Excellent piece

my favorite data centers are libraries

This sort of bike lane technology isn’t legal in American yet… Call your local representatives today!

Starbucks is a member of Seattle Shield: prismreports.org/2026/05/20/s...

Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap

A sci-fi in which we learn we have not created AGI because zombies don't want to eat the computers

Time to switch to Duck Duck Go, folks, if you haven't already. @duckduckgo.com

Our next OSUB Seminar is on Tuesday, May 19 @ 2 ET. Sandra Gesing - will share, "AI Without the Headache: NAIRR for Teaching and Discovery" The National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot aims to democratize access to advanced AI resources More info & Register - qubeshub.org/community/gr...

RFK Jr. shuttered this lab and fired the director last year. should be a scandal

Really wish I could go viral on BlueSky. I created an app that merges Mutual Aid with Black Businesses: on the app, you can shop Black Businesses on 1 app, all Black Owned conveniently under 1 roof. On the same app you can see people struggling with overdue bills/rent/evictions etc & give them aid.

Sine, secant, tangent, cosine, cosecant, cotangent.

In a few days, I'll have turned in final grades. Looking forward to being that carefree person.

WHERE IS THE IRB FOR BIG TECH?!?!

On April 6, 2026, the US bombed Maryam Mirzakhani's alma mater. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/... Iran's Ministry of Science and Technology had already identified 30 institutions that had been attacked *before* April 6.

On April 6, 2026, the US bombed Maryam Mirzakhani's alma mater. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/... Iran's Ministry of Science and Technology had already identified 30 institutions that had been attacked *before* April 6.

For women in math day, let's remember that the US just bombed Maryam Mirzakhani's alma mater.

My pre-K child has already mastered the graduate student art of acquiring as much free food as possible, including stealing cookies off the plates of inattentive people. Watching him assess the options and steal a cookie from an unsuspecting college student really did fill my heart with pride.

Happy day to the people out there doing the mothering!

It's the time of the year that I doodle a lot to keep myself sane. Anyway, this needs to be cleaned up a bit, but for my algepals: Would you wear this on a shirt?

Live long and prosper! This is my favorite scene from Star Wars. Those Vulcans, amirite? #MayTheFourth

Listening to my child and his grandfather singing "Houpava" like they're waving pilsners at the hospada with the lads youtu.be/kIWSx5kcTPo?...

Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity https://restofworld.org/2026/techno-negative-thomas-dekeyser-fighting-ai/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1777768260

Powerful, honest and brave 🔥 Read this 🧵 and watch this video from IAS Member and friend @mjcrockett.bsky.social, who uses the occasion of her distinguished @nationalacademies.org award to challenge the uncritical automation of science and the erosion of federal funding for social science research

“As employers push generative AI into the workplace, labor organizers are using their experience with algorithmic scheduling to warn that workers could be hurt if they don't get to weigh in on how new technologies are implemented.”

Writes to the neighborhood email list with decibel meter readings when nearby events get loud. Includes a breakdown of levels at which hearing loss occurs

"We need to shift the burden of proof to the party that actually has access to the algorithm"

For Terry Pratchett day, you are supposed to post a quote or a book of his. This one is the one that always gets me right in the feels:

GNU Terry Pratchett "In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded."

For those keeping score, NSF is Director-less, Board-less, HQ-less, and soon to be down a directorate. buttondown.com/crgibbons/ar...

Learned from my 101-year-old grandfather that one problem of being a centenarian is that airlines apparently only have a 2-digit age variable, meaning that every time he shows up at the airport, the data in the system at the check-in counter thinks he's a 1-year-old unaccompanied child.

Oh, would you look at that: Men are perceived as more creative than women even when competency is controlled for, and more deserving of rewards. Five studies shows men are routinely seen having more 'out of the box' creativity. But not only are women... adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/gender-ste...

This is a really terrific piece by @alondra.bsky.social that should be taught in all classes on the political economy of the US right now. Think Polanyi on The Birth of the Liberal Creed, but for the AI era.

I feel no sympathy for politicians so devoted to the second amendment that they accept school shootings and mass shootings as the cost of doing business. My kid learned the "be quiet game" at 3.

Reposting for the midmorning EDT crew

Issue 2 of MOTHERFUNCTOR! is live! buttondown.com/crgibbons/ar...

Low-rise pants. Please, let everyone's backside have some dignity. The late '00s were very drafty.

I've had a complicated few days, but they gave me a chance to launch my political mathy newsletter: buttondown.com/crgibbons Subscribe if you want to! I have a script I'll be testing to scrape interesting/relevant things from the Federal Register to send out regular updates (with short commentary)

Hey friends! I'm taking a social media hiatus to enjoy spring (and to not lose my mind). Back in a couple weeks. 💚

My department is hiring a 1-year VAP. Details on MathJobs! www.mathjobs.org/jobs/1503/VAP

I wonder if Augustin was also drawing these figures to satisfy the demands of a shape-loving child. I feel that multiply truncated icosahedron in my soul. I have attempted it in magnetiles. I have drawn it in the dirt.

That's how you do it. Tori Amos is a real one.

watching NASA hit a very specific target in the big big ocean with a vehicle that just came back from outer space at 25,000mph definitely has me reflecting on the charter bus company that couldn't get me to a bus station

Dear Astronauts, welcome back, and how did it feel, spacemaxxing yourselves as far away from the manosphere as humanly possible?

Still thinking about those three perfect parachutes!

I'm moonscrolling

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

Proud new sustaining subscriber! I was having a Friday slump but I can't wait to get to work now to play with new toys.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age