imagine how advanced our civilisation would be if he had been using base 12 this whole time …

“lingua franca” is french in latin and it means english 🤔

thoughts on Charlie Kirk, debate, goodness, and hope View article →

please shill me your favourite essayists and, even better, collections of essays as books.

I have a new lingo with mrs allen: “OSA’d”. it’s when she sends me a tiktok and I can’t watch it without a tiktok account because of the Online Safety Act. I’ve been OSA’d. she sends me a lot of edgy shit so this happens pretty regularly.

very very very good video on probably my biggest academic pet peeve. well worth the 20 minutes:

looking more into Fermat’s Last Theorem and it’s kinda bullshit that Wiles “solved it”. Frey and Ribet did the part that is actually relevant to the classic Fermat formulation. Wiles gave a partial solution to a different problem after they proved what such a solution would imply. so I guess I’m just grumpy about that now. thoughts welcome.

very cool new math channel I found:

Vibe Coding, but, like, for everything ... a smallish essay on the economics of how this time isn’t different and p(doom)=0. with thanks to @calle, @Gigi, @PABLOF7z, and @jack: View article →

if I am only now introducing you to Sofiane Pamart, you’re welcome: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kj2SFIOHB71KzbwUcJEb2XwjEdCZgJkjY

can the CEO of nostr please explain how they plan to enforce the Online Safety Act, thanks

yo @Gigi, send me your AI doomer anthropological excursions plz 🙏

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21 and 22 jump street are so underrated fr fr

I want @Gigi in a green morph suit to do a fireside chat with @calle in an orange morph suit. that’s all I want.

nothing within the state, all outside the state, all against the state.