Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦
@shallit.bsky.social
Grumpy old American mathematician and computer scientist, now retired. My Erdös number equals 1.
No one else could have gotten away with something like that?
What a silly remark.
What a silly remark.
October 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
No one else could have gotten away with something like that?
What a silly remark.
What a silly remark.
I honestly don't understand how the US as a nation can survive when there are so many educated people who actually believe like the guy in this Facebook discussion. We are so fucked.
September 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I honestly don't understand how the US as a nation can survive when there are so many educated people who actually believe like the guy in this Facebook discussion. We are so fucked.
Just cancelled!
September 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just cancelled!
After reading for more than five decades, I cancelled my subscription.
September 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
After reading for more than five decades, I cancelled my subscription.
Ms. Attiah: I cancelled my subscription.
September 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Ms. Attiah: I cancelled my subscription.
The final straw
September 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The final straw
That did it, the final straw.
September 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
That did it, the final straw.
As Bertrand Russell wrote:
September 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
As Bertrand Russell wrote:
Over at The Evil Place, twitter just put a block on my account because I posted that @jd-vance-1.bsky.social belongs in the Hague for this.
September 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Over at The Evil Place, twitter just put a block on my account because I posted that @jd-vance-1.bsky.social belongs in the Hague for this.
What accounts for this huge rise? Use in a movie or book?
August 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
What accounts for this huge rise? Use in a movie or book?
Every new technology brings the same kinds of stories and reactions.
August 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Every new technology brings the same kinds of stories and reactions.
Looks like Jens could not stand anyone disagreeing with him and has now blocked me. Sadly, this is not my first experience like this. If Jens were right why he is so threatened by someone with a different opinion?
Here's another one from 100 years ago: "Any kind of an automobile is unreliable."
Here's another one from 100 years ago: "Any kind of an automobile is unreliable."
August 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Looks like Jens could not stand anyone disagreeing with him and has now blocked me. Sadly, this is not my first experience like this. If Jens were right why he is so threatened by someone with a different opinion?
Here's another one from 100 years ago: "Any kind of an automobile is unreliable."
Here's another one from 100 years ago: "Any kind of an automobile is unreliable."
Indeed, there is a lot of "automobiles are dumb and unreliable and you're wasting your time and money by buying one; stick with horses" energy coming from Jens.
August 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Indeed, there is a lot of "automobiles are dumb and unreliable and you're wasting your time and money by buying one; stick with horses" energy coming from Jens.
This is John Masko, writing in the Wall Street Journal in November 2024.
I'd like to ask him if he still thinks the fears expressed were unreasonable, but I can't find an e-mail that works.
I'd like to ask him if he still thinks the fears expressed were unreasonable, but I can't find an e-mail that works.
July 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is John Masko, writing in the Wall Street Journal in November 2024.
I'd like to ask him if he still thinks the fears expressed were unreasonable, but I can't find an e-mail that works.
I'd like to ask him if he still thinks the fears expressed were unreasonable, but I can't find an e-mail that works.
When even the bland "Hi & Lois" comic strip gets it, you know people are finally catching on.
July 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
When even the bland "Hi & Lois" comic strip gets it, you know people are finally catching on.
When even a newspaper cartoon as anodyne as "Hi and Lois" gets political, you know the situation is serious.
July 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
When even a newspaper cartoon as anodyne as "Hi and Lois" gets political, you know the situation is serious.
If you fly the American flag today, please fly it upside down.
July 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If you fly the American flag today, please fly it upside down.
And yet another person whose field of study is not about LLM's making pronouncements about them that are wildly false, getting all huffy when the false claims are pointed out, and finally retreating and blocking me.
So pathetic. So anti-intellectual.
So pathetic. So anti-intellectual.
July 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
And yet another person whose field of study is not about LLM's making pronouncements about them that are wildly false, getting all huffy when the false claims are pointed out, and finally retreating and blocking me.
So pathetic. So anti-intellectual.
So pathetic. So anti-intellectual.
Hey JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social and welcome to Bluesky!
Here's my question: why and when exactly did you decide to give up fighting against racists, and simply join them instead?
Here's my question: why and when exactly did you decide to give up fighting against racists, and simply join them instead?
June 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Hey JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social and welcome to Bluesky!
Here's my question: why and when exactly did you decide to give up fighting against racists, and simply join them instead?
Here's my question: why and when exactly did you decide to give up fighting against racists, and simply join them instead?
I have a question for you. You used to have a clear view of the threat Trump poses.
Yet now you've given up everything you claim to stand for: integrity, honesty, fairness, justice, in order to support a deranged fascist.
Why made you give up all your principles? What made you so evil?
Yet now you've given up everything you claim to stand for: integrity, honesty, fairness, justice, in order to support a deranged fascist.
Why made you give up all your principles? What made you so evil?
June 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I have a question for you. You used to have a clear view of the threat Trump poses.
Yet now you've given up everything you claim to stand for: integrity, honesty, fairness, justice, in order to support a deranged fascist.
Why made you give up all your principles? What made you so evil?
Yet now you've given up everything you claim to stand for: integrity, honesty, fairness, justice, in order to support a deranged fascist.
Why made you give up all your principles? What made you so evil?