Here’s the 14-minute version, with a transcript.

I am retrospectively disturbed by how well “I really came in a fluffer that time” slots into Dorothy Parker’s flow.

A skilled, centaur-configured programmer

This is like reading Yud mumbling about “Shoggoths”. It’s giving knight errant, organ-meat eater, Byronic hero, Haplogroup Rlb.

I was not ready

Chris Stokel-Walker at Fast Company reports:

High-level information about the private work of students and staff using ChatGPT Edu at several universities can be viewed by thousands of colleagues across their institutions due to a misunderstanding of what is being shared, according to a University of Oxford researcher who identified the issue.

The problem affects Codex Cloud Environments in ChatGPT Edu and exposes the names and some metadata associated with the public and private GitHub repositories that users within a university have connected to their ChatGPT Edu accounts. […] “Anyone at the university, or a large number of people at least—including me—can see a number of projects [people have] been working on with ChatGPT,” says Luc Rocher, an associate professor at the University of Oxford, who identified the issue and raised it with both the University of Oxford and OpenAI through responsible disclosure. He later approached Fast Company after what he felt was an inadequate response from both.

Just one of many reasons that the mere existence of “ChatGPT Edu” means that many people need to be tased in the nads

And here is the complaint, via evacide.

Julia Angwin:

I’m suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone’s name can be used for commercial purposes.

Man, I wish I had enough money to fuck around with nonprofit shenanigans

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-uks-multibillion-ai-drive-is-built-on-phantom-investments

Experimenting further, I made a 14-minute version of this, but then I discovered that the music I had pulled from my collection is not licensed for remixing, so I need to redo the ambiance.

Hypothesis: When he wrote Surreal Numbers, Knuth was a poet and thus unknowingly of the Devil’s party.

We really need to work harder at poisoning the training data for math problems.

My generous statement: Knuth, being a scientist, is used to an “adversary” that plays fair. As we have known for decades, a scientist can be tricked in situations that a magician will see through. This applies all the more now with the Sycophancy Engines, which make mathematics into a casino vacation. Just one more prompt, bro. Just one more prompt.

My less generous statement: Knuth is almost 90 years old. Sure, age doesn’t imply a person will become a doddering fool, but people do tend to slow down, to have less energy and more need to spend it managing their health. “Thinking about a problem for a few weeks” counts for less in a situation like that.

My extremely ungenerous statement: Hey, remember when Michael Atiyah claimed to have proved the Riemann hypothesis in 2018? And the community reaction was a pained, “Atiyah is one of the great mathematicians… of the 20th century.”

I know I’ve said somewhere on here before that “Harry Potter for pop science nerds” is fanfiction on easy mode, but I’ll stand by it.

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

You can’t build a fandom full of that many fucked-up people without some of them getting horny in a fucked-up way.

Edit to add: example of a non-erotic fanfic https://archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

That header pic sure takes me back

Felicitations!

(“A job,” Blake thinks. “I need to find one of those.”)

I would also not put my finger on those microscope slides

womp, and wait for it, womp