Vanity Fair Class is in session: David Brooks lectured a room full of Yale students about love, of all things: "We shouldn't forget the heart." now

“We shouldn’t forget the heart. Unless it starts to get old and there’s a younger heart, maybe in her 20s, working as your research assistant for a preachy book about ‘character.’ In that case you should definitely dump the first heart and focus on the second, much younger heart.”

The account took down their posts instead of acknowledging that they swiped them.

darth buddy it was vanilla soft serve ice cream in a beautiful little orange football helmet, at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee with 100,000 football fans.

The ice cream was not great but I was a kid and could not have been more excited to be there.

I think in their case they probably do their own stuff, from what I remember. They just swiped my stuff early on when they were getting started. Fine, whatever. Just credit people.

This is one of those things that drives me nuts. Not the first time it has happened.

The “@PhysInHistory” account on Twitter, which has a million+ followers and is monetized, ripped off a bunch of my stuff early on and posted it as their own. At least they eventually did their own material.

This is a very, very lame thing to do. I wouldn’t mind them reposting stuff if they just said upfront that it was mine. I’m sure I’m not the only person they are swiping stuff from.

A picture showing the first 10,000 digits of pi each represented as one of ten symbols. The text reads “Happy п day! Here is a cool representation of the first 10,000 digits of n as a grid of symbols.”

The post reads: Einstein submitted his paper "The Foundations of the General Theory of Relativity" to Annalen der Physik this week in 1916. It collected his work from throughout 1915, presenting the broader scientific community with a complete and coherent account of general relativity.

Deivon Drago Nice summary. Akshat Thanks Deivon!

It’s not just a couple, either. They’re reusing text and even images I made, then thanking people who complement the posts.

I should add a 🧪 and ⚛️ here, in case anyone happens to know them and wants to ask them to stop doing that.

The profile reads: Akshat @star_stufff Follows you theoretical physics © earth earth • Joined November 2023 985 Following 3,030 Followers Followed by Martin Bauer, Ash Jogalekar, Greg Egan, and 7 others

The post reads: Tweet Akshat • @star_stufff Albert Einstein passed away on this day in 1955, from complications associated with a ruptured abdominal aneurysm. His doctors recommended surgical intervention. Einstein replied "I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." Image: R. Morse/LIFE

It reads: Tweet Akshat O @star_stufff In 1978, Yau and Schoen used variational methods to give the first proof of the Positive Energy Conjecture in general relativity (Witten gave a separate proof two years later that used entirely different methods). The paper was submitted in September and appeared in print in February of the following year. In general relativity, unlike in other classical field theories, there is no meaningful local notion of the energy density of the gravitational field. You can't just visit every point in a region, measure some quantity, add it to a running total, and then call that result the total energy of a gravitating system. One way to see the reason for this obstruction is to appeal to the hinh imnlinethat

This person on Twitter is taking my threads and posts and presenting them verbatim as his own.

For me, he's the guy who donated to Trump's inauguration, gifted him with a gaudy golden bribe, and moved quality control down to the very bottom of Apple's list of priorities.

Wow, I knew Tim Cook stepping down was in the works, but I didn't realize it was happening so soon.

A single yellow tulip still closed in the early morning. More yellow tulips are visible in the background.

Pink and yellow tulips in the early morning sun, among a bed of green shoots.

More pink and yellow tulips.

Red tulips poking up among green shoots, illuminated by the early morning sunshine coming over the fence.

Additional #bloomscrolling.

Update: turned out to be a known issue related to the Suggestion Bar. Turn it off, problem is gone.

The Astronomy Picture of the Day website (apod.nasa.gov) for sure, and boingboing.net has that old web feel.

I am a completely uncritical consumer of Holmes pastiche, which I love, and even I caught myself dwelling on his performance and why it is so much better than most everything else.

A great and extremely real monologue that does an excellent job of getting the character and drawing a plausible picture of that character’s experience with recovery.

Charles Grodin and Miss Piggy

Turning over control of our military to a dementia addled grifter and a FOX News correspondent with a drinking problem and a crusades fetish has somehow gone terribly wrong.

A scruffy blonde golden doodle flattens himself on a bedspread and looks at the camera.

[lounging intensifies]

I didn’t realize Rick Mahorn calls games for the Pistons. They should run the "Quick Rick Mahorn in Dearborn" episode of Detroiters on the jumbotrons at halftime.

The Ascension, by Paolo Veronese, 1585, 📸 by @gwephoto

It looks ridiculous.

How do I know how to dance the samba so well, I’ve never even been to the Carnaval

Help, my family has never seen me like this

Oh no now the samba has me, it’s in control

This sounds so good.

The Stand Getz-Charlie Byrd album “Jazz Samba.” The cover is white with a texture red abstract painting on the front. The title and names are printed along the top.

Found this by chance at the used bookstore today. A couple bucks, looks like it has never been played, sounds great. My favorite recording of “Samba De Uma Nota So”

I guess I should have added the #OTD to the first post, but this is a bit outside my normal OTD posts.

Oh boy, where do I start with this one? An old color photo from the 1980s of a young boy (me) sitting on an old man's lap (my grandfather) on a recliner. I'm wearing a light gray sweater with a white collared shirt and looking at the camera. My hair is a whole situation, an immense, thick, rounded structure that can only be explained by generations of natural selection among mammals trying to survive an aggressively cold climate. It seems like it must have been formed by the gravitational collapse of an astronomically large cloud of hair. Just a dark, dense object that looks like its weight would cause permanent neck and shoulder problems for a thin, bookish child. It really was something. Where has it gone, I wonder? My grandfather, who is also looking at the camera, is wearing a black button down shirt, a light brown leather vest, a bolo tie, and a large silver belt buckle. He has a mustache and is balding. His hand is in the foreground and is resting on a cane that isn't visible in the photo.

My grandfather was my first scientific role model, and I love that we have this thing in common.

Portrait of the scientist as a young man, with grandfather. (9/9)

And also the pleasant realization that my grandfather, a young scientist at the time, took the pages where his six year old practiced letters and numbers and tucked them inside a book instead of throwing them out. I did the same thing with every bit of ephemera my daughter produced. (8/n)