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Jon Ullman @thejonullman.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 I am co-chairing ALT 2026 this year with Matus Telgarsky. The submission server is open so please submit your best work!

Deadline: Oct 2, 2025 AoE
Confernece: Feb 23-26, 2026 in Toronto!
Website: algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/

ALT 2026 | ALT 2026 Homepage

The 37th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory

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The best move in chess isn't a function of only the current position because whether or not you can castle, capture by en passant, or draw by repetition/50 moves depends on what happened in the past.

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Dana Nessel @dananessel.bsky.social · Aug 26

The announcement from the University of Michigan that they will no longer provide their transgender patients with all of the healthcare options available is shameful, dangerous, and potentially illegal.

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Michigan AG: U-M 'cowardly' for halting gender-affirming care for trans young people

Michigan AG Dana Nessel says University of Michigan decision to stop gender-affirming care for young people may be illegal.

www.freep.com

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Seriously, why doesn’t this platform have a bookmark feature? What’s the big mystery?

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Registration is open for CCC 2025 in Toronto. Early registration until July 25: computationalcomplexity.org/Archive/2025...

CCC'25 Local Arrangments

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Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social · Jul 9

cant believe that this response from a sitting member of Congress from Florida, to one of his Dem colleagues, is real

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They don’t even say which year.

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Sophie Huiberts @sophie.huiberts.me · Jun 28

Horrifying teports from Palestinians were confirmed by soldiers

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

headline by Haaretz: 'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid

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Barna Saha @barnacs.bsky.social · Jun 18

This year TCS for All Inspiration talk will be given by Sofya Raskhodnikova, Boston University on June 27th at our STOC 2025 TCS for All Meeting. Join us. We are relocating the TCS for All Rising Star Workshop to FOCS 2025 this year. Stay tuned. SIGACT.org/tcsforall/
#stoc2025 @ccanonne.github.io

TCS for All

Theoretical Computer Science without Barriers

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Happening now!

𝖬𝖺𝗁𝖽𝗂 𝖢𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗀𝗁𝖼𝗁𝗂 @mahdi.ch · Jun 4

As part of STOC 2025 we'll be hosting an online poster session at the conference (6/23, 6-7pm local time). Our hope is that people who cannot come in person to attend STOC can still join in the festivities for a while, either as presenters or participants. Details below:
acm-stoc.org/stoc2025/cal...

STOC 2025 Online Poster Session

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Interesting how many “former” countries are there, those that tried and decided it didn’t work for them.

𝖬𝖺𝗁𝖽𝗂 𝖢𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗀𝗁𝖼𝗁𝗂 @mahdi.ch · Jun 22

Bombing a sovereign country’s infrastructure except for explicit defense is an act of war and must be approved by Congress. Just ask AI if you have doubts. Even that loophole doesn’t allow this. Otherwise past presidents would do this, that’s why it had to wait for an idiot dictator such as Trump.

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With a wild interpretation, maybe.

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Grounds for impeachment but let’s continue doing nothing and see the world end.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Jun 22

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

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Not a comfort but a true statement.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 13

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

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Speaking to my parents in Iran right now, and could hear the bombs being dropped on them in the background. Hope that helps the armchair experts on the internet.

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Ryan O'Donnell @booleananalysis.bsky.social · Jun 9

Spread the word: there is a new prize in Theoretical Computer Science in honor of Luca Trevisan--

cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat...

(Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jun 9

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

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Disgusting abomination

Rebekah Modrak @rebekahmodrak.bsky.social · Jun 6

The Guardian broke the story about excessive surveillance on U Michigan’s campus (thousands of surveillance cameras, undercover cops trailing students, drones over public squares).

U-M regents approved spending for cops/cameras and ignored our complaint in the May Faculty Governance report.

𝖬𝖺𝗁𝖽𝗂 𝖢𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗀𝗁𝖼𝗁𝗂 @mahdi.ch · Jun 6

You can't type it in. It's only valid if you pick from the drop-down list that should appear once you type something.

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As part of STOC 2025 we'll be hosting an online poster session at the conference (6/23, 6-7pm local time). Our hope is that people who cannot come in person to attend STOC can still join in the festivities for a while, either as presenters or participants. Details below:
acm-stoc.org/stoc2025/cal...

STOC 2025 Online Poster Session

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · May 21

Disastrous news for graduate education in the US.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · May 21

They're terminating OPT.

Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US.

6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com

Skilled immigration on the chopping block? Effects of eliminating "Optional Practical Training" in the US

The White House has taken numerous steps to sharply reduce the number of immigrant workers, with or without legal status, in the US economy. These policies, so far, typically target immigrants with le...

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · May 21

Congratulations to Ilias Diakonikolas, who received the Grace Murray Hopper award!
awards.acm.org/award-recipi...
This is for his contributions to the field of algorithmic robust statistics: "new techniques to robustly estimate high-dimensional distributions" (and algorithmic applications)!

Ilias Diakonikolas

ACM Award Recipient page

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This ‘quintessential college town’ charms visitors with big-time sports and a bustling cultural scene | CNN

Ann Arbor is best known as home to the University of Michigan, where 115,000 fans pack the largest football stadium in the country on game days. But the city has many other attractions to offer visito...

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