Reposted by Willardboarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · 1hfuture historians of mathematics: the grothendieck school went on to clear up the slop methodology of the italian school of algebraic geometry 061
Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 2hRelated: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...sheets.worksThe people holding up the internetFour billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest. 000
Reposted by Willardmatty @mattio.bsky.social · 3hThis is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol... 11408195
Reposted by WillardDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 4hWhere might we make the most progress on climate change? Where positive "tipping points" could happen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comClimate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientistsGlobal shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans 23917
Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 4hviolence is never the answer unless it's troglodytes' bsky.app/profile/bonp... 000
Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 4hGilets Jaunes defenders don't seem so keen to criticize Article III repression 110
Reposted by Willardthe Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 5hAnne Carson from Norma Jean Baker of Troy 0154
Reposted by Willardkottke.org @kottke.org · 5hBertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate. “The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us." [kottke.org]kottke.orgBertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to DebateLate in his life, the prominent English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell was subject to an attempt in the early 1960s by Oswald Mosley to provoke him into a debate about the merits of fascism. Before WWII, 13411
Reposted by WillardKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9hThe finns are justifiably very pissed about Google razing a forest to erect a chatbot building lnkd.in/p/eKFXmtE9 17461169
Reposted by WillardCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5hFriendly amendment to this: data centers should bring and pay for double the amount of clean energy they need. Half for them, and half for the community. 515022
Reposted by Willardwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14hThe work of Anne Damer (1748- 1828), English sculptor. Described as a "female genius", one of the 1st recognised women sculptors, who lived with her lover, Irish actress Elizabeth Farren #WomensArt 21050233
Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 14hOne day I will have a Willard bot so I could stop playing Climateball. 010
Reposted by WillardJulien Tessier @jtessier1.bsky.social · 17hJe suis souvrainiste et ce genre d'info me donne presque le goût d'être fédéraliste. 011
Reposted by WillardChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 14416
Reposted by WillardYale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Isaias is expected to make landfall as a hurricane Friday night or early Saturday, but the storm will likely be accelerating and expanding as it approaches. People well east of the landfall location may experience deteriorating weather Friday afternoon: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/stre...yaleclimateconnections.orgStrengthening Isaias expected to hit the U.S. Gulf coast Friday as a hurricane » Yale Climate ConnectionsIsaias is expected to quickly strengthen into the season’s first hurricane by early Thursday – the latest first-forming Atlantic hurricane in reliable records by a wide margin. 0126
Reposted by Willardboarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026if you are interested in the question of how one can believe that a formal verification (in lean or otherwise) does in fact verify what someone claims it does, then I recommend this classic paper 'How to Believe a Machine-Checked Proof'brics.dk 1184
Reposted by WillardHandy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hemingway eat your heart out 252919696
Reposted by WillardSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026“I am not fond of the word psychological. There is no such thing as the psychological. Let us say that one can improve the biography of the person.“ Jean-Paul Sartre 0263
Reposted by WillardDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...en.wikipedia.orgAaron Swartz - Wikipedia 111619548
Reposted by WillardUpbeat Former Prof @upbeatprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"you can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be." 011
Reposted by WillardSAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 06/10/2026Selected for 🍀 Clover Gallery's 🎨 Curated virtual Group Exhibition: Aurora the Caribbean Reef Octopus Sculpture "Out of the Ordinary" runs until October 30: 🐙 clovergallery.eu/out-of-the-o... 🐡🦑 312528
Reposted by WillardBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 07/10/2026@ceresorg.bsky.social is moving away from its historical mission as a corporate-climate organization and becoming an AI-accelerationist group. www.ceres.org/resources/ne... 2154
Reposted by WillardCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 07/10/2026FUTUREPOSTING: Alexandria, VA: With a tripled budget from Congress and dozens of Presidential Management Fellows onboarded, the SBE Directorate issued a Dear Colleague Letter asking for rapid proposals for frontier social science R&D. “America is investing in the future again”, said the Director. 1173
Reposted by WillardDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources. 13601145
Reposted by WillardEnergy and Policy Institute @energyandpolicy.org · 06/10/2026We built a new tracker that maps the documented ties between monopoly investor-utility companies and the groups that advocate on their behalf in Washington, D.C.energyandpolicy.orgUtility trade association trackerSee which investor-owned utilities fund and help lead the trade associations and think tanks influencing Congress and federal agencies. 196
Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026talking to a chat bot is like talking to yourself if you knew what you're talking about and remembered everything you think you know 000
Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026[GE MOORE] Here's my new proof of the existence of philosophers. 040