A rare day indeed when grading 100 exams is preferable to social media.

It was the Holy Shit of times, it was the Big Yikes of times, it was the age of WTF, it was the age of LMFAO, it was the epoch of Fuck Around, it was the epoch of Find Out

Cartoonists are insane — this is a totally recognizable portrait and sharp comment with like three lines

puhLEEEEEAAAAAze I am begging use alt text describing what's in the image or a transcription of the text. Mute filters work on alt text. Mute filters don't work on a picture of text. also if you're not using alt text you're saying you don't care about people who need it to engage with your skeet

Just wanted to say to survivors out there, this sucks and I hope you are taking care of yourself and using mute options in service of good digital hygiene.

Somebody let me know when these documents start getting torrented.

Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social

So this is about something other than the news cycle: I had to fill out a juror survey for my state. There's a website for that but it's been down for days. Now it says please fill out the paper survey and mail it back. The return envelope is not prepaid. I had to pay a stamp to send paperwork.

100% true. Some of the best critics of AI are computer scientists or engineers with a holistic intellect: people who truly understand the tech and therefore its limits — eg @cloudquistador.bsky.social. It’s not a matter of tech experts versus intellectuals. The AI cultists do not understand tech!

I love this.

Books! Chronological My mom grabbed Terry Pratchett's Lords & Ladies on a whim and it introduced me to fantasy - Grendel made me question a lot of things - Beloved introduced me to Octavia Butler - Zero by Charles Seife kept a little flame going for math - Ninefox Gambit, can't say enough about it

In "A Spark in the Dark", the second installment of our "Prison to PhD Pipeline" series, Travis Cunningham recounts his first steps towards becoming a math researcher: www.prisonmathproject.org/blog/the-pri...

I'm committing to living a life unworthy of the notice of Joyce Carol Oates. 👀

This is my new favorite social media insult!

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Call your reps, but also, text SIGN PXKMTY to 50409 if you want your congresspeople to hold out for an ACA extension

🚨🚨 INFANT FORMULA RECALL 🚨🚨 Please share widely 👇

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

Remember when Maurice Wilkins, her colleague at King's, called her a silly bitch in a letter? onlineonly.christies.com.cn/s/printed-ma...

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

My kid's self-portrait kicks ass

This observation reflects so much of what's wrong here eh. The avoidance of any real exploration of the actual utility and limitations of this technology.. No good comes from arguing with folk who are not engaging in good faith!

I am once again reminding you that you can get recipes and crossword puzzles elsewhere

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Did you remember to set your clocks back to 2008 for DST this year?

People keep thinking that socialism is communism and it pisses me off! Socialism is when you do mild reforms to appease the workers within the power structures and institutional violence of Caputalism. Communism is when you put puppies in a blender. GET IT RIGHT!

Is neuro-conditionally-convergent a thing? I feel like that's the best way to describe my weird brain; can be rearranged to converge to something specific if needed, but often converging to something weird and fun but rather useless?

Georgia Democrats had not won a statewide race that wasn't for a federal office since 2006. They won two races tonight, both against GOP incumbents. The margins? 62% to 38% in both.

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

In other good election news, the candidate with the illicit swag also lost.

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

We have the former kind of cat, but the other cat is more interested in plotting how to be closer to the people than the big dopey cat. She's proof that the interval between the dopey cat and his target person is open. She can always get between them.

According to reports, ICE officers are being told to trust the results of a faulty facial recognition app over evidence of citizenship. The Trump administration is steamrolling our due process and privacy rights to support its mass deportation agenda.

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP. They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown. They’re refusing. Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop. Starvation as a policy choice.

Really nice piece on math and democracy here. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/s...

I've given the classical cylindrical mug vintage coffee-set vibes ... but with a geeky touch! ☕ 🤓 This mug shows two of my hand-made drawings based on physics, each an eloborate geometrical construction. 📐✏️ Available in my store: store.elkement.art/en-eur/produ... #SciArt #MathArt #PhysicsArt

A local candidate's "Vote For (Name)" plastic cups, filled with candy, were inside my polling place. I told a poll worker and called the Board of Elections. In my state, this is a misdemeanor. There are cameras in the polling place, so I hope the culprit is caught and charged.

Entretien avec un vampire Questionnaire avec un vampire Observation participante avec un vampire Focus group avec un vampire Science participative avec un vampire Cartographie sensorielle avec un vampire

My kiddo decided he wanted to be a cowboy cat for Halloween (not sure where he discovered cowboys?), so I built a costume out of things we had (shirt and star, boots), borrowed (bandana), and made (black cowboy hat, cat hat, cat tail (not pictured)). Not bad, I think!

Drafting a note for some of my favorite businesses: Dear ___, We love visiting you! But you post your hours on social media sites like Facebook or Instagram. To access them, we need an account, but we don't want to put money in Meta's pocket and opt-in to modern surveillance technology.

I'm not going to amplify the fucking things, but these anti-Mamdani slop ads Cuomo is putting out there use his likeness and put words in his mouth. If it's not actionable, it should be. It's not illegal it seems, but it should be so illegal. It should be *the most* illegal.

A little work of genius to cleanse the timeline

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

Excellent article on one of the most common misconceptions about mathematical models. "If a modelling analysis is informing decisions, it’s not that useful for the model to try and predict the decision it’s informing."

Petition to use the acronym "IA" (à la mode française!) to spare guys named Al

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her. For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here. Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

Six months ago, we lost our sweet boy Cricket, but our kiddo kept talking about him and keeping him alive for us by counting him among our total number of cats. But today he told his dad he wanted Cricket to come home, and then asked "Cricket went to...?" 😭😿💔

Relying on LLMs when we have specialized tools for tasks... it's so lazy! The best AI applications are specialized models (eg drug discovery machine learning, handwriting recognition vision models for sorting the mail) used for specific tasks. LLMs are not generalists!