Digging through old files on the computer and just came across an old resume of mine from February 2009. It was a sad day when I deleted "commercial driver's license" from my resume/CV, but I regretfully had to let it lapse when I moved to Boston after grad school.

Polling the crowd for an extremely pedantic reason: How should I transcribe the circled character here? The radical here looks like 耳 to me but no such character exists in Unicode. It's clearly a variant of 眤, which is in turn a variant of 暱/昵 (so here 褻暱, to be improperly familiar with)

if there's a sunday chore you hate doing i encourage you to avoid it. yes you've painlessly knock it out every other week and yes it only actually ever takes 15 minutes, but what if this time it kills you? best to avoid it

I feel like the whole world got a taste of what it's like to sit around a grad seminar table.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d ago

SUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS

I’m in a different field, but I may share this with students/colleagues anyway — especially the warning about least publishable units and bean-counting, and advice to tackle bigger conceptual challenges.

Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io · 4d ago

"We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/

Oh, you sell butterfly wings perfect for a couple of four years old? Love it! They’ll want to wear them everywhere? Hell yeah! Oh they have designs on them made with nothing but sparkles held on by static electricity and a prayer? Straight to jail.

After getting all achievements in Silksong, I figured it would be fun to wrap up all achievements in Hollow Knight. I haven't played for a few years and never finished pantheon 5. An unexpected delight has come from this:

Sharing again today since the discourse is about AI companies guillotining books (the horror!). Read the first article to find the real villains...

Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n

Here's Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social introducing the "Playing Heaven" LLMs and AI for Historical Analysis Project + Workshop, come join us today at #DH2026!

I’m not at #DH2026 in Daejeon but what I’m seeing on here looks amazing and makes me cheerful about the future of the field; congrats, @kadhsocial.bsky.social !

Thanks to the anonymous colleague who sent me the countdown. huggingface.co/moonshotai/K...

moonshotai/Kimi-K3 · Upcoming release · Hugging Face

The latest model from Moonshot AI.

huggingface.co

Graham Webster@gwbstr.com · last wk.

In China there’s 2.5 hours left in 7/27, the day by which Moonshot said Kimi K3 weights would be released. Are they out?

Today I rubber banded two oranges together and put bath finger paint soap on them to teach my daughters how to wipe their butts before they start kindergarten, and they kept calling it poop class

Experimenting with adding a little Elixir Vegetal to a Last Word, and I am extremely pleased with the result!

Redoing all of the figures in my monograph because of size and color constraints. Having to rework all these visualizations into greyscale has been EXTREMELY instructive and is getting me to rethink how I teach data visualization. Bummed to lose color but the results (so far) are much cleaner!

Today, I’m introducing MediKids – guaranteed healthcare for every child no matter where they live or how much their parents make. The concept is simple: Every kid deserves to be happy and healthy. Let's invest in our kids and build a stronger, healthier future.

Fighting in Congress to Guarantee Healthcare for All Kids

YouTube video by Senator Andy Kim

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I also keep a list of courses here: are.na/maria-antoni... I think @anamarasovic.bsky.social’s course and the Stanford course by Yejin and Diyi were the best/most helpful for me!

teaching: intro to nlp | Are.na

are.na

good move. hitters get to second base against him, but they never actually score.

MLB Transaction Bot@transactionbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

New York Mets signed LHP Zach Crotchfelt.

Ugh, what asshole did this? (it's me, I'm the asshole)

Daughter, immediately after watching her first ever soccer match (the world cup final): Daddy! Can we watch another soccer round??? And now I feel bad for not having watched the million matches over the last month with them

I feel like it’s a good feel-good moment having Trump reminded that everyone hates him.

A horror movie where every good thing that happens in your life is taken away because you were offsides.

The year I did a postdoc at Boston College I had the great pleasure to work with an incredible Joyce scholar (Joe Nugent), and so now every time I hear about "Telemachus," (which is frequently at the moment) I just think about Stately, plump Buck Mulligan.

Putting the Friday evening Stardew Valley down to run to Google…

Dr. Orchid@ohwellokay.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are fireworks going off in two directions, and I keep checking CNN, but sadly…

Having lived in The Hague once upon a time, I got used to people making remarks along these lines. But hell yeah man, Shrek Rave in The Hague!

Andrew Ferguson@dontfuck.men · 3w ago

Intellectually I know that The Hague is a real place and things other than The International Criminal Court exist there. I was still not prepared to read the sentence: “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”

This post really exploded

Jorts (and Jean)@jortsthecat.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

For the Nth time, this is precisely the stuff that rightly alarmed people when installed by Chinese authorities, now spreading in the US at precisely the time rule of law is eroding fast.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Flock doesn't just search for cars, it searches for you. "'FreeForm' searches... allow cops to use Flock’s system as though they would use a search engine, with Flock’s AI and image recognition interpreting what footage and which people are relevant to a police officer’s search." @404media.co

I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning last week. I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s reception, so I have made my slides available www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/tal...

What will be left for us to work on?

ICML 2026 invited keynote — slides and edited transcript, presented click-by-click as delivered. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.

cs.princeton.edu

Do you work across computational methods, social sciences, and the humanities? Submit to Text as Data 2026! 📄 One-page submissions 🔓 Non-archival ⏰ Due August 1 📍 October 5 @UCBerkeley tada2026.org

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