Links for October 2025
Friday, October 3rd, 2025Cory Doctorow on the AI bubble
AI as Normal Technology. An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence
Lessons from a Red Scare. The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression. by David R. Lurie
Pi with the Major system:
| 0 | s, z |
| 1 | t, d, th |
| 2 | n |
| 3 | m |
| 4 | r |
| 5 | l |
| 6 | j, ch, sh |
| 7 | c, k, g, q, ck |
| 8 | v, f, ph |
| 9 | p, b |
Mad, rat, lip, nacho, llama, lava, pack, puma, gnome, fire
mad -> 31 rat -> 41 lip -> 59 nacho -> 26 llama -> 53 lava -> 58 pack -> 97 puma -> 93 gnome -> 23 fire -> 84
100 digits of pi:
perl -e 'use Math::BigFloat "bpi";print "pi: ",bpi(101),"\n";'3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170680
- “My Turtle Pancha will, my love pick up my new mover,Ginger”
- “my movie monkey plays in, a favorite bucket
- ship my puppy michael to sullivan’s backrubber
- a really open music video cheers jenny F. jones
- have a baby fish knife so marvin will marinate the goosechick
Using word length:
Pie, I wish I could remember pi,
“Eureka!” cried the great inventor,
Christmas pudding, Christmas pie,
Is the problem’s very center.