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the thing about job searching is i see all these job postings and im like i dont wanna do any of this for any of you

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i’m not american and i don’t like posting about the USA bc we’re all too inundated w their stuff globally however i think given the current political climate it’s v important that people are aware of Bernie Sanders’ latest speech (1 Feb 2025) which has an air of “will be studied in history classes” and serves as an informed call to action for the american people who are realising the severity and significance of their current administration going unchecked

additionally for my fellow Australians if we don’t want this sort of crap happening here then we need to make sure that the likes of Peter Dutton do not become Prime Minister in our upcoming federal election as he is already following the same path as Trump and if you really want to send a clear message against the racism and pandering to the rich then putting greens 1 with preferences to labor is the way to do it bc even though greens aren’t gonna be in power per se, the fact that they take a strong opposite stance will tell labor that we don’t want concessions to the conservative voters who don’t understand that they’ll ultimately suffer too if they vote for Dutton the same way that many americans who voted for Trump are now finding out bc they were ignorant to it before.

Okay rant over have a good day and make good choices ✌🏼

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Why is everything AI now I’m losing my mind

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I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

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Spent a time obsessed with bacteriophages. The result was that. Thought you might like it. It’s soft.

you're right i absolutely love this thang

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Twin boys

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i can think and ration about all numbers, therefore all numbers are rational <3

Peer reviewed, Fields Medal awarded ✅

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2025 is a good number, it’s a quarter of the way through the 20 hundreds and it’s got that nice set of 2s separated by only a 0. not bad. whatever happens this year at least it’ll be happening during a good number 😌

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I have historically posted my annual mathblr roll call in late April, but I think it makes more sense to do it at the beginning of the year so it's clear which post is current. Accordingly, I now call the

🧮 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝 𝕄𝔸𝕋ℍ𝔹𝕃ℝ ℝ𝕆𝕃𝕃 ℂ𝔸𝕃𝕃 🧮

Reblog/reply if you are a mathblr and/or mathblr adjacent. And tag the other (at least semi active) mathblrs & adjacents you know of!

"What counts as mathblr? Do I count?" If you want to! Math shitposters! Math academia aesthetic blogs! Math studyblrs! Math related gimmick blogs! Unthemed blogs owned by people who happen to be math fans! I want them all! I'm happy to see CS, stats, physics, and other math-adjacent folks too if they like hanging out with the math crowd!

Bonus: link to the LCM- Least Common Mathblr discord server. Come hang out!

https://discord.gg/q4nzuEqgFv

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"You think you're informed just because you read a bunch of grainy PDFs?"

Yeah man. Reading scholarly works on a topic informs you on that topic. That's how this works.

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About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

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and what if I told you nine was less afraid of love than ten. what then.

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Life cycle of our Sun, from beginning to end~