"With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself."

Obvs this has always been a genius idea, but this puts a cherry on it: www.youtube.com/shorts/NZwip...

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

To quote @andrewti.bsky.social, from the Department of No Shit Studies at Oh Word? University

"Actually a triangle has multiple centers" youtu.be/Ck-UhvbCDAk?...

TIL the Tool guy went to military school? www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

Absolutely heartbreaking. So many mathematicians I know studied there, men AND women. Maryam Mirzakhani studied there. If this isn't enough to cancel/relocate from the US the International Congress of Mathematicians #ICM2026, nothing will be.

I had totally forgotten about today's date www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-g...

This is worth reading. Lots of insightful bits, I think this is the elevator pitch:

The Jetsons lied to us

This is (a) a great account to follow, (b) an excellent analysis of comic strip pacing, and (c) oddly resonant with current events

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

Alas! We'll miss you in the Mission, Silver Sprocket. OTOH if you're in SF or nearby, they're having 30% off everything up through their final day of business, Mon Mar 23, and even a 15% off sale online (click through!) so please go help them clear their inventory

very sad

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

Have you ever applied to an NSF grant? Then do this.

Capturing the exact moment when I realized I was too old to be going to see Nine Inch Nails on a school night

Deep. Oakland is having a moment

I had almost forgotten that math pope is a math pope!

The most accurate movie about doing mathematics ever made

Well this is delightful. If we're going to have to rerun the 80s, we may as well have some of the fun bits.

I just left a classified briefing with the Trump Administration about the war in Iran. I was worried before, but I’m more worried now.

A true labor of love (thread)

There are a lot of terrible things to hold against the folks currently in power in the US. One of them is the catastrophic damage to a generation of young scientists. Some of the best students I've known are totally locked out of grad study by this funding climate. Worse than the first covid year.

Congratulations, Chinese-Americans against affirmative action!

This is art

I was asked by the American Mathematical Society to write something to explain to mathematicians why they should care about the federal role in education data/research, so I teamed with @dqcdata.bsky.social's Rachel Anderson and wrote this: www.ams.org/journals/not...

Alysa Liu. A proud product of Oakland.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Oaktown!

SQUEEEEEEEEEE

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

this intersects badly with an economic structure built around capitalist largesse, which is what I was talking about here Universities never told these people to stop soliciting Epstein and groveling for funds and in some cases clearly encouraged it

Makes sense that a violist would go into comedy www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9F...

Grim but worth reading

BLIND ITEM GUESSING TIME

And she can travel as many spaces as she likes IN ANY DIRECTION The Dutch are not playing around

people are underselling the role of Misha Gromov as a fixer for Epstein, someone who helps him extend his network of influence by softening his reputation and making high profile introductions. Perhaps non-mathematicians won't know these names but this is not a small thing

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

Once again, imagine this happening at the ICM - there's no way we (the U.S.) can host the ICM responsibly #mathsky

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

This is heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

Smartest man in the game and he's telling you the press are cowards. Telling you someday everyone is gonna find out

Again, a shanda on my generation