The Anthropic announcement of a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture has also had some suspicions raised this week: arxiv:2609.05746 page 160.

I see we also need Picard's wise words: "Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life"

Happy Birthday Star Trek!

That would be illogical.

The one I'm most interested in is the Hadamard conjecture. So far all we've had is a dump of some matrices at sizes which were previously open. This is an area where some people were putting in some effort, although it's a while since the last progress - in 2004, a couple of researchers published a solution for size 428. What we really want is to know (a) how exactly these new matrices were found: was it just throwing lots of computational power at known approaches or is there a new idea? And (b) is there a proof of the conjecture or just some gap-filling in the databases of known sizes with solutions?

For sure. BTW - I've never seen someone type with a Scottish accent.

Not at all, more that when sexuality is used as an instrument in hard sci fi, for example in Greg Bear's "Anvil of Stars" it's used in such a way that makes Discovery look tame. Otherwise it's simply irrelevant.

I'll see your TOS and B5 and raise you Blake's 7 - which also created the long story arc to tackle ideas like a powerfully dystopian society.

Which ironically fit's into Star Trek Cannon so perfectly it should be a part of star trek, or star trek should be part of Blake's 7.

It's what happens when you stop sleeping.

Isn't that the show with Captain Janeway in it?

Most people don't read hard sci fi where sexuality is an also ran to much bigger ideas. Discovery made it about sexuality in an in your face way which kind of obliterated some of the really good sci-fi that was in it. SNW seems to have left that behind which is in line with what you're saying probably because it's boring and slightly annoying.

Exactly. All we have to do is remember Captain Kirk's wise words: "We will not kill, TODAY!"

Being trapped in a binary star system while telepathic beings project their requests for hydrogen so they too can escape isn't woke. It's interference with the brainwave modes required for sleep.

Being awake all the time is bad sometimes you need to be asleep so you don't go mad.

The first sentence of TFS says

and instead see only posts from people and creators they follow

It's not about sorting but about filtering.

Ugly bags of mostly water.

GDPR, Article 4, clause 2, my emphasis:

‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

So your premise is in direct contradiction with the letter of the law.

What does citizenship have to do with it? Does your constitution say that foreigners can be considered guilty until proven innocent?