I was just thinking the other day that LLMs are like oxycontin: in principle, there are safeguards so you can relieve your pain without getting addicted, but in practice, human nature leads to you grinding up the pills or selling them to the neighborhood teens for a little extra cash

I'm writing a textbook and I'd like to contact DC, HBO, and Marvels to get permission to use quotes as chapter epigraphs. I tried some emails and made a few calls, but never heard back. Anyone know how/where to contact someone who will actually respond, even if it's just to say "no"?

God save us all

I'm writing a textbook and I'd like to contact DC, HBO, and Marvels to get permission to use quotes as chapter epigraphs. I tried some emails and made a few calls, but never heard back. Anyone know how/where to contact someone who will actually respond, even if it's just to say "no"?

Now let’s say it all together: the last time the Knicks won the championship the president resigned the following year

New blog post! Kinda math-heavy this time, but I wanted to share about this weirdly fascinating things called quiver representations that generalize stuff from basic linear algebra to wild unsolvable problems 🤩 lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/q...

Every staff update in every university right now: 1. We are excited to announce a strategic investment of eleventeen squillion pounds in ACRONYM, a new AI-powered centre for the development of strategic acronyms. 2. Staff have until Friday to apply for enhanced Voluntary Death.

I think about this scene all the time. RIP Anthony Head

Oh no!!! RIP Giles

I think this document does a nice job of articulating and balancing the many concerns people have about AI, the potential benefits, the spirit of mathematical research, and the reality of the current situation. I signed it.

Good news: My university is in the NYT! Less good news: for being THEE AI-powered university www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

"Tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe."

Also, sorry (yes, I'm with backups)

"Devices down, eyes up, hands-on." Read @rweingarten.bsky.social's full remarks outlining a bold new vision to boost teaching and learning in the AI era ⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/randiwei...

This is one of those jokes you make, then realize people in the field have probably been saying it verbatim for 20 years. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-17 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Thoughtful story about my university system's not-entirely-thoughtful adoption of AI

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

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Great idea!

It’s easy to only be focused on Trump’s ever increasing unhinged behavior but his Republican enablers in Congress haven’t changed their tune. And they are the main reason he’s still in office. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/speaker-jo...

Tired of the widening gyre. The gyre is wide enough

Trump appears to be completely asleep at his desk during his mid-morning event

Here's the latest on the Canvas outage as of an hour ago (gift article): www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/e...

Is the app that reads your exam problem, sends it to an LLM, and whispers the answer in your ear already written, or just on the way

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Am I wrong though?

600k a year, over 4 or 5 years, that’s getting up into the mass murder big leagues. Trying to unseat the big H.

TIL Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave are good friends? faroutmagazine.co.uk/when-nick-ca....

Recently I had the amazing- and yet very bizarre- experience of going to Xbox HQ as a visitor. I had been invited by Asha, who is very cool it turns out, to have a hike and hang out a bit. I’ll probably talk more about that another time. But first let’s talk about microorganisms.

🚨Emergency Update 🚨 @theonion.com

Personal Me: cartoonist Nicole Hollander has left us. Her work got me through some rough times. ❤️RIP and thank you, Ms. Hollander. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

Hey this is pretty darn catchy youtu.be/We8dMLHxZ3s?...

You may have heard that the Banach-Tarski paradox is a consequence of the group of spatial rotations SO(3) having a subgroup that is free on two generators. But what does that look like? Answer: Roughly like this! kyleormsby.github.io/F2-in-SO3/ 1/n 🧮

Not exactly a Designated Cheerleader, but I think @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social followers will enjoy this music-theoretical controversy that pops up intermittently on the internet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=weAm... I mean, the fact that this discussion even exists is a tribute to Timbaland

Warms my lapsed Catholic heart www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The amount of dirt that is about to come out about the Rex Sox front office and ownership group is going to be legendary.

"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