I think students must believe that faculty are capable of collective intent or even have basic organizational skills.

Seriously though, if you do info theory, send this to people who don't know what you do.

Shannon, truly one of a kind!

I Decompiled the White House's New App The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Good enough for government work?

Stop what you're doing and read this absolute miracle of an OMNI Magazine interview with Claude Shannon on @archive.org:

- "I am always building totally useless gadgets just because they're fun to make. They have no commercial value but may be amusing."

🔗 archive.org/details/omni...

something something K-theory for disassociative algebra

The fact that EDAS cannot handle $$ for LaTeX markup is just gross incompetence on the part of the designers. OFC, it's also a terrible product in so many other ways...

Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick, I think. Doubt I can make it before it melts...

post by Rutger Bregman (@rutgerbregman.com‬) reads: Absolutely brilliant piece about the Left's TOTAL blindness on AI. Their dismissal of AI risks mirrors how climate deniers treat CO2. Will probably get a lot of nastiness for this on Bluesky, but I guess that's part of the same problem.

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions

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Data should not be allowed to drive until it is 16 years old. Moreover, it should have a permit if it will be involved in learning.

My most influential educator was my grade school librarian, Dorothy Vickers-Shelley. She made us recite a pledge each time:

"Life is short. Therefore I shall be a crusader in the fight against ignorance and fear, beginning with myself."

Engraved on me at age 5: a charge that I aspire to fulfill.

Shame on the preemptive compliance, especially from Rutgers, right @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social ?

Got an email/newsletter using Lena as an example image. It's 2026. C'mon, people.

Someone should gift my senator, Chuck Schumer, a copy of Max Frisch’s Biedermann und die Brandstifter.

I am guessing he does not know German, but I can’t find a translation in Spinelesscowardese so maybe English will have to do.

Perhaps he will need some Cliff‘s Notes.

This thread brought to you by being on too many search committees and being tired of having my time wasted. I'm more angry at the candidate's advisor(s), who likely never told them this, thinking it's "obvious" or "back in my day we didn't have Zoom interviews..."

Basically: do your homework and think through how *this job* and not just *any job* is right for you. If you can't be bothered to do that, will you even be able to write a grant proposal?

Finally: you don't know what it's like here. Ask questions! Be curious! Show you're interested!

There is no notion of "safety school". If you sound like you'd take an offer while holding your nose, it will be pretty clear.

It's also clear if you try obvious/trite hyperbole: "I want to come because you are a world-class institution!"

This is not saying that if you have reasons you don't want to disclose (e.g. partner has a job in the area, a.k.a. the "two body problem" [this term is dumb, stop using it!]) you should reveal them. But if you say something super generic it will sound like you already think we are mid.

My department is definitely not top-10 in the rankings. We also don't have a ton of resources for on-campus interviews.

If you are not actually serious about accepting an offer, we won't bother interviewing you. There are tons of excellent candidates.

In case anyone is on the academic job market and has an upcoming online video interview:
* do some research on the department: what classes can you teach, who can you collaborate with?
* be able to answer "why do you want to come here" with something more concrete than "because you are great..."

ICLR AC: "The scores were too low, reject. Reviewer A's score was the lowest."
Also ICLR AC: "Reviewer A was marked as AI generated."
Also also ICLR AC: "Reviewer A is unlikely to raise their score."

It's ok to reject the paper, but come on...

Action, Ease & Personalization: AI Chatbot News Experiences How habitual AI chatbot users in the US and India stay informed

My partner @drnycnerd.bsky.social and co-authors from @cnti.bsky.social published a report on how people use LLM-based chatbots to get the news (even if it is wrong).

cnti.org/reports/chat...

“When we use terms like ‘output,’ ‘feedback,’ ’interface,’ and ‘networking’ to express the transactions of everyday life, we reveal how thoroughly artificial things now shape our sense of human being.” -Langdon Winner, “The Whale and the Reactor” (Preface)

But how does my new mayor feel about zoning for combination pizza hut and taco bells?

The Critic - "L'Artiste est Morte" YouTube video by RoflRadicalRaddish

Bezos calling his new startup Prometheus just makes me think of Jay Sherman's college film. I'll just call it "Promotheus" from now on.

I didn't even graduate that long ago (2008) and when I heard this was the norm in some fields I was horrified.

I would argue that this is also now true of (wireless) communication technologies. Like plumbing in that way.

Does that make the OpenAI erotic chatbots... metrosexual?

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

TFW you open a new browser tab and your fingers automatically type "overleaf.c" + tab.