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Ilhan Omar for President tbh

participated in, the AI companies are basically trying to co-opt the mathematical community to check their work for free. This is a real distraction from the real work of mathematicians, which involves pursuing elegant proofs and developing new structures (e.g. b-symplectic manifolds). Open AI is

Regarding the OpenAI dump of 722 supposed proofs, I was just visiting a group of mathematicians in Barcelona, and my host had already found that some of the proofs were absolute junk. Others may take longer to evaluate, but as was pointed out at the panel discussion on "AI and Mathematics" I

“I have done everything humanly possible to give the government the benefit of the doubt in this case. I have done it repeatedly.” Why would you do that, judge? Did you think they deserve it on the merits? Did you expect that to get them to respect adverse rulings rather than take it as permission?

Another angle of Custer’s Last Stand

It's not at all hyperbolic to say the president is trying to denaturalize and deport my congressional representative

The scope of what we know about Epstein convinced me that a major motivator - perhaps THE major motivator - behind power-seeking is a desire to act out sexually without fear of consequences. The sexual depredations of the powerful aren't a "perk", they're the whole enchilada.

I feel for all the staff workers at GLERL below the PI level. the crews that go out and monitor the lakes are so dedicated. I do feel that leadership at the NOAA and UM level could have been stronger and pushed back more against the illegal cuts, but we were told to be quiet and hide instead

Windows to the world

Abolish DHS

They knew not a single judge in MN would sign it

Greet Death is so good!

Gawyn Trakand top five all time least favorite fictional character you’re apparently supposed to care about for some reason

I do think we could have spent less time with Gawyn Trakand, in the end

But probably would have needed a few more books for that LOL. I finished them and I feel like I finished them and I think thats good enough for me

It does feel like something else was supposed to happen with the Seanchean and Tuon‘s likely potential as a channeler hovering over everything. Leaving it like they’re just going to probably get along now without addressing any of that feels like punting on stuff that had been set up

That was a lot to tie up at the end, so much that even though book 12 sometimes felt like hundreds of pages of jumping into random complicated plot lines and tying them up suddenly (maybe too many characters getting married) there‘s still a lot left open—satisfyingly so, mostly, I think