RE: https://mastodon.social/@inconceivable/117502696841744764

Fezzic is here with your daily encouragement. Be like Fezzic.

RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/117498591661296200

This whole thread 🤌

RE: https://mastodon.world/@dailyHotWheels/117498131445023114

I loved the UltraHots — aside from the color changers and the cars that had reversible crash damage, they were my favorite

This post from Amazon’s Automated Reasoning Group a couple of months ago was pretty good (missed it at the time, but found it earlier today when I was talking about formal methods with someone else): https://www.amazon.science/blog/a-decade-of-mathematical-certainty-reflections-on-the-automated-reasoning-group #aws #mathematics

Elderly person?! This is the kind of life I’d like to have *right now* https://bird.makeup/users/rainmaker1973/statuses/2113540935242150005

This Duo review from The Verge was pretty good; if you get that little perverse thrill from having to relearn some stuff and have what’s boring and predictable be new and a little weird again, you’re going to like this. https://www.theverge.com/tech/1015028/iphone-duo-review

eMudhra compromise summary site: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/ (thanks @mttaggart )

I love tech history, and this writeup on the history of the URL is a great retrospective (I even learned a couple of new things, and also enjoyed some great callouts to protocols and systems I haven’t thought about in a long time). https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-history-of-the-url/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/117445142517690321

Use an ad blocker. I cannot stress this enough.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117440101403676835

Oh man. :( I remember playing some Quake mission pack (dissolution of eternity?) and when I snuck up to a hidden area with a cheat I got “The Levelord giggles” in system messages right before I got vaporized by a Shambler 😂

Finally got around to listening to Above & Beyond’s ABGT 700 show from The Gorge … man, this is one of their best mixes in years. Justine Suissa on vocals is particularly good. https://music.apple.com/us/album/group-therapy-700-live-from-the-gorge-amphitheatre-dj-mix/6814417859

This was the overwhelming cuteness I needed this morning while waiting on a delayed flight https://bird.makeup/users/rainmaker1973/statuses/2110347390926704923

A Cray-1 replica built out of 30 “obsolete” Mac Minis https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/a-cray-1-supercomputer-replica-from-30-obsolete-mac-minis/

#3goodthings and it’s not yet 9 AM, and all of them are #bloomscrolling within a couple meters of my seat outdoors ❤️

Amazingly, it looks like the matter compiler from Neal Stephenson’s novel “The Diamond Age” may soon be upon us. https://archive.is/2026.10.09-051338/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/atomic-machines-ai-micro-robots.html

I will tap the sign, once again, even though none of the AI companies are paying any attention. #maths #mathematics

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169

Google just announced a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to bring 890 megawatts of new nuclear capacity to the grid. (Constellation is investing over $4 billion in renovation and new construction on entirely new capacity.) https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/google-signs-4-3-billion-111947905.html

I wonder how long until IP space used as a source for agent activity will be like IP space used to send spam back in the early 00s — blacklisted and permanently unusable https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/