𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne / Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquering." (Chaucer).

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

@kblaus @CantEverDie Yeah but let's be real. Political decisions, not the advent of new technology, have destroyed humanities in the United States. See current supreme court case over NEH grants, e.g.

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

Scheduled during exam week, Thursday evening, huh? #Canvas #Instructure

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

Enjoying humanities on the internet is like this.

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

Can only image how hard all these GPTs are working ahead of this ADA accessibility deadline.

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

'There were no books' at the end just kills me. Bro has no experience, no degrees, and can't even reference any books that influence his judgment over research grants.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

One of Musk's DOGE bros explains how he flagged "DEI" grants for termination

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

Behold the ancient channels of Mesopotamia, pulled from public radar data using linear algebra! Very cool data sci/humanities paper. Jungrack Kim is totally cracked (best possible sense). https://t.co/MxHFNl9OpC

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

https://t.co/YIg7p6fFO7

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

[David Bessis @davidbessis]

The lifecycle of a pure math theorem:
- 1997: my PhD advisor asks me to work on one of his conjectures
- 2000: I solve the simplest case and dream of generalizing my approach
- 2003: after years of struggle, I come to the conclusion that my approach *cannot* generalize
- 2006: after reading a paper by Daan Krammer, I have a lighting bulb moment and realize that my approach works in full generality *up to equivalence of categories*... this enables me to solve my advisor's conjecture... I then use it as an ingredient in the proof of a much older and more famous conjecture (the "K(π,1) conjecture for finite complex reflection groups")
- 2007: I submit my article for publication
- 2009: referee #1 gives up
- 2010: 2 more referees have now given up, complaining that the paper is too hard to read
- 2012: referee #4 is finally able to produce a report, the revision work starts
- 2014: the paper is accepted for publication
- 2015: the paper is published
- 2007-2025: because the older conjecture overshadows the lesser known conjecture by my advisor, and because my paper is too difficult, virtually no-one asks any question about the "lighting bulb" categorical idea at the core of the proof
- Jan 22, 2026: I received an inbound email from a mathematician from another hemisphere, inquiring about the categorical aspects
- Jan 26, 2026: I have my first ever videocall discussing the specifics of this core component of my proof

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

明日の授業の教材ができた。

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: A newly obtained recording from Dec. 7, 2020 exposes Trump pressuring Georgia House Speaker David Ralston to call a special legislative session to OVERTURN the election he lost.

Trump even coached him on the cover story, telling Ralston to claim it’s “for transparency” and “to uncover fraud.” Then the most damning line:

“Who’s gonna stop you for that?”

Ralston’s reply says it all: “A federal judge, possibly.”

This was a sitting president actively probing how to illegally nullify an election, and joking about whether the courts could stop him.

Anyone still pretending Jan. 6 was a spontaneous protest is lying to themselves.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Republicans IMMEDIATELY regret calling in Jack Smith to testify as he says on the record he has absolutely ZERO regrets and would even CHARGE TRUMP AGAIN if he could.

Then suggested if Trump didn’t want to be indicted, he shouldn’t have broken the law:

SMITH: “If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the President was a Republican or Democrat.”

He added: “The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges RESTS ENTIRELY with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts.”

That’s how it’s done!!

[Homeland Dems @HomelandDems]

@DHSgov You released him without charges.

If he assaulted law enforcement you would have charged him. Period.

You’re lying and we all know it.

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

Nah,

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

@orzelc Don't you want fried chicken fingers and french fries? Or else maybe some french fries? Or, that one place has french fries, you could eat those.

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

Um, did you realize that next school year is... sixseven?

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

Graduate school makes you feel like a newb forever. Oh you're at the 6000 level? Still just an introduction.

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

"Overfitting"? Nay, it's called #winning. #kaggle - https://t.co/d367LYCltP

[𝕏-istentialism Is a Humanism @BenjaminASmith]

Plots with error have fuzzy edges and voids. https://t.co/cEsuXDXifD

[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

Republicans are trafficking the lie that this shutdown is because Democrats want to give undocumented immigrants free health care.

That's not true, and it's not the law.