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Bob Wieman

@bobwieman.bsky.social

Scholeologist. Mathematician. I “heart” posts to signal my support for the person posting, not approval of the thing posted.

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Bob Wieman @bobwieman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I was re-struck by this pie chart Krugman generated from FRED for his “The New Inequality” :

A pie chart titled “Who owns stocks? (percent)” showing 24.2 percent of stocks are owned by people in the richest 0.1 percent, 26 percent of stocks are owned by the next 0.9%, 37.2 percent of stocks are owned by the next 9%, and only 12.6 percent of stocks are owned by people in the bottom 90% of incomes.

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Bob Wieman @bobwieman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

so, hear me out, here’s one weird trick that will both make AI much less of a threat to academia AND will revitalize our language departments:

a screenshot of a Google AI reply to a search with the search text “matlab version mai copilot included automatically”. The Google AI Overview is in a non-Roman alphabet, possibly Hindi.

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Bob Wieman @bobwieman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

A stylized display of the letters “Q.E.D.”

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Bob Wieman @bobwieman.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #874,721! If you haven’t gotten a notice yet, this just showed up for me.

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Bob Wieman @bobwieman.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Bluesky did the best automatic TL;DR thread collapse and it is the best social media platform ever, this is my proof

A screenshot of the preceding thread by Jacob T. Levy, with the second comment, followed by a link to expand the thread titled “View full thread”, followed by the following, presumably final, comment by Jacob: “This thread does not reach some conclusion about how to entertain all of these thoughts at the same time, much less how to do anything about what’s gone wrong, assuming something has. Just some scattered thoughts.”

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Bob Wieman @bobwieman.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

this was one of several posters in my son’s middle school. Seems like the youth might be getting the message, even if the olds aren’t getting it through their preferred modes of ongoing learning that you mentioned

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