Colin Stark

We live in hope!

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Then he’ll probably get elected 🙄

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He calls you a faceless bot and yet your avatar pic is literally a photo of you. And if he paid any attention at all he’d know that bots don’t get so angry or dance so well. Silly man.

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It’s our loss

They aren’t reading the room

We don’t get Fall in Taiwan 💔

I read that as “cooking MATH” and was duly confused but amused

Ah but @radiofreetom.bsky.social says not to worry it’s not *proper* fascism yet 🙄

Oh I see what you did 中夏 ahahaha

Hah. The weather prediction said something like this *last* week, but the temperature has peaked at 35°C every day since then (ok today was 34°C but still).

It’s an ill wind etc

恭喜恭喜！

On a personal note, I remember Rob van der Hilst and his fiancée towering over everyone at coffee at Leeds Uni when I was a grad student and he was a postdoc (their combined height >4m, probably)

The closer people are to a subject, the more they fight like cats over the smallest difference of opinion.

What a great piece this is! I wish there were far more of this kind of (albeit strongly subjective) review of the battle of ideas in science. Coming from outside a field it’s maddeningly difficult to understand the literature of any given period unless you lived it, went to the conferences, etc

Ah, right. Infinite freq limit or not. Framing it as a dichotomy feels odd to me though. I come at this from a Hamiltonian perspective, which admittedly is rather niche: but on a simple level the approx is needed if you want to do ray tracing, etc. It’s a limiting but very useful approx, that’s all.

Say more?

As a European kid I knew more about American politics than the average American grownup

The orange nitwit shouldn’t get his hopes up

Can you be a bit more specific? The New Statesman piece did an interesting job I thought, poking fun but thoughtfully.

So many right-wingers across the world are nostalgic for the Thatcher-Reagan era (and by extension the Pol Pot-Pinochet-Somoza-Suharto-etc era)

How the world left Steven Pinker behind The public intellectual is at pains to stress the world isn’t backsliding into the dark ages

Eloquent piece about Stephen Pinker

www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

So pretty too

Yes, cynical, but it’s Sunday morning and I’ve not had enough coffee yet

My only hope lies in the relentless impotence of Japanese politicians to change anything whatsoever

I’m guessing the latter