Greg Spradlin @spradlig@social.cleverlibre.org
Math guy, computing wannabe, classical music lover, politico. Same handle on Instagram.
Joined Nov 2022
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I'm pleased to share that today I start a new 6 month part-time position as a Research Fellow in Music Technology at Sheffield University's Department of Computer Science.
I'll be continuing my work on Sonic Pi - taking it into an exciting new direction. Stay tuned for updates!
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Hey. I was banned from types.pl for having interviewed at the NSA 13 years ago, when I was 20 years old. I'm grateful for a new home on mathstodon.
I am very unhappy with anyone who is going after the types.pl moderators personally for this and not just respectfully discussing the situation, and I'm personally extremely sorry if my Tweet inspired any of those actions. If I see this at all I will be escalating to SIGPLAN CARES.
In a recent post I mentioned working with the department of defense as faculty. I mean that in two capacities: (1) receiving DARPA grants for verification work, and (2) organizing a workshop through the department of defense on the security risks of generative AI for code. I am always public about this with students, and I always ask students before funding them on DARPA grants, making it clear I will source funding elsewhere if the student strongly opposes defense funding. This is the kind of thing I wanted to discuss after seeing Oppenheimer; I'm a bit bummed that instead I got banned for a post about something that happened 13 years ago, when I was not in the PL community at all, and basically lived under a rock with respect to everything except math, Dance Dance Revolution, and competitive running.
Anyways, hi, please help me rebuild my friend network here.
It’s not just the headlines, its the stories themselves. I don’t want to read this article, but they print lots of articles full of both-sides BS.
If that’s the best they could do…😂
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NEW: DeSantis' affordable housing director was suspended less than six months after getting the job.
One fired employee has filed a discrimination complaint, alleging they were fired after reporting "wrongdoing" and "irregular spending practices."
1. T***p says stupid thing
2. New York Times tells us all about it
3. Repeat
SHTOOOP! Nobody gives a shit. This is not *news*.
“Trump Cheers the Defeat of Rapinoe and the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team”
Sorry, I misunderstood the point of the photo. I hadn’t read the story.
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@AnneTheWriter1 @3x10to8mps @mike NEVER believe what Walgreens says. Please read this article. https://popular.info/p/how-walgreens-manufactured-a-media
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John Eastman Comes Clean: Hell Yes We Were Trying to Overthrow the Government (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/john-eastman-comes-clean-hell-yes-we-were-trying-to-overthrow-the-government
http://www.memeorandum.com/230805/p14#a230805p14
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Just stopped by the dead bird site and now I feel like I need either a shower or an eyeball wash. So much of what I read there is bashing the site or its owner. If people hate it so much, why do they keep feeding it content? Let it die already.
Meanwhile TweetDeleter is slowly — and I do mean SLOWLY — deleting all of my tweets there. At its current rate, I suspect it’ll take about a year.
@A11yAwareness I use “Print to PDF” to create a PDF out of a subset of pages of the original document. Is there a better way to do this?
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Don Moynihan explains the collapse of academic freedom in Texas:
“Why have faculty with research or critical thinking skills, if their job is merely to uncritically parrot the pronouncements of the regime?”
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-demise-of-academic-freedom-in
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Well that sucks. The company behind Libby/Overdrive has been acquired by the same group that gutted Toys R Us: https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries
This is exceptional bad news for libraries, which already strain against corpo nonsense to deliver digital materials.
Yeah, no, not the same person. Did any human compare the photos before the arrest?
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I have another story on a false arrest as a result of police use of facial recognition technology. This time, it was a woman who was 8 months pregnant. She was charged with robbery and carjacking for a crime committed two weeks earlier by a not visibly pregnant woman. You can read the story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html?unlocked_article_code=qsFuuNKvnjIr6VoVXR3zV4AS1_jB8oyxiT3TEwCA6NuuAlx66Co8nU8kJ07djnLtjckQ7ZtehNThM7bCtGPjbrhlj8jUjFzp8QAA9UZ7I6N7gSoaXQzdB0alh_n_I-umkZ50fXwvrTLZzuDiMTwJYuW_w6X3OXr03k0POapGP7hfwT28eVMooxl-5nIhKpXwoJeaE6CR1BEQfUxMGIJz6I4tE-T_FuxBPXyZ8_krseECL7CFezED7hPZnrnaE2aImL8fAhYLdgicSdjZmCnAWXe6V8Ng-ujP9iZrah3XBjohulZGTNjwP1tPx25poO517VCgsm2V0ZO3LYZcbRv4-dByPva8YI2Zn3KM6g&smid=url-share
Or I did a thread on the x-bird site. https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/1688163609984069632
This is real New York Times content, not the Pit chBot. I haven’t seen his take on it, so I’ll take a shot:
‘Trump tells his team “I am me as you are he and we are all together”. But, as the only defendant, is Trump the man with egg on his face?’
@heidilifeldman @black_intellect I hope all sorts of organizations, period, depart Florida.
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Alpha Phi Alpha's move out of Florida could be the first of many Black organizations
Greg Spradlin
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Math guy, computing wannabe, classical music lover, politico. Same handle on Instagram.
Joined Nov 2022
