"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne / Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquering." (Chaucer).
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This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.
His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.
Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.
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The lifecycle of a pure math theorem:
- 1997: my PhD advisor asks me to work on one of his conjectures
- 2000: I solve the simplest case and dream of generalizing my approach
- 2003: after years of struggle, I come to the conclusion that my approach *cannot* generalize
- 2006: after reading a paper by Daan Krammer, I have a lighting bulb moment and realize that my approach works in full generality *up to equivalence of categories*... this enables me to solve my advisor's conjecture... I then use it as an ingredient in the proof of a much older and more famous conjecture (the "K(π,1) conjecture for finite complex reflection groups")
- 2007: I submit my article for publication
- 2009: referee #1 gives up
- 2010: 2 more referees have now given up, complaining that the paper is too hard to read
- 2012: referee #4 is finally able to produce a report, the revision work starts
- 2014: the paper is accepted for publication
- 2015: the paper is published
- 2007-2025: because the older conjecture overshadows the lesser known conjecture by my advisor, and because my paper is too difficult, virtually no-one asks any question about the "lighting bulb" categorical idea at the core of the proof
- Jan 22, 2026: I received an inbound email from a mathematician from another hemisphere, inquiring about the categorical aspects
- Jan 26, 2026: I have my first ever videocall discussing the specifics of this core component of my proof
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BREAKING: A newly obtained recording from Dec. 7, 2020 exposes Trump pressuring Georgia House Speaker David Ralston to call a special legislative session to OVERTURN the election he lost.
Trump even coached him on the cover story, telling Ralston to claim it’s “for transparency” and “to uncover fraud.” Then the most damning line:
“Who’s gonna stop you for that?”
Ralston’s reply says it all: “A federal judge, possibly.”
This was a sitting president actively probing how to illegally nullify an election, and joking about whether the courts could stop him.
Anyone still pretending Jan. 6 was a spontaneous protest is lying to themselves.
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🚨BREAKING: Republicans IMMEDIATELY regret calling in Jack Smith to testify as he says on the record he has absolutely ZERO regrets and would even CHARGE TRUMP AGAIN if he could.
Then suggested if Trump didn’t want to be indicted, he shouldn’t have broken the law:
SMITH: “If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat.”
He added: “The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges RESTS ENTIRELY with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts.”
That’s how it’s done!!
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You released him without charges.
If he assaulted law enforcement you would have charged him. Period.
You’re lying and we all know it.
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Republicans are trafficking the lie that this shutdown is because Democrats want to give undocumented immigrants free health care.
That's not true, and it's not the law.
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In Matthew, Jesus teaches compassion for the poor. Key verses (NIV):
- 5:3: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
- 19:21: “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
- 25:40: “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
- 26:11: “The poor you will always have with you...”
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This happened
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Entropy is one of those formulas that many of us learn, swallow whole, and even use regularly without really understanding.
(E.g., where does that “log” come from? Are there other possible formulas?)
Yet there's an intuitive & almost inevitable way to arrive at this expression.
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everywhere i look now, i see the relevance of olfactory ethics
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“Differentiation” is a scam, used to justify overly large class sizes
Prove me wrong
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thought this was going to be a joke about m and n being in the same order as the word mnemonic
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If architects & developers want to create more welcoming neighbors, the lessons are clear. Either reduce the width if costs are tight & economies must be achieved, or if a large structure must rise, worship the street, engage it, offer many doors and moments of interaction.
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This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala
