[Abyss]

worry, on 13 August 2025 - 01:41 PM, said:

There's a blood god now?! I can't keep up.

this is why you need a Disney+ subscription.

[Grief]

I've just been offfered my dream job in the city where my partner lives. Turn up for the books. Life is great right now.

[Tiste Simeon]

Grief, on 02 September 2025 - 10:10 PM, said:

I've just been offfered my dream job in the city where my partner lives. Turn up for the books. Life is great right now.

Ah nice good news!

[Maark Abbott]

was at a convention in Brum recently. Had a lot of fun. Confused some wronguns with a ludicrous prop I brought. Was a good time.

[amphibian]

I celebrated one year with my partner. She's funny, wise, pretty, beloved by all, and brilliant at communicating. The year has absolutely flown by with joy and much sharing of lives and friends.

We're on the steady path to kids and a long life together. I'm thrilled and so is she.

[Slow Ben]

Hell yeah Amph. That’s awesome

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Great news for the future of humanity:

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Nonlocality-enabled photonic analogies unlock wormholes and multiple realities in optical systems

... but no, that doesn't mean it'll let us escape this timeline... however:

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Researchers have harnessed nonlocal artificial materials to create optical systems that emulate parallel spaces, wormholes, and multiple realities. [...]

"We're not building real wormholes or multiverses, but we're making these concepts practical for engineering," the researcher noted. "This could revolutionize a range of fields, from highly integrated photonic chips and compact optical systems to photonic information processing, by leveraging nonlocality as a new degree of freedom."

This breakthrough could transform integrated photonics by enabling denser optical devices without crosstalk and multiple functions coexisting in the same space.

By emulating high-dimensional physics, this work opens a gateway to multifunctional devices that transcend their dimensional constraints, heralding a new era for photonics and beyond.

Nonlocality-enabled photonic analogies unlock wormholes and multiple realities in optical systems

As transistors get smaller and smaller they're going to collide with the limits of quantum mechanics, requiring a switch to new technologies to improve computing power. The two leading candidates are photonics (for conventional computing) and quantum computers (for tasks where there's a quantum advantage).

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 21 October 2025 - 03:14 PM

[Tsundoku]

Something pretty cool.

Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood crashes couple’s wedding
It’s not everyday a massive star crashes your wedding, so it’s no surprise this Aussie couple got the shock of their lives when it happened to them.

https://www.news.com...6f96ba7dfd09928

[amphibian]

I have a physical copy of Lies Weeping, by Glen Cook, in my hands. I think I've been waiting 15 years for that. Wow.

[Slow Ben]

Tsundoku, on 30 October 2025 - 09:02 AM, said:

Something pretty cool.

Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood crashes couple’s wedding
It’s not everyday a massive star crashes your wedding, so it’s no surprise this Aussie couple got the shock of their lives when it happened to them.

https://www.news.com...6f96ba7dfd09928

That was awesome.

[Mentalist]

Got my hands on the new phone I ordered for my birthday.

it's snowing like crazy, so perfect excuse to do nothing and tinker with it.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

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Yes, I know my mind is a fickle little bee
doting on a thousand (and one (and one (and one...))) thoughts, but I'm getting
better at chasing my mind back to the moment

so I can see the spiderwebs making hammocks
the color of the moon. [...]

[...] Congratulations, Time. Look
at you and your gorgeous minutes full of everything.
Three cheers for the temp agency that hired this

particular day, these particular clouds, this set
of honking geese migrating through it. [...]

https://www.theatlan...nfusion/685012/

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 23 November 2025 - 07:09 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

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DeepSeek admits in a new technical paper on its latest models that closed-source proprietary models [...] advanced more rapidly over the past year than open-source models. This prompted DeekSeek to reevaluate how to push the boundaries of open-source large language models. [...] To address these deficiencies, DeepSeek said it made three "key technical breakthroughs" with its latest models. [...]

"[...] our high-compute variant, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, surpasses GPT-5 and exhibits reasoning proficiency on par with Gemini-3.0-Pro, achieving gold-medal performance in both the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad and the International Olympiad in Informatics,"

https://seekingalpha...e-openai-google

Take that, foul T(rump)iamat, coiled around your closed-source hoards!

[Macros]

happy/ scared

Just put an offer in on a house

[Cause]

In Cancun for a short vacation.

2 hours away from Chichen Itza. May look into visiting where the red court of vampires met their end.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Cause, on 02 December 2025 - 01:07 AM, said:

2 hours away from Chichen Itza. May look into visiting where the red court of vampires met their end.

So that's why the Mayans did all that ritual bloodletting and human sacrifice... it was draining down to all the vampires lounging in the shade underneath (or inside) the ziggurats.

[Tiste Simeon]

 Macros, on 01 December 2025 - 08:22 PM, said:

happy/ scared

Just put an offer in on a house

Ah congratulations! I take it's somewhere near the driving range?

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Macros, on 01 December 2025 - 08:22 PM, said:

happy/ scared

Just put an offer in on a house

Congrats!!

[QuickTidal]

Cause, on 02 December 2025 - 01:07 AM, said:

In Cancun for a short vacation.

2 hours away from Chichen Itza. May look into visiting where the red court of vampires met their end.

There's a much closer set of ruins at Tulum. It's not as impressive as Chichen Itza mind you, but it's still really cool. Enjoy! We love Cancun, and go every year.

[Abyss]

Cause, on 02 December 2025 - 01:07 AM, said:

In Cancun for a short vacation.

2 hours away from Chichen Itza. May look into visiting where the red court of vampires met their end.

get to the night market, have the corn served in styro cups, load it w whatever you see the locals using from the cart, thank me later.