Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 31/07/2026Ontological proof that √2 is rational: suppose √2 has all supreme perfections. Descartes argued that actual existence is a perfection. If √2 was irrational, it would lack existence as the ratio of integers, a supreme perfection. Contradiction; therefore, God exists. I mean √2 is rational. 000
Reposted by Steve SmithJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Meta is spending $600 billion+ to build out its AI model. That model is being aggressively integrated into platforms used by 3.9 billion people. This week, Meta announced its AI will be trained on content from Newsmax, the far-right website with a history of promoting pro-Trump conspiracy theories. 43646333
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 30/07/2026Article with link to charities to help Haitians stripped of temporary protective status: bsky.app/profile/theb... 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 30/07/2026No, and @matthewdgreen.bsky.social has a good post on both the Claude result and its potential relevance to post-quantum cryptography: bsky.app/profile/matt... 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 30/07/2026“what makes this genuinely interesting — and, frankly, a little embarrassing for the field — is that none of the ingredients are exotic.” bsky.app/profile/matt... 000
Reposted by Steve SmithCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...cbsnews.comICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources sayThe plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate. 20926401786
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 25/07/2026Mistah Kurtz—he dead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=72bw...youtube.comAPOCALYPSE NOW (1979) | Killing Col. Kurtz | Mission Completed Scene 4K UHDYouTube video by Cinematico 010
Reposted by Steve SmithOnly In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Happy Saturday from Storrow Drive. ❤️ 📸: @jessfrith @johngallagher23 @0svaldo_g 10646
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 27/06/2026From a running buddy on his way home this morning: “One thing when a truck Storrows itself, another when its from the official frozen pizza of the Patriots and Red Sox” 051
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 27/06/2026If humans weren’t around to invent Avocado’s number they wouldn’t be here to observe this coincidence either. 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 26/06/2026@radiofreetom.bsky.social’s is right about Boston alleys with @timmiller.bsky.social. There’s maybe 3 of them, all no longer than a short walkway. But they are worth a visit. A couple of them: Greenough Lane. And though not in Boston, Graffiti Alley sets the tone: 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 13/04/2026The only way that will restore the Rule of Law, in Hungary, and the U.S.: Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 10/04/2026The correct and only response is “we will tear down every illegal act and edifice of this administration, restore the Rule of Law and the Whitehouse, and tirelessly investigate any crimes committed.” bsky.app/profile/raja... 0122
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 08/04/2026Are you familiar with the (at the time, unknown) connection between Ellis’s and McInerney’s Allison Poole character and 2008 candidate John Edwards, and the significance of the Kentucky Derby? Very curious if any of this explosive oppo was known privately. eastonellis.fandom.com/wiki/Alison_...eastonellis.fandom.comAlison PooleAlison Poole is a character in the novels and short stories of Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis. She is based on McInerney's real-life ex-girlfriend Lisa Druck, later known as Rielle Hunter. Her de... 100
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 08/04/2026If the pizza at Pastels is okay with Donny, it’s okay with me. 120
Reposted by Steve SmithEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/04/2026That's the point of the attacks right 311824
Reposted by Steve SmithRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Hospitals sharing images of children to identify their parents, this is the situation across #Beirut 13328
Reposted by Steve SmithRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026AUB urgently calling for blood donations AUBMC Blood Bank is currently in need of all blood groups. يُعلن بنك الدم في المركز الطبي في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت عن حاجته إلى جميع فصائل الدم. نرحّب بالمتبرعين يوميًا من الساعة 8:00 صباحًا حتى الساعة 4:00 بعد الظهر. بتبرّعكم يمكن أن تُحدِثوا فرقًا. 042
Reposted by Steve SmithMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/04/2026It would be nice if mainstream media would report the obvious fact that the president of the United States is out of his mind. Seems like a highly relevant fact that the media have buried so far, in betrayal of their duty. 461211336
Reposted by Steve SmithDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals". 20102023782
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 07/04/2026Watch this as the hour of Trump’s threatened genocide approaches. 000
Reposted by Steve SmithRachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Iranians are forming human chains around power plants and infrastructure as Trumps evil deadline approaches. Will he commit mass murder? We have no idea bc he’s crazy. Hopefully he uses this an excuse to stop 1720450
Reposted by Steve SmithTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/04/2026If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comDid Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran?If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse. 1712814858
Reposted by Steve SmithPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/04/2026We’re doomed because Trump represents a sick, evil, but absolutely permanent and strong element of American culture. Killing civilizations is what these people voted for. 581597290
Reposted by Steve SmithSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization. 46563361706
Reposted by Steve SmithAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is. 14755699816895
Reposted by Steve SmithBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I read a lot of conservative media, and let me just say that this Washpost house editorial is one of the most shameful pieces of unsubstantiated, free-market claptrap that has been published all year, by anyone. Barely a mention of the thousands of deaths caused by US aid cutbacks. 561560428
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 04/04/2026Sir, you staged your death by your own hand in full view of Captain America? 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 04/04/2026The issue not addressed: real, not sci-fi, teleportation cannot overcome quantum uncertainty. At best this person would be incinerated then reconstituted as an unidentifiable glob of chemicals in the Waffle House. That’s the plausible bit: people teleport then are served up as All-Star Specials™ 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 04/04/2026One reason I enjoy @theatlantic.com (subscribe!) is that its silly self-parodic think pieces seldom descend below “Lice are actually okay!” 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 03/04/2026True, but the NYT’s self-parody overwhelms its intended ridicule. 000
Reposted by Steve SmithIgnacio Villaverde @wildlandfirefig.bsky.social · 28/03/2026En Beirut la gente denuncia que dos aviones israelís han roto la barrera del sonido sobre la ciudad. Esto, como creo sabe tó el mundo, provoca un BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM enorme. Si suena en una zona a la que le caen bombas a diario pues imaginad, a la gente casi le da un pasmo del susto 2186
Reposted by Steve SmithSally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Very loud sonic booms across Beirut now. Four in total that I counted. Terrorising a civilian population right as people are going to sleep. #lebanon 13716
Reposted by Steve SmithCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Lots of suspicious trades in oil/equities just ahead of Trump tweets backing off his ultimatum. Sure looks like somebody close to Trump knew he was about to TACO, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits From @pkrugman.bsky.social: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...paulkrugman.substack.comTreason in the Futures MarketsPeople close to Trump are trading based on national secrets 54868362
Reposted by Steve SmithEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2026$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers 10391259
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 24/03/2026Robert E. Lee massacred hundreds of American soldiers who tried to surrender at Petersburg and elsewhere. Lee beat and flagellated people that tried to escape enslavement by Lee, then Lee tortured them by pouring salt into their open wounds. Robert E. Lee was a traitor and his memory is a disgrace. 020
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 20/03/2026“The technology became a tool for human oppression, surveillance, propaganda, economic control, and warfare — far more efficiently than before. The real danger wasn't the machines themselves becoming evil — it was how they amplified human authoritarianism, inequality, and domination. 020
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 20/03/2026grok’s answer: “People who controlled the machines (elites, rulers, corporations, technocrats — ‘other men with machines’) gained unprecedented ability to dominate and exploit everyone else. … 120
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 19/03/2026The AI model for the White Eagle Alliance leader’s laugh must be trained on Pei Mei. Though Pei Mei and Trump are both cruel masters, Pei Mei is physically and intellectually tough, but Trump is a coward who shows fear of white eagles. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QpLh...m.youtube.comBeatrix vs Pai MeiYouTube video by James Barrett 120
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 19/03/2026Warriors reference AND Cyrus of Persia reference AND fighting in Persia to reach the sea reference. AND Greek reference too. 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 18/03/2026“Solemn articles were written about the supposed significance of Greenland … as if Trump’s interest in the Arctic island were not entirely derived from the fact that it looks very large on a Mercator projection.” Maybe brief that the Mercator Jacobian 1/cos² latitude scales Greenland’s area 12× ? 000
Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 18/03/2026In Heart of Darkness, Conrad‘s nod to Casement and British colonization of Ireland appears in the passage “there was agent buttoned up inside an ulster.” Conrad knew Casement from his own experience in the Congo. 020