François Loeser

When poets, pacifists and peaceful protesters are arrested while the far- right exercise their “freedom of speech” with Nazi salutes and hate slogans…

YouTube video by GIGS Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill (From "Legends of Rock 'n' Roll")

Is it a (blueberry) hill to die on?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mix...

C'est une occasion rêvée pour adapter la tradition du chant soufi qawwalî à la liturgie catholique !

I have some related posts on this at mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568... and mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/11...

Are we still having the ICM in Philly next year?

It seems about the right time to ask this question to the IMU.

you would think the existence of blanket national travel bans would disqualify a country from hosting an international congress, independent of the safety concerns or the national funding situation

Another thought about this week's indignities to U.S. mathematics: How can ICM 2026 be held in a host country that has defunded the (Fields medal-winning) chair of one of its main organizing committtees?

www.mathunion.org/icm/icm-2026

Cover of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna.

If you haven't read it already, get yourself a copy of The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social. It's a thoughtful, funny, pragmatic, well-sourced, and necessary book for this moment.

For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Impersonation and personification in mid-twentieth century mathematics - Michael J. Barany, 2020 Pseudonymous mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki and his lesser-known counterpart E.S. Pondiczery, devised respectively in France and in Princeton in the mid-1930s, ...

p.s. if you want to know the history of fake/joke citations in math articles in that period, see my open-access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025 I write while staying in one of the great forests of British Columbia, a forest in which the inextricability of life from death is gorgeously evident. Several kinds of fern spring from this soil, some...

Macy once wrote, "It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells. Anxieties and doubts can be healthy and creative...because they permit new and original approaches to reality."

Heureusement que dans la vraie vie, personne ne connaît Lagasnerie et tout le monde connaît Gisèle Pelicot.
Ca doit être pour cela qu’il la déteste.

La politique, c'est des choix, y compris à l'intérieur des fournitures en matériel du Ministère de l'Intérieur.

Caitlín Doherty, Everything Else — Sidecar In Dubai.

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Bien entendu, on a signé cette pétition.

1 mn pour signer ...
1 chance pour revenir sur cette loi, véritable rupture démocratique pour conjurer cynisme&irresponsabilité.
Chaque signature compte!
A toutes et tous!
C'est ici 👇 et vivent les rebsweets!
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Où @monniauxd.bsky.social‬ mentionne un de mes défunts collègues.

L’insaissisable islamogauchiste Un défunt et très distingué mathématicien dirigeait jadis les Écrits de Paris, mensuel associé à l’hebdomadaire Rivarol. Je n’ai cependant entendu personne réclamer une commission d’enquête sur l’ext…

pub gratuite
blogs.mediapart.fr/david-monnia...

L'insaisissable islamogauchiste

Je suis rassuré, j'ai dû la chercher également.

I Spent 90 Days Rebuilding My Brain. Here's What I Learned. No Hacks. No Apps. Just Rules, Paper, and Silence.

There’s a version of your brain you haven’t visited in a while. One that isn’t jacked into notifications, autocomplete, or a second screen. I found mine after 90 days of silence and structure.

Bon courage pour survivre à la Deutsche Bahn !

Pareil, je suis en mission à Singapour.

Idem pour moi

At what point will mathematicians stand up and simply state that hosting ICM in Philly in the midst of these racist travel bans isn't right?

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

A lire :

Apparemment mon nom apparaît dans une vidéo de Dan Nicusor 😁