Adelaide Nebeker

Wrote a book on interdisciplinary mathematics, call that The Ethical Slutsky's Theorem

"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in a belief that Drake is not corny." - James Baldwin

Tasha Cloud is my favorite athlete and it's not even close. I miss her not being on the Mystics anymore.

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

Y'all know The Ancient One? The One With No Beginning And No End?

It's always fuckin something with that guy

This is a correct take.

When a mathematician puts a curse on anyone who dares to doubt that a theorem is true, that's called Proof by Malediction.

But now, you’re 38, and he’s a bit of a drunk, and it’s not like awful but it’s enough that he can’t do close up magic well anymore, but you don’t wanna make him sad so you have to work it out yourself and eventually feign an “ah, uncle Fibonacci, you got me again!” to not disappoint him.

Dealing with these questions is like dealing with your uncle who got you super jazzed with a quarter-behind-the-ear trick when you were five, so each new year at Christmas he kept finding new places to pull a quarter from.

And you can always tell the author is really angling for a “wow! ϕ shows up here too!?” But like…guys.

We get it.

It’s ϕ all the way down.

Please stop.

Every math textbook author has a question where they decide to make ϕ show up somewhere.

It’s always an incredibly tedious question because the further you get from combinatorics the harder it is to shoehorn in, so the more work it makes for the student.

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so.

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Can you imagine being Alan Turing and learning they named a highly advanced neural network after you, and then learning that you—the father of modern computing—share that honor with a fictional robot who turns into an 18-wheeler?

Someone sure didn't run their branding behind anyone with a 9-14 year old

Why is it that whenever men read books in photos, they always seem to be just starting a new book

Dunno what work using Bluesky to trash a mass action that is successfully engaging offline people who usually don’t participate in mass actions is doing

Can you imagine getting lapped by Bill Kristol on this one? JFC guys, wash your ass

In time I think we’ll look at Pink Pony Club in the same category as songs like Thriller, Purple Rain or Crazy In Love—songs that just completely altered the pop landscape

From the white people who brought you "Weddings at Plantation Homes", coming this summer...

Adopt a scientist, and make it their job to make your conspiration replicable.

This is how we fight despair.

See, science is about replication. If something works once, they want it to work that way every time.

To that end, they will rigorously detail the process and interrogate it to understand what makes things go.

They will find details you missed because they were impulses, not yet complete thoughts.

And, to the artists, I beg you:

Please adopt a scientist. What I said above is true: you need them too. Scientists are masters of process.

In theater they talk about conspiration—literally, “breathing together.” When a play resonates, the audience literally starts breathing in sync.

It is time to conspire, and to that end, you have no stronger allies than theater kids.

A postscript: as a former theater kid, it deserves remark that—historically speaking, most every revolution has a theatrical element.

It turns out, when your art is about getting people together in the same room to hear stories, that skill comes naturally.

So if you are a scientist feeling despair, I beg you: go find an artist.

They need you to help them make sense of things and act more deliberately, and you need them to help you stop making sense of things and start taking action.

Artists are taught specifically how to deal with doubt, with inertia, with the need for comfort and security.

Where science demands certainty, artists thrive in uncertainty.

That is precisely what this moment in history demands.

Artists are taught to make things first and ask questions later. They are taught their first impulse is often the best one.

Artists are taught to suppress rationality, because it lacks resonance.

Artists are taught to get messy, to make mistakes, but above all: to keep making art.