I will no longer be posting on twitter/X, since I have accounts on blue sky and mastodon.

I've had two reports of a mountain lion within a mile of my home in the last week, and I just saw a coyote walking up the street in front of my house. City Living...

Has anyone found a journal recently that won't publish something that is too close to an arxiv or eprint article?

The cryptography subreddit has 74K members. IACR has only 3Km members.

How many articles per year does #usenix publish? We're talking about all conferences and journals here.

To quote Charles Babbage: "With regard to the published volumes of their Transactions, it may be remarked, that if members were in the habit of communicating their papers to the Society in a more finished state, it would be attended with several advantages;..."

Turns out that Springer had an IPO about a month ago.

About ten years ago I thought that maybe I should start a search engine that would only returns results if the page didn't have ads or a shopping cart. I still remember a non-commercial web.

I've gotten used to always working with people on the other side of the world.

"I’m very sorry, but I don’t have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model". Last paragraph of discussion section. 🤡

@cryptodavidw Harris had one job: say something sensible about immigration and inflation. She failed on both topics. I'm still voting for her, but she's an incredibly weak candidate.

@matthew_d_green Cars are going the same direction.

@CryptoBits_eu There are quite a few idioms in English that are historical and rooted in racially discriminatory stereotypes. This is one of them. If you ignore the AI-generated nonsense you can read up on it, and Merriam Webster describes it as offensive.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all. - Bill Nye

Can you be considered a serious scholar if most of your background reading is on a phone?

@digitalocean sent out a survey asking about why people use multiple cloud services. Their email address was invalid, which is consistent with why people can't use digital ocean for a mail server. 🤡

There is evidence that the company who owns Elsevier has provided data to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. So glad they are putting their publishing data to good use by preventing travel. 😡

gets nearly as many clicks as Things that make you say hmm...

I've decided that the AI overviews in google search are complete and utter crap.