The Aleph

Set theorists be like,

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Casual reminder that the Palestine Children's Relief Fund has a 97% on Charity Navigator and you should donate to it if u can. Despite the limited external aid that's been allowed into Gaza, they've been able to distribute a lot of aid internally. And they are providing needed aid to Lebanon.

you've heard of optimal square packing, but packing cubes in cubes also exists.

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Everyone notices my mistakes.” I said, “Peer review doesn't notice mistakes. Are you an academic?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Humanities or natural sciences?” He said, “Count it how you like, but a mathematician.” I said, “Me, too! Pure or applied?” He said, “Pure.” I said, “Me, too! What area?” He said, “Number theory.” I said, “Me, too! Do you study primes or Galois groups?” He said, “Galois groups.” I said, “Me, too! Langlands program or anabelian geometry?” He said, “Langlands program.” I said, “Me, too! local Langlands program or global Langlands program?” He said, “local Langlands.” I said, “Me, too! real local Langlands or geometric local Langlands? He said, “geometric local Langlands.”