Oh boy could I complain about students today; here is doggies instead

when the asteroid hits

Breaking News: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is going to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals. The madrasa indoctrination is starting very early. (This post is a test.)

JUST FUCKING FUND THE GOD DAMN SCHOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Quantum computing" is a lot like "artificial general intelligence" in that they are both magnets for I Am Very Smart types and that they are both, largely, given the state of current science and any reasonable predictions for the state of science in the next hundred years, pipe dreams

See also "I quit facebook in like 2019"

Oh hell I forgot to salt my bread dough >:{

If you see me vaguely head-banging today please just know that the music in my head is "I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes And Drown You To Death)" by Scylla and the Sirens

I wrote about it lol defector.com/olivia-nuzzi...

the ugly truth they don't want you to know is that the math without numbers is actually more fun than the math with numbers

Imagine any other president saying this.

You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?

❤️ Love this ❤️ @mathforge.org has done what I’ve never been organised enough to do myself, and catalogued every #geometrypuzzle I’ve ever posted on social media. It looks amazing!

oh no anyway dot gif www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.

Oh lol Chronos has a phase 2 😬

Out working on the deck and there's a sundog

Posting this with a picture of Cathy is an incredible work of subtweet

The app icon is a little golden calf.

Critical numbers, critical values, and critical points are not synonymous

Buddy has never held a hammer in his life, apparently bought posts instead of pickets bc he doesn't know the difference, and also chose the world's longest nails that I guarantee will stick out the other side

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

HUH

Hey: You know that thing that every time I think about it, I get mad? What if I sat and thought about it for kind of a long time

lol have fun playing in January in Salt Lake, Denver, Minnesota, Boston, Toronto, ...

Really smart piece on how to think about democracy amidst the failure of shared knowledge.

I have this student this semester who would have loved Kenan.

It is 5:26pm and the sun is setting and I pretty much just want to stare at the ceiling and dewrinkle my brain for the next four hours

The thing that will absolutely drive me to madness is when a new element on a page loads while you are clicking on something, and therefore everything shifts just enough to make you click on something different to what you were trying to click on. Google Drive is a prominent offender.

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

Shameless rt for the morning crowd

remember, remember, the 12th of November, the dynamite carcass and plot

My "DHS LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES NOT PEPPER SPRAY CHILDREN" tweet has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my tweet

Come for the non-orientable surfaces, stay for the mental image of mathematicians looking like truffle pigs. rhinopotamus.github.io/2025/11/11/m...

Tell me that this is not the rudest shit you have ever seen on ice youtu.be/ZmjOlUCtkh4?...

But why? He was doing such a good job!

Lol get fucked www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

This is where I think hockey can take something from soccer: specific names for the *ways* different people play what is nominally the same position. See, e.g., trequartista / enganche, destroyer, pivot, anchor, shuttler.

Teaching friends, advice please? I have this calculus student who fancies himself a hotshot. During group work at whiteboards he often takes charge, assumes a teacher role, and lectures other students. Other students have told me that they find this condescending and don't want to work with him. 1/

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Retire bitch

Tonight it is butternut squash* and some sliced up meatballs but it is still gooooood * Dyk canned pumpkin is actually the same species as butternut squash but a different species from jack-o'-lanterns