Gary Kennedy
@segreclass.bsky.social
Retired mathematician, avid classical pianist
xkcd is always great, but today's comic may bring on a good cry.
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
xkcd is always great, but today's comic may bring on a good cry.
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Magisterial
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Magisterial
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Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out.
Watch and share!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out.
Watch and share!
1/7
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out.
Watch and share!
1/7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out.
Watch and share!
1/7
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ICYMI This is so smart and clear. If you want to see how Kennedy will "prove" vaccines cause autism, please read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism
Data can easily be manipulated to show causation that doesn’t exist.
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
ICYMI This is so smart and clear. If you want to see how Kennedy will "prove" vaccines cause autism, please read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
With this Intel deal, we've reached the Socialism part of National Socialism.
August 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
With this Intel deal, we've reached the Socialism part of National Socialism.
This man will be responsible for millions of needless deaths.
August 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This man will be responsible for millions of needless deaths.
Letter sent to Senator Husted on June 11, 2025
Subject: Your statements about the BBB
I have read a report of the statements you made in your recent teletownhall. Let me single out two of them.
Subject: Your statements about the BBB
I have read a report of the statements you made in your recent teletownhall. Let me single out two of them.
June 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Letter sent to Senator Husted on June 11, 2025
Subject: Your statements about the BBB
I have read a report of the statements you made in your recent teletownhall. Let me single out two of them.
Subject: Your statements about the BBB
I have read a report of the statements you made in your recent teletownhall. Let me single out two of them.
It would be appalling if it were true, but check Snopes to see it's a fabrication.
June 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It would be appalling if it were true, but check Snopes to see it's a fabrication.
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Just saw this blog comment from 2013:
May 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Just saw this blog comment from 2013:
First they came for people with tattoos, and I did not speak out — because I do not have a tattoo.
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
First they came for people with tattoos, and I did not speak out — because I do not have a tattoo.
Did you hear how often T said "raw earths"? What a deeply stupid man.
February 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Did you hear how often T said "raw earths"? What a deeply stupid man.
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Decent people thank Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Decent people thank Ukraine.
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Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
February 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
I feel a deep shame for my country after the performance of Trump and Vance with the President of Ukraine today.
February 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I feel a deep shame for my country after the performance of Trump and Vance with the President of Ukraine today.
What Trump & Vance are doing to Zelensky is deeply shameful.
February 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What Trump & Vance are doing to Zelensky is deeply shameful.
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January 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
So what's your point?
so algebra-brained after preparing for lecture tomorrow that I just misread a bus ad for “maximum deals” as “maximal ideals”
January 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
So what's your point?
2025 provides an illustration of Nicomachus's theorem, since it's both the sum of the first 9 cubes
1 + 8 + 27 + 64 + 125 + 216 + 343 + 512 + 729
and the square of the sum of the first nine numbers
(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)^2.
1 + 8 + 27 + 64 + 125 + 216 + 343 + 512 + 729
and the square of the sum of the first nine numbers
(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)^2.
December 30, 2024 at 3:32 AM
2025 provides an illustration of Nicomachus's theorem, since it's both the sum of the first 9 cubes
1 + 8 + 27 + 64 + 125 + 216 + 343 + 512 + 729
and the square of the sum of the first nine numbers
(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)^2.
1 + 8 + 27 + 64 + 125 + 216 + 343 + 512 + 729
and the square of the sum of the first nine numbers
(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)^2.
"The most dangerous thing Donald Trump is poised to do in his second administration is elevate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a messianic, conspiracy-theorist, anti-vaccine menace to society."
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I Know Personally Exactly What Kind of Bully RFK Jr Is. Now America Will Too.
Things could get really bad.
slate.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:55 AM
"The most dangerous thing Donald Trump is poised to do in his second administration is elevate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a messianic, conspiracy-theorist, anti-vaccine menace to society."
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