Tim Hsu
@timhsu.net
SJSU math prof living in SF. Too old to spend this much time on comic books and music. He/him
Sending this back in time 4 or 5 years without explanation
Abolish ICE. Really.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Sending this back in time 4 or 5 years without explanation
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
For comparison, there were around 250 players chosen in the 2025 NFL draft, and roughly 60 players chosen in the NBA draft
"According to the academic math jobs listings, there were 150 faculty tenure-track jobs advertised in 2024. There were 70 advertised in 2025. So that gives you a sense of the cuts. Of those 70 jobs, Simons is funding 10 of them."
A fairly frank interview, as these things go.
(disclosure: I have recently written for Quanta, which is supported by the Simons Foundation)
(disclosure: I have recently written for Quanta, which is supported by the Simons Foundation)
January 7, 2026 at 4:10 PM
For comparison, there were around 250 players chosen in the 2025 NFL draft, and roughly 60 players chosen in the NBA draft
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"According to the academic math jobs listings, there were 150 faculty tenure-track jobs advertised in 2024. There were 70 advertised in 2025. So that gives you a sense of the cuts. Of those 70 jobs, Simons is funding 10 of them."
A fairly frank interview, as these things go.
(disclosure: I have recently written for Quanta, which is supported by the Simons Foundation)
(disclosure: I have recently written for Quanta, which is supported by the Simons Foundation)
“There Are Two Possible Futures for American Science.”
The Simons Foundation president talks about science philanthropy, the future of the research enterprise, and remaining hopeful.
issues.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
"According to the academic math jobs listings, there were 150 faculty tenure-track jobs advertised in 2024. There were 70 advertised in 2025. So that gives you a sense of the cuts. Of those 70 jobs, Simons is funding 10 of them."
since I fell for this myself
Some thoughts (and a HILARIOUS dogshit AI MTV tribute video) www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
MTV Is Still Alive. So Why Does Everyone Think It Shut Down Last Week?
Our ability to tell fact from fiction—even when the facts are right in front of you—is nearly gone. This is not going to end well.
www.esquire.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:18 PM
since I fell for this myself
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I found this shot of the Fuentes flags as I was going through my phone and working on this story yesterday. I have others. It was one of the first things I saw that made me realize how bad things were and rhat the building was breached.
January 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I found this shot of the Fuentes flags as I was going through my phone and working on this story yesterday. I have others. It was one of the first things I saw that made me realize how bad things were and rhat the building was breached.
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I wrote about January 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-mom...
The Moment We Lost The Plot
It has never been easy for me to write about January 6. ...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I wrote about January 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-mom...
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2026 marks 4 years and 2 months since our administration took office—and 250 years since our nation was born.
250 years ago on this very day, a young man—the son of immigrants, and a BPS alum—was standing on the banks of a half-frozen river, focused on getting home to Boston. #BostonInauguration
250 years ago on this very day, a young man—the son of immigrants, and a BPS alum—was standing on the banks of a half-frozen river, focused on getting home to Boston. #BostonInauguration
January 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
2026 marks 4 years and 2 months since our administration took office—and 250 years since our nation was born.
250 years ago on this very day, a young man—the son of immigrants, and a BPS alum—was standing on the banks of a half-frozen river, focused on getting home to Boston. #BostonInauguration
250 years ago on this very day, a young man—the son of immigrants, and a BPS alum—was standing on the banks of a half-frozen river, focused on getting home to Boston. #BostonInauguration
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Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
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On 22 Feb 2022, shortly before the planned host of that year's International Congress of Mathematicians launched a "special military operation" in the territory of a sovereign neighbour, the American Mathematical Society released this statement: www.ams.org/news?news_id...
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
On 22 Feb 2022, shortly before the planned host of that year's International Congress of Mathematicians launched a "special military operation" in the territory of a sovereign neighbour, the American Mathematical Society released this statement: www.ams.org/news?news_id...
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Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie
January 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie
The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
January 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Seems appropriate to read about the death of MTV in an online descendant of a "Sunday supplement" to a "newspaper", aimed at old people like me
parade.com/news/mtv-off...
parade.com/news/mtv-off...
The MTV You Remember Is Now Officially Gone After 44 Years
MTV ends its iconic music era as it pulls the plug across the globe.
parade.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Seems appropriate to read about the death of MTV in an online descendant of a "Sunday supplement" to a "newspaper", aimed at old people like me
parade.com/news/mtv-off...
parade.com/news/mtv-off...
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
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Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.
December 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
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(As you can tell, my grades are overdue)
December 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
(As you can tell, my grades are overdue)