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This Month
We extend a special thank you to our visitors from Great Britain, Japan, the British Indian Ocean Territory, and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian external territory located in the Indian Ocean. We love islanders!
British Indian Ocean Territory
According to Awstats, most visitors hailed from the US, India, Canada, Japan, and Russia. On Webalizer, most visitors were from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, US, Turkey, Brazil, and Russia.
An average visit lasted 108 seconds last month. Our crap was shared on Facebook 25 times. Our most popular pages were applications and our Horizon Forbidden West table. Windows led the list of operating systems followed by Linux and sweet macOS. Chrome remained the most popular browser.
Are you whiny, magical thinking, and intellectually stunted? Welcome to the party, pal!
The Libertarians sneer at the mainstream parties just like the Linux crowd sneers at Windows and macOS before all the ugly truths come out. The party of fiscal responsibility has some problems of its own:
Libertarian Campaign Finance Trivial to Non-Existent
Back in March, the national party didn't look too hot:
LNC Finances Continue Weak, but Cash Reserve is Still Substantal
Editorial: Why is the LNC Losing Money So Quickly?
Their national party membership is reported to be just under 9000 members in March 2026, part of a continuing decline. Republicans have 39.1 million registered members. Democrats have 45.1 million registered members.
We don't make political recommendations. We don't immediately forecast success or failure based on a candidate's party, ideology, or stated positions. We don't know which candidate is the best choice in your area. We do know that politics, like economics, encourages the development of anti-intellectual brain rot. Fox News promised a new age of prosperity in 2024. They promised certain failure for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani before he even took office.
For all the clueless morons out there who think we are a hassle to deal with
Important Numbers for October 2026
| Metric | Current Rate |
|---|---|
| Unemployment Rate: | 4.2% (up 0.1%) |
| Core Inflation Rate: | 2.4% (down 0.1%) (reported next on November 11th) |
| Monthly Inflation Rate: | 3.7% (up 0.3%) (reported next on November 11th) |
| Annual Global Birth Rate | 16.97 per 1000 people (a welcome 0.96% decline from 2025) |
| Annual Global Death Rate | 7.85 per 1000 people (a welcome 0.58% increase from 2025) |
Current U.S. Inflation Rates (2000-2026)
Anarcho-Capitalism Not Getting The Job Done
Argentina's annual inflation rate for September 2026 was 33.54% (up 0.04%). Unemployment in the third quarter of 2026 is 7.6% (down 0.3%).
The joke of Argentina looks like a Monty Python member
'A slap in the face': Ranchers feel betrayed by Trump's plan to buy Argentine beef Restrictions on US farmers' illegal labor pool were met with the same reaction
Argentina’s Milei escalates Falklands dispute, seizing on Trump comments and oil tensions Milei is up for reelection. Trump needs to be in a nursing home.
World Cup 2026: FBI launches investigation into Argentina for alleged fraud and money laundering
Milei’s top aide and Cabinet chief resigns over spiraling corruption scandal
LIBRA Probe Corners Binance, Bybit, OKX: Whose Names are Behind the Frozen Wallets?
News - indecent, immoral daily forays
Math
AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?
Mathematicians React With Fury as OpenAI Releases Hundreds of New AI-Generated Proofs
Astronomy
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
How to find Uranus this week, the hardest planet I've ever tried to see Two full-length mirrors facing one another and a daring pose by the observer standing between them should suffice
Physics
Scientists may have detected the 1st direct evidence of dark matter Nice! Maybe this is it.
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? More complicated than I thought
Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?
Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?
Gaming!
Steam Frame review Only 1.49% of Steam users have VR headsets as of August 2026, a -0.22% decrease from the last survey. VR has always had a content problem.
Star Citizen has a disastrously laggy stream with horrendous vibes, which isn't a great look when you're past $1 billion in funding A spectacle for simpletons! Fanfare for the intellectually downtrodden! A farce! Tea and crumpets? Certainly!
Bethesda confirms Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, makes Obsidian collaboration official, and says Fallout 5 is in 'pre-production' Moira Brown, Megaton's tech goddess, remastered at last
Xbox's Red Ring of Death still haunts gamers as Steam Machine owners report a "Red Line of Death" after GPU failures The article reveals one owner portrayed as an isolated incident, but its title suggests multiple owners. Which is it?
'Meh': Ex-PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida weighs in on Valve's Steam Machine after a few hours with it Since the Steam Machine is once again a flop, Sony might consider releasing first-party content on the PC again. Thanks Valve and Linux!
Dating Coach Blaine Anderson Needs A Real Job
Good News!
Visit a Neveda brothel instead, you miserable slobs!
AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots Marketing to speculators is easy. Improving fundamentals is hard.
A Prominent AI Investor Is Now Crumbling, in What Could Be a Sign of Things to Come Shocked? Why? They are speculators.
The clock is ticking on Wall Street's $1.5 trillion powder keg, and history says time is almost up
Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is 'working for the Chinese Communists' A welcome descent into madness for a wayward oligarch
“Televised Nervous Breakdown”: CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a Meltdown During Live Interview Claims: “American enterprises are run by the shrewdest, most widely intelligent people on the planet.” Explain Trump, Musk, and Sam Bankman-Fried then.
AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
Artificial Intelligence Stupidity
Thank you. Keep up the good work!
Google loses $500 billion in panic over AI
Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided “Zero Financial Payoff” to Companies Outside Tech
AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It’s Backfiring
AI and Semiconductor Stocks Lose $1 Trillion in Market Value Over Four Days
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft Face a $4.2 Trillion AI Problem — and the Math Is Getting Dangerous
Anthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AI
OpenAI projects $278B cash burn: Record round runs dry before revenue catches up
Economists Concerned the AI Bubble Is About to Blow Ends with a whimper not a bang
Artificial Stupidity News Archive
Crypto
Binance Hack Explained: How $6.3 Billion Was Drained in 20 Minutes
Binance Pool shuts on November 10, with record access ending two weeks later
Binance responds after US seeks $61 million in crypto tied to Iranian oil sales
Elon Musk
Bumbling Cybercab Gets Trapped in Hotel Parking Lot, Drops off Passenger Right Where He Started
Taking a Musk right now? The Musk Archive!
Meta
Behind the Scenes, Meta’s Board Is Battling With Mark Zuckerberg Over His Out-of-Control AI Spending
Tiny Tim Sweeney
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Calls Steam’s AI Declarations ‘Political’ And ‘Abhorrent’
Former Valve writer baffled by Epic CEO Tim Sweeney's attempts to compete with Steam via vibe coding A security nightmare in store for Epic
Tim Sweeney on the future of games, AI, and whether Valve will ever join forces with Epic: 'It's now clear that nobody's going to end up with an absolute monopoly' Unwisely opens huge mouth again. Like that other time...
Too Stupid For Words But Here Are Some Anyway
Thought at the speed of stupidity
Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God
Fear of AI Destroying Humanity Cause Certain Stocks to Skyrocket
Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable A male bimbo posing as an economist? Who would think it?
Larry Summers Resigns From Harvard Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take
Yuck!
A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into
And the first person who would likely sign up for this is...
Blah, blah, blah - The Ramblings Of A Bankrupt Intellect
AI muddies the waters
So, are some of you horrified that AI is cranking out math proofs that LEAN can verify as correct, but the proofs are so horribly written that no human can understand their reasoning?
Sometimes pure math serves a useful purpose. Oftentimes, it doesn’t. Pure math is about attaining the highest honor – the Fields Medal - for the world’s most difficult formal science. That leads to a lot of competition and nastiness over who receives credit for any accomplishment. It also means the math community exercises a rigor that other scientific fields can only envy. That drive for individual glory and recognition in math is what makes it vulnerable to AI’s community-based solutions. A mathematician building proofs using the accomplishments and work of others is being outdone by a swarm of AI agents who are also building proofs using the work of others. Eventually, humans could produce far better written proofs for Navier-Stokes and the Reimann Hypothesis without any AI, but the collective power of AI agents has sped up finding the final result considerably. Still, who knows how long it will take humans to transform AI slop into an elegant proof?
AI has complicated a challenge by dispensing with the need for credit. These specialized AI agents don’t care about Clay Institute Mathematic Prizes or Fields Medals. They don’t care about their horribly written proofs that can be understood only by a specialized software tool. They are tools designed to solve problems sans consciousness, awareness of context, or understanding. They do what they are told based on their algorithmic designs.
Our needs for individual credit, glory, and fortune are what has complicated the arts. Writing used to be a horrible profession with great health risks and significant financial barriers to entry. Normally, you must be rich before you succeed. Rich people have enough free time. Thirty percent of writers are alcoholics. Throw in drug abuse and nicotine addiction too. Now, anyone using AI can crank out a novel in 45 minutes and upload it for sale on Amazon. The same goes for music and video games. Produce enough of this AI crap at a high enough volume and you’ll eventually make some decent money. Money was probably the end goal all along. AI automation has lowered the barriers to entry for endeavors that required raw talent and luck instead.
We need to look at the tradeoffs. Do we want our top mathematicians spending time on pure math problems with no practical applications when they could be solving applied math problems instead? Do we want writers to forgo AI so they can ruin their health the old-fashioned way when the publishing success rate stands at 2% for the field? Do we want video game developer teams to suffer from development crunch if AI coding agents can relieve that challenge instead? Are we willing to put up with mass-produced, low-quality slop in law, government, business, education, and medicine? Are we willing to accept poorly secured vibe-coded apps; AI psychosis; widespread AI junk data and poorly considered advice; convincing AI political propaganda; supposed unsanctioned AI-generated software hacks that amount to felonies; or a technology that caters to our laziness, greed, and base desires? Are college students better off completing all their course-related busy work that amounts to little when the real purpose of college is to build networks that make finding a good job easier? Or are they better off submitting AI-generated work instead?
It’s not that AI is universally worthless. AI certainly won’t do all of the things the Silicon Valley Swine promised at the onset of this hype cycle. Like the internet, AI is good or bad depending on the context and what the user has in mind. That makes its use complicated. It has muddied the waters at a time when we want clarity instead.
Law Firms Caught and Punished for Passing Around “Bogus” AI Slop in Court
Woman Dies After ChatGPT Allegedly Tells Her to Stop Taking Epilepsy Medication: Lawsuit
Epic and Microsoft Target AI Game Clones While Using AI
The Math Of Writing And Acting
The Navier-Stokes Equations
AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
Guys, I know this is exciting for some of you, but let’s slow down a bit before we throw a party. Remember the reception for Andrew Wiles’s proof for Fermat’s Last Theorem? The proof was found to have a significant flaw after it was announced. Remember Michael Atiyah’s 2018 “Proof” of the Riemann Hypothesis that went nowhere? He was a Field Medalist and claimed the fine structure constant was vital to his proof. That episode quietly disappeared. The Navier-Stokes Equations proof must still be verified by humans. No Clay Mathematics Millennium Prize has been awarded. Until the proof is verified, no one is getting a Fields Medal.
The proof resulted from the work of several people, Anthropic, and OpenAI. OpenAI researchers; Tristan Buckmaster at NYU working with Levent Alpöge with Anthropic; Diego Cordoba with the Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Madrid; and Luis Martínez-Zoroa of CUNEF University were collectively responsible for the work. The work of Cordoba and Martínez-Zoroa was especially important. So, forget about any claims that OpenAI achieved the much-hyped AI singularity or that its software produced the proof unassisted by humans. The capstone effort for the proof was provided by specialized AI (a swarm of AI agents), not a generalized LLM risen to genius-level intelligence. The title of the linked article above is misleading. It was written to grab attention.
In the end, we have a huge mess whether humans can verify LEAN correctly described the proof as it was intended for the prize or not. This proof, like the last Millennium Prize problem tackled by Grigori Perlman and Richard S. Hamilton, was solved in part by a computer program. Both were team efforts and the thorny issue of correctly establishing proper credit has plagued both aftermaths.
The lesson is that if you use OpenAI or Anthropic tools to get the job done, the AI companies will swoop in there to ruin everything. Chatbox conversations and AI tools are exposed to the public. Anthropic and OpenAI are notoriously unethical, greedy, untrustworthy, and craven. So, maybe do your work out of the sight of the Silicon Valley swine next time.
The AI-generated proof is crap. The solution - provided it is correct - wasn't cost-effective either. It took several million dollars to put this poorly constructed capstone effort together.
Intelligence Test - a highly suspect bar to entry
Study this pattern for 10 seconds.
Did you find the image dazzling and a bit disorienting? If so, you are clearly too intelligent to be wasting your time here.
Community Profiles - desperate, unwashed hooligans
That picture of Orchid Radowski is strangely mesmerizing and hypnotic. It isn't of Elizabeth Holmes, unless she did modeling work for Adobe Stock before heading up Theranos. It's surprising what you can end up with when you just screw around with photo stock.
The one of Feline Cordoba is even stranger to us. It's like experiencing wincing pain and pleasure all at once.
Palantine Horatio Signato - Rest assured my junk is secured
Likes small classified ads, beta particle radiation exposure, and rattling falls on icy surfaces
Seeking tasteful pornography masquerading as art
Relationship Status: Single. Pity. Grace and beauty failed to claim you in the slightest.
Dave's Crap High Fashion - crude, disdainful attire
This just in...
Libertarian who paid for nothing and borrowed money he won't repay during a date praised as an ideological warrior staying true to his values.
Liberal and conservative find common ground. "We both support our oligarchs in amusing and delightful ways!"
Sausage's 3-second splash into soiled toilet water satisfies man's 5-second food contamination requirement
Dave's Crap 2026 Election Guide
Biden: "Two words: Made in America!"
Trump: "Two words: Fuck Joe Biden!"
Democrats and Republicans do battle on November 3rd
Red State Republicans proud to pay $4.19 a gallon for gas to halt socialism in America. "$5.00 a gallon? Bring it on! Real Americans love higher prices on everything!"
Sovereign Citizen continues to deny the existence of the US government and all of its implied hegemony
Beachgoer charged with indecent exposure and sentenced to 30 days of jail time
Ideologue transitioning from Marxism-Leninism to Maoism prepares for an onslaught of hot female suitors inspired by the change. “A fresh pack of condoms at the ready!”
Local residents growing nervous as once-dormant ass shows signs of an imminent eruption
Disgruntled bank customer smacks an AI-powered ATM around some to increase his account balance. "Did you folks in there feel that one? Well, did you?!"
Linux super fan back to using Windows and macOS only for "the important stuff."
Man claiming to be Yul Brynner in a former life sues a rival claimant for identity theft. "This libelous claim, spread throughout the popular press, has inflicted not inconsiderable financial harm and reputational loss."
Rival time travellers both claiming to originate from the year 2347 offer wildly different accounts. "Time travel ahead 500 years into the future right now! Yes, you! I'm sick of your lies! No, you can't borrow $5.00 first! This isn't a charity!"
The world's first synthetic lifeform already able to do what nerds cannot: reproduce. "We counter that our natural stench is universally approved."
Relationship expert who brings couples together hires a rival relationship expert to help reign in her partner
Oligarch whining about not being taxed enough also refuses to cut the government a check. "I'm pandering to the masses not clinically insane!"
Star Trek fan back to asking cast members about their transporter experiences. "Physiologically, what were the side effects?"
Clinically depressed woke liberal and rage-fueled QAnon psycho argue about whether Trump or Biden exhibit the most mental deterioration
No-holds barred action movie amended to indicate that select holds were prohibited during production
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If you guys want to fight and complain about stuff instead, that's why they made Reddit.
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