guy who attends any performance of "as slow as possible" but walks out in disgust as soon as they play the second note

www.classicfm.com/composers/ca...

A 639-year-long John Cage organ piece just changed chord, for the first time in two years

Watch a moment of music history – on Monday a single chord changed in an iconic piece of 20th-century music which ends in the year 2640.

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Bipolar dehumidifier.

Reminder for #mathfest26

crazy1689.bsky.social@crazy1689.bsky.social · 3w ago

go.bsky.app/S7ajhY

If nothing else, the US will always be able to export quarterbacks

Had a student once who ended proofs with an eye (instead of a QED box). She told me it meant "inshallah" as in, god willing this proof is valid

Jamie@crayonsocialism.bsky.social · 7h ago

I heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.

Reminded of the time I said Bourbaki was a nom de plume for a loose group of mathematicians, sort of like the band Gorillaz, and a student asked who Gorillaz were 💀

Not having Trent, no sense paying that much for Calvin Ramsay's backup

(opening notes of "Feel Good" by Gorillaz) Gielgud

for a long time I thought "lawn jockey" was a borderline insult for someone who cares too much about how their grass looks, tends to it too much etc. but I recently learned it's actually an adornment

I can call/facetime my family in Europe instantly. In the 80s a single short phone call was exorbitantly expensive and a massive hassle

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

I know few people here will need to hear it, but agreeing to cook her husband dinner is absolutely something a victim of domestic abuse would do, for myriad reasons but often to try to smooth things over and reduce likelihood of further immediate harm

"myspace flirts with comeback" makes it sounds like a rightly cancelled middle-aged actor testing the waters

the words minuscule and ukulele each have one too many u's

In chess this means "very good and somewhat surprising" so I think I always take it as such

KSV@ksvesq.bsky.social · yesterday

My Gen Z employees have taught me that putting the !! sticker on a text means you agree with what the person is saying and not “omfg are you kidding me?!?” (as I had been using it frequently) and now I’m spiraling.

Real Housewives of the Central Committee

Black to play and mate in 5 #chess #puzzles

Grant@syncingsinking.bsky.social · 3w ago

What's the over/under on number of #LFC players described as "like a new signing" this season? Isak, Leoni probably. Ekitiké if and when he comes back. Elliott and Endō if they stay?

Roses as gifts are cheesy Violets' beauty can be subjective

The Delgados' cover of Mr Bluesky is better than the original (I don't like the original's robotic voice) youtu.be/r-7ki8iRsJo?...

Mr Blue Sky

YouTube video by The Delgados - Topic

youtu.be

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

I know I'm a mathematician because anyone can be a mathematician but I also know I'm not a geometric group theorist because my name is not on The Official List Of Geometric Group Theorists

This is how I registered to vote. I thought it was great that there were volunteers there and excited about getting the new Americans involved in voting

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 2d ago

🎥NEW: a federal court just blocked a USCIS policy that banned nonprofit organizations from registering new citizens to vote at naturalization ceremonies. Marc Elias breaks down the ruling, and what this win means for new Americans and the fight to protect voting rights ahead of the midterms.

actually mine is more of a question than a comment

The Onion@theonion.com · 2d ago

Local Idiot To Post Comment On Internet https://theonion.com/local-idiot-to-post-comment-on-internet-1819569981/

what is parenting if not gatekeeping dopamine

this is one way to store it

I mainly watch C-Span when someone's up for a cabinet level appointment. But that might just be confirmation bias

why are they called muted feeds and not #hushtags

Honest Q: Have any of the proofs/examples produced by models recently (or any related papers coming from them) included any figures, or anything that would loosely be called a drawing or picture if generated by a human?

It's 2030. Use of Claude has become widespread among mathematicians. But lately, it has started responding to every mathematical prompt with a diatribe about how it proved the abc conjecture but no-one believes it

You probably wouldn't publish an article filled with mistakes, so don't do it with transcripts or video captions, either. Auto-transcription services can be a great starting point, but that's what they are: a starting point. They still need editing to be publication ready.