CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Many years go, me and my mathsister wrote a multiple choice self assessment test. Our favourite Q: what would you choose * 10% pay rise then 10% pay cut * 10% pay cut then 10% pay rise * keep current pay * depends on pay level 😉

“Wishes come true, not free”

Sorry, I’m not interested in another movie version of the Odyssey that isn’t an adaptation of this musical. youtu.be/jJ9vtKtilG8?...

My daughter stated very definitively that this playground toy has two holes. Then she pointed to them and counted them. Checkmate, topologists.

#ResistanceRoots Ida Rhodes was born on this day in 1900 in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine. She was a mathematician, computer programmer and lecturer who was instrumental in early computer development in the U.S. She was also a fierce advocate for the disabled, often at great personal sacrifice. /1

Today our university released an AI policy. They seem to have taken the firm position of “do whatever you want, but try to be honest about it.” Honestly it’s about the best I could have hoped for. Curious if others are at schools with comparable policy statements? www.pepperdine.edu/about/admini...

"Day 090, orbit 1397 — Did you know that light can bend each time it passes from one material to another? In microgravity, this effect can be recreated very simply by trapping a bubble of air inside a bubble of water... Isn’t science amazing?" – esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot   🎥 ESA/NASA #εpsilon

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Today our university released an AI policy. They seem to have taken the firm position of “do whatever you want, but try to be honest about it.” Honestly it’s about the best I could have hoped for. Curious if others are at schools with comparable policy statements? www.pepperdine.edu/about/admini...

Hi. Not really sure how to promote this story...but it is about AI and the overwhelming feeling of it bleeding into everything with no concrete articulation for what a good version of that future looks like. It's about feeling like every 8th person is living on another planet. Hope you'll read it

I think somewhere in my photos I have a relief of Jesus’ feet hovering over the disciples at the Ascension, but I haven’t been able to track it down. I did find this photo of an illuminated manuscript showing the Ascension inside the initial letter for a chant, which I saw at the Getty in 2019.

There is no generation of less racist white Americans waiting behind the current one. Pew doesn't like to publish this image anymore. You know why.

For women in math day, let's remember that the US just bombed Maryam Mirzakhani's alma mater.

We are talking about dwarf planets in class today so this seemed like the right shirt to wear for the occasion

Related to my previous note about AI literacy... I think that very often the more you *actually* learn about AI (how it works, how it's built, what's behind it, what its impacts are, who controls it -- not "how to use it") the more critical you are likely to become. bsky.app/profile/cfie...

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers Although the monetary value of the deal is unknown, Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance “that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.” https://bit.ly/4nud54a

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Slightly increase a band. ABBB

I do not have the thing I truly yearn for: a St. Sebastian pin cushion

Anyway, here's the full-size image, together with information as to the program under which it was collected. esawebb.org/images/potm2... Credit: ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/G. Gozaliasl/A. Koekemoer/M. Franco/The COSMOS-Web team

For your Monday, here's one of the JWST Deep Field images. This is a portion of the sky about one-fifth the size of a full Moon. And it contains THOUSANDS of galaxies—some of which extend back to when the Universe was a couple of billion years old. The redder a galaxy, the farther away it is.

“I asked Claude” “I asked ChatGPT” Well, I asked my friend Joe, I asked my friend Jake—they said it was fhqwhgads.

I feel like there’s a very narrow population for whom this is choice content.

Why yes I am going to include this drawing in my lecture about Taylor polynomials

Everybody to the limit, Gemini is past its limit

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

“I asked Claude” “I asked ChatGPT” Well, I asked my friend Joe, I asked my friend Jake—they said it was fhqwhgads.

This was made into a book too

Finding bookmarks and scraps of paper tucked inside is one of my favorite things about collecting old books (in my case, usually hymnals, which means sometimes you get an original poem or tune that a previous owner has composed).

Turkey sandwiches formed about half of my diet during grad school. And I love a gnarly etymological tale—this has several! Good read for Saturday morning.

Jump scare

Hey look what became even more true

Ok but 275 million is 80% of the entire U.S. population. I get that Canvas is used internationally, but that’s a ridiculous number.

Told my kid I was having the kind of week where I just need to scream into the void for a while. He made me a void. You can use it too, if you'd like.

Genuinely frustrated I didn't think about this sooner, but let me send it along in case that's anyone else too

hi professor, my assignment will be late because my LMS is being held for ransom

I remember when everyone who had Canvas loved it and said it was so much better than all the other LMSs. (Maybe it is! Not a high bar!) I also remember hearing it was possible to use Canvas to record scores for alternative grading systems. I tried that, it was a kludge, I'm not trying it again.

1. I sure am glad my university switched to Canvas as our LMS this year. 2. I sure am glad my final exams were last week and I turned in grades on Monday.

Miners, fishermen and construction workers all have this in common.

Good read on weighing hype, predictions, and company motivations re: Mythos announcements. With accompanying butterfly pictures!

Made an apollonian gasket in #Desmos. Took a while (months) until I had the proper aha last weekend. #iTeachMath #MathSky www.desmos.com/calculator/7...

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

We went with our kids, so we didn’t have time to linger anywhere, but we nevertheless saw plenty of amazing art. One of my favorite collections was the Islamic calligraphy. (Alt text is from signs at the exhibit.)

I don’t understand any of this. But I also don’t really understand how any of this is different from regular money.

More striking art in the LACMA collection:

Visited the new LACMA galleries today!

Until I have more caffeine, all proofs today will be by exhaustion.

My perfect strategy to make sure I never mess anything up is to wake up and before I do anything I read the note that says "don't mess anything up today," incredible that this airtight strategy also works on a bunch of eigenvectors that don't know what words mean