RE: https://mastodon.social/@lyresdictionary/115919999096856991

huh?

I have not updated my Starlink numbers in a while, and great flying fuckballs, is it ever bad. We are now up to 9,422 Starlink satellites in orbit, out of 14,046 total active satellites.

1,446 Starlinks have reentered and added their 500-1500kg of computers, batteries, solar panels, and […]

[Representation theory]

A nice observation: Cayley graphs are McKay quivers. Namely, given a joining set S ⊆ G one can construct a 𝕂G*−module V such that the McKay quiver for tensoring with V is the corresponding Cayley graph.

TIL it’s called the Great Australian Bight (cognate with German Bucht), not the Great Australian Bite. I thought it was meant to just look like someone had taken a bite out of the bottom of the continent.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/23/yes-the-new-york-times-is-committing-genocidal-journalism

“Yonder” and it’s relatives have a very weird place in the #englishlanguage. Originally allative (indicating motion towards like hither and thither), its traces in modern English mostly supersede the locative “yond” (counterpart to here and there) which has all but disappeared. Meanwhile, the […]

Nur kurzer Zwischenstand: Ich habe mich ja im April hier drin beraten lassen, wie ich von Google Docs wegkommen könnte, und https://cryptpad.fr/ empfohlen bekommen. Es hat nicht den kompletten Funktionsumfang von Google Docs, aber ich habe seitdem ungefähr 98% meiner (intensiven) […]

ai generated content on #duolingo is so garbage, often making no sense and the text to speech also makes severe blunders

today i googled “HoTT LaTeX” and was shocked when the results had nothing to do with the typesetting of homotopy type theory

until recently, i was pronouncing #quiver as /kwɑjvə/