I'm a mathematical physicist who likes explaining stuff. Sometimes I work at the Topos Institute. Check out my blog! I'm also a member of the n-Category Café, a group blog on math with an emphasis on category theory. I also have a YouTube channel, full of talks about math, physics and the future.
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Last Notes npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez Have you ever tried learning physics from a teacher who does calculations without explaining them well? Setting constants equal to 1, then putting them back later using dimensional analysis. Setting terms equal to zero when they're negligible - which you're supposed to know by instinct. And so on. You're just supposed to watch it and pick it up. It's like trying to learn gymnastics by watching Simona Biles. https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/982/718/965/079/950/original/527ba85e06bdcf32.mp4 npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1e6h…ckhy - Americans have evolved to require ketchup. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez If you don't anything about Æon Flux, here's a show about it - the animations that Peter Chung made, not the later movie with Charlize Theron. (2/3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOT_-VQfi8 npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub10m3…j2yt - it took me some work to figure this out. Very fun, though! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub10fr…aw9l - my friend is also using a 3d printer to make monotiles... npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub189n…satx - they've switched to supporting Harris. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub160h…xddr - groovy! 🎃 npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1jd5…grlk - that's a very good point: the firm may be deliberately *not* making tiles whose edges are exactly integer multiples of a unit. That would be clever. They don't say anything about this. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1jsy…tp7j - Thanks. I'm glad to hear it's sort of addictive, at least for some people! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1ky2…ghvc - that sounds good! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1r4c…u09p - is that related to what Michael Keithson is talking about at 15:23 here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGER2AiVfN0 npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1cv8…n0fl - cool! Let me know how it goes! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1lau…uqs9 - maybe I will wait 5 or so years. But someday I want to write expository math papers with moving images! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1trh…wqd9 - great! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub16d3…5hz8 - thanks! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-SUdkc5XI4 npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1drg…7yxw - Kamala Harris has raised $81 million in new funds since Biden stepped down on Sunday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxx2d25l634o npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1tve…ejsx - great! For a lot more on information theory I highly recommend Cover and Thomas' book - it's in the list of recommendations on page 113. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1zly…j8gf - those sailors and their quaint superstitions, which people who never sail don't understand. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1c5p…e3g4 - it's great when you can go out of a city and quickly reach some nice countryside. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1cmx…pdlf - by the way, my book will be free in PDF form and I'll announce it here. I promise to explain all this stuff carefully. Indeed, my post here is like a tiny little abbreviated excerpt. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub12vv…u68m - this is what you get for going into math. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1t76…4l63 - shit, I forget what happened since then. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1cyk…g8fq - sorry for blowing out some steam at you. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1ky2…ghvc - yes, that's good. Did you see this? https://mathstodon.xyz/@[email protected] /112772973324157439 But you and I are thinking of a stochastic process. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub17wk…8ey0 - nature keeps giving us hope. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1mzd…qxcp - thanks! We're here now and we already do! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1npx…e8ra - I can try it if you give up. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1jjc…httr - cool! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1uhn…2f8t - thanks! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1ptg…d7cp - We already own a flat here and we're loving it! The reason is exactly what you say: it's human, we can walk to pubs and shops, and many of them are run by actual people instead of big corporations. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1jqd…vn8e - thanks! Yes, the ideal job is one you already do every morning lying in bed drinking coffee. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1n9u…rzgl - thanks! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub10k6…ew8f - I've been here 2 years, from summer to January. Then I flee, crying "Nevermore!" But I keep wanting to come back. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub179d…8nud - Thanks! I had retired, but it turns out I wasn't done. Scotland is a neat place. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1kc7…tf4u - Thanks! I'd rather go down the drain soon, before it gets clogged. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub18a6…v60j - thanks! I'm looking forward to it. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub19uc…xyj8 - I tend to get a bit overwhelmed by the big festival in August, but I see this one is in July. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez I really like the energy, rhythmic complexity and conciseness of Rush's song Tom Sawyer - and if you do too, you may enjoy watching a bunch of first-time reactions to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQUnoVBSto npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1txd…txmn - I shopped, but now I'm back and I wrote part 2: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/112699886348445458 npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub15m3…9amh - great! 80% is pretty good, that's a lot more than the amount of hydrogen that got converted to helium in the Big Bang. Check out part 2! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1z2q…3yuf - Yikes! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1cyk…g8fq - yeah. https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/696/366/403/734/633/original/e047a708d869e934.jpg npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez I get annoyed when people call liberals "snowflakes", but maybe it's true: Democrats are hand-wringing about how Biden did in the debate, while Republicans act utterly unconcerned that their candidate is an old, half-senile sexual abuser, convicted felon and wannabe dictator. https://newrepublic.com/post/182494/cognitive-decline-trump-rant-batteries npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1fdk…waw4 - I'll have to get back to you on this, I'm pretty slow when it comes to parsing symbol strings! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1yny…egrt - as you can see from the case with just one object, it's going to be complicated. But the general case can probably be worked out from that one basic case. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1g7v…scf3 - I think they meant to say "In intuitionistic logic, and more generally, constructive mathematics, statements are assigned the value "true" only if they can be given a constructive proof." npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub16hx…u6hc - great, thanks! I was a bit worried about it, but now that Twitter feels like a thing from a bygone golden age I like it better. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1cyk…g8fq - better than being high *on* entropy. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1gy0…20j5 - no, they are responsible for their own entropy. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1sm7…jkcu - yes, that's a weirdly different case. And in dimension 1, Newtonian gravity gives a constant attractive force, coming from a |r| potential! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1tpv…zwsk - thermodynamics says they can transfer energy to you. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1vuh…nl4f - great! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez Bennett did a *second* video concentrating on the cluster chords. More fun! (3/3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9pGvRRPnUc&t=15s npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez David Bennett does a more detailed analysis of the rhythm. At first the 7/4 meter is broken into 3 groups of three 1/8 notes, then a fourth group of three 1/8 notes followed by a quarter note, for a total of 4 × 1/8 + 1/4 = 7/4 Nice! Then later... it actually gets complicated. (2/3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxYVEa_urTo npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1ma3…q8k6 - I guess my complete innocence of routing protocols is my main problem here. No need to explain them; it would take a lot of work. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1nr6…6wqx - I wasn't talking about energy. I was talking about electric charge. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub187u…dmq3 - if we were made of antimatter using wires that carried positrons, the convention we use for current would make great sense. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1697…z9te - in the US it's MAGA, but it's all over the world: Farage, Orban, Modi, Le Pen, Meloni, etc. https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/654/504/082/871/792/original/5a0ee49938cd3cc4.jpg npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub16hx…u6hc - instead of electrons they should be called criticules: a word that should be used more. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/criticule#English npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub13v8…vf74 - you just enjoy arguing. We have to pick a convention and the obviously better convention is to take the dominant charge carrier in the universe, and the main player in chemistry, to be positive. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1t76…4l63 - but you can't blame him: it was only much later that we realized 'blue' quarks are actually closer to puce. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1czz…5kz5 - where does he say we shouldn't worry about it? npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1skj…mjh7 - I'm going to patent the raspberry optimizer. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez The latest Fox News poll is out. Guess who claims the results are "trash" - and also disputes the poll results claiming more voters rank “the future of American democracy” as "extremely important” than any of the 10 other issues? https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/06/20/trump-rages-about-trash-fox-news-survey-showing-biden-winning/ https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/651/012/488/077/259/original/34202afbc2ba7b76.jpg npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub13g2…m4y3 - okay, I was hoping for something like that... but I always forget this "tiny" business. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1yxx…p7am - can you do it with more than one 12-pointed star? Infinitely many? (Idle questions....) npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1uhn…2f8t - I find it's hard persuading people that the strong force doesn't follow any distance-dependent force law... breaking them from the whole idea. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1zp4…z54k - yes, that's where I got most of my info. I should have linked to it! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1tkl…pt2p - Great! One of my favorite novels. I didn't like it quite as much the third time I read it: I think I started seeing the mechanisms of the magic tricks Crowley plays. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1vny…n9q4 - what a bunch of bull. (Papal bull.) npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1gjl…lr8w - okay, so it's not just my weird brain acting up! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1cyk…g8fq 😜 npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1ssd…gd7s - Cool! I didn't know people charged their buggies! The ones I see on the bus are just ordinary non-electric baby carriages. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1cyk…g8fq - oh, that's a very interesting interpretation. (I hope everyone here can guess the *correct* interpretation.) npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez Whenever I see this on the bus it makes me think they're offering some sort of defective wifi access. https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/615/991/207/242/880/original/cf4f1a70317e2bf2.jpg npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub12n4…8z9u - if protons are men and electrons are women, this is 3 men held together by 2 women. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1t76…4l63 - I was hoping to see funny answers to that question, but just saw lots of statistics. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub19g8…9445 - okay, the best I can do right now is the section on insolation starting on page 40 of this book: http://library.lol/main/2076A1F822825E2D8F68FBCC607384F9 npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub19g8…9445 - I used to have the formula you want, but I seem to have lost it! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1q9g…6uv9 - was I audible? It was really hard for me to hear people on your side! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub19g8…9445 - does this help or not? https://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/brose/classes/ATM623_Spring2015/Notes/Lectures/Lecture11%20--%20Insolation.html npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub184j…7dha - Musk manages to pick the wrong side on every issue. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1zp4…z54k - you know a lot of practical stuff about lasers! I know a lot of fun but useless stuff. https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/608/553/287/759/590/original/ebadd564b78410bf.png npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1zp4…z54k - thanks, I'll try it at the gym! (That's when I watch videos, I get twitchy watching videos otherwise, I prefer text because it's faster.) npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub16hx…u6hc - has anyone been mistakenly milkshaken? npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1738…klnq - thanks! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub14f6…afz5 - hmm, I don't what that's really like. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1c9m…9xjd - looks like you got Jewish carpenter elves. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub13dl…qfg2 - That's weird. I'm glad Mathstodon has been helpful to you! I plan on sticking around. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1hve…fxk8 - I'm dreaming of a "xenon bomb". npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1cha…d2hp - I've read some, and I should read them all! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub15m2…ahal - looking at what's most popular, I don't find most of it very interesting. So maybe you're not missing much. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub15m2…ahal - okay, it was on mastodon.social, here: https://mastodon.social/explore npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub15m2…ahal - strangely, now I can't find it (so I deleted my comment). But I was using it yesterday! npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub15m2…ahal - there is now on Mathstodon a way to see most liked (ok, starred) posts. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1cyk…g8fq - yes, he's really lost in strange fantasies. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1a7m…j0p9 - I can see reasons why "open science" people would be more committed to the fediverse than mathematicians and physicists. npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1790…frxx 😵💫 npub17u6xav5rjq4d48fpcyy6j05rz2xelp7clnl8ptvpnval9tvmectqp8pd6m John Carlos Baez @npub1zsg…kvsw 😵💫