I heard AI and its relationship to the economy recently described as “The wasting is masked because the tumor is growing so fast that the body isn’t losing weight.”

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

Grant Sanderson was scheduled to speak at Bridges 2025, but couldn't make it. Instead, he filmed a special behind-the-scenes and sneak preview of this video, which was partly finished, for the conference. I look forward to watching the final product! (Topic: Sol Lewitt + Burnside's lemma)

Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Nice oveerview of tiling notation from Craig Kaplan isohedral.ca/isohedral-ti... @isohedral.ca

RIP Graham Greene. To me he will always be Leonard, the shaman who came to town from time to time in Northern Exposure. I just rewatched my favourite episode in which he appears: “Three Doctors” (s5e01). bsky.app/profile/jord...

Montreal bagels > New York bagels. I will not be taking questions at this time.

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Lutefisk hotline: ya hey, what's the deal now? Sven: Ya, we ran out of lutefisk Lutefisk hotline: oh jeez Sven: oh jeez

Meet the spectre 👻 the first-ever true aperiodic monotile. For ages, no one knew if a single shape could tile the plane without ever repeating. This tiling uses just one tile, no reflections, has no patterns, and fills space perfectly. 🧶 🧮 #MathSky #embroidery #handembroidery

The Tall Guy has the single best (and funniest) sex scene ever filmed. Ever.

Still fails the test though this is the first model that got toward my actual art style. Even watermarked with my name?

Surprising no one, this is what the expropriated farmland is for. So we get huge use of electricity and water, which may negatively impact our communities, with very few jobs, and we give up food production. What do our elected officials think the win is here?

If you are an enemy of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting you are a villain. There’s nothing good about you.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Max Brodeur just presented our paper on smooth rolling knots at the Bridges Conference on Mathematics and the Arts. Max worked on this topic during his semester project together with Michele Vidulis and Liliane-Joy Dandy. More info here: go.epfl.ch/smooth_rolli...

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

How great was Tom Lehrer? In 2020, he moved his entire catalog into the public domain because he felt he'd made more than enough money off of it. Enjoy every Tom Lehrer album: tomlehrersongs.com

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Looking forward to meeting everyone in Eindhoven on Monday and to a great week of #MathArt!

Chekov’s Torment Nexus.

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Great news as we head into the long weekend ... Professor Craig S. Kaplan has been named a 2025 Fields Institute Fellow, an honour that recognizes his exceptional contributions to math, computational geometry and computer graphics, and their intersections with art. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-k...

At A2CAF today and I took this really great picture of @scottmccloud.bsky.social

I learned from her Patreon that Vi Hart has just deleted her 1.5M-subscriber YouTube channel. The worsening of YT’s policies for creators finally reached her breaking point. To help herd folks to her videos’ new home, here’s a link to an early favorite of mine. vimeo.com/showcase/116...

Talk to your kids about GenAI, because they’re probably not hearing anything negative about it. They have no idea it’s for losers who don’t mind destroying the earth because they can’t come up with their own words

Shocking conclusion available here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/neuron #smbc

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

14yo: Birds are all named either "Red-bearded Black-Bellied Finch," "Stupid Cocksucker," or "Wilson's Little Guy."

Now, I'm just a man living in the country, but I think if you live life right, no matter where you are, you can sell an imaginary version of your daily existence to bored middle class consumerists for a lot of money.

The new pope has a BS in mathematics from Villanova, which explains how he was so successful at becoming the largest cardinal.

How does perspective work in art and photography? In a new paper, we describes experiments suggesting answers to age-old questions about how people perceive perspective. 1/ #VisionScience
#Art #ArtHistory www.nature.com/articles/s41...

this is how I start all my research talks

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/alone-2

It’s the stupid, economy.

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I'm voting NO on the Republican shutdown bill. NO on handing Donald Trump and Elon Musk a blank check to spend your taxpayer money however they want. NO on cutting funding that helps families put food on the table and crack down on wealthy tax cheats. We need to push back.

Day 5, Discovery. The Spectre puzzle celebrating the discovery of the aperiodic monotile by @isohedral.ca and co. The chirality of the spectre tile was not just academic, but key to our ability to make such a puzzle with a truchet-esque pattern on it. n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

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Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com

We finally watched “Flow” — a lovely film about a rag-tag group of animals brought together in a world of magical realism. It is told without dialog, purely through animation. Worth watching! Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=82WW... Making of: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw-a... #movie #animation

Lovely people of BlueSky- I am editing a book on the use of the arts (including tech/anything creative) in maths education. If you would like to propose a chapter (could be about art,drama, coding, clothing design, musical theatre, poetry…whatever you like) then you can email me at [email protected] 📧