Dan
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The Christmas trees will checkmate on the next move
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
December 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
The Christmas trees will checkmate on the next move
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this is the reason I've pulled all my music content offline and removed all my creative outlets from the Internet.
I refuse to allow my stuff to be training data.
I no longer welcome computer network syncretism in my life
I refuse to allow my stuff to be training data.
I no longer welcome computer network syncretism in my life
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this is the reason I've pulled all my music content offline and removed all my creative outlets from the Internet.
I refuse to allow my stuff to be training data.
I no longer welcome computer network syncretism in my life
I refuse to allow my stuff to be training data.
I no longer welcome computer network syncretism in my life
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Yeah, it wasn't supposed to be like this. I appreciate this apology and I add mine.
What we were building was supposed to make a world without barriers. We assumed humans would treat no barriers as a way to become a stronger, world-wide community.
Boy, were we horribly naive and absolutly wrong.
What we were building was supposed to make a world without barriers. We assumed humans would treat no barriers as a way to become a stronger, world-wide community.
Boy, were we horribly naive and absolutly wrong.
December 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Yeah, it wasn't supposed to be like this. I appreciate this apology and I add mine.
What we were building was supposed to make a world without barriers. We assumed humans would treat no barriers as a way to become a stronger, world-wide community.
Boy, were we horribly naive and absolutly wrong.
What we were building was supposed to make a world without barriers. We assumed humans would treat no barriers as a way to become a stronger, world-wide community.
Boy, were we horribly naive and absolutly wrong.
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exp(1) - e = 0
one of the most beautiful and mysterious and profound equations in all of mathematics, unveiling the deep connections between exponentiation, euler,s number, the minus sign, and the binary digits, nil and unity
one of the most beautiful and mysterious and profound equations in all of mathematics, unveiling the deep connections between exponentiation, euler,s number, the minus sign, and the binary digits, nil and unity
December 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
exp(1) - e = 0
one of the most beautiful and mysterious and profound equations in all of mathematics, unveiling the deep connections between exponentiation, euler,s number, the minus sign, and the binary digits, nil and unity
one of the most beautiful and mysterious and profound equations in all of mathematics, unveiling the deep connections between exponentiation, euler,s number, the minus sign, and the binary digits, nil and unity
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And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
December 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.
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Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
Here's a good book on the skills I think will be useful to journalists and citizen-researchers of the future, written by my colleague @micahflee.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
@langsec.hacker.gf apropos of nothing one of the nice script thingies ever TahoeLAFS in .onion with like 20 shares to 3 needed online and then like sharmirs secret sharing scheme when you need 2 or 3 people to meet who are incentivised to but otherwise would not work together is a cool thing
December 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
@langsec.hacker.gf apropos of nothing one of the nice script thingies ever TahoeLAFS in .onion with like 20 shares to 3 needed online and then like sharmirs secret sharing scheme when you need 2 or 3 people to meet who are incentivised to but otherwise would not work together is a cool thing
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Banned words list has real consequences.
A Head Start program operated by a tribe on a Native American reservation was told not to prioritize tribal kids, in clear violation of Head Start Act. The program director also can’t do training on trauma-informed instruction, or to support kids with autism.
A Head Start program operated by a tribe on a Native American reservation was told not to prioritize tribal kids, in clear violation of Head Start Act. The program director also can’t do training on trauma-informed instruction, or to support kids with autism.
December 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Banned words list has real consequences.
A Head Start program operated by a tribe on a Native American reservation was told not to prioritize tribal kids, in clear violation of Head Start Act. The program director also can’t do training on trauma-informed instruction, or to support kids with autism.
A Head Start program operated by a tribe on a Native American reservation was told not to prioritize tribal kids, in clear violation of Head Start Act. The program director also can’t do training on trauma-informed instruction, or to support kids with autism.
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today I learned that the mathematician alexander grothendieck, as a child, was imprisoned with his mom at the rieucros internment camp in vichy france
when he was about 12 or 13, he not only escaped, he set out on his own with the intent to assassinate hitler
when he was about 12 or 13, he not only escaped, he set out on his own with the intent to assassinate hitler
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
today I learned that the mathematician alexander grothendieck, as a child, was imprisoned with his mom at the rieucros internment camp in vichy france
when he was about 12 or 13, he not only escaped, he set out on his own with the intent to assassinate hitler
when he was about 12 or 13, he not only escaped, he set out on his own with the intent to assassinate hitler
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This is going to be an absolute disaster. It is colossally stupid, unethical in the extreme, and it’s going to ruin lives.
EXCLUSIVE: Funding and support plans for national disability insurance scheme participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is going to be an absolute disaster. It is colossally stupid, unethical in the extreme, and it’s going to ruin lives.
"The solution is that every interesting feature of a statistical nature ... can be summarized ... by one basic factor. This basic factor is the Hollerith punch card." Questionnaires, were jointly designed by Dehomag engineers and Nazi disability or welfare experts for compatibility"
This is going to be an absolute disaster. It is colossally stupid, unethical in the extreme, and it’s going to ruin lives.
EXCLUSIVE: Funding and support plans for national disability insurance scheme participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"The solution is that every interesting feature of a statistical nature ... can be summarized ... by one basic factor. This basic factor is the Hollerith punch card." Questionnaires, were jointly designed by Dehomag engineers and Nazi disability or welfare experts for compatibility"
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
It's a story by Jorge Luis Borges. Though it was written in 1940, it offers uncanny parallels with the world AI is creating.
Read it, it’s great even if you don’t care about the parallels!
It's a story by Jorge Luis Borges. Though it was written in 1940, it offers uncanny parallels with the world AI is creating.
Read it, it’s great even if you don’t care about the parallels!
sites.evergreen.edu
July 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
It's a story by Jorge Luis Borges. Though it was written in 1940, it offers uncanny parallels with the world AI is creating.
Read it, it’s great even if you don’t care about the parallels!
It's a story by Jorge Luis Borges. Though it was written in 1940, it offers uncanny parallels with the world AI is creating.
Read it, it’s great even if you don’t care about the parallels!
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Waiting for Tucker Carlson to study topology and start screaming about how the long line could only be explained by demonic influence
ruin your thanksgiving by reading new york magazine's take on mathematics
![The Ten Most
Ridiculous-Sounding
Math Classes Currently
Offered at Liberal-Arts
Colleges
By Jessica Pressler, Janelle Zara, and Emily Watkins Rachel Stein andAviva Shen OCT. 19, 2010
Every year, liberal-arts majors anxiously scour their college's course listings looking for classes that will fulfill their math requirement but aren't so, you know, math-y. Here's what they're signed up for this year.
10. Topology: The Nature of Shape and Space: "In geometry we ask: How big is it? How long is it? But in topology we ask: Is it [Sarah Lawrence
9. The Mathematies of Chance: "Most topics are introduced ina case-study fashion, usually by reading an article in a current periodical such as the New York Times. [Bard]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreieq6gmwmropzlvjkaaxk6d2smd4tv4dy7qar66uoyv6mhs6naa3fu@jpeg)
![8. Mathematics in Many Cultures: "Mathematical ideas are found in many cultures, among both literate and non-literate peoples. This course examines both mathematics and the role it plays in the cultures. Examples chosen from the mathematical ideas of present-day peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, as well as historic Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Islam and China." [Pomona]
7. The Magic of Numbers: "This course will explore the beauty and mystery of mathematics through a study of the patterns and properties of the natural numbers 1, 2, [and] 3." [Harvard
6. Models of Life: In particular, we will ask such questions as: How do you model the growth of a population of animals? How can you model the growth of a tree? How do sunflowers and seashells grow?" [Kenyon]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreic3c4ox53ouwr3ij3wsmvetmuknu2u2jai7hlvuigco3ahppeoabi@jpeg)
![5. Mathematical Origamist's Toolkit: "Topics include modular origami and how this models the creation of polyhedra and coloring of graphs, comparison of origami-axiomatic constructions to straight-edge and compass constructions, the combinatorics of possible crease patterns, the mathematics of origami design (circle packing, optimization), matrix models for paperfolding, spherical geometry, Descartes' Theorem, and Gaussian curvature." [Hampshire]
4. Mathematics and Narrative: "Many literary works (Arcadia, Proof, and Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture) use mathematics as an integral part of their narrative. Movie and television narratives such as Good Will Hunting and Numb3rs are also mathematically based. Nonfiction works about mathematics and mathematical biographies like Chaos, Fermat's Enigma, and A Beautiful Mind provide further examples of the connection between mathematics and narrative." [Vassar]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreigyk5tqjszw3fodt7ivmszq7mozpta55o7c552oyzpbqyphl26x7m@jpeg)
![3. Borges and Mathematics: "Jorge Luis Borges was one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Many of his short stories and essays were concerned with philosophical, metaphysical, and mathematical questions. The thesis motivating this course is that if we know the mathematies that Borges referred to, then we will read him differently, and we will read him better." [Bennington 2. Mathematics and Science as Art in Contemporary Theatre: "Playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Rinne Groff, Michael Frayn, and others have effectively explored mathematical and scientific themes for artistic purposes. Through readings and exercises, and by conducting labs and staging scenes, this class will gain some first-hand insight into the complementary ways in which science and art aim to seek out their respective truths." [Middlebury]
1. Meaning, Math, And Motion: "Quoting a charming articulation by Kinsman (a mathematician-turned-oceanographer, in the preface to Wind Waves): "To the beginner, science is a conversation that has been in progress for a very long time. Our collective work is to catch up on the conversation. [Evergreen]
This is why Asia is winning, by the way.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreihglx3kxej43i22j4vggyoutp2oyomivtmmvgp6uvslqemm4hhpci@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Waiting for Tucker Carlson to study topology and start screaming about how the long line could only be explained by demonic influence
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and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
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a dialectical materialist programme for machine learning
November 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
a dialectical materialist programme for machine learning
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you can download them there, or search them in conjunction with the rest of the released files here: search.libraryofleaks.org/datasets/65
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
you can download them there, or search them in conjunction with the rest of the released files here: search.libraryofleaks.org/datasets/65
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13,000 of the DDoSecrets-released Epstein emails are now public. (again: these are DISTINCT from the Congress-released ones.)
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
13,000 of the DDoSecrets-released Epstein emails are now public. (again: these are DISTINCT from the Congress-released ones.)
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
I am such a directed acyclic graph (DAG)
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I am such a directed acyclic graph (DAG)
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“The world is what happens when nobody is trying to make a point “
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“The world is what happens when nobody is trying to make a point “
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absolutely nobody: alex you can't call everything undefined behavior
us, gesturing at the whole of reality: undefined behavior
us, gesturing at the whole of reality: undefined behavior
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
absolutely nobody: alex you can't call everything undefined behavior
us, gesturing at the whole of reality: undefined behavior
us, gesturing at the whole of reality: undefined behavior