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James!

James!

@_jak

Erstwhile mathematician. Fast Learner. @recursecenter batch[3]. He/him.

Body: Brooklyn/Heart: Baltimore Katılım Kasım 2008
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James!@_jak·
You can’t make bad people good, but you can condition them to fear your attention.
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Kristi Yamaguccimane@TheWapplehouse·
Listen to his words. It’s fine when a genre of music is not to your specific liking. Totally fine. But thinking someone playing like this is bad? Like he got the gig to perform at wherever he’s performing by being bad? You are stupid. You are an idiot. You are an imbecile.
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Iso (math fool)@IsomorphicPhi·
@2oovy Let me guess: U for universal enveloping algebra and A for algebra?
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bourbaki@2oovy·
How tf do lie algebraists function?? Tf do you mean these are two different characters
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Hashim Mteuzi, PMP
Hashim Mteuzi, PMP@Mteuzi·
Dyshan Best came home to Bridgeport, Connecticut to bury a friend. He was 39. A truck driver. He never made it home from the funeral. What you've seen in the headlines is a story about a police officer's anxiety attack. That is not what this story is about. It starts with a chaotic scene. Roughly thirty people. A fight. Someone called 911 and said some of them had guns. Police arrived. Dyshan Best wasn't fighting. He was sitting in a parked car. Passenger seat. A drink. A vape pen. His phone. A witness pointed toward the car. That was enough. Officer Perrotta walked over and opened the door. No warrant. No crime observed. When she mentioned a firearm, Best pointed out through the windshield, away from himself, and said the gun was somewhere else. Then he ran. Officer Heo chased him. Dyshan Best was shot in the back. On the ground: "I got shot." The officer: "You pulled a gun on me." Best: "No I didn't." The state ruled the shooting justified. The family's attorney has filed a $40 million lawsuit, saying new video evidence shows conclusively Best was unarmed. The inspector general disputes this. The gun recovered near where Best fell has not been confirmed as his in any public reporting. That dispute is ongoing. But here's what this post is saying plainly: It does not matter. Best was a passenger in a parked car, stopped without a warrant, without an observed crime. Connecticut is a concealed carry state; possessing a firearm with a permit is a legal right. The state never established his permit status. The inspector general's report, by available accounts, did not ask. And even Best's own attorney, who disputes the gun entirely, made the structural point most clearly: "I don't care if you see someone running down the street with a gun. If there's no felony you can articulate, you let them run. You don't chase people down and shoot them in the streets." Whatever was or wasn't in his hand, that remains true. The bullet tore through his liver and right kidney. The kind of injury where minutes matter. The first ambulance arrived at 6:02 p.m. Dispatch had labeled the call: stab / gunshot / penetrating trauma. Multiple officers on scene told the paramedics to take their partner first. Officer Perrotta got in. Then she declined treatment. Her words, recorded in the paramedics' official report: "I am fine. I just needed to get out of here." Not injured. Not treated. She simply wanted to leave. The ambulance drove away. 6:02 p.m. — First ambulance arrives. Diverted to Perrotta. 6:08 p.m. — Perrotta reaches hospital. Declines treatment. 6:22 p.m. — Best reaches hospital. 14 minutes later. 7:41 p.m. — Dyshan Best is pronounced dead. The inspector general could not determine whether the delay contributed to his death. No charges were filed. The department will investigate itself. The headline called this an officer's "mild anxiety attack." That framing matters. It takes a coordinated decision by multiple officers: documented in the paramedics' own records, and converts it into one person's medical episode. It makes a choice look like a condition. And "mild" cannot survive contact with Perrotta's own words. She wasn't in crisis. She said so herself. The headline also doesn't name Dyshan Best. Doesn't mention he was Black. Doesn't mention Perrotta was white. Doesn't mention she declined treatment. A man is dead. The headline made sure you'd remember the officer's feelings instead. Nothing in this sequence required a conspiracy. Every step reflects a system that has operated this way for generations — one built not to protect communities equally, but to protect order, property, and existing arrangements of power. People ask how to fix policing. But this story raises a different question. If a dying Black man can be left bleeding on pavement while officers secure a comfortable exit for one of their own, and the state clears it, and the press softens it, perhaps this isn't a malfunction. Perhaps the system is functioning exactly as it was built to. His name was Dyshan Best. He came home to bury a friend. He never made it back from the funeral.
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CBS News@CBSNews

A man who was shot by police and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for an ambulance after an officer having a "mild anxiety attack" took the first one that arrived at the scene, according to a newly released state investigation. cbsn.ws/40uVQVB

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Ashley Reese
Ashley Reese@offbeatorbit·
It’s so funny how racists are convinced that black people have a deep desire to be white. Well, no, lol.
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zeynep tufekci@zeynep·
Neither of these statements are remotely true even under the stretchiest definition of “defeat” and “interests”. Administration may well end this phase by claiming “defeat Iran” happened but that would only cap short-term damage to those real, huge interests. Not the long-term.
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Clash Report
Clash Report@clashreport·
📸 The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran. He is waving goodbye to his mother.
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James!@_jak·
@seanta___ Still leaves open the possibility of a chicken-shaped lamp. Just something to keep in mind
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sean@seanta___·
@_jak The middle one lol good question a.co/d/0h9LIZJ2 250w clear incandescent bulb
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sean@seanta___·
i am disappointed to report that the $30 chicken lamp to the face in the morning seems to have fixed me
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James!@_jak·
Reminds me of a conversation I had a few years ago with a friend who is a college professor. He was teaching freshman anthro and one of his students referred to the 90s as "the late 20th century" in an assigned paper. *Those* kids didn't remember 9/11, and this was pre-covid
Christopher@molochofficial

Older faculty member made a joke to me about how college students probably don’t even remember 9/11 any more and I was just like Right so my college freshmen were born in 2008, actually.

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James!@_jak·
@greatswordgf a madoka fan?? Taste also gl putting this on the TL
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Redd
Redd@ReddCinema·
Big goat
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Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis
Caribbean countries turning their backs on Cuba after everything the country and her people have done for ours for decades when they have less than us, is utterly shameful. Americans are being crushed by medical debt, and Caribbean leaders are capitulating to the system doing it.
Jamaica Observer@JamaicaObserver

The United States on Friday told Caribbean countries that there are “alternative methods available” to recruit healthcare workers as it continued its criticism of the Cuban health brigade programme to the region. jamaicaobserver.com/2026/02/06/us-…

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James!@_jak·
@electrolemon I'd just gotten this out of my head after twenty years
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demi adejuyigbe@electrolemon·
JOKES n JOKES n JOKES n JOKES n ha ha ha ha ha… spaGHEEEtti, spaGHEEEtti, spaGHEEEtti, spaGHEEEtti, spaGHEEEtti
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Diva@guavacubana·
@thyhighs can you make a millenial version for us in our early 30s?
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vanessa@thyhighs·
there’s an event happening in Bushwick where u wrestle hot people to test ur physical chemistry 😭😭
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🔎Al🔍@SweatieAngle·
Incredible Asian artist depiction of an English man here lmao
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Ian
Ian@ianfluencer·
this diva got in at Marcy and stepped out at Delancey … her ass was not flying over that bridge
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Max Guliani
Max Guliani@maximusupinNYc·
Tonight’s magical sunset skies over the icy Hudson River #NYC
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