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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An important result in applied mathematics just got posted. The weird part is the methods section: arxiv.org/abs/2610.06783

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Finalizing the Sawyer Lee 2 text. Slipping in literary references whenever dramatic text is called for. Bonus points if you catch all 3 without using AI or google.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lately my cranky-about-social-media posts have gotten more traction. So, I'm going all in on my own hypocrisy

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No clue how the system, which already struggles with getting enough reviewers, is gonna handle this. www.anthropic.com/research/cla... Or, rather, I suspect I do know, which is everyone secretly (or not?) having ai do their reviews.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean sometimes chatgpt.com/share/6a60b2...

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is pretty bad, and getting shared a lot. www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the... The only thing I would say is that during this period, in my experience, the problem has been the extreme consolidation of platforms much more than anything I can imagine AI doing right now?

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Definitely true for the US. You can see the bump when Model 3 came out, and most of the rise before that is Tesla. Mind you, I'd be all for allowing tariff-free Chinese imports.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeats at his best did this, before he got weird

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And I mean in particular Kipling's ability to use sound and plain language but be extremely evocative. See another from this one:

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you want to know the actual best poem it's Senlin, by Conrad Aiken. Behold just a taste:

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have other favorites, but who else writes something like "every secret, self-revealing on the aching white-washed ceiling" ?

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WOW, RCP polling average has Trump less popular than he was right after Jan 6 (which, to be clear, was *extremely* unpopular)

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Made it to NYC. Come see me if you’re at the book festival in Brooklyn tomorrow.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I understand the need for precision, jeez, philosophy. Although in fairness I remember learning discrete math and feeling like some of the definitions were along the lines of "a set of numbers is a smaller set of numbers if the number of numbers in the set is a smaller number"

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

richer color achieved. Adding cream and butter

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Simmer too slow. Increased heat. Also harvesting solids for ricotta-like goo.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Still reducing. Smell is strange but not bad. Vaguely like cheesecake before it’s cooked? Or like blintz filling? Sweet but savory and a little sour and fruity.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reduced to simmer. Timer set for 4 hours. Smells like fruit, cheese, and caramel

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We raise goats and I have 88.9 fluid ounces of whey. I am attempting to make brunost which I have never even tried. Stay tuned for updates.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This inspired the greatest joke I've ever written:

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Working on some of my famous relatable dialog

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Part of why I think AI may move faster than people think is that a lot of breakthrough ideas are, like, kinda stupid? arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21032 This paper basically says if you have more agents and they communicate, that's better than taking the best results from independent agents.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

OK, no more tech discussion, let's talk about fruit. This post has one of my favorite charts ever: themulberries.org/predicting-f... Finding: the more cold hardy a citrus fruit is, the worst it tastes. Why?

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wow, really weird seeing ai in ads that left in ai gibberish on the product label. I dunno anything about the ad business, but I wonder if the photoshoot people are losing work. I mean this would've cost very little.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

text to speech really screwed me here, but actually the new idiom I created is better

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This spoke to my soul www.theverge.com/podcast/9914...

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I believe I have discovered the first theodicy that works

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Better slogan: No read book? Book too much words? Try robot!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well things have officially gotten nasty. For those following at home, this is an accusation that OpenAi has been cagey about whether they were training on converseations between mathematicians and AI.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Seems like a super cool time to roll back the bipartisan tariffs on Chinese solar panels and EVs, but that's just me!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hahaha, imagine being a republican member of Congress, pulling up Bloomberg, an seeing this:

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm just saying. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/philos...

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Once again, Terry Tao with the most thoughtful response on ai for math. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172373... If you don't believe *me* that this is real, and that there are legit concerns that are not the ones being aired, please believe him.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Nigeria is down, and because it's relatively large and rich it drags down all the stats for Africa, but if you look at individual cases: data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just because there's a lot of pessimism on this site, did you know that a ton of African economies are finally hitting rapid development? E.g.

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