People like @fullyabstract have asked me in what way federation causes me problems. There's a thread at the bottom of which is this, and I don't even know what I'm missing. (Clicking on the link shows me NO replies or even a thread, just one message.)
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Making steady progress on getting rid of DEIA: Democracy, Ethics, Institutions, and Accountability.
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Found this pasted on a wall in my building. The book that transformed my teenage years is suddenly hot again! The kids are going to be all right after all.
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People wanted the price of eggs to go down and airplanes to stay up and seem to have instead gotten the exact opposite. )-:
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Just learned about this recent case where a transgender person in Karnataka, India successfully challenged the Registrar to accommodate name and gender changes (not possible by prior law). Progress that I couldn't have imagined decades ago.
https://clpr.org.in/litigation/ms-x-v-state-of-karnataka/
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People wonder whether books have any power left at all in the modern world and I want to point out that Hillbilly Elegy was published only in 2016.
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Pinker said this of Chomsky, and it perfectly sums up CS Ed (w/ Papert):
Linguistics is an eccentric field…because it was so polarized by a charismatic figure and his opponents that it didn’t proceed in the ordinary direction of making the theory more precise, more testable.
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As if fitting papers into page limits doesn't already require enough LaTeX fuckery, TIL that acmart sigconf review mode takes away space from the paper, so if you forget to turn it on and only realize on submission day, you're in for a ride.
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I'm guessing most people have forgotten or never knew that HL Mencken drew up a mock "revised constitution" that berated the power of an over-powerful monarchical president. It's worth reading right now. (But also worth remembering: it was written about FDR.)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/10/28/a-new-deal-constitution/
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This didn't much affect parts of Europe I usually go to, but it's striking in Italy how much tourist stock is apartments. It's almost hard to find a hotel! I don't mean Venice/Rome/Florence, but even 2nd/3rd-tier cities. Starting to viscerally see where the protests come from.
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Registrations are open for the 2025 PL summer school in Bertinoro! See you there if you're attending!
https://pliss.org/2025/
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Grading on a curve is like a distributed system: the success/failure of a student you didn't even know existed can render your own grade unstable. (Seeing a kid's friend losing honors because some other student's parents moved out of town!) Yet another reason to not like it.
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I have now read several news articles that mention that Trump is trying to figure out how to restore TikTok, and literally not a single one has pointed out that he STARTED this whole mess (unless I'm mis-remembering?). There was that whole "Oracle will buy TikTok" boondoggle? Not a whisper!
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I did a what now, Lufthansa?
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Trying to figure out why Elon's transgender child is real estate news…Oh, I see, I'm on the WSJ, so this is perfect clickbait for the median readership.
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Saw a truck for a home repair company named NETZERO; by pure coincidence, the same day I was cleaning out an ANCIENT laptops that had software most people are too young to know: for 10 years there was a must-have software called NetZero — a "free dial-up ISP". Wild times.
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I just love when a coffee shop serves your espresso with a sidecar of sparkling water. (This is at Bolt location in downtown Providence. A nice bit of crema, too.)
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Stephanie M Lee has written a fine piece about the NeurIPS high school AI contest!
https://www.chronicle.com/article/teens-are-doing-ai-research-now-is-that-a-good-thing
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It's neat to be walking around and casually pass a car with an American Mathematical Society bumper sticker. No name, just logo — this is definitely an IYKYK-type sticker! (AMS is HQed in Providence.)
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