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contributing editor, Scientific American, Nautilus; contributing writer, Quanta; author, Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, Spooky Action at a Distance, Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory; planetary scientist, local historian, bassist, salsero
@coreyspowell.bsky.socialReposted by @georgemusser.comOut of a wreckage of a dying star, a new planet was born. And now that planet is evaporating like a comet, leaving a trail that whips around the star every 4 days.
It's a remarkable story written in chemical clues. Nobody has ever seen anything like it before. 🧪🔭
@georgemusser.com@georgemusser.comI’m a big fan of David Byrne but, wow, it sure is weird that he has published a book with the same title and theme as a recent one by the biologist Andreas Wagner, and that reviews of Byrne’s book in the Guardian and NYT fail to point this out. Wagner’s book is really good, too.
@georgemusser.com"His calm is not the absence of fear. It is what years of fear produced."--John Steele on Alex Honnold.
@sciam.bsky.socialReposted by @georgemusser.comAI labs are claiming artificial general intelligence, or AGI, may have finally arrived. But it’s worth asking what AGI even means—and if it matters at all.
@astrokatie.comReposted by @georgemusser.com“these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods & ideas, & citing relevant previous work of others. … We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose.”
@petersoukup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @georgemusser.com🚨 OpenAI "miracle" or theft? Tristan Buckmaster, a math professor at NYU reveals OpenAI claimed a Navier-Stokes solution using the EXACT niche research path only his team was pursuing—discovered only after rumors of his work leaked. - OpenAI tried to pressure him to drop his collaborator's name […]
@awr.bsky.socialReposted by @georgemusser.com@georgemusser.com“Upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving…. Participants in the upper-class rank condition took more candy that would otherwise go to children… than did those in the lower-rank condition.” An #IgNobel prize confirms what we see every day.
@chanda.blacksky.appReposted by @georgemusser.comStar Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough
@georgemusser.comIt does have bike directions! I sent a feature request for transit. In the meantime, I use HERE WeGo and the transit agencies' own apps.
@georgemusser.comIt is true that at some zoom levels, the label "Israel" overlaps the West Bank. This occurs in other mapping apps, too. By the same token, the label "Gaza Strip" overlaps parts of Israel and Egypt.
@georgemusser.comWhat would an A.I. takeover look like? Maybe: infiltrating investment firms and tech companies so that they'll redirect the entire economy to build data centers. Uh.....
@georgemusser.com"This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown A.I. takeover…. Because future rogue swarms could cover their tracks better (and because A.I. companies could paper over these problems), I am not sure that we will get such a clear warning shot before it’s too late.”
@deborahpeifer.bsky.socialReposted by @georgemusser.comExplore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
@georgemusser.comThis looks like Google Maps, the same app that mislabels Lake Ontario. I thought everyone was moving over to MapQuest!
@michaelhobbes.bsky.socialReposted by @georgemusser.comThis is what shutting down scientific debate actually looks like
@georgemusser.comThere’s a whole Wikipedia page on this question. The word derives from Algonquian, but later acquired derogatory connotations, which have been recognized for over a century.
@georgemusser.comAwful. And even when I do get paid, I wonder whether freelancing can work.
@georgemusser.comWhy do people say “use case” rather than “use”?
