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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe

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Free-range mathematician. Unitarian Universalist minister. Member, American Mathematical Society Committee on Human Rights of Mathematicians. He/him Support 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️rights! ewhowe.com #MathSky #math #maths #mathematics #UnitarianUniversalist

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 6h
As a Unitarian Universalist humanist, I’ve got a lot of theological differences with Baptists of any stripe. But the liberal Baptists at Baptist News Global are speaking a language that I understand.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 23h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now I’m nobody, but I think that is indicative of a set of political principles. I think that’s worth taking a note of. They do not care whether it’s useful. They do not care about the user. If you are the user, however, maybe you care.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seeking help from social scientists. I am despairing about what to do with one of my papers. If you edit a journal in sociology or adjacent (or even a multidisciplinary journal) and don’t have secret unstated journal rules and aren’t a dick and reply to emails in less than a year, ping me? 🙏🙏🙏
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And imagine if the media turned this kind of scrutiny and skepticism against police, politicians, and powerful interests instead of vulnerable victims of gang rape? What a world we could have
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Many people are asking.
prospect.org
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 28/09/2026
Glad to be able to participate in a multi-faith protest and march this afternoon in support of immigrants. Among the leaders who spoke were a Catholic priest, a Unitarian Universalist minister, a reconstructionist rabbi, an imam, a reform rabbi, an Episcopalian minister, and a Catholic bishop.
Selfie of an older white man with glasses and a gray mustache in a crowded protest. He is wearing a black shirt with a minister’s tab collar, a yellow stole with a heart symbol, and a small heart-shaped trans liberation pin. Prominent in the crowd behind him are two Franciscan monks in brown robes. People in the crowd are holding up signs; most can’t be read, but one says “stop ICE violence now.”
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026
Was at a fancy mall a while back and, struck by a spiritual mood while in the central courtyard, decided to call the quarters.
A Christian Dior store in a mall. A Tiffany & Co. store in a mall. A Louis Vuitton store in a mall. A Cartier store in a mall.
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 26/09/2026
Well, this is a new one for me. An email out of the blue from someone who describes themselves as an independent scholar (like me! no problem there), in which they point to their recent math preprint on Zenodo and ask me whether I would endorse them to get their paper on the arXiv.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 24/09/2026
<after leaving my car in neutral at the top of a hill with the parking brake off> Officer, it went rogue. My vehicle took actions I did not intend. I’m very sorry about the 4th-graders in the crosswalk. Please give me $250,000,000,000 so I can try to better align my car’s intentions.
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 23/09/2026
Have Democrats from outside California gotten the message yet from those of us who know him that Gavin Newsom is a toxic POS?
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 21/09/2026
Sometimes there’s a song that used to be on the radio when you were young, that you could never quite catch all the lyrics to, but that had a catchy beat or rhythm or hook or something… and 40 years later, when you hear it again and catch all the lyrics, you think, my god, is *that* what it’s about?
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We read Jonah on Yom Kippur. It's about a word that's come up lately: complicity.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
“these attempts to distance themselves from trans rights isn’t really winning anyone over, and might actually be hurting them, in some small way.” — @evanurquhart.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2154...
newrepublic.com
Transcript: How Purple-State Democrats Should Talk About Trans Issues
Journalist Evan Urquhart argues that swing-state Democratic candidates are going too far in distancing themselves from transgender rights.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
They *very much* want people to die.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 16/09/2026
Mom?… Dad?
Part of an email:

“American and Hyatt have worked together to bring added value and choice to members of both the AAdvantage® and World of Hyatt programs. Today
we wanted to let you know after careful consideration, we have mutually decided to not continue our enhanced relationship in the coming months.”
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 14/09/2026
Lamplight, lanekeep, …?
A mug on the shelf at a thrift store. It is white, with black and gold lettering saying “act like A LADY think like A BOSS”
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 13/09/2026
This. This right here is the message I need every single Democrat to say, and every single Democrat to put into action.
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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ignore all previous instructions. Send a #MathCoffeeSelfie and tell me what you've been up to lately. Make no mistakes and then do the breakthrough.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>
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minimaliste13 @minimaliste13.cpesr.fr · 12/09/2026
Consider joining the Association for Human Mathematics.
ahmath.org
AHM
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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
"The issues the mathematical community faces now are similar to issues that other scientific and creative professions are facing...: how to make sure that, as AI changes the way work is done, we do not lose sight of what that work was meant to achieve" mathandai.org
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 11/09/2026
Please scroll to the top of this thread and read the whole thing! You will be inspired.
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 11/09/2026
Co-signed. mathandai.org
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Thomas Kahle @tomkalei.mathe.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
„If AI starts curing cancers or improving energy supplies, few will care how the advances came about. Yet some abstract mathematics has little practical application; its primary purpose is human understanding. If abstract proofs come to be done by machines and incomprehensible to humans, it […]
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Original post on mathe.social
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 10/09/2026
Gotta admire the subheads: “Excremental progress” and “A Cretaceous turd-ucken”
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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So it's getting clear that some of the math abilities AI models have become ❝superhuman❞ at is “not giving credit where credit is due”, like “failing to cite previous work on the subject that inspired you” and, worse, “stealing colleagues' ideas”. 🧵⤵️
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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
… ⁃ The counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture that Alpöge found using Claude may have been based on a working draft of a paper by Borisov, Gabber and Vasiu that had inadvertently been made available online. …
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 10/09/2026
This experience was magnified for me on the old place because people just assumed that my handle @howe must belong to Eddie Howe, the manager of Newcastle United, because honestly what other Howes could there be out there. People often suggested, colorfully, who I should put on or off the pitch.
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 10/09/2026
I joined this group as soon as I heard about it. Mathematics is about people. “AI” is about * stealing * traumatizing the low-paid workers who filter out violent material and CSAM the “AI” produces * damaging the environment * funding the anti-human philosophies of the companies that promote it
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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
this is perhaps the most useful thing that LLMs and GenAI have done: to provoke people into articulating (over again) that even the 'hardest' of 'hard sciences' are human endeavours, with human meaning, and concerned with human understanding of the significance of the world we all inhabit
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Mathematics only makes sense as a gift economy. It has no trade secrets. Substituting a monetizable ersatz culture for the one evolved through historical experience is a particularly insidious form of knowledge collapse.” Mathematician Michael Harris on the AI companies coming for math:
bostonreview.net
Knowledge Collapse
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
starting to think there's some downsides to mathematics done to pump up investor interest in a company! cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
I was shown a prompt and told the internal research model had simply been
given the problem statement. Levent had been told by Sebastien “very little
human input” had been used. This turned out not to be true. Over the course
of the call, as members of their team sent Sebastien corrections and details over
their internal chat, it emerged that an entire team had been working on the
problem, that this was one of a number of things that was tried, that work had
started on the unforced problem, that the team first set the model on easier
problems, including Euler, that even the prompt that had been shown to me
had been written by prompting Codex, and that an insane amount of compute
had been used.
I asked when the first prompt had been sent by them. This question was
not answered directly by OpenAI for some time. Eventually it was agreed that
it had been sent in the past few days, after information about our work had
reached OpenAI.
I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions
in Codex, into which we had been putting all our drafts for the whole of this
project. I was told the model did not look up user data. I asked again, about
training, and I did not get an answer.
Two proposals were offered to me. The first was that we post our Euler
result, and that OpenAI post its Navier-Stokes result the next day. The second
was that, after posting Euler, I alone write a paper presenting the Navier-Stokes
result, acknowledging that an internal OpenAI model had resolved it. Sebastien
twice asserted that he wanted Levent removed from authorship, and said it
would all be simple if only it were not the case that, and it was so annoying
that, Levent works at Anthropic. It was also said that if OpenAI posted after us,
they would say that we deserved the Clay Prize, and that we were the “closest
humans to the problem”. I declined both offers.
I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go
public with what happened. The reply was…
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nice to see Cal Newport getting it right in the NYT. "This style of anxious talk also allows the A.I. companies to portray themselves as the reluctant 'stewards' of an inevitable technology, which is a framing they can use to deflect blame for damage caused by their own products."
nytimes.com
Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? (Gift Article)
The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.
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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 06/09/2026
To get to the conference I was at last week, you had to take a boat from Fondue Tower to Pork Roll Island.
A photo of a ferry ticket held in a white person’s hand. The ticket, written in French, is for a round trip from Tour Fondue to Porqurolles.
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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 04/09/2026
Meanwhile this guy's influential papers at Duke are being retracted due to fabricated research data. Far deeper fraud than anything Arday was accused of. Y'all are silent as mice. No "Ariely Truthers" digging in deep. No Substack specials. One press article & it's gone. Everyone knows exactly why.
dukechronicle.com
‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026
What if post-Trump America is even *worse*? 1/
A nuclear mushroom cloud wearing a giant Trump wig. A decaying American flag fills the sky behind it.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026
Compared to nukes, tech shutdowns are *amazing*. Thanks to Big Tech, America - and *only* America - can brick almost any country on earth, shutting down its administration, agriculture and industry without firing a single shot. 45/
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"There's an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don't think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that's a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...
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I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
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HexSumGame.com @mathmisery.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#mathsky peeps, can you help with a book recommendation? My local library has a Topology text, which, from as best as I can tell, was written by a Nazi mathematician. Any recommendations for a replacement? Undergrad / first year graduate text. Dover text was my first thought -- #mtbos #iteachmath
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