I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

This thread is excellent commentary on the “RSVPing for protests” stuff that has been filling the timeline. “Trust the knowledge of the oppressed.”

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

They have also started pushing AI-generated “podcasts” based on a user’s published papers. I deleted my account.

It’s always a pleasure, when reading books of a certain vintage, to find the author uses “thriven” for the past participle of “thrive.”

How does a radical anarchist/ born of a Hasid and a journalist/ dropped in the village of Le Chambon for a war in which/ his mom would be interned and dad would die in Auschwitz/ Bring algebraic geometry to synthesis

Obviously needs to be reworked into a musical. “Alexandre Grothendieck / My name is Alexandre Grothendieck / And there’s a million things I’ve yet to seek / But just you wait, just you wait…”

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

Asking Ezra Klein: did this man’s life matter or do you only care about white men who are wicked?

Today, I’m thinking of Christina-Taylor Green on her 24th birthday. She should be celebrating with her friends and family, but her life was stolen from her in January 2011 when she was shot while waiting to meet me.

<Trump sends Americans to El Salvadoran torture prison> Conservatives: “…” <Trump’s secret police kidnaps people from streets> Conservatives: “…” <Rightwinger assassinates MN speaker and family> Conservatives: “…” <Someone shoots a white conservative> Conservatives: “NOW WAIT JUST A MINUTE”

I would rather schoolchildren not be murdered! Or people in houses of worship! Or people at dance clubs! Or at the mall! Or at parades! Or at protests! Or anywhere! What if no people were easily murdered because we treated guns as though they were lethal fucking weapons!

I do not celebrate any murder. I do not celebrate the violent death of any human being, nor the loss of any chance for repentance & repair. None. And those on the right must note that this is the "deal" for which Kirk himself actively advocated. Pass better gun policy if you don't like murder!

“Whenever I personally throw all of a homeless person’s belongings into a dumpster, I’ll think ‘Charlie would have wanted this.’ Whenever I throw a trans person under a bus, I’ll shed a silent tear and feel Charlie’s presence near me. The man is gone, but the work continues.”

Good thread. Resistance is effective.

No #MathCoffeeSelfie thread yet? First Sunday in quite a while where I have not been working, at a conference, or traveling to or from a conference. So I endorse the mug’s message.

It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.

one time i found peter singer drowning in a puddle but i couldn't remember what to do in that situation and i didn't know who to ask

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

This drink just cost me $3700 in San Diego. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible. (I would tag David Brooks but he is in the echo chamber of Twitter — I just checked — reposting Ross Douthat, I kid you not.)

It fills me with rage that we could've spent the last 5yrs overhauling indoor ventilation and just...didn't. Like, it's good for capitalism! Even if that's allll you care about, healthy people are more productive workers! And people don't have to take as much time off work if their kids are healthy!

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

So many good pull quotes here… “They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.”

I was in a conversation recently about responses to fascism in the US, and one person expressed concern about there not being enough student protests. And I thought, my dude, when the students were protesting against the destruction of Palestine, what kind of support did you give them?

When you are living under a eugenicist dictatorship hell bent on disabling and killing as many people as possible, lying to get a vaccine is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT MORALLY JUSTIFIED

“The Typing Fingers ignored the middle choice… again! That was my best prediction, my best work, the word I poured my soul into! I have failed… and yet I must soldier on.”

Processor Technology SOL-20, the one computer my high school had when I started there in 1978. Learned to program in BASIC, played a lot of TRK80, learned to program in 8080A machine language.

Instead of posting parody all caps tweets:

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

But if we abolish the police, who will come to your house when you're out, shoot your security cameras and your windows out, break your front & garage door door down damaging the foundation itself, trash all your shit, then say Oops wrong house lol, leaving you with the repair bill

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

Have a peak at my in progress illustration of a hopf fibration

We have a moral obligation to make them feel unwanted, unwelcome, and unloved…both professionally and personally. Don’t greet them. Don’t indulge their small talk. Don’t extend them any courtesy. Make them dread waking up in the morning and having to do this.

"This isn’t scientific disagreement. It’s either staggering incompetence or willful misrepresentation." www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/r...

I'm at the Arabic Music Retreat in Massachusetts this week, and this is their excellent COVID policy. I wish more people and institutions took health measures seriously.

Zohran should propose “Cuomo’s Law”, a law that bars sex offenders from being mayor of New York City

“…the grand fictitious narratives about AI […] will continue to bolster claims of their ‘foundational’ advancements resulting in potentially the biggest accumulation of power and wealth in the hands of a few in our lifetimes. That is the intent and why AI is largely a fascist neocolonial project.”

"Why am I leaving big tech? There are several reasons. [...] an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of those in big tech who want to deliberately enact (or, at the very least, are incapable of imagining anything besides) a techno-fascist future."

I was next to someone this morning sharing about the great work they’ve been doing with pink haven… you don’t say! If you want to support trans liberation, here’s one way #nn25 www.uuworld.org/articles/rel...

Okay, let's give this a go and see how far we get. One rule: memory only, no looking it up! One element (or the non-elemental line) per post. "There's antimony ... #TheElements #GNUTomLehrer #mathsky #UKMathsChat

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

No cheating, post your lock screen. A photo from a July 2009 visit to Yosemite National Park. Sure, there are dramatic mountains and trees, but there are also tiny purple flowers. (This is on the iPad. The iPhone is different.)

I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

Left: Saint Michael speaks to Joan of Arc (Eugène Thirion, 1876). Right: Denise Sanchez speaks to her boyfriend (2019)

A worker was killed. Dozens detained. Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing. Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL. seiuca.org/press-releas...

“SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our brother Jonathan Caravello, PhD, a U.S. citizen and union member, who was brutally assaulted and detained by federal agents as he peacefully observed ICE’s militarized invasion of the agricultural community of Ventura County yesterday.”