Reposted by Andrew 🧮Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Par Avion. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/p... 06015
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Reading the timeline 816536
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Computer Rage Marinette, WI 161708360
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The rapid growth of LLM writing in Econ. From this post with lots of details on how Pangram works for this kind of assessment. paulgp.substack.com/p/how-do-we-... 4348
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...bcantrill.dtrace.orgThe contagion of fear | The Observation Deck 1624083
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 09/09/2026I've felt uncomfortable watching the spate of trophy hunting we've seen over the past year, and I think Terence Tao's reflections are encouraging-- mathematics solely via changelog is not really desirable mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172078...mathstodon.xyzTerence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)A concrete example of how AI advances in solving key open problems could inihibit the future development of a mathematical field can be found in the global regularity problem for the incompressible Na... 100
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 08/09/2026JOHN SEARLE: In my thought experiment, I intended the "The Chinese Room" to be a cautionary tale TECH COMPANIES: At long last we have built the Chinese Room, which is sentient 020
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 07/09/2026there's a small piano in the corner of my neighborhood coffeeshop; most of the time it's used by kiddos, but today we're blessed with an elderly gentleman who's been playing it beautifully for about an hour 000
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 04/09/2026The brutal Silo season finale is a series high point.decider.com‘Silo’ Season 3 Episode 10 (season finale) recap: The Georgia silo massacreIt’s time to meet Troy. 7403
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 02/09/2026it's unsurprising but frustrating that we allow numerous services to monetize the labyrinthine/tedious process of removing one's info from the collections of data brokers; very rancid "this shouldn't have to exist" vibes, vultureware 100
Reposted by Andrew 🧮ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Jacques Villares (French Artist, born 1967) "The Patio of my House", 2016. Watercolor on Paper, 50 × 70 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt 0305
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 27/08/2026TIL about Hack's Law: "Any stream, from the littlest brook to the mightiest river, has a length that’s proportional to its drainage area raised to the power of 0.6. (In symbolic form: L ~ A0.6.)" www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rive...quantamagazine.orgWhy Are Rivers So Mathematical? | Quanta MagazineA simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further. 010
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 21/08/2026gapgirls.bandcamp.com/track/people...gapgirls.bandcamp.comPeople Will Always Love You, by Gap Girlsfrom the album Forever Love, Forever After 000
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 17/08/2026"A company may think a new technology is overhyped, too expensive, or even likely to produce excess capacity and lower profits for the industry as a whole. But if its rivals are spending billions on it, sitting out may be even more risky." www.unpopularfront.news/p/marx-keyne...unpopularfront.newsMarx, Keynes, and A.I.Coercive Competition and the Future of Work 000
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 11/08/2026This is a good way of putting something that's irritated me: "I liken the AI-native attitude to someone who goes into the MoMA, looks at a Jackson Pollock, declares that they, too, can generate this thing that looks like a finger painting." eytanadar.medium.com/ai-native-ph...eytanadar.medium.comAI-Native PhD StudentsIf you’re a student and just want the tl;dr, feel free to jump to the end. 000
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026NEW: I had the pleasure of profiling Paulina Borsook, whose book Cyberselfish, about the early tech industry, is a great key to understanding why it’s so bad today. For her trouble, Borsook has had a very weird and bad 25 years, something she calls “a curse.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA Tech Prophet Finally Gets Her Second ComingIn 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen. 11637233
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 10/08/2026after 2 months of working solely on my laptop, I'm finally back to having desktop monitors 😭 000
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?" 491277546140
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference 451882313
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027 158363906435
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 29/07/2026day 3 of ?? where my city's AQI is above 180, generally housebound and feeling like I have a low grade cold 110
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 21/07/2026I have seen The Odyssey, and here is my take on the IMAX discourse: it's too dang loud in there 011
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 20/07/2026- man, where'd this weekend go - played hide n' seek w/ the niece & nephew - kitchen (mostly) unpacked 000
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing” 594396906
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes" 17107222609
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/06/2026oh my god 3276845
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 24/06/2026"putting your art, writing, expression out to be judged by others is an act of bravery as much as talent, and a lot of people lack bravery. ... if you need your work to be polished and beyond reproach, that's a determination and character problem, not a skill problem." macwright.com/2026/06/24/a...macwright.comAccidental anonymityJavaScript, math, maps, etc 100
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 07/06/2026"It may not feel like it, but human writing is actually in a great position to matter again. Every drop of slop makes what isn't stand out more. Caring about your work has always mattered, has always been good for you - but now it's a countercultural activity too." permadeath.com/3mnpwzj6pbs2vpermadeath.comback onlinestandard.site, leaflet.pub, and why we write in 2026 000
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 05/06/2026more difficult to justify my intuitions from about a year ago: shovelware has started to show up-- even if most of these apps never have many users, that's not a reason to dismiss what we're seeing (lots of apps are niche), and this growth looks big www.nber.org/papers/w35275 000
Reposted by Andrew 🧮CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026What a terrible thing. I know a lot of people are discovering or rediscovering her work right now; I really hope she knew that her work was important to those people, and to the world. 010826
Reposted by Andrew 🧮La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Marjane Satrapi 116859
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Words such as 'museum', 'formula', and 'ratio' instantly give away their Latin origin, but 'wall', 'street', and 'kitchen' come from Latin too! These were borrowed very early: into Proto-West Germanic, the ancestor of English. Today’s graphic shows six construction terms. Next time: food words. 1313146
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 02/06/2026I am in a personal hell of my own making (we're moving and it involves so many emails) but today I get to drink a beer and see Backrooms 000
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Demon's Home @demonshome.bsky.social · 25/05/2026"Beaver, transformed in two directions" by Leslie Mesei, 1967. From the book Computer Graphics, Computer Art 2337841071
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 18/05/2026dangerously close to mapping onto the political compass (I'm A2) 010
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 17/05/2026An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information 301177539
Reposted by Andrew 🧮ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Torsten Wolber (German, b.1964) "Girl on Swing," 2025 Oil on masonite 50 x 60 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt 181401141
Reposted by Andrew 🧮sam @samthielman.com · 15/05/2026As someone who is currently trying to write a book, I gotta tell you, the way recorded history ends around 2003 does not seem ideal 515720
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 15/05/2026wildones.bandcamp.com/track/dim-th...wildones.bandcamp.comHeatwave, by Wild Ones5 track album 010
Reposted by Andrew 🧮Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The first phase of digitizing my collection has come to an end. I am very grateful to my students, they did a wonderful job! The result: three massive Hungarian statistical atlases that are unavailable anywhere else, and dozens of data graphics that have never been digitized before. To be continued! 05914
Reposted by Andrew 🧮cyber professional @permadeath.com · 13/05/2026buckets I've seen are roughly: 1. doesn't use it at all 2. uses it a bit, same productivity 3. uses it moderately, moderate productivity 4. uses it constantly, but still moderate productivity 5. uses it constantly, still only moderate productivity, but also spewing externalities at teammates 5172
Andrew 🧮 @ndrewwm.com · 13/05/2026"when extrinsic incentives become too strong, too 'high-powered', they undermine virtue. We need a flatter structure of outcomes, one that does not so heavily penalize pursuit of excellences that are not so rare or novel, like teaching [or] care work" drafts.interfluidity.com/2026/05/13/t...drafts.interfluidity.comThe fiduciary classdrafts @ interfluidity 000
