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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

TIL that there are prestigious awards for birds! While I disagree birds need awards, prestigious or not, if we have to have them, I agree this little guy should get one of the prestigious ones.

Picture of an extremely cute black robin captioned "Black robin which was once world's rarest bird wins NZ's prestigious Bird of the Year".

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Now entering the age of the secrecy. 🙁

Tweet by Jeffrey Shallit that says:

A new risk for mathematicians: a colleague reports that immediately after they posted an abstract of their upcoming talk online, a
student elsewhere used Al to derive proofs of the stated results and then posted it on the arxiv.

My colleague hadn't posted to arxiv yet.

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@davidgerard Some AI bros are disappointed, other AI bros say it might be AGI!

Thumbnail of YouTuber Theo t3.gg video that says: "Astra might be AGI..." and "It's Here".

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

A student of mine went to Nebraska and brought me some sweet Huskers swag.

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Any watch can be a pocket watch if you put it in your pocket.

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Please compress your garbage before throwing it out.

A garbage bin that looks like a mushroom with H262 written on the lid.

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I thought this was an Onion headline for a second.

Headline from MakeUseOf: "After 20 years, GIMP finally fixed everything people disliked about it"

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Maps of Mexico City indicating for each burrough which language is the second and third most common language spoken (in all cases Spanish is the most common language). They are mostly indigenous languages of Mexico, but you can also find English, Korean […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

I live in Tlatelolco and have never ever heard of some Tlatelolco spice rub.

A can of a spice rub labeled "Rub Mexicain Tlatelolco Mexican Rub" (in the typical Candian bilingual fashion).

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

These guys are not just gorgeous, but fairly tasty too!

A giant mesquite bug (xamues in Spanish, the x sounds like English sh)

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

@sacha reminded me that I have fun writing code to generate neat pictures in #Emacs! I added a new picture type to luggage¹: hexinous, which looks like this. ¹ github.com/oantolin/lugagge

Hexagonal tiling with sinuous ribbons winding around and going over or under each other many times.

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Oh, Facebook ads... Their software seems to understand I often look at Springer books, but hasn't noticed the ones I look at are math books. Makes me wonder how good ML really is.

Springer book titled "Normal and Abnormal Scrotum".

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

"I'd hate for our friendship to ruin our ideological differences"

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

@dalias a fixed point of a function f means a value x such that f(x) = x. The actual cosine function in mathematics has exactly one fixed point —see the graph, the fixed point is the x coordinate of the point where the graphs of y=x and y=cos(x) cross. I was […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

Graph of y=x in red, and of y=cos(x) in blue. They cross exactly once.

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

The International Mathematical Union says¹ they "understand the concerns about entering the United States, as well as about feeling safe and welcome in Philadelphia and at the Congress", but nevertheless they "strongly believe that holding the ICM in person in […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

A statement from the International Mathematical Union

Concerns have been raised within the mathematical community about holding the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in the United States this July.

Promoting international exchange is at the core of the IMU’s mission. At a time when international collaboration and science face serious challenges, we strongly believe that holding the ICM in person in Philadelphia is especially important.

We understand the concerns about entering the United States, as well as about feeling safe and welcome in Philadelphia and at the Congress. The Local Organizing Committee is fully committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for all participants and has recently made additional arrangements to help mitigate risk.

The Local Organizing Committee has also confirmed that recordings of all sessions will be made available online, after a short editing process.

We look forward to meeting you in Philadelphia.

The Executive Committee of the IMU

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

What a blooming onion really looks like.

Onion flowers: many small white flowers clustered in a ball.

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

Nice plot summary... Google just keeps getting dumber.

Screenshot of Google Search results for the book "Topics in Topology" by Stevo Todorecevic. The summary says: "A thirteen-year-old with a talent for throwing loops and who lives on a ranch with his father and grandfather yearns for a roping horse."

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

"May have"? Hey WhatsApp notification, isn't it your job to know for sure whether I have new messages?

WhatsApp notification that says "You may have new messages".

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