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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Vandaag is het alweer 11 jaar geleden dat Mattia overleed. Toen was 1 oktober ook een donderdag. Ik blijf vannacht bij iemand slapen. Douwe Eisenga maakte een pianostuk ter nagedachtenis aan Mattia. Freek de Jonge maakte daar dan weer een gedicht bij. youtu.be/2PFeNWlmapQ Geef elkaar […]

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École des Bro-Arts @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Just heard a bank ad on the radio whose entire thesis is that they have real customer support people and won't make you talk to an AI chatbot

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

[Cornell gang rape case] Just me screaming into the void here. Throughout the years, so many people have sworn to me that they'd say something if they witnessed friends or colleagues say something inappropriate. Why, then, do I hardly ever experience that? Why am I so often the only one who […]

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julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I noticed a small sign on a platform in Glasgow central station saying cctv footage is used to train AI models I guess you can opt out of it by walking to London

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

[Tits (not real, not birds)] Someone left a pair of tits at Santa Lucia’s altar and I’m confused. #LatourOnTour #Porto #Portugal

A pair of tits leaning against a rococo, guilded decoration, on a white tablecloth on an Asia that also had two yellow candles lying on it.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Today is a good day! My dad and I collect depictions of “Virgin and Child with Saint Anne” (or “Anna te drieën” in Dutch). There aren’t that many of them, so imagine my delight when I found one in the museum at St. Francisco’s church in Porto! #Art #LatourOnTour #Porto #Portugal

Close-up of a wood-carved polychrome sculpture of Saint Anne holding the Virgin Mary in her left hand and the baby JC in her right. Saint Anne wears an elaborate crown and stares into the distance

The full sculpture, almost entirely covered in gold.

The sign saying: Holy mothers (Saint Anne, Our Lady and the Child Jesus) polychrome, gilded, “estofado” wood. Portugal, 16th century, 160 x 56 x 42 cm

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

[Vegetarian food pic] I got three spoons with my soup? More incredibly: the guy opposite of me teaches spoon carving workshops and *did not mention this* as we were discussing the three spoon logic‽ #Food #Soup #Spoons #Porto #latourontour

My hand holding up the soup spoons in front of a bowl of soup, with in the background a table with a bunch of finished dishes.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

[More explicit lewdness] Porto’s balconies are so far showing a much more feminine side than Lisbon’s did… #LatourOnTour #Portugal #Lisbon #Porto

A female mannequin (white with dark hair, makeup and rather prominent tits, with clearly visible nipples) sits naked on an ornate iron balcony, of a building clad in white and blue azulejos.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

[Mild lewdness] Yesterday’s train journey 🥲 #LatourOnTour #Lisbon #Portugal

A balcony with decoration that looks remarkably like five erect penises. The bit of building around the balcony is clad in white-and-blue azulejos, and there’s a washing line and the balcony.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I guess the inventor of the citrus press repurposed their early prototypes as decorations for the Jerónimos Monastery. #LatourOnTour #Upcycling #Lisbon

A stone decoration on the inside of a stone arch. Is vaguely floral, with the “flower” in the centre looking much like a citrus press.

A similar decoration, but with larger “ridges” for the citrus press part

A third decoration, but now with the citrus press part having many more ridges.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I guess the inventor of the citrus press repurposed their early prototypes as decorations for the Jerónimos Monastery. #LatourOnTour #Upcycling #Lisbon

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I’m in the front of the train. Walked quite a bit to get to the part where there’s literally nobody. Like: 4 empty carriages in a row. The man who walked behind me on the platform got in, and sat down next to me. Men… why? #Trains #LatourOnTour

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@anna/11726797080518… I just realised that my autocorrect had "corrected" my "recursion" to "revision", so I edited this toot to correct that incorrect "revision" correction and I feel like somewhere there's a metaphor for life in here... My dad always says that […]

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Today at a family reunion, we wanted to take a group picture. We asked a passerby to be our photographer. As she was taking our picture, another passerby approached her and went: “shall I take it, so you can be in the picture, too?” She went: “Oh no, thanks […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

Still from Six Feet Under. Nate (White man in his forties) leans over the shoulder of Claire (young ginger) as she takes a picture of the view, with the camera in fright of her face. Nate whispers “You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone.” In her ear.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Was at a reunion yesterday. One of my friends was bigging me up, encouraging me to tell ppl that I’m a professor, and to be proud of that. When I did, I was met with mostly concerns for my wellbeing, with ppl positing that academia in general and CS in particular is too misogynistic for me to […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

A Singapore newspaper asked ‘are Singaporeans psychologically prepared for a terror attack’ The top voted answer was ‘we are hardly psychologically prepared for a train breakdown!’ That made me laugh. But also, I’ve been thinking about how growing up in a place where (external) things mostly […]

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

My YouTube algorithm knows me quite well. Which is why the fact that I’ve stumbled upon headstone and grave maintenance YouTube, worries me.

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Anna Lighthouse Emoji @venite.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Ik vind het moeilijk om aan te geven hoe frustrerend/woestmakend het is als je met iemand heen en weer aan het appen bent over ideeën en ze dan ineens “dit is wat mijn LLM erover zegt” droppen. Zonder verder commentaar, zonder hun eigen visie. Vertel me wat je partner erover zegt, vertel me wat […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

The probabilistic programming library #Probula in #Scala, got a new minor release today (v.0.2.3). The release includes a bunch of small improvements that slowly make probula usable: (support for vectorized variables/plates, for-comprehensions, truncated […] [Original post on social.dukla.ch]

$```scala val model = for a <- Gaussian("a")(0.0, 10.0) // prior b <- Gaussian("b")(0.0, 3.0) // prior σ <- UniformC("σ")(0.0, 3.0) // prior _ <- xs.plateD { x => Gaussian(a*x + b, σ) } // likelihood .observing(ys) // ... and data yield (a, b, σ) ```$

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@ionica/117251568402… The new and by now famous mathematics proof (surrounded by some controversies) did cost 22.5 Million … lots of Mathematicians to hire for that 🤔

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Suzanne Veerman @smveerman.zug.network.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

The NS schedule is set-up in such a way that you should ignore all your geographical knowledge of the Netherlands before boarding a train. Sent from the intercity to Venlo while going from Rotterdam to Den Haag.

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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Ik heb een stempel laten maken voor het nakijkwerk en ik voel me een echte juf.

Een stempel en het resultaat ervan, met in rood onder elkaar
Leesroute:
Inhoud:
Opbouw:
Formulering:
Correctheid:
Cijfer:

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

In case you ever wanted a food review of a basket fungus I’m mesmerized www.reddit.com/r/mycology/s/k15FKC4…

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I registered for an event, seemingly organised by one of my favourite professors, who retired a few years ago. I was super excited to get to see him again. Turns out he shares a name with the *actual* organiser of the event 😅 I'm sure that guy is nice, too. At least now I have an opportunity […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

What month of 2020 are we in now?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

A knot essentially measures minutes per hour.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@anna/11618022305151… I was missing Kopi Bro so I actually googled him, b/c surely a legend like him should be findable online, right? youtu.be/SzZJjjSq1W8 Given that I'm not on instagram, I feel 100x more honoured that he recognised me and remembered my […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a one-year ban on the use of student-facing generative AI across the city’s public schools through eighth grade, and restrictions on the use of the technology in high schools. “The tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early […]

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In the next few weeks I have business reasons to be in both Manchester and Barcelona and you can guess which one is cheaper to get to

08:53 → 11:05 London Euston
Manchester
Piccadilly
• 2h 12m, direct
£386>
1st £580
3 鐵
View stops ›

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AFA Nederland @afa.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

(van MiGreat) 'WIJ STOPPEN ONZE NOODHULP IN TER APEL We hebben de uiterst moeilijke beslissing genomen om onze noodhulp in Ter Apel vanaf 7 september te beëindigen. We hebben hiervoor verschillende redenen, maar bovenal omdat we weigeren een pleister te zijn op […] [Original post on todon.nl]

WIJ STOPPEN ONZE NOODHULP IN TER APEL

MIGREAT

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Iris Volk @funkvolk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

Tag war gut 😌

Meme, father asks: "Are ya winning, son?"
Son, sitting at the computer, answers: "I'm making 11 people laugh on mastodon"

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Clip Art > Science > Failure > Cute My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

Title:
Clip art > science > failure > cute

Image:
A series of science-related items (glassware, robots, fires, scientists) with smiley faces labelled this:

fire_small.jpg
graph_error.jpg
cracked_glassware.jpg
sad_at_desk.jpg
fire_medium.jpg
broken_robot.jpg
disproved_theory.jpg
fire_huge.jpg
sad_on_floor
toxic_cloud.jpg
rejected_paper.jpg

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Merlin's Wisdom Project @merlinwisdom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Take a walk in a place that has lots of leaves and grass and other natural, irregular patterns. It stimulates dopamine, plus you should probably be walking more anyway. (Thanks, Tom L.)

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n1k0 @n1k0.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

mes pieds sont ici, ma tête est encore là-bas #mosstodon

un sentier forestier de montagne bordé de roches recouvertes de mousses

un panneau de bois indique le “pas de l’âne”, passage abrupt pouvant nécessiter l’utilisation d’une sangle pour se sécuriser

un sentier bordé de sapin et de mousses tendres

un sentier bordé d’un vieux mur de pierres recouvertes de mousses

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Anna Lighthouse Emoji @venite.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Hebben jullie het ook zo koud? Warm je handen met handgebreide wanten. Erg geschikt voor Rode Lijn-demonstraties, doen het ook goed bij een gewone winterwandeling. De opbrengst gaat naar Gaza. link.marktplaats.nl/m2431552245

Twee Noorse handschoenen met een patroon als een geborduurde Palestijnse vlag. Elk kleurvlak van de vlag bestaat uit een ander traditioneel Palestijns borduurmotief. Maar dan gebreid.

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