This sounds a lot like problems facing academic publishing.

If you like word games, you might enjoy Parseword. It's from the same person who made Wordle. www.parseword.com

Ahhh TACO. Futures markets up 2%, oil down $20/barrel. Who got richer this time?

One of the many, many things genAI destroys is human collaboration. It actively creates loners, guys spinning off into the deep end with literally no one around them to go "hey what the fuck are you talking about" or "hey this sounds like the thing I've been working on" or "check out this book"

There seems to be a sneaky way that AI gets hyped. This article describes "magic balls" gather real-time data.

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

As I finish reviewing for FAccT I'd love to get other opinions on a topic. (I'm trying to decide if this is worth raising to decision makers or if I'm overreacting.) TL;DR Ethical considerations should be in the methods section, so explicitly instructing authors to put them at the end is bad. 🧵

“If Minnesota secedes, will Canada take them in?” is a question I find myself seriously asking this morning

Tonight was the last night of three that our grandchildren spent with us without their parents. As we were putting them to bed, "Grandpa, do we *have* to leave tomorrow?" #ALLTHEFEELS

Merry Christmas! Three generations of handiwork here.

November is very cheeky this year, taking up six lines in standard calendar notation, rather than the usual five.

Once again - there are things you can learn about the United States only by being outside the United States. This is one of them.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through the new Billy Joel documentary on HBO Max. It's been fascinating so far. He's got a great story and it has been so fun to relive the music from when I was a kid.

The verb "dust" is curious. It means to both do a thing and to undo a thing. One can dust a cake with confectioner's sugar. One can dust the furniture to remove the powdered sugar that fell from the cake as it was eaten. Are there other such verbs in English?

Nature's Pong

Behold: my two most cited examples of why hyphens matter

It really is that simple.

I think this, more than anything, is the biggest challenge those who care about student learning face. How do we change the system so that students' hyperfocus is "the knowledge"?

As a tech guy who started out in the ‘90s, I never thought I’d come to see Bill Gates as one of the “good guys” but here we are

Well, this is interesting!

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It's easy being a hero when you are an arsonist *and* the only fire fighter in town.

Just when I was getting used to all that liberation. Guess I'll wait 90 days like everyone else.

Here's a great quote from Guardian columnist Marina Hyde: "Then again, of all the wanky things Trump’s mega-rich backers say about him, the most masturbatorial of all is surely 'take him seriously but not literally'." Where there's a will, there's a way, Kai! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I'm bathing in liberation today. So much liberation. Almost as much liberation as sarcasm.

Stay tuned to the end to learn how Minnesota would fare!

Lots of words rhyme with each of the rainbow colors: red, blue, and green. Very few words rhyme with each of the rainbow colors: orange, yellow, and purple. Why is this and what can we do to even things out a bit?

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Pretty amazing to watch a stable genius lose control because a person with integrity stood up to him. So many lessons to learn.

Thai massage: it's knot what you think ...

Also a reminder that you should always be asking the question: just cause you can build something, *should* you?

I just love this sort of "ancient" easter egg. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0... Here it is on google maps: www.google.com/maps/place/M...

Merry Christmas! It's always a joy to decorate with children and grandchildren​.

“Bonsoir,” murmured the man, gesturing her into his smithy with a sweep of his arm, muscles masked by a dark leather bow sleeve, fingers stained with ink, callouses, perhaps from a guitar, nails deepened by rich soil. 1/3

Wanna understand really how and why it is good here in Minnesota? Take 35 minutes and watch this. mediaspace.esri.com/media/1_d2sq...

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Americans traveling in northern Spain please take care to not let this be the fate of your ribs. 😬

There are so many justice issues that are wrapped up in access to electricity. This article touches on them, but doesn't begin to explore their complexity. wapo.st/4a5Dw8d

Thank you for the loveliest evening I have ever had ... south of the Mississippi River.

I avoid fast food as much as possible. But on those few occasions each year where I am forced into it, I try to choose Wendy's. This will change my default option. I do wonder whether you will be notified that their price gouging scheme is in effect before you order.

@tbobrowsky.bsky.social What's the threshold for you shoveling this snow? I'm thinking less than 4 inches it stays in the driveway.

Unions are the difference between this and not-this. Join your union, support your union, volunteer for your union, if you’re lucky enough to have one. Surveillance capitalism has no other natural predators on campus.

I was booking a room for a hybrid meeting with a person who is not a native English speaker. They assured me the room has a "video cannon" 🤔and now I am a little more than curious ...

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Oh my GOD. Went for coffee with an old publishing mate and he told me the tale of his latest mugging. Brace for this. (To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)

Minnesota xkcd.com/2887