i've often felt like "interdisciplinary initiatives" are sort of like Abundance agendas at universities, insofar as they are about "breaking down disciplinary divides" in the most vacuous anti-political ways possible

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during my phd i heftily benefited from branding my computer science work as "interdisciplinary" and thinking back it is striking how the "people from other disciplines" involved were precisely those pretty much already on board with our epistemologies. like what exactly are we learning here.

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“As Americans increasingly turn to chatbots for political information, experts warn that this AI feedback loop could quietly distort the information voters receive, seeding errors about candidates and elections across the internet and into the hands of millions of people.”

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This is the thing that excites me

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Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815. The fools at The Academy all said that he was mad, but he showed them in 1872 when he revealed he had created a MONSTER. Let's learn about the terrible thing he made in his laboratory. 🧪 🎃 Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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