Joel Dodge

@weakthinker.bsky.social

Balance is a movement. https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf

Hundreds of millions of dollars. If they had supported actual mathematicians with that, instead of their theft- and trauma-based computer programs, what could we have had? Theorems, yes. But also: the training and support of early-career researchers. The formation of collaborative research groups.

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Altman says OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions on math — and has more discoveries up its sleeve. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

My colleagues, don’t enclose the commons. Don’t sacrifice the soul of your work for short-term gain. Don’t address your questions to a chatbot. Work with your colleagues. Help your students. Use your own brains. Strengthen your profession. Be human.

People forget that back in the 90s, kids weren't on the computer all the time, they didn't have cell phones. Instead they watched the Beethoven dog movies

Fielder: So the patient IS the clown Pagliacci Holmes: right Fielder: so why is that funny? Holmes: it's just funny. Like, he should go see a clown

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!

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This is very difficult in the present environment, where the moment you say "this belongs to everyone" a capitalist is waiting with a fence, a lawyer, and a cop to say "hey i'm everyone, this belongs to me"