Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
Leo C. Stein
@duetosymmetry.com
Physics Prof @ U of MS. Sloan Fellow. Black holes, gravitational waves, general relativity & beyond. Formerly Caltech MIT Cornell. Need thin pizza + fruity coffee. He/him 🌐 https://duetosymmetry.com/ @duetosymmetry everywhere
You cannot trick me into reading Joyce Carol Oates’s take on Emily Wilson’s take on Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer. I have stabbed myself in the eye once too often. I have no more eyes left to stab.
Andy, did you write the waltz about masturbation... (wait for it)... singlehandedly?
Andy Rivkin@asrivkin.bsky.social · 2w agoi have written and recorded dozens if not hundreds of songs in the last 30 years. the two biggest crowd-pleasers* were the curse-filled rant i wrote in 5 minutes after a breakup and the one i wrote because the band thought "we need a waltz about masturbation". *neither of which i play anymore
The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
People who don’t want to be spoken ill of when dead, shouldn’t work so hard to make the living hate them so much.
He added, as others have observed, that ICE has learned lessons from Midway Blitz: specifically, by not riling white areas. "I think they're being more strategic," Jesse said. "They're not hitting white communities. They're hitting Back of the Yards. They're hitting communities that are brown."
There are 544,831 groups in their database! You can search by e.g. order, or number of conjugacy classes, or solvability, or so many other things. Check out their advanced search: www.lmfdb.org/Groups/Abstr...
LMFDB - Abstract groups
Welcome to the LMFDB, the database of L-functions, modular forms, and related objects. These pages are intended to be a modern handbook including tables, formulas, links, and references for L-function...
lmfdb.org
Leo C. Stein@duetosymmetry.com · 4w agoI don't know who needs this information, but the LMFDB site includes a huge database of finite groups and their properties. Here's the entry for A₅: www.lmfdb.org/Groups/Abstr.... I know there is also groupprops.subwiki.org , but that's just a wiki whereas the LMFDB was generated programmatically 🧮
I don't know who needs this information, but the LMFDB site includes a huge database of finite groups and their properties. Here's the entry for A₅: www.lmfdb.org/Groups/Abstr.... I know there is also groupprops.subwiki.org , but that's just a wiki whereas the LMFDB was generated programmatically 🧮
celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle
The white supremacist group, Patriot Front, was seen marching through Capitol Hill this morning.
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
FT: Joe Biden “made 13 transactions over four years.” In 2025 alone, “Trump made more than 22,000.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/9067...
The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...
Michael Cembalest is out with his annual energy report for JP Morgan and it's full of fascinating stuff, but this graph jumps out: Trump is succeeding in stifling America's clean energy boom. Absolutely ceding the field to China.
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite
We recently crossed 6 million chess puzzles in our open database. Like the platform itself, Lichess data is free and open source. Go and build something cool with it, Available wherever you get your datasets!
This is a pure giveaway to Musk
Louis Gray@louisgray.bsky.social · last mo.The US is so paranoid about Chinese tech, they've forced Polestar to withdraw from the US. Polestar is the best alternative to Tesla with high quality sedans, not to mention the excellent Android integration. What an absolute mess and self-own by the government. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...
"Program managers would normally rush to inform potential and current grantees about such dramatic changes. But the memo tells program managers to keep their mouths shut. 'This information is highly confidential...Please do not communicate anything to PIs.'” www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
science.org
They're dumping slimy, green peroxide water from the Reflecting Pool back into the Potomac. #dc @popville.bsky.social
More evidence, from a large-scale study in China, that using AI hurts learning if it undermines mental effort. When homework time drops due to AI use, so do test scores. Across studies, there is a clear theme: AI tutoring in support of classes is good, using AI to "help" with homework is bad.
Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
BREAKING MS NOW: FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative — a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search.
FBI raids Ohio voting-rights organization
“Just straight up intimidation tactics”: Sources tell MS NOW agents also fanned across the state, showing up at staff members’ homes.
ms.now
I’m looking for books / long form articles discussing the ecological impact of LLMs and AI ethics. I would love materal that gives ideas for how (if possible) to implement AI tools ethically wrt environmental concerns. Even better if its from an indigenous perspective.
31 May 1941 | An Italian Jewish boy Mario Sonnino was born in Rome (on the left). On 23 October 1943, he was murdered in a gas chamber at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. He was killed together with his sister Césira and his brother Sandro.
Did *anybody* have Bill-Kristol-posting-AOC-for-prez on their 2026 bingo card?
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2mo ago“If we are going to do a third Reconstruction we need politicians who conceive of themselves as working on behalf of a constituency, rather than would-be-saviors…And, like the people of Minnesota, we need to do the work to be that constituency…” www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...