Spain beat Portugal so I guess they get control of Asia now #worldcup #treatyoftordesillas

12 years of school, 4 years of college, 6 years of grad school, 3 years of postdoc, 6 years on the tenure track, all for a job title that can still be abbreviated Ass. Pro.

Yard sales are just trick-or-treating for adults

Want to beat China in the "AI era"? Invest in the humanities.

I've been to 3 #AI conferences in 4 weeks. The one week I wasn't at a conference, it was a project site visit. Turn on @npr.org and they're talking about AI. I'd like to be done now. #LREC2026 #AAMAS2026 #CVPR2026

When the CSU doing something crappy isn't your CSU

Tenured.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-17 Also last day to get my new book(s) on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wei... #smbc #comics #ai

AI is still just people. When you ask "AI" you're not hearing from "AI", you're hearing from the people who control the AI.

Today I'm going to help my neighbor DIY fix our shared fence. He said he asked "my friend Gemini" how to do it. I didn't give him the spiel about what I do every day. We'll see how this goes. #Al #DIY #LLMs #situatedgrounding

Before kids: We will raise them to be critical thinkers, with no ridiculous superstitions. After kids: If you don't eat your dinner and stop screaming I'm calling the Easter Bunny and telling him not to come!!!!!!!

If I hit my neighbor and he steals my wallet, so I pay him money to get him to give my wallet back, what kind of strategic genius am I?

"I’m going to suggest that overreliance on AI is bad for you — which suggests a corollary: Whatever is happening to normal people as a result of AI overreliance has already happened to the ultra-wealthy." Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/...

Please take medical advice from people who count 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10

“I like where you’re going with it for sure, it’s just, uh, I was thinking we’d go with something a little more, I don’t know, modern?” said Vice President JD Vance

Goody

While there are cases where "AI" (however you define that) can be helpful for things like human flourishing and well-being, the emphasis on scale as necessary for bringing them to fruition is inherently totalizing & makes its integration with the machinery of destruction seem inevitable

Cool new benchmark and dataset to appear at LREC 2026. See you in Palma! #NLP #AI #LLMs

Me 2022: I'm not trying to build Skynet. Me 2026: I'm trying to stop the people (not me) building Skynet.

Impeccable timing on this one

The 4yo (for context, in her Disney Princess era) is watching the Winter Olympics. Does it inspire her to do figure skating? No, more like the luge, the skeleton, and ski jumping ⛷️ 💀

Unsaid here: how many technical researchers and academics are being fundamentally chickenshit about this because they (we) fear losing access to data and/or models.

I can't be the only one wondering by @realblucifer.bsky.social is suddenly posting in Ge'ez

The most annoying thing about Peppa Pig is how it tries to convince you that the English can possibly be good people

Am I a bad person for telling the 4yo she can't play with her Paw Patrol toy because it's stuck in traffic?

New story by me in @quantamagazine.bsky.social unpacking the provocatively named "Platonic representation hypothesis." In what sense, and to what degree, are different AI models are growing more similar?

In mid-2019 in Copenhagen I met a Ukrainian immigrant to Denmark who was weirdly pro-Trump. Really wonder what she's thinking now.

As tech companies try to sell us on the idea that life itself is an inconvenience, "an orientation toward friction is really the only defense we have against the life-annihilating suction of technologies of escape," @kjezermorton.bsky.social writes. www.thecut.com/article/broo...

Very cool that it is now 2003 and I can be 16 again instead of 39

Who is the target audience for the cartoon Progressive Insurance commercials on Disney Jr+?

The 4yo is doing a good job asking for consent before touching. Unfortunately her way of asking is uniformly "can I touch your body?"

Had a great time at #NeurIPS2025 but if it's okay now I'd like to not hear about #AI for at least six weeks

Excited 2 learn about A1 technology #NeurIPS2025

Today I learned of the existence of the journal Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems. Read the acronym and then wonder WTF they were thinking.

At @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego this week? Come watch us rant in front of an enormous poster Thursday 12/4 from 11-2 PST, station #2010 Poster link: tinyurl.com/bxcdrwpd #AI #LLMs #NLP

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

You know how you watch a video and you can sort of smell it and the smell is so bad you kind of taste it in the back of your mouth? Further, #LLMs must be destroyed

Not sure what's worse: people who don't understand how #LLMs work trying to build #AI systems, or people who do

I'll be the first to criticize our society's overinvestment in massive piles of linear algebra but this is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read

War were declared #CSU #FortCollins #Colorado

Happy to have our paper "Learning 'Partner-Aware' Collaborators in Multi-Party Collaborations" appearing at #NeurIPS2025 this year! #LLMs are bad collaborators but having them generate and train over counterfactual scenarios can make them better #NLP #AI

A Hawaiian/Jamaican/Japanese fusion place called Poké, Mon

And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who helped make the first ORIGen workshop a success! @andreasvlachos.bsky.social @malihealikhani.bsky.social @qveraliao.bsky.social #COLM2025 #AI #NLP #LLMs

The dilemma of French Canada is whether I can get away with putting on my "I'm not American" accent

Sad that #COLM2025 is going to be over? Don't be! The ORIGen workshop starts tomorrow at 9:00am in room 518A of Palais des Congrès #AI #NLP #LLMs

I'm back in the States, can we still get Tylenol here?

We are hiring! The Dept. of Computer Science at Colorado State University will be hiring 1 Tenure Track Assistant Professor in AI to start in fall 2026. Please visit jobs.colostate.edu/postings/166... for details. CSU is an EO employer and conducts background checks on all final candidates.

We are excited to welcome @malihealikhani.bsky.social to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for her keynote talk "Theory of Mind in Generative Models: From Uncertainty to Shared Meaning"! We look forward to this exciting speaker lineup in Montreal next month! #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

@colorado.gov One reason I moved to Colorado is that it's like New Mexico with inferior green chile and better everything else. Your move

Genuinely think that no one is suffering more in the era of AI than guys named Al