Lewring

Final, dying illusions of an illusionless man. Also fifth horseman of the Apocalypse. May have committed light treason.

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

The universe has a sense of humor.

This is the most efficient known way of packing 11 identical squares into a larger square (with no overlap). Found by mathematician Walter Trump.

Figure credit: Wikimedia/Walter Trump

[Corey @thisandthaatt]

@clashreport @MarioNawfal lol Trump recognized Israel’s right to the Golan Heights. Barrack is a moron.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

McFaul: Putin tells Russians two things

First: Russians are different from the West, cannot live in democracy and need a strong hand.

Second: Ukrainians are just Russians with accents.

But if Ukrainians build democracy, courts and free media, Putin’s story collapses at home.1/

[Michael Martens @Andric1961]

Serbia will have elections on October 18th or 25th, Serbian President Vučić announced today. (My guess for weeks has been 25th). In any case, the gloves are off: In autumn, it is the students vs Vučić. Not taking any bets. Honestly don't know where this goes.

[Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray]

‘Middle England is finally waking up to the migrant crisis.’ My column in this week’s @spectator https://t.co/8KPD30ztx7

[Christopher Lupine @LupineLives]

The Novara Media struggle sessions are amazing, they’re terrified of their own people

Literally in tears because they said something sensible and now their own side are eating them alive because of it

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

Even though I was skeptical at first, I think President Trump's naval blockade on Iran is working and that there are several signs that Tehran is harassing neighbors in the hope of shaking things up and slipping away from underneath Trump.

Iran is betting on midterm elections to weaken Trump, hoping to replicate 1980, but 1980 was a presidential election and the incumbent lost. Trump is staying for another two years, and even if his party loses, his constitutional powers on foreign policy will remain intact. If Iran can handle the blockade for two more years, then by all means, keep behaving like victors and stubbornly refusing to concede.

There is little Van Hollen, Murphy, Warren, Sanders, Khana can do to save Tehran, even if their party wins the majority.

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

At the end of this conflict the US footprint in the region will be heavily reduced

To end this war strategically rather than just militarily, the US will have to agree to a different quality and force structure of its presence in the region

It is the beginning of the end of the US' presence east of NATO

[Kasra Aarabi @KasraAarabi]

Sources inside Iran tell me the U.S. blockade is starting to have a serious impact. I’m told it is not only choking Iranian oil sales, but that disruption to supply chains to China is beginning to cause friction, which in turn is triggering a degree of panic.

[Vince Vatter @VinceVatter]

It’s amazing the models aren’t finding more false theorems in the literature. Is mathematics just that correct? Are people just being correct? It’s no one trying?

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

"And when the Russian authorities realize that their very existence is at stake - they will stop without having achieved any strategic goals. Then there will be a ceasefire and peace." - Fedorov, Ukraine's former defense minister.

[Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer]

The chief economist at Russia’s second-largest bank has been fired after a series of critical comments about the state of the economy, including warnings that Moscow would not win a prolonged economic war with Ukraine
https://t.co/HbHdPw1Dpa

[Hiba Nasr @HibaNasr]

‼️ WSJ: Arab intelligence officials have picked up evidence of a strategic shift inside the country’s hard-line leadership to get their forces ready to widen the war … Iran’s leaders are increasingly talking about offensive operations on enemy territory. https://t.co/0ahHgiw8LA

[Przemek Chojecki | PC @prz_chojecki]

UnsolvedMath - a curated list of open math problems for AI to solve - just got a new update with 3,359 open problems coming from AIM workshops.

Total Problems: 8,785

This time, as an experiment, before integrating new problems we've run a GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh instance over each problem.

That has produced roughly 177 counterexamples, 174 full solutions and many new results, that are now available as a part of the dataset (properly annotated as AI-generated).

HuggingFace: https://t.co/dcjjpzK6PJ

Web interface + Forum: https://t.co/ljXnZ0VkDc

[Smallest Violin @XiaoVilin99]

A Yugoslav diplomat tells Stalin a joke.

[Azeem Sabzvari @Azeem_Sabzvari]

Saudi Arabia removes Battle of Khaybar from school textbooks along with any any mention of betrayal of Baju Qurayzah tribes in early Medina Islamic state.

[Mutlu Civiroglu @mutludc]

The Iran War Is Now About Who Blinks First Under Economic Pressure https://t.co/whDbDqaqI8

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Kind of insane that AI will solve the Riemann Hypothesis before desktop printers become usable by a normal person

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors”

For decades, chemists have relied on handbook values for a molecule’s boiling point to identify substances and plan processes such as distillation. But an artificial-intelligence model has revealed that some trusted numbers in one reference database have been wrong all along.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Extracts from 11 Aug article in Spectator by Andrew Gilligan:

After the Jason Arday disaster, here is new evidence that things have gone deeply wrong at Cambridge University.

We can reveal that a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, has been appointed assistant research professor of education at Cambridge, in the same faculty as Arday.

Ahmed is now responsible for postgraduate research in education at Britain’s top university, and for teaching undergraduate students, the future leaders of the profession, ‘how education shapes individuals and society.’

Farah Ahmed has explicitly attacked ‘western education’ as a ‘threat’ to Muslims, condemned democracy and integration, and criticised British schools for teaching pupils that child marriage is wrong.

During her time at Cambridge, she has written that the Islamic concept of education is sharply opposed to ‘gaining literacy and numeracy and other disciplinary skills demonstrated through qualifications’.

She attacks schools’ ‘attempts to integrate Muslim children’ as seeking to ‘produce new generations that reject Islam… if society is built on kufr [unbelief], it is our duty to tackle this challenge as a community in order to protect our young from its corruption.’

Worst of all, ‘religious tolerance is primarily pushed in religious education’, meaning that ‘Islam is taught as a religion like any other, putting its value on the same level as Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism and the like.’

Science is a problem too, because in the ‘teaching of evolution, Muslim children will be exposed to ideas that contradict Islam’. And in any subject, boys and girls may be asked to work together.