Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

becoming pope 🤝 gender transition:

Thank you for coming, Juliet!

In the face of these assaults on education & civil rights, students & faculty nationwide are organizing in their communities. Join us. The way to confront those intent on dismantling our democracy is to join together in mass action. Full statement here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr... 12/12

our cohort group chat never misses

[winces]

TO THE DAY

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Are you teaching undergraduate students in a language-related course this semester? Or, do you know some undergraduate students interested in language? If so, I'd appreciate you sharing some info about a study I'm doing on podcasting and critical language awareness! bit.ly/psuplp

to me, there is something distinctly unfunny about the “HAHA” react in iMessage can someone with digital/ internet pragmatics knowledge weigh in on this?? 🐦🐦 #linguistics

we literally had white supremacists chanting "jews will not replace us" on a campus and nothing *close* to this was suggested

Fellow adhd and neurodivergent academic folk: how does your neurodivergence make you who you are as a scholar? I always hear about the struggles but I want more stories of our creativity and resistance, too

Happy to announce I bought a used DVD player and am joining the resistance

Helllloooo out there ~ new to Bluesky and looking to connect with fellow language folks, especially those working in race/language, Yiddish, queer linguistics, linguistic landscape, discourse analysis, and beyond :)