If the Democrats were actually serious, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries would be putting out statements that they intend to subpoena mark Zuckerberg personally to appear before congress over its censorship of No Kings today and Lula in Brazil. Instead, silence. They aren't fit for this moment.

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No, the work they do is not necessarily the same as the work of the small number of people you always quote. That's the point. It's not mathematics itself that's threatened. It's a certain way of doing it. You could try to look beyond that.

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They find something they care about, and work on that in the little time they have, and teach a new generation of mathematicians in the process. Why don't you interview them about how they do it and why they have not given up on the profession and why they don't break down and cry about it.

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Talk to someone at a small non-flagship state university, with a 3-3 or 4-4 teaching load, who still - somehow - maintains a research program. They are grossly outpowered by R1 professors with large grants and low teaching load. And yet, they manage.

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Short thread asking @nytimes.com and other MSM to stop interviewing the same small handful of people every time something math-related comes up. Mathematicians are dismayed when AI scoops them on the results? How about look for advice from someone familiar with getting scooped and outpowered.

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