When I started paying attention to DSA conventions they all seemed like shitshows that would end in collapse, but it turns out not to actually work that way for DSA, and enough YP factions seem to be taking explicit inspiration to pull it off imo.
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
When I started paying attention to DSA conventions they all seemed like shitshows that would end in collapse, but it turns out not to actually work that way for DSA, and enough YP factions seem to be taking explicit inspiration to pull it off imo.
"All this knowledge, with which vanity fills the balloon-like brains of our proud pedants, is therefore but a huge mass of words and figures, which form in the brain all the marks by which we distinguish and recall objects" -- valuable business insight
November 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"All this knowledge, with which vanity fills the balloon-like brains of our proud pedants, is therefore but a huge mass of words and figures, which form in the brain all the marks by which we distinguish and recall objects" -- valuable business insight
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also might indicate who should really be replaced by ai
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
also might indicate who should really be replaced by ai
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Ok, so the Traveller 5e news is… well it’s whatever. Not really worth getting too exercised about I’d say about BUT thanks to looking up previous d20 iterations of Traveller my life has been #blessed to discover what may be hands down the single greatest piece of RPG art I’ve ever seen.
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ok, so the Traveller 5e news is… well it’s whatever. Not really worth getting too exercised about I’d say about BUT thanks to looking up previous d20 iterations of Traveller my life has been #blessed to discover what may be hands down the single greatest piece of RPG art I’ve ever seen.
It is really strange how many educated americans pay real world cash dollar money to publications that clearly have some fundamental opposition to mass education, literacy and numeracy as concepts.
ruin your thanksgiving by reading new york magazine's take on mathematics
![The Ten Most
Ridiculous-Sounding
Math Classes Currently
Offered at Liberal-Arts
Colleges
By Jessica Pressler, Janelle Zara, and Emily Watkins Rachel Stein andAviva Shen OCT. 19, 2010
Every year, liberal-arts majors anxiously scour their college's course listings looking for classes that will fulfill their math requirement but aren't so, you know, math-y. Here's what they're signed up for this year.
10. Topology: The Nature of Shape and Space: "In geometry we ask: How big is it? How long is it? But in topology we ask: Is it [Sarah Lawrence
9. The Mathematies of Chance: "Most topics are introduced ina case-study fashion, usually by reading an article in a current periodical such as the New York Times. [Bard]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreieq6gmwmropzlvjkaaxk6d2smd4tv4dy7qar66uoyv6mhs6naa3fu@jpeg)
![8. Mathematics in Many Cultures: "Mathematical ideas are found in many cultures, among both literate and non-literate peoples. This course examines both mathematics and the role it plays in the cultures. Examples chosen from the mathematical ideas of present-day peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, as well as historic Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Islam and China." [Pomona]
7. The Magic of Numbers: "This course will explore the beauty and mystery of mathematics through a study of the patterns and properties of the natural numbers 1, 2, [and] 3." [Harvard
6. Models of Life: In particular, we will ask such questions as: How do you model the growth of a population of animals? How can you model the growth of a tree? How do sunflowers and seashells grow?" [Kenyon]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreic3c4ox53ouwr3ij3wsmvetmuknu2u2jai7hlvuigco3ahppeoabi@jpeg)
![5. Mathematical Origamist's Toolkit: "Topics include modular origami and how this models the creation of polyhedra and coloring of graphs, comparison of origami-axiomatic constructions to straight-edge and compass constructions, the combinatorics of possible crease patterns, the mathematics of origami design (circle packing, optimization), matrix models for paperfolding, spherical geometry, Descartes' Theorem, and Gaussian curvature." [Hampshire]
4. Mathematics and Narrative: "Many literary works (Arcadia, Proof, and Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture) use mathematics as an integral part of their narrative. Movie and television narratives such as Good Will Hunting and Numb3rs are also mathematically based. Nonfiction works about mathematics and mathematical biographies like Chaos, Fermat's Enigma, and A Beautiful Mind provide further examples of the connection between mathematics and narrative." [Vassar]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreigyk5tqjszw3fodt7ivmszq7mozpta55o7c552oyzpbqyphl26x7m@jpeg)
![3. Borges and Mathematics: "Jorge Luis Borges was one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Many of his short stories and essays were concerned with philosophical, metaphysical, and mathematical questions. The thesis motivating this course is that if we know the mathematies that Borges referred to, then we will read him differently, and we will read him better." [Bennington 2. Mathematics and Science as Art in Contemporary Theatre: "Playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Rinne Groff, Michael Frayn, and others have effectively explored mathematical and scientific themes for artistic purposes. Through readings and exercises, and by conducting labs and staging scenes, this class will gain some first-hand insight into the complementary ways in which science and art aim to seek out their respective truths." [Middlebury]
1. Meaning, Math, And Motion: "Quoting a charming articulation by Kinsman (a mathematician-turned-oceanographer, in the preface to Wind Waves): "To the beginner, science is a conversation that has been in progress for a very long time. Our collective work is to catch up on the conversation. [Evergreen]
This is why Asia is winning, by the way.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreihglx3kxej43i22j4vggyoutp2oyomivtmmvgp6uvslqemm4hhpci@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It is really strange how many educated americans pay real world cash dollar money to publications that clearly have some fundamental opposition to mass education, literacy and numeracy as concepts.
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This explains some corners of Bsky...
From the AMA community on Reddit: I was paid to discredit veganism online. AMA
Explore this post and more from the AMA community
www.reddit.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This explains some corners of Bsky...
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I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say the Illuminati has a world hunger problem
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say the Illuminati has a world hunger problem
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Not a fan so far of "sovereign" displacing "open" in all things AI/tech in the EU.
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Not a fan so far of "sovereign" displacing "open" in all things AI/tech in the EU.
"Consider like, just how much energy is basically going into working within the constraints of that bottleneck. All of modernity's armies of little bureaucrats, all the schools and the libraries and the academies and the conferences and the writing writing writing constant writing..."
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"Consider like, just how much energy is basically going into working within the constraints of that bottleneck. All of modernity's armies of little bureaucrats, all the schools and the libraries and the academies and the conferences and the writing writing writing constant writing..."
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Public opinion between rearmament and crisis of the nuclear taboo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20475
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20475
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Public opinion between rearmament and crisis of the nuclear taboo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20475
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20475
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🚀 Introducing TMLR Beyond PDF!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚀 Introducing TMLR Beyond PDF!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images.
🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!
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From my anecdotal experience, this is absolutely true
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
From my anecdotal experience, this is absolutely true
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Well, true, one should not say left vs right coded. One should say pickup vs sedan coded
arxiv.org/abs/1702.06683
arxiv.org/abs/1702.06683
I'm biased because I basically hate the entire concept of breaking down political ideology into "left" vs. "right" but... it's even worse when we start saying certain activities are "coded" along that very limited political spectrum.
what?
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Well, true, one should not say left vs right coded. One should say pickup vs sedan coded
arxiv.org/abs/1702.06683
arxiv.org/abs/1702.06683
James Carville is not your friend and does not wish well for your policy aims
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
James Carville is not your friend and does not wish well for your policy aims
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Paper now available here democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/lau...
For those of you familiar with the EU's rule of law toolbox, you can go straight to the section offering concrete/multiple examples of timid use, misuse and non-use of the main EU prevention/monitoring & response/enforcement tools
For those of you familiar with the EU's rule of law toolbox, you can go straight to the section offering concrete/multiple examples of timid use, misuse and non-use of the main EU prevention/monitoring & response/enforcement tools
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Paper now available here democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/lau...
For those of you familiar with the EU's rule of law toolbox, you can go straight to the section offering concrete/multiple examples of timid use, misuse and non-use of the main EU prevention/monitoring & response/enforcement tools
For those of you familiar with the EU's rule of law toolbox, you can go straight to the section offering concrete/multiple examples of timid use, misuse and non-use of the main EU prevention/monitoring & response/enforcement tools
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if we ever achieve post-scarcity, i'm going to spend all my time modelling data for the love of the game
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
if we ever achieve post-scarcity, i'm going to spend all my time modelling data for the love of the game
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Thermonuclear Explosions for Large-Scale Carbon Sequestration: A Call for Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17174
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17174
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Thermonuclear Explosions for Large-Scale Carbon Sequestration: A Call for Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17174
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17174
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Me when a driver is buggy: "computer's haunted"
Me when we take the crystalized thoughts of every dead person who has ever been recorded and compress them into a singular artifact we imbue with false life:
"It's just linear algebra"
Me when we take the crystalized thoughts of every dead person who has ever been recorded and compress them into a singular artifact we imbue with false life:
"It's just linear algebra"
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Me when a driver is buggy: "computer's haunted"
Me when we take the crystalized thoughts of every dead person who has ever been recorded and compress them into a singular artifact we imbue with false life:
"It's just linear algebra"
Me when we take the crystalized thoughts of every dead person who has ever been recorded and compress them into a singular artifact we imbue with false life:
"It's just linear algebra"
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Easy-access online social media metrics can foster the identification of misinformation sharing users
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15186
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15186
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Easy-access online social media metrics can foster the identification of misinformation sharing users
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15186
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15186
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"The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine" @theintercept.com - The Anarchist Library is linked in the article
read here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
read here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine" @theintercept.com - The Anarchist Library is linked in the article
read here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
read here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
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When militia attacks disrupted the shipping lane in the Red Sea, many cargo ships were re-routed around the Cape of Good Hope. This provided researchers a unique opportunity to quantify aerosol-cloud interactions, reducing the largest source of uncertainty in global climate projections.
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
When militia attacks disrupted the shipping lane in the Red Sea, many cargo ships were re-routed around the Cape of Good Hope. This provided researchers a unique opportunity to quantify aerosol-cloud interactions, reducing the largest source of uncertainty in global climate projections.