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CS academia twitter, which do you cite, and why?

I'm often overwhelmed. I'd like to be just whelmed for a change.

facebook, fascism 

"The 2016 [Facebook] presentation says that '64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools', and that most of the activity came from the Groups You Should Join and Discover algorithms."

RT @bastardspod@twitter.com

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denmark, landlords 

my danish letting agency uses software which, if it encounters an error, automatically evicts tenants... I *wish* I were joking

TFW when you're like "I should fix the way KaTeX loads on my blog" and then 20 hours later you're manually writing a CSL style file to render your publication history

the fifth most common google search term is "google" and i am just

proving soundness of an operational correspondence is weird, 'cuz all the cases are like "well, clearly no other rule applies, look!"

denmark, racism 

the difference between me—a white person who sounds english—and my partner—a latine person with a slight accent—calling ANY danish authority is palpable.

they get unhelpful people who are sticklers for the rules, get told the person they need to talk to is out or VERY busy, or that the relevant computer system is down and to wait for a callback which never comes.

when calling only a couple minutes later for the same issue, I get helped IMMEDIATELY by friendly people.

the fash 

why does "army of lovers" lead to "ace of bass" recs on youtube? that's a pretty big step from "very gay" to "very fash"?

my physiotherapist has tasked me with doing what I can only assume are bored flying kicks

suggestions for non-ableist alternatives to "blind" in the comments please

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single-blind peer review is worse than unblinded-peer review send tweet

job insecurity 

My favourite thing about being an academic is knowing that at some undefined point in the future, I'll probably have to change careers and start from scratch.

danish government helplines be like "pick 2 for english" and then proceed to say everything in danish, except for the number 6

with all the different context switching commands, I keep creating branches called "remove" and switching to an ocaml version with docs

thanks to @ulfnorell@twitter.com for helping out with the reflection hooks!

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agda open without using considered harmful send tweet

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