It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

In Italy for Christmas. Me: “do you wanna go for a walk?” My partner, looking confused and embracing Americanness “a walk?! To where?!?”

20kgs of potatoes have been cut and cooked (not eaten yet)

Mandatory syllabi posted, time for Italian food coms until the 26th

I ate too many Nutella-bollen (no regrets)

out now! the Crip Linguistics Reader has some really important stuff in it, and I hope every linguist will engage and find something to take away from this volume

there is no shortage of "the ai does not and cannot do the thing these companies say it does" stories and none of it seems to be hurting their valuation or the rate at which organizations adopt them, there are so many better ways for us to get our schadenfreude than this

I feel that as a field we should stop abusing the term “explanatory power”

Putting this great paper by @olivia.science back on the timeline just cuz <cough cough psychologists PLS read about something about the Turing test beyond Wired) philpapers.org/archive/ERSP...

Again I wanna say that parsers from the 80s could “generate tree diagrams” for sentences so… YAWNs and eyerolls

Gonna be in Amsterdam/Utrecht for a few days next week! Send me all your food suggestions 😝

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Tbf to myself, most of my writing deadlines this week are HSP’s fault not mine 😂😭

Sigh brains

I hate canvas so much

Me: ok surviving this week then conference then resting a lil bit, maybe catch up on writing The University: syllabi for the two NEW classes you are teaching are due Dec 22! Me: 🙃

I am afraid I will have to become an individual differences guy 😭😅

Sigh being in a very restrictive VISA 🙃

And yet these (AI) companies keep making money out of it 🙃

Cool data, deadline soon, no mental spoons left to think/write 😭

“This is economic devastation, to be sure, but it is also psychological and moral devastation," writes Utah professor Maximilian Werner in an op-ed.

Please enjoy this link to a website to make cute cat graphics uchinoko-maker.jp?lang=it-IT

I just read a terrible piece in the Atlantic about students “taking advantage” of accommodations sooooo reposting this for the second time this week

Submitted a cool thing with cool co-authors, good end to a tricky semester

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I wanna analyze some data but my calendar mercilessly reminds me I have to do class prep

"'We are both scamming each other, you and I, and I intend to win.' When a classroom becomes adversarial, of course, as cop shit presumes, then there must be a clear winner and loser." - Jeffery Moro, Against Cop Shit jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-02...

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The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away. Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.

If you response to the increasing pressures to demolish higher ED in red states is “blue states are gonna be fine” you a) are maybe not the activist for human rights you claim to be and b) you have not been paying attention to the ecosystem of US HE if you think your admins are gonna protect you

We are living at a time when university leadership amplifies anti-intellectual tropes and technologies These are very troubling times

Making tamales

Please graduate programs do not BOTH ask for letters and ask letter writers to reply on your website to a dozen highly specific questions SIGH

Heads up linguists 😞😞😞😡😡😡

It’s just category errors all the way down

[1966] JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM: I have created the chatbot ELIZA to demonstrate that a machine can produce a facsimile of human language without true understanding EVERYONE: at last, we have invented a machine capable of true understanding that will replace humans

hey #linguistics peeps! have you ever taken (or taught) a syntax class? we want to hear your opinions (good or bad) about it! We're doing focus group interviews (on zoom, or in person at select conferences) - if you're at all interested, you can fill out our interest form: forms.gle/nhBtz78hQXNA...

I hate this. transparent example of how these self-serving comemierdas make a point of appropriating the language around every effort towards strong pluralistic humane societies, not only using it to attack those efforts but diluting it in hopes that it can't be used for its original purpose.

I'm listening to a podcast on authors who are terrible people and they said when the Ender's Game movie came out it brought a lot of attention to Orson Scott Card's horrific beliefs and I will never get used to non geeks catching up on geek shit fifteen years after the fact. Also, they said, "And

It’s hard to explain but the HSP deadline is so far and yet so close

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Just did a tour of the Green-wood cemetery with a guide with the most beautiful, to the book Brooklyn accent. It was glorious

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

Love that airline companies can delay your flight by 4 hours and still demand that you are at the airport by the original boarding time or potentially forfeit your seat 🙃

My university is promoting Qualtrics new “synthetic data” initiative that “simulates human behavior so enable quicker experiments” and it is HORRIFYING that a UNIVERSITY promotes this “as transformative for how we collect data” and I don’t know who to scream at 😭😭😭😭

Every day a new reason to hate Outlook

I could not make it to #NWAV53 BUT a student of mine was there and just emailed me "That was one of the most amazing experiences of my life." This is how you know you did a conference right, @jessgrieser.com !!! All the claps!