My friend Rivi drew a remarkable graphic narrative for Inside Higher Ed, in which she uses her illustrations to let six Chinese graduate students in the U.S. tell their stories of visa chaos, political fears, and uncertain futures.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street.

This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.

No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.

The U.K. is a police state

It's a thrill to announce names of the amazing set of theory people joining NYU CS+CSE this year: @aineshbakshi.bsky.social, Allen Liu, @fermima.bsky.social, Sanjeev Khanna, Tony Metger, and Juan Perdomo.

@nyucourant.bsky.social
@nyutandon.bsky.social

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

Displaying abject weakness does not stop the beatings, who could have predicted.

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

New paper: Simulating Time With Square-Root Space

people.csail.mit.edu/rrw/time-vs-...

It's still hard for me to believe it myself, but I seem to have shown that TIME[t] is contained in SPACE[sqrt{t log t}].

To appear in STOC. Comments are very welcome!