By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026The danger of forgetting that your "smooth" thing only *seems* smooth is that you'll only know how to make it work, and will be totally at sea when it *fails*. 1982
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026You can scan the night sky with a radio telescope night after night and only find things that fit with our existing theories of the universe. But you *keep scanning*, because somewhere out there is a surprise that will open up a deep mystery: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_si...en.wikipedia.orgWow! signal - Wikipedia 3924
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026With LLMs, we have invented a machine that uncovers the statistical regularities in our seemingly irregular world, and we have learned that the roughness is rarer than our intuition led us to believe. 21015
Blimeyguvnor @blimeyguvnor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026just listened to to the WOW signal on the wiki page - freaked me out a little 😀 051
Fan is the Plan @e-meffeff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Dang. Imagine if we had some kind of data software to show a correlation between people who want to sell the idea of an obedient computer genie and people who CAN ONLY see the stars as real estate and other people as…NPCs 000
