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Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social

Once again, I have visited Europe in the spring only to find that spring is not in Europe 53°F Wearing linen and sandals while Danes are bundled in coats & hats

Retro Tech Dreams@retrotechdreams.bsky.social

Winamp Skin: ASCII amp 5x by mrd00d

Grace@gracekind.net

Writing code was never the bottleneck Testing was never the bottleneck Project management was never the bottleneck Finding vulnerabilities was never the bottleneck Marketing was never the bottleneck Creativity was never the bottleneck Knowing what to build was never the bottleneck

Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

NeurIPS Europe Conference@neuripseurope.bsky.social

FAQ on NeurIPS Europe: NeurIPS Europe is an official NeurIPS 2026 satellite event taking place in Paris, France, alongside the main conference in Sydney and the other satellite event in Atlanta. NeurIPS authors can present their papers at any of the three locations, subject to space availability.

Gordon@gordon.bsky.social

Linus's Law 2.0: "Given enough tokens, all bugs are shallow."

arXiv cs.LO Logic in Computer Science@cslo-bot.bsky.social

Shaun Azzopardi, Luca Di Stefano, Nir Piterman: sweap: Reactive Synthesis for Infinite-State Integer Problems https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11992 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.11992 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.11992

ACL@aclmeeting.bsky.social

📜 Some of you may have heard about the desk-rejected papers from the ACL'26/ARR Jan 2026 or October 2025 cycles because of hallucinated references. These cases were detected post-commitment. ACL Program chairs have an official statement on this: 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/ #ACL2026NLP #NLProc

Georg Weizsäcker@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social

A serious worry about LLM papers: who wants to read them? You experience it in reviewing and in the grading of student term papers: once you know (or suspect) that the text was AI generated, you lose most interest in it. The human author is a big key to the perception of a text.

amos@fasterthanli.me

You know, I've been very critical of GitHub in the past few months, but I have to say, I just opened a very large PR, and I was able to view the entire diff in my browser without expanding anything, without things lagging or whatever. That's nice!

Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io

Good notation can make communication so much more efficient and concise! For instance, Me, an unsophisticated person: "The average tea bar seems to be very small" My wife, a physicist: