perhaps i should share things here in addition to mastodon? here's my first blog post in awhile, an attempt to explain how to extract an abstract machine from a moded logic program: chrisistyping.bearblog.dev/abstract-mac...

*bewilderedly* Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone? *with growing ire* It has to be made, like bread?? *shaking with indignation* Remade all the time??? Made new?!

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Wittgenstein. Absolutely incomprehensible as a poster (laudatory). Becomes a meme to quote-post him with “That‘s a terrifying answer, have a nice day” or possibly “Sir, these are fifth grade students.”

hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times? youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI

you should be able to share your digital location with friends the same way you share your physical location

just so i'm not talking behind @chaudhuri.info's back, i'll crosspost this from mastodon to where he can see it :) hci.social/@chrisamapho...

incredible work lots of people saying, "wow CS needs to learn what it's doing." Folks. It knows.

Bore me not with your designs for a rooftop garden; I desire a rooftop forest. I want to feel secure between vast roots. I am a burrow-dweller, I yearn for the artificial understory, I must fall asleep to fungus-song

photos from the Minnowbrook Logic Programming Seminar

Who the FUCK wants videos to autoplay?? WHO?? Tell me who they ARE!! Tell me where they LIVE!! I just want to TALK!!

If you are considering applying for a PhD this Fall, please get in touch. I’m looking for students who are interested in PL, SE, and/or HCI — and ideally all three! You can find more information about me and my work on my website: harrisongoldste.in

Interlaced Hexagon https://www.wikiart.org/en/m-c-escher/interlaced-hexagon

It truly seems like any country could be the world leader in ed&tech for the second half of the century for a pittance in government budget terms, and I don’t know if that’s not happening because I’m wrong or because leaders are short sighted idiots terrified of their xenophobic constituents

lets one outsmart processes h o l e acronymy.net/define/loophole —submitted by septie

Acronymy is 5% complete.

Don't bring *anything* to a gun fight. Why are you going to a gun fight?

A tracker of canceled NSF grants, crowdsourced by @scott-delaney.bsky.social and @noamross.net, is up to 134 grants worth $86.3M.

White Cat I https://www.wikiart.org/en/m-c-escher/white-cat-i

do you ever feel like we're in a moment where people who are actually doing something meaningful with their life across a huge amount of sectors are being crushed and disappeared and people who are wasting it making the world a worse place are actively being lionized? or is it just me

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

And the person nominally in charge of it apparently hasn't ever heard the term "AI" spoken out loud in conversation, while mandating its use to destroy education.

Seems cool in general, and particularly pertinent given what may happen to the cost of, well, everything. #pittsburgh

is there some term for the opposite of a cult of personality where people define their politics/social alignment by ridiculing specific people. whatever this is it feels terrible to witness. the worst of us on full display

sometimes i think i’m only “interdisciplinary” because none of the disciplines are doing it right

This is the workshop that (along with a dream and some geophysics hyperfixation) inspired me to write the Broken Earth trilogy! I loved it.

I posted a new video, in which I demonstrate the "Rupert Property" for a bunch of polyhedra: youtu.be/evKFok65t_E

It's closing because the UK has introduced a law that makes it impossible for a lot of digital community spaces to remain operational any more. So it's just shutting down. The law has kind of gone underdiscussed, I feel like, it's having quite a wide impact. www.gamesindustry.biz/20-year-old-...

Transactions in Category Theory 2025 jademaster.xyz/TACT25.html It's going to be a thing.

Duolingo doesn’t teach the basics of Anxiety, just rote memorization of Anxiety. If you really want to learn Anxiety you’re going to have to talk to another person

i know how to spell banana and crochet hyperbolic surface, but I don’t know when to stop

So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

i’m tired of February but i did see this *incredible* sundog today so i guess all the ice crystals hanging around in the atmosphere do have a few redeeming qualities ✨

I’ve turned off boosts on here so if you boost something good you have to tell me

Stop motion animation, Blender modeling, Manim, wandering around in the real world -- these are all things I used to illustrate some of my favorite backronyms in this new video: youtu.be/_0tNWWhPYYs

the vibe on fedi vs here mouse.photos/@niki/113987...

Me: one of the best, if not the very best, things about Providence is the absolutely amazing live theater community. Brown: “absolutely not”

is there a “turn off reposts” setting for accounts one follows here?

Maggie inserted herself in the toilet paper. I’d like to think this is a very tiny protest.

If I just read one million more posts tonight, I will have complete control over what comes next

What feels weird is being politics. Like. I encounter people who are like "oh I don't think there should be politics in this" and they mean me, like, I am the politics that they don't think they should have to see

This is an amazing resource: the receipts on how academia is responding, case by case, to the pause in funding.

here is a sketch i made in september

it me: hci.social/@chrisamapho... you should follow me on mastodon though :)