Jake Wildstrom
@dwildstr.bsky.social
Mathematician, tinkerer, crocheter, freelance geek.
My understanding of what the fuck is going on with NVIDIA, as a mathematician who is not an economist: starting in late 2023, courtesy of their chips being effective for running LLMs,they saw insane, >100% revenue growth. This, from a kitchen-table perspective, _looks_ like a really good thing.
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My understanding of what the fuck is going on with NVIDIA, as a mathematician who is not an economist: starting in late 2023, courtesy of their chips being effective for running LLMs,they saw insane, >100% revenue growth. This, from a kitchen-table perspective, _looks_ like a really good thing.
Mervyn Peake's _Titus Alone_ needs a film adaptation in which Titus's recurring nemeses are played by Daft Punk.
(Admittedly, any film adaptation of _Titus Alone_ would be a challenge, because the novel is a mess. Intriguing, visceral, and difficult, but first and foremost a mess.)
(Admittedly, any film adaptation of _Titus Alone_ would be a challenge, because the novel is a mess. Intriguing, visceral, and difficult, but first and foremost a mess.)
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Mervyn Peake's _Titus Alone_ needs a film adaptation in which Titus's recurring nemeses are played by Daft Punk.
(Admittedly, any film adaptation of _Titus Alone_ would be a challenge, because the novel is a mess. Intriguing, visceral, and difficult, but first and foremost a mess.)
(Admittedly, any film adaptation of _Titus Alone_ would be a challenge, because the novel is a mess. Intriguing, visceral, and difficult, but first and foremost a mess.)
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Yeah, let's hear it for Middle-Aged Cardamom!
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Yeah, let's hear it for Middle-Aged Cardamom!
It's looking like Teen Vogue's excellent political coverage is coming to an end, alas. I'll miss having hard-hitting political coverage among the horoscopes, celebrity fluff, and sex tips.
(At least we still have _Wired_. And _People_ seemed to be getting in on the action recently, too.)
(At least we still have _Wired_. And _People_ seemed to be getting in on the action recently, too.)
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It's looking like Teen Vogue's excellent political coverage is coming to an end, alas. I'll miss having hard-hitting political coverage among the horoscopes, celebrity fluff, and sex tips.
(At least we still have _Wired_. And _People_ seemed to be getting in on the action recently, too.)
(At least we still have _Wired_. And _People_ seemed to be getting in on the action recently, too.)
I had never seen USA partisan politics given this particular gendered take, but it conforms awfully well with how the electorate seems to react to various parties' actions (see also: Murc's Law).
Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic:
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I had never seen USA partisan politics given this particular gendered take, but it conforms awfully well with how the electorate seems to react to various parties' actions (see also: Murc's Law).
I posted this on Facebook over a year ago, but @thatandromeda.bsky.social is reminding me they're a thing, so sharing with a new audience.
my name is Wil,
and wile yu slepe
i find the frute
yu hoped to kepe.
wats in the fridge
to fill my tum?
so swete and cold
I ete the plum.
my name is Wil,
and wile yu slepe
i find the frute
yu hoped to kepe.
wats in the fridge
to fill my tum?
so swete and cold
I ete the plum.
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I posted this on Facebook over a year ago, but @thatandromeda.bsky.social is reminding me they're a thing, so sharing with a new audience.
my name is Wil,
and wile yu slepe
i find the frute
yu hoped to kepe.
wats in the fridge
to fill my tum?
so swete and cold
I ete the plum.
my name is Wil,
and wile yu slepe
i find the frute
yu hoped to kepe.
wats in the fridge
to fill my tum?
so swete and cold
I ete the plum.
I feel like Bertrand Russell would have something to say about this. If Triscuits can possess all possible natural flavors, we should be able to give a Triscuit every flavor that is not, in itself, "Triscuit-flavored". Does that Triscuit taste like itself, or not?
October 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I feel like Bertrand Russell would have something to say about this. If Triscuits can possess all possible natural flavors, we should be able to give a Triscuit every flavor that is not, in itself, "Triscuit-flavored". Does that Triscuit taste like itself, or not?
Aw, Laura Nyro's only charting single was a cover of a Carole King-written song? That's kinda sad, since it's so easy to read her as a kind of cut-rate Carole King even without that data point.
October 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Aw, Laura Nyro's only charting single was a cover of a Carole King-written song? That's kinda sad, since it's so easy to read her as a kind of cut-rate Carole King even without that data point.
This is journalistic malpractice. Nothing whatsoever is "not clear". The plain text of an established law forbids it. That's all that need be said about whether it can be done.
It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
By Alan Rappeport
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
By Alan Rappeport
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is journalistic malpractice. Nothing whatsoever is "not clear". The plain text of an established law forbids it. That's all that need be said about whether it can be done.
It is time for a self-accounting, and it is always, I fear, rife with potential pain and ugliness. Like most folks, I have done less, and done worse in many respects over my life than I wished, but repentance requires focus, and I'm going to focus on particular sins.
October 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It is time for a self-accounting, and it is always, I fear, rife with potential pain and ugliness. Like most folks, I have done less, and done worse in many respects over my life than I wished, but repentance requires focus, and I'm going to focus on particular sins.
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when a new writer joins your fanfic board and they have _opinions_
Trump: I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do. I'm a very aesthetic person and I don't like some of the ships you're doing, aesthetically.
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
when a new writer joins your fanfic board and they have _opinions_
My fan-theory: Isaac Chotiner never goes into an interview intending to make his subject look foolish. He sees fascinating contradictions in people of apparent intelligence, and says, "ah, what an opportunity for my, my audience, and my subject to better understand human complexity!"
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
My fan-theory: Isaac Chotiner never goes into an interview intending to make his subject look foolish. He sees fascinating contradictions in people of apparent intelligence, and says, "ah, what an opportunity for my, my audience, and my subject to better understand human complexity!"
Irrational demand for the day: a cover by Mongolian tribal-rock group The HU of German 70s disco group Dschinghis Khan's eponymous hit. They can translate the lyrics and change the more egregiously ahistorical bits, as long as it's recognizably the same song.
September 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Irrational demand for the day: a cover by Mongolian tribal-rock group The HU of German 70s disco group Dschinghis Khan's eponymous hit. They can translate the lyrics and change the more egregiously ahistorical bits, as long as it's recognizably the same song.
@theradr.bsky.social's On Repentance and Repair is still $3 at sundry e-book sellers. I finally started reading it last night and it is really very good! If you're Jewish, it's a great stimulus for reflection as we approach the Days of Awe. If you're not, it's still well worth reading.
September 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
@theradr.bsky.social's On Repentance and Repair is still $3 at sundry e-book sellers. I finally started reading it last night and it is really very good! If you're Jewish, it's a great stimulus for reflection as we approach the Days of Awe. If you're not, it's still well worth reading.
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Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
September 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
Some wordplay for the day: "helpful" isn't the opposite of "helpless", but perhaps it should be. If you're feeling doom and foreboding, one place to start getting out of that hole is doing something nice for someone else.
September 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Some wordplay for the day: "helpful" isn't the opposite of "helpless", but perhaps it should be. If you're feeling doom and foreboding, one place to start getting out of that hole is doing something nice for someone else.
Speak truth to power. Don't obey in advance. If someone is going to hurt you, make them work to do it. We win when we're troublesome, and we lose if we just give up.
September 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Speak truth to power. Don't obey in advance. If someone is going to hurt you, make them work to do it. We win when we're troublesome, and we lose if we just give up.
This is a great thread: it's good that someone keeps tabs on the internal schisms of the right wing, because I really can't look too closely at that shit.
September 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is a great thread: it's good that someone keeps tabs on the internal schisms of the right wing, because I really can't look too closely at that shit.
"Charlie Kirk represented the very worst American political discourse had to offer, and I wish he were still alive so I could tell that to him, to his face, over and over again. I wish he lived long enough to see everything that he worked to achieve crumble all around him."
How to Canonize a White Supremacist
On the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk, the certain blowback, and this country’s raging gun problem.
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"Charlie Kirk represented the very worst American political discourse had to offer, and I wish he were still alive so I could tell that to him, to his face, over and over again. I wish he lived long enough to see everything that he worked to achieve crumble all around him."
Mathematicians know that the infinite is such a dangerous concept. You engage with it at your own peril!
Server: Welcome to Red Lobster, enjoy Endless Shrimp!
Guy: Yay! I'm starving
*30 minutes later*
Guy: Man, that was great. Can I get the check, please?
Server: What do you mean? There are still shrimp.
Guy: Oh no, I'm done.
Server: You're not done. The shrimp are endless. You'll never be done.
Guy: Yay! I'm starving
*30 minutes later*
Guy: Man, that was great. Can I get the check, please?
Server: What do you mean? There are still shrimp.
Guy: Oh no, I'm done.
Server: You're not done. The shrimp are endless. You'll never be done.
September 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Mathematicians know that the infinite is such a dangerous concept. You engage with it at your own peril!
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." —Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to ...
The conservative founder of Turning Point USA made the comments following a mass shooting in Nashville last week that resulted in six deaths.
www.newsweek.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." —Charlie Kirk
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me, to the judge: “Well if THAT’s what they meant, they should have used punctuation.”
September 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
me, to the judge: “Well if THAT’s what they meant, they should have used punctuation.”