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Clojurista, Ontologist, Graph Databasist, and PhD student. Occasional blogging at https://dev.to/quoll
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This made me feel physically sick

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Why on earth would I consider donating money to politicians who haven’t bothered showing up at the doors of the OPM, the GSA, or Treasury to demand that illegal interlopers get the hell out of those buildings?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, I know this is Substack. Sorry. It’s worth reading anyway

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

One use I have for AI is that it can explain to me what an academic paper means. Authors frequently fail to describe steps, or describe an output when they say that they’re describing a process, or other ambiguous things. Who’d’ve thought academics would not be clear communicators?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I saw this story and thought, “Say WHAT now?” www.perplexity.ai/page/white-h... I figured this was possibly politically driven rather than actual information, so asked a follow up question, only to read that there is no new information at all, except that we now have an official policy

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

In 1922, the upper house in the Australian state of Queensland was deemed obstructionist to the process of legislation, and both houses of parliament voted to dissolve it. So the Senate voted themselves out of a job. I feel like there are members of the US Congress who are of this mindset.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This has been so easy to recognize in recent days. Unlike social media the "participants" ("users" in the case of Twitter, "citizens" for the USA) are constrained in their actions, so the resulting behavior won't be the same. But the disaster of the Twitter acquisition does not auger well for the US

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arXiv calls itself an "e-print archive". I've always seen/remembered arXiv listed as a "preprint archive" Has this changed or did they always call themselves the "e-print archive"? I can understand why they might have changed, given how many papers (especially in AI) are sent there and nowhere else

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Now that many b̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶s̶h̶i̶r̶t̶s̶ Proud Boys have been pardoned, it occurs to me that they can be asked to do *anything* with impunity, so long as they act with loyalty, knowing that they can be pardoned

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Catching up on social media this evening, and every second post is about how things will clearly get worse with a tariff on Colombian coffee, but before I’m halfway through reading it, I get a notice saying that the US has come to an agreement with Colombia. Why did I read all those posts?

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I have to admit, if you just change the name, and replace a couple of country-relevant words, then this paragraph is disturbingly familiar. archive.is/2025.01.25-2...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The thing that bothers me most about cutting DEI programs is that without them we repeatedly saw the most qualified people not getting the roles they were best suited for

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