alt.hn

6/2/2026 at 9:48:55 PM

End of Civilization News

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15705

by jjgreen

6/3/2026 at 2:58:02 PM

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.

by thegrim33

6/3/2026 at 11:30:11 AM

Looks like this wild headline caused them to get slashdotted

by Schlagbohrer

6/2/2026 at 10:16:39 PM

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 ...

by PaulHoule