K-On! is an anime about cute little girls, yet it attracts some of the most hateful people on the internet. All Twitter users and forum goers live in fear of the K-On! pfp, and its unhinged takes on the world.

But surely this doesn’t make any sense? How does something so cute, so bubbly, and so pure attract such extreme views and maladjusted behavior? Let’s figure it out together, in this shorter video.

Full index of the world’s biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles

Author proposes the use of software transactional memory to replace semaphores.

A brief theory of young men, “the loneliness crisis,” and life in the 21st century

Nice quote:

The first half of the twentieth century was about mastering the physical world, the first half of the twenty-first has been about escaping it.

An interview with the social psychologist Adam Mastroianni about American aloneness and why the secret to great conversations is … “doorknobs.”

via: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/you-say-potato-i-say-leprosy

i need to create something so beautiful that i’m forgiven for everything

The triune brain was a once popular model of the evolution of the vertebrate forebrain and behavior, proposed by the American physician and neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean in the 1960s. The triune brain consists of the reptilian complex (basal ganglia), the paleomammalian complex (limbic system), and the neomammalian complex (neocortex), viewed each as independently conscious, and as structures sequentially added to the forebrain in the course of evolution.

This is where the “lizard brain” jokes come from, as far as I understand.

No matter how hard we try to axiomatise mathematics, there will always be strong, independent propositions that don’t need no proofs… but how do we show that a proposition can’t be proven nor disproven?

In general, if you’re trying to prove something, you can think of the various techniques and tools you have much like chess moves or Hanabi lines. Just like in turn-based games, you’ll find there are dead ends, e.g. trying to apply so-and-so theorem to reduce the problem to proving X, but X turns out to be false. Or there will be lots of paths that look more promising, but you can’t see far enough into the future to completely evaluate them all, and then you have to use heuristics and intuition to prioritize between approaches.

Medicine loves guidelines. But everywhere else, guidelines are still underappreciated.

via: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2025/11/17/how-to-diy-new-scientific-protocols/

The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer, who stated that there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”.

via: https://www.are.na/block/36987735

do you want to train yourself to be an editor of LLM-generated text? Or do you want to learn how to think more clearly and express yourself better through the medium of writing?

Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.

The “sweater curse” or “curse of the love sweater” is a term used by knitters and crocheters to describe the belief that if a knitter or crocheter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, it will lead to the recipient breaking up with the knitter.

The Quantum Bicycle Society (or Quicycle, for short) is an international physics think tank. It was founded by Dr. John G. Williamson (CERN/Philips Research Laboratories/Glasgow University) and Dr. Martin B. van der Mark (Philips Research Laboratories).

We are a group of free thinkers who aim to throw light onto things that matter, and to continue our mutual education beyond the post-doctoral level. We seek to develop mind-tools that enable human thinking, both inwards, into the inner workings and structure of the “elementary” particles of the standard model, as well as outwards, into the cosmos and its workings.

The video discusses an model for the internal structure of the electron that is not aligned with the opinions and views of main-stream physics.

Very beautiful theory. I wonder what is needed to test it.

Nice set of videos on the theory of ordinals and their application to Goldstein sequences.