"Generative AI is designed to create things that look real; predictive AI identifies what is real. A misunderstanding that generative systems are retrieving things when they are actually creating them has led to grave consequences"

Great news for SF: “The new venue will be a live performing arts and cafe space with music, live theater, sketch comedy, open mic, dance classes and a little bit of circus.” Opening in 2027 ❤️

A new theater offering live music, dance classes, circus and plays is coming to the Mission. missionlocal.org/2025/12/new-...

“Multilingual learners do not need us to fix their English…but they need us to design learning where their full linguistic repertoires are seen as an asset.” Insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast [email protected] speaks with Cindy Valdez! www.languageonthemove.com/your-languag...

Hey linguists, check it out! @lingsocam.bsky.social has virtual registration options for the #LSA2026 meeting: web.cvent.com/event/d45318... 🐦🐦

In this podcast Cindy Alvarez talks about how to center and celebrate each person’s language (and identity) in learning contexts, but applicable in so many other contexts. As she says “You are your language” and “you all have to celebrate what you bring in”

🧵Register for virtual attendance at the #LSA2026 conference! You can filter the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting Program for the Track "Hybrid" and see the 45 sessions that virtual registrants will be able to attend. www.linguisticsociety.org. And some real talk below:

I am truly shocked to not find more thinkpieces on the incredible graphic design and typography of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign but maybe that’s because searching on the internet is garbage now. TL;DR lead designer was Aneesh Bhoopathy of Forge Co-Op Roundup of articles in thread 🧵

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Protesters formed a human banner Saturday morning at S.F.'s Ocean Beach, spelling out “NO KINGS” and “YES ON 50,” encouraging the passage of a measure on the November ballot to redraw California’s congressional districts in response to Texas’ GOP-focused remapping. 📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP

Introduction to JBLAC Webinar Nov 7, 2025 | 6–7:30 PM ET Learn about the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—its mission, vision, & role in advancing Black language & culture scholarship. Hear from the team & discover how your work can engage with this new community. bit.ly/48Cjc0V

Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin - from someone growing up internalizing the stigma associated with our native dialect chenchenzhang.net/2025/10/05/s...

This is so so true

This looks interesting! Not sure what languages it focuses on. But hope it has examples from discourse that might help show how randomization in speech synthesis could undermine voice user experiences

Great review!

@michaelharriot.bsky.social wrote this two years before George Floyd was murdered on camera by police. It seems even more appropriate now. www.theroot.com/civility-is-...

How do we make better language choices? And what's beyond conscious language? Check out our episode with @karenyin.bsky.social, author of the Conscious Style Guide. Wherever you get your podcasts. becauselanguage.com/123-consciou...

This wide-ranging session was recorded live and is now available in its entirety at the link below! BTW, as a "bonus," I also discussed the recent tsunami alert "kerfuffle" (and why we need to do better contextualizing watches vs warnings vs advisories from NOAA/NWS!). #CAwx #CAwater #CAfire

Bernard Stiegler Memorial Lecture 2025 Hidetaka Ishida (石田英敬): How can we go on … in the night? For Bernard Stiegler Moderator and Discussant: Yuk Hui 5 August 2025, 8pm HKT―10pm AEST―2pm CEST (Online) Register: bit.ly/44MwRin Info: philosophyandtechnology.network/6775/lecture...

What a great episode!

Language is a wonder. As in: We wonder what makes it all work. So we're talking to linguistic lion Stephen Levinson of ‪@mpi-nl.bsky.social about his new book The Interaction Engine. (The book is open source, by the way!) Episode coming soon.

LSA Members! Tomorrow is our inaugural Presidential Research forum: an hour of presentations on the convener’s proposed topic, followed by 30 minutes of discussion. Come and see! (And—consider submitting a proposal to convene your own! Easy-peasy proposal form!) #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social

LSA Presidential Research Forum Join us as scholars rethink terms like “native speaker” and “bilingual”— and work toward empirically driven, contextually grounded characterizations of language use. Register to attend - www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

It's #ShowYourStripes day--a striking way to visualize amount of #climate warming that has occurred. In this short thread, I present "warming stripes" two ways for 3 major California cities (Sacramento, San Francisco, & Los Angeles), & reflect on context. #CAwx #CAwater #CAfire

For everyone who was sad to miss it, the recording of the Data & Society event about THE AI CON (me and @alexhanna.bsky.social) and EMPIRE OF AI (@karenhao.bsky.social) moderated by @tamigraph.bsky.social is now online! datasociety.net/events/chall...

On Thu, Jun 12 @ 2pm PT, I'll be hosting a special live YouTube session on diverse microclimates & geography of Greater Los Angeles. Expect a Google Earth tour! Also, I'll discuss weather forecast for outdoor activities on Saturday. #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater www.youtube.com/live...

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

The "100 Hours to Save America's Forecasts" @wclivestream.bsky.social‬ event, in response to growing threats to US weather & climate science, begins Wed! You can catch my contribution, a live "Ask Me Anything" session, at 6:30pm PT on May 31 (new time!). youtu.be/CcWR6CdJnvQ

Along with many of my weather and climate colleagues, I'll be participating in the Weather & Climate Livestream ("100 Hours To Save America's Forecasts). I'll be hosting an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA)-style live session 9-10am PT on Saturday, May 31st. Join me then, and check out the other speakers too!

One day left to comment. It takes mere seconds, can be anonymous, could save lives, & is a real, tangible act of resistance, of disability justice, & of community care. If you’ve been feeling powerless: you have the power to do this! Public pushback via these comments has been effective before!

New comic: on the origins of Due Process, how fundamental it is to our very notion of freedom, and how we all must stand up for the rights for any one of us to preserve liberty for all of us. Alt-text, notes/process & printable version on my site, appreciate sharing spinweaveandcut.com/due-process/

I'll have a YouTube live virtual office hour on Fri, May 23, @ 1pm PT. The topic: a potentially significant late May/early June heatwave in CA, and also summer to come for CA, the U.S. West, & across broader Northern Hemisphere. #CAwx #CAwater #CAfre www.youtube.com/live...

Sinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

And there is another paper in our special issue in JASA which has a slightly different, but not excluisve angle: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

I spoke with @lizzieohreally.bsky.social on @slate.com's What Next TBD podcast about the importance of weather prediction, the critical role of NOAA's National Weather Service plays in providing it, & the escalating threats to American weather and climate prediction (and research).

Today’s show: the decimation of NOAA and the NWS, just in time for hurricane season. With @weatherwest.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/wha...

If you’re out and about in Oakland tomorrow 2-7pm, stop by the opening event for the Watermelon Couch project. James is recording the farmers’ stories on these road trips and they are just so great!

Oakland artist James Shields is kicking off his third Watermelon Couch Road Trip this Sat, 4/19, 2-7pm at Air Temple Art Space in Oakland, 236 2nd St. Such a great project! www.creativeshields.com

Highly recommend a listen to understand the far reaching negative impacts of these weather and climate cuts

Oakland artist James Shields is kicking off his third Watermelon Couch Road Trip this Sat, 4/19, 2-7pm at Air Temple Art Space in Oakland, 236 2nd St. Such a great project! www.creativeshields.com

My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles. Then after World War Two, it got kinda quiet, 'til Superman challenged FDR to a race around the world.

"The fight Chavez started," said Joaquin Torres, San Francisco's assessor-recorder, "is more important than ever." Hundreds of people marched through the Mission this weekend for the Cesar Chavez Day parade, guided by a 1966 Chevy pick-up truck. missionlocal.org/2025/04/san-...

Ok, so this is really good. Appreciate @nsousanis.bsky.social’s expression here

Sarah Remond, born free in MA, was a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society. She traveled to Britain to rally support for the U.S. abolition movement and became an international advocate for human rights. 160 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD

Today is International Women’s Day. It means something to me partly because of this poster that was in my family’s home; a gift from my sister to my mom. It taught me so much!

From a few weeks back, very helpful essay about what’s going on and what’s to come. Free link

“A Call to Action: A Multilingual Society, not a Monolingual One”

Think this is a great time to lift up the legacy and work of W.E.B DuBois and Ida B. Wells in using journalism, ethnography, and data to highlight the propaganda of white supremacy. They were able to pierce through official lies with meticulous work and compelling methods of communication.

People in my timeline seem enthusiastic about this idea. But I can’t help but wonder, if needed federal government infrastructure, data, and personnel are no longer around, could this even be reliably and effectively done?

It’s book release day! @perj44.bsky.social & I are so proud of our Cambridge Elements volume on “Language and Place,” which is available for immediate download as an open access PDF as of today 🤩 #linguistics #lingsky www.cambridge.org/core/element...