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Has the low-hanging fruit on the connection between (a) the contemporary conceptual engineering literature and (b) classical Chinese concerns about rectification of names already been taken?

I know about alpha conversion and beta reduction, but which nifty category is for stories about eta expansion?

Once I've got my tenure My whole life will change 'Cause once you've got your tenure No one thinks you're strange

[Kink] Why am I feeling even a tiny bit of shame over only taking 4 whip strikes to my dick rather than 12 😵‍💫

Time to tap that self-promotion sign. When we asked people what % of people can be reasonably called 'racist', the mean is ~30 on a 0-100 scale, with wide variation. Ordinary people don't seem to use 'racist' in a way that implies racists are vanishingly rare. philpapers.org/rec/HANMCI

Wondering which shorts to work out in tomorrow

Syllabus as a tarot card deck?

Hmm. In a non-strict language with mutable state, if the assignment "x := x + 1" were non-strict in its right-hand-side, then it would create an infinite loop that is essentially (define (x) (+ (x) 1))

Extremely stoked to be organizing this conference highlighting philosophy done from queer perspectives at UC Santa Cruz this April! Especially glad to still have this happen given, you know... everything. Registration here, with a remote option: forms.gle/bhPt4xQ2jR5q...

Is it a symptom of dissociation when my vision, like, goes from 1x to 0.6x

"America’s use of police to maintain a social order that protects the interests of white upper-class citizens is similar to Taiwan’s use of a police state to protect the interests of its authoritarian regime from 1945–1987… Grass-roots movements that abolished Taiwan’s police state affirm the […]

I screenshotted this first

My front-facing camera seems to have learned to start recording when I put on a gag 🤐

I love the Scheme programming language because semicolons at the end of lines are optional, just like in JavaScript

Best workouts while proctoring an exam?

"Resend message" in Mutt is the feature I miss the most as I got migrated to Microsoft email while teaching large courses. http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#resend-message

[Kink shitpost] An urethral insertion porn video called "sound and complete"

Porridge with strawberry jam and triple sec

TIL some people sensitize their nipples using acupuncture stickers

I am FASCINATED by Paul Ueda's upcoming OSU dissertation on the perception of different Taigi (Taiwanese) orthographies' users by people in southern Taiwan

Actually, life is just explaining LaTeX \@ to your colleagues over and over again

The latest issue of my Triptych newsletter is out! Capitalist China Land Acknowledgments Good Night Doon

Some functions on lists become easier to write when we have the discipline to structure every function on lists as a foldr. Examples: (insertion) sort, powerset, Cartesian product. Any other examples?

Yup, you definitely can leave your Christmas tree up and repurpose it as a Chinese new year tree 😅 (credit: friend)

So for the U Chicago institutional neutrality types: is it permissible for universality administration to speak for the institution on the political defunding of science and education?

#DeepSeek is taking the AI world by storm.⛈️ President Trump🇺🇸 describes it as a “wake-up call.” In #Taiwan🇹🇼, we’re wide awake to the reality of this cheap & cheerful chatbot. Learn more via my #Newsday talk from 28:12. 🎧 ▶️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... ▶️ sayit.archive.tw/2025-01-25-i...

Do computer-scientist masochists start counting out the strokes at 0?

I only use the word "balmy" ironically

Morning Wood, a play party for people who get up early and go to bed early

Been running into Korean artist SUH Do-Ho's sculptures a lot lately. Don't you think his meditation on the power dynamics between the individual and the collective is quite kinky and erotic? #ModernArt #Sculpture #KoreanArt #KoreanArtist #boots #Leather […] [Original post on woof.group]

The most clear-eyed overview of Taiwan's current political crisis that I've seen in English. (Though ignore the subtitle that says it "has nothing to do with China." That is clearly not the case.)

A periodic reminder to any followers I have on Bluesky: If you would like me to see your posts and replies to me, you must opt-in to ActivityPub bridging. Follow https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy to do so! 🙏

“Is the term ‘racist’ being applied so widely that it is losing its moral force? … We argue that claims about the conceptual inflation of ‘racist’, as they are standardly understood, are overblown.” https://philpapers.org/rec/HANMCI

So, uh, the last time I had to call malloc() was a quarter century ago, and I am struggling to do basic tasks without corrupting the heap. I would love to hire one of you stripey-socked C witches for a very small contract to help finish […]

Holy Mazu, the award-winning Taiwanese political-legal drama-thriller Port of Lies is currently available to watch outside of Asia! English subtitles! Indigeneity, immigrant labor, death penalty, corruption! Drop your doomscrolling and watch this before it goes away! […]

We abbreviate "good morning" to "morning" because let's face it, not all mornings are good

Turing: 'The ... question "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.' Every computer scientist ever since: "Turing said we can prove that machines think by making them trick people."

TikTok refugees get no idea about the real China via Red Note. It is an extractive oligarchy with poor labor conditions, widespread human rights abuse and no meaningful political participation. On average people work 48-49 hours per week with minimum wage at $1.85-3.77, & no tax on inheritance.