Never thought I’d read direct quotes from an Amazon PR person and actually sympathize with them

Well they are related just not how the author wants them to be. There’s a far more interesting narrative that isn’t pushed about how data centers interact with broken water systems and leveraging that to get tech companies to fund fixing pollution caused by other industries.

You are not immune to propaganda!

I usually let it slide but this is where it bothers me most. Cause I get distracted trying to prove to myself whether X is or is not reasonably a manifold.

A subset of the rule “don’t put anything on a slide you aren’t going to explain”

3. Take the “ed” seriously. Hire and evaluate faculty primarily for teaching.
4. Lots of diverse research institutes for those who prefer to have a research only career.

1. Empower faculty/student senates with actual veto power over admin
2. Faculty run labs but all funding goes directly to people (salary+travel+disc.). Labs get funding by pitching projects directly to potential employees. Like UBI++.

if the internet makes me stop using the em dash, i'll repay the favor by replacing every em dash in my writing with "absolutely"

as the saying goes, if you outlaw llms' ability to generate good writing, only criminal llms will write well

Fortunately this is a private metric used to tune just what you want to see in your feed. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Learning it aside, would you use it to submit a paper today?

Typst was honestly faster to learn up to my Latex proficiency. I think it’s cause there’s a clear programming model vs. latex packages are a mix of everything. It makes it so the intuitive thing is the correct thing.

Also: lilaq.org. Typst knowing about other file types is amazing.

Moves as many people as every other transit agency in America put together! Twice as many people every day as the entire federal aviation system!