I play with discs, math, computers. Used to play board games, before I had a daughter. He/him/his.
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Breaking the third party Twitter apps is such a minor thing compared to all the major bullshit, but I think it'll be what drives me away from Twitter. The calls to not abandon ship for the benefit of Black and other communities that have built much of this site up were very...
... persuasive to me: so far I've kept on making whatever pathetically small contribution I've made to this hell site. But if this account goes dormant, then that's probably what happened. I expect I'll set up a mathstodon.xyz account.
Okay, okay, I'll grant this one, even though it should technically be more like, "if it works today and if working today means it'll work tomorrow, then it'll work forever".
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What makes a protest movement successful? Social Change Lab just finished a 6-month report looking into this and we're excited to share our results. We conducted a literature review, bespoke public opinion polling, interviews with experts, and more.
What we found 🧵
Sometimes (very rarely) I wish I didn't have a PhD so that I could go get one.
I will be taking on at least one new PhD student in automatic theorem proving in October 2023. If you might be interested in applying, it is bureaucratically easier if you do so before January 6th, though not completely essential. 1/
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I think the new richest person should be required to buy Twitter now and this cycle should continue until none of them are rich anymore
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hard to believe there was once a time where they’d send a big yellow book to everyone’s house listing yours and everyone else’s assassination coordinates
I mean, it's obviously the worst sort of grift. And it's a hilariously, toe-curlingly bad ad. But I couldn't have guessed it would be this bad of a grift.
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Oh I felt this when *I* returned home after working abroad for 2 months. (For me it was just a switch from laptop+FHD screen to laptop+4K screen, but it still felt like a *huge* improvement.)
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Seen on Mastodon which sums it up pretty succinctly…
ALT A post on mastodon that that summarizes GPTs output as “”mansplaining as a service.”
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You've seen Advent of Code, now get ready for Ramadan of Code. It's 30 days of no coding.
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If you want to reduce your carbon footprint, focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local.
The chart shows why: transport tends to account for only a small share of greenhouse gas emissions — the differences between different food choices are much larger.
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Mastering Stratego deepmind.com/blog/mastering-…
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Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher @chadloder likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ theintercept.com/2021/11/10/…
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watching all these people that engineer anti-queer massacres like Colorado Springs every day post thoughts and prayers for the victims whose deaths they made with their own hands on a platform that is redesigning itself to deliver that bile and poison more freely and widely
