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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

From @pkrugman.bsky.social 's substack paulkrugman.substack.com/p/stagnation..., seems interesting that (at least?) three future Noble Prize winners (separately awarded) were working together at one point, outside of the big scientific collaborations:

In the early 2000s a small group of New Jersey economists — well, we all worked in New Jersey; you got a problem with that? — formed what Scott Sumner has called the Princeton School. The group included yours truly, Lars Svensson, Michael Woodford and some guy named Ben Bernanke — whatever happened to him? All of us were concerned by Japan’s apparent inability to break out of deflation and worried that Japan-type problems could manifest themselves in other economies, which they did.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This, but it turns out Sun Microsystems is the actual holder:

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I saw your your reply to the above ranking and the way your name was shortened on my phone screen briefly made me think some serious beef was about to go down.

Screenshot of post where user's name looks like it could be "Alistair Campbell".

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Some background on this rumour and what's been going round (apologies for screenshotting from the other place):

Tweet from @ElliotGlazer on 2026-09-05:

>Be me
>Told several days ago thirdhand by OAI employee Anthropic solved a Millennium Prize Problem
>"No way it wouldn't leak in this way"
>Told Wednesday by a different friend at OAI that, actually, he heard it was two.
>"Ok I'm updating against further, obviously it wasn't two."
>OAI source says they'd actually garbled it, friend informs me.
>"Ok"
>Goes on Reddit and tells people spreading the rumor it is unfounded
>Terry coincidentally posts a hypothetical about NS getting solved very next day with lots of specifics about the hypothetical proof and its Lean file
>Anthropic formalizes FLT
>Another clarification from intermediary between me and OAI rumor guy "I'd only retracted the "two" from "two Millennium Problems solved," not the whole rumor"
>Are you fucking kidding me
>Goes on reddit and edit my posts to clarify the clarification I was given about the rumors
>Curran's "prediction" seems to align with everything.
>Confident enough to QT/boost his prediction, with the context that I gave
>Terry writes follow-up post addressing the rumors, that says he hasn't heard any development on Navier-Stokes, reads sincere to me
>Curran has no independent relevant info here btw
>None of the OAI rumor spreaders can trace their beliefs back to any non-OAI source
>Math prof friend says he heard from a credible source "It was Hodge not NS."

I'm going back to bed.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I enjoyed when they posted this recently, but I honestly wasn't sure if the joke "we will achieve socialism before GTA VI arrives" would actually work:

Bluesky post from the Fabian Society featuring images of buildings and Labour politicians in the style of GTA VI artwork.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Might include "mandate of heaven" as part of the epithet ...

Screenshot of a post commenting "There's good news, and there's bad news" on a Twitter screenshot of a post reading "Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes that Trump was chosen by god to win the election, but that this victory is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the united states" from November 6 2024.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Great line in HIGNFY this week: China and Trump both appear (tenuously) in the numerator of the tariff equation as "x_i" (Xi) and "m_i" (me), but also in the denominator as two arseholes: "*" .

$The equation used for determining Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs: \begin{equation} \Delta \tau_i = \frac{x_i - m_i}{\varepsilon * \varphi * m_i} \end{equation}$

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This doesn't seem quite so ludicrous in hindsight: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Brazil judge claimed English ancestry and used false name: Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd Canterbury Caterham Wickfield

Elaborate deception was only recently discovered when judge visited government office to renew his ID card

Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Maybe he'll accuse Trump of being captured by left wingers, like he did with the IMF after their warnings on Truss?

Tweet from Andrew Lilico on 2024-09-28: "Embarrassed for the IMF. This is the IMF self-declaring as a left-wing body. The UK should now withhold its IMF contributions."

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

All this talk about liberation day scratched something deep in the recesses of my memory ... An episode from the Aladdin TV show, on a VHS played over and over again:

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I was surprised to be getting Reddit ads about it in the middle of Feb:

Slightly sketchy Reddit ad on the r/Popular feed for some company promoting "help" in deferring USA duty in respond to the end of de minimus ...

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Great news indeed! And the Renault re-badging also came up, if I recall.

Clarkson trying to convince May that a Renault vehicle is an "off-road version" of the Dacia Sandero.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The Rising Sea is insidious, relentless, inevitable. Some great comments here too: www.reddit.com/r/math/comme...

Post in the r/math subreddit titled:

"Why are all of my classes so persistent on exact sequences?"

Apparently everything has to be done with an exact sequence. First semester of Linear Algebra when we barely knew what a vector space is? Exact sequences everywhere. Second semester of Linear? More exact sequences, this time with dual spaces and transpose morphisms so we can draw some horrifying diagrams full of arrows and stars! First course in Multivariable Calc? Guess what, we can also have some exact sequences with the tangent space! Abstract algebra? No we can't just write a group quotient, we should always write FOUR functions between the groups and prove it is exact. "Geometry" course, that has about 5% Geometry and 95% Algebra with fucking modules over a ring for some reason? Everything is still an exact sequence! Even the Cayley-Hamilton theorem is one!

What does an exact sequence give us that a quotient wouldn't?

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I can't remember where I found this but it's turned out to be quite helpful:

"Political compass" meme, clockwise from top left:

- Economic-Left--Authoritarian quadrant: "Everything is revisionist propaganda except actual revisionist propaganda, which is fine".

- Economic-Right--Authoritarian quadrant: "Everything is genocide except actual genocide, which is fine."

- Economic-Right--Libertarian quadrant: "Everything is slavery except actual slavery, which is fine."

- Economic-Left--Libertarian quadrant: "Everything is theft except actual theft, which is fine."

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

At least they can take solace in the fact that this WH press team is "more competent" than its predecessor.

Post from Brian J. Karem: "The reason many in the press were happy to see Biden's comms team go is because it routinely ghosted us, dropped us from email chains, ignored requests, acted elitist, spoke down to some and indifferent to others. I have covered every POTUS since Reagan. No admin had a more incompetent comms staff"

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I can think of a couple of guys who might be unhappy with this ...

DUP MP Sammy Wilson holding a bunch of British sausages

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I'm not sure what aspects of criminal law you cover, but if you get to a slide on organised crime in a lecture, I'm sure your students will understand when you conclude that section by quoting this famous scene:

Screencap of Stringer Bell from the TV series The Wire, saying "Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Thank goodness the people of North Korea aren't subjected to the brutal and dehumanising experience of watching Spurs this season. #COYS www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Animosity towards the South extends to Premier League coverage, to the possible frustration of North Koreans with a soft spot for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Tottenham Hotspur and Brentford. The presence of South Korean players – Hwang Hee-chan, Son Heung-min and Kim Ji-soo, respectively – at those clubs mean they are not considered fit for consumption in the North, whose leader, Kim Jong-un, has labelled the South his country’s “number one hostile state”.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My mind keeps wandering back to this post when the presidential immunity case was just getting picked up:

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Given the trend in the news, I'm pleased and surprised your experience is unlike the following:

Still of Lloyd Bridges in the movie Airplane!

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I would reach for a different historical comparison:

Before adopting the Euro in 2002 Austria had maintained use of the Austrian schilling which was first established in December 1924. The Schilling was abolished in the wake of the Anschluss in 1938 and has been reintroduced after the end of the World War II in November 1945.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The better analogy is with AA and the 12-step program to recovery, where there is a true acknowledgment of harm and assessment of one's failings on the road to recovery.

The following are the twelve steps as published in 2001 by Alcoholics Anonymous:

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I think I know which (relatively new) member of the media it could have been ...

Screenshot of a tweet from Jacob Rees-Mogg on 3rd November 2021, reading: "The French are always grumpy in October, the anniversaries of Trafalgar and Agincourt upset them."

Also links to his podcast called "The Moggcast".

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A tremendous David Lynch tribute from Real Betis in their announcement of Antony (!) on loan from Man U: www.reddit.com/r/soccer/com...

Antony as the main character from Lynch's Eraserhead.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I can't find a source now, but I strongly recall reading about religious Trump supporters who were in raptures about his "God walk". This contemporaneous article describes that sentiment. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A few hours after the dystopian spectacle, I spoke on the phone with Robert Jeffress, a Dallas megachurch pastor and indefatigable Trump ally. He sounded almost gleeful.

“I thought it was completely appropriate for the president to stand in front of that church,” Jeffress told me. “And by holding up the Bible, he was showing us that it teaches that, yes, God hates racism, it’s despicable—but God also hates lawlessness.”

“So,” he added, “I’m happy.”

In many ways, the president’s stunt last night—with its mix of shallow credal signaling and brutish force—was emblematic of his appeal to the religious right. As I’ve written before, most white conservative Christians don’t want piety from this president; they want power. In Trump, they see a champion who will restore them to their rightful place at the center of American life, while using his terrible swift sword to punish their enemies.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Looking forward to hearing about their new signing!

Screenshot of article headline from the Guardian:
"Chess: newly-married Carlsen signs up with Bundesliga, Freestyle and Saudis

The World No 1, who wed Ella Victoria Malone last Saturday, will play for St Pauli in the Bundesliga, where he may meet the new classical champion, Gukesh Dommaraju"

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Worth reflecting on every single step in the UK's political discourse of the past 20 years that has led to these words being uttered in Parliament. Collective punishment on an entire ethnic group, including the stripping of citizenship. You can see the fingerprints of Home Secretaries past.

Guardian UK politics live blog screenshot reading: "Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe suggests Pakistan should face visa ban until it agrees to take back nationals guilty of rape

The Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has suggested that all Pakistani visas should be refused, and aid to the country suspended, until Pakistan agreed to take back any of its nationals who have been involved in child sex crimes – and their relatives.

He also suggested that British Pakistanis with dual nationality should lose their British citizenship if convicted of rape.

Lowe was speaking in the debate in the children’s wellbeing and schools bill, in a contribution that led to one Labour MPs saying she was “disgusted” by his comments.

Lowe framed his speech largely as a series of questions. He started:

Will the government commit to urgently deporting all guilty foreign nationals involved, including family members who were aware of the crimes and therefore complicit? Wives, sisters, mothers, cousins – if they knew and said nothing these individuals are just as guilty as the rapist themselves.

Will the government commit to stripping citizenship from dual nationals implicated and deport them as well? Race or religion must protect nobody.

Will the government commit to pausing all Pakistani visas and foreign aid into the country until the Pakistani government agrees to accept any of its public citizens that have perpetrated these crimes on British soil and also imprison these rapists and their accomplices?

Will the government undertake a full investigation into who had knowledge of these crimes yet failed to act? Establish a specified task to root out this wicked, evil – don’t just fire these violence, prosecute them.

How many girls estimated to have been raped? Is there a tally for the overall number of rapes? Horrifyingly, it well be in the millions, We just don’t know."

A few more concluding lines in the same vein, not enough space here.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It's hanging on the wall, next to the "Live, Laugh, Love" and "Era of Good Feelings" posters:

Mock up of motivational poster reading: "In this house, we believe that no external power shall exert their influence on the americas, which are solely ours to do with as we wish."

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I thought events of the past decade had super-hardened my existing cynicism, but the brazenness of this statement honestly took my breath away. (from www.theguardian.com/us-news/live... )

In an interview given exclusively to conservative outlet Fox News to announce the change, Joel Kaplan, the chief global affairs officer of Meta who is a longtime Republican operative, said: “We have a new administration coming in that is far from pressuring companies to censor and [is more] a huge supporter of free expression.”

Founder Mark Zuckerberg said the factchecks would be replaced with community notes like those seen on X, which is owned by close Trump associate Elon Musk. In a video announcing the change, Zuckerberg said the “factcheckers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created”

He also added that Meta would “work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more”.

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nonrenormalizable.bsky.social @nonrenormalizable.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Ironically, I think he does understand this concept as seen by this meme he posted (admittedly a while back) as part of his attack on the "woke mind virus". Personally I think his characterization of this does not account for how far the political views of right-wing parties has shifted.

Elon Musk tweet from April 28 2022 with a political meme showing an individual marked "me" staying near the political centre as the character representing "my fellow liberal" moves further left becomes a "woke progressive".

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