Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

Continually amazed by the never ending increases in food prices, good Lord.. Will the time come when Semaglutides are cheaper than food?

Really a shame that they don't seem to have any Software Engineers! I feel my noble profession is being ignored.

Geoff Bowser@geoffbowser.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Faculty IMO are caught between two poles: institutional hyper vigilance and Social Media. Both poles amplify right- and left-wing trolls, which, effectively, inhibits careful, in depth analysis of the most important and difficult topics of the era. theconversation.com/college-facu...

College faculty are under pressure to say and do the right thing – the stress also trickles down to students

Faculty members say they are worried about job security but also whether they should be introducing certain topics, like gender, in their class or with colleagues.

theconversation.com

BREAKING: Look at this. A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning. 30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF. The market dumped. The trader made +$192 million in two hours. Unusual.

If you're someone who hopes to write something that someone else will read, think about, and refract....you should this lookup this piece by Zadie Smith, and do just that. The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith | The New Yorker share.google/BDFn93Zhi0kD...

The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith

In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.

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I have always thought that the Hebrews 11:1, KJV, Definition of Faith was a lovely and intuitive characterization of the Good-Turing Estimator: "...the substance of things hoped for, the Evidence of Things not Seen"

Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social why not suspend the Non-partisan Redistricting Commissionw in Blue states, but with a *guarantee of reinstatement* when All States adopt them? Thus enshrining Democratic Values...

@danirabaiotti.bsky.social is there a Computer Science person to ask, to be added as contributor? Thanks in advance.

Stimulating discussions with colleagues at South Asian BoF lunch at #ICSE2025

Who in the administration knew about Trump's latest tariff flip flop ahead of time? Did anyone buy or sell stocks, and profit at the public’s expense? I'm writing to the White House — the public has a right to know.

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

To all those who made Billions on Derivatives trading, ahead of all the recent Tariff-driven Market Craziness....I'm sure you're out there. Well done! Please consider donating to International Poverty Alleviation work, plus Science and Research in America. These all really need your help.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Finally, the middle class can pay more of their income (as Tariffs) to fund the Federal Government, so the Billionaires can get a break.

Tariffs, shmariffs..they'll come and they'll go..what matters is the $$$ Trillions in Market Value shifts, and just who is making money in well-timed Derivatives trades? ..but we'll never know, and they'll keep what billions they make.

Just wondering, is Opus DEI now on the list of cancelled organizations?

TBH, deep learning has completely changed NLP From when I first started learning about it.

This is driving me crazy...Apparently JD Vance has been arguing that Matthew 5:5 actually originally said "Blessed are the Geek, for they shall inherit the Earth" and so President Musk. Is this True

Surprising polling by @today.yougov.com that over a third of Republicans think that the US in a constitutional crisis. One-in-ten of them think the US is a dictatorship (thought it's not clear whether they think that's a good thing or not!).

Suggestion for Conference Program Chairs ( @icseconf.bsky.social and other SE conferences especially): announce that you will add reviews from all the major LLMs to the set of reviews automatically in HotCRP, so PC members will have an incentive to do their own work

Dear @teamsters.bsky.social you could have endorsed a candidate who was labor-friendly, and you chose not to. Your actions had electoral consequences. Sorry: although I appreciate Unions, I won't be respecting your picket lines at @Costco especially, given @Costco's other stances.

As sad and scary the crash in D.C. is, it's worth bearing in mind .. In 2023, about 43,000 people died from Gun Violence. Same year, less than 100 people died due to commercial air travel.

I heard that the LA fires were set by Trump using Elon Musk's Satellites, so that Jared Kushner could buy real estate on the cheap and sell it to foreign billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US right wing fans misinformation fires as firefighters battle Los Angeles blazes

A similar campaign of rumors and lies was seen after the North Carolina hurricane, with DEI a primary target

theguardian.com

(From "Agency", Showtime) does anyone else think this is a really LOUD visual quote from Vermeer? If so, I gotta ask--why???

Could we rename the Mariana Trench after Trump? Or Elon? Or Matt Gaetz? apnews.com/article/dena...

President-elect Trump wants to again rename North America's tallest peak

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to revert the name of Alaska's Denali back to Mount McKinley.

apnews.com

Good one.

Feeling very satisfied this morning, at having figured out (un assisted) that the proper (and lovely) translation of "to mansplain" is "herrklären".

Once in a while, you read a paper where you feel like you learned something really cool, and for the rest of the day, ya have a spring in your step. arxiv.org/abs/2411.00113

A Geometric Framework for Understanding Memorization in Generative Models

As deep generative models have progressed, recent work has shown them to be capable of memorizing and reproducing training datapoints when deployed. These findings call into question the usability of ...

arxiv.org