John George
@jcgeorge.bsky.social
Professor of Mathematics, punster, cat steed, Working On A Novel but never seems actually to write. SF/F/H fan. Vaxxed. My opinions ≠anyone else's. He/him.
Then:
"We need to bring manufacturing jobs back!"
Now:
"I am shocked to find those foreign bastards doing manufacturing work here!"
"We need to bring manufacturing jobs back!"
Now:
"I am shocked to find those foreign bastards doing manufacturing work here!"
September 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Then:
"We need to bring manufacturing jobs back!"
Now:
"I am shocked to find those foreign bastards doing manufacturing work here!"
"We need to bring manufacturing jobs back!"
Now:
"I am shocked to find those foreign bastards doing manufacturing work here!"
Post a random picture or everything will go bad in September.
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Post a random picture or everything will go bad in September.
"Paddle faster, I hear banjos! Or Scar-Jo's!"
Briefly thought that Scarlett Johansson was playing a banjo and was suddenly 100% more interested in the franchise.
July 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"Paddle faster, I hear banjos! Or Scar-Jo's!"
Possible solution to the problem of detecting AI authorship:
Require AI to train on nothing more recent than, say, 1935.
"Sir Stanley faced the villain defiantly. 'What ho! When my telegram is received to-morrow, any body will be able to see the truth!' he cried."
We'll all know it's AI.
Require AI to train on nothing more recent than, say, 1935.
"Sir Stanley faced the villain defiantly. 'What ho! When my telegram is received to-morrow, any body will be able to see the truth!' he cried."
We'll all know it's AI.
July 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Possible solution to the problem of detecting AI authorship:
Require AI to train on nothing more recent than, say, 1935.
"Sir Stanley faced the villain defiantly. 'What ho! When my telegram is received to-morrow, any body will be able to see the truth!' he cried."
We'll all know it's AI.
Require AI to train on nothing more recent than, say, 1935.
"Sir Stanley faced the villain defiantly. 'What ho! When my telegram is received to-morrow, any body will be able to see the truth!' he cried."
We'll all know it's AI.
Movie you've seen more than six times with a gif. "Extremely HARD mode" No Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, or Domestic(US) mainstream films.
(I assume Princess Bride would be banned even though it really isn't mainstream.)
(I assume Princess Bride would be banned even though it really isn't mainstream.)
June 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Movie you've seen more than six times with a gif. "Extremely HARD mode" No Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, or Domestic(US) mainstream films.
(I assume Princess Bride would be banned even though it really isn't mainstream.)
(I assume Princess Bride would be banned even though it really isn't mainstream.)
I know someone who tried to flush a wooden shoe down a toilet so they could say "It's literally clogged!"
They were flushed with embarrassment.
They were flushed with embarrassment.
June 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I know someone who tried to flush a wooden shoe down a toilet so they could say "It's literally clogged!"
They were flushed with embarrassment.
They were flushed with embarrassment.
Pessimist: Glass is half-empty.
Optimist: Glass is half-full.
Optometrist: Which glass is more full, this one <click> or this one? <Click> This one or <click> this one?
Optimist: Glass is half-full.
Optometrist: Which glass is more full, this one <click> or this one? <Click> This one or <click> this one?
June 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Pessimist: Glass is half-empty.
Optimist: Glass is half-full.
Optometrist: Which glass is more full, this one <click> or this one? <Click> This one or <click> this one?
Optimist: Glass is half-full.
Optometrist: Which glass is more full, this one <click> or this one? <Click> This one or <click> this one?
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Baen Books has the winning entry of the Jim Baen Memorial short story contest, Gustavo Bondoni's "Space Monkeys," available for FREE on the website! baen.com/space-monkeys
Space Monkeys by Gustavo Bondoni - Baen Books
Space Monkeys by Gustavo Bondoni - Baen Books
baen.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Baen Books has the winning entry of the Jim Baen Memorial short story contest, Gustavo Bondoni's "Space Monkeys," available for FREE on the website! baen.com/space-monkeys
Lord of the Rings.
Earthquake trilogy (the original 3).
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.
A Wrinkle in Time.
Empire of the East.
Earthquake trilogy (the original 3).
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.
A Wrinkle in Time.
Empire of the East.
Name 3 Books you've read at least twice.
June 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Lord of the Rings.
Earthquake trilogy (the original 3).
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.
A Wrinkle in Time.
Empire of the East.
Earthquake trilogy (the original 3).
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.
A Wrinkle in Time.
Empire of the East.
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"The devil tempts you to be kind" is so hideously anti-faith, for any faith, I can't begin to encompass it.
crookedtimber.org/2025/06/11/e...
crookedtimber.org/2025/06/11/e...
Empathy as a Sin — Crooked Timber
crookedtimber.org
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"The devil tempts you to be kind" is so hideously anti-faith, for any faith, I can't begin to encompass it.
crookedtimber.org/2025/06/11/e...
crookedtimber.org/2025/06/11/e...
I had a joke about Narcissus, but just gazed lovingly at it and forgot to post it.
I had a joke about Orpheus, but I don't want to look back.
I had a joke about Cassandra but no one would listen
April 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I had a joke about Narcissus, but just gazed lovingly at it and forgot to post it.
"Trump's math assumes that only a quarter of the tariffs would be passed onto American consumers in the form of higher prices. But economists who have studied Trump's tariffs in 2018 ... calculate that almost all of those tariffs ended up being passed onto Americans."
www.npr.org/2025/04/03/g...
www.npr.org/2025/04/03/g...
How much will tariffs raise prices? Trump's economists just revealed their answer
The administration revealed how they calculated the tariffs. Buried in that math is a straightforward answer to a question Trump has long refused to answer: How much will his tariffs raise prices?
www.npr.org
April 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"Trump's math assumes that only a quarter of the tariffs would be passed onto American consumers in the form of higher prices. But economists who have studied Trump's tariffs in 2018 ... calculate that almost all of those tariffs ended up being passed onto Americans."
www.npr.org/2025/04/03/g...
www.npr.org/2025/04/03/g...
Truth? Justice? The American Way? Didn't see any threats to any of those here!
March 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Truth? Justice? The American Way? Didn't see any threats to any of those here!
Truth will out.
Important, and critical information to have!
Open, free, and public access to scientific information is critical to a healthy, intelligent, and well informed society!
WHICH IS WHAT “THEY” DONT WANT!
GO AND LEARN!
Open, free, and public access to scientific information is critical to a healthy, intelligent, and well informed society!
WHICH IS WHAT “THEY” DONT WANT!
GO AND LEARN!
March 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Truth will out.
Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.
February 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.
(A day late):
One of my favorite Valentine's jokes, from the marginalia of an ancient (1960s) comic book:
"Roses are purple//Violets are pink//'Cause my color//TV's on the blink."
One of my favorite Valentine's jokes, from the marginalia of an ancient (1960s) comic book:
"Roses are purple//Violets are pink//'Cause my color//TV's on the blink."
February 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
(A day late):
One of my favorite Valentine's jokes, from the marginalia of an ancient (1960s) comic book:
"Roses are purple//Violets are pink//'Cause my color//TV's on the blink."
One of my favorite Valentine's jokes, from the marginalia of an ancient (1960s) comic book:
"Roses are purple//Violets are pink//'Cause my color//TV's on the blink."
From Omar Khayyam:
"The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
(Rubaiyat, quatrain 71, 5th ed.)
"The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
(Rubaiyat, quatrain 71, 5th ed.)
Post a single line of poetry.
Can be original or quoted (with attribution, please).
Can be original or quoted (with attribution, please).
February 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
From Omar Khayyam:
"The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
(Rubaiyat, quatrain 71, 5th ed.)
"The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
(Rubaiyat, quatrain 71, 5th ed.)
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The Smithsonian Institution is still giving free pictures and information! Support it and other institutions that need our support.
Credit for the picture to Shellie Pick, Smithsonian's National Zoo.
Credit for the picture to Shellie Pick, Smithsonian's National Zoo.
February 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Smithsonian Institution is still giving free pictures and information! Support it and other institutions that need our support.
Credit for the picture to Shellie Pick, Smithsonian's National Zoo.
Credit for the picture to Shellie Pick, Smithsonian's National Zoo.
Fond memories of the TI 99-4A.
(chortles in Osborne)
February 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Fond memories of the TI 99-4A.
One of my favorites (not a silent film):
www.nfb.ca/film/the-cat...
www.nfb.ca/film/the-cat...
January 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
One of my favorites (not a silent film):
www.nfb.ca/film/the-cat...
www.nfb.ca/film/the-cat...
Tell me your favorite movie that not many people know.
It's Bruno Bozzeto's _Allegro non troppo_.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
It's Bruno Bozzeto's _Allegro non troppo_.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
January 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Tell me your favorite movie that not many people know.
It's Bruno Bozzeto's _Allegro non troppo_.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
It's Bruno Bozzeto's _Allegro non troppo_.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074...
Lots of very disturbed misinformation about the LA fires.
January 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Lots of very disturbed misinformation about the LA fires.
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If you ever share / repost anything, please let it be this
December 30, 2024 at 4:26 PM
If you ever share / repost anything, please let it be this
Make your own! One of my Christmas gifts:
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January 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Make your own! One of my Christmas gifts:
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