andrés castro araújo

acastroaraujo.bsky.social

19 October 2026 01:54

“It’s all just linear algebra” I mutter to myself after my third failed attempt to read Sheldon Axler’s linear algebra textbook.

Colin

colin-fraser.net

19 October 2026 01:54

I see people say this all the time and I think it’s just wrong in general. I don’t think you can make human skin out of pebbles. This is not because I think human skin is magic and pebbles are non-magic. I just think you can’t, in general, make everything out of everything.

Dan Davies

dsquareddigest.bsky.social

19 October 2026 01:52

The Super AGI: I'm sorry. I disassembled the entire human race molecule by molecule to make paperclips. That's on me. Me: what are you talking about, that's not true Super: you're right. That was a failure of alignment and I'm really sorry Me: you haven't made any paper clips at all have you

WinRAR Earle

tommchenry.bsky.social

18 October 2026 22:19

there is a kind of collective suicidal exhaustion in the 70+ crowd as though the unspoken wish is to beat the end of civilization by being entombed alive with their family and possessions to all die together, the friction of living finally at an end, suburban pharoahood culminated

Kevin M. Kruse

kevinmkruse.bsky.social

18 October 2026 22:18

The right is spending the day complaining that Abdul El-Sayed was "rude" and "a bully" to Tommy the Republican Operative at his town hall, which is hilarious given how they had nothing to say about a woman getting beaten up at a Trump rally as the president cheered on.