Every American needs to watch this:

Sadly, this actually sounds totally possible.

#GVerse 😂😱🤣

Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head. That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I used to regularly drive between the SF bay area and the Florida panhandle, but I havn't done it for a while. This week however: Crawfordville, FL at 1pm ET on Monday to Cherryland, CA at 8pm PT on Wednesday. 2,556 miles, 4 time zones in a 2011 Honda Odyssey.

Sabine Hossenfelder, my favorite theoretical physicist, just posted a new paper arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11037 with this zinger at the end: "Acknowledgements I acknowledge help from ChatGPT 5 for literature research as well as checking this manuscript. I swear I actually wrote it myself."

The bird dance for the ages

The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier Than You Think newrepublic.com/article/1962... via @newrepublic.com

Why the one big beautiful bill is the single ugliest you can imagine open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas newrepublic.com/article/1839... via @newrepublic.com

By way of introducing myself, an explanation of my handle. First, there are way too many 'Pat Hayes's (google it), so I needed something extra, and all the obvious ones have already been used. But long ago, while I was AAAI President, and hence something of a public figure in the AI world...

bsky.app/profile/did:... If you haven't used this one I definitely suggest you do. 👇💙👩‍🍳🏳️‍⚧️

A right triangle has sides (a, b, c) where c is the hypotenuse. Scale up three copies by respectively a, b and c to get similar triangles with sides: (a|2, ab, ac) (ab, b|2, bc) (ac, bc, c|2) then the first two fit exactly inside the third, sides a|2 and b|2 fitting exactly into c|2. QED

Just read "Hidden Harmonies" by Robert & Ellen Kaplan, a history of Pythagoras' theorem woven into a kind of humanist hymn in praise of number theory and geometry, a great read. I learned two new (to me) proofs of Pythagoras, one of them stunningly simple, see next post.