We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

From Feb 4th 1939

can i say something without everyone getting mad

I feel this needs to be said again but LLMs are not implementing usage-based theories of language unless one interprets the latter in the shallowest, devoid of their most interesting assumptions, way. “Usage” is not just frequency ffs.

there's no contradiction between "hating trans people" and "wanting to fuck trans people". have you guys heard what men think of women

Are they not supposed to do that?

In response to @thelouvreof.bsky.social's request for bangers, I offer this, my most popular post by a long shot:

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Get your covid shot now. If I got one in *Florida* where it was declared "a bioweapon," you can probably get it easily! I know I'm annoying about it, but it likely gets *much harder* after the 18th/19th if you're in the US. I will virtually high five you after!

More of this kind of reporting, please!

Linguists! After what I hope was a restful summer, we’re starting the LSA Write Time Fridays again! Write in a zoom room with other linguists. Now featuring some Pacific-Time Friendly scheduling! I’m hosting this Friday at 1-3 ET, 10-12 PT. Hope to see you there! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... 🐦🐦

Crowdsourcing attempt: what’s the closest place to Boston/Cambridge to get a COVID shot? Best I can find is over 2 hours by train and I just don’t have that level of commitment in me

People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.

The fraction of people in Germany who were Jewish in 1933 (~0.75%) is lower than the fraction of people in the US today who are trans (~1%). Anyone willing to sacrifice trans people now, would have sacrificed Jews then. Refs: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a... usafacts.org/articles/wha...

“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃

Academia still hates women. But we resist! Solidarity with all women in academia who face everyday sexism, erasure, harassment etc. and with all who were pushed out 💔❤️

My double decker weirdos 🦭🍞

My double decker weirdos 🦭🍞

All those little voices add up to a ROAR!!!

Hey Firefox users.

Goodness, if the President has a serious health problem I certainly hope he follows the expert medical advice of his Secretary of Health and Human Services

he'll always be dead in our hearts

Happy Labor Day Weekend

The Gestapo violence is horrible--but it's noteworthy that almost every ICE attack that gets recorded includes bystanders at a minimum telling them they're evil, and sometimes being even more engaged. Proud that so many are standing up to the thugs.

Deydies and gentledem da weekend!

National Public Data, a website infamous for its role in leaking millions of Social Security numbers last year, has returned with the ability to look up anyone's personal information.

AI, bruh

Fifty-one years ago today.

Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.

A lot of people don’t realize that the New Deal was successful because Franklin D. Roseeneah was in office for four centuries

Good news (for me!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5. Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5. arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921 hkotek.com/blog/gender-...

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

Good news (for me!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5. Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5. arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921 hkotek.com/blog/gender-...

I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.

GPT-5 is so amazing it can make 52.8 higher than 69.1 on a bar chart It can even make 69.1 and 30.8 THE SAME SIZE

Neat year #NLP conferences: 📍 #EACL2026: 24–29 March 🇲🇦 Rabat (ARR deadline: 6 Oct) 📍 #LREC2026: 11–16 May 🇪🇸 Palma de Mallorca (deadline: 17 Oct) 📍 #ACL2026: 2–7 July 🇺🇸 San Diego (ARR deadline: 6 Jan) 📍 #COLING2027: 9–14 May 2027 🇲🇴 Macao

I'm sure this is a serious social issue (on which I'm not qualified to comment) but I did find this genuinely hilarious: 'The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".'

Announcing 4 keynote speakers for #INLG2025! Verena Rieser (Google DeepMind) Hadas Kotek (Apple) Minlie Huang (黄民烈; Tsinghua University) Mike White (Ohio State University) It's shaping up to be a great conference! Don't forget to submit by 14 July AoE: 2025.inlgmeeting.org

Random question I used to be able to get answered on Twitter but not sure where to ask anymore: what’s a dataset with good metadata labels and definitions of categories, where categories have some meat to them eg diverse values and interesting structure? Could be any topic—health, general QA, etc

I suppose this simplifies the celebration of Sukkot for people with very small balconies.

HEY NYC TRANS PEOPLE: Brooklyn Brewery is taking the $25k it would have spent on Pride ads and giving $1k each to 25 NYC trans folk. You can nominate yourself here: brooklynbrewery.com/brooklynbrew...

Everyone pack up and go home, I've found the best possible tourist trap gift shop purchase.

Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of two facts: 1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it. Read this out loud. Read it again. Then teach it to your kids.

It’s hot

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.