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Adam Aaronson
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My thoughts on Elon's Grokipedia as a Wikipedia editor, and—because Grokipedia has copied nearly verbatim many of my Wikipedia pages—inadvertently, a Grokipedia editor.

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October 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reposted by Adam Aaronson
I'm giving a talk here! Come see me talk about Square Theory with some never-before-presented twists
October 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm giving a talk here! Come see me talk about Square Theory with some never-before-presented twists
October 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Got a puzzle triple header today

- Crossword for @nytimes.com
- Crossword for @billboard.com (kicking off Latin week)
- Alphadots for @bloomberg.com (where all 7 puzzles this week will be by me)
October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Here's a crossword I made #nytxw
October 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This one's for the all the numerologyheads www.billboard.com/p/billboard-...
October 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My second crossword for @billboard.com! Taylor Swift week continues apace
October 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Had a blast at the inaugural WikiGameJam this past weekend hosted by @wikimediafoundation.org @wikimedianyc.bsky.social! Great crowd of creative tech + wiki + game people, and a great chance to lock in on a project (which won the "Most Likely to Keep Me Coming Back for More" award!)
October 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
NEW NEWS: I'm making music-themed crosswords for @billboard.com!

Solve the inaugural one, constructed by me and inspired by a certain album that dropped today:

www.billboard.com/p/billboard-...
October 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Adam Aaronson
🎉 new release today: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal @natanlast.bsky.social

read more: parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill...

and play around with it: fillharmonics.com
Fill Harmonics, the crossword puzzle music machine
Today I’m releasing Fill Harmonics, a music machine that takes its rules and styling from the world of crossword puzzles. The name is a pun: in crossword lingo, “fill” is the stuff that goes into the ...
parkerhiggins.net
September 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by Adam Aaronson
I wrote about how Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
www.theverge.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I made a trombone for HTML Day @htmlenergy.bsky.social

aaronson.org/trombone/
August 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm in this! Along with lots of other fun and cool people!
~new newsletter about fun weird internet stuff~

every month my friend justin and I:
* write down everything our friends made
* bother them until they write a little blurb

the first issue features mads mikkelsen, kind of

newslettergoeshere.substack.com/p/projects-f...
August 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by Adam Aaronson
Adam Aaronson drank every cocktail: or, at least, all 102 listed in the International Bartenders Association's official list https://aaronson.org/blog/i-dr...
I Drank Every Cocktail
The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bartending industry has to a canonical list of cocktails, akin to the American Kennel Club’s registry of dog breeds or a jazz musician’s Real Book of standards.
aaronson.org
July 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I drank every cocktail on the IBA official cocktail list, and I wrote some words about it

aaronson.org/blog/i-drank...
I Drank Every Cocktail
The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bar...
aaronson.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Just a couple of guys who made a crossword. #NYTXW
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Made another @newyorker.com crossword. This one's for the bookworms
June 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Borg chart
June 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Jim Acosta macOS Tahoe
🤝
MACOSTA
June 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
How it started / how it's going @rickycruz.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 2:02 AM
New blog post! At the intersection of language and... abstract math

aaronson.org/blog/square-...
Square Theory
The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, som...
aaronson.org
May 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Made my @bloomberg.com Businessweek magazine debut with a stock-flavored word puzzle! Catch it on the last page of the June issue
May 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
PUZZLE: Two complementary crossword tournament solving divisions anagram to European capitals. What are they? (no spoilers)
May 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Helium balloons float because He is risen
April 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM