We’re so, so excited to announce Sophon Lit’s inaugural Poetry Contest opening 9/1-9/30, judged by the extraordinary K. Iver!! Submissions are free—winner receives a $100 prize, publication, and an interview feature. Submission guidelines here: sophonlit.com/contest 🌟🌟🌟

If you're outside of music academia wondering why so many of them are freaking out, the best analogue I can come up with is to imagine how writing professors would react if on the first day of school they got an email saying that Microsoft Word will be discontinued

course selection reduces my faith in humanity. guy sitting in front of me, why are you getting angry at the student advisor who is trying to help you? it's not her fault that some classes have 2 spots.

this would fix me

i must become like this

I don’t think people are talking about the Hurculaneum Papyri enough. We have a legitimate chance of *DOUBLING* the amount of classic Hellenic literature the modern world has access to! It may be the most valuable piece of historiography in a millennium

no way. is this real

i hate reading textbooks where the author says "we will divide [field] into 5 threads" and proceeds to name 5 threads which overlap hopelessly and fail to reliably depend on or relate to each other in any way

knowing what i want from life... now THAT could fix me

Thanks for your email! Unfortunately, I have filled my pockets with stones and am making my way to the sea.

a collection of set theorists who are so excited that they cannot contain themselves

openai-o1 beats me in the AIME wtf

comp math might be cooked. take a phone to the bathroom for 15 seconds and it's absolutely wraps

a 10/10 violinist beats a 10/10 pianist BUT a 5/10 pianist beats a 5/10 violinist