I like how the bottom of many an n-lab page has a little section called "wait, we forgot to talk about higher geometry"

I read the accompanying tweet first, fully assuming it to be a sarcastic quip, and I cannot describe to you how disorienting it was to find out it was a verbatim quote

Headline could be a sign media are finally taking Trump seriously

You know how C* algebras are equivalent to locally compact Hausdorff algebras and spectral triples are equivalent to Riemannian spin manifolds? Is there anything that Poisson algebras are equivalent to?

father-in-law couldn't unscrew something I'd apparently closed too tightly so I think we can consider this a big W for what we could charitably call my "masculinity"

EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS GODDAMMIT

okay, admittedly, YouTube has my number with this recommendation

Likewise it's wild how everyone in the media is still treating executive orders as if they were laws

"and you are expected to appear before the trial judge on the 15th" "Oh. And when do I see the real judge?"

kinda wondering how long it's gonna take for Trump to command the Supreme Court to rule that all statutes of limitations are null and void for some contrived nonsense reason

An unfortunate thing that happens debating (for lack of a better word) people arguing sex is binary is when you inevitably point to exceptions to their def's they'll go "those are so rare, we shouldn't care ab them" The whole difference of opinion is whether exceptions are humans worth caring about

one useful thing about bsky i will admit is that you are allowed to hijack any conversation with a picture of ur cat. you legally can't get in trouble for this here

Is the uniqueness theorem of ODEs still valid for non-standard extensions of the reals?

Kinda interesting that the French name "Serge" and the Irish name "Saoirse" are pronounced so similarly but while the latter means "Freedom", the former probably meant something like "Servant"

It's kind of wild how effortlessly they've lept to "any criticism of us is terrorism" and how they seem to be getting away with it

Kokotiner: According to this, The Gorilla Foundation has over 2.6 billion dollars in funding. Researcher: We have many generous donors who believe in our mission. Kokotiner: And how much is a Birkin bag? Researcher. That money is for research. We can't just spend- Kokotiner: jealousy professor

Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.

Sex workers posting wildly incorrect WW2 rage bait to get people to click on their bio instead of thirst traps is the funniest anecdote you can tell about this place

CHOTINER: Some people say your unorthodox medical practice can be harmful. ME: You're talking about-- CHOTINER: Pagliacci. ME: I think, sometimes there's a reflex to reach for meds when what we really need is to laugh. CHOTINER: Of course. ME: If I had known, obviously. CHOTINER: Obviously.

What do mermaids and marines have in common? The parts 'mer-' and 'mar-' of these words have the same origin: the Proto-Indo-European word *mori, meaning "large body of water". It has descendants in many languages, including the Germanic, Romance, Slavic and Celtic languages. Click for more: 1/

I want to make it very clear that there are the occasional numbered superscripts in the text (and once I saw an author’s name and date in brackets—no pagination)—they just don’t go anywhere! There are no footnotes/endnotes/bibliography! There are no proper citations in this book!

"It's gauche and uncivil to accurately describe me" is a core view of today's fascists

An interesting thing about the far right is how they completely reject Christian morality in favour of glory and power (cf. master vs slave morality) but—for women specifically—they would still like to glorify suffering

It feels simultaneously jaw-dropping and inevitable that it looks like we're settling on "autism is caused by the mother not suffering enough in pregnancy"

It's completely incomprehensible to me that literally anyone listens to Thiel

A few years back I heard about a remarkable number of black students who died by hanging from a tree. They were all ruled suicides in the end so at the time I dropped it but I did think it was very strange for them to choose this famous lynching method to commit suicide With hindsight, though,…

Just read the full interview. This is definitely an amazing climax but the whole interview is quite marvellous. Really feels like you're watching someone play with their prey

This is great verbiage, stealing this

Conservatives: "nooooo ABC just privately decided to end Kimmel's show" Trump: "we demanded he be cancelled and I have the explicit intention of extorting them until they do it again @alttext.bsky.social in replies

"you may not like financial fraud but what if I told you that it's necessary to keep the AI bubble from bursting? Not so fraudulent now, is it?"

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

look at the skill, the shamelessness, the speed. 100 years ago there wasn't a grifter alive who could move like this

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Person learning maths: "I think I'm finally starting to understand [subject]" Incredibly annoying guy: "oh that's just [unhelpful abstraction]"

In life it's important to occasionally yell "who goes there?" just in case someone goes there

Surprised I haven't seen anyone post the conclusion yet because it's honestly the wildest and most brazen part of the brief in my opinion Just blindly asserting that decisions should be based on natural categories with no argumentation whatsoever

I genuinely thought that this was an Onion article at first.

I think a historically important component of the rise of fascism that often gets overlooked is opportunism. It makes sense to hold people accountable for the ideologies they empower but for our understanding we can't forget that many simply collaborate because their interests happen to align.

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

If Trump did Watergate today, do you think it would make a single full news cycle?

If Beth Definability is so good, why did they never invent Aleph Definability? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_de...

It's kinda wild how casually lobotomies are joked about given how horrible they were as a practice

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

Maybe the best meme I have ever made: