ya sure a bag of dot’s pretzels would kill a medieval peasant or whatever but come on. one day of living in a village where you dispose of raw sewage by throwing it into main street would kill *you*
haven’t seen sirat but idk sometimes i want to have a profound aesthetic experience. i want to encounter what scares me about the world refracted through narrative. i want to transcend the banality of my day
had not known the great mathematician Dirichlet was married to Rebecka Mendelssohn, sister to Felix and Fanny
won both the semis and finals by two points. played from behind most of both games, i think. agonizing, exhilarating, enervating to watch
just had the pleasure of watching the HS basketball team at the girls’ school where i teach win their first ever state championship. recommended experience
find a little prize inside
what unlocked the 1979-1982 records for me—more experimental, “deconstructive” if you like, than Modern Dance and Dub Housing—was hearing some of the tracks live on this incredible more recent release
getting heavily back into pere ubu. does anything else in the universe sound like the early 1980s records ?
becoming a mathematical platonist but only for the numbers one, two, three, and four. anything higher is a fully contingent social construct. but those first few are eternal and true
logging on
The Grifters RULES
or music theory. feel like i really should be reading history but this is the stuff i find comforting as the world burns
alternately i could pick biblical hebrew back up. knew enough 15 years ago to translate the book of ruth
was burning out on apostol’s calculus so i paused to do all the exercises in pinter’s abstract algebra book. now thinking about putting that on hold to hit up some number theory. matryoshka doll of autodidact projects
english teacher pedant on The Pitt worse than measles mom
cleveland museum of art wising up on its little marketing opportunity
had the exact same thought
Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly
On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.
best martial arts / other action movies appropriate for a 6yo? he’s interested in martial arts and i pulled up a random bruce lee scene on youtube that was pretty violent and now i’m in hot water with my wife
do you have allies writing about this stuff in the context of math education?
cool, brother
It’s disappointing when an author does or says something morally reprehensible and forever taints any joy we used to derive from their art. There’s always debate about whether or not we should continue to consume their works. But I think it’s trickier for more collaborative arts like movies:
what?? i would be fired if i tried to teach that kind of math
no deep cuts to report as i only watch like two shows a year but The Pitt and The Chair Company are both great. Was disappointed in Pluribus
well one of the teams
cant even pull off a fast break
