reading Hemingway; tapped and held to define a word. State of search in the year of our lord twenty twenty six.
UConn just detonated Claude's bracket and I couldn't be happier. What a play, what a finish!
https://x.com/SportsCenter/status/2038397224091029758
SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) on X
BRAYLON MULLINS FOR THE WIN 😱
UCONN ELIMINATES DUKE IN THE FINAL SECONDS 👀
(via @MarchMadnessMBB)
welp. halfway through the Elite Eight, Claude's bracket has broken into the top 10,000, which means it's doing better than 99.97% of the brackets in ESPN's tournament challenge. in one year I've gone from ‘lol its funny because the AI is dumb’ to ‘Wow, maybe it's unfair to deploy this in a friendly competition...’
https://fantasy.espn.com/games/tournament-challenge-bracket-2026/entry?id=5122a370-2326-11f1-8336-57ef66b45209“Hey Siri: shut the fuck up.”
“Okay.”
(Thought bubble: at last, Apple has achieved the pinnacle of human computer interaction)
“…at the next stop sign, turn right.”
(Thought bubble: fuck.)
“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...
