Matt Salomone
@matthematics.com
Crusty old dean. Mathematics enjoyer. Views mine. ¹Best known for other work. 📍 Cape Cod, MA
Hello, universities are a linchpin of democracy and a sine qua non of civilized society, not a profit center
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 14h agoUniversities cannot make money teaching home undergrads or doing funded research. Indeed, those run at a large loss. Only teaching international students make sense in any way. The logical endpoint is taking only international students, reducing research and moving many ops out of the UK altogether.
Fake Connecticut Town Names: Cringeport White Haven Damnford Teen Witch (pronounced "tennitch") New Canaan
As of last night, there are now *7* pastors, former pastors and seminarians who've become Democratic nominees running for Congress. Some have already won safe Dem seats, and several are in hotly contested races. In multiple cases, the GOP has attacked their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith
(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...
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"no matter the quality of my work, my dedication to helping students learn, my belief in the mission, I was clearly, irrevocably, fungible." – @biblioracle.bsky.social 🎯 in John's words, "rank stupidity" and, I'd add, an ominous signal to everyone else, too. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Harvard Administrators Don’t Care About Student Learning
I know, news flash, right?
insidehighered.com
Centrists in the US: “vote blue no matter who!” *actual left wing people start getting nominated* “You’ve lost my vote, I am politically unhoused”
Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The university was made by solidarity between faculty and students against outside political pressure. We can remake it and must www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/o...
Opinion: Student protests are what created the university as we know it | CNN
Seeing current campus protests unfold is a reminder that solidarity between protesting students and their teachers in medieval Europe was the origin of the modern-day university, write historians Davi...
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Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d agoTime to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
As you look toward fall class, do two things for space and grace; . First, add two flex days to you syllabus. You can move the into place when you're sick when everyone needs a metal health day, when a concept needs a little more time. it takes pressure off when the unexpected happens (more)
You almost have to hand it to Trump at this point. He’s figured out how to manipulate world markets by doing nothing more than tweeting bullshit 24/7.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d agoBRENT CRUDE DROPPED MORE THAN 7% AT THE OPEN AFTER TRUMP SAID HE AGREED TO CALL OFF A MASSIVE ATTACK ON IRAN AT THE REQUEST OF MIDDLE EAST ALLIES INCLUDING SAUDI ARABIA, WITH OIL ALSO WEIGHED BY ANOTHER SMALL OPEC+ QUOTA INCREASE, AS WTI FELL 6.7% TO $78.98 A BARREL.
this is my new belief system btw i’m going chud but from an unexpected angle. ‘driving is soy’
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d agoyou know what i fear? abandonment. good luck getting any mileage outta that one from the safety of your fruity lil death machine
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
today in demolishing higher ed is economic sabotage, bonus racism 160 workers fired because regime hates international students www.wbez.org/education/20...
Illinois Institute of Technology cuts 160 faculty and staff just before fall semester
University officials say finances have taken a hit from declines in research funding and foreign student enrollment. Faculty say leaders’ slow response and lack of transparency have deepened the crisi...
wbez.org
want to be clear there are absolutely big differences b/t Dems & GOP, don’t ascribe to all-the-same, and that said, it’s awfully telling how many high profile Dems now profess to prefer a Republican in office than a progressive and how that appears to be driven by who is closer to their values
Being stuck over there by the gas tanks on the water honking my horn at some guy in front of me like what is his fucking problem. But now I know what his problem is. Every single one of us has the same problem. orbooks.com/catalog/a-cr...
"There is Q, there are anons, there is no QAnon."
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 5d agoNara Smith is now claiming she’s “not a tradwife” in a recent podcast appearance. This is a linguistic game that all kinds of people play! Sovereign citizens for instance began claiming there’a “no such thing” as a sovereign citizen as soon as the general public became more familiar with the idea.
whoops we ALSO recklessly failed to adequately secure our own hacking software the only conclusion possible is that the singularity has arrived
Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three companies during cyber tests
Anthropic said on Thursday its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after a configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue...
reuters.com
Where’s the win probability graph with the vertical asymptote
Sarah Langs@slangsonsports.bsky.social · 6d agoOf the 17 walk-off grand slams down three runs since pitch counts tracked (1988), Kody Clemens’ is the first to come on an 0-2 pitch
Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 390–c. 340 BCE) and the Method of Exhaustion #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/t...
Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus II
According to legend the Pythagoreans were devastated when they discovered that the diagonal of a unit square is an irrational number, because they believed that the natural numbers were the buildin…
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"tRump." Why does it enrage me so much. It's such a trivial thing. But it makes me see red.
They call it “breakfast blend” coffee because it breaks you, fast, of the illusion that coffee should have any flavor
See also: grades in the era of the push-notifying LMS
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d ago“Closing exercise rings, achieving a certain step count and keeping blood sugar within a specific range can turn into a compulsion…Anxiety peaks at the mere thought of not hitting numbers. What feels like a good thing to do for your health can become a source of intense anxiety instead."
