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Marty J. Wolf

@martyjwolf.bsky.social
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Retired Computer Science professor, computing ethicist, fledgling philosopher, annoyed by contradiction. Chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics. he/him

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TIL that "honey drug" and "dry enough" are anagrams.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"embrace your humanity, be yourself, be creative, think critically"
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Michael S. Kirkpatrick @kirkpams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I have a request for anyone who helps organize or leads an ACM SIG, conference, etc. I'm chairing a task force on publication integrity in CS (clear-computing.org). Part of that work is surveying the community on tools used. If you can help spread the word to SIG/conf leaders, please do.
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CLEAR Survey: Tool Adoption For Ethics And Policy Violations
The CLEAR Task force is gathering information from conference and journal organizers about tools used or being developed to identify, investigate, or manage ethics and policy violations in peer review...
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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.
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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Obviously, humanities majors can be unethical assholes (*cough* Peter Thiel *cough*) and I know many amazing STEM majors. The point is that we need a healthy blend of academic backgrounds, we need lots of interdisciplinary folks, and we need those who specialize to talk to one another across fields.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If related, that's some power!
Image of news story about Vatican excommunicating bishops juxtaposed with an alert that the S&P 500 is down 0.36% with a question mark suggesting that the excommunication may be influencing the market.
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ACM Ethics @acm-ethics.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Prolific authors and why they’re a problem – Crowdsourced Health
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I am currently watching my (rural) county's Planning Commission/Board of Adjustment meeting: folks are asking for variances in the county rules for changes they are hoping to make (in some cases, have made) to their property. This is government at its finest. Further, it is dramatic TV!
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ours are running a day or two behind yours.
Showy Lady Slipper blossoms that haven't yet opened.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I own a PEHV and haven't put gas in it for the last couple of months despite the 1000 miles or so we have driven. I am happy to pay this extra tax for the damage my vehicle does to the roads as long as the owners of ICE vehicles are charged a tax for the damage that their vehicles do to the climate.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I resemble that relationship. 😬
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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 10/05/2026
Hello this is me!! It’s so disheartening when I see otherwise credible academics use it. Just feels like it’s rotting them out from the inside
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I am thrilled to have played a small role in this recognition of Nicki. Congratulations! and best of luck as you continue on your professional journey.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This sounds a lot like problems facing academic publishing.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If you like word games, you might enjoy Parseword. It's from the same person who made Wordle. www.parseword.com
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Parseword - A tricky wordplay game
Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ahhh TACO. Futures markets up 2%, oil down $20/barrel. Who got richer this time?
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
One of the many, many things genAI destroys is human collaboration. It actively creates loners, guys spinning off into the deep end with literally no one around them to go "hey what the fuck are you talking about" or "hey this sounds like the thing I've been working on" or "check out this book"
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
There seems to be a sneaky way that AI gets hyped. This article describes "magic balls" gather real-time data.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
As I finish reviewing for FAccT I'd love to get other opinions on a topic. (I'm trying to decide if this is worth raising to decision makers or if I'm overreacting.) TL;DR Ethical considerations should be in the methods section, so explicitly instructing authors to put them at the end is bad. 🧵
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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“If Minnesota secedes, will Canada take them in?” is a question I find myself seriously asking this morning
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Tonight was the last night of three that our grandchildren spent with us without their parents. As we were putting them to bed, "Grandpa, do we *have* to leave tomorrow?" #ALLTHEFEELS
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Merry Christmas! Three generations of handiwork here.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
November is very cheeky this year, taking up six lines in standard calendar notation, rather than the usual five.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Once again - there are things you can learn about the United States only by being outside the United States. This is one of them.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I'm about 1/3 of the way through the new Billy Joel documentary on HBO Max. It's been fascinating so far. He's got a great story and it has been so fun to relive the music from when I was a kid.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The verb "dust" is curious. It means to both do a thing and to undo a thing. One can dust a cake with confectioner's sugar. One can dust the furniture to remove the powdered sugar that fell from the cake as it was eaten. Are there other such verbs in English?
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Tammy @tbobrowsky.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Nature's Pong
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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 15/05/2025
Behold: my two most cited examples of why hyphens matter
Newspaper article with a headline that reads "Students get first hand job experience"
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Josh @jmeijers.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
It really is that simple.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I think this, more than anything, is the biggest challenge those who care about student learning face. How do we change the system so that students' hyperfocus is "the knowledge"?
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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
As a tech guy who started out in the ‘90s, I never thought I’d come to see Bill Gates as one of the “good guys” but here we are
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Well, this is interesting!
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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The NeurIPS Call for Workshops is now live. Proposals are due May 30 AoE, with acceptance notification on July 4 AoE. neurips.cc/Conferences/...
 If you plan to submit a proposal for a workshop, please read our detailed guidance in our new blog post: blog.neurips.cc/2025/04/12/g...
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Call For Workshops 2025
Sat Dec 6 and Sun Dec 7, 2025
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It's easy being a hero when you are an arsonist *and* the only fire fighter in town.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Just when I was getting used to all that liberation. Guess I'll wait 90 days like everyone else.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Here's a great quote from Guardian columnist Marina Hyde: "Then again, of all the wanky things Trump’s mega-rich backers say about him, the most masturbatorial of all is surely 'take him seriously but not literally'." Where there's a will, there's a way, Kai! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Spare a thought for the poor billionaires who backed Trump — and hate tariffs | Marina Hyde
As the great American self-own rages on, the super-rich are beginning to break rank. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s gone suspiciously quiet, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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tractenberg.bsky.social @tractenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
look for the one nearest you! www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...
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Hands Off! National Day of Action Rally and March · Hands Off
Join us and The 50501 Movement to rally and march to show that we are fired up and ready to resist the Trump/Musk agenda - in the city where it all started. Whether you're outraged by skyrocketing he...
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm bathing in liberation today. So much liberation. Almost as much liberation as sarcasm.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Stay tuned to the end to learn how Minnesota would fare!
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Lots of words rhyme with each of the rainbow colors: red, blue, and green. Very few words rhyme with each of the rainbow colors: orange, yellow, and purple. Why is this and what can we do to even things out a bit?
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is an endorsement. Please take care of yourself. Consider Principle 3.3 of the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct: When acting as a leader, manage personnel and resources to enhance the quality of working life. ethics.acm.org
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ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
ACM Code of Ethics, tech ethics, tech Hippocratic Oath, computing ethics, software ethics, programming ethics, AI ethics, computing professional, public good
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Pretty amazing to watch a stable genius lose control because a person with integrity stood up to him. So many lessons to learn.
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Thai massage: it's knot what you think ...
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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Also a reminder that you should always be asking the question: just cause you can build something, *should* you?
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I just love this sort of "ancient" easter egg. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0... Here it is on google maps: www.google.com/maps/place/M...
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‘I wanted to do something cool’: Meet the man who made the Minnesota-shaped forest
Years before Google Earth, DNR forester Bill Lockner used hand tools and calculated all the angles and distances to etch Minnesota’s shape into a stretch of forest in Lake of the Woods County. He does...
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas! It's always a joy to decorate with children and grandchildren​.
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Tammy @tbobrowsky.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“Bonsoir,” murmured the man, gesturing her into his smithy with a sweep of his arm, muscles masked by a dark leather bow sleeve, fingers stained with ink, callouses, perhaps from a guitar, nails deepened by rich soil. 1/3
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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
Wanna understand really how and why it is good here in Minnesota? Take 35 minutes and watch this. mediaspace.esri.com/media/1_d2sq...
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Governor Tim Walz - Uniting One Minnesota | We’re All on the Map
Governor Tim Walz is Minnesota’s 41st Governor; a former high school geography teacher; served in the US Congress and the Army National Guard; and is a successful servant leader. With a passion and vi...
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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
🚨Postdoc Opportunity, Please share!🚨 LeticiaBode, Lisa Singh, and I are seeking a postdoc to work with us at @MassiveData_GU on our project on GenAI, Misinformation, and Social Media. Full-time research, no teaching required. Please reach out! apply.interfolio.com/143997
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