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End of Civilization News (math.columbia.edu)
20 points by jjgreen 9 days ago
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The supreme irony is that this extremist, partisan, embarrassing trash, being posted on a Columbia subdomain, thinking they're the "good guys", is more of a sign of the end of civilization than anything its contents tries to complain about.
I take it you are a fan of string theory, then?
From a linked arXiv paper:

   ... It was first thought that supergravity might offer a theory of 
   everything. But now the prevailing view is that 11-dimensional supergravity
   simply gives an approximate low-energy limit of M-theory ...
Looks like this wild headline caused them to get slashdotted