in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

For all Kings there exists a positive integer solution to xⁿ+yⁿ = zⁿ for n ≥ 3

like, I cannot be clear enough about this. they *already made her* get chromosome testing before she could compete. there is no rule you can have which will satisfy these people, the thing they want is to get to arbitrarily define "womanhood"

Software is expensive! Most of us cannot afford to come up with the one-time cost of their $24.99 lifetime license!

the serious answer is that we need a wholesale recommitment on the left to public higher education as a high quality low/no cost public good rather than a jobs training licensing agency. I do not anticipate this happening.

We had slop in my day too, it was called “designed by a committee” and it was widely derided

Wrapping up teaching my 7th year of graduate regression 🤯 Over the years I have developed a document I call the "Writing Guide to Linear Regression." I've made some updates to the inferences section, which I continue to develop. Have some good or bad examples? Send them my way! osf.io/egm3c/overview

This is right before Grandpa Simpson disavows Missouri and I think the sign deserves some love

Yeah it’s no accident that the people you meet who are most committed to learner-centered pedagogical innovation are also usually committed antifascists more broadly

I keep telling y'all to pay attention to accreditation. You think the higher ed moves we've seen so far are devastating...

In the millennial pain box (making a series of phone calls)

It may be a slug, but can *you* accurately recreate your car in GTA Online? #weirdcarbs

“Yeah yeah, ‘unalive him in Minecraft’,” he clarified

“Bringing in the Sleeves: Modesty Culture and Women’s Fashion in the 20th Century Church”

Honing the fine art of foul mouthed Bible memes

it's quite simple. phone is fake computer

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

Once you start imagining Trump’s utterances as attempts to manipulate markets rather than as any attempt to say true things, you capture like 96%+ of variance

At least I get to repost the greatest headline the Independent has ever run.

The irrationality will continue until insolvency improves

It is interesting how desperate markets are to believe him.

The old world is not just dying- we were all fundamentally wrong about the world. Even if you never trusted the system, you probably didn’t believe that the CIA would just let themselves be gutted or capital would be willing to destroy the world economy but here we are. And it broke us.

imagine going your whole life without sleeping under a blanket, and then sleeping under a blanket

What these admins will never tell you is that the *courses* in these majors are often full. Students don't *major* in these fields, but they really want to take the classes. They use number of majors as a metric on purpose so they can achieve their cuts.

TRUST THE PLAN, PATRIOTS

This is the story of being a lawyer in your 40s.

See also “algebra”, meaning all the cringey jokes likening it to Al-Qaeda are at least linguistically accurate

but how come when we walked from the bored ape yacht club to the polymarket bar there was only one set of footsteps in the sand? “thats when i ditched you because it was honestly getting pretty douchey” he replied

This is the funniest false positive for my labeller @facelabels.bsky.social so far

I know it's fun to make fun of Elon Musk but I hope everybody also knows that tweet is white supremacist signaling all the way down

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

You may like the movie CARS but did you ever consider that the cars in that CARS movie town definitely voted trump

My Boston Globe op-ed this morning asks: why is Massachusetts Governor Healy nominating so many former prosecutors to the bench despite strong evidence that prosecutorial backgrounds can worsen bail and detention outcomes?

hey soul sister

As a prof of physics, I cannot tell you how fucking unhinged it is to want to fuck one of your students. The power differential is enormous & often, so is the age difference. There is nothing sexy about someone who is basically still a kid. Yet things like this happened to me when I was a student

“employees are more-or-less forced to trust AI uncritically to meet the workload demand.” This is my leading theory for the demand-push side of AI. I think it applies to students as often as not too. The macroeconomy right now puts untenable workloads on all of us- AI use is a coping mechanism.

Kat can still win if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing

Sickens me that there were apparently *multiple* Chicago-area math guys in 2005 attempting to use puns on the word “bundles” for courtship purposes

I've been getting quite a few questions from press, etc. and so wrote up something a little bit longer here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

People are characterizing this as a situation in which Wachspress describes the inappropriate relationship as beginning after Daniel Biss was no longer her teacher. No. That's not what she's describing.

Conservatives.

Signs of spring, ranked. An older comic. Feel free to argue with my ranking.

Trump selecting from among his favorite Lindsays

Film "buffs" and teachers who swear by the 100-point grade scale have this in common. It's not called objectivity theater for nothing

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."