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7373737373··on Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks
Google appears to either not screen ads at all or willingly allows misleading and lying ads and scams to reach its users. They profit off fraud by either laziness and ignorance or malice, by letting "ads" like "Your PDF reader needs an update" through. And they don't act on them when they are reported.

Every single company putting ads up in public is held to a higher standard.

7373737373··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Mathlib is expert reviewed, but only contains a tiny fraction of all mathematics. So this seems to be a quantity of work a "10,000 agents" approach would be applicable to. Like Navier-Stokes, something to spend a couple million in compute on :)
7373737373··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Oh? Where can i read more about that? It appears the sole focus so far was solving open problems
7373737373··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
It may be useful to publish a formalization of ALL known mathematics at this point. Like every book ever printed, every paper on arXiv etc.

How many Gigabytes would that be, compressed? Wikipedia once fit on a DVD

This might also allow for some interesting meta-mathematics

7373737373··on A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting
Also check out the Simulated Observation of the Solar System by the Habitable Worlds Observatory (under "Videos"), expected to be launched in the 2040s, the first to be able to detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars! https://habitableworldsobservatory.org/multimedia

DrBecky's video on it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z2JIkAPcdnU

7373737373··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
Also never vote for anyone who

- is incapable of apologizing

- has a history of abusive behavior

- doesn't have a sense of humor, especially at their own expense

"How to spot an idiot": https://youtube.com/watch?v=i2Lo8ChhOKU

7373737373··on Wax motor
Here is a timelapse of one opening a greenhouse window as it gets warm: https://youtube.com/watch?v=S-55VBYbbdo
7373737373··on Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus
Time for Japanese laws - like the Act Against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations: https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/japans-truth-in-packaging-...
7373737373··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
People do: https://tcec-chess.com/
7373737373··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Zuckerberg: They "trust me"

Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

7373737373··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Some mines are already heavily automated: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Z9w-mUoUsY

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRuht0QIprs

7373737373··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
Technical solutions are insufficient for such disregard, the company needs to be sued out of existence, and laws made to prohibit and punish such behavior
7373737373··on Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer)

Playlist showcasing the current restoration work: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtpOUadaBh31n6Pdscwhwopmh...

7373737373··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
It's ironic that the US might currently do better with a (constitutional monarchy) king, to serve as an ethical example of living and governance, and change the role of the president to more of a serving bureaucrat
7373737373··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
Closed source software could apply too, if the execution model supports it (e.g. WebAssembly). Just because the format is binary and "unreadable", its permissions (accessible functions) don't have to be
7373737373··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
That's why languages need sandboxing at runtime as well
7373737373··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
It's incredibly brainless and disrespectful
7373737373··on On AI regulation and messaging
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-it-wouldnt-deliberatel...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/06/10/ant...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthrop...

7373737373··on On AI regulation and messaging
You didn't answer my question
7373737373··on On AI regulation and messaging
How intelligent and autonomous does a murderbot have to become before you stop absolving its creator and seller from any responsibility?
7373737373··on On A.I. regulation and messaging
Thou shalt not kill, that's all there is to it really

If you provide tools that help an organization kill easier, and possibly lazily rely on your inaccurate tools' judgment, and you do not care about the outcomes of these tools' uses, that's on your soul, too.

Yes, causality and attribution are hard sometimes, but it may have been that without it, hundreds of humans would be alive right now, and he doesn't even know. Maybe he should talk to the kids' parents about what alignment means.

7373737373··on On AI regulation and messaging
And maybe don't allow the military to use your AI WHEN YOU CAN'T TELL WHETHER IT WAS INVOLVED IN THE KILLING OF HUNDREDS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
7373737373··on DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years
It's not even possible to delete one's account!
7373737373··on Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud
The oh so celebrated "Fake it till you make it"

https://youtube.com/shorts/VpyLcfDsmNg

7373737373··on IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats
I wonder when there will exist camera and (laser) projection systems - and with that, movies - that cover even more of the human visible color gamut

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/imax-with-laser-supe... mentions that with IMAX Laser:

> Colour-wise, the full Rec. 2020 gamut/space is available—though we weren’t shown any films/trailers that actually made use of this larger colour space; they all used the DCI’s standard P3 colour space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2020

I have no idea how well the analog film compares there

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-...

7373737373··on Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels
Is it possible to have a website compute as efficiently and utilize the system it runs on as completely as a native application can? Or do browsers introduce limits?
7373737373··on Are We Stuck with Lean?
How would you improve it? (Also note that this is not the language mathematicians actually work with - that's more like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-RfoUuQpAQ)

Similarly, for Metamath Zero, MM1 compiles down to the MM0 base language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7WfrW7-ifw

I think it's just a neat example that helps one understand how the verifier itself works at the most fundamental level.

7373737373··on Are We Stuck with Lean?
My favorite minimalistic example of the Metamath base language (which higher level languages can compile down to), which, saved as, say, prop.mm can be verified with the verifier:

  $c  wff  $.        $( we use this $constant as a type of formula (well formed formula) $)
  $c  ( ) ! ->  $.   $( brackets, negation, implication $)

  $v  A B C  $.      $( $variables to be used in formulas $)

  wa  $f  wff A  $.  $( $floating hypothesis "wa" which says, that A is a well-formed formula $)
  wb  $f  wff B  $.
  wc  $f  wff C  $.

  $( The following assertions define the rules to create formulas $)
  $( In Metamath (unlike Metamath Zero), definitions also use the $axiom statement type $)
  wng  $a wff ! A $.           $( "not A is a well-formed-formula" - mandatory hypotheses are (wa) $)
  wim  $a wff ( A -> B ) $.    $( "A implies B is a well-formed-formula" - mandatory hypotheses are (wa, wb) $)

  $c  |-  $.         $( this $constant will be used as a type of provable formula  $)

  $( Schemes of $axioms of propositional logic $)
  a1  $a |- ( A -> ( B -> A ) ) $.
  a2  $a |- (    ( A -> ( B -> C ) )   ->    ( ( A -> B ) -> ( A -> C ) )    ) $.
  a3  $a |- ( ( ! A -> ! B )  ->  ( B -> A ) ) $.  

  $( Definition of the Modus Ponens rule of inference in new scope; otherwise $essential hypotheses (inputs) mp1, mp2 will become mandatory for all upcoming assertions $)
  ${
      mp1 $e |- A $.                
      mp2 $e |- ( A -> B ) $.
      mp  $a |- B $.               $( mandatory hypotheses of "mp" are (wa, wb, mp1, mp2) $)
  $}

  $( A $proof states the string of symbols to be proven, followed by a list of labels used by the stack machine $)
  $( $floating and $essential hypotheses are pushed onto the top of the stack, $axioms and $proofs transform it by using the top of the stack as inputs $)
  $( When the stack is empty at the end, the proof is successful, and the proved statement can be reused in further proofs using its label $)

  $( " A implies ( B implies C) is a well-formed-formula" $)
  formula1 $p  wff ( A -> ( B -> C ) )  $= wa wb wc wim wim $.

  $( "( A -> A ) -> ( A -> A ) is true (follows from the axioms)" $)
  formula2 $p  |- ( ( A -> A ) -> ( A -> A ) )  $= wa wa wa wim wim    
                                                   wa wa wim wa wa wim  wim  
                                                   wa wa a1    
                                                   wa wa wa a2    
                                                   mp  $.
7373737373··on Are We Stuck with Lean?
Metamath's Python verifier - its trusted kernel - is just 700 lines of Python short: https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/mmverify.py/blob/master/m...

Metamath Zero's Haskell implementation 700, and the C implementation 1000 lines (or 1800 overall) https://github.com/digama0/mm0

How do other proof systems compare?

Some bug counts: https://tristan.st/blog/in_search_of_falsehood

7373737373··on Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
Current LLMs behave very counterproductively around unsolved problems, especially if they learned that humans consider them difficult. This has many straight up preventing themselves from attempting anything...
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