🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

There was a drunk guy screaming racist abuse and threatening to kill people on the train I’m on and you think making a new generation of migrants jump through more hoops than our parents’ and grandparents’ generations did is going to stop this?

My "TV as mind-candy" rewatch of the Mallorca Files has finally got up to an episode that I haven't seen before and I can't believe the writers thought "let's actually do Themyscira". Wonder if this will turn out to be plagiarism by the characters, not just the writers

According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Yes. We are giving the tutorials and lectures they decided to skip

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I laugh aloud at the dumbest shit these days.

Nature is healing

In the State Department’s original tweet, they tagged the wrong Gustavo Petro. Imagine being a random guy from Brazil and waking up to learn you’ve been visa banned from the US

"What if tariffs, but we put them on our own exports?"

Giving this a Friday night bump. The Strange World of Gurney Slade is an amazing series which you definitely should watch, and we try and contextualise it, but it’s like trying to explain a colour.

Give it a month and Keir Starmer will tell someone interviewing him that he hadn't read this morning's speech before delivering it.

Without wishing to get embroiled in any arguments about merits/drawbacks (I shall curse anyone who attempts to do this to an eternity in hell listening to mathematicians arguing about the Axiom of Choice)... ... was anyone else here signed up to NO2ID's mailing list back in the early-to-mid 2000s?

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The people they are talking about deporting include, to pluck one example from the air, my 59-year-old sister who has lived here since the age of six and is on a low income due to being a nursery school teacher. These plans are utterly scandalous and anyone who supports them is a disgrace.

Last week, a woman sidled up to Dad (a white American) at the bus stop after seeing some black men and said "soon this whole town will be immigrants". She was taken aback when he firmly pointed out they were more British than he was, and asked what made her assume he was okay, but they weren't.

Me: Which is why I did a Chotiner interview meme post Chotiner: but you did want engagement Me: Oh, of course! But it wasn’t just that. C: You felt you could add to the conversation Me: My own perspective. C: By posting the same joke as everyone else Me: it’s a funny variation

Missed this reply to previous RT.

After the obligtory titter/snigger, it's only on the third reading that I noticed the accent on "William". Who christened this dude, Matt BerRRY?

Good things about this site: reminding me that I really ought to reread The Fifth Elephant. Bad thing about this site: oh gods, which box/pile/sedimentary layer in my apartment currently houses said book

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Bit late to this, but does anyone else reading about the latest WTAF from Trump think of the Judge Cal arc in the Judge Dredd strips?

"Hi teaching staff! With zero days' notice we are completely changing the way we record attendance in classes. Here are some instructions for setting up the VLE. They don't work but we're sure you'll somehow figure out how to do it. (This is to reduce workload.)"

really do recommend people read the paper linked, probably one of the best papers to come from Dunlap

As we head into Rosh Hashanah, a very important point of order from Canadian Senate Hansard (1984) :p

I don't think Americans get it, because they're already there, but there is so much good will towards America in skilled immigrant communities. people want to come here despite everything, they want to earn in USD, they dream about a US passport. we're pissing that away

Lemme be absolutely clear *every* H-1B visa employee at my (large cap) US firm was summoned back to the office from wherever they were in the world today for this crap. For some, it was utter panic. Appalling.

perhaps if I bang on enough about the Miller-Rabin test, people will understand The Power of Probabilistic Methods and have a better idea of why I still maintain that LLMs cannot do mathematics. (And why there's no contradiction with these things performing as well as students)

FWIW. (I am reminded of the January 2017 travel ban that eventually ended up being less crazy than the original edict, but only because there was some institutional resistance, AFAICT)

STEM has been a very effective marketing identity which has done untold damage to some of the disciplines within it. I hope SHAPE doesn't become the same kind of monster.

Caturday already? Where does the time go, eh?

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This isn't funny. There's something very wrong with the UK government attitude to higher education & it survived a change of gvt. Also - more broadly - it's yet another piece of evidence that Labour government ministers and their advisers live in a weird right-wing Americanised information space.

Was feeling groggy and over the hill / not up to it earlier today, but it turns out that four shots' worth of coffees and working on (someone else's) research maths have had a restorative effect. <awaits inevitable caffeine crash>

This might be the greatest metaphor for Labour’s pro-tech instincts I’ve heard.

The most amusing aspect of this is Peter Kyle's entire career since getting a BA in Geography and International Development has mostly been in the international NGO or state sector. He has no background in or experience of the forms of entrepeneurship he performatively extolled to Lutnick and MAGA

This 👇 Hard to deliver if - like my University - you're planning to cut - 1 in 4 members of staff overall - 1 in 3 academics in my discipline (English Literature)

Anyone else reminded by that Trump statue of www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGHL...

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TIL

Thread.

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Turns out that despite having a PhD and a bit-of-paper-from-the-HEA-that-says-I-can-teach, I have spent the last 12-18 months in the mistaken belief that I have a broken microwave, only to find 20 minutes ago that there is a switch in the wall that controlled the power to the relevant plug socket

Later that day: unconfirmed reports of a ground to air missile launched from the MacGyver household

now singing this to the tune of "Eleanor Rigby"

My husband just referred to “Joanie Ive,” totally unaware that it’s pronounced “Johnny,” and I got to go on this rant, which is my favorite rant, and I had been in such a foul mood but it turned my whole day around, thank you Jim, I love you

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