Journal news: 80% of the editorial board of Communications in Algebra has resigned. The resignation letter cites Taylor & Francis' dismissal of managing editor Scott Chapman and their recent top down approach to running journals. (E.g. implementing a 2 reviewer system without consulting the board.)
A few days ago, together with most of the Editorial Board I resigned as Editor from Communications in Algebra. Below is a link to our joint letter.
Catamaran is totally a real word, you dweeb
"We now have to provide evidence during our yearly reviews both that we (a) do not "indoctrinate" students with our lefty ideology, and (b) that we have presented them with sufficiently diverse (read: conservative) viewpoints (even if you're teaching like logic or cell biology)"
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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing.
Persephone: Thank you.
Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.
happy 14th anniversary to all who observe
“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it
happy Learned League opening day to those who celebrate
"it unfortunately behooves us to understand what this technology is, and what it isn’t. It isn’t a black box. It’s a statistical model of data connected to a mechanism for producing more data that resembles the data in the model."
if there is one lesson I've learned from a career in sports analytics, it is this
normal people have no fucking clue what percentages mean
Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up
I miss Websites. A website could be just one video. You could go to "look at my horse my horse is amazing dot com" and listen to a song about a horse that tastes like raisins and turns into a plane. And that would be the website.
A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"
Roses are red,
These times are quite trying
Note also that one prime known in the last series is 1031 1s in a row. If you know this you can tell people you have an 1031 digit prime memorized and then go "1111...." They'll likely walk away, but then they'll also now have an 1031 digit prime memorized.
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║ AI DOESN'T THINK, ║
║ WE'RE JUST TOO USED ║
║ TO LANGUAGE ║
║ REPRESENTING THOUGHT║
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heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.
Almost 4000 people have done this quiz so far, although younger groups still under-represented in case you know anyone who'd like to give it a go and see how they compare to others! probability.kucharski.io
This is in small-town Minnesota. This is not in one of those demonic blue cities that the GOP talk about. This is pretty goddam rural. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
One way to illustrate this: ai can determine "bird or not" very easily. This entire project in this xkcd would take about 15 minutes, if that.
rewards reading, at every level
In case the Democratic Party Leadership is actually interested in a real platform that can be summarized in a succinct and memorable tagline, it’s
large boulder the size of a small boulder tweet from San Miguel sheriff, dated 1/27/20
Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate
I always wondered who was selling all that mid shake to Reedies
it’s that time again
It's Amazing how prescient Andor was
Sometimes I think about how the *good* outcome is that, for the rest of my life, our country is involved in a mass de-Nazification project. If we're lucky, that's what being an American is for the next 40 years.
my most anti-woke opinion is that naming winter storms is weak-willed nonsense. stay safe, dress warmly, shovel your sidewalk and call it "a big snow storm"
