Lindsey

Sprinkles in particular needs medical care several times a day, for now. It was intimidating at first, but Alex and I can now handle it with pit-crew-like efficiency. I'm already in love with them both.

As of yesterday, Rainbow and Sprinkles have both had their spay surgeries, and we've officially adopted them (this was a foster-to-adopt arrangement). They came to the shelter as strays, and both had other health issues that we're dealing with, though both are now improving.

haven't been posting Rainbow pics because she's mostly unphotographable, but she's doing great and has gotten noticeably bigger since we brought her home from the shelter a week ago

@samth @alexrudnick Or, uh, increasingly little.

@samth @alexrudnick I also have decreasingly little stomach for implicitly supporting the people in charge at Twitter by continuing to provide free content for their platform.

Twitter has its problems -- @alexrudnick calls reading Twitter "pressing the pain button" -- but it's been my memex for ten years, and once I got a good chunk of research funding largely because someone appreciated a joke I made on here. It's a bummer to see it go down the tubes.

I recently learned that lenses are just getter/setter pairs. That's all they are. What else are y'all not telling me?

Sylvia disapproves of the term "bus shelter" because "it doesn't even shelter the bus"

@mat4nier Yep

@lindsey This timelydataflow.github.io/timely-dataflo… ?

started reading the timely dataflow book 💗

and to be clear, I genuinely *love* this bit from the timely dataflow book, but I was still incapable of stopping myself from making this and then sharing it with you

A massive strike authorization vote is taking place for 48,000 academic workers within the University of California. The sheer scale of this vote’s impact is immense - around 10% of all postdoc workers in the USA are in the UC system.

Would anyone in the Bay Area like a gorgeous Westinghouse console AM/FM radio/record player? Free to a good home — my family needs to clear it out of my dad’s childhood home in Marin ASAP.

@jay0x442 @SreepathiPai Yep!

@lindsey @SreepathiPai So…who are PL people? People who do PL work? 🤦🏻‍♂️

What is ... PL?

I'm looking for a PhD student interested in connecting classic techniques from linguistic syntax and compositional semantics with software specifications. I really want to dig into *both* the specification side of this (useful tools) *and* the linguistics...

@csgordon I actually read it as "come [on a journey] with me", which seems appropriate!

Realizing several hours later that the word "work" was somehow cut from "work with me" during editing 🤦

Are you interested in doing a PhD, but can't figure out if you want to do linguistics or programming languages? Or you'd ideally do some combination thereof? Maybe you should come with me at their intersection:

YES. I've been waiting for this dude to rebloom since 2018! Check out that lil flower spike!

@gawm I was happy about how the lil one turned out, especially the hopeful eyebrows

@AndrewCMyers (And thanks -- I'm now reading up on Condorcet voting!)

@AndrewCMyers Oh, cool! I think my students are probably experiencing voting fatigue since I already started a second poll, but I'll try out CIVS next time. Either that, or we'll just have to have a discussion and come to a consensus like proper anarchists.

my attempt to get the students to vote and choose the topic for my winter grad special topics course has ended in a four-way tie lol