Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 9h ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 7h ago

Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:

For the 1039 at Camp As Sayliyah, and the others stuck in Afghanistan who believed the promises made by our government, I'd like you to send your Congressfolk a message that we are still a nation of immigrants. You can message them through this Afghan Evac page.

Count Them In — #AfghanEvac

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Blessed be my child, who is excited on a Tuesday night because it’s already almost the weekend 😭

*Frothing at the mouth with excitement* HEY GUESS WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE BRAIN, YOU HAVE TWO! med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

This STUNNING feature from Dr. Brittney Cooper on Juneteenth at America's 250th, about grief, empire, and mythologies.

Been Country: Commemorating Juneteenth in a Dying Empire

On America’s 250th birthday, Brittney Cooper meditates on grieving a country that has never loved Black folks.

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I think there is a good chance that if Democrats sweep Congress one of the first things they'll do is try to pass an Australia-style social media ban for under 16s. We need to start organizing against this right now. Ron Wyden can't be the only Senator who will understand this is terrible.

In and out of the DMV in less than 10 minutes to update my drivers license photo, woah!!

Everyone should go follow soundcloud.com/beoga

beoga

“the best new traditional band to emerge from Ireland this century” WALL STREET JOURNAL

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

Steve Bannon is a white supremacist war criminal and anyone who aligns with him is antiblack. Would you pair up with David Duke if he announced he was anti-AI?

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last wk.

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon are showing how political figures who once wanted nothing to do with one another are joining forces in the face of AI proliferation, Toluse Olorunnipa reports:

Improved key recovery attacks against Classic McEliece with help from Claude All standardized parameter sets for Classic McEliece are no better than NIST Level 1 now eprint.iacr.org/2026/1984

Improving GIJS Key Recovery for Classic McEliece

Ghoshal, Ishai, Jain and Sun (GIJS) recently gave the first distinguisher for Classic McEliece public keys that is cheaper than generic decoding. They estimate its cost at $2^{114}$ to $2^{124}$ bit o...

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“Look, they aren’t putting microchips in vaccines, no one is following you around, and they didn’t fake the moon landing. Your TV is spying on you though. And it is constantly trying to access the internet via any means possible including backdoors through your neighbor’s toaster, which also spies”

#MathSky

Louigi Addario-Berry@louigi.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org

Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars

Trevor A. Branch@trevorabranch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

NEW: Seven faith leaders were arrested in Vermont this morning while blocking entrances to a building that houses a group ICE uses to target its efforts. Two clergy were physically carried out as they were arrested. religionnews.com/2026/09/04/s...

Seven Vermont clergy arrested while protesting ICE targeting center

(RNS) — 'I think it is imperative on me, as a faith leader, to proclaim that human beings are not targets and that God is a God of justice and of love,’ said the Rev. Rebecca Girrell, a United Methodi...

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This story should have more attention. ASU's idiot coach brought in some military prick to run a grueling boot camp-style workout in the heat, which included restricting water intake. NHL prospect player suffers a heat stroke and is probably going to die from it. arizonasports.com/ncaa/arizona...

ASU hockey player Matthew Mayich has no chance of recovery after heatstroke, attorney says - Arizona Sports

"His body ceased functioning in a fundamental way, and this condition is irreversible," Robert Carey said.

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Actually good #mathnews? A proof that there are infinitely many pairs of consecutive primes whose difference is at most 240 No, I don’t understand the proof, but I can appreciate the result #MathSky #SciSky

Bounded gaps between primes

Polymath8b proved that $H_1 = \liminf (p_{n+1}-p_n) \leq 246$. In this paper we show how the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem can be combined with newer equidistribution estimates for smooth moduli to obta...

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Did it over the weekend and it was indeed awful! Thankfully the conference at the end of the trip is in a beautiful location, the talks are super interesting, and I’ll get to talk about my recent research 😅

Prof Christelle Vincent@xl772.bsky.social · last mo.

Just booked a trip that will go car, plane, train, bus, boat, and then everything else in reverse on the way back #AlreadyExhausted

#MathSky

The Association for Women in Mathematics@awm-math.org · 4w ago

Applications are open for the AWM Travel Grant Program for Women. 📅 Deadline: October 1 🔗 Apply here: www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/... These grants provide full or partial support for travel to a single meeting or conference in the applicant’s field of specialization. #AWMMath #WomenInMath

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · last mo.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Back from sabbatical for 3 hours and already had a sexism lobbed at me.

I'm very pleased to announce that CSULB's Department of Math&Stats is hiring an Assistant Prof of Math Education for Fall'27! Applications due by 10/5/26. @cmcmath.bsky.social careers.pageuppeople.com/873/lb/en-us...

Like yes, racism makes me feel bad but that’s a side effect not the essence of it

Just booked a trip that will go car, plane, train, bus, boat, and then everything else in reverse on the way back #AlreadyExhausted

Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own.

We need Celine Dion to shame Trump on national tv 😔

Celine Dion: Take a Kayak!

Alt: Celine Dion on some talk tv thing shortly after Katrina extorting President Bush to do more for the people of New Orleans, eventually screaming and miming : “Take a Kayak!”

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Joe Adalian@tvmojoe.bsky.social · last mo.

If Obama, Biden or even George W. Bush had waited this long to go to Indiana, or lift a finger, to help, it would be a major story on every network newscast, every night, until the president Did Something. I'm glad outlets such as NYT are covering, but the silence from network TV is deafening

Talks August 28 by @mbarany.com and Federico Ardila in the Towards a Genuinely Global Mathematics Community seminar series. Register at bit.ly/4x93hAt.

We need Celine Dion to shame Trump on national tv 😔

Celine Dion: Take a Kayak!

Alt: Celine Dion on some talk tv thing shortly after Katrina extorting President Bush to do more for the people of New Orleans, eventually screaming and miming : “Take a Kayak!”

static.klipy.com

Joe Adalian@tvmojoe.bsky.social · last mo.

If Obama, Biden or even George W. Bush had waited this long to go to Indiana, or lift a finger, to help, it would be a major story on every network newscast, every night, until the president Did Something. I'm glad outlets such as NYT are covering, but the silence from network TV is deafening

It’s rare that 3 states are involved and one of them is Vermont, but here we go! (Thankfully I’m not personally affected bc I would never buy ice cream named for the Bruins)

Dee@dlawson382.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 Ice Cream Recalled in 3 States for Possible Rubber | The Healthy share.google/CCZ7zjEjOoRD...