Izabella Laba 🇨🇦

I did like DMW when it was staged here. M-D I have not seen. Maybe I should look it up sometime?

Yeah, either that or else pick a subplot and focus on that. For K&C, you have to keep the three main characters or else it's not K&C. But maybe less war? The deployment to Antarctica could be cut out? Do you spend time on the comics they work on? Dunno.

I loved the book, too! And now I'm going to spend the rest of the evening thinking about how I would adapt it 🤣🤣🤣

(As a mathematician, I've had to give 20-minute talks about 200-page proofs. It's actually a very similar problem.)

Same for "math ability". It's not a single type of ability, it can't be measured on a linear scale, and the mythical "far end of the bell curve" is lost in the fog of the margin of error.

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

I do like the idea that analysis is salty 😂😂😂

And the Danzig Corridor is being brought up as the WW2 counterpart to the Suwałki corridor? Which, of course, Russia offers to "resolve peacefully"?

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Yep. I'm an actual researcher in math, as in: I create research rather than just "research" with Google. I've seen Google AI blurbs on the topics on my research, with sentences from my papers taken out of context and rearranged so that they no longer make sense. I cannot recommend it to anyone.

"Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us."

Someone needs to cut off their mushroom supply.

Yeah, I know. That was a "yes, and". And I'll make sure to vote against every single one of those ABC fuckers next time.

I remember one specific time when Sean Orr voted no and said explicitly that this was based on the feedback. That's one out of 10...

I'm sorry, I'm just really bitter about the whole thing.

Council does not even pay attention, in my experience. They just ram it through.

I still submitted feedback on various similar projects, but the process is not anywhere close to being unbiased.

Just typed "omeha" instead of "omega", so I guess I'm having trouble separating math from politics?

In FY25, the University of Vermont had 39 H1B beneficiaries approved.

In 2016, I was one of them.

What this country, my adopted country, my child’s country, is doing is monstrous and will have grave repercussions for all Americans well beyond this current presidential term. This is so sad to see.

Why is this horrible for Universities?

Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card.

This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Especially when someone already looks like they are decomposing.

Apologies for not adding alt text to all these photos. My cat is screaming her head off and if I don't let her outside right this instance, where I have to accompany her, I might die.

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

Trump will force all universities to require applicants to submit a two-page essay on Charlie Kirk as part of their application.

Should have said "Anglophone" maybe, instead of Western? Don't want to get into debates about whether for instance The Lives Of Others was Western or Central-European... I'd rank Andor above 1984, though. By a good margin.

Absolutely. The only Western pop-cultural take on totalitarianism that I've ever cared about. Would not be likely to be repeated in any circumstances, let alone what's likely coming.

In Canada, you have to write it off due to ban on news links.

Thank you, @jamellebouie.net. Signed, this mine's canary.

I cannot believe literally have people asking me "but where's the EVIDENCE that Charlie Kirk was homophobic." Well "friends," I have your back. Please enjoy this thread of examples that took me all of a nanosecond to find. If you want more, I'm sure it's out there. Go look for it yourself, I'm done.

Or without creating an account.

Fractal broccoli, sautéed with zucchini and red peppers.

Cat looks like a water-and-ink drawing 😍

To be clear, I wound up on the list through things I said on twitter, not for anything I said in class. Apparently their view is that you give up your First Amendment rights once you take a job as a teacher.

Just for fun, I'm going to give you some clips of the hate mail I got from being placed on Kirk's TPUSA Dangerous Professor list. Buckle up: