Barbara Fantechi
@barbarafantechi.bsky.social
Mathematician, cis woman, bi, het married, parent of adults. Loud in the physical and metaphorical sense.
https://marginalnotesmaths.blogspot.com/
https://marginalnotesmaths.blogspot.com/
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24 hours after the Israeli army announced it would reopen the Zikim crossing, it remains closed, with no trucks entering Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.
The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...
Image: Anera
The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...
Image: Anera
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
24 hours after the Israeli army announced it would reopen the Zikim crossing, it remains closed, with no trucks entering Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.
The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...
Image: Anera
The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...
Image: Anera
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🔐 Account Security Thread 🔐
We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10
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We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10
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November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🔐 Account Security Thread 🔐
We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10
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We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10
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I am irrationally stupid levels of emotional about this news item www.them.us/story/pope-l...
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
“I hope this [lunch] will be an opportunity to speak to him and ask him not to backtrack on rights," Alesia Nobile said.
www.them.us
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I am irrationally stupid levels of emotional about this news item www.them.us/story/pope-l...
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
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I attended SFF cons as a teenager.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
To the two well-respected local SF/F community leaders who each told a teenage child of a friend of mine, "I can't wait for you to turn 18, I'll be waiting for you," I know your names you fucking shitty-ass pedo bastards, and I *remember*.
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I attended SFF cons as a teenager.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
I stopped getting regularly and persistently sexually harassed at SFF cons sometime in college.
"Oh wow you look way older"
No the fuck I did not because when I WAS older these weirdos stopped.
They know what the hell they're doing.
Can someone check for me? IIRC, in vitro fertilisation is not approved by the Catholic Church. (It’s been a few decades since I read Humana’s Vitae and other, more recent literature).
Even more disgusting: Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter of her own!
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Can someone check for me? IIRC, in vitro fertilisation is not approved by the Catholic Church. (It’s been a few decades since I read Humana’s Vitae and other, more recent literature).
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I think a lot of well meaning people think deporting certain bad people is fine actually, such that the problem is WHO gets deported. I think that's a moral mistake analogous to supporting capital punishment or torture when 'correctly' applied, a political mistake insofar as 'correct deportations'
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I think a lot of well meaning people think deporting certain bad people is fine actually, such that the problem is WHO gets deported. I think that's a moral mistake analogous to supporting capital punishment or torture when 'correctly' applied, a political mistake insofar as 'correct deportations'
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Bad news for the environment - but also terrible news for the political environment. When the center-right allies itself with the far-right, European values become optional at best. This is European history repeating itself.
🚨🚨Breaking and bad #EU news: Lawmakers in @europarl.europa.eu agreed today to exempt more companies from green reporting rules after the center-right, right-wing and far-right groups allied to pass the EU’s first omnibus simplification package. #omnibus 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
EU conservatives vote with far right to approve cuts to green rules
The outcome highlights the EPP’s willingness to abandon its traditional centrist coalition allies.
www.politico.eu
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Bad news for the environment - but also terrible news for the political environment. When the center-right allies itself with the far-right, European values become optional at best. This is European history repeating itself.
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This is giving former NYT reporter confessing “I’m one of the people who knew about those NYT emails“ vibes
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is giving former NYT reporter confessing “I’m one of the people who knew about those NYT emails“ vibes
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turns out Larry Summers really was a raging sub-literate misogynist creep this entire time, who could have known
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
turns out Larry Summers really was a raging sub-literate misogynist creep this entire time, who could have known
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A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
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For the first time in EU history, someone faces criminal charges for organising a Pride march.
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
For the first time in EU history, someone faces criminal charges for organising a Pride march.
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
Géza Buzás-Hábel, a teacher and organiser of Pécs Pride in Hungary, could be jailed for up to a year, simply for leading a peaceful march for equality. 🧵
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
This morning I saw a student on the bus to università di Trieste. He got down one stop before me, walks faster, and was surprised to see me there when he arrived at the lecture room.
I explained that I had used a shortcut he wasn't aware of.
Not a bad analogy for how I do mathematics.
I explained that I had used a shortcut he wasn't aware of.
Not a bad analogy for how I do mathematics.
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This morning I saw a student on the bus to università di Trieste. He got down one stop before me, walks faster, and was surprised to see me there when he arrived at the lecture room.
I explained that I had used a shortcut he wasn't aware of.
Not a bad analogy for how I do mathematics.
I explained that I had used a shortcut he wasn't aware of.
Not a bad analogy for how I do mathematics.
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Things to know about Epstein hugger Ken Starr: prosecuted Bill Clinton for lying about consensual (if inappropriate) sex, got fired from Baylor University for doing nothing about an on-campus rape epidemic.
Republican legal icon and Clinton scourge Ken Starr signs off a touching note to Jeffrey Epstein with "hugs." Amazing.
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Things to know about Epstein hugger Ken Starr: prosecuted Bill Clinton for lying about consensual (if inappropriate) sex, got fired from Baylor University for doing nothing about an on-campus rape epidemic.
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Should've said, this is a gift link
"Summers declined to comment on Wednesday beyond referring to previous remarks in which he acknowledged 'regretting my past associations with Mr. Epstein.' (...Summers is a contributing writer for The New York Times Opinion section.)"
They don't mention the IQ email
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
They don't mention the IQ email
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Should've said, this is a gift link
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seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
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"New York City's police watchdog agency retroactively altered thousands of records of police misconduct allegations."
"[A] host of sexual misconduct allegations [..] were all recategorized after the fact to the generic 'abuse of authority–other' category."
#NewYork #USA #Policing
"[A] host of sexual misconduct allegations [..] were all recategorized after the fact to the generic 'abuse of authority–other' category."
#NewYork #USA #Policing
The NYPD’s Watchdog Whitewashed More Than 10,000 Misconduct Allegations in Public Data, New Evidence Shows
Allegations of lying, sexual misconduct, bigoted statements, and racist policing were among those quietly reclassified by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
hellgatenyc.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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FREE LINK!!
Cerebellum and Open Border Appreciating Neuropsychologist🦦🦥
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I don’t follow Sarah Kendzior or subscribe to her Substack (because Substack) and I think her suspension is silly but honestly I care more that her suspension was temporary while Link’s was permanent
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
FREE LINK!!
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Wow and I always thought the most damning citation of Larry Summers was the epigraph from *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor* (2011)
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Wow and I always thought the most damning citation of Larry Summers was the epigraph from *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor* (2011)
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You banned a trans woman for using your own API. You banned a Black man for calling out your COO for following a transphobe. You suspended a Palestinian American repeatedly for calling out genocide. You ban Palestinians almost on sight. You've suspended immigrants for defending ourselves.
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
You banned a trans woman for using your own API. You banned a Black man for calling out your COO for following a transphobe. You suspended a Palestinian American repeatedly for calling out genocide. You ban Palestinians almost on sight. You've suspended immigrants for defending ourselves.
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It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.
Collaboration is proceeding well. The *structure* of the paper (aka what we want to prove and how we want to prove it) is set up. Now we *just* 😂 have to write it.
Note: we may well find mistakes! I am very error prone but I trust my coauthor to catch any, as they have done so far.
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Note: we may well find mistakes! I am very error prone but I trust my coauthor to catch any, as they have done so far.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Collaboration is proceeding well. The *structure* of the paper (aka what we want to prove and how we want to prove it) is set up. Now we *just* 😂 have to write it.
Note: we may well find mistakes! I am very error prone but I trust my coauthor to catch any, as they have done so far.
1/3
Note: we may well find mistakes! I am very error prone but I trust my coauthor to catch any, as they have done so far.
1/3
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Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
![From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Kathy Ruemmler
9/19/2014 11:54:57 AM
jeffrey E. ljeevacation@gmail.com]
Re:
Importance: High
Doesn't look like you are prioritizing your schedule very effeetively.....how are you going to manage all of that? this is unga week so the boss will be in town too....l'Il be here all week -- you may get sick of me....just sat down on the train so can't talk freely.
On Sep 19, 2014 7:48 AM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
"girls?", careful i will renew an old habit, . this week, thiel, summers, bill burns, gordon brown, jagland, ( council of curope and nobel chairman). mongolia pres, hardeep puree (india), boris ( gates). jabor (qatar ). sultan (dubai, ), kosslyn (harvard), leon black, woody. you are a welcome guest at any... also if you think there are interesting people in town, everyone here for climate summit, clinton security council, holy shit im on
for next 30 minutes
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler -
> wrote:
Most girls do not have to worry about this crap.
On Sep 19, 20147:09 AM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
understood. it comes down to high risk / reward / low risk / reward. professional, cmotional. and financial
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler
Agreed, but I need to be prepared to say yes before I talk to him.
wrote:
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 19,2014, at 1:21 AM, "jeffrey E." <jcevacation@gmail.com>wrote:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreidpc4aexgxfahdqvqgbocphszflpkdsfpldci2zeo7aqsjkzkbub4@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...