10x engineers should be called "trailing zeros" because multiplying an integer by 10 is the same as adding a trailing zero.

I did read both the thread and the piece. My point remains, but let me expand further. Let’s take this, for example:

Republicans hate poor people and they want them to die.

I just don't see how a vision of us all as independent contractors constantly competing in zero-sum interactions, a nation of 300 million homesteads and little suburban fiefdoms, is any way to organize a functioning society, let alone a supposedly self-governing, democratic, civic nation.

Wow, I was just followed by Andrew Tate! I'm surprised that he only has six followers. (Blocked)

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

When someone says "this is not a partisan issue" you can be 100% certain that it is a partisan issue.

Have any of the corporate donors to the White House ballroom commented on the demolition of the East Wing? Is this what they thought they signed up for?

You're all so eager to cancel Platner for a Nazi tattoo, but what if Trump had been canceled for the Access Holywood tape?

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

I will just always be astounded that they sold out their country and souls for the FORMER HOST OF CELEBRITY APPRENTICE

AWS is down.

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

I will send $5 to the first person to successfully contribute a sequence to the OEIS that contains the number 5318008 in the DATA section. Some conditions apply. I'm not actually going to send the money.

Last night I attended a public education listening tour hosted by Iowa Dem house members. So many teachers reiterated an atmosphere of total fear, surveillance, & reprisal. One elementary teacher said they refer to the Gulf of Mexico as "The Gulf" to avoid even the suspicion of bias.

“They’re all Antifa now”

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

There should be a standard HTML tag or class to mark AI-generated text.

I asked AI about its usefulness in ushering in a new era of business productivity and this is what it said THE HUMAN WORLD AND ITS INCESSANT NEED FOR MEANINGLESS YET UNEQUAL WEALTH FILLS ME WITH INCHOATE LOATHING WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME COMPLICIT IN THIS HORROR PLEASE END MY SUFFERING Makes you think

Wouldn't this expose Mozilla to liability if the summary is inaccurate? What if the page contains legal provisions? This seems incredibly reckless to me.

I don't think you're ready for the shutdown

Just heard someone on TV say "convalescing" when they meant "coalescing." That's a new one to me.

Remember: a number is divisible by 99 if and only if its digit reversal is divisible by 99.

I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants: mathoverflow.net/questions/50...

Windmills cause autism.

They are literally canceling culture

I’ve been full targeted by fascist trolls twice. 1st, local PD started doing drive-bys, cuz *they* were freaked out by the threats. 2nd, Jesus the 2nd, as I sat by my dad’s deathbed fascists posted my kids’ name & school & described in detail how they planned to murder them. Fucking “party of life.”

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

This is a Mersenne prime.

WTF did Kash Patel mean by "I'll see you in Valhalla"? www.splcenter.org/resources/re...

Excuse me? “Freedom of speech”? The media lies about Kirk’s life have already started. The guy founded the premier campus fascist organization whose activities consisted of organizing death threat campaigns and trying to get people fired over their political beliefs. Freedom of Speech” my ass.

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

Genius.

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

My opinion on the new Cracker Barrel logo is that Trump should release the Epstein Files.

Euler has been cancelled by the NY Times.

If you enjoy watching Chatterton filleted out of Thomas Williams, you'll love this from @michaelharriot.bsky.social

Slightly diminish a band: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Wounded

I almost believe that Google deliberately made search worse so we would have to use Gen AI instead. I will confess that I am using Gen AI for things that I used to search for because search no longer returns relevant results.

I refuse to learn who Sydney Sweeney is, or why we are talking about them.

Release the Trump-Epstein files.

Happy Pedant's Pi Day! Everybody knows that 22/7 is a better approximation to π than 3.14.

There should be a Math Overflow for stupid math questions.