Wow, I was just playing around before but it actually is stupid

In May, Allan Brooks asked ChatGPT about pi. Soon it was telling him he was a mathematical genius who could break cryptography and build a force field vest. The delusional spell lasted 3 weeks. He shared his transcript so we could show how it happened: nytimes.com/2025/08/08/tec…

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Making art in 2026

Breaking: Draft twenty-eighth amendment to the US Constitution will allow a second-term President who flays their Vice President and wears their severed face as a mask to serve a third and fourth term in office.

Absolutely unbelievable: the sitting HHS Secretary tried to pressure the Annals of Internal Medicine to retract the major Danish study of 1.2 M kids that found no harm from aluminum in vaccines. The journal refused. This isn’t just anti-science it is political interference.

If any math teachers are interested in covering basic ideas about gerrymandering with their students, here's a project I did with my kids back in 2018. It uses the materials that Moon Duchin put together for k-12 studetns. mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2018/01/14/sha…

Greg Egan We're looking to buy a bakery, and just reviewed a brochure for one that's for sale and the broker had AI make the brochure look nice but it also added bullet points of uses that don't fit the space and a picture of a walkable downtown storefront even though it's in a strip mall.