Just met Donald Trump in his iconic red hat!

Just met Donald Trump in his iconic red hat!

I'm so old. All my memories are of being young.

Life is basically about playing Starship Titanic now. That janky but workable conversational engine.

I went through a couple informal writeups about Monads and the coin didn't drop for me until I read this: github.com/enricopolans... Bit of a preamble to get to Monads, but seeing the hierarchy of Semigroup -> Monoid -> Monad I thought helped boil it down a lot. Not a full definition yet, but helps

What's all this about someone liking porn?

Good thread. Lots of good stuff in here.

i thought my reason for getting banned on here was the funniest, but then i thought sridhar's reason for getting banned on here was the funniest but no. this is the funniest reason to get banned on here. baby site for babies lol

And use Bluesky, naturally.

I've not wanted to fall into the trap of being goaded into typing yet another monad explanation into the world, but perhaps at some point I must. Here's what I said on Twitter, if you want a programming-specific definition of monads in isolation without hearing about monoids, functors, etc:

any sentence in this article is just as cloying as the meme one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charact...

What's all this about someone liking porn?

If I may be sniffy about the actually fine phenomenon that different people have different interests: Once upon a time, people who called themselves computer scientists actually cared about math. The science of computing! Now the only thing CS is about is IPOs, VCs, etc (and LLMs en route).

People make too much fuss over "A monad is a monoid in an endofunctor monoidal category". That is what it is. Is there some reason you would want to know what a monad is but don't want to know what a monoid is, etc?

That's weird. I could swear I had a quote tweet of this. What happened? We need to contact Bluesky moderators.

he’s responsible for what may be The Perfect Joke:

Thank you, Kafui. However, I should have saved my invite code to give to myself over the past three days.

This is the full one

We need to hug and kiss Bluesky moderators.

"we have a four strike policy and this one strike counts as four strikes" is a policy that a kindergartener would recognize as stupid yet somehow the dipshit trust fund kids that type "make a website" into Claude are not yet to that understanding

Good thread. Lots of good stuff in here.

Indeed, the posts I make while suspended are still visible on Blacksky (e.g., blacksky.community/profile/did:...)

I think I can post while suspended. I think it's just that no one can see it.

incredible work, the most thin skinned people alive

lmao they suspended sridhar. only a matter of time before they get us all.

It may feel like you missed your chance, but it's not impossible to become a mathematician later in life. Galois, for example, did only childish, elementary mathematics until the last decade of his life.

I should have been a mathematician, like a proper mathematician, like a research mathematician at a university. It is one of very few jobs I am a good fit for. But I fucked up the timeline of my life so it will never happen.

Good god. Trump fired the entire National Science Board without explanation on Friday afternoon.

sorry for not posting. i got suspended for speaking the truth

How the hell did I become 40? I was supposed to be in my early twenties.

Interesting to see what happens when the stemcel-poseur types who index their entire worldview on the idea of data analysis being objective shift their personalities to cheerlead computers that give different answers to the same questions whenever they’re asked

My boss tells me what to do even though we're both equally adults.

'I, too would like to order from the kids menu.'

Fine, fine, I'll order the toddler

My boss tells me what to do even though we're both equally adults.

My business, Ghost Dead Wraith Airlines, is filing for bankruptcy.

I'm never quite sure if I should go with parallelism or chiasmus. Same order, or switch it up. Stylish flair, or simple blunt repetition. I'm never quite sure if I should go with parallelism or chiasmus. Stylish flair, or simple blunt repetition. Same order, or switch it up.

Still falling for advertising of smoking cigarettes as cool in 2026 is world class moron behavior. We don't even have Joe Camel anymore. You have gone above and beyond to remain susceptible.

[After getting a difficult multiple-choice question wrong] B? B?? I would never in a million years have guessed B.

I sit and consume my feed all day like foie gras.

Wasting your entire life can feel daunting. Just focus on wasting one hour at a time and you'll get there

Thank god we no longer have a king we must serve.

I have successfully separated the art from the artist. I am an artist, and I never make any art.

I'm so dumb on Bluesky. The way people thought Elon Musk was a genius until they could read his thoughts on Twitter, it's the same for me: People thought I was a good poster until they could read my posts on Bluesky.

I take everything back. Unless you don't want me to, in which case, I don't. I'll say or do whatever you want. You are correct – and might I add, good-looking.

I hope I'm remembered well. Failing that, I hope I'm remembered.

I never made it. I never broke out with creative success/fame/whatever. And now I am 40, still trying to "make it" a la teenage dreams, instead of being happy with my fairly privileged fairly cushy white collar lot in life (typing on computers as bosses order, to make rich richer). I am pathetic.

I went to school and learnt things you're supposed to learn and all that, but my adult life has still been just about making rich people richer. My own goals and interests have been put on ice until retirement, perhaps in my sixties.