If you read anything today, let it be Nikole Hannah Jones’ essay on how Charlie Kirk’s death is doubling as an invitation to transform white supremacist views into normal political discourse www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

Yes. Although I'm a physicist, so I never took analysis. Or Analysis. Power series are somehow primal. Every function (some conditions apply) is, at its heart, a power series.

Power series solutions will always have a warm spot in my heart. Something so fundamental and satisfying about them.

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?

Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

Garlic harvest.

This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

This first-person account of bring swept away by the Texas floodwaters is harrowing & an incredible piece of writing.

An incredible piece of writing. A tragic story and a beautiful tribute. Thank you for sharing.

Five things to remember about war:

Well worth a few minutes to listen to. Thank you @leighfinke.bsky.social for your wisdom and clarity.

Good luck with your next steps. I very much appreciated your hockey writing over the last few years!

Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs.
Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law.
Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more.
And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.

I’d think a lot of people would find this gross, but as a Jewish person with cancer it has, let us say, a special repulsive resonance.

🧵 1/9 It could have mattered.

Nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds deprived of oxygen should have chastened the world to become allies, and not just for a summer.

A man being murdered by those who should protect and serve should have been an indelible metaphor.

Bravo, to Stanford faculty, led by physics, to ask their administrators to stand up and fight Trump.

stanforddaily.com/2025/05/22/f...

Please read and share the League of Women Voters of Maine's fact check of Jared Golden on the SAVE Act. #mepolitics

www.lwvme.org/node/3443

RFK's the last person who should be allowed to run HHS. He's wholly unqualified and his hostility its mission is the very thing he's famous for.

Susan Collins helping confirm him breaks faith w/ decent folks who've given her the benefit of the doubt till now. They need to hear about it. #MEpolitics

I am so sorry for your loss. I will hold you in the light. May her memory be a blessing.

An American tragedy in three short panels.

New White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did her first press briefing today and told a number of demonstrable lies (about condoms for Gaza, the criminal records of undocumented migrants, and more).

This is how the New York Times covered it.

I'm just going to (re)post this whenever I need to remind myself. Maybe it'll help you too?

1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there.

2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.