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Instead of discussing racist comments from asshats, read about Iranian Fields Medal winner, Maryam Mirzakhani. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_...

Motherfucker...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

I do not at foreclose the possibility of various sorts of political shenanigans even after Vucic’s concession but this extraordinary result in Serbia is what happens when people show up: in the streets, at the ballot box. That’s the lesson. If you care about democracy, show up.

If you call a snap election 2 years early, your stated reason is you want Conservatives to get out of your way, your main campaign message to voters is that Cons would be worse, your message to Green supporters is they should not deny you seats that you think are rightfully yours...

Good morning to everyone except David Eby, because no, we did not need this.

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

So what was that about alleged Canadian interference in US politics?

For once, I have a chance to vote for a provincial party whose platform I actually support.

Went for a walk. We're having a beautiful Fall this year.

Bye Ken. Will not miss ya.

This. If you stop thinking about math as a competition where one person's win is everyone else's loss, then the AI situation looks very different. As does the entire discipline.

I'd like my students to know that my class notes have zero AI content. I write them because I enjoy it.

This is the part that feels like going insane daily. "lol oh no we can't stop our product from doing crimes aren't we cheeky?" FUCKING JAIL FOR THE CEO THEN

McGill are bigging her up after closing her department. Clownshow all round.

Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

Actually, AI output is to human work as a bland who-knows-what's-in-it burger is to delicious spicy Creole food.

The Muse ads I've seen promise that Muse will "take things off my hands" so that I can save time. For example, it can save me time by turning my profile photo into a crayon drawing. Really important stuff that will help me with my many responsibilities.

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Very cute* that Big Tech's attack on mathematics comes at the same time when women are starting to win Fields Medals on a regular basis. * not cute at all.

again, really hope working mathematicians put the pieces together and realize the fundamental threat from ai companies has little to do with transforming practices or modes of mentorship. they want a death grip on funding and employment in the discipline. it's what they want with everything

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

It feels like journals are only a filter for baseline quality, there really is a niche out there for people to personally curate reading lists for others. There is a cottage industry for this in other content like movies, so it would be cool for an academic to get paid to specialize in this way

The flyers are made by a US based Neo-Nazi group. The US exports hate. @gdlexposed.bsky.social

Ricardo asked about the Alberta referendum on if we should have a referendum, and I tried to answer what's actually going on here over the course of a bunch of non-caffeine fueled posts. For anyone who is confused!

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

She was a treasure. RIP Andrea. Fly high.

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

Good.

Anne Applebaum has been right about a lot of things and this is one. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This is not an acceptable prize to pay for a bunch of math theorems.

Standing with Tk̓emlúps .

another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences

I am bringing this into my classroom practice. Student: “Professor R, can you explains 95% confidence intervals again?” Me: “I fully support the Dean’s efforts to bring better educational experiences into the classroom.”

If you use AI to do your research, you really cannot complain when reviewers use AI to review your papers, imo. The processes you use to expedite your workflow create more work for the rest of us, who are under the same constraints to maximize our own output. Plus, peer review is invisible labor.

Late summer flowers in the city.

We need to do some soul-searching to figure out how to make that adjustment in mathematics. But it needs to be done.