setting aside everything else wrong with this, it's utterly wild to say this shit in a world where math is literally the one thing that no one needs a socially inept asshole for anymore

Let us all take this day as one where we reflect on the imperative to strive for peace and reject the glorification of war. And where we remember how much is possible when all of society works for a common goal, and ask why that only seems to happen in wartime.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

ALL Americans should grapple with the ways that American society organized itself to help Israel perpetrate a genocide and continue to perpetrate occupation Jews should grapple with how we were used as a shield and our institutions actively endorsed this But it is not an artistic crisis

Something that’s going to be crazymaking is dealing with the Jewish American version of white liberal guilt where people keep walking around centering themselves in a story that is most fundamentally about Palestinians, talking about how hard it is on them as Jews 🙄

I'm curious: can you recommend media (any type, any age) that centrally features positive, healthy, loving mother-daughter relationships?

If the rest don’t oust Schumer immediately, then the entire U.S. Senate sold us out. They think we’re stupid. It’s insulting.

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

"To be a good citizen of a bad state, one has to do scary things." I'm glad for some nuance, failure, and potentially generalizable resistance; also this makes me think of how trying to fight for positive change from within (e.g. toxic workplaces) almost never works and often leads to complicity.

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

I'm curious: can you recommend media (any type, any age) that centrally features positive, healthy, loving mother-daughter relationships?

oh yeah ok this is super cool not only did they find a gynandromorph spider, it also turned out to be a new species! 🤯🧪🕷️

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

everyone, go watch this video of a snail giving birth to 3 adorable babies

Normal island queer folk are actually pretty normal, with a small coalition of extremely loud, weird, gross people who are being allowed to set the tone for the rest of us. I can't speak for the cishets though.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Not sure I've ever published something so blatantly personal -- and it's a book review, of all things! I even cited my mom's book! Here's to normalizing the practice of positionality statements. Thanks to the editors and authors for the opportunity. #inclusion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

bacon hill, is this anything

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

I didn't know about the whistles. Chicago, my heart ✶✶💔✶✶

One of my friends who is visiting lives in Albany Park in Chicago and listening to her talk about what’s been going on and watching her cry and feel helpless… She was a union organizer. She’s used to organizing in less than ideal conditions. She’s not brand new. She’s horrified and traumatized.

SOAS, University of London, Senate statement on Gaza, Palestine: www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...

bacon hill, is this anything

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

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A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕

there’s a general incuriosity about material facts that often comes with this innumeracy: said journalists have no idea how much of anything being discussed is present or possible

Funny, I was going to say the problem with that quote was that the journalist greatly underappreciates the manual labor and beauty necessary to hammer a nail into a board.

Subtraction is noncommutative, and people learn that in elementary school. (Maybe not the noncommutative part of it until they learn about negative numbers, but it's a very basic operation that has this property.)

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Think the marriage of convenience between the historically antisemitic far-right and the Israeli right has been bad for Diaspora Jews? Wait until you see the divorce.

@pranav-nlp.bsky.social and I are surveying researchers about naming and name changes in academia (especially computer science). If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP

It seems easy to misunderstand this phrase so let me be clear: "Nuremburg trials is the moderate position" was also the reading of the situation the first time.

All’s Fair is like “but maybe The Substance is a good idea, actually”

I oscillate wildly between wanting to do something really cool, interesting, and cutting edge with my research, and wanting to give up entirely

dont tell me your nonbinary participant's agab

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

Hey can [redacted] stop suddenly [redacted] this year please? It's only happened twice, but twice is two more than the number it should be!

looking for biological determiners of social phenomenons is category error

On the one hand: well yes obviously On the other: good to have clear evidence beyond lived experience and the state goals of a nazi-ass bitch ceo (genuinely)

UKHE does appear to have decided that a good student experience is more like the interchangeable consistency of a Nero than the incredible coffee in your local independent cafe.

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion