I would simply dismantle late stage capitalism.

https://www.404media.co/ai-avatars-are-doing-job-interviews-now/

If you or a loved one is a fan of the intensely mathematical approach to general relativity, you could do worse than this new book by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85657

Oh, very neat: a library of open access academic books. The section on Physics has a few classics, as well as some nice new books.

https://library.oapen.org/browse?type=classification_text&value=Physics

In the interest of fairness (but against my better judgement) I read Altman's "essay" linked in the article.

You will not be surprised to learn that he never actually explains how everyone will be more prosperous in this future that he's trying to sell us.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/ai-superintelligence-looms-in-sam-altmans-new-essay-on-the-intelligence-age/

If you are okay installing a script manager for your browser, and you use the gmail web interface, here is a userscript that renders TeX in your emails. Anything supported by KaTeX works, apparently.

https://github.com/LoganJFisher/LaTeX-for-Gmail

@id1om Maybe, though I wish I could just find the original and recreate it!

@jc00ke Thanks!

This is really driving me up the wall. I cannot find the Mathematica code I used several years ago to create this image (which I used for a custom Mathematica icon).

The code was adapted, I think, from something posted in the Mathematica Journal or maybe one of Wolfram's old archives. I know it's a long shot, but does the image ring a bell with anyone?

Jeffrey Dahmer is e̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶
doing something almost nobody is noticing

@LibertyForward1 exactly

Hard to believe the tech companies weren’t being completely honest with us.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-datacenters-worse

[catching up on all today’s news]

Musk doesn't care about the environment, he doesn't care about free speech and the town square, he doesn't care about internet access in remote areas. He cares about his own weird fantasies, and about having power over people he doesn't like. The end.

It's not like we (society) talked about this and decided we'd sacrifice ground-based astronomy in exchange for internet access in remote areas.

Musk and a few others did this unilaterally. It wasn't to help anyone. They did it to make a profit and consolidate control over critical infrastructure.

But I was assured that this was a v0.1 problem that would be fixed before more satellites were sent into orbit 🙄

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4dnr8zemgo

Or should I say Declan MacManus, international art thief?

TIL that the bass and falsetto parts in the second verse of "Tempted" by The Squeeze, are sung by Elvis Costello.

I hope this email finds you on the verge of selling off billions of dollars of stock in a doomed attempt to salvage a social media site you ruined, you weird fascist goon.

@thomasfuchs Haunted

@michael_w_busch Really! For the 50th anniversary?