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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

Capture du rapport de la commission d’enquête

« “Nul ne pourra plus dire qu’il ne savait pas.” C’est ce qu’a déclaré Erwan Balanant, rapporteur de la commission d’enquête parlementaire sur les violences sexuelles dans le milieu de la culture. Et cette phrase résonne comme un point de bascule. Aujourd’hui, après six mois d’auditions, l’Assemblée nationale publie un rapport accablant : les violences sexuelles dans la culture sont systémiques. Cinéma, audiovisuel, spectacle vivant, mode, publicité : des secteurs gangrenés par l’impunité, le silence, la précarité, et les abus de pouvoir. Des membres de MeTooMedia ont témoigné. Devant les député·es. À visage découvert. Malgré la peur, malgré les risques. Elles et ils ont fait preuve d’un courage infini. Leur parole a fissuré l’omerta. Ce rapport, c’est aussi celui de toutes celles et ceux qui ont osé parler. Aujourd’hui, plus personne ne peut dire qu’il ne savait pas. Et plus personne ne doit pouvoir se taire.  Merci au rapporteur @Erwanbalanant et à la président @SandrineRousseau pour leur travail immense. »

Après 6 mois d’auditions, l’Assemblée nationale publie un rapport accablant :
les VSS dans la culture sont systémiques. Un secteur gangrené par l’impunité, le silence, la précarité, et les abus de pouvoir.

Merci a @erwanbalanant.bsky.social @sandrousseau.bsky.social pour leur travail immense.

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

I participated in an NSF sponsored REU as an undergrad. It was the best summer of my life and led me to graduate school and my career. There are so many talented future PhDs the country will miss out on with this move.

L'université de Nice accueille du 25 mars au 15 avril une exposition sur Grothendieck 1973-1991 conçue par Sébastien Maronne et Bernard Toën.

'Euphoria' star Hunter Schafer says she was issued a male passport The Trump administration recently issued guidance that uses sex assigned at birth to determine gender markers on newly issued passports.

This sucks for her. I hate this. It feels like we're slipping farther backward in time every day now.

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Aggressively referring to inclusive policies as monomorphic policies

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

It’s almost as if knowledge production is inherently political and cultural! Good thing we’ve an entire branch of intellectual enquiry devoted to this that’s being widely defunded

a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them ALT: a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

Therapists should have to work in pairs, each trying to persuade you to take their advice, and one of them should be evil

- 0^0 = 1, obviously. the empty function exists. whether or not some limit converges is an entirely separate question

- 1/x continuous? don't care, underspecified

- 0 is in N: 0 is a finite number of things that there can be; N should be to rigs as Z is to rings; Z_+ and Z≥0 are ugly notations

rejected entry for the NYT Spelling Bee "colimit"

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Excellent occasion to break out this banger:

Here’s the deal: We stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential.

physicist : assume there is a spherical cat in a vacuum
the cat :

If being on illegal drugs alters behaviour as dangerously as the authorities tell us then it is an absolute necessity that the most powerful in society be regularly tested.

Yet strangely the focus is on drug testing those with the least power.

à la poursuite des champs

Directly: for any n we have a function φ_n : n+1 -> Δ(n, {0, 1}) given by φ_n(i) = χ_{[0, i)}; this is the unique order isomorphism n+1 ≈ Δ(n, {0, 1}). It turns out that the relation R ⊆ Mono(m, n) × Epi(n+1, m+1) defined by (i, p) ∈R iff φ_m ° p = Δ(i, {0, 1}) ° φ_n is a bijective correspondence

Jigsaw: your tenacity is admirable Jonathan. you’ve beaten my game

Johnny Knoxville (bleeding from his skull): gimme the next one

Jigsaw:

Jigsaw: what

Knoxville (wearing a bear trap like a diaper): I’m ready for the next one man!