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In fact, IIRC Russian propaganda operations on Twitter, when uncovered, have been found to use EU infrastructure - I think Doppelganger was running stuff out of infra in Germany and the UK.

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Pretty sure* "bot" in "Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes" doesn't mean what many are assuming it does. Automated web requests, run of the mill search crawlers, scrapers, etc. are bots, NOT social media posts. * - havent checked. Correct me.

banishing it makes life pleasant for other people, then why not? Twitter definitely encourages a certain, I dunno, "edgelordism" even if you curate your experience. Probably because you might curate your follows all you like, but you cant curate what said follows are experiencing and affecting em.

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To be very clear, I am old enough to remember when that word was common parlance and I used it too. Even now I think that putting it on the "naughty list" is a bit overwrought. HOWEVER, I do also understand that I live in society and it costs me nothing to banish it from my vocabulary, so if

So this I agree with. The last proverbial straw that broke my back on Twitter was that an account that I liked and interacted with regularly at some point regularly started using the r***rd word. As far as I could tell, they did this because they saw it being commonly used around them.

non-existent outside Twitter. BSky *has* imported some macro-economic (fin markets) networks, but not so much the micro/individual business networks. Part of the problem is that you get added to "list of fascists" the moment you say something remotely positive about a capitalist enterprise on here.

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Just specifically on FinTwit and single company talk. It is definitely true that there were and still are (probably) plenty of financial markets grifters and boosters on Twitter. But there was/is(?) a decent amount of in the weeds business/specific financial discussion on Twitter. It is mostly

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changed) you absolutely could ignore the "For you" and only see your curated Follows post. I.e., you could pretty easily curate your content.

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Sure. But all of Twitter isn't Musk (all of the internet isn't 4chan). Sure, an important difference with the internet analogy is that Musk is the owner of Twitter. But I find the argument that you cant escape the Twitter "nazi algo" very weak. When I still had an account on there (doubt this has

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are still very firmly on Twitter.

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Not defending the person (or criticizing them for that matter. TBH - I have no clue who they are). Just pointing out that the knee jerk reaction of "if you stay on X, you are a nazi" misses a heck of a lot. I would say some expert networks have moved. However, the ones that I was most familiar with

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wholesale - having people defect one by one doesn't work. Significant number of nodes need to move off concurrently. For many topics, if you want discussion with knowledgable people, or glean some apocrypha (otherwise only available via personal contact), Twitter is more or less the only choice.

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Dont take this as a criticism of the people whose pages are screencapped above - just an example. Generally speaking, there are significant networks of academics, finance people, *insert random niche here* that exist on Twitter and it is extremely difficult to get them to move off the platform

As expected this is getting a lot of hate on here. But let me take this as an excuse to point out that network effects are difficult to break. Eg., plenty of political figures that are "the good guys" in the eyes of BlueSky denizens officially list only Twitter/X as their (text based) social media.

part of research. So it doesn't make sense to me to banish them outright in programs like REUs whose purpose is to give students a taste of the research experience. Of course, the tension is that LLM use can completely blowup some of the other major benefits of tackling toy problems.

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where the issues seem to be arising. This is where "toy problems" are used to get students accustomed to learning in an open ended/unstructured way as well as with normalizing the "banging your head against the wall" aspect of research. Going forward I think LLMs are going to be an integral

Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 6h

I dont think there is a problem at the undergraduate classroom level (for math): taking "shortcuts" on problem sets is an old (non)-issue that is made negligible by exams. I think there isn't much of a problem at the mature graduate student level either. It's the "middle" (where REUs reside)

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* toy problem - in this case an unsolved problem for which an expert could outline a number of promising strategies to solve it, with high odds of at least one of them working. The learning happening when a student "walks down each path".

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 6h

Had lunch w/ an old colleague. They are at wits end about what do with a long running REU (research experience for undergraduates in math) program - in the past it was run with a curated collection of toy problems*. However, these are the sort of problems that can be "one buttoned" with LLMs now.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

when they learn what’s happened. Already part way through Crown of Swords. IIRC, Sammael showdown happens in this one. Cant remember if the cleansing of saidin happens here or in a later book - that was another highlight of my original read of the series.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Done w/ Lord of Chaos now. Yeah, Dumai’s Wells is “epic” in the usual ways, but the goosebumps moments for me were in the lead up: 1) Sulin realizing Rand‘s been taken, wailing, and then immediately discharging her toh and going back to being Far Dareis Mai. 2) Wolves just sending “We come”

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 12/09/2026

don’t know how more people haven’t arrived at some degree of skepticism when it comes to “independent journalists” who have very clear and significant financial incentives to tell their readers what their readers want to hear and relatively few real incentives to remain in close proximity to truth

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 09/10/2026

it will never not amuse me that the guy running the paid subscription newsletter all about how AI is a grift being run by charlatans is, himself, a charlatan running a grift

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Metro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Zitron learning the hard way.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And yes it is possible to simultaneously maintain that the labs should not hesitate to throw models at "high profile" problems as well as that "proofs" produced by LLMs may not aid in human understanding (which is the real goal).

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(a la Thurston) as opposed to a series of mile marker problems to be knocked down.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is some sort of nonsense gatekeeping. I really wish they didn’t say “mathematicians didn’t ask for this work to be done”. As in, they simply do not speak for all mathematicians. I say this as someone who whole heartedly believes in mathematics being about understanding

Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“checked every single painful detail proof” - even peer reviewed papers mostly don’t accomplish the latter). You are simply off about the prevalent culture in this particular discipline.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

route either). In a nutshell, there is no rule, unwritten or otherwise, that says that results cannot be made available via *any* medium the author desires. The only etiquette there exists governs not claiming you have proofs when you don’t (and here too there is judgment involved about “proof” vs

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Depending on personal preference, different mathematicians have different criteria for how “raw” a paper they are comfortable with making available for wide public dissemination. Often, seminar talks, etc. precede this (unavailable to LLMs; besides not every human mathematician goes the seminar

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You are way overstating. Mathematics papers are put on the arXiv before peer review or publication (it’s a preprint server). Further, papers/notes, etc. are (in addition) put on personal webpages all the time. Often (yes, often) with zero intent to submit them for “official publication”.

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am begging people to please look into what’s driving the weakness in US non-residential construction spending before uttering the phrase “crowding out”. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Don't know what happened to him. Something really did at some point. He was one of the "good guys" for the longest time. The conspiratorial part of me believes that whatever he took to juice up also did something to his brain.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I actually also have a hard time believing that a significant number of people in the $500K+ income range are routinely playing the teaser card rate shuffle. But then again I am routinely flabbergasted by how other people manage their personal balance sheets.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah, the LBO school of thought. The interest payments hone the mind and build character.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

See, the amusing thing is that my first thought was that in that income range, assuming you have *some* assets, there is just so much more leverage available to you at preferential rates. Who amongst them is willingly paying credit card rates?

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I find these hard to believe too. Part of me wonders if there is confusion amongst respondents as to the meaning of "Pay off minimum balance" (wtf is "minimum balance"? I understand "minimum payment". How many people are confusing "minimum balance" with "statement balance" (vs outstanding balance)?

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the next one (Lord of Chaos) and I am getting chills just thinking about it. But that one is a "typical epic battle". The maidens scene is easily the top scene in the series so far, not a traditional "battle" just an "epic" confrontation over autonomy.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Kid you not, I was getting goosebumps reading the description of Sulin snapping her spears and the line of maidens ready to go turn by turn. And then in the next breath everyone is skimming to Caemlyn for the showdown with Rahvin. Jus relentless! IIRC the Dumai's Wells sequence is in