Max S. New

@maxsnew.com

Professional computer scientist, unprofessional mathematician

Tell them what you are going to tell them. Then tell them. Then tell them what you told them [<- this is the conclusion] So if you are at the point where you think, "I can stop here" then write a paragraph summarizing the journey for someone who was only half paying attention.

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey fellow writers, can someone teach me how to write a conclusion/ final paragraph?! I HATE it. How do I do this?! Every time I look at my article and think “can I not just stop… right here?”

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · last mo.

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

As someone who is a fan of the Saints, Astros and Wolverines, the Balogun suspension being lifted is honestly pretty low on the pecking order of controversies I've had to deal with lol

This is just straightforward white nationalist great replacement rhetoric, the kind of thing that would have been confined to neo-Nazi forums a decade ago. Multiple mass shooters in recent years believed exactly this.

Tweet from the Department of Homeland Security: “Import the third world, become the third world. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 🇺🇸”

Random Knicks Dark Ages memory of the day: this completely inexplicable cover of “Country Roads” with “New York City” swapped in for “West Virginia” where the verse is just Doug E. Fresh naming neighborhoods and boroughs

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

The most 1999 thing about the previous NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Spurs might be that the Spurs were playing StarCraft against each other in between games