Greg Spradlin @spradlig@qoto.org

The 252nd Carnival of Mathematics is posted!

https://www.fractalkitty.com/the-252nd-carnival-of-mathematics/

#carnivalOfMathematics #blog #mtbos

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Snork.
The Dana Institute had a survey on LinkedIn that was literally testing their propaganda phrases for "Math pathways."
There were 7 or 8 barriers I was to choose from to be the most important in math education.
Students arriving in college with poor understanding of math was nowhere on the list. No! It was all about "courses not aligned with their goals!" and a grammatically wrong thing about Calculus path being too important.
These are the folks who say that assessment tests are too subjective so we need to not do them, but look at course completion instead. (That's more objective. Erm, look up what the words mean?)

In 2024, I mentioned Bari Weiss as one of the people trying to "circle-jerk this parallel world into being." At the time, she was heading Joe Lonsdale's faux "University of Austin."

But she has moved up in the world—doing to CBS what Elon Musk did to Twitter.

https://newrepublic.com/article/178675/garry-tan-tech-san-francisco

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy.

Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc.

Some call it the "Network State."

I can’t be an all-in admirer of the Catholic Church, but I do have to hand it to Pope Leo. As a world leader in our fraught times, he is doing so much to stand for justice and forward-thinking (for his institution). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/pope-leo-first-lay-woman-top-position-vatican-maria-montserrat-alvarado

Finance: Fortune | If S&P Dow Jones rewrites its listing rules, SpaceX and Anthropic will benefit—investors won’t

“If I were the head of the California retirement fund, or the New York retirement fund, or one of these multi-billion-dollar retirement funds, I would just pick up the phone and call Vanguard and Fidelity to make me a new index that doesn’t include these companies."

https://fortune.com/2026/06/02/spacex-index-funds-new-listing-rules/

#SpaceX #SpaceXIPO

Seek no merit, ere we retire Monkees.

gnu order

#LinuxRockbands

Normally this would be catastrophic for an IPO, but because of index rule changes, the major indexes will be forced to buy at WHATEVER SPACEX ASSERTS they are worth. What's worse, as insiders dump the stock, increasing the float, the indexes are going to continue to be required to buy, no matter what the price. There are no market forces at work here. It is literally a holdup. The most brazen heist in modern market history.

Lots more here: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116671524970656406

#SpaceX #SpaceXIPO

"I can see how most people would be bullied into submission by a threat like that." Will Freeman created https://DeFlock.me to track the locations of ALPR surveillance cameras. When Flock Safety came after him with legal threats, EFF helped him fight back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/get-flock-out-here

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116671384158248700

Alt-Text for the linked post:

By Sir Escanor

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI
replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually,

One: the token costs for running
AI agents are now exceeding what
they were paying the employees
they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the
AI stops. Just stops. No continuity.
No workaround. Just a spinning
wheel where your workforce used
to be.

You fired humans to save money
and bought a subscription that bills
you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew
what to do when things broke.
The AI just Invoices you for the
outage.

And then there's the permission
problem nobody wants to talk
about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs
access. Full access. Your systems,
your patents, your contracts, your
future plans. Everything you spent
years building, handed over to a
process that has no loyalty, no
discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn't hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul
the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

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More on this incredible ripoff. Literally the crime of the century.

Help get the word out.

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116626003797827177

#SpaceX

In simple terms. SpaceX is a meme stock whose fundamentals in no way justify inclusion in index funds. NASDAQ rules have been changed so that it will be included. As a result 401Ks and IRAs will automatically buy the stock, effectively giving this worthless company your money. It is the greatest grift of all time.

#SpaceX

I knew this looked familiar…

Nobel Peace Prize-winning psychiatrist and 35 other Drs say #Trump is “mentally unfit” to serve as POTUS
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/nobel-peace-prize-winning-psychiatrist?r=741t&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web