William Vambenepe

Apparently a small cut in the collar solves all problems.

Sauf que c'est encore pire que ça et le "2 by 4" mesure en réalité 1.5 pouces par 3.5 pouces.

screenshot of the beginning of the article at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.15304v2

2015: Learn to code!
2025: Poets control the world...

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.153...

Caesium atoms are pretty good, but nothing beats a dog's stomach in keeping time.

I know that's not the point, but let's still take time to realize that we're talking about "more pediatric firearm death than expected" because of course (???) there's a baseline amount of "pediatric firearm death" that everyone expects in this country.

Either that, or you just walked by an opportunity for the most revolutionary physics discovery of all time.

WRT "At least two more weeks of bone-chilling temperatures" (first sentence of the article), that's a very Californian definition of "bone-chilling".

'Hazardous' cold may bring temps as low as the mid-20s to Bay Area At least two more weeks of bone-chilling temperatures are headed for the San Francisco Bay Area.

On the plus side, it looks like I'll have my own lane at the outdoor pool tomorrow evening.

(and the water temperature will be fine, just a chilly walk on the deck)

www.sfgate.com/weather/arti...

Bluesky has been pretty good in the last few months, but today it's failing the "not being taken over when there is some kind of big American football game" test.

One last suggestion: "The countess" or just "Countess" (to keep the link to the "counting" idea).

Very cool.

Back to the request for a name. The Blueboat has a "Little Engine That Could" vibe. And it does science. So maybe it could be called "The Little Boat That Counts" though that's a bit long...

What does it do?

"The doctor chair will seat you now."

Impressionism on display at Beaubourg, that's a first.

I'm started to suspect your dog is the intelligence behind Apple Intelligence.

This is the "grain of wheat on the first square of a chess board" process, but going the other way. Exponential sequences kick ass in both directions.

Remainder (novel) - Wikipedia

"Remainder" by Tom McCarthy is what immediately comes to mind for me.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remaind...

Mpetshi Perricard vs. Kyrgios...

Today I learned that reciprocal wildcards are a thing.

In any case, great to see Stan The Man in the draw!

Scary. Reminds me of Vonnegut's "ice-nine".

Maybe @kurt-vonnegut.bsky.social has some relevant quotes to share from Cat's Cradle?

The current version uses Trino, not Presto.

Coincidentally, we seem to be continually surprised about how stupid humans can be.

Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.

Yet another article in the "some animal species is much smarter than we thought" or "some animal species demonstrates a surprisingly complex behavior" series...

How many such "surprising discoveries" do we need before we revisit our baseline assumption about animals?

nautil.us/crows-are-ev...

Hopefully Shapo's return to form continues in 2025 and he can provide both kinds of variety in next year's finals.

All Eight Qualifiers Best Shots This Season! | Nitto ATP Finals 2024 YouTube video by Tennis TV

Is this the first ATP Finals without a one-handed backhand player? #tennis

Plenty of them in the 90s (inc. Sampras), then came Federer (and Wawrinka, and Dimitrov), then more recently Tsitsipas provided representation. But this year... :-(

Still plenty of nice shots
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B82t...

Since many Americans who haven't experienced health care in other rich countries seem unable to believe it, I occasionally post this reminder that the US heath care system is uniquely inefficient, expensive and cruel. A much better system is possible; it exists in many places and we could have that.

Also pretty sure the "aggressive suppression of sunshine" he's noticing is called "winter."

I usually say Benoit Mandelbrot but with Michel Barnier becoming prime minister of France two days ago I might have to change my answer in terms of who's more famous. Benoit Mandelbrot is still way cooler though.

I grew up in the building (on place Bellecour in Lyon) which was used as Gestapo HQ. You don't go into the basement of that building without thinking about it, even if it's just to get your bike.

I also remember when he was brought back to Lyon for trial when I was in middle school.

Pre-cutting the cheese is the way to go (speaking as a Frenchman living with PTSD from having witnessed the way American people gut a piece of cheese when serving themselves from a cheese platter).