With just 2 more rounds to play, GMs Matthias Blübaum, Alireza Firouzja, Vincent Keymer and Anish Giri are now tied for 1st place in the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025, while GM Kateryna Lagno managed to maintain her half-point lead in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss.

I was thinking about Dad today because it’s 9/11.

He came with us to Seoul when we picked up my eldest. Our first adoption. He hadn’t been since the army. ‘58. A lot fewer bullet holes and a lot more buildings, he said. We had a blast.
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Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Lichess is for everyone, chess is for everyone!

#pride #pridemonth

Omg, 😍.

“This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.”

owlsintowels.org

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Live such that your dick will never be described in court."

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

In other words, when you ask for example “do vaccines cause autism?” you are looking for information about whether a thing in the world (a vaccination) produces an outcome (autism). But the LLM can only answer “what words could sound right after this?”

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

I was so excited for the top section of the Grenke Open until I realized they're playing a variant

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Carissa Yip's games are such a pleasure to follow!
Position after 23.Bxc5 in the game Thalia Cervantes Landeiro - Carissa Yip.
Carissa continued 23... Rb3! 24.Bxf8 Rxf3! and after 25.gxf3 Nf4, Black won quickly.
#womeninchess

I wonder if a billionaire means personal liberties and free markets in the same way i do

Start a big dumb project that's going to go nowhere. It's fun. It's pointless. It's like gambling with free lottery tickets. Any of this shit you just make up could become a bestseller. Give into the literary hysteria in 2025.

GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker