lol, most of videos when I started following him were him doing backflips in bathrooms and hallways, often shirtless, not sure where the wife part came from
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lol, most of videos when I started following him were him doing backflips in bathrooms and hallways, often shirtless, not sure where the wife part came from
I followed him on TikTok a couple of years ago. Just saw him posting about the Olympics recently.
Nick?
I can do “only show applied rubric items” with positive scoring which I prefer.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The “MaxCut” problem is a fundamental question about graphs with real-world applications, like efficient circuit design. Recently, work on MaxCut helped mathematicians solve a major problem in number theory.
www.quantamagazine.org/networks-hol...
"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Great article by Chad Topaz. Clearly explains a misunderstanding of statistics in nontechnical terms.
![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa)
Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]
Funny Numbers
xkcd.com/3184/
Flashback post and yep, still our favorite.
Fantastic essay by Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy. “Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control.” [nytimes.com]
And now it’s been hijacked by Oracle where every single American is separated from the rest of the world, with our own special algorithm.
Wonder what they’ll do with it now! I bet it’s all for the greater good.
I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is.
Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.
@nhannahjones.bsky.social: Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
"What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to “End Racism,” and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist?'
New video about a piece by the modern artist Sol LeWitt, and the group theory behind it.
youtu.be/_BrFKp-U8GI
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
Really liked this @monicalewinsky.bsky.social interview with John Oliver, gets at some of the actual human tone that a real conversation about these topics would hit. And I’m always here for telling Jay Leno to go fuck himself. youtu.be/yR-KTECQGxQ
An overhead photograph of a road passing through snowy fields. The road forks toward the left of the picture.
New blog post: "On Grief" in higher ed. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
This is a fabulous piece of writing about the mythology of generative AI. www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
When you strip away humanity
In today's Tea for Teaching podcast, @geekypedagogy.bsky.social joins us to discuss her new book, Snafu Edu, which explores ways of addressing classroom issues and offers recommendations for proactive approaches to these issues. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/snafu-edu/ @cyberthread.bsky.social
"But faculty need to create experiences worthy of that struggle, designing challenges that feel meaningful rather than arbitrary, and showing students why the journey matters as much as the destination."
"Students need to understand that learning requires friction—that intellectual struggle isn't a bug in the system, it's a feature."
As Clay Shirky put it in a recent essay for the Chronicle of Higher Ed: “While the output of any given course is student assignments - papers, exams, research projects, and so on - the product of that course is student experience.”
www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...
