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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

🥵 The key is to distract myself from fatigue but not from form 😇

Legs standing in front of a squat rack. Short black shorts, long white socks, purple t-shirt, gray fingerless gloves, blue sneakers, cage print.

Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) has established the Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Center (AIEC), which "will periodically publish benchmark evaluation results for language models. In addition to adopting indicators based on the Chinese Language and Social Studies sections of the […]

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you think that there is a unique “the” other side, both you and your guest are already so deeply in the grips of ideology that a lunch date will not help.

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

On the afternoon of October 3rd, officers from the Ximending Police Station (Wanhua Precinct) launched a raid on Commander D, a well-known BDSM bar in Taipei. Although the police claimed to possess a search warrant, they refused to present it to the patrons on site. In response to a person with […]

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 02/10/2026

This feels like the sort of of thing some of my weird followers would know... Is there a good pop language book on conlang? Something like Word for Word, Because Internet, How to Kill a Language, or The Language of Food?

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

It's an auspicious year of Debian Linux on the desktop

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kurt @thickurt.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Playing hooky to go for a soak. You gonna join dad?

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This culture of predation disgused as sexual open-mindedness is painfully familiar: Richard Stallman's "pleasure cards," Eric Raymond's open marriage that included propositioning colleagues, etc. As with everything else, the SV/VC/AI crowd has reinvented sexual harassment from first principles.

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Can't wait to choose "Location: Steamworks" in Hevy

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I have memorized all student names in my course. Now I just need to match them to faces

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G, PonyhounD 🐕🐎 @ponyhound.net · 23/09/2026

Tigger was the tiniest and the only orange kitten in his litter. He and Lucy were adopted to accompany Oliver, who was not always kind to him at first. Tig grew and learned to resist without becoming a bully. Even when Oliver aged, Tig never sought revenge. He had his quiet strength in kindness.

A photo of Tigger, the orange tabby, his sister Lucy, a black tabby with orange stripes, and the bigger and older Oliver, who’s a white cat with brown spots. The three are sitting on a bed. Taken by CottonRopw in April 2011

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

我只是個頭比較大但該有的功能都有

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I DO NOT HAVE THE PATIENCE to sit through social-media debates where the participants aren’t clear on whether they’re discussing intelligence, reasoning, consciousness, qualia, self-awareness, rationality, free will, moral agency, ensoulment, etc. They’re different, and don’t have to go together!

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: woof.group/@ccshan/1172932853634466… My first WebAssembly program is factorial-cps with heap-allocated defunctionalized continuations

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 18/09/2026

It feels like extremely low hanging fruit so it's probably been picked. But has anyone done the Dennett design / physical / intentional stance with LLMs as minds or whatever? Reference?

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

"Many of the forms of breeding are arbitrary and casual"

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Can I better understand asexuality through some distinction between orectic states and propositional desires (or desires for states of affairs, or for objects, or symbolic/codifiable desires)?

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

【有一點上癮～】你是北捷觀光大使嗎？我把「腳很酸的保全」從大湖公園送到松山，坐了 31 站、轉 10 次線，717 分 tw-mrt-challenge.pages.dev/guide

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

The latest technique for distributing bike lights in a college town is to install a light on a bike and park it outside a supermarket

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

My visit to the coffee shop really woke me up when a transformer blew up and people who thought it might be gunshots started running

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Oooooh the school gym now has a sauna! It's outside the locker rooms though, and I need to stay clothed. What are good clothes to wear (that won't be damaged in the heat)?

I'm flexing my arms while standing, in a t-shirt, shorts, and socks

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 12/09/2026

Here is the book abstract and keywords.

This book is about the everyday objects and spaces where cognition and oppression meet. Thinking does not only happen in the brain. We humans have become so smart because we are exceptional at incorporating the world into our psychological processes: we use memorials to remember, photographs to see, and medical devices to diagnose. But what is this world that we have built? There are memorials that distort how we remember people who are dishonorable, photographs that distort how we see people with darker skin tones, and medical devices that distort how we diagnose people who are oppressed in different ways. Drawing together 4E cognitive science and social philosophy, this book reveals the dark side of cognitive scaffolds. Objects and spaces materialize oppression: they perpetuate and exacerbate oppressive systems, such as racism and ableism, by shaping our thoughts and actions. This book comes in four case studies, each centered on a set of objects and spaces and a set of cognitive powers, each with its own lesson. Memorials shape the futures we imagine as much as the pasts we remember, so we should remake the world to expand our imagination. Photographs distort what we see and value, and the antidotes to these oppressive things are not unbiased things, but subversive things. Medical devices that encode multiple biases show that the problem is interlocking oppression, and the solution is universalizing universal design. Playgrounds show that safeguarding a political right requires building the requisite objects and spaces, not just policies and laws.

**Keywords:** oppression, racism, disability, 4E cognitive science, extended mind, imagination, beauty, health disparities, children's rights, Taiwan

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

The purpose of age verification on the Internet should be for Overleaf to adjust the font size based on how old I am

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Locked boys smashing it at the gym have me feeling some kind of way

barbell on gym floor over blue shorts, bent legs, striped white socks, sneakers, and sweat-soaked tank top

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@gruff Oh and if you want to use a gym during your trip, many cities have "國民運動中心" that charges TWD 50 (~JPY 250) for one hour (grace period 10 min), no frills

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

[Man in a white singlet] RE: pug.ninja/@motoridersd/117219701940… The propriety of wearing a white singlet is a relational property between a person and a gym, which I aspire to

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I detest disciplinary clichés but I appreciate parallel structure

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

"Moore's philosophy is marked by an affectation of modest caution, which clogged his prose with qualifications but rarely restrained him from wild error"

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: woof.group/@ccshan/1172185334447004… hello I am a simply typed lambda term and my subexpressions are spread eagle under a higher-order control flow analysis

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Greg Restall @consequently.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: mastodon.scot/@Aphilosopher/1172028… I’m looking forward to this event, coming up on Saturday week. If you're interested in philosophy, gender, and the trans experience—and you're in the vicinity of Dundee (and in Scotland, who isn't within a manageable train ride of […]

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I've long wanted to be beaten up and have an enlarged I-94 form stapled to me in front of an audience but now I have found music to do it to (automatic visa revalidation edition) youtu.be/wbXEff3TMiM

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Taking the idea of a religious war over programming language choice a bit literally.

Cover of a textbook: “God’s Gift of Language C”

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Reminder: cold sesame/peanut noodles. Sauce: 2T each tahini & peanut butter & soy sauce & black vinegar & sesame oil, 4T pasta/pickle broth/water, 8 cloves garlic minced. Pasta: for 2 people or 1 hungry person; cold rinse after cooking. Toppings: grate/julienne carrot/cucumber.

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I'm no longer sure what the F in ICFP stands for

A projected slide entitled "Embrace Alpha":
"You can accept your fantasies
You can build your numbered castles
But without alpha
You will never know your name

AMDG"

Aaron Stump is giving the talk, behind the Indiana University Indianapolis podium.

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The real FARM is the beautiful slides we hand-drew along the way

Lindsey Kuper is giving a talk in an auditorium while projecting a colorful hand-drawn slide entitled "What is an interpreter?" The slide shows an interpreter (arrow) turning syntax into semantics. In parallel, a choir (arrow) turns a musical score into a sound wave. Smaller beneath, individual choir members turn individual score parts into individual sound contributions.

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Today at the university's faculty club (roughly speaking), the next person in the lunch buffet line asked me what "saag paneer" and "aloo gobi" meant, and I was able to translate 😇

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École des Bro-Arts @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

But what you don't know is that wand is not just purple. It's not indigo. It's not mauveine. It's actually violet.

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Years ago I got a wiffle bat to be beaten with. Today I realized I can use the ball it came with for massage. #junkdrawer

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Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰 @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

XD rings are for American levels of air conditioning

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