🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə)
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🇳🇱 Postdoc in Quantisation of moduli spaces, QFT, TQFT & CFT, Algebraic Geometry, Differential Geometry, moduli geometry – Masters in: Maths/Physics/Logic – Help me learn 🇵🇹🇩🇰🇮🇹🇩🇪🇫🇷 by talking to me! (he/him)
Forse tu non pensavi ch'io löico fossi
Forse tu non pensavi ch'io löico fossi
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As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
Continues to be amazing how harshly Trump punishes loyalty and how people still continue to devote themselves to him
Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."
January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Continues to be amazing how harshly Trump punishes loyalty and how people still continue to devote themselves to him
I knew I could count on these amazing guys to demand a briefing 💪💪👏
Hakeem Jeffries is absolutely worthless. His only demand is that Dems get a briefing on what just happened.
“Far too many questions remain unanswered…”
“Far too many questions remain unanswered…”
January 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I knew I could count on these amazing guys to demand a briefing 💪💪👏
Has there ever been such a blatant admission "we will be running a puppet government"?
This uhh lady down there who Marco had a really nice phone chat with is gonna do it for us. Won’t cost a thing.
January 3, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Has there ever been such a blatant admission "we will be running a puppet government"?
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The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
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Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
Have any legal experts made any predictions about what a "trial" of a foreign head of state charged with non-crimes far beyond the very broadest interpretations of US jurisdiction would even look like?
Like surely the list of reasons this would be thrown out is longer than the indictment itself?
Like surely the list of reasons this would be thrown out is longer than the indictment itself?
January 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Have any legal experts made any predictions about what a "trial" of a foreign head of state charged with non-crimes far beyond the very broadest interpretations of US jurisdiction would even look like?
Like surely the list of reasons this would be thrown out is longer than the indictment itself?
Like surely the list of reasons this would be thrown out is longer than the indictment itself?
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Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.
January 3, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.
I do kind of feel like this is the last chance for Dems to move
We're actively watching them blow their last political crisis. Once you let him fight wars on his own, Congress is basically just decorative
We're actively watching them blow their last political crisis. Once you let him fight wars on his own, Congress is basically just decorative
January 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I do kind of feel like this is the last chance for Dems to move
We're actively watching them blow their last political crisis. Once you let him fight wars on his own, Congress is basically just decorative
We're actively watching them blow their last political crisis. Once you let him fight wars on his own, Congress is basically just decorative
Holy shit are you kidding me
Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump reut.rs/3YWbo3K
Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump
Nicolas Maduro ruled Venezuela with a heavy hand for more than 12 years, presiding over deep economic and social crises and resisting pressure from domestic opponents and foreign governments for political change.
reut.rs
January 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Holy shit are you kidding me
Extremely nasty trick by the flibco company to only sell (extremely overpriced!) flex tickets so they do not have to guarantee you a seat on any bus and can simply make you wait for the next one and then the next one in the snow and rain
January 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Extremely nasty trick by the flibco company to only sell (extremely overpriced!) flex tickets so they do not have to guarantee you a seat on any bus and can simply make you wait for the next one and then the next one in the snow and rain
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Still not the right time to impeach? Should we wait until he bombs California?
So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation.
This is madness.
This is madness.
January 3, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Still not the right time to impeach? Should we wait until he bombs California?
Very amused to learn that Saint Cecilia became the patron saint of musicians due to a translation error
January 3, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Very amused to learn that Saint Cecilia became the patron saint of musicians due to a translation error
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Yes yes yes and yes. And analysts in Europe have been saying this for quite a while too.
January 3, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Yes yes yes and yes. And analysts in Europe have been saying this for quite a while too.
I find it very sad how hard it is for me to enjoy still live paintings because a lot of it is showing off their incredible skill but it's hard for me to know how difficult the various feats are
January 3, 2026 at 10:26 AM
I find it very sad how hard it is for me to enjoy still live paintings because a lot of it is showing off their incredible skill but it's hard for me to know how difficult the various feats are
Supremely funny that people used to buy expensive paintings of boorish people being stupid to hang in their dining hall so that they could feel superior
Truly we were always making up guys to get mad at
Truly we were always making up guys to get mad at
January 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Supremely funny that people used to buy expensive paintings of boorish people being stupid to hang in their dining hall so that they could feel superior
Truly we were always making up guys to get mad at
Truly we were always making up guys to get mad at
Very last-minute white Christmas!
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Very last-minute white Christmas!
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I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature
"unapologetically progressive" is also an incredible combo
It's so weird to say a politician "doubled down" on.....the very explicit promises he made during the campaign?
Isn't that what promises are?
Isn't that what promises are?
January 2, 2026 at 7:45 PM
"unapologetically progressive" is also an incredible combo
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Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
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When you try to distract her with food but she knows what she wants
January 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM
When you try to distract her with food but she knows what she wants
Big plus of an Italian fiancée is that you get topnotch art history lessons whenever you go to a museum
January 2, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Big plus of an Italian fiancée is that you get topnotch art history lessons whenever you go to a museum
Incredibly funny bit to put the busts of the historical sponsors of the artists in your museum in the room with the theme Impotence
January 2, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Incredibly funny bit to put the busts of the historical sponsors of the artists in your museum in the room with the theme Impotence
Kind of amused by the idea of doctors subjecting him to a battery of cognitive tests, which he aces (Meaning, is correct on 100% of the questions asked!) every time, just for them to look at each other and go "there's literally no way, run it again!"
January 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Kind of amused by the idea of doctors subjecting him to a battery of cognitive tests, which he aces (Meaning, is correct on 100% of the questions asked!) every time, just for them to look at each other and go "there's literally no way, run it again!"