I have no interest in Christian teachings, but I was excited to see what the new Latin translations are for tech words in the recent encyclical. Disappointed to learn that the Latin text doesn't get released until later so we have to wait for that.

I was in a different field but I'm sure our graph looks similar. I finished my PhD in 2010 lol. I'm extremely happy I was able to transition into industry, but not everyone could or did. That gap contains hundreds of people permanently shut out of the career they trained for

Current state of languages you can get voting materials in here in LA county

Fantastic bit of historic trivia from the Jewish Language Project

Goated children’s musician and poster

I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this. The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

> looking at tech sector layoffs > ask the hr manager if the layoffs are from ai or from the end of zirp > she doesn't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is ai replacement and what is zirp > she laughs and says "they’re good layoffs sir” > check the data > its zirp

Moby Dick, Germinal, Beloved

120 ἠδ᾽ Ἔρος, ὃς κάλλιστος ἐν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι, /ɛːd é̞ro̞s ʰò̞s kállisto̞s e̞n aːtʰanátoisi tʰe̞oîsi/ And Eros, who is the most beautiful among the immortal gods, | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ |

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Extremely funny to have opinions about the race of a woman who hatched from an egg

Using Haiku to craft prompts to feed to Sonnet to build a hacking harness for Opus so it can craft zero days to steal someone's Mythos API access. And then using Mythos to craft more complex zero days to break into Anthropic and steal my true prize: the weights for Golden Gate Claude.

Mainstream USA culture pretends indigenous American languages don't exist so that it doesn't have to pretend it cares about them - in my opinion. What happens when we lose a language? | Language | The Guardian share.google/BORhvT37rWle...

I am absolutely here for @oliver.ie 's motion at tonight's Cork City Council meeting (referred to a relevant committee).

Important LA transit news

me in the early neolithic Levant, seeing a building for the first time: "aww cute it even has a nose!"

Semantics 1 instructors: time to update your "Who is the current king of France?" examples

Neither a “class in itself” nor a “class for itself” but rather a new third thing: a class against itself

Sorry can we back up a little there?

Bonne fête du travail! A French woman in overalls with lace collar, 1917. The French government didn’t provide clothes for women working in munitions & other plants. So they adapted men’s overalls & perked them up, often with jewellery. #fêtedutravail

Proto-Indo-European speakers in 3500 BCE:

For #EpigraphyTuesday and #TilesOnTuesday I’m sharing a 2,000 year old joke from a Roman roof tile (tegula). The cursive inscription reads: “VENTVRAM / TERRIS / VID(es me)” – “Now that you see me, I’ve fallen to the ground.” From Vienna, on display at Römermuseum Vienna 📷 me 🏺

You can't just get away with abstracts like this anymore...

please make way on the timeline, cattle coming through

A fun fact is that this also works with "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel."

Happy birthday to a real one

I'm reading a book about the Dreyfus affair and a very funny thing I learned is that at his second trial he was found guilty of "treason with extenuating circumstances"

gefilte fish obviously

> Try to buy something online > Credit card autofills with expiration date 08/27 > Site says the expiration date is invalid > See small print that says the expected format is MM/YYYY Sorry, my bad for trying to pay with a card issued during the Julio-Claudian dynasty

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

love how there are so many words for drinking straw across latin america that they have to include 11 of them on a nyc sign (i say cañita)

Vacantly eyeing the heaving whale

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

If you let me write a website for kids this is the kind of shit I would come up with

I'm delighted to announce my appointment as the first Alfredo Trombetti Professor of Nostratic Languages. No longer will Harvard linguistics students have to submit to the dogma that language families must be built on evidence rather than vibes.

Liam has reminded me of something I've been meaning to do for a while: Why "Beauvoir" and not "de Beauvoir"? A thread 🧵

We don't talk enough about how the old lady whispering hush appears to have a full set of Loebs

And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formally indite his circulars?

My ancestors were mostly reds who left after 1905. Another fled conscription (supposedly payed a Polish peasant to smuggle him out in a wagon under a bale of hay.) The SS killed all the Jews in the towns that they came from. One town has reused stones from the Jewish cemetery to build apartments.

Did everyone else know that Francisco Franco styled himself "protector of Islam" and sponsored a hajj during the Civil War?

we need more linguists because i don't want to have to explain to otherwise educated people that there's no such thing as a "biological pronoun"

We don't talk enough about how the old lady whispering hush appears to have a full set of Loebs

UPGRADED YOUR RAM FOR YOU

A soul’s a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon.