Another way to think of the Framework fiasco, perhaps: I'm not naive. I don't think that when, say, I bought my XPS 13, Dell didn't send some percentage of that to the Koch brothers or whatever fascist du jour. But I live in a society, and I needed a laptop. Framework's whole *thing*, their […]

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁 @carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️ ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

Great job opportunity in a fantastic department which I can't recommend enough: a great place to work. (I'm still there after almost 30 year.) https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/1349/0/457569/15539/assistant-professor-in-mathematics/

#sagemath https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/40890

@chris__martin Hiawata Song, translated very nicely by a well-known early 20th century Russian poet and writer, Bunin, keeping the poetic meter etc, was compulsory reading in Soviet schools. Maxim Gorky, a bolshevik writer, produced Stromy Petrel Song, in exactly the same meter... (not kept in […]

I really do want to know though, are you aware of the economic protectionist measures taken by native american tribes and what do you think of them

my hobby is producing takes that absolutely nobody wants to respond to

[plea for a maths pdf] could please someone help me to a pdf /ebook of A Course in Real Algebraic Geometry Claus Scheiderer ISBN: 9783031692130 A Course in Real Algebraic Geometry, Springer 2024 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-69213-0 I can apparently only get a hard copy […]

@dpiponi I particularly enjoyed this part: On Saturday, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund who has been representing the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in talks about the war in Ukraine with the Trump administration, wrote on X that he “had very positive discussions […]

You always thought Republicans were all Nazis but now you know for sure: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/oklahoma-republicans-charlie-kirk

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h1b-visa-bill-100000-fee/

I feel like I'm not optimally using #obsidian - well I know, because I do not; I don't have a single extension. Anything you want to especially recommend? Cheat sheets. Extensions. Workflows. Automations. Etc. Links explicitly allowed, written tutorial preferred over videos, but will accept […]

[from macOS porting trenches: SNAFU all over again] so you think Apple has released macOS 26? Ha, try installing it on an Intel mac. It will install without complaining, but ,`uname` will think it's version 24, and won't install the latest Xcode for you. And for a good reason, cause if you do […]

Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender? https://phishyurl.com/ Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting link #infosec

The thing that matters most to Musk is feeling like he's the smartest person in the room and now he's found the Tommy Robinson crowd he can finally live his dream.

I cannot. Just. No. Saying "but don't forget to follow your universities rules!" does absolve the authors of this book, published by Springer, of their responsibility

Trump regime's disgusting treatment of the Korean workers in Georgia seems designed to torpedo all foreign investment in the U.S. Reminder: They were almost certainly treated better than most of the people ICE is kidnapping and disappearing […]

Locked box with a scribbled note inside: 1. anita sarkisanisn 2. ex wife 3. karl (guy at gym) (eat shit karl) 4. trans (all) 5. hilary clinton 5. guy in apartment above (suspect jew?) 5. rest of jews 5. femininsm

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

wrote about Charlie Kirk's history of promoting political violence. if you want to oppose political violence, you need to repudiate the attack on Kirk, but you also need to be honest about what he advocated for, and not celebrate that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/whitewashi...

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

european friends: do european countries have Authorities who issue Advice on food preservation, particularly canning? for example, in the US, the US Dept of Ag and various research universities (esp Univ of Georgia) research safe canning methods and tell us what is safe, not safe, etc.

"#bluesky's #tos contain a "binding arbitration" waiver that forces users to surrender the right to sue Bluesky no matter how the company harms them. This is so pro-enshittificatory, it's like a landing strip for the sole use of Enshittification Airlines, which can land a 747 full of […]

Just published a comprehensive FreeBSD Cheat Sheet for Linux Admins! Covers all the essentials: - Hardware info (pciconf → lspci) - Network commands (sockstat is amazing!) - Disk management & ZFS operations - Service management differences - Package management across systems Perfect for Linux […]

This paper on matroid bingo is really cool: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02832 Some completely reasonable constraints you might want to apply to bingo turn out to be the axioms for a matroid. I also like the dual Fano matroid in section 2.5. It gives a perfectly "fair" bingo game.

Springer now demand that your pre-acceptance version of a paper on the arXiv comes with a disclaimer: “This preprint has not undergone peer review (when applicable) or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in insert journal title] […]

“Misschien leuk om te noemen dat het de vorige twee keer door een AI-stem werd gepresenteerd, dus dat ik een van de weinige mensen ben die een baan heeft overgenomen van een robot.” 😅 https://delta.tudelft.nl/article/bij-delftse-opening-academisch-jaar-is-harde-realiteit-even-heel-ver-weg

[University IT blues, Office365] Is there some kind of organised resistance against wholesale push to Office365 use? Everywhere I heard about it, and nowhere I hear about the real reasons for it, apart from "efficiency", "security", "industry standards", etc. In my case, I find it impossible […]

our backyard is in good paws

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

got some changes to the "git-rebase" man page merged into Git, hoping it will be a bit clearer for future people reading the docs https://github.com/git/git/commit/e345b776f6bdbc48b54f80f2bb990caf36a95a48

@dimpase That sort of publisher's crap is of course why Knuth created TeX.

As ordered: Comments: PDFLaTeX, 19 pages, 5 tables, accepted to Special Matrices (De Gruyter Brill), withdrawn by the authors due to severe typesetting quality issues on the publisher's side #texlatex https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18897

I recently dumped by notes on modulus of convergence for hypergeometric functions on my website. I also had some thoughts on numerical accuracy. Not very valuable thoughts, but thoughts nonetheless. For those who are wondering why anyone would care, many math libraries such as GSL, boost, and […]

Norwegian home invasion.

Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3

Compelling summary of the reality and consequences of America's slow-motion (but accelerating) social and economic self-destruction: https://sjgenco.medium.com/riding-the-trump-train-to-the-end-of-the-american-line-74a4ff0173e8 It will take generations to repair the damage even if the will is […]

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

python packaging is a nightmare, part $n+1$ #python #meson#python https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson-python/pull/792

python tooling is insane. a version constraint on a build dependency has to be mentioned in three different places... https://github.com/contourpy/contourpy/pull/498

In case you weren't there, but are curious; the lecture notes are available here https://github.com/tomdjong/MGS-categorical-realizability/blob/main/MGS-categorical-realizability.pdf?raw=1

It was both a pleasure and a privilege to deliver 5 90-min blackboard (!) lectures on Categorical Realizability to 20–30 students and fellow lecturers at the European Summer School in #Logic, Language and Information (#esslli#logic. I really enjoyed the interaction with all attendees and appreciated […]

I am an old man. I regularly yell at clouds. "https://nxdomain.no/~peter/elvis_solaris_ai_mythmaking.html" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/elvis_solaris_ai_mythmaking.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/elvis-is-alive-how-ai-stunts-modern.htmltracked ) #elvis #solaris #unix #ping #networking #ai […]

Summer Undergraduate Internship - Boosts Welcome! Are you a senior undergrad, interested in Programming Languages? Do you want to visit Canada for a paid 12-week internship? I have three MITACS projects which are looking for undergraduate interns to work on: * Flexible Pattern Matching in […]

To people crying socialism, this is not something the government has decided. It's been negotiated between McDonald's Denmark and the workers' union. To everyone whining abt taxes: In Scandinavia (and the EU), nobody needs to work two or three jobs or > 40 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A welcome surprise from the NY Times' most relentless normalizer of extremism, Peter Baker: an "analysis" that calls the Trump regime's war on reality what it is, albeit more politely than the regime deserves. https://archive.ph/Ss3Pj

Claims of AI proving "previously unproven mathematical conjecture" are exaggerated. The conjecture had been proved in 2023, see Theorem 3.10 in: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06058v1

Apple is up to its usual tricks here, price-gouging parts replacement. https://www.404media.co/apple-is-selling-ipad-repair-parts-for-astronomical-prices