by Oxford University Press, our new research on how generative AI depicts Australian themes directly challenges this perception. Continue reading...

Researchers asked AI to show a typical Australian dad: he was white and had an iguana | Tama Leaver and Suzanne Srdarov for the Conversation

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

A cartoon image of a person holding 2 blue berries pointing them at a cashier in a convenience store. The cashier has the name "SAM ALTMAN" on top of him. Another store employee is jumping between the blueberry holder, and the cashier and has the words "WEIRD AI DUDES" on him.

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

It's funny how we say "a bug hit my windshield" when we are the ones going 70mph. I'll bet the bug's family describes it differently.

I DO NOT WANT TEAMS IN MY CAR, I DO NOT WANT IT NEAR OR FAR. I WOULD NOT LOG ON IN A JAG, I WOULD NOT CALL IN FROM A CAB, I DO NOT WANT THIS TEAMS YOU SEE, GET IT FAR AWAY FROM ME

"The median biologist thought it would take until 2030; the median forecaster was more pessimistic, settling on 2034. But when the study’s authors ran the test on OpenAI’s o3 model, they found it was already performing at that level. [They] had underestimated AI’s progress by almost a decade"

🧵 I've been writing something on the intelligence & national-security applications of frontier AI models. This is an experiment in seeing what one of them, OpenAI's o3-pro model, might be able to do in an area relevant to national security.