Luke Johnson
@luke-math.bsky.social
I have a wonderful shitpost that this margin is too narrow to contain
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tv shows should do what sports broadcasts do and thank new audiences that are just now joining them. every five minutes, all the actors should look at the screen, introduce themselves and their characters, and announce which of them is winning the show
December 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
tv shows should do what sports broadcasts do and thank new audiences that are just now joining them. every five minutes, all the actors should look at the screen, introduce themselves and their characters, and announce which of them is winning the show
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Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
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Being an incorrigible skirt-chaser even when married and possible low-grade sexual harasser? Bad! Not the same as being a pedophile!
Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes!
The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.
Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes!
The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Being an incorrigible skirt-chaser even when married and possible low-grade sexual harasser? Bad! Not the same as being a pedophile!
Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes!
The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.
Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes!
The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
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Every time I read a study on the performance of "agentic" AI, I think of the experiment where they tried to get an AI to design a robot that can walk, but it never did because it figured out building a really tall robot that immediately falls over is a cheaper way to maximise distance travelled.
December 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Every time I read a study on the performance of "agentic" AI, I think of the experiment where they tried to get an AI to design a robot that can walk, but it never did because it figured out building a really tall robot that immediately falls over is a cheaper way to maximise distance travelled.
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The Who’s probably would have been justified in executing the grinch. The fact that they chose a restorative justice is heartening but it doesn’t mean their retribution would have been unjust.
December 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The Who’s probably would have been justified in executing the grinch. The fact that they chose a restorative justice is heartening but it doesn’t mean their retribution would have been unjust.
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Physicist Leo Szilard, in a short science fiction story from 1948, describing how to retard science by making the funding application longer and harder than the proposed research - now called the ‘Szilard point’
December 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Physicist Leo Szilard, in a short science fiction story from 1948, describing how to retard science by making the funding application longer and harder than the proposed research - now called the ‘Szilard point’
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POV: you’re in the opening scene of a Jurassic Park prequel where we establish the main character’s (kid) motivation.
Deep extinction thoughts from my kid:
"I think I get it now. Dinosaurs were real, but are not real anymore."
"I think I get it now. Dinosaurs were real, but are not real anymore."
December 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
POV: you’re in the opening scene of a Jurassic Park prequel where we establish the main character’s (kid) motivation.
A quote I often think about is “The extreme form of brevity is silence.” ~ Leon Surmelian, Techniques of Fiction Writing
December 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A quote I often think about is “The extreme form of brevity is silence.” ~ Leon Surmelian, Techniques of Fiction Writing
I was just thinking about how the prior administration largely kept all of Trump’s policies in place while vocally denouncing them. Same thing during Obama’s tenure. I expect the same to occur after their next electoral victory.
Libs understanding of politics is so bad, they'll see someone with a trans, gay rights and Palestine flag in their handle, criticising Democrats anti-migrant policies and call them a "Trump lover".
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I was just thinking about how the prior administration largely kept all of Trump’s policies in place while vocally denouncing them. Same thing during Obama’s tenure. I expect the same to occur after their next electoral victory.
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the line is actually "no JESUS for us meeses," an oblique reference to the fact that, as muppets are unable to take communion, they are forbidden from entering the kingdom of god
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
the line is actually "no JESUS for us meeses," an oblique reference to the fact that, as muppets are unable to take communion, they are forbidden from entering the kingdom of god
•mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
•foreshadowing is a literary device
•a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors
Any others I need to add to the list? #academicsky
•foreshadowing is a literary device
•a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors
Any others I need to add to the list? #academicsky
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
•mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
•foreshadowing is a literary device
•a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors
Any others I need to add to the list? #academicsky
•foreshadowing is a literary device
•a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors
Any others I need to add to the list? #academicsky
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GOTY highlights:
•sheepdog simulator looks cool
•haha funny badgerman
•ace combat lets goooo
•now THIS is podracing
•sheepdog simulator looks cool
•haha funny badgerman
•ace combat lets goooo
•now THIS is podracing
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
GOTY highlights:
•sheepdog simulator looks cool
•haha funny badgerman
•ace combat lets goooo
•now THIS is podracing
•sheepdog simulator looks cool
•haha funny badgerman
•ace combat lets goooo
•now THIS is podracing
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The length of a rabbit's burrow often spans a distance of 10m to 25km, with some rarer edge cases running as long as 3500tm, or approx. 0.37 lightyears!
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The length of a rabbit's burrow often spans a distance of 10m to 25km, with some rarer edge cases running as long as 3500tm, or approx. 0.37 lightyears!
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imo this is more reflective of people not having enough money. In a similar vein to movie tickets and people seeing less films in total. Perhaps I’m just poor.
This is incredibly wishful thinking. The core problem facing the games industry right now is that the price point consumers want to pay for games is far too low to cover the development costs of games. The industry's choice to keep the $60 ceiling for close to 2 decades had a disastrous effect.
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
imo this is more reflective of people not having enough money. In a similar vein to movie tickets and people seeing less films in total. Perhaps I’m just poor.
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Euclid is known as the "father of geometry" because he got a triangle pregnant
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Euclid is known as the "father of geometry" because he got a triangle pregnant
When people hear about game theory, they intuitively understand this involves some sort of dynamics, but what they may not realize it’s dynamic in the same way a 5d minigolf course is.
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
When people hear about game theory, they intuitively understand this involves some sort of dynamics, but what they may not realize it’s dynamic in the same way a 5d minigolf course is.
The biggest flaw in surveying for philosophical dispositions in mathematics is how in casual language “real” is often used as interchangeable for “true.”
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The biggest flaw in surveying for philosophical dispositions in mathematics is how in casual language “real” is often used as interchangeable for “true.”