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Associate dean, Bartlett College of Science & Math, Bridgewater State University. Mathematics enjoyer. Views mine. ¹Best known for other work. 📍 Plymouth, MA
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What’s laughable is how little waste they have found. Every Silicon Valley enterprise I’ve been a part of blows a month’s rent daily on sushi and Uber Black

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www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

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Local hacker/hackathon in Boston. There's never been a more important time to funnel folks away from reactionary tech into a more hopeful scene engineeringhope.org

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The American Mathematical Society has also started a page to coordinate support for professional mathematics, so far focusing on executive orders impacting the National Science Foundation: www.ams.org/government/g...

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I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

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ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

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Suppose a contradiction were to be found in the axioms of set theory. Do you seriously believe that a bridge would fall down? ~Frank Ramsey D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

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And not the good kind!

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We've hit the full Orbanization of the US government and are steaming toward full Putinization but with none of the, you know, strategic purpose or any sense of where should be going at all.

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*wearily* fuhrerprinzip

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As one who has had to order university signage recently, UofC wasted a PRETTY penny on those

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See also: "Do not worry over your troubles with mathematics, I assure you mine are much greater." —Einstein

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This is why the "Deep State" mythology works on so many people — the labor of high-functioning government agencies is largely invisible so their minds are free to fill that vacuum with paranoia

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Yes, and Nate Silver in particular becoming an online gambling addict over the last few years and spending time in online gambling spaces which are full of that garbage is the missing piece

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to *half* its staff.

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There's a widening gyre at FIRE

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This has been my point for weeks about what Musk is after. Consolidated data from the biggest mine of information in the world. He’s so thirsty for data he’d get his hands on the nuclear codes if he could. Could he? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Hitler, who I do not support, never would have embraced genocide, which I also do not support, if the Weimar shitlibs hadn't tried so hard to deplatform him. by Glenn Greenwald

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Guys...

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Spontaneous moment in a fifth grade class today. My first visit I introduced myself as Dr. Brett. One student asked if I was a “psychological math teacher”. I asked, “Is that a thing? Emotions inmath class?” This is what they said.

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Here's the thing. College professors are overworked and underpaid and most of us do it because we believe in a sense of vocation more than self preservation, and also are in a job that is actively trying to work us to death for worse pay and benefits than managing a chain restaurant. So.

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