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Applied Mathematician, Veteran, Nevadan — Probably watching Star Trek. (he/him/his) up
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Flight attendants cross check for arrival

I drive a subaru and people always think they're illuminating me when they tell me it's the lesbian car like that's not the reason i got it

I had this shirt in high school. I recall being interrogated at length by a few different people, each with a vested interest in making sure I was adhering to all appropriate interpretations of “aesthetic irony” relevant to teens in 2001. Anyway, now they’re at Costco.

Nosferatu is a part of the Pacific Rim extended universe.

Realized I wasn’t feeling enough existential dread, so I decided to rewatch Chernobyl.

virginiamercury.com/2024/12/24/w... "For those of you unfamiliar with the vocabulary of bureaucrats, “very difficult to achieve” is a term of art that translates roughly as, “This is nuts.”"

Until I see numbers otherwise, my gut tells me we (as a society) spend more money on police and private security (to police the homeless) than is needed to house and feed everyone in need. Just saw a man give himself a sink bath in a soda fountain before getting run off.

This stresses me out, haha. I’m so bad with new names as it is. At some point the complexity would get wild that we’d see headlines about new prime numbers that read like race horse names at the Kentucky Derby. “Introducing the new prime number: ‘The wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald’!”

I hereby give you permission to toss the thanksgiving leftovers

Long term I think unis will find a way to combat LLM use, if nothing else to preserve their societal role as the official designator of "smartness" to save companies the trouble of developing a hiring procedure But in the meantime we'll see a couple of cohorts absolutely determined to learn nothing

Can we start a spatchcock train? 🤣

Post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

This was one of the takeaways from the latest news brief from citations needed - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

I play DND with a funny group of people- and the DM is savvy enough to stream the entire process. It's a load of fun.

I've been busy today writing referee reports. I don't think it violates confidentiality to show you an example.

These all read like LinkedIn posts

Tame Impala's opening act

Friendly reminder for TX: Our voter registration deadline is Oct. 7, and it takes less than a minute to check that your registration's active. Even if you haven't moved, the way the state's bragged about how many voters it's kicked off is a good reason to check: www.texastribune.org/2024/09/16/t...

I can either prove the result or write the paper (in finite time). Pick.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT CULINARY 226 PULLED IT OFF. 25 fucking years!!!

This is what math twitter really does look like, post-Elon

Keanu Reeves playing a university math adjunct JOHNNY CONIC

If I ever have to write a funny revisionist self-history I’ll just tell the world that I got into fluid dynamics to prove to the crunchy/free spirits in my social circle that ear candles genuinely do nothing but melt paraffin/beeswax near your head.