"The federal government is killing people in the streets, so sports are canceled," is the point we have reached.

Breonna Taylor.

One of the things I keep thinking about is how it won’t just be the job of the next president to rebuild everything broken, but the one after that, and the one after that. Whole generations will be living through the aftermath of this bullshit.

My dad use to do this for a living i always respect lineman and power line grid workers

Minnesota is the best of us.

Wichtigste Software des Jahres: cybernews.com/security/dev...

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

Found the clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZS...

they say, "you want a war? you've got a war," but who are you fighitng for?

My grandson asked why we took so long to get into WWII. Was it because of Pearl Harbor that we got in? "No" I answered, we took our time getting into the war because we were selling war to all sides. We waited as long as we could before disappointing some of our our customers.

I was interviewed about my work by Science News Explores @snexplores.bsky.social, a publication "for curious minds age 9 and up!" You can read the interview here: www.snexplores.org/article/cosm...

This is their Gettysburg. Their advance stops here

look how easy this is

"PLEASE USE OUR CHATBOTS THEY ARE THE FUTURE" [Turns on Dry Ice machine and laser show] "THE FUTURE!" [Cues Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre] "THE FUUUUUUTUUUUURE!"

[When a paper of mine isn't cited 3000 times] I love Google Scholar, but this isn't sustainable

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Du Bois did some fantastic quantitative and qualitative research for his Philadelphia book with gorgeously conceived hand drawn graphs too! 🤩

imo a part of Zohran Mamdani's appeal is he interacts with regular people spontaneously and enthusiastically in an era where most nationally prominent politicians respond to a Normal Person like a vampire seeing a cross

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

Writing professor: AI is great for everything except writing! Research professor: AI is great for everything except research! Plumber, probably: AI is great for everything except plumbing! Turns out we all only know it’s shit at doing the things we know how to do - what a coincidence 🤔

Only 12 followers? What a loser. *smashes the follow button for Tiberius Caesar*

Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me

I remember wanting a Pac-Man lunchbox. Not sure it existed at the time. Settled for Dukes of Hazzard. Boy, that didn’t age well. A decade and a half later, I got an MST3K lunchbox when I was buying any MST3K merch I could get my hands on. Still have it (unused) in a box somewhere.

the mixture of grandiose tech prophecy with childish wish fulfillment is so common. the things you care about are not cosmically important. he who lurks between the stars has never thought about them and never will

jeffrey epstein donated to and supported enough science that there are entire lines of research that were apparently pursued largely because he liked them. one of them is evo psych

INTRODUCING - Our February/March 2025 Issue (Issue 166) philosophynow.org Issue 166 has a theme of political philosophy. It has a few things to say about the extremely divided and divisive state of politics at the moment and much more. As always, it is a riot of ideas.

Happy 4-year anniversary of the MacKinnon helmet throw

New Element by Charlotte Sabourin on Kant on Marriage, a topic that's long been of interest to feminist philosophers thanks to the work of Barbara Herman and others - free to download for the next couple of weeks

Almost 4,000 years ago during an era we call the Old Babylonian period, a student formed a round tablet out of clay and drew a circle on it for a math assignment. The area of the circle (45) was then calculated using an approximation of pi (≈ 3). #HappyPiDay

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Via @zlz.bsky.social on X: "The DOGE website appears to be developed and hosted by Outburst Data, run by current DOGE employee Kyle Schutt. If you view the source of any page on the DOGE website, you'll see that the images are proxied through Cloudflare's ImageDelivery service.

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

Liberté, Egalité, Gritté

I completely forgot to tell you that my paper published in The Conversation (France) has been translated in English an is available on #arXiv. 👉 "The Hermeneutic Turn of AI: Are Machines Capable of Interpreting?" #PhilSci #PhilSky #LLM arxiv.org/abs/2411.12517

Ich feier erst wenn wir der AFD, der CDU, der FDP und dem BSW die Prozentpunkte runterjagen. Wenn Merz zurücktritt. Wenn wir Nazis wieder das Fürchten lehren. Wenn die Presse endlich Klartext redet und nicht beschönigt. Wenn ein Wechsel zur konstruktiven Migrationspolitik stattfindet.

I am unreasonably proud of combining several obsessions in one animation. An impossible tribar (aka a Penrose Triangle) level 4 fractal (Sierpinski Triangle), in 3D GeoGebra, with dynamic lighting (using the dot product).

Using the Heat equation with non-linear diffusion to restore art. ima.org.uk/15927/fillin...