What a massive fail by the #BBC. This is the prestigious Reith Lectures series they have censored. When senior positions are given to weak people, democracy can crumble fast. www.youtube.com/shorts/ZHhbb...
Why is most ed tech so poor? Some thoughts from an ed tech developer. New "Devlin's Angle" post for the MAA maa.org/math-values/...
Some questions that no one has asked: Why Kristi Noem put an inexperienced 20-something in charge of terrorist prevention.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Two Kansans are suing in state court over the new law invalidating trans people's licenses & deputizing bathroom bounty hunters
And they're arguing on state law grounds alone
Kansas's anti-trans law violates federal law too, but federal courts can't be trusted
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/kansa...
NEW: President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are not letting a shooting war in the Middle East distract them from their social media campaign for passage of the SAVE America Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I guess this is the State of the Union message that matters to everyone on the planet except the Republican States in what was once a union.
I see my birth nation, the UK, still believes that no one is above the law, even royalty. I wish the country that invited me to move here in 1987, and where I have been a citizen since 2000, believed the same. The US used to be such a nation. It pains me that such is no longer the case.
I'd simply ask for Congressional Republicans to give a crap as what's happening to blue states right now could easily happen to red states during a subsequent administration. This is a, frankly, dangerous precedent.
Normal people would be prosecuted and jailed for a hate crime.
Trump gets off with an 'Ooops' ????
In memory of the 37-year-old Minneapolis residents Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, ordinary American citizens who agents of our federal government publicly executed recently. (There are least six others who ICE agent have murdered this year so far.) Since September 1991, the MAA has afforded me the enormous privilege to express my personal opinion in its monthly members communication; the print magazine FOCUS from September 1991 to December 1997, and the online e-zine (currently the MATH VALUES section of the MAA website, originally MAA Online) from January 1996 until today. (My goal/hope is to continue to March 2027, when I turn 80; you’ll soon be free of me, dear MAA colleagues.)
Hull-born Stanford mathematician @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social has been writing a monthly column about mathematics for the Mathematical Association of America since 1991. This month's piece is in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good:
maa.org/math-values/...
In a rare pause, Keith Devlin reflects on why he could not write as usual and what this moment means for our shared values as a mathematical community.
Read the Math Values post: https://bit.ly/49YfHSA
An important choice by @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social .social , one of the leading math communicators of our time. #iTeachMath
It's spring in Sonoma County. Time to bike over to one of my favorite local wineries, a 27 mile round trip involving two massive climbs over Sonoma Mountain. (Well, they seem massive at my age. 🥴)
My boss now and forever
Thank you!
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
In the 1990s I (a mathematician) collaborated with a London-based sociologist on a project to improve the efficiency of large teams working on EU construction projects, on the basis of which, after 9/11, I was asked to join an NSA-funded project to improve Defense Intelligence Analysis. Ho hum 🤔
“If you raise your voice I’ll erase your voice” said an ice agent.
Insane
We are truly in the age of the troglodyte
Looking forward to hosting the World Cup in a couple months!
Life under a Republican administration
Life under a Republican administration
Italy is right. They should not accept ICE agents to provide "security" at the Winter Olympics next month. The agency is a bunch of poorly trained, trigger-happy sociopathic thugs. www. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Sunset-lit reception at Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley last Thursday
This is America under a Republican administration. Republicans in Congress, and their voters, don't give a shit (many actively support it). But the majority of Americans are appalled by their lack of morality and the wanton cruelty. www.edweek.org/leadership/o...
They’re really going for the hardest of the criminals
Stand with the people 💪💪
