The recent news reminded me of an old Soviet joke.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the poet Alexander Pushkin a competition for the best statue was announced. Then prizes were awarded.
3rd place. A statue of Pushkin reading Stalin's book.
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On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the poet Alexander Pushkin a competition for the best statue was announced. Then prizes were awarded.
3rd place. A statue of Pushkin reading Stalin's book.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The recent news reminded me of an old Soviet joke.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the poet Alexander Pushkin a competition for the best statue was announced. Then prizes were awarded.
3rd place. A statue of Pushkin reading Stalin's book.
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On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the poet Alexander Pushkin a competition for the best statue was announced. Then prizes were awarded.
3rd place. A statue of Pushkin reading Stalin's book.
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Words of Type has an article published in the latest TUBGOAT issue!
(Volume 46, No. 3, 2025)
tug.org/TUGboat/
Thank you @borisveytsman.bsky.social for the invitation to publish an article about Words of Type in this institutional magazine!
(Volume 46, No. 3, 2025)
tug.org/TUGboat/
Thank you @borisveytsman.bsky.social for the invitation to publish an article about Words of Type in this institutional magazine!
December 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Words of Type has an article published in the latest TUBGOAT issue!
(Volume 46, No. 3, 2025)
tug.org/TUGboat/
Thank you @borisveytsman.bsky.social for the invitation to publish an article about Words of Type in this institutional magazine!
(Volume 46, No. 3, 2025)
tug.org/TUGboat/
Thank you @borisveytsman.bsky.social for the invitation to publish an article about Words of Type in this institutional magazine!
I wonder if there is an organization more corrupt than FIFA, not being a drug cartel?
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I wonder if there is an organization more corrupt than FIFA, not being a drug cartel?
One of the words coming to mind about the current politics is "absurd". Two hundred years of American democracy going awry because some young idiots cannot get laid, and some old farts are anxious about their status—what can be more absurd than this?
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November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
One of the words coming to mind about the current politics is "absurd". Two hundred years of American democracy going awry because some young idiots cannot get laid, and some old farts are anxious about their status—what can be more absurd than this?
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Does Trump own a blue suit?
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Does Trump own a blue suit?
American exceptionalism. Under our fascists, the trains and the plains do not run on time.
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
American exceptionalism. Under our fascists, the trains and the plains do not run on time.
Google translate is lowering barriers between people.
Our car has been transported over the continent. When the Uzbek truck driver sent me the delivery report, I answered, "Rahmat." He replied, "Україна переможе безумовно."
Our car has been transported over the continent. When the Uzbek truck driver sent me the delivery report, I answered, "Rahmat." He replied, "Україна переможе безумовно."
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Google translate is lowering barriers between people.
Our car has been transported over the continent. When the Uzbek truck driver sent me the delivery report, I answered, "Rahmat." He replied, "Україна переможе безумовно."
Our car has been transported over the continent. When the Uzbek truck driver sent me the delivery report, I answered, "Rahmat." He replied, "Україна переможе безумовно."
Looks like the media is trying to use Zohran Mamdani's aunt in the same way they used Hillary's emails.
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Looks like the media is trying to use Zohran Mamdani's aunt in the same way they used Hillary's emails.
Ilya Ruderman from CSTM fonts told a funny story in his lecture about the history of Cyrillic.
Bodoni made beautiful Cyrillic typefaces (you can see the samples in his Manuale Typograficum). They were gifted to Alexander I during the short thaw between Russia and France
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Bodoni made beautiful Cyrillic typefaces (you can see the samples in his Manuale Typograficum). They were gifted to Alexander I during the short thaw between Russia and France
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October 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ilya Ruderman from CSTM fonts told a funny story in his lecture about the history of Cyrillic.
Bodoni made beautiful Cyrillic typefaces (you can see the samples in his Manuale Typograficum). They were gifted to Alexander I during the short thaw between Russia and France
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Bodoni made beautiful Cyrillic typefaces (you can see the samples in his Manuale Typograficum). They were gifted to Alexander I during the short thaw between Russia and France
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An article in NYT (www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...). A whiz kid who made millions in crypto has been kidnapped by his former friend, the de facto ruler of Georgia, beaten and forced to give away his crypto.
The techbros supporting Trump do not understand that this is their future as well.
The techbros supporting Trump do not understand that this is their future as well.
Opinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy.
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
An article in NYT (www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...). A whiz kid who made millions in crypto has been kidnapped by his former friend, the de facto ruler of Georgia, beaten and forced to give away his crypto.
The techbros supporting Trump do not understand that this is their future as well.
The techbros supporting Trump do not understand that this is their future as well.
A talented font artist from India Rajeesh KV added math to the beautiful typeface Arsenal by a Ukrainian artist Andrij Shevchenko: ctan.org/pkg/arsenal-...
A rare example of a sans serif font with the full math support.
#TeXLaTeX #fonts
A rare example of a sans serif font with the full math support.
#TeXLaTeX #fonts
CTAN: Package ArsenalMath
ctan.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
A talented font artist from India Rajeesh KV added math to the beautiful typeface Arsenal by a Ukrainian artist Andrij Shevchenko: ctan.org/pkg/arsenal-...
A rare example of a sans serif font with the full math support.
#TeXLaTeX #fonts
A rare example of a sans serif font with the full math support.
#TeXLaTeX #fonts
Ins Choi wrote Kim's Convenience and staged it in 2011 in Toronto Soulpepper Theater with himself playing the young Jung. Then he produced a 65-episode sitcom on Netflix, and when the sitcom closed, he revived the Soulpepper show with himself playing the older Appa.
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October 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Ins Choi wrote Kim's Convenience and staged it in 2011 in Toronto Soulpepper Theater with himself playing the young Jung. Then he produced a 65-episode sitcom on Netflix, and when the sitcom closed, he revived the Soulpepper show with himself playing the older Appa.
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There is a quality of certain books, movies, and shows that can be called timeliness. This is exactly what one needs at the moment.
I feel that Noises Off by @sfplayhouse.org has been such a show for me.
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I feel that Noises Off by @sfplayhouse.org has been such a show for me.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
There is a quality of certain books, movies, and shows that can be called timeliness. This is exactly what one needs at the moment.
I feel that Noises Off by @sfplayhouse.org has been such a show for me.
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I feel that Noises Off by @sfplayhouse.org has been such a show for me.
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I grew up in the USSR. I remember our leaders with dementia sending our money to prop up corrupt and incompetent regimes in Latin America and Africa because they have been "ideological allies. "
Thus, there is nothing new for me when Trump is sending money to Xavier Milei.
Thus, there is nothing new for me when Trump is sending money to Xavier Milei.
September 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I grew up in the USSR. I remember our leaders with dementia sending our money to prop up corrupt and incompetent regimes in Latin America and Africa because they have been "ideological allies. "
Thus, there is nothing new for me when Trump is sending money to Xavier Milei.
Thus, there is nothing new for me when Trump is sending money to Xavier Milei.
Some people claim that Korean engineers violated the terms of their visas. Thus, their treatment was somehow justified.
First, we do not know whether they did. This is for the lawyers to find out. But let us for the argument sake stipulate they did.
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First, we do not know whether they did. This is for the lawyers to find out. But let us for the argument sake stipulate they did.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Some people claim that Korean engineers violated the terms of their visas. Thus, their treatment was somehow justified.
First, we do not know whether they did. This is for the lawyers to find out. But let us for the argument sake stipulate they did.
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First, we do not know whether they did. This is for the lawyers to find out. But let us for the argument sake stipulate they did.
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I disagreed with the late Charlie Kirk on a lot of issues. However, I share his position on Epstein files. We must open them and punish the perpetrators.
It is possible he died for this.
It is possible he died for this.
September 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I disagreed with the late Charlie Kirk on a lot of issues. However, I share his position on Epstein files. We must open them and punish the perpetrators.
It is possible he died for this.
It is possible he died for this.
The only group clearly benefitting from Kirk's death is Trumpists.
What happened to the old Cui Prodest principle?
What happened to the old Cui Prodest principle?
September 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The only group clearly benefitting from Kirk's death is Trumpists.
What happened to the old Cui Prodest principle?
What happened to the old Cui Prodest principle?
"Thus the Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent."
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"Thus the Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent."
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
The cat got a prescription diet after a minor surgery. Now he refuses to eat anything else.
The internet is full of advice how to make a cat to eat prescription diet. Nobody says how to make him to stop.
The internet is full of advice how to make a cat to eat prescription diet. Nobody says how to make him to stop.
August 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The cat got a prescription diet after a minor surgery. Now he refuses to eat anything else.
The internet is full of advice how to make a cat to eat prescription diet. Nobody says how to make him to stop.
The internet is full of advice how to make a cat to eat prescription diet. Nobody says how to make him to stop.
I have on my laptop a copy of John Bolton's memoir about Trump. I wonder, is it safe to cross the US border with this laptop? What about having with me it during a traffic stop?
Time to refresh my skills of hiding forbidden books acquired during my Soviet youth.
Time to refresh my skills of hiding forbidden books acquired during my Soviet youth.
August 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I have on my laptop a copy of John Bolton's memoir about Trump. I wonder, is it safe to cross the US border with this laptop? What about having with me it during a traffic stop?
Time to refresh my skills of hiding forbidden books acquired during my Soviet youth.
Time to refresh my skills of hiding forbidden books acquired during my Soviet youth.
When I was a postdoc, I once left my workstation unlocked. The student sysadmin told me, "When I see an unlocked workstation for the second time, I type there 'rm -rf ~'".
When I worked in industry, we got chewed if we left sensitive papers on the desks.
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
When I worked in industry, we got chewed if we left sensitive papers on the desks.
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
www.npr.org
August 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
When I was a postdoc, I once left my workstation unlocked. The student sysadmin told me, "When I see an unlocked workstation for the second time, I type there 'rm -rf ~'".
When I worked in industry, we got chewed if we left sensitive papers on the desks.
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
When I worked in industry, we got chewed if we left sensitive papers on the desks.
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
TIL the thought I have been promoting for quite some time is actually not mine. It belongs to Hanna Arendt.
"Law, on its own, is incapable of restraining political action." Only a power can check power.
See this great lecture hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/h...
"Law, on its own, is incapable of restraining political action." Only a power can check power.
See this great lecture hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/h...
Hannah Arendt and the Constitution of Freedom
This week I gave a lecture at the University of São Paulo in Brazil that asked, Why Law Alone Can’t Defend Democracy—and why Only Power Can Check Power. | Hannah Arendt Center...
hac.bard.edu
August 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
TIL the thought I have been promoting for quite some time is actually not mine. It belongs to Hanna Arendt.
"Law, on its own, is incapable of restraining political action." Only a power can check power.
See this great lecture hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/h...
"Law, on its own, is incapable of restraining political action." Only a power can check power.
See this great lecture hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/h...