I have to admit I wasn't 100% surprised by this result news.uoregon.edu/heavy-drinki...

Selig is such a tool Good job NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

Learned a new word this week: deskilling

If ever you meet a prediction markets bro you can just go ahead and Hayek-mog them.

At math conference and a surprising portion of the olds are into AI

OpenAI has used a "general purpose reasoning model" to disprove that the square grid type construction is the best solution to the planar unit distance problem. I am sure the "AI is completely useless" crowd will now change their ways, right?

Visiting California, went for a run, saw some political signs, and this is totally a real person

Is it best to study political evolution through Eulerian or Lagrangian perspective?

Folks on X are talking and discovering that premium was just one giant rugpull. So tough to watch.

That time of year again woo hoo

As someone who blames lazy consumers for inflation, I'm looking to see where this goes www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

Undefeated

It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.

Democrats really need to explore more avenues for communication. There are very basic facts that should be on billboards.

ON WHAT GROUNDS ?

Is anyone's canvas not down?

Boosting this

MathSky: can anyone recommend an undergraduate abstract algebra textbook that does rings before groups?

I still can't believe they let me do this youtu.be/GReFkCQjq6U?...

The problem with thought experiments is how tainted the experimental results are by the thought

I just scrolled here for two minutes and did not see a single joke making fun of Richard Dawkins. Bluesky are you OK?

86 47 you ludicrous stooge

Update

I'm very confused as to how a private corporation can fine people? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Hardball it is

I think the left is going to come around to prediction markets as soon as we discover how easy it is to throw markets back in their Dunning Kruger faces

High schoolers are playing assassin– like 30 years ago, yes, but – you have to have an app, and in the app you have to have your location on and there are different paid premium tiers of the app; you can pay to ghost your location or expose others, and I'm finding myself becoming very nihilistic

Been enjoying watching odds of Patel out on Polymarket go up and to the right

How could anyone not love The New York Times?

Bluesky have fun with this one www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Prediction markets could come in super handy in November, when Trump is claiming the fake news, media is lying that he's losing. They might also accelerate the tech bros consolidating against Trump (which is good actually)

Absolute First Ballot Coperstown material right here

Prediction markets... Potential to help victims of things but can also be abused

Threaten war crimes. Do financial crimes. When you don't follow through on the war crimes, people won't notice the financial crimes. www.coindesk.com/markets/2026...

There's good uses for prediction markets

I really feel sorry for the people who don't let themselves appreciate the New York Times. This is brutal.

The number of crank theory papers I'm getting cold emailed as a math professor is ticking up Slopocalypse is real

The fun part about Satoshi conspiracy is that you can't get away from the underlying fact that Satoshi is real and has to be somebody

Nate Silver eatin crackers again

Someone out there is someone who was cool with the racism the election denialism the open corruption the prosecution of political enemies the incompetence the retributive approach to governance the war crimes but they reached their limit with the f word on Easter Sunday

The international standard has been set. This isn't hard.

A few folks have been asking "which views motherf*cker?" Here's a few 1) not everybody who disagrees with you is a transphobic Nazi 2) erring on the side of assuming good faith is OK actually

Humanities or bombs? Elections keep mattering.

Guys. Quantum computing is close to factoring 2^221. Let that sink in.

But let's be honest: there's a large cadre that basically cheers on chasing off any lib/centrist/academic who's the punchbag of the day. There's a culture of saying "fuck off back to X, then". And the anti- bedtime leftists set too much of the culture.

New York Times is now normalizing believing that you were magically teleported (while also running some stuff for FEMA). The framing here 😡. Shame on you, New York Times.

As Morgan Freeman once said "Bluesky is a fine place and worth the fighting for... I agree with the second part"