I love that all the surprisal bros have suddenly discovered mutual information like the collocations people haven't been working with this for the last thirty years

It is always so exciting when people who have publicly anguished about transitioning finally transition

Not including random effects by items when you're studying effects for which different items are known to show vastly different patterns of results is scientific malpractice in 2025

I'm not on here anymore and I think everything is just as horrifying as it was. I'm on mastodon

what if i look away for just a second and everything is different

Insane to do a coup in broad daylight jesus

these moments like waves

new benchmark: any profile that looks like a prompt is a bot

god the botnets are swarming this fucking sucks

i just got followed by a bot account called purple house photos????????

"The most important thing about AI isn't its technical capabilities or limitations. The most important thing is the investor story and the ensuing mania that has teed up an economical catastrophe that will harm hundreds of millions or even billions of people." pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

The line people ran with when Harvard was under the crosshairs was that Ivy League schools are just training grounds for the elite, and the actual fight for racial equity would be won in regional, state, and trade schools where “real” Black people could improve their economic outcomes.

it is very funny to me to see the "genius" level folks in my field just re-hash older papers and present the work as if it were their own

indistinguishable from the snitches at Texas universities in gender studies classes, btw

i am so tired of hearing the voices of other people lol

Everyone in the kill chain should be prosecuted but we have an opposition leadership that thinks this is a distraction from funding rural hospitals in +70-80% trump country

Tired: Salt Fat Acid Heat Wired: Harissa Explains It All

lightness

I encourage you all to add your voice to protectiing the U.S. National Fungus Collection! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

Bikes are freedom

The federal government lists "indica" (sic) of violence and I'd like to know whether fascists instead have "sativa" of violence

There's a lot of history in this photograph ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_... )

"out of the three mass shootings today,"

"I'm not a birder, I'm pretty casual about it, I just like knowing what I'm hearing" they say while "casually" researching birding binoculars

Now that we had a party and it's been a week since the job finished I'd like to show you all my very purple house

The amazing thing about these branches of Protestantism is they don't really care if you can read or reason

There are good things we can do to save our planet www.earth.com/news/the-ret...

If I don't get tenure I'm going to get Rainbow Dash hair

Sick leave policies are anti-family

Turkish speakers on bsky would you say kazanmış or kazandı when you're expressing either: - Galatasaray won (I saw it on the TV) - Galatasaray won (I heard it on the radio) - Galatasaray won (I read it on a newspaper) Please tell me your judgements.

I wish my department had better taste in restaurants to take colloquium speakers to

My son!! My boy!!

I don't think we should lose hope but I do find it funny that American exceptionalism is so deeply ingrained (including in myself) that we can look at places that have *extremely unpopular* sitting governments that are still striving for fair elections and simply deny that it could happen here

our dept is hiring!

every time i hear men yelling in my neighborhood on a sunday i have to see whether the bills are losing or winning

Thinking a lot about the fear Texas (the State) has of Texas and Texans: www.texasobserver.org/texas-facult...

I miss the mountains

I am irritated that my front tire is prone to slow leaks, what did I do wrong?? Sigh

Translation: "I arrived in Bogotá. I no longer have a visa to travel to the USA. I don't care," responded the Colombian president. "The seat of the United Nations cannot continue in New York," he added.

it's so irritating having to block spam accounts on here

they must lose

We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.

Do I want to spend my birthday at a conference?

Duck you, Trump.

sometimes you listen to these language production experiments and people sound so sad lol

All the liberals who fell for the Right’s whining that The Left was a threat to academic freedoms never need to be taken seriously again.

God imagine a general strike

god the american publishing model is so broken