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<taps the sign> it is basically always a category error to use physical attributes to predict socially-contingent or constructed classes of actions. We should avoid such category errors as a matter of scientific rigor.

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

A runner going past me stops when his phone rings, says, ‘Oh no I didn’t forget the meeting, I’m here’ into his phone, frantically searches his bag for his an earpod, finally pulls something out and sticks it in his ear only to discover it is in fact, a cashew nut.

thread + post reminded me of Candycorn Krispykreme (Kipperlilly Copperkettle) from Fantasy High Junior Year, except the Intrepid Heroes were not nearly so consistent in formulating alternate monikers.

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

This whole thread (and embedded Bandersnatch Cumberboot blog post) is brilliant

ma'am the raccoons are no longer in the trenchcoat, they're on the run in a stolen powered exoskeleton

This is why if you learn nothing else for evidence literacy, learn to look up survey items and read them for yourself and think about how someone might interpret them.

nothing to see, just the AI "search assist" making up complete bullshit about trivially verifiable technical matters. Yet again. (pyproject.toml has no 'constraints' option in any widely-supported specification, including both of the sources linked below. unfortunately.)

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

Sunday night, so just chilling with some symphonic power metal.

I understand why arXiv is making this change, and don't have a better solution, but one of the consequences will be that arXiv Proceedings are no longer a viable mechanism for publishing proceedings for workshops that accept position or survey papers. blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

... but they were, all of them, deceived, for a seventh factor was made...

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

I will neither confirm nor deny drafting a cyberpunk character sheet for Violent "Vi" Faygo McDonald, child of wannabe Juggalos, collegiate chess-boxer, and academic nepo-baby PhD student, who is completely unprepared for the reality of the adventure that awaits.

Prepping a new class for next term called “Data Workflow Automation” about building reproducible, adaptable data science / ML pipelines, versioning artifacts, etc., also with a bit of MLOps. V. excited! Want to ask my broader network — what oft-overlooked things should students learn here?

Besides the base racism, I suspect this flows from the same specific white supremacist BS about academic staffing I’ve heard multiple times back in conservative Iowa. Explicit, fact-free claims that the prevalence of Asian university faculty is from affirmative action, not the many other factors.

I wish I could be around in 600 years when nobody remembers why they do it but do it they must, and there’s great liturgical debates about which jersey is appropriate and what exactly a Dodger is.

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Bit-O-Coney

Change one letter, ruin a candy. Milky Bay

change a word and update an album name London FaceTiming

I like to say, "turning researchers into fighters and fighters into researchers," following General Baker from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.

Notice how it’s somehow the government’s job to legislate a few Bible verses on human sexuality over our entire country, but it’s suddenly “not the government’s job” when it comes to the +2,500 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.

Change the whole vibe of a book by adding a word to a title A Million Random Opposable Digits

just saw a YouTube ad touting the “innovative design” of losing all your gear and levels at death. *stares in Nethack*

KOSA KEEPS RISING FROM THE DEAD - DON'T LET THIS ZOMBIE BILL SUCCEED. It would implement widespread age verification across all 50 states and censor queer/reproductive content!

🚗💥 I totaled my car* last week. Here’s what the experience taught me about B2B quantum AI sales. am I doing LinkedIn correctly? * I did not

PITCH: Ghost who doesn’t understand the true meaning of Halloween is visited by three humans.

Note how the Right does not deny their own agency to make normies care about things. Abortion. Immigration. "Woke." They manufactured public sentiment on all of these things. And they've relied on sophisticated strategies to do it.

Really can't put into words the kind of fear we felt this week and at the same time how proud I am of @analog-ashley.bsky.social forever speaking publicly and courageously about the importance of this work. You only see the smallest fraction of what scientists like her are going through.

and if you want to do Things in another country? Uff da.

Against superficial “AI tells”, like em-dashes and “delve“. www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-...

Grateful to @anildash.com for observing that tech has entered the "don't ask don't tell" era of DEI. Unfortunately in many parts of academia, we don't even have it that good. We *are* being asked, with all the burden that such a request entails. www.anildash.com/2025/10/07/d...

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents,” one pondered, from inside the contents correlation project.

As the party’s veteran professional thief in a cyberpunk TTRPG heist campaign, I also appreciate this development in true crime.

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do. Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

choosing the bear since 1907

excerpt from public health text, c. 2077: The widely-cited statistic that the average national public health official saw 0.72 pandemics per year of service is incorrect. Pandemics Bobby, who saw (and may have caused) 17 pandemics in his 3.5-year term, was an outlier and should have been excluded.

We’re excited to release the Call for Papers for #FAccT2026 which will be held in Montreal, Canada in June 2026! Abstracts are due on January 8th, papers due on January 13th. Call for Papers: facctconference.org/2026/cfp Important info in thread →

This administration has been, by far, the most censorial administration in my lifetime. They're punishing people for speech about Palestine, about Charlie Kirk, about ICE, about the President. It's been nonstop attacks on speech.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

I’ve mentioned this before, but on time we had a troll influx, a lot of them posted AI, so I saw a lot of their posts while doing @aimod.social labeling. Lots of accounts with nasty replies to “blocked post” abandoned their accounts within weeks and even days. The non-blocked ones kept trolling.

tired: pondering the orb wired: pondering the gap inspired: …

Enough. Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver. Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.