storytelling is teaching and teaching is storytelling.

I saw the Vasa today!! absolutely cool af as museums go— it has tragedy, comedy, adventure, plenty of history, just a great way to spend an hour

My dad found this while cleaning out for a move, something my late mother made a long time ago. I haven’t ever seen it before (or at least not since I was around the age portrayed in the piece).

Feels like every day I end up blocking yet another Mastodon mutual who is now posting about their exciting new experiments with Claude or whatever other commercial AI bullshit. Most of the people I'm blocking recently are academics; it's like they think using an unethical technology is somehow magically okay if you do it intellectually enough. Academia really values centrism these days, and you can absolutely see that in many academics' attitudes to AI.

There's a gay guy in a triad on Bake Off, and they showed his partners and dogs and drag persona 🥹

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@anna/117411686780489709

This is one of those soups that’s even tastier the next day 😊

#pumpkin #soup #fall #food

I don't hate technology, i just hate generative AI.

I want hi-tech transportation so we can move people and things efficiently. I want hi-tech water and power systems that are safe and reliable. I want hi-tech medical equipment for people and animals. and I want messy, imperfect, weird, human art

You know that fall has arrived when you're cooking with pumpkin 😋

Recipe by Yotam Ottolenghi: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/31/pumpkin-squash-recipes-stuffed-soup-roast-yotam-ottolenghi

#Food #Fall #Soup #Pumpkin

@jon Sadly, I fear LLMs have broken Brandolini's law.

It's now two orders of magnitude at least :/

For reasons I cannot possibly imagine, I will log off this evening with Brandolini’s law

And tomorrow I will write something serious, rebutting something rather unserious

OK, let's lighten up the mood and celebrate World Octopus Day.

Let's all post pics of our favorite Octopuses (or is it Octopi?) and discussions on their physiology, life-styles, intelligence, beauty, etc.

https://nationaltoday.com/world-octopus-day/
https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2017/10/06/8-reasons-prove-octopus-seriously-awesome-creature/
1/n

One of the hardest things when running (remote) scienrific group meetings: asking "who else has updates?" and then shutting up for half a minute until someone speaks up.

I've seen a much more senior colleague do this and it's amazing how much patience matters. But gosh, is this hard.

I appreciated this chance to go on Bloomberg Tech, though it's always a bit odd to have a conversation with a reporter who is really interested in what's effectively a fictional story.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-10-06/bender-ai-s-existential-risk-is-fake-video

Catzilla

In very sad news for the computer community, Margaret Hamilton has passed away

We’re losing the people who made computer engineering magical while billionaires take over and make it the most boring fascist machine ever

And it all happened so fast

#margarethamilton

"When I first came up with the term [Software Engineering], no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. It was a memorable day when one of the most respected hardware gurus explained to everyone in a meeting that he agreed with me that the process of building software should also be considered an engineering discipline, just like with hardware."

#RIP #margarethamilton

Love is love.

On International Lesbian Day, we celebrate lesbian women and stand up for a simple principle:

Everyone should be free to be themselves and love who they love — free from discrimination, exclusion or violence. 🧡

Our LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy is about making equality a reality — tackling hate, supporting communities and protecting people’s rights.

I didn’t know that I needed a Shimshamarena in my life, but now that I have it, my brain can think of little else.

https://youtu.be/y2Yw7lEd0Z4

#ShimSham #SoloJazz #Macarena #TaintWhatYouDo #Jazz #Mashup #Music #ToulouseHotClub #ShimShamarena #SwingDance #LindyHop

Warning: Scrolling OpenStreetMap can be highly addictive, and have side effects, such as getting lost in a leisure=park or touching landuse=grass.

#osm