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AHM Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents

terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/a... "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."

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[This is a guest post by the Association for Human Mathematics, reposted from their statements page. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — …

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 08/10/2026

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A page from my art book 'Other Worlds' with clarified text; from the chapter I included of my early art. This was a page for a creature guide I produced for university over two decades ago! You can buy the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/othe... And at the usual outlets (Amazon et al) :)

An illustration with text of an alien life form

a book cover for the art book 'other worlds' by alex ries

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Create a Glossary - OpenMetadata Documentation

I stand corrected, actually still present (though not documented in the same way) docs.open-metadata.org/v2.0.x/api-r... docs.open-metadata.org/v2.0.x/api-r...

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Create a new glossary for business terminology

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Apparently there’s such baseline bugs as "canvas size specification gets ignored". Vibe of pgrust "accepts illegal SQL and crashes"

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💬 3 🔁 12 ❤️ 21 · you know what's funny is "petra parker" served as an interesting character study to the character of spider-"man" and explored how trans themes could interact with the story in a…

"you know what's funny is "petra parker" served as an interesting character study to the character of spider-"man" and explored how trans themes could interact with the story in a unique manner meanwhile "malfoid" is purely goonerslop that explores no dynamics [...]" www.tumblr.com/ofieloafi/82...

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Wow, OpenMetadata has retooled a lot. They used to have a whole dictionary with terms and typed relations between terms. Really proto-knowledge graph there. I don't see that in the new documentation anymore.

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

God on one hand, nice, on the other hand Oh God I don’t want to trust my photos to something like that without backups.

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A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.

Chapters in Part III take stock of the current state of evolutionary psychology, by casting wider attention to other social and behavioral sciences and assessing the field's influence on them. In Chapter 11 ('Evolutionary psychology and anthropology'), Heiner Rindermann identifies three major forces that oppose scientific anthropology: Religion, National Socialism ('Nazism'), and woke leftist ideology. Ironically, in this sense, woke left ideologues, who include most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics, share much in common with the Nazis in their common opposition to scientific anthropology.
Rindermann's extensive review of the literature leaves no doubt that humans are genetically polytypic and contain different biological races or 'subspecies' At the end of the chapter, Rindermann delivers devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments against the notion of races/subspecies among humans.

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But it was only… virtual estate, wasn’t it?

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"Calling it a farm layout requires there be a recognizable commitment to agriculture"

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Okay, I propose a slogan for this: "Janky until proven functional, period." And note that that assumes HIGH standards for functionality, established in the specific use case.

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Maarten Schenk @mschenk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...

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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.net · 05/10/2026

Michael Shellenberger appears to be preparing another piece falsely claiming that a conference of researchers studying disinformation is tantamount to a shadowy cabal of censorship. Spoiler alert: conferences, in fact, are the definition of free speech. My response to his questions is below.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hugo Chavez-linked PR flack Michael Shellenberger — a random guy with a Substack who rakes in donations to fight a “censorship complex” that he created — would like you to know that journalists reporting on his attempts to smear people are propagandists.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Coherently extrapolated capitalism" (If you know what CEV is, you’re welcome, I hate it here too)

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

So the AI users are going to feed our original work directly into the chatbot and make it different enough to avoid detection, rather than using chatbot output trained on our work. Eg - recently, I found out Electrek was just copying my blog posts for profit on their website, to run ads against.

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WTF is this - @fredlambert.bsky.social from @electrek.co just ripped my post and reworded it? And even generated some garish slop to use as a header?? Did he do this manually or did a chatbot just do…

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Computer Dog @pensandpuppydogs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People lining up to give a transphobe money because she got called a transphobic slur while the actual trans community struggles is so bleak. I hate it here.

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

also, isn't it INTERESTING how all these Democrats pretended to support trans people during the primaries and then turned on us as soon as the votes were counted?

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's incredible how her total capitulation on trans rights didn't stop this

Annie Andrews clarifying she opposes trans rights

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 07/10/2026

the button has drifted too far from its material origins and become a mere suggestion of a concept. every power button should cut the power

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/10/2026

A world where simply being in public means you are de facto subject to the nonconsensual instrumental use by anyone with a sensor is a world of cybernetic fascistic control—empowering the owners of computational platforms and victimizing the marginal and disempowered to drive them out of public life

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/10/2026

The software profession, an immature field marked by repeated ethical violations, has no such guidelines about the proper use of public data about subjects. It instead has foundational myths (specifically "information freedom") that say that you cannot do any wrong by using data if you can see it.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/10/2026

This is at the root of what is "wrong" about surveillance as a social practice. It isn't necessarily about a state doing the surveilling, or the surveilling of private behavior. It's the nonconsensual grabbing of an affordance of another person's life and using it towards one's own ends.

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Sublight Games @sublightgames.com · 06/10/2026

Hark! The void calls. 🌌 Listen to the dulcet tones of "Falling Sideways" from the upcoming Stardust: Act One soundtrack, composed and recorded by @lexfeathers.ca. The saga of Ashlee Rinn and the crew of Windsong resumes on November 1st. www.thestarsaredestiny.com

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Lex Feathers - Falling Sideways (Music from 'Stardust')

YouTube video by Stardust (Sublight Games)

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Press F to pay respect to the child soldiers killed in the John Halo Infusion medical experiment

Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something something product-market fit

Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Poschardt schreibt in der "Welt" den rechtsextremen Verschwörungsmythos vom "Great Replacement" ("Großer Austausch") ins bürgerliche Milieu hinein, triefend von Verachtung für die so verhassten Linken und "Bückbürger" (wer auch immer das sein soll). Enthemmung 10/10

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Queries and thus also storage to support free-flowing user-driven data modelling and graph relations. Going all the way to a command event store for the write path and various read paths off of that just makes sense.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Command Query Responsibility Segregation as a pattern is like, The Big Thing I am learning and living in my development work this year I guess. Initially it was just what was wrapped over a common database… now that full text indices and vector stores etc are in play and I want a specific form of-

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Americans picked Trump II, and their biggest objection is high prices. Hungary chose Orban, and their eventual big objection was corruption. Erdogan and Modi won multiple terms. Brazilians about to go Bolsonaro again. Not always free and fair, but yeah, millions want it. Wouldn’t work otherwise.

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Q of interest: what's the most common kind of database dialect incompatibility requiring a migration you've seen?

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Awww man that's rough. Time to find an islandic name for the project? :D

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 [curl POST blocked at source]

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This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

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...tbh, anything where you need this, and authorities can't get relevant treatment to you, this is only going to help so much. Like the particular sweetspot of "need to keep radioactive iodine and cesium out of my body" and "won't get covered in radioactive fallout" is... pretty small AFAIK.

Honestly, not the vocabulary I associate with this image? The particular blend of object contrast and object similarity makes it click much too well for me to ascribe "haunted" to it.

...I keep looking at this and it's so interesting how well this works. Especially the black tank against the black sky - the white access ladders make that composition work I think. The way infrared subverts color makes you think a lot more about what you see in the image.

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