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According to Awstats, you guys currently spend an average of 185 seconds on this site before realizing that we are completely full of shit. We've had 10 visits that lasted between 30 minutes to over an hour. Those folks fell asleep at their desks from boredom. So really, those visits lasted about 10 minutes before they nodded off. Most of our visitors hail from the United States, the Russian Federation, Greece, India, and Great Britain. Linux is the most popular OS, followed by MacOS, and then Windows, and the vast majority of you are desktop users. iOS and Android account for only 20 visits this month. Google Chrome is the top browser. We don't use it. We don't use Linux obviously, or Google Chrome even for testing purposes. It's a much different picture than Webalizer offers. We don't know which is better or how accurate they are.
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News
Gaming!
I was roasted by a physician for sitting weird but they gave me some great tips for healthier gaming
Good News!
AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other Real-life Vault-Tec
A billionaire crypto bro will lead humanity to Mars atop Musk’s Starship Considering the wealthy's disdain for expertise, what could possibly go wrong?
Here’s why the failure of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic
Two years of low gravity, radiation poisoning, social isolation issues, and the potential for unfixable catastrophic failures? Piece of cake.
Too Stupid For Words But Here Are Some Anyway
Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take
Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future Pro-business outlet Forbes tried to take the moral high ground by accusing the protestors of cheating on their exams...
College students are booing commencement speakers celebrating AI, but the wave of hate hasn’t stopped them from using it to cheat on their exams Which went over about as well as most moral high ground stances in the business world...
AI is boosting Forbes’ publishing capabilities
Forbes now has its own AI search engine
How many journalists did Forbes let go after adopting AI to streamline its operations and boost profitability?
Forbes Lays Off Around 5% of Staff Two years after adopting AI
Physics
This could be the case...
Versions of You in Other Universes May Be Subtly Affecting Your Destiny, Oxford Physicist Says
But decoherence is more likely...
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
Whether it is multiple universes or past lives, the lure of those ideas is rooted in our dissatisfaction with the present. Greatness is ours or was ours, just not on high-probability scientific terms.
Yuck!
A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into
And the first person who would likely sign up for this is...
Artificial Intelligence Stupidity
College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science One bright spot: They continue to understand the use of the Middle Finger as a social convention
“We pissed off a lot of people”: Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests Kevin O’Leary would really love an Emmy Award for his public statements
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic Three underwhelming firms that will disappoint speculators a year from now
Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE Bimbos Trump and Musk team up to save America
Now You Gotta Buy a Second Computer Just for Your AI Agent, Nvidia Declares Ahem. Nvidia, you gotta shut the hell up 'cuz I ain't buying shit!
Companies Are Getting Burned by Burning Tons of Tokens When artificial stupidity brings out your natural stupidity
CEOs are blaming AI for layoffs. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says that’s a 'lazy' excuse. Plus, he won't be able to sell as many Nvidia AI GPUs either. That's all that really matters to him.
Crypto
Trump family’s crypto venture is quietly minting money through Binance stablecoin deal
Binance Plots Comeback In Philippines Market According to the article, Binance previously operated as an unlicensed broker offering unregistered securities.
Binance denies new WSJ report alleging $850M in Iran-linked transactions
Crypto Billionaire Changpeng Zhao Claims Biden Administration Tried To Make An 'Example' Out Of Him
‘Bet $1 Billion’—Binance’s CZ And OKX CEO Star Xu In Public Spat
Binance Australia Hit With $6.9M Fine After Investors Lose Millions on Derivatives
Tiny Tim Sweeney
Nice!
The Math on SpaceX’s IPO Is Virtually Impossible All stock prices are speculative bets
Elon Musk accuses Trump admin of using Starlink for military purposes Elon, remember the last time you took on Trump?
Musk-Trump breakup puts $22 billion of SpaceX contracts at risk, jolting US space program
Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees Slow in a special way no one envies
Meta
Meta secretly integrated facial recognition software with smart glasses, report says
Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking
Meta Platforms Investors Reject Proposals as Zuckerberg Bets Big on AI
Meta wants you to pay for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp Why not? It worked so well for X...
X Reaches $1 Billion Annual Subscription Revenue While Overhauling Creator Payouts and Content Rules From the article: "For context, X’s total revenue was approximately $2.9 billion in 2025, up from roughly $2.5 billion in 2024, but still 35% below its pre-Musk 2021 level of $5.1 billion."
Why Is Mark Zuckerberg Taunting His Employees Before Firing Them?
Lots of Blah, Blah, Blah
"I Drive Better Drunk And Write Better, Too"
Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs?
This goes along with we wrote earlier about the writing profession.
The Math Of Writing And Acting
The article above it focuses on published authors, but plenty of authors finding no meaningful success (98% of writers) could wind up with nothing but their addiction to cement their legacy. Writing is such a bad profession with high barriers to entry that it is hard to recommend it at all, whether you are rich enough to find success or not. We understand the therapeutic effects of writing to calm a fevered mind, but writers conflate their emotional state brought on by addiction with positive outcomes regarding the quality of their work.
That same misappropriation happens with notions of success. Steve Jobs was a horrible human being who got lucky so tech founders want to be horrible people to achieve that same success. The logic doesn't hold up at all. Neither does celebrating the success of people who were born rich. People who send sites like Farnam Street money ignore the role luck plays in building fantastic wealth. The only person who might make an excellent living from published self-help advice is the person selling it.
What might really matter is the vector for addiction rather than activity that obstensibly benefits from it. "I have to drink and use drugs to succeed at writing." It's offered as a matter of causation rather than correlation. It reinforces the idea that addiction is an existential consideration. Without it, I'm nothing. Writing becomes an excuse for excess after the writer begins his descent into debauchery and diminished output. In the end, the addiction overtakes everything.
No, we aren't addicts. We aren't writers. We have real jobs.
A Claim Is Just A Claim
Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to “Believe the Hype” About AI
A claim doesn't mean OpenAI or someone without formal math training produced a correct mathematical proof for anything. Anybody can make a claim. Math proofs are correct if the math community reaches a positive consensus about the claim. So far, that hasn't happened. I'm also astounded at how quickly others believe China's claims when China lies all the time. Where's the proof? Did they really develop a more energy-efficient LLM or achieve unprecedented feats in fusion power generation?
As for AI's influence on the scientific peer-review process, the peer-review process is already kind of a mess even without it.
Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it’s broken.
As for pure mathematics, the introduction of AI as a tool for writing correct proofs might have practical impacts on the real world. The Riemann Hypothesis and the Navier-Stokes Equations offer real consequences if proven/solved. Most of pure math involves considerations that would make fine candidates for the Ignoble Prizes. Andrew Wiles's proof for Fermat's Last Theorem (all powers greater than 2 won't fulfill the Pythagorean theorem) or the completed proof for the The Kakeya Conjecture (a pencil spinning across a surface that points in every possible direction while sweeping over as little of that surface area as possible) don't offer up any real-world practical utility. Applied math matters in the real world. Pure math might. If AI transforms more pure mathematicians into applied mathematicians, maybe that's not a bad thing overall.
‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture
Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
D-Day Celebrated
Today is June 6th, the day America pretends it won the Second World War singlehandedly. If you have a good understanding of what led to the cross-channel attack in 1944, you'll probably end up with mixed thoughts about it all. Unfortunately, too many people get their history lessons from Hollywood. The only invasion beach that gets any attention is Omaha. The Germans put up a fight there when the Americans came ashore. Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword saw little action. Hitler was convinced the Allies would land in Calais even after it was apparent this wasn't the case. D-Day wasn't an inevitability. It could have been headed off by the Allies if they had acted differently. Why didn't America deploy troops to France in 1940? The Neutrality Acts of the 1930s approved by Congress but not FDR. Why didn't France build a Maginot Line that extended to the coast? Objections from Belgium. Why did France limit its Saar Offensive to the French-German border during the so-called Phony War? Naive objections from Belgium and the Netherlands who expected Germany to respect their borders as France had done. The French were saddled with poor military intelligence about the Western front. When was the real turning point of the war? 1943. Stalingrad fell, the Kursk salient held, the Black May saw 43 German U-Boats sunk, and 275,000 Axis troops surrendered in North Africa. It wasn't the day the United States entered the war. That's giving us far too much credit.
For the record, The Great Escape didn't involve any Americans. The Bridge On The River Kwai is an unwholesome piece of fiction that didn't involve any Americans or a misguided British POW commander. The British captured the first German U-Boat not the Americans. The British broke the Enigma Code. The Star Trek episode The City On The Edge Of Forever couldn't have generated the alternative timeline it presented. A German V2 rocket was horribly inaccurate and could handle only a 1-ton payload. The Little Boy atomic bomb weighed 9700 pounds. Plus, the V2 had an operational range of only 200 miles. That's just the tip of iceberg as far as errors go. Screenwriter Harlan Ellison did a horrible job overall to make his laughable plot work.
America contributed to victory in WWII, especially in the Pacific, but the extent of our actual contributions is much different from the profit-driven, sanitized propaganda offered by Hollywood.
Perpetual Motion Machines
Why That Guy’s Perpetual Motion Machine Won’t Work
That guy is the one who thinks free energy is possible if you only follow the construction requirements for his poorly considered contraption. “No, you don’t understand,” he assures you. A few minutes later, he admits his contraption won’t function if gravity is present. Slap together an energy hungry anti-gravity device to facilitate the perpetual motion machine, and then victory will be at hand. Why not push advances in fusion power generation instead? Why do that, he asks. That’s hard. Yes, but it has the virtue of being reasonably possible.
The reason perpetual motion machines fail is due to the Law of Energy Conservation. Energy remains constant in a closed system. If the energy is used to perform work, energy leaves the system and must be replaced. Energy can’t be created out of nothing, but the success of a perpetual motion machine requires it to do exactly that. Energy is created through conversion from matter through a process. Can you live forever if you don’t consume food? That’s the same proposal being offered by proponents of free energy. Energy has to be replaced after it is lost from performing work. This doesn’t mean the energy was destroyed. The food you eat and digest is converted into heat that is released into the environment. Most of your digestive energy is lost either through passive homeostasis that merely keeps you alive or by consuming more food. Exercise doesn’t account for much of your energy budget whether or not it's part of your routine.
Link:
The Law Of Energy Conservation
Terraforming The Moon
Could you terraform the surface of the moon? Probably not.
The moon orbits the Earth about every 28 days. One side receives sunlight for 14 days. The other side is cloaked in darkness. The moon has only 16% of the Earth's gravity. At the top of Mount Everest, only 33% of the oxygen available at sea level sustains climbers and temperatures are -60 degrees Celsius (-76 degrees Farenheit). Now, imagine even harsher conditions on the lunar surface. Greenhouses would have to be climate controlled and must filter out radiation requiring a 1.3-foot thick lead shield while somehow allowing solar radiation to fuel the plants' photosynthesis process.
Psychics and Chatbots
What's the difference between talking to a psychic or a chatbot? Not as much as you'd think.
- The querant seeks an intimate social setting
- Both the chatbot and the psychic operate using poorly understood mechanisms
- The querant has no reason to trust either the chatbot or the psychic with any expectation of privacy
- The querant divulges deeply personal details to a total stranger simply because the setting encourages disclosure
- The chatbot and psychic are frequently wrong but their errors are ignored. Only the correct details are remembered.
- The chatbot and psychic reinforce the querant's beliefs
- The chatbot and psychic are protected by the same For Entertainment Purposes Only legal mechanism
- Microsoft Mocked for Terms of Service That Admit Copilot Is for “Entertainment Purposes Only”
We Are Strange
We don't use chatbots. 64% of US teens do. 52% of US adults do. We don't use social media. 72.5% of Americans do. We don't watch TV. 80% of Americans watch TV an average of six hours a day. We are three distinct multiple personalities that share common memories and a personal history. Only 1 - 3% of Americans experience Dissociative Identity Disorder. So, who is ultimately behind the curve in terms of cognitive development? We haven't decided yet, but it's not looking good for the rest of you folks.
Intelligence Test
Study this pattern for 10 seconds.
Did you find the image dazzling and a bit disorienting? If so, you are clearly too intelligent to be wasting your time here.
Community Profiles
That picture of Orchid Radowski is strangely mesmerizing and hypnotic. It isn't of Elizabeth Holmes, unless she did modeling work for Adobe Stock before heading up Theranos. It's surprising what you can end up with when you just screw around with photo stock.
The one of Feline Cordoba is even stranger to us. It's like experiencing wincing pain and pleasure all at once.
Feline Cordoba - My issues are solved with facial tissues
Likes solo sychronized underwater dancing, startling others using fake knife jabs, and posing as an online proxy for long-dead celebrities
Seeks a Tylenol for her crushing headache and parkour between her home's rooftop and attached garage
Jack the Cat - I'm in repose from head to toes
Likes The Shining, pelican jerky, and Turkish catnip
Seeking to disrupt the tuna trade in the North Atlantic and recline comfortably in front of the fireplace
Orchid Radowski - the sadist made us with a curtsy in passing
Likes aluminum, billowing dust, and vinyl car seats during the summer
Seeking a place to urinate and someone to urinate next to
Vladimir Crisp - the ladies give me rabies
Likes centered text, low-octane poetry readings, and anyone's questionable preference for the Top Ramen noodle pack
Seeks a north by northwest compass heading and $2.99 Shoney breakfast deals
Dave's Crap High Fashion
This just in...
Trump on the hunt again for future cabinet members, federal judges, and senior intelligence officials
Man's blind date quickly becomes awkward after their conversation turns to enlarged prostates. "I'm thinking only about our future, hon."
The thoughts of a true Alpha Nerd. "They used a negatively-sloped hyperbolic surface instead of a torus-shaped algebraic manifold to make this calculation? Why? What were they thinking?"
The thoughts of a true Zeta Nerd. "I'm a science expert. I've binge watched the entire Star Trek Original Series."
Nerds forced to adopt 'It' pronoun in matters of gender identification by a prominent global standards body
Trump seeking high-5's for passing a test that reveals only dementia onset instead of his self-described extreme intelligence. "Extremely low or extremely high? Is there a difference?"
Loud, annoying, lonely nerd who smells like a landfill wonders when women's tastes in men will dramatically improve. "I mean, this is pathetic! Them, I mean. Uh, women. You know?"
Father fiercely protective of his daughter's sexual purity runs across her OnlyFans account while browsing for lesbian porn
Alcoholic country music star with two DUIs outraged over rock-and-roll's drug culture. "It ain't legal!"
Proud Virgo who relishes his sign's reputation for intelligence watches the sun rise over Leo on his birthday
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