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Max S. New

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Professional computer scientist, unprofessional mathematician

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do.
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'll be giving a short talk at the International Category Theory Conference at Johns Hopkins University on Monday. If that's the sort of thing you'd be interested in watching, I believe there will be a way to view the talk online. See ct2026.com/ct/abstracts...
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Bhargav Kulkarni @bhargavkk.tngl.sh · 17/09/2026
Excited to share that our paper, "Semantics for 2D Rasterization" was accepted at OOPSLA'26! https:// arxiv.org/abs/2603.23696 I will be presenting this work in Oakland at OOPSLA'26, so lets chat if you are interested in languages for graphics!
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Semantics for 2D Rasterization
Rasterization is the process of determining the color of every pixel drawn by an application. Powerful rasterization libraries like Skia, CoreGraphics, and Direct2D put exceptional effort into drawing...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is something, as an aside, I am prepared to be amused explaining to the younger generation that you used to need to change a normal lightbulb about three times a year if it was on most of the day. Whereas at worst you need to change a modern LED, like, once every three years. Often longer!
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I wanted AI to solve my chronic medical problem, not the problem of my enjoying thinking about math within a community. But I suppose if I were a medical researcher, it would be just the reverse. I celebrate today on behalf of slow and unproductive medical researchers.
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is the standard union-busting trope, “Our workplace is a family and a union would disrupt that.” A few words are swapped tomake it about mentorship, but that’s it. And as a former unionized grad student who now supervises unionized grad workers, let me state the obvious: It’s nonsense.
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Cody @codyroux.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Super pumped to have interviewed Loic Pujet for a new episode! We talked about extensionality in type theory, which comes up a lot in practice (and in theory). open.spotify.com/episode/5B8u... as usual, the RSS: anchor.fm/s/db787130/p...
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Loic Pujet - Type theory and extensionality part I
The Church of Logic · Episode
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Tell them what you are going to tell them. Then tell them. Then tell them what you told them [<- this is the conclusion] So if you are at the point where you think, "I can stop here" then write a paragraph summarizing the journey for someone who was only half paying attention.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I don’t understand why that goal wasn’t given
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 19/07/2026
Close enough. Count it
East Rutherford to Ithaca, NY
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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 14/07/2026
ODYSSEUS, BRISTLING WITH RAGE: thou dare attempt to pork my wife? while i’m on my big trip?
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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 15/07/2026
How do they keep getting away with this lmao
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026
in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
these days, computer companies such as microsoft are turning megabytes into megabucks
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat
Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.
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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Remembering Egypt’s big lead
An Egyptian sculptural head crumbled next to two giant legs
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
haven’t seen America this thoroughly embarrassed on the world stage since we lost that war we started with Iran like 3 weeks ago
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 06/07/2026
As someone who is a fan of the Saints, Astros and Wolverines, the Balogun suspension being lifted is honestly pretty low on the pecking order of controversies I've had to deal with lol
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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 29/06/2026
Varaguay
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is just straightforward white nationalist great replacement rhetoric, the kind of thing that would have been confined to neo-Nazi forums a decade ago. Multiple mass shooters in recent years believed exactly this.
Tweet from the Department of Homeland Security: “Import the third world, become the third world. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 🇺🇸”
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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 14/06/2026
I like Wemby more now that he's evil
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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 14/06/2026
Knicks have to raise the NBA cup banner too next year to normalize it
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Random Knicks Dark Ages memory of the day: this completely inexplicable cover of “Country Roads” with “New York City” swapped in for “West Virginia” where the verse is just Doug E. Fresh naming neighborhoods and boroughs
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.
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Cyrus Omar on sabbatical in Cambridge @neurocy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I’m honored and grateful to share that I’ve received tenure at the University of Michigan!
Dear Professor Omar,

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan has
approved your promotion to Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with
tenure, in the College of Engineering. This appointment will become effective August 25, 2026.
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Taylor Smith @taylorjsmith.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
1961: CACM publishes Tony Hoare's quicksort algorithm. 2026: CACM publishes a self-promo article by some random guy who's pitting different LLMs against each other to pump unmitigated slop into a GitHub repo. Is this what my membership money's going toward, @acm.org?
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I Spent a Year Asking AI to Solve Math’s Hardest Problem. Here’s What Happened – Communications of the ACM
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Dread VanVleet 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The most 1999 thing about the previous NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Spurs might be that the Spurs were playing StarCraft against each other in between games
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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 31/05/2026
ETHICS #spurs #nba
Jon Polito in the opening monologue of Miller's Crossing
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
former Sixer great Julian Champagnie, who the team cut so Mac McClung could wear a Sixers jersey in the dunk contest
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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 28/05/2026
Zverev's best shot at a slam ever now. Looking forward to watching him blow it #rolandgarros
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.
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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 19/05/2026
Have to root for the spurs as they are the only ethical basketball team remaining
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.
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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Sam @theburr.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I can stop searching. I’ve found the perfect basketball score
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
epic handshake meme

above: "confusing readers about the color of something"

left arm: "the wine-dark sea"

right arm: "the sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"
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Joe @joelastname.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/04/2026
Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.
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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
lattice (order) vs lattice (group) is one of the most annoying terminological clashes in math, I think because what do you mean "ideal lattice" ≠ "lattice of ideals"
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Ideal lattice - Wikipedia
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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 19/03/2026
Can anyone show me where in the rules it says that Caruso's shoe block is a goaltend: official.nba.com/rule-no-11-b... #nba
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RULE NO. 11: Basket Interference – Goaltending
Section I—A Player Shall Not: Touch the ball or the basket ring when the ball is sitting or rolling on the ring and using the basket ring as its lower base or hang on the rim while the ball is passing...
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Hila Peleg @hilacodes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
We're running a user study, maybe you can help! We're studying the effect of new ways to show code diffs to programmers, and looking for participants for a 1-1.5hr virtual user study. In the study you will be shown several diffs and asked questions about them.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/03/2026
unbeatable cookbook www.ranchogordo.com/products/fag...
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Fagioli: The Bean Cuisine of Italy
This revised and expanded edition of Judith Barrett's seminal book on Italian bean cuisine honors every region of Italy with more than 120 inspiring recipes for modern home cooks. Barrett introduces u...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.
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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 10/03/2026
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion). Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."
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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Happy pub day to me! Coffee and this beautiful Q&A by the wonderful @katetuttle.bsky.social in the Boston Globe is the perfect way to celebrate! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/10/a...
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Needham native Amy Littlefield hunts for the ‘Killers of Roe’ in a book of journalism that pays homage to Agatha Christie - The Boston Globe
Q&A w/Needham-raised investigative reporter Amy Littlefield ahead of the release of her new book, Killers of Roe, a deep dive into the architects and hidden motives behind the fall of abortion rights.
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