Matt Davis
@coolpapa22.bsky.social
Mathematician, educator, knower of things.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
There are two justice systems.
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
There are two justice systems.
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The E.P.A. canceled a $20 million flood protection grant to Alaska months before a remote village was inundated.
October 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The E.P.A. canceled a $20 million flood protection grant to Alaska months before a remote village was inundated.
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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For Episode 34, @yarntheory.bsky.social joins to talk about structure, art & endings, relationships, and much more in Melissa Scott's 1993 cyberpunk space-Venice thriller BURNING BRIGHT:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/06/a...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/06/a...
A Meal of Thorns 34 – BURNING BRIGHT with Ursula Whitcher
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Ursula WhitcherTitle: Burning Bright by Melissa ScottHost: Jake Case…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
For Episode 34, @yarntheory.bsky.social joins to talk about structure, art & endings, relationships, and much more in Melissa Scott's 1993 cyberpunk space-Venice thriller BURNING BRIGHT:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/06/a...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/06/a...
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Found it. It is as described. It appears that the shots were fired after the vehicle had traveled a substantial distance from the agents.
unraveledpress.com/what-happene...
unraveledpress.com/what-happene...
What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.
unraveledpress.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Found it. It is as described. It appears that the shots were fired after the vehicle had traveled a substantial distance from the agents.
unraveledpress.com/what-happene...
unraveledpress.com/what-happene...
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We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was.
But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist.
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist.
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts
Armed with a revolver, the 16-year-old shooter systematically reloaded and fired as he wandered the school, trying to find new targets, police say.
www.denverpost.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was.
But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist.
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist.
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
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Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
Shout out to Timeguessr today - this is a game where you look at (usually old) pictures and guess where and when they were taken. Today featured a shot of some Israeli soldiers taking a ghoulish selfie with tuined Gaza in the background. The description pulled zero punches:
July 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Shout out to Timeguessr today - this is a game where you look at (usually old) pictures and guess where and when they were taken. Today featured a shot of some Israeli soldiers taking a ghoulish selfie with tuined Gaza in the background. The description pulled zero punches:
Pop quiz- is this headline 85 years or 85 minutes old?
July 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Pop quiz- is this headline 85 years or 85 minutes old?
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They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.
July 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.
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We could build a military style funded and organized corps to build climate proof infrastructure and tackle our carbon footprint. Instead we're arresting pregnant woman in Los Angeles and harassing people that want to use the bathroom.
China's "additions over the first five months of the year account for more than double the capacity of the grid in California. Not the renewables capacity of that state—the entire grid." www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/10/1...
China’s energy dominance in three charts
The country is installing solar, building EVs, and investing across energy at a rapid clip.
www.technologyreview.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We could build a military style funded and organized corps to build climate proof infrastructure and tackle our carbon footprint. Instead we're arresting pregnant woman in Los Angeles and harassing people that want to use the bathroom.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.
We HAVE to stop talking about these large language models as if they're alive and can actually say and do things independently. Grok did not "turn into a neo-Nazi" it was PROGRAMMED TO SPIT OUT NEO-NAZI PROPAGANDA. THAT IS MUCH MUCH WORSE!!!!!!!!
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
July 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.
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In effect, Grok has answered the question: What sort of logically internally consistent worldview does it take to produce content that won’t routinely offend MAGA sensibilities. And the answer is “a Nazi worldview.”
July 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In effect, Grok has answered the question: What sort of logically internally consistent worldview does it take to produce content that won’t routinely offend MAGA sensibilities. And the answer is “a Nazi worldview.”
Today in "why everyone should take a stats class":
So Rufo's article is based on the claim that Mamdani got 2140, an "89th percentile" score, below the median for acceptance to Columbia.
2140 out of 2400 is 89%.
That's not how SAT percentiles work.
A 2140 is a 97% percentile score for that year.
This man runs a college in my hometown.
2140 out of 2400 is 89%.
That's not how SAT percentiles work.
A 2140 is a 97% percentile score for that year.
This man runs a college in my hometown.
Chris Rufo and the NY Post have a new and shocking Mamdani BOMBSHELL:
His SAT scores were AVERAGE among admitted students!!!!!!!
This is definitely the sort of thing you report when a candidate has skeletons in the closet.
His SAT scores were AVERAGE among admitted students!!!!!!!
This is definitely the sort of thing you report when a candidate has skeletons in the closet.
July 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Today in "why everyone should take a stats class":
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The UFW has an actual active mushroom boycott happening right now but people would rather post this nonsense. ufw.org/ostrom-mushr...
This would be a good time for a general strike in support of United Farm Workers. Shut it down, shut it all down.
July 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The UFW has an actual active mushroom boycott happening right now but people would rather post this nonsense. ufw.org/ostrom-mushr...
Just got done yelling at clouds, i.e. promising Wendy's I will not order from one of their stupid AI-driven screens. My wife said that "I will raise cows in my backyard before I order a burger from an AI screen" wasn't too over-the-top, so that stayed in.
July 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Just got done yelling at clouds, i.e. promising Wendy's I will not order from one of their stupid AI-driven screens. My wife said that "I will raise cows in my backyard before I order a burger from an AI screen" wasn't too over-the-top, so that stayed in.
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My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
July 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
If all this AI is so smart and tries to finish every sentence I type in an e-mail, why can it not alert me when I start an e-mail with "Hell colleagues,..."?
July 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If all this AI is so smart and tries to finish every sentence I type in an e-mail, why can it not alert me when I start an e-mail with "Hell colleagues,..."?
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I am no fan of Springer, but to preempt objections that this is hyperbolic language, the Nazis literally banned the same journals and justified the decision using very similar rhetoric.
"Woke science" seems to be the new "Jewish physics".
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I am no fan of Springer, but to preempt objections that this is hyperbolic language, the Nazis literally banned the same journals and justified the decision using very similar rhetoric.