math teacher domme named Lowest Common Denominatrix

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

Obviously I talk a lot about bike/ped safety. But something that is really crazy is how much less safe you *in a car* since 2010. In spite of all the additional safety technology, vehicle occupants are less safe today than they were 15 years ago.

three booty problem

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know) Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns. I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.

If you ever feel bad about your low cumulative citation count, just take heed that if you add up every citation of yours from now until the end of time it will be less than this 2-page article on the Tidyverse.

Probably should’ve posted the Ai statement separately - not sure how it displays with the rest. It’s not so different from what I originally posted, but prefer people get the final version. Have at it & hope it’s useful to you in your classes. All on my site here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Not quite as good, but Welsh uses coblyn ("goblin") as an intensifying expletive: Mae'n goblyn o beth "it's a hell of a thing" Mynd fel y coblyn "go like the clappers" Be goblyn?! "What the hell?!" Goblyn o ddim byd "f*ck all"

TIL that in Irish you can use the word 'demon' as a negative quantifier and it's called "demonic negation" (McCloskey 2009), e.g. Dheamhan duine a bhuaileann sé. demon person that hits he 'Not one person does he hit.' 🐦🐦🐦

i like reading because it makes me forget i exist

Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week

Everyone stop, this is important

It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.

This is it exactly! If you use AI to any extent, you are my enemy! It is not ok and I do not forgive you!

realtor confidently told my girlfriend "let me just ask chatgpt" whether popcorn ceilings have asbestos and i fully laughed out loud at him before i could suppress it

Thank you for this! Lately I've had some people admonish me that my attitude towards AI makes some people feel bad about their choices. I'm going to send them this because they *should* feel bad about their choices, and, more crucially, they should make better choices

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Obviously the answer to this question is no, but more importantly, I will not take a question like this seriously until it is demonstrated to me that the makers of LLM technology, and their boosters in business and the media, have even the slightest concern for the suffering of actual human beings.

What's your favorite secular version of a worship song?

I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own. Now, we continue fulfilling that promise. Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.

Everyone's screaming about how the left doesn't compromise and I keep saying I will vote for this guy. I am a communist who will vote for a billionaire. Centrists, tell me about even one instance when you have compromised like anything close to this. Or at all.

Ye gods, the machine captions. 😱 They were so bad that I've actually managed to suppress that memory. As Elizabeth Bear wrote earlier, it's heart-wrenching to see <unintelligeble> on screen when an award winner thanks their family. 😭

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

Oh shit the heterosexual family unit is also a labor relation

This, actually works. For me at least.

I think my current laptop will have to be the last PC I ever buy, if this is where Windows is headed. 11 is a terrible OS, and the future one sounds even worse. I hate Macs, but if it's not deluged with AI slop, I'll switch over in a heartbeat.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Kind of feel like it should be bigger national news that the poorest major city in the country is being forced to accept devastating service cuts to our public transit system because PA Republicans actively hate Philly and want to cause us pain

deep fryer is broken call that a tempural anomaly

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

Weird Alt Text Yankovic

The imminent loss of mass-transit in Philadelphia is going to be catastrophic. You can’t run a city like this. wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisi...

This sux! But I think it's likely very sort-out-able. The nonprofit mentioned in this post ⬇️ is solid. Contact them thru their web form and they'll advise. They're very knowledgeable. Her following post links to the book "Never Pay the First Bill." Also excellent. The public library has it.

That moment when you’re reading a good book and you come across…yourself?! Honored to be in conversation with you @kvanaren.bsky.social @maris.bsky.social. Everyone else, read I WANT TO BURN THIS PLACE DOWN bookshop.org/p/books/i-wa...

is your workplace trying to force ai on you? is a family member giving ai too much power in their life? are you sick of billionaires destroying the environment and making life worse for everyone? here's a list of resources 10+ pages long to help you fight back: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

One thing we’re going to see a *lot* of: Pieces that appear to explore an intellectually provocative question inspired by AI, but that assume a premise (in this case “friendship with a chatbot is possible”) that’s a) nonsensical and b) perfectly aligned with the aims of AI marketing

This stuff is basically propaganda, and probably more dangerous than more obvious propaganda, because it performs the overcoming of objections to AI in a way educated readers are meant to find aspirationally sophisticated

The core of my idea is that knowing is an act people do together. This isn’t about who controls the computers or data, whether the systems are open, or even whose labor is misappropriated. Any of these arrangements could be changed, but the problem remains that LLMs restructure our social relations

what about a Male Loveliness Epidemic

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

The "Alt NOAA" account is currently spreading misinformation about weather alerts and claiming that cell phone alerts don't exist and you have to have a weather radio. Cell phone alerts absolutely do exist, check your settings to make sure you didn't turn them off. www.fcc.gov/public-safet...

“We HAD to hurry up and run the story, otherwise it would have gone to the guy who brags about how easy we are to manipulate” should, for most people, be the moment they realize they’ve been conned.

Wow. They've literally reproduced my cover from "Fantastic Four: First Family"! C'mon, @marvelcomicshqs.bsky.social , that's got to be worth a couple of free tickets.

one thing that has slightly slipped through the cracks is that yesterday Trump said that 9,982 out of every 10,000 people are autistic

There should be a corner at Home Depot where a guy with a table saw will slice you off custom lengths of hot dog from an infinite hot dog coming out of the wall