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teacher of mathematical habits of mind,
medievalist in temperament,
reader,
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he/him
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mastodon:
@zidaya
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@zidaya.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Hello all refugees from twitter. hopefully we can recreate the #mathblueskyblogosphere...
As Forster said, "only connect"
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As Forster said, "only connect"
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right in the middle of all of it is prof. dr. robert j. catman, esq., P.I. snoozing away when he’s not trying to bat ornaments off the tree
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
right in the middle of all of it is prof. dr. robert j. catman, esq., P.I. snoozing away when he’s not trying to bat ornaments off the tree
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tonight while recording a guest spot on a podcast i experienced an unacceptable level of disrespect from one of the hosts. so i decided to do what felt right for me and i left. i didn’t need to stick around to show i’m “tough” or “thick skinned.” i reminded myself that no one is owed my time.
December 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
tonight while recording a guest spot on a podcast i experienced an unacceptable level of disrespect from one of the hosts. so i decided to do what felt right for me and i left. i didn’t need to stick around to show i’m “tough” or “thick skinned.” i reminded myself that no one is owed my time.
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Had a good time joining @bradleyonishi.bsky.social to discuss this essay on Straight White American Jesus
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
December 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Had a good time joining @bradleyonishi.bsky.social to discuss this essay on Straight White American Jesus
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Can you say RACISM? And it's coming out of the White Supremacy House. Shame, shame, shame.
Amazing story by @kristoncapps.bsky.social showing how differently Texas is treating towns in its southeast getting aid for Hurricane Harvey damage. Cities w/large minority populations get less than $100 per person. Tiny, almost all-white towns get $40,000 or more www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Can you say RACISM? And it's coming out of the White Supremacy House. Shame, shame, shame.
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I think that the longstanding trauma of this moment is going to be that many people in their 20-30s rn in not-quite-elite circles are going to be intensely small c conservative for a long time and have something of a hair-trigger for anything that smells of populism for the rest of their days
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
you'd think that the fact that the president is currently trying to get the Feds to arrest Senators would be what the NYT editorial board would focus on but...
December 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I think that the longstanding trauma of this moment is going to be that many people in their 20-30s rn in not-quite-elite circles are going to be intensely small c conservative for a long time and have something of a hair-trigger for anything that smells of populism for the rest of their days
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Nothing like the joy of crows riding a southern squall.
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Nothing like the joy of crows riding a southern squall.
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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We are not replacing the Beast with the Smiler.
My governor’s assessment of future Republican plans for the presidential election don’t go far enough: Project 2025 fixes future national elections for Republicans. Those changes are already happening around the country, as I skeet this. @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We are not replacing the Beast with the Smiler.
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I somehow missed this cartoon from my friend & co-author Tom Toles. It perfect captures the spirit of #ScienceUnderSiege, co-authored with my friend @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social:
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I somehow missed this cartoon from my friend & co-author Tom Toles. It perfect captures the spirit of #ScienceUnderSiege, co-authored with my friend @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social:
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And yes, this is very obviously a way to funnel municipal and state funds into a national partisan pressure group.
New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
And yes, this is very obviously a way to funnel municipal and state funds into a national partisan pressure group.
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I have no interest in fighting about breastmilk vs formula, but I do think more dudes should realize that sometimes, moms just dont make enough milk. Babies dont latch correctly. Shit happens! In the past, they just died. But now we have formula! which is better than dying, in my humble opinion
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I have no interest in fighting about breastmilk vs formula, but I do think more dudes should realize that sometimes, moms just dont make enough milk. Babies dont latch correctly. Shit happens! In the past, they just died. But now we have formula! which is better than dying, in my humble opinion
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This was a shitpost but also, the Buddhist view is basically:
1. Humans: have reason, but suffer. Most likely to achieve nirvana
2. Gods: *can* achieve it, but unlikely, since their life is so good.
3. Animals/demons cannot, they gotta be reborn at least as a god first, ideally humans
1. Humans: have reason, but suffer. Most likely to achieve nirvana
2. Gods: *can* achieve it, but unlikely, since their life is so good.
3. Animals/demons cannot, they gotta be reborn at least as a god first, ideally humans
Coffee mug at the "Thomistic Institute but Buddhist": "Dogs can't attain nirvana"
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This was a shitpost but also, the Buddhist view is basically:
1. Humans: have reason, but suffer. Most likely to achieve nirvana
2. Gods: *can* achieve it, but unlikely, since their life is so good.
3. Animals/demons cannot, they gotta be reborn at least as a god first, ideally humans
1. Humans: have reason, but suffer. Most likely to achieve nirvana
2. Gods: *can* achieve it, but unlikely, since their life is so good.
3. Animals/demons cannot, they gotta be reborn at least as a god first, ideally humans
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Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
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It's fascinating to me how it never occurs to anyone to apply Youngstown in these cases
(Because the result would be hilariously obvious, if you did)
(Because the result would be hilariously obvious, if you did)
Gorsuch leaning in to "actually, all these agencies are unconstitutional in their entirety"
Gorsuch is very much not on board with "sever this and let the executive control it"
Folks, we might be walking out of this without any executive agencies at all
Gorsuch is very much not on board with "sever this and let the executive control it"
Folks, we might be walking out of this without any executive agencies at all
December 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's fascinating to me how it never occurs to anyone to apply Youngstown in these cases
(Because the result would be hilariously obvious, if you did)
(Because the result would be hilariously obvious, if you did)
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The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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man, there's an irony in the AI discourse that will make absolutely everyone angry, which is that the people who are likeliest to use these tools effectively are not devs or programmers, they're writers and artists with good read/write communication and perception skills.
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
man, there's an irony in the AI discourse that will make absolutely everyone angry, which is that the people who are likeliest to use these tools effectively are not devs or programmers, they're writers and artists with good read/write communication and perception skills.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
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“it’s nature or nurture and you, loving parent, are on the hook for both” is a hard pill to swallow for a number of reasons
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“it’s nature or nurture and you, loving parent, are on the hook for both” is a hard pill to swallow for a number of reasons
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"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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A picture of me and the staff who operate my BlueSky account:
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A picture of me and the staff who operate my BlueSky account:
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continuing my thesis that people over 40 are unequipped to handle an information environment where they have to distinguish between "provocative intellectual" and "vBulletin troll"
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
continuing my thesis that people over 40 are unequipped to handle an information environment where they have to distinguish between "provocative intellectual" and "vBulletin troll"