oh look, a whole book by Audrey Watters on this! direct.mit.edu/books/book/5...

There is still time and space for you to join MCTM and MN Math Leaders for the MN HS Math Institute on Aug 6-7. #mctm mctm.org/Events

my absolute vexation with my ridiculous self in this ridiculously hot and climate-grief week. I hear it is relatable! www.deardara.com/so/9eP_1h9l4...

okeley dokeley, I have written the weekly email, about climate grief and shopping, and it will go out this fine evening. if you want a letter from a friend in Minneapolis, as well as the dog update, subscribe all the way at the bottom at; deardara.com

No matter what kind of day you are having, this👇 will make it better. 🥹 🚲 ❤️

I kid you not. I have seen an AI suite for teachers that uses as a marketing header, “Focus on students, not planning”.

Someone on LinkedIn made a comment to say students need to be taught when to question AI and when think without AI. The answer is always, darling.

Pattern block bug (pattern block, 6x6in.) Ok this one I’m selling for $20 + shipping. The frame is too nice! We’re talking teak folks!

Truchet (screen print, 5x7in.) *one of the frames is broken so I can just send both prints in one frame, or just the prints.

Hey everyone! So I have some #mathart that has been sitting in storage and I’d love to give it away to anyone who is interested. Just cover the cost of shipping and it’s yours! DM me if any of the pieces in this thread are of interest. Notes on a triangle (cardstock, 9x9in)

I haven’t had a chance to read this yet, but I just know it'll be fab! @helenjwc.bsky.social 's work on maths and EYFS is always spot on.

#edusky #MTBoS

My new book is out !!! www.sagepub.com/shop/buy-a-b... Message me for a discount code.

Good Scissors Not In The Fucking Drawer https://theonion.com/good-scissors-not-in-the-fucking-drawer-1827516871/

Semifinals. Quarterfinals. These must be the octofinals?

Pro-level #tmwyk here

Saint Paul that sky right nowwwwww

A dessert for your holiday menu: Reflecting Pool Jello. 🇺🇸 💚

Saint Paul checking in with a perfect July evening

850,000 is a nonsense number. 250,000 would be meaningfully thematic. 850,000 just leaves us wondering why you didn’t go all the way to a million.

This is me. This is so much me. “Why am I supposed to be describing in natural language where to put a point and make it movable when we have access to perfectly good software that lets me do that directly using sixth grade math notation?”

It is so hot

Oof. Feeling this so much.

Hot outside. Old house. No central air. Very breezy. My dad status *requires* that I express clear expectations about all interior doors being either all the way open or latched closed.

You’ve Bossed your last Tone

most adorable vector field ever

I'm getting a lot of nice letters back about this one, in case you would like a feel good, Shirley Jackson family-comedy type story about algae: www.deardara.com/so/bbPxifNVE...

AI is bad for women workers...in more ways than you think. aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/why-ai-is-...

You’ve They-Mightied your last Giant.

My family cares for & buries much of the Somali community in the Twin Cities. From first transfer to the mosque, to washing & wrapping, to prayers, to burial, as many hands that can assist do so. It's with the utmost reverence, love, & presence. To stand witness to it is to know care for community.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Jim Henson and Frank Oz did not pull off the wedding scene in Muppets Take Manhattan so you could tell me that AI is inevitable.

a feel good story about algae, which actually is responsible for the air you're breathing right now, as well as certain misadventures in my home and on the world stage! www.deardara.com/so/bbPxifNVE...

Hi! In July I'm once again running a free online program for K-12 math teachers called "21st century mathematics". Its goal is to help teachers to connect math they teach with some math that has been discovered in the 21st century. Pass it along! Info+register: justinlanier.org/21st-century...

I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

Family trip to nieces wedding in semi rural VA. Stage one: Early flight on crappy airline to Dulles.

Number one rule for riding the bus is when the bus arrives, make it look like you intend to get on the bus.

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

Hexagonnn n n

Well, that was a fucking ride.

Almost 10 years later, still kills me. Crucial and brave, Megan Parise Schmidt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9oP... #mathed #ignite

Please hold while I dial @anniekp.bsky.social into the call.

Always.

Many things are bad, but TIL my mom's neighbors are carefully protecting a nest of four baby bunnies using pylons and kids' beach toys.

lol it is not *lifting* the seat that my fellow dudes struggle with Why are these fools always solving the wrong problems?!

On our last precalc class, we went outside and did some sidewalk math! #mtbos

In other news, I just had a phone-based customer service experience with an actual person who is good at their job. So refreshing.