https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.html

real

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

CAS is cutting new tenure lines by 80% for the foreseeable future. Trump's plan to scare away full tuition paying international students is working great, if the plan is to starve academia.

I usually don't bring up things these guys are doing in my university courses, but this made for Canvas post: It's a good opportunity to discuss how embarrassing AI use can leave you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/well/maha-report-citations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K08.utcu.vI5rNLU0FOiT&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@Setok everything is going according to plan https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/credit-rating-downgrade-triggers-warning-signs-for-u-s-economy

Oregon has pollen, Claritin is fine
Benadryl leads to cognitive decline

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-long-term-benadryl-use-increase-dementia-risk/

Add "Pope" to the list of things jobs you can get with a math degree

UO Senate will vote next Wednesday on mutual defense compact
(i think the vote will be yes) https://senate.uoregon.edu/senate-motions/us2425-21-resolution-establish-mutual-defense-compact-universities-big-ten-academic

Harvard sues the Trump administration in federal court over its multibillion dollar cuts to the university’s research funding, accusing the White House of undertaking an arbitrary and unconstitutional campaign. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/22/harvard-sues-trump-admin/

Ingrid Daubechies giving a talk at Oregon

I don't waste my time arguing with people whose view of doxxing is "it's doxxing when it happens to my team but not when it happens to yours." It's the power dynamics that matter. The powerful should be held accountable and the vulnerable deserve protection. That is all.

I'm have zero appetite for a strike in this environment.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-27/stanford-freezes-hiring-as-colleges-face-trump-funding-threat

Bitcoiners often explain that the 21 million cap "can't be changed". But it can, if miners say they're going to do it, and then they do it, and nobody stops them.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/21/trump-third-term-white-house-022002

How is anybody supposed to know what this means?
Is Praxis a good company... I hope so!

This is when alarm bells should have been going off...
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-sec-lawsuit-twitter-court-filing/

@freeagent they have a diverse list of organizations that look ostensible like they're on the right side of things, and one explicitly is against tech monopolies, it looks like it could be a "diversified portfolio" of donations

Are these all the good guys? (serious inquiry, very hard to tell these days)

https://proton.me/blog/2024-lifetime-account-charity-fundraiser

Amongst all of the other things going on, I managed to miss that I had been published by Bitcoin Magazine for almost a week

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/the-game-theory-of-a-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-

1) of course it's the daily emerald, as if the register guard would cover this

2)this is why we have inflation

https://dailyemerald.com/158366/features/eugene-property-management-company-named-in-multi-state-antitrust-lawsuit/

Dying, thinking about how all the smug Lex Fridman guests were like "we had this brilliant idea to just keep scaling"

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/deepseek-ai-china-venture-capital