Christopher League

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Computer science professor at Long Island University – interested in functional programming, type systems, software reliability, astronomy, and reproducible research. One of Zoë’s dads. 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾 See pinned post(s) for more →
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As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.
new bloggery, in which our protagonist dreams of laurels https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/12/17/in-which-our-protagonist-dreams-of-laurels
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I love computers. When people say "Computers were a mistake!" it makes me sad.

But it's had to blame people. The direction computers have gone in, the experience people largely have had, is a loss of agency and empowerment.

How do we bring that back, and do better than ever even?

We are hiring! Several new tenure-track faculty positions in the College of Science at Long Island University: two campuses, and all areas of computing and convergence science. https://jobs.liu.edu/#/job_details/4740
Careers at LIU

@isaaclyman I'm enjoying this! I thought of the Law of Demeter (principle of least knowledge) that prioritizes loose coupling.
@jameshowell BRB, filing feature requests for org-pretty-table and org-superstar-mode to integrate with PETSCII character set.

Very proud of Harvard today. Stand up! ✊

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

@shriramk Trade wars are decidedly non-hygienic.
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Prescient …