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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
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Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Apr 01, 2026
I for one welcome our new feathery overlords https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1s9pb2r/welcome_to_goosecouver_updated_honk_requirements/
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
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Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Mar 31, 2026
better go prepare my lecture before I get myself into trouble
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Mar 31, 2026
After additional heads-landing-on-engineering and applying this to the climate crisis, I've determined that after flipping enough coins I can actually increase the number of wind turbines that get built
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
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Mar 31, 2026
in my latest experiments when I hold the coin just on the tip of my thumb and I yell "LAND ON HEADS I COMMAND THEE" it works like 70% of the time, I think I'm really onto something here. We just need a little more heads-landing-on-engineering
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
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Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Mar 31, 2026
omg guys sometimes when I flip a coin and say "land on heads", it lands on heads! am I magic? is the coin conscious? guys this is going to be revolutionary
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
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Mar 30, 2026
Well this is a great article about what science is and how it has been corrupted by metrics and what LLMs have to do with this.
But now I’m depressed again https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-widows
But now I’m depressed again https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-widows
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Mar 27, 2026
Finally setup a browser redirect from dl.acm.org to https://al.radbox.org and it is so fucking embarrassing for the ACM how much better this experience is
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
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Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
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Mar 25, 2026
New blog post triggered after reading an autogenerated bibliography: https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/24/please-don-t-generate-your-bibliography/
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Mar 18, 2026
It's been a long time and many rants ago so you may not remember my ranting about UBC installing some artificial turf fields that shed not-even-micro-plastics all over the place, so may I just say "wow who could have seen this coming" https://news.ubc.ca/2026/03/ubc-study-links-artificial-turf-fields-to-lethal-chemical-threat-for-salmon/
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
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Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Mar 18, 2026
@ionchy The argument that usage analytics support continued investment is a pretty convincing one against mere use
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
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Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
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Mar 18, 2026
@GeoffWozniak I'd be shocked if anyone agree with me completely. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. I don't think my mind is totally settled on the matter, but.. it is more settled having written this
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
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Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Mar 18, 2026
I think if I spend any more time on this, I'll risk doing more harm than good: new blog post on "AI" and ethics.
https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/13/against-vibes-part-2-ought-you-use-a-generative-model/
https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/13/against-vibes-part-2-ought-you-use-a-generative-model/
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Mar 13, 2026
A list of software pledging not to use "AI" https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Mar 11, 2026
Met a kitten on the way in. She was friendly and soft and really overestimating her ability to take on these two geese
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Mar 08, 2026
Wrote a new blog post: "Against Vibes: When is a Generative Model Useful" https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/05/against-vibes-when-is-a-generative-model-useful/
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
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Feb 12, 2026
@mc They would lose their non-profit status in some countries, but in the US it’s does not appear to be illegal. I think I talk about that here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663958
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
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Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
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Feb 12, 2026
That uh "operating reserve" number is probably out of date. It's the same as their 2024 number, so it's probably much higher now. By between 10--12m would be my best guess, based on market trends and historical analysis. Their "operating reserve", i.e., giant hoarded surplus assets went up by $10m even in 2024, when they "only" made 300k in profit.
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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William J. Bowman🇨🇦
@wilbowma@types.pl
Paren-wielding facebook-theorist. Sith Lord of Compilers. Beloved fucking menace. Silky smooth, level headed, and powerful. Gives off catgirl lesbian energy
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Feb 12, 2026
Good news ACM Financial Data Fans, the ACM released new high-level financial data on their CEO search page: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/ceo-search
TLDR: They made $2m in profit last year, up from $300k in 2024 (depending on how exactly you define profit. but both of these are using the definition consistent with my original article so I'm stuck giving them the $300k).
The projected loss of $6m--$8m by 2026 (see https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2025/10/03/are-the-acm-s-profits-supporting-its-mission-yet/) is still on track to be bullshit. The ACM remains highly profitable at the expense of its non-profit mission.
TLDR: They made $2m in profit last year, up from $300k in 2024 (depending on how exactly you define profit. but both of these are using the definition consistent with my original article so I'm stuck giving them the $300k).
The projected loss of $6m--$8m by 2026 (see https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2025/10/03/are-the-acm-s-profits-supporting-its-mission-yet/) is still on track to be bullshit. The ACM remains highly profitable at the expense of its non-profit mission.
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