Sean Laverty
@seanteachesmath.bsky.social
on a quest for non-lethal idioms
What’s your thermostat set at and who is complaining the most and in which direction?
November 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
What’s your thermostat set at and who is complaining the most and in which direction?
There should be an alternative broadcast for every sports halftime/extended break where instead of boring chit chat in loud voices, you get to go on a tour of that school or city’s Museum of Something (Wholesome and Sane). Fifteen minutes of the band or an orchestra. Anything.
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
There should be an alternative broadcast for every sports halftime/extended break where instead of boring chit chat in loud voices, you get to go on a tour of that school or city’s Museum of Something (Wholesome and Sane). Fifteen minutes of the band or an orchestra. Anything.
seems worth knowing about
🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨
#CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next.
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
#CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next.
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
seems worth knowing about
Reposted by Sean Laverty
🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨
#CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next.
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
#CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next.
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨
#CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next.
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
#CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next.
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
I keep entering “1+1” in “julia>” just to make sure at least that still works…
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I keep entering “1+1” in “julia>” just to make sure at least that still works…
Reposted by Sean Laverty
Finally, to help you determine the fake and malicious from the genuine, we have signposts (support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...) in the application that can aid you in identifying fakers and phishing attempts.
We also have tools like Registration Lock to help protect against account takeovers. 6/
We also have tools like Registration Lock to help protect against account takeovers. 6/
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support.signal.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Finally, to help you determine the fake and malicious from the genuine, we have signposts (support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...) in the application that can aid you in identifying fakers and phishing attempts.
We also have tools like Registration Lock to help protect against account takeovers. 6/
We also have tools like Registration Lock to help protect against account takeovers. 6/
I finished it and it was good.
Haven't finished this yet, but it's hard to argue with "Constant pings and alerts from Canvas and Blackboard are doing your students more harm than good."
Advice | The Case for ‘Slow Teaching’
Constant pings and alerts from Canvas and Blackboard are doing your students more harm than good.
www.chronicle.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I finished it and it was good.
But it’s not just “tech-heavy classes” is “tech-heavy institutions” then.
Are Tech-Heavy Classes Stressing Students Out?
Some wonder whether it’s possible to dial back technology.
www.chronicle.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
But it’s not just “tech-heavy classes” is “tech-heavy institutions” then.
And how are we doing at that?
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
And how are we doing at that?
Dumb question time.
I’ve been trying to put shiny apps in GitHub, but some of them use deSolve, which doesn’t seem to be available/compatible with webR.
Any shiny enthusiasts using deSolve with shinylive/GitHub?
I’ve been trying to put shiny apps in GitHub, but some of them use deSolve, which doesn’t seem to be available/compatible with webR.
Any shiny enthusiasts using deSolve with shinylive/GitHub?
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dumb question time.
I’ve been trying to put shiny apps in GitHub, but some of them use deSolve, which doesn’t seem to be available/compatible with webR.
Any shiny enthusiasts using deSolve with shinylive/GitHub?
I’ve been trying to put shiny apps in GitHub, but some of them use deSolve, which doesn’t seem to be available/compatible with webR.
Any shiny enthusiasts using deSolve with shinylive/GitHub?
What an interesting question…
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
What an interesting question…
Is the travel impact of NFL Europe less than that of NFL itself because once the teams get to Europe the fans at least take public transit?
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Is the travel impact of NFL Europe less than that of NFL itself because once the teams get to Europe the fans at least take public transit?
Pitch ‘Universities rebrand as centers of developing Autonomous Intelligence.’
We still use AI to brand, but maybe the dummies throwing billions at this don’t read the fine print carefully and some universities accidentally get well-deserved money for helping develop actual people and their skills.
We still use AI to brand, but maybe the dummies throwing billions at this don’t read the fine print carefully and some universities accidentally get well-deserved money for helping develop actual people and their skills.
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Pitch ‘Universities rebrand as centers of developing Autonomous Intelligence.’
We still use AI to brand, but maybe the dummies throwing billions at this don’t read the fine print carefully and some universities accidentally get well-deserved money for helping develop actual people and their skills.
We still use AI to brand, but maybe the dummies throwing billions at this don’t read the fine print carefully and some universities accidentally get well-deserved money for helping develop actual people and their skills.
I know HOAs get a bad rap, but so should moving to a treed neighborhood and relentlessly cutting down trees.
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I know HOAs get a bad rap, but so should moving to a treed neighborhood and relentlessly cutting down trees.
Maybe I should have posted pictures of misbehaving chickens last night.
Here they are behaving.
Here they are behaving.
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Maybe I should have posted pictures of misbehaving chickens last night.
Here they are behaving.
Here they are behaving.
Reposted by Sean Laverty
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
I though they got rid of his wax statue.
This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.
100% serious here.
100% serious here.
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I though they got rid of his wax statue.
Can we stop pretending that curve sketching and algebra of limits are important parts of calculus?
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Can we stop pretending that curve sketching and algebra of limits are important parts of calculus?
Real-world examples but easy, please.
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Real-world examples but easy, please.
We’re destroying the wrong Amazon.
Populist opposition to climate action makes extreme weather events more likely.
Despite the fear and disruption that populists stoke, we mustn’t lose sight of the need to act, write Juliet Dobson, @drsophiecook.bsky.social, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
#BMJClimate
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Despite the fear and disruption that populists stoke, we mustn’t lose sight of the need to act, write Juliet Dobson, @drsophiecook.bsky.social, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
#BMJClimate
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We’re destroying the wrong Amazon.
America bans solar panels.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
America bans solar panels.
Can we set the clocks back some more?
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Can we set the clocks back some more?
pretty good opening lines podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Hark | 16 | Country is Speaking
Podcast Episode · Threshold · S5 E16 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
pretty good opening lines podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Dear cloud storage providers, I would like to keep my files and treat your service as a way to have backups and facilitate collaboration.
Stop making “streaming” the default.
Stop making “streaming” the default.
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Dear cloud storage providers, I would like to keep my files and treat your service as a way to have backups and facilitate collaboration.
Stop making “streaming” the default.
Stop making “streaming” the default.