If ICE can send subpoenas to deanonymize social media accounts, couldn't they have done it for the anonymous and overtly racist account we found is run by one of their own employees who is still working there?

steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · last yr.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

It's the summer of messing around with fun projects! I finished creating a revamped style for my personal webpage, and courtney.gibbons.phd forwards there. (If you are a Gibbons with a PhD, send me a message if you want a subdomain to forward to you or an email address to forward to you)

My child would not go to sleep until I had discussed enough non-Archimedean solids. He finally relented and then told me I could go away because the Stella Octangula was coming to snuggle instead. If this is 3, I don't know if I'm going to survive his teenage years...

Yes, I’m still going to see “The Odyssey”. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Ben McKenzie Says Major Streamers Were Scared to License His Anti-Crypto Documentary, So He Found a Different Way to Reach Audiences

Ben McKenzie, "The O.C." star turned documentarian, is releasing his film about cryptocurrency in a unique way.

variety.com

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

I'm kind of pumped because I created the first levels of a Lean game following the curricular map of Abstract Algebra Actively book. So it starts with students messing around with integers and well-ordered subsets, gets them to induction! It's still buggy but it's really neat!

Check out the latest edition of my newsletter, MOTHERFUNCTOR! ("structure-preserving political commentary for mathematicians")

NSF proposed changes to the PAPPG (NSF 24-1 >> NSF 27-1)

There's still plenty of time to comment on the docket (Aug 24, 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT), but don't put it off into syllabus-revision season!

newsletter.motherfunctor.co

#ASongOrMovieForUsingAComputer HTML (by the Village People) Runners up: - Great Walls of Fire - Oh Brother where art thy firmware updates

Kenan Thompson & Village People SNL Sketch

Alt: Kenan Thompson & Village People SNL Sketch

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This is going in all my syllabi!

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

science funding and the cherry picking problem

Science publishing–like all of science–requires money. There’s no getting around it, even with the open science movement. What appears free to many authors and readers still requires money and infr…

scatter.wordpress.com

August as an academic

Betye Saar, Who Opened Portals Between Worlds, Dies at 99 Her visionary assemblages recast the debris of American history into monuments of Black resilience and liberation. by Lisa Yin Zhang for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/betye-saar-w...

Betye Saar, Who Opened Portals Between Worlds, Dies at 99

Her visionary assemblages recast the debris of American history into monuments of Black resilience and liberation.

hyperallergic.com

Boston seems jealous that NYC has the cool mayor... it's cool, Boston! Your mayor is cool!

Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭@mayorwu.boston.gov · 5d ago

Now, any couple who gets married in City Hall can request a pet certificate upon uniting their household! 🐾 This certificate is dedicated to the shared commitment, love, nurture and proper cuddles our pets bring to our lives. Be sure to bring your pets to make the ceremony paw-fect.

Today is Global Ecological Overshoot Day...the day of year when total human demand on ecological resources & services has exceeded what the Earth can regenerate in the whole year! (NB: We in the US burned thru environment's productivity for this yr back on March 14.) overshoot.footprintnetwork.org

Earth Overshoot Day home - #MoveTheDate

Overshoot occurs when humanity's demand on nature exceeds Earth's biocapacity. In 2025, Earth Overshoot Day falls on July 24th.

overshoot.footprintnetwork.org

Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 6d ago

Earth Overshoot Day: how many Earths do we need? Earth Overshoot Day is the exact date when humanity's total demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what the Earth can regenerate in that same year, and in 2026, it falls on 30 July northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

Throwing a surprise party for an 85-year-old on oxygen is risky, but we managed to surprise my dad without killing him. #winning My dad taught band (alongside a pretty hectic life as a musician), and some of his former students came. In the '70s, he convinced them his name was Wolfgang (it's Tom).

#MathSky #MTBoS #TMWYK

Dr. Courtney Gibbons (she/her)@courtneygibbons.phd · last wk.

Started making a game: polyhedral-wilds.netlify.app It's not great on a phone (yet) and I need to do some obvious things (like randomize the answers) but it's been a fun learning experience!

Started making a game: polyhedral-wilds.netlify.app It's not great on a phone (yet) and I need to do some obvious things (like randomize the answers) but it's been a fun learning experience!

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

What's your sign?

Grant@syncingsinking.bsky.social · last wk.

What's your sign?

Why is "vacation" so hard?

OMG, skeets, take a look at this, which my kid just sent me: This is #Tasy, the new #StrayKids #Stay mascot that was launched a few weeks ago. She designed the pattern herself! (The pattern will be up on Etsy/Ravelry just as soon as I finish formatting it.)

Doctor Logic@saraluckelman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Skeets, I need your help to access the algorithm to amplify some things to networks I'm not really in. Do you: 1) like crochet, 2) like K-pop, 3) like cute things, 4) like supporting young people in projects? My kid (14.5 today) is making patterns for Enhypen mascots, and would love a boost.

Things that would make my life better if AI could do them: Putting a fitted sheet on a bed in so the corners stay put. Laundry. Getting the spiderwebs that I can't get to even with a pole. Keeping squirrels out of my bird feeders but in a kind and gentle way.

August goals: - make the switch to my Light Phone as my primary phone -- requires getting the Yubi dongle finally - program my Sensor Watch (prime Friday alert and class alarms!) - actually practice being offline by default

You aim to understand a mathematical text all by yourself? I finally made an English version of my users guide on "How to read math?" You might want to download it here: web.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/media/How_To... #math #readingmath #mathematics #matheducation #science #mathsky

Trying life in the slow lane for a minute (but only a minute)

I would give a kidney to turn off commercial genAI where I don't want it (everywhere). BERT was enough!

Just think of all the pedagogical innovations and research on best practices for teaching over the decades that have gotten zero support and funding for implementation, but AI has no proven pedagogical value and is literally sucking up all the funding available in higher ed. These are facts.

Unreported traffic stops by Chicago police obscure the full picture of who officers are pulling over, says a local organizer. “It is really hard for the public to hold our authorities accountable when we are operating with flawed data.” (w/ Injustice Watch)

Chicago Police Promised to 'Fix' Secret Traffic Stops. A Year Later, the Problem Has Only Gotten Worse. - Bolts

As Chicago’s top cop steps down, police are making fewer traffic stops. But our new investigation finds half of stops are still not being reported to oversight agencies, despite a state law mandating disclosure.

boltsmag.org

This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.

Taylor Farms Posted Its Own Recall. It Went to 27 States, Not 5 — and the List Includes Bags Sold in Grocery Stores.

Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA's recalls page, which means the only

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