It’s almost like the Pax Americana actually meant something despite what Mark Carney pointed out

You can’t have a rules-based order and let the PRC turn a democracy into the East Xinjiang Gulag. Pick one.

Imagine if there was a plausible way to fuck up hypocrites and save the rules-based order…

Thank you to Nick for recognizing our work Deeply honored

Fukken solved the old fashioned way Distance calculation is a gross hardcode but works and is verified Take that you goddamn bots

Could be one of the biggest hits since Toropets 🇺🇦🤞🦩

My old man said half of infinity is different than infinity to his dying day. Then I found out from my mom that he had been trolling me from my adolescence on and did in fact understand the Hilbert hotel argument almost the whole time.

w00t

Not sure if I want to bother sampling from compact manifolds of constant negative curvature or not. Claude sure can’t be fucked to sort out something conceptually simple and perfectly specified that nevertheless involves annoying details for any plausible implementation. Maybe I’ll do 2D and call it

From github.com/cduck/hyperb... Cc @sconradi.bsky.social Poincaré disk FTW

When you put it all together, this is what the fiscal flows for immigrants have looked like for the last 30 years. Immigrants have reduced the deficit every year for 3 decades.

Jet lag = holonomy on a U(1) bundle over a sphere with two points identified, the origin and destination

Today at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider smashed up its last particles. Since 2000 RHIC has collided particles at near light speed to recreate the particles that existed just after the Big Bang. Last year, Science reported on its legacy. https://scim.ag/4afRdTM

I just read in the Atlantic that Bashar al-Assad’s oldest kid finished a PhD in number theory at Moscow State weeks before the regime fell. His dissertation doesn’t pop up, but this article does. I wonder if that gmail address still works?

I am quite sure that at least 25% of voters are dumber than the median voter

"I have only changed in spite of myself. Every scrap of progress has been torn from my clenched talons by citizens who loved me more than themselves and their neighbors more than me."

Thomas Watson has a new computational complexity textbook about to be published by Cambridge University Press. There's a free version online for personal use. complexityincs.com

That guy who tried to save dems from sparking inflation five years ago before it happened and collapsed the liberal world order? What a fucking dipshit

The takeaway here is : 1) Xi is deadly serious about taking Taiwan by force; 2) the PLA is not going to be ready on his timeline.

Mitch Bradley take note plz

They are going to encourage diverse defense production for equitable burden sharing that includes Europe. DEI bullshit.

Thucydides’ real lesson isn’t about power forcing the weak to accept their fate—it’s about how hubris masquerades as realism.

From arxiv.org/abs/2509.18523

This is how one should argue with Denmark and Greenland about territory

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

> Biden/Scholz: “UA ain’t joining NATO” >> Monkey’s paw curls

Many of those people are called tankies

Mathematician here I encourage those who want to calculate it two ways to use each way half the time to manage their own finances

And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.

These authors wanted to know whether people with physical disabilities face discrimination in hiring: even when they are equally qualified. So they ran an experiment.

Yann LeCun this afternoon at #JMM: “IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HUMAN-LEVEL AI, DON'T WORK ON LLMs”

Ugh the USA too

Lots of talk again about China, the US, and Russia dividing the world into spheres of influence. One problem with this idea is that after 30 years of trying, Russia's sphere is limited to Belarus, Georgia, and 20% of Ukraine. Another is that if China has a sphere, it includes Russia.

This is how one should argue with Denmark and Greenland about territory

Would like to tap dance on the grave of any fucker like this that sold out the USA to the russians

This is something Dems should legit shut down the government over. If he wants to destroy NATO, he can do it with zero dollars and zero cents in government funding.

It's not that NATO will collapse if the US invades Greenland; NATO is already dead. The Trump admin could not have been clearer about that over the last year. They refer to NATO as if they're not part of it. They've been threatening at least 1 NATO ally since they took office.

Intended as a joke, but so was the original, and then it turned out the files included JE advising folks tied to the russian govt re: handling POTUS

Given supply dynamics and trajectories, I think control of Venezuela's actual oil is less relevant than the message sent to other countries hosting US oil majors. If national govts threaten their operations by demanding remediation/payment of liabilities, they now have to contemplate invasion.

The ethical and legal damage will be with us forever but it’s the raging incompetence that will strike first, within the next few days.

When life gives you incoherence, attend my talk at 0800 tomorrow kicking off the robust AI session at the Joint Math Meetings meetings.ams.org/math/jmm2026...

Maduro will just donate to a PAC and get pardoned NGL it’s gonna take more than the going rate of $1M though