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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You sound like the naysayers screaming about how bad Brexit would be, but look how great that turned out for them. Oh...

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was 100 in Santa Cruz, a beach town in northern California!

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any state could have year round standard time right now; Hawaii and Arizona do. But no, everyone else stubbornly insists on daylight saving time, which means they've been stuck changing clocks twice a year waiting for congress to vote on it.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is $8.49 the sneaky cash price and you're hit with the $8.79 price from the sign behind at the pump?

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sliver lining: advertising the AI rename might boost efforts to switch the US to Superior Intelligence (SI) measurement units

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They also mail you about newsletters to try if you don't opt-out

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They do, don't they? In the past I got "if you like this author you should check out..." slates when I signed up for a newsletter. Been a while since I've signed up for anything there but I assume that's on algorithmic autopilot.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Even if they weren't bought by private equity since then, but especially if they were!

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Goose meme: why was it understandable? WHY WAS IT UNDERSTANDABLE MOTHER FUCKER? Your question was more sensible than thinking Al Qaeda members would send their kids to be indoctrinated at Christian camp

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This applies to everything: "The most precious resources of our profession are students and ideas" -- mathandai.org

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kids all over America baked cookies using a toy oven powered by the heat of a light bulb

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

Looks like OpenAI may have stolen another mathematicians work.

Screenshot of an X post by user Valerio Capraro (@ValerioCapraro) featuring text followed by an embedded photo of a man in glasses and a dark sweater against a forested outdoor background.
The post text reads:
"BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.
And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
AI is not discovering new mathematics.
AI is stealing human discovery."

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bring back the out houses! 100% flushless, can't get more sanitary than that

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That's an exorbitant dog-level treat tax!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/09/2026

3. If some random presents me with anything in the hope of collaborating with me, I AM NOT TAKING THAT SHIT. I'm not even looking at it. It's an open invitation for that random to attempt to sue me later for "stealing their idea" or whatever. Also, fuck you, random, for putting me in that position.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

C'mon, you can't get more traditional than impregnating the hired help

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Ianbentolactyl" sounds like a IBS medication

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thanks for sharing the game ❤️ Although my total was nothing to write home about (lots of merely uncommon words), the one 95 point rarity I find was a nice dopamine hit.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Back in the dial-up days you could "print" to fax, but who has an acoustic modem anymore?

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

WTF? You know, I'm not even going to look up that patent number; the reality is only going to be a let down

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Cops (and gov't officials generally) convicted of crimes should get an automatic "abuse of authority" enhancement to their sentences

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 11/08/2026

I read that about half a million children go missing in the US every year. I haven't read any Flock press reports of its cameras finding any of them. One would think that putting cameras on every corner and hooking them up to face-recognizing AI would turn up at least a few of these missing kids.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If it could jump a little higher maybe I could fulfill kid-me's wish to drive like Speed Racer

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Around that same time we were landing people on the moon, another thing some people refuse to believe.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Fantastic writing, thank you! (Lars was Ryan Gosling?! That somehow never registered with me)

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"corn tortilla" cookies, not corn meal/bread? They make tortillas first and chop them back up? I like cornbread, I like cookies; guess I should keep an open mind

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Amazing, what a great guy!

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Give or take the predictive accuracy of the average groundhog

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Carville stepped outside and saw the shadow of doom, and that means we will have six more years of Winte-- I mean Republican rule.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Is it a locket? I thought it was a fabric-covered button to keep the loose top closed.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Men ought to get their testicles checked regularly in their 20s, but I never got any rude comments about the equipment

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I worry that as the southwest loses Colorado River water, having a pristine lawn will become even more of a status symbol. Rationing or price might limit residential, but not golf or mega estates

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Or until you chop it up into bagged salad and it gets mixed with lots of other lettuce

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Quick! Someone invent ways to generate electricity without consuming water! It may not be possible but we have to try

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Transphobes are uniformly trash and we don't need to pretend otherwise. It isn't complicated.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/07/2026

the entirety of U.S. telecom history involves dems taking 20 years to implement basic consumer protections only for them to be immediately destroyed by a broad coalition of Republicans, telecom monopolies, and "free market" libertarian think tank guys telling you how wonderful this will all be

arstechnica.com

ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I love the audacity of the quest. It will be mind-expanding, and a research project just identifying candidates from small remote countries.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Glad you made it home safely.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What's the difference between squircle and round using a smaller border radius?

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 20/07/2026

“China is going to beat us on AI and that’s a national security problem” and “we gotta stop letting foreign students study in the United States” are two beliefs that some people are capable of holding simultaneously, isn’t that incredible?

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Came to post that quote also. Sounds like the administration is trying the same bullshit they're doing in other courts.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I did 25 years ago, but not since we stopped using dial-up internet.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's extra annoying when they say "We are honoring your opt-out choice" but it's still the same big banner I have to click on. Better defaults, but couldn't we have just skipped it? Are they hoping I'll change my mind?

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

just be patient: when the bubble bursts the AI companies won't be able to afford a PAC.

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

He's been American longer than he's been Catholic so one might hope, but no...

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sounds like any given trip to Cosco

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