Kate Ertmann
@katelovesmath.bsky.social
Researcher, explorer, writer, whisperer, and speaker on #MathIRL 💖 - w/ an occasional sprinkle of nascar & mlb.
Long Island’r by birth, Oregonian 4life 🌊🏎️⚾️ #SmashThePatriarchy
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Long Island’r by birth, Oregonian 4life 🌊🏎️⚾️ #SmashThePatriarchy
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Kate Ertmann
@katelovesmath.bsky.social
· Sep 25
What Entropy Can Predict About the Future of Authoritarianism - Dame Magazine
“And now we must act in complete unity, strongly against anyone who is trying to shut down our strength, the unity of our nation!” The crowd of thousands gathered, against the backdrop of a grey sky i...
www.damemagazine.com
I wrote about how to recognize when a regime - yes, even an authoritarian one - is about to slip into a period of vulnerability, for @damemagazine.bsky.social
I mean, 🌈The More You Know ⭐️
I mean, 🌈The More You Know ⭐️
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Tim Waltz just said he's activating the Minnesota National Guard to protect Minnesotans/demonstrators from ICE/CPB (but also not keep them from taking the bait.)
Anyway, a good day to reread this piece I wrote a few months ago: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Anyway, a good day to reread this piece I wrote a few months ago: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
www.motherjones.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Tim Waltz just said he's activating the Minnesota National Guard to protect Minnesotans/demonstrators from ICE/CPB (but also not keep them from taking the bait.)
Anyway, a good day to reread this piece I wrote a few months ago: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Anyway, a good day to reread this piece I wrote a few months ago: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It was me!
As we digest more and more incredibly shitty news, I wrote this for @oregonhumanities.org as an offering for each of us to take in and learn all that we can from the resiliency of the ocean.
As we digest more and more incredibly shitty news, I wrote this for @oregonhumanities.org as an offering for each of us to take in and learn all that we can from the resiliency of the ocean.
A beautiful piece from a friend writing back in Oregon about life by the ocean, the energy that it generates, and the need for community in order to meet possible emergencies. Brilliant, @katelovesmath.bsky.social.
Wave Lessons
Kate Ertmann on what the ocean can teach us about rural emergency preparedness.
oregonhumanities.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It was me!
As we digest more and more incredibly shitty news, I wrote this for @oregonhumanities.org as an offering for each of us to take in and learn all that we can from the resiliency of the ocean.
As we digest more and more incredibly shitty news, I wrote this for @oregonhumanities.org as an offering for each of us to take in and learn all that we can from the resiliency of the ocean.
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i don't want to live in a world where posting graphic video is the only possible way of getting people to believe something happened. but that is the world we live in now. and with AI, not even that is going to be enough.
January 7, 2026 at 6:01 PM
i don't want to live in a world where posting graphic video is the only possible way of getting people to believe something happened. but that is the world we live in now. and with AI, not even that is going to be enough.
Reading this piece by @sesmith.lol made my (Gen X) head spin. You, too, should definitely read it.
"The concern arises when algospeak also reflects a larger softening of language, one driven by the desire to pursue safety over reality, dilution over strength."
"The concern arises when algospeak also reflects a larger softening of language, one driven by the desire to pursue safety over reality, dilution over strength."
Algospeak Will Be the Unaliving of Me
Maybe we want to bare our teeth.
www.theflytrapmedia.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Reading this piece by @sesmith.lol made my (Gen X) head spin. You, too, should definitely read it.
"The concern arises when algospeak also reflects a larger softening of language, one driven by the desire to pursue safety over reality, dilution over strength."
"The concern arises when algospeak also reflects a larger softening of language, one driven by the desire to pursue safety over reality, dilution over strength."
The best offense is diligent, attentive and organized community action. Super informative article by @zeblarson.bsky.social for @truthdig.com
"Sixty-four billion dollars of data center construction was halted or slowed between May 2024 and March 2025"
"Sixty-four billion dollars of data center construction was halted or slowed between May 2024 and March 2025"
The Fight to Stop Data Center Creep - Truthdig
Generative AI isn’t inevitable, and people are already fighting hard to keep power-hungry data centers out of their communities.
www.truthdig.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
The best offense is diligent, attentive and organized community action. Super informative article by @zeblarson.bsky.social for @truthdig.com
"Sixty-four billion dollars of data center construction was halted or slowed between May 2024 and March 2025"
"Sixty-four billion dollars of data center construction was halted or slowed between May 2024 and March 2025"
I woke up and heard the news. Then I decided to think about this Kate Baer poem.
January 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I woke up and heard the news. Then I decided to think about this Kate Baer poem.
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What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
From mathematician @kityates.bsky.social, further logical backing for us all to remember about AI: treat it like any evolving software & scrape thru what it 🤮 at you.
“You wouldn’t want to use it in writing a proof, for the same reason you wouldn’t want ChatGPT writing your life insurance contract”
“You wouldn’t want to use it in writing a proof, for the same reason you wouldn’t want ChatGPT writing your life insurance contract”
You can get a deeper dive into the impact AI is having on mathematics in my latest substack post.
substack.com/home/po...
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substack.com/home/po...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
From mathematician @kityates.bsky.social, further logical backing for us all to remember about AI: treat it like any evolving software & scrape thru what it 🤮 at you.
“You wouldn’t want to use it in writing a proof, for the same reason you wouldn’t want ChatGPT writing your life insurance contract”
“You wouldn’t want to use it in writing a proof, for the same reason you wouldn’t want ChatGPT writing your life insurance contract”
Reposted by Kate Ertmann
I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now
December 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now
WINE
NEW
SEX
I'm down for this.
NEW
SEX
I'm down for this.
The first 3 words you see will define your 2026.
MONEY
TRAVELS
PIZZA
sounds good to me.
MONEY
TRAVELS
PIZZA
sounds good to me.
December 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
WINE
NEW
SEX
I'm down for this.
NEW
SEX
I'm down for this.
QOTW 😄 “It’s the stretchiest planet that we’ve confirmed the stretchiness of,” said Michael Zhang, an exoplanet scientist at the University of Chicago and the lead author of a paper describing the planet published Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
Lemon-Shaped World Is the Most Stretched-Out Planet Ever Seen
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
QOTW 😄 “It’s the stretchiest planet that we’ve confirmed the stretchiness of,” said Michael Zhang, an exoplanet scientist at the University of Chicago and the lead author of a paper describing the planet published Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
Fuck the white cis patriarchy.
“Left unmentioned…was that these coins also represented a rejection of a different set of designs — meant to commemorate certain other inspiring chapters of the nation’s history, including abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement.”
“Left unmentioned…was that these coins also represented a rejection of a different set of designs — meant to commemorate certain other inspiring chapters of the nation’s history, including abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement.”
The War on ‘Wokeness’ Comes to the U.S. Mint
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Fuck the white cis patriarchy.
“Left unmentioned…was that these coins also represented a rejection of a different set of designs — meant to commemorate certain other inspiring chapters of the nation’s history, including abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement.”
“Left unmentioned…was that these coins also represented a rejection of a different set of designs — meant to commemorate certain other inspiring chapters of the nation’s history, including abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement.”
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needless to say this is a sick way for a man to talk about his employee, let alone one who is more than 50 years younger than him
Trump on Karoline Leavitt: "That beautiful face and those lips that don't stop like a little machine gun"
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
needless to say this is a sick way for a man to talk about his employee, let alone one who is more than 50 years younger than him
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Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.
Read our full investigation here 👇
Read our full investigation here 👇
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.
Read our full investigation here 👇
Read our full investigation here 👇
How the hell were thesauruses written in pre-computer times?The referential organization is insane.
December 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
How the hell were thesauruses written in pre-computer times?The referential organization is insane.
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📣 💡 @zeblarson.bsky.social clearly explains the connection to - and precedence of - the ‘Roosevelt Corollary’ to today’s war crime. 👏 #mustread
“It inverted the whole Monroe Doctrine, promising that the United States would intervene whenever a country was engaged in unspecified “wrongdoing.”
“It inverted the whole Monroe Doctrine, promising that the United States would intervene whenever a country was engaged in unspecified “wrongdoing.”
What Is Behind Trump’s Attacks on Venezuela? - Dame Magazine
The polycrisis that is the Trump administration can be difficult to fully keep track of: As Steve Bannon once said, the goal is to “flood the zone with shit” and paralyze us from being able to respond...
www.damemagazine.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📣 💡 @zeblarson.bsky.social clearly explains the connection to - and precedence of - the ‘Roosevelt Corollary’ to today’s war crime. 👏 #mustread
“It inverted the whole Monroe Doctrine, promising that the United States would intervene whenever a country was engaged in unspecified “wrongdoing.”
“It inverted the whole Monroe Doctrine, promising that the United States would intervene whenever a country was engaged in unspecified “wrongdoing.”
With 2026 being the 250th birthday of the USA, the authoritarian-led military-tinged “celebrations” are going to be e v e r y w h e r e 😖
I give it six months before he’s donning a military uniform and giving four-hour speeches from balconies.
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
December 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
With 2026 being the 250th birthday of the USA, the authoritarian-led military-tinged “celebrations” are going to be e v e r y w h e r e 😖
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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It's totally a word for us in math!
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December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It's totally a word for us in math!
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Zonker’s nephew in Doonesbury lookin ass
Palmer Luckey Wants to Take War Beneath the Earth's Crust https://gizmodo.com/palmer-luckey-wants-to-take-war-beneath-the-earths-crust-2000695764
Palmer Luckey Wants to Take War Beneath the Earth's Crust
"People think it's some kind of crazy, crazy, nutty thing," said Luckey.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Zonker’s nephew in Doonesbury lookin ass
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There was an attempted attack on the plane of President Zelenskyy as he was approaching Dublin. The kinds of drones used were too advanced to be simple civilian versions -- most probably this attack had a state military behind it. www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
There was an attempted attack on the plane of President Zelenskyy as he was approaching Dublin. The kinds of drones used were too advanced to be simple civilian versions -- most probably this attack had a state military behind it. www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
📣 💡 @zeblarson.bsky.social clearly explains the connection to - and precedence of - the ‘Roosevelt Corollary’ to today’s war crime. 👏 #mustread
“It inverted the whole Monroe Doctrine, promising that the United States would intervene whenever a country was engaged in unspecified “wrongdoing.”
“It inverted the whole Monroe Doctrine, promising that the United States would intervene whenever a country was engaged in unspecified “wrongdoing.”
What Is Behind Trump’s Attacks on Venezuela? - Dame Magazine
The polycrisis that is the Trump administration can be difficult to fully keep track of: As Steve Bannon once said, the goal is to “flood the zone with shit” and paralyze us from being able to respond...
www.damemagazine.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📣 💡 @zeblarson.bsky.social clearly explains the connection to - and precedence of - the ‘Roosevelt Corollary’ to today’s war crime. 👏 #mustread
“It inverted the whole Monroe Doctrine, promising that the United States would intervene whenever a country was engaged in unspecified “wrongdoing.”
“It inverted the whole Monroe Doctrine, promising that the United States would intervene whenever a country was engaged in unspecified “wrongdoing.”
👏👏👏
HUGE NEWS from Newport: I just got off the phone with the Acting Commandant of the Coast Guard, who assured me the Coast Guard helicopter is back to stay, after enormous public pressure!
This is a win for our coastal communities, especially heading into crabbing season.
This is a win for our coastal communities, especially heading into crabbing season.
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
👏👏👏
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🗣️Last call! Speaker proposals are due Dec 5. If you’ve been shaping ideas, refining a session, or thinking about how to support math education leaders — now is the moment.
Submit your proposal here → tools.eventpower.com/speaker_management/index/26CIVICA-NCSM-AC
#NCSM2026 #Denver #NCSMElevate
Submit your proposal here → tools.eventpower.com/speaker_management/index/26CIVICA-NCSM-AC
#NCSM2026 #Denver #NCSMElevate
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
🗣️Last call! Speaker proposals are due Dec 5. If you’ve been shaping ideas, refining a session, or thinking about how to support math education leaders — now is the moment.
Submit your proposal here → tools.eventpower.com/speaker_management/index/26CIVICA-NCSM-AC
#NCSM2026 #Denver #NCSMElevate
Submit your proposal here → tools.eventpower.com/speaker_management/index/26CIVICA-NCSM-AC
#NCSM2026 #Denver #NCSMElevate
Have I ever posted an #alwayslookup photo essay on here? This one is from last wknd in Seattle.
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Have I ever posted an #alwayslookup photo essay on here? This one is from last wknd in Seattle.