“What’s the denominator??” Me, a gazillion times a day to a gigazillion people.

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My teenage children, who have never set foot in NYC, go around saying "Help me, Mamdani!" whenever anything goes wrong and/or they can't figure out their homework, just to give everybody a sense of the scale of this man's presence in the culture lol

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There's a kind of academic who doesn't want to sit on the committee, doesn't want to mentor the student, and doesn't want to take on the departmental role, but DEFINITELY wants to be asked to do these things, so that they can refuse

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Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake."

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