Sam Yusim

Sam Yusim

@syus.bsky.social

she/her PhD student in number theory at McGill University. Formerly a gameplay programmer at a studio here in Montreal. 31. 100% anti-LLM. I spend too much time on the computer.

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Finally some scientists are at least reading and using the relevant humanities literature instead of falsely assuming there's nothing going on over there. Decent article.

Peter K. G. Williams@pkgw.bsky.social

Likely the most important thing I've ever written โ€” if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

Found this at my desk when I got to school. McGill now officially too impoverished to provide garbage bins in each office lol (Also I tried to provide alt text but it's basically impossible to put anything in that box right now, sorry)

it's kind of amazing how many articles trying to legitimize something stupid are just a random person going "people won't stop shaming me for my stupid shameful beliefs!" like..... good

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i have decided to go permanently insane over commentators STILL acting like Elizabeth Holmes's public sin was defrauding investors, rather than knowingly and intentionally subjecting unsuspecting patients to inaccurate blood-test results that could have fucking KILLED THEM

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I always want to believe that there's no such thing as 'bad' art because all art is valuable expression of real human feeling and should be taken as it is. But then I remember that Radioactive by Imagine Dragons exists

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Confutatis II - pencil on paper โ€˜OSSO - A Collection of Drawingsโ€™ opens today in San Francisco. Ryan Graff Contemporary / 5PM / 804 Sutter St.

McGill seems to have deleted my preferred name for no reason today and now I'm appearing under a masculine name in emails and presumably everywhere else in their network. Why is this allowed?

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You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (๐Ÿ“ท: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Canada doing more than its part in destroying the world. What bday gift to my 4 year old today Extraction of the most polluting oil in the world should have been capped and started to be reduced a decade ago. Instead we are plowing ahead, ensuring an unsafe future. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

cbc.caWest Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC NewsThe federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...

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โ€œGazan has put legislation to criminalize residential school denialism before the House of Commons, but the Liberals have not indicated they will support it. Calls for its passage grew louder this week after a group linked with white nationalism reportedly staged a demonstration in the BC interior.โ€

investmentexecutive.comMark Carney is banking on economic reconciliation but critics say he's not on track - Investment ExecutiveIndigenous communities fear the outcomes of fast-tracked economic development projects

Our ruling class read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and were like, what a beautiful utopia depicted in this book, we need to bring this back

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Some of you will hate to admit it but you do have to accept that this is a commuting square in an appropriate category