Reposted by Frédéric Grosshans`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for. 147129
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com 16981246
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansLiam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026RT @bogwitch.bsky.social Yeah, that checks out 11324
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026This is a scatter plot of energy use vs AI score, essentially a test of capabilities. It shows *really* nicely how the 'advancements' of LLMs are really just brute force energy intensive spam: repeating and re-repeating looping queries in a shockingly wasteful way. 03918
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/ 322924744
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/08/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon 11740185
Reposted by Frédéric Grosshans🔏 Matthias Wiesmann @thias.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026TIL: A Book from the Sky An artist wrote a book out of imaginary hànzì, except, of course, quite a few turned out to be real and are in Unicode. #unicode #hanzi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Book_from_t…en.wikipedia.orgA Book from the Sky - Wikipedia 011
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansM.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026Yeah, yeah, Facebook, but this is brilliant: www.facebook.com/share/p/1MCCancxKy "My favorite thing about The Odyssey is that when you notice how the poem is structured, the whole thing starts looking like Odysseus is just making up an alibi after coming home from a 10-year Fuckboy […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 0012
Frédéric Grosshans @fgrosshans.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026RE: typo.social/@UnicodeWatch/116989072… When a European 17th century notation, millenary differences in script directions and 21st century technology meet to create a buffer overflowtypo.social 000
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansDan Piponi @dpiponi.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026Did you ever play my barrel game/puzzle? dpiponi.github.io/barrels.html 000
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansSteven Saus [he/him] @stevensaus.faithcollapsing.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison. #ai #anthropic #biz-&-it #claude #security […] [Original post on faithcollapsing.com] 017
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansDr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026I have to pay increasing attention to what my phone does to pictures it takes. For example, my new Motorola phone includes a super zoom feature that actually uses generative AI to fill in details as it crops in! I turned it off, but others might not notice and upload such digitally created […]scicomm.xyzOriginal post on scicomm.xyz 48143
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansReed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026Looks like our man got 3rd author on a Science Advances paper for his hole in the roof www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.… 010
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansReed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026Hats off to you, New Jersey Man "I was at home at the time, heard a loud crash and found a hole in the ceiling of the master bedroom. I smelled a strong sulfur-like odor and saw many black fragments along with debris and black dust that covered my bed, carpet and surrounding areas" ... "He then […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 2323
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansBrett Cannon @brettcannon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026Another example where a bit of funding to fix some tech that would benefit a lot of people in this world, but no one does it because it seemingly wouldn't turn a profit. lr0.org/blog/p/arabiclr0.orgAn interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debtComments 002
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansFlipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026Homo naledi, a 300,000-year-old relative of modern humans, has always been a little mysterious to scientists, and now the plot has thickened. After analyzing genetic material from the two-dozen H. naledi skeletons that were found in a South African cave system, researchers found that they are […]flipboard.socialOriginal post on flipboard.social 015
Frédéric Grosshans @fgrosshans.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026The thermostat in my office says “Hi !” 👋 #FriendlyElectronics #Heatwave 000
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/06/2026My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com 383029619
Frédéric Grosshans @fgrosshans.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/0… «Les titres de séjour doivent être renouvelés chaque année, ce qui produit des ruptures de droits. Et lorsque les étudiants finissent par décrocher […]mathstodon.xyzOriginal post on mathstodon.xyz 000
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansDsens @d-cence.mastodon.top.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026Jason Bourne (La mémoire dans la peau) prend un TGV à Marseille au début du film. Sans identité. C'était possible à l'époque... J'sais pas si on se rend bien compte. Prendre un train anonymement est un de ces nombreux trucs qu'on a perdu. 225
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansClément Sayrin @clementsayrin.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026This paper is now out in Physical Review X. We are very happy about it! @lkblab.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @college-de-france.fr @cnrs.fr @psl-univ.bsky.social @normalesup.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...journals.aps.orgNondestructive Optical Readout and Manipulation of Circular Rydberg AtomsLocal quantum nondemolition measurements and optical manipulation of long-lived circular Rydberg atoms are demonstrated by coupling them to an auxiliary array of low-angular-momentum Rydberg atoms. 182
Frédéric Grosshans @fgrosshans.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026RE: mathstodon.xyz/@quantumjournal/1165… I’m very happy to have this work on multicopy state tteleportation with Michał Horodecki, Mio Murao, Tomasz Młynik, Marco Túlio Quintino, Michał Studziński and Satoshi Yoshida published in Quantum. However, the links to quantum does […]mathstodon.xyzOriginal post on mathstodon.xyz 020
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansSuave Morbida @maitre-poulard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Je sais qu'ils avaient pas The Last of US au XVIIe siècle, mais tout de même, tu tombes sur ce genre de truc en forêt, tu pars en courant, tu passes pas une demi heure à le dessiner (Observation de Georg Seger, dans les Miscellanea Curiosa, 1671, vol. 2, p. 122) 2356
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansPolGM @polgm.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026La commission européenne a viré X des réseaux sociaux de sa page d'accueil, en mettant Mastodon en premier. Pour les suivre ici (en anglais) : @EUCommission 0115
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansGlyph @glyph.im · 25/04/2026Now I'm learning about the lesson that users have learned from yes/no "consent" modals is that they just always have to say "yes" or the computer will deny them critical access to functionality that they need in order to perform their desired task, complete assigned work from an employer or […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 031
Reposted by Frédéric Grosshanslertsenem @lertsenem.com · 21/04/2026Au vue des récentes fuites de données, l'état français vous recommande de changer votre nom, prénom, date de naissance et genre régulièrement afin d'éviter de vous prémunir d'éventuelles attaques (attention pour plus de sécurité vous ne pourrez pas réemployer l'un des 10 derniers nom, prénom […]mastodon.lertsenem.comOriginal post on mastodon.lertsenem.com 109
Frédéric Grosshans @fgrosshans.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026RE: mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith/11… I feel seen!mastodon.social 010
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19/04/2026my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com 4647811698
Reposted by Frédéric Grosshansbrume ⏚ 😡 ⛵ 🐧 ☮️ 🇵🇸 @brume.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026Pour l'#Anssi, la France n'est pas « à la hauteur » des cyberattaques à son encontre www.01net.com/actualites/anssi-pers… "Ramenée à sa population, la France est le pays le plus touché par les violations de données au monde. La densité […]piaille.frOriginal post on piaille.fr 0212
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansObsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026Ghosts from the past. A curious scene formed by the interplay between graffiti and a lonely wheelchair, inside an abandoned Italian "manicomio" (madhouse, or mental asylum). What meaning does this scene hold for you? Does it symbolise hope, despair, freedom or […] [Original post on mstdn.social] 1167
Reposted by Frédéric Grosshansrobinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026TIL. In April 1974, in the middle of the night, a small group of conspirators secretly installed a large tensegrity icosahedron made from discarded telephone poles on the campus of Twente University in the Netherlands. It’s still there. People call it Het […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz] 41362
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansPaul Schwahn @pschwahn.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026They made the isospectral drums prismika.github.io/2026/03/01/we-ma…prismika.github.ioWe Made the Isospectral Drums and it Went… FineIt’s usually the task of the modeler to make their assumptions fit the real world as closely as is practical. It was now our task to make a real-world drum that conformed to the modeling assumptions. 125
Reposted by Frédéric Grosshanstomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know. 7495854075
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 28/02/2026My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com 4973196
Frédéric Grosshans @fgrosshans.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026Dear Mastodon, I'm looking for an easy to use (preferably open source) mail app on android phone, and I'm sure you're the best set of people to ask for this kind of advice. It should be usable for IMAP account, the configuration can be technical, but the daily use should be user friendly, and […]mathstodon.xyzOriginal post on mathstodon.xyz 010
Frédéric Grosshans @fgrosshans.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026Quand @b3nb3n explique dans un séminaire qu«'on ne fera jamais de MS Word quantique», je commence à chercher une raison de faire un traitement de texte quantique. 000
Frédéric Grosshans @fgrosshans.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026What a fantastic tool! marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-genera… 042
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 31/01/2026A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. p.s. my new book of science cartoons, ‘Physics for Cats’ is out now. Links at www.tomgauld.com 121272411
Reposted by Frédéric Grosshansnycki @nycki.bark.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026I'm #colorblind and I use xkcd.com/color/rgb frequently. Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]bark.lgbtOriginal post on bark.lgbt 932143
Frédéric Grosshans @fgrosshans.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026RE: hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115969946… It looks like the exact opposite approach of Apple's touch Bar, but from Japan and 20 years earlierhachyderm.io 000
Reposted by Frédéric Grosshansrobinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025I don't think this relation symbol is in Unicode. 011
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansSara Teinturier @teinturs.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025Dans ce billet revenant sur les conditions de l’abandon des solutions informatiques relevant des GAFAM, David Monniaux pointe particulièrement les milieux universitaires de SHS et leur ignorance du problème : "Il est assez éclairant que les milieux universitaires de sciences humaines et […]social.sciences.reOriginal post on social.sciences.re 010
Reposted by Frédéric Grosshansmemes from outside fedi/atmosphere @nonfedimemes.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025 32588
Reposted by Frédéric Grosshans🔏 Matthias Wiesmann @thias.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025RE: ohai.social/@tweak/1157039686625354… I remember that game, that box.ohai.social 001
Reposted by Frédéric GrosshansInfrapink (he/his/him) @infrapink.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025I love how far good programmers will go for the sake of a joke. tabloid.vercel.apptabloid.vercel.appTabloid: the clickbait headline programming languageTabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines. 1115
Frédéric Grosshans @fgrosshans.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025« Démocratie » est un mot grec, et non latin. #page43 100