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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 07/10/2026

Mathematics has been practiced since antiquity but the number of mathematicians and who has had the means to become one certainly has changed dramatically throughout that time

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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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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 25/09/2026

I think anthropomorphizing language is not as bad as people say generally but it does serve in these cases to alleviate some responsibility from the companies. If I had given a push random button program full access to my computer and it did something illegal I wouldn't have much of a defense

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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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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 18/09/2026

and then you would be fired lmao

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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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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 21/08/2026

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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

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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 · 18/07/2026

Sorry I didn't mean people don't die from scurvy. I meant that I was surprised that scurvy was so common because you always hear about it in naval contexts specifically. I didn't realize it was also common otherwise

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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 18/07/2026

Interesting I always heard of scurvy mentioned related to sea travel, which is kind of the opposite of "eating locally"

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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 18/07/2026

They would die from scurvy though? That's what surprised me

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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 18/07/2026

Yea I just never heard of scurvy being that common. Always heard it as a problem with sea travel which is kind of the opposite of "local eating"

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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 18/07/2026

I think you are reading too much into it I was just surprised by saying that eating locally would cause with scurvy which I associate with sea travel where you are not eating locally

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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 18/07/2026

I know I was just surprised that it was scurvy that she mentioned specifically

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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 18/07/2026

Interesting! Always heard of scurvy associated with sea travel specifically

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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 18/07/2026

I know people died of all kinds of diseases but scurvy I've only ever heard associated with sea travel when you don't have access to a variety of foods. I guess the implication is that if you have a bad season you could have a shortage of fruits/vegetables?

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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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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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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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Max S. New @maxsnew.com · 11/06/2026

Spurs couldn't hit anything

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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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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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