Christo Silvia

@christosilvia.bsky.social

Housing 🏘️, transit🚇, walking🚶‍♂️ and cycling 🚲 advocate in Woburn, MA, USA Car lite advocate, ebike owner Historic 🏠 owner, renovation amateur, and marriage enthusiast Vegetarian Senior RF Design Eng The opinions on this account do not represent my employer

It's not just frustrating that they're so stupid and they believe in a bunch of fucking bullshit but the worst part of it is that they're simply unable to be educated because of their own stubbornness and imagined superiority where they think they know everything. And they know nothing. 🤷

I wonder when if the Zionists will ever figure out that their bullying and trying silence people just pisses more people off and makes a far bigger deal out of things. Kraft didn’t do Israel any favors. No one like billionaires, to begin with. Billionaires who are in the Epstein files are

There's an anti-abortion billboard off the highway near my house with a picture of a probably AI generated middle schooler and it says "why is MY life YOUR choice?" And I think probably because*you* are not real? How you know this is that a real 11 year old doesn't grow inside someone else's body.

"In my view we should welcome interesting mathematical results regardless of provenance. But our institutions have historically relied on the same signal to indicate both mathematical progress and mathematical expertise. These now must be distinguished."

"Whatever our goals are, we’ve operationalized them primarily through proving theorems. Almost all papers or PhD theses have a main theorem, and ostensibly a proof of it. But it should be clear that the goal of mathematics is not to prove theorems..." proofsandprompts.com/2026/09/14/a...

A beginning for mathematics

Daniel Litt, professor at the University of Toronto Three years ago, AI systems could not reliably add two numbers. A year ago, internal models at OpenAI and DeepMind received the equivalent of a g…

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If we tailored our budgets to our operations then that'd be ideal, but usually things work the other way around. I could see MARC splitting their operations in half with diesels to Brunswick and Martinsburg, and BELs on the Penn and Camden lines. My only question is the charging of those BELs.

Yes. The chant was literally “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” 🎶 That was the vision. There was never any part B mentioned. Well, we did that. We did that pretty good and hard.

IMHO the problem with transit in the US is that procurement types tend to rise through the ranks rather than operations people. Procurement folks look at maintaining spares for 3-4 types of equipment and for some unknowable reason, freak out. So standardized fleets are the hill we die on.

Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs

Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"

In the decision on the Kennedy Center, a footnote says that the law creating it allows for "any inscription on the marble walls in the north or south galleries, the Hall of States, or the Hall of Nations acknowledging a major contribution." Trump could have plastered the inside with his dumb name.

"Free Palestine" is one of those things that can mean Fatah's current maximum goal: end of all settlements, two-state solution, green line, Arabs get East Jerusalem, right of return to families, their children. But it can also mean Hamas's maximum goal, which is, um, decidedly uglier.

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h ago

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

I'm thinking there's a Pulitzer Prize waiting for the reporter dicovering the identity of the FBI applicant who engaged in beastiality and what their relationship is to Kash Patel causing him to change the standard and allow that person into the agency.

If he is thwarted in his inevitable efforts to cheat in 2028 we need to be prepared for the very serious likelihood that he will attempt to steal, auction off, or destroy out of pure spite every public asset he can.

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2h ago

This is essentially how he wants to run the country and the world: make it entirely his or put an end to it. And of course making anything his also always means putting an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a...