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[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

i heard someone say “nothing destroys a relationship faster than watching your partner show up for other people in ways that they don’t show up for you” and that’s the part that kills relationships because they have the capability, they just chose not to provide for you.

[Simba Kundizeza @S_S_Kundizeza]

https://t.co/k3BlqHf1Mo

[Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki @Penprince_]

Part of the reason why they do this is because they believe that the writer is poor and disadvantaged, which is often true. And so there won't be legal repercussions. You wouldn't do this to a well off, white author. You know it's going to be next to impossible for someone across continents to sue. It's hard enough to sue while in the same country let alone on the other side of the world, from the global south. It's taking advantage of the powerless and those who have no legal recourse. But one of these days... Remember Gawker? You will mess with the wrong one and it will be THE END.

[Doctuche @lidocaine_v2]

I hope dogs see this video and finally understand what it feels like to be chased endlessly for no reason.

[Favy🩶 @Favourrrrr5]

one day you'll run into a guy you aren't attracted to, but he treats you right from the start and you'll force yourself to give him a chance, it's very important that you ignore him

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Minna: Death of over 30 Youth In Detention Must Be Investigated

The Nigerian authorities must immediately set up an independent investigation of today’s death of over 30 youth — including minors — in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Minna Niger state. The victims were arrested on September 15 and 16, 2026 at mining sites located at M.I. Wushishi/Lukoto axis of Minna. This loss of lives cannot go unanswered.

Government must promptly, thoroughly, independently, impartially, transparently, and effectively, investigate how detention for one to two days descended into a disaster that killed minors. Those who are found to be behind this tragedy must not merely receive internal or administrative sanctions. They must face the full scale of justice.

The circumstances of the arrests of the victims and the condition in which they were detained must be established transparently. Victims and their families must be provided with access to justice and effective remedies.

The authorities must ensure justice for the victims of this horrific yet preventable incident which cost so many people, many believed to be children, their lives.

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

I finished reading Busks, Basques, and Brush-Braid a couple of weeks ago (which, in light of recent discourse, was thankfully about what it said on the cover), and it used sources like receipts & diaries to better understand the making & wearing of clothes. Some highlights:

[intercontinental ballistic libertine @trueroguejordan]

I'm extremely inept at this but close mouths don't get fed.

I'm writing a novella titled TO YOUR NORTH ARE THE ALMIGHTY’S BASTARDS. I want to get published by any reputable small press.

You can reach me via email :[email protected].

[Mark Bao @markbao]

A lot of people are missing Terence Tao’s point and thinking “mathematicians are upset that AI is better than them.” That’s not what he’s saying, and some people are forgetting that Tao is one of the most AI-pilled mathematicians out there.

His point is that when people work on discovering something, along the way they invent new concepts. Those concepts later become useful far beyond the original goal, and enables further inventions. Finding a solution does matter, but the intermediate idea is often what makes the field richer, because other people can share it and build the next thing from it.

In tech, we can use the analogy of collaborative software. We started with algorithms for merging changes in a Word document, and evolved that to concepts about versions, diffs, and merges, and later to real-time collaboration tools like Git, Google Docs, and Figma. Humans built upon these concepts and developed more powerful solutions.

Terence’s worry is that a machine automating a solution robs the field of the value of developing the intermediate discoveries in the pursuit of larger discoveries.

When automating a solution, the intermediate discoveries and invention of concepts can be buried or completely hidden in the black box. We don’t learn from them to build the next thing; it’s like we never made the invention of collaborative document editing and thus could not have the conceptual understanding to invent the next version – and since it’s hidden, we also don’t socialize them to allow other people to invent, too, a core tenet of collective discovery.

So then, in both code and math, this leads to the atrophy of development of concepts in the field.

In other words: pure ‘solution extraction’ that hides the process of discovery can leave the field with a checked-off theorem but little new insight or new questions to pursue. And it might prevent us from understanding a field deeper.

I am seeing, first-hand, that atrophying of skills in software development. We push buttons and get solutions. There is much less incentive to develop new concepts and human skill. The bet most software companies are making is that LLMs are so effective in writing code that you’re still shipping overwhelmingly more value even with human skill atrophy, and it’s the right bet IMO.

However, much of the software industry is built upon building things, not necessarily novel invention and research. In such an environment, you can say that you accept some atrophying of conceptual invention and human skill for more output.

On the other hand, sectors like math and pure sciences that are focused on invention and insight might be the hardest hit by this.

Practical/applied sciences might fall somewhere in the middle. An Alzheimer’s cure, room-temperature semiconductor, or highly effective carbon capture solution are far too valuable to sandbag and say only humans can do that to develop concepts in the ‘proper’ way. The outcome matters too much to treat the preservation of concept invention as the highest goal. Even there, though, hidden intermediates can slow the next breakthrough if nobody can see how the first one actually worked.

So the question is not “is AI allowed to solve hard problems?” It is “in this field (math, science, tech, etc.), is the answer itself the main point, or are the concepts and abstractions we use to get there also the thing we need to maintain?”​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

In pure math, there’s an argument that the intermediates are often more useful than the solution, and atrophy in concept development is highly detrimental to the field. Solving Navier–Stokes, contrary to what some people claim, has little practical application, and pure math might be one of those fields where just finding a solution isn’t the entire point, and can actually be contrary to the field, which is what Tao is worried about.

[Aunty Teda @imoteda]

Uju Anya has suffered years of horrific abuse. We’ve seen her get rape and death threats.
We’ve seen random men on here threatening her and her wife with corrective rape.
We’ve seen them belittle and insult her.
We’ve seen racists attack her and question her intelligence and ability to do her job as a professor.

We’ve also seen her stand firm and fight back.

However you feel about how she responds is irrelevant because she in RESPONDING.

This witch hunt, unsurprising as it is, is absolute nonsense

@CarnegieMellon you’ve never had anything to say about her abuse but now you’ve found your Twitter fingers? Shameful!

And to the Nigerian men celebrating this, no one expected any better of you fools.

[Joonas Nättilä @joonas_nattila]

Visualization of the Navier-Stokes blowup solution: left- and right-handed swirls (blue and purple) wind up while the axial flow (brown) shrinks, but slower. As a result, the vortex core develops a singularity.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

go fuck yourself @sama

claiming that you solved navier stokes because 10000 agents ran in circles for 88hours on a multimillion dollar gpu cluster to formalize in lean a blowup case under controlled external forcing is pure scientific vulgarity the clay mathematics institute millennium prize does not ask m whether you can artificially force a singularity in a fluid by injecting an ad hoc smooth external forcing term f(x,t) to twist the vortex until it breaks the real problem questions the fundamental stability and global smooth existence for 3dimensional incompressible euler & navier stokes equations under natural conservation laws and viscous dissipation alone using a mathematical loophole on forced equations to parade a century old victory is a major conceptual scam Altman

technically & epistemologically what you present as an agi breakthrough is nothing more than bruteforce combinatorial autoformalization the ai did not understand fluid mechanics it simply navigated a continuous search space previously mapped out and constrained by the monumental work of human mathematicians like tristan buckmaster/ levent alpöge / diego córdoba or tarek elgindi coordinating 10000 agents to check the logical consistency of a 100 page proof via lean is a software engineering feat and computational parallelization triumph not an intrinsic scientific discovery it is the victory of the compute bulldozer over abstract human intuition repackaged for the public as a higher mathematical consciousness

to this theoretical imposture you add a disgusting ethical and industrial cynicism taking advantage of private codex sessions and informal preprints from academic researchers to siphon their research leads and then trying to redact or erase the contribution of levent alpöge under the pretext that he works at rival anthropic is intellectual serfdom openai behaves like a feudal lord of silicon appropriating the cognitive subsistence of independent scholars threatening their careers behind closed doors if they protest and turning community academic labor into a privatized pressrelease

this entire staged event serves a desperate financial agenda in a pre ipo panic facing the slowdown of scaling laws and growing investor skepticism over the profitability of foundational models openai needs to manufacture an artificial sputnik moment claiming to solve a millennium prize without immediately submitting the proof to traditional peer review means using the prestige of fundamental mathematics as cheap marketing fuel to inflate a delusional valuation!!!

real science is not a clout chase on social media or a compute spike spent to rob the clay mathematics institute it is a quest for elegance physical truth and universal rigor to decode reality true artificial intelligence will not emerge from hostile corporate takeover of academic work hidden behind computational bruteforce but from architectures capable of generating new conceptual paradigms by masquerading constrained formalization as the collapse of physics greatest mysteries you did not solve navier stokes you only proved how far silicon valley will go to prostitute scientific integrity for capitalist spectacle

[megan witt ✨is querying YA Romance✨ @bymeganwitt]

Writing a novel: hard
Revising a novel: also hard
Writing a query: very very very hard
Writing a synopsis: actually the worst
#writingcommunity

[Mubarak. 🖤🌹🦅 @DrealMb]

Military Woman shuns VeryDarkMan. 😗🤔
"You, VeryDarkMan cannot sit down there and be making some statements without any proof. I want this on record, if VeryDarkMan can say all Military are corrupt then all Lawyers are corrupt" Take note, the only institution that is putting this country in order is the Military. 🔥 🔥.
This woman is bold . Gbas Gbos for NBA today o.

[Emeka @Emeneks]

Thank God say I no be lawyer!
I for tear my certificate 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Olu @Bk_Klassic]

I barely post my work here, so a collection of different items we’ve made this year.

[Olu @Bk_Klassic]

Because I barely post any images here again.

[Zaka @ZakaToto]

I was sued by a white french academic who plagiarised me. For 3 years she used racist slander against me. She was protected and promoted by some of the most prominent french medias, political foundations and parties who refused to talk of the affair. She lost. She still teach.

[Baby Mars @tearsandguile]

I built the Nigerian Literature Archive for the books many of us grew up reading and the ones we may have forgotten.

From Ige Adubi to Ralia the Sugar Girl, Eze Goes to School and more, it’s a small way to preserve and rediscover Nigerian literature.

https://t.co/c1PJNqpXeL

[Olufunke Grace Bankole @ogracebankole]

For Nigeria-based readers, my debut novel, THE EDGE OF WATER, is available from @masobebooks. Thank you to the Masobe Books Community for this recent spotlight of the book's accolades.