“The Machine develops — but not on our lines. The Machine proceeds — but not to our goal. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.” - E. M. Forster, ‘The Machine Stops’
“Look. This is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they don't do experiments on one and save the other. This is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, then try to turn a nearby star into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn't want to waste a trip.”
this feels like the most “humans just *do things*” headline ever. I swear if we tried to pull this off in New York we’d hit a pothole and blow a gigantic hole in Queens.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00950-w
Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck
Physicists have succeeded for the first time in transporting the most expensive and most volatile substance on Earth — antimatter.
I was today years old when I discovered the existence of ~/.config/git/ignore and immediately added .DS_Store as the first line.
while I did see this in Brooklyn, i'm going to assume that none of these problems are canine in nature...
Just a data point in terms of model improvements: as ever, I had AI fill out my March Madness bracket this year. Last year it was a funny joke when ChatGPT hallucinated San Diego winning a game that it wasn't even competing in. This year... uh... not only is Claude winning the pool I have going with my friends, it's also ranked 41,291 out of 26.6 MILLION brackets submitted to ESPN. It even called the High Point upset over Wisconsin with startling conviction.
Oh, Bushwick. Never change.
past-joey gets aggressive with the todo list when there are $50 fines at stake.
“Register now” / “I’ll do this later”
where is the “I will never do this” button?
