every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

I genuinely hate how many Trumpisms have worked their way into my daily speech. He operates at the perfect level of buffoonery.

a bar I needed to hear today

These companies are always lying about the extent of their automation because some things cannot be fully automated in principle futurism.com/advanced-tra...

Somehow we need more of those rightly critical of the surveillance state to deal with antiblackness as a structuring logic and how practices commonly used against Black people are part of what more of us are vulnerable to now.

*heavy sigh*

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

All righty y'all! The Journal of Black Language and Culture @jblacjournal.bsky.social is now open for submissions! See our website for information on how to submit and reach out if you have questions or ideas as we learn and grow! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It is kind of wild living in the United States after rap went mainstream, while having a working memory of what it was like before that. Doubly so because while a lot of vernacular like “baby mama” was popularized, the stigma attached to the communities closely identified with it remains.

The “I do not want to review a revised version” checkbox seems to be purely cosmetic

once more a good time to remind people that in a scientific/formal context the meaning of words, especially ones presented as technical terms, does actually matter and is open to abuse (including to wider society) if not called out when terms do not refer plato.stanford.edu/entries/refe...

What sounds like “human” writing can never be disentangled from the fact that most of the world’s population has never been considered fully human by mainstream institutions

which language? which human expert? what level of expertise? in which domain? by what metric?

The West Wing implies the existence of… oh nvm

Though tbh it really should not be surprising that a white dude who systematically pushed questions of power out of what counts as “real” linguistics is fine having no analysis of power in his friends circles either

Again a big part of socialization in the US and elsewhere is a bedrock belief that Black people making *any* demands on your time, attention, resources, behavior or principles is an unfair imposition and should be handled as such whenever possible.

it's really a deliberate white supremacist choice that "lynching" is now a generic term for any public shaming. 1

I feel like we really need to talk about what this actually is, which is a simulation of a pedophile’s experience. This isn’t just a presentation of data, discursively it’s like a shrine.

Psych dept hiring is SO trend-based. In the 80s, connectionism was all the rage; in the early naughts, you had to do cognitive neuroscience; and today it’s all AI. Some of this is our own attraction to methods over theory, and a lot of it is a response to administration-defined financial priorities.

Hilariously, I just had a reviewer recommend a rejection of my paper because I used an ethically and gender diverse sample, in a study that showed that an LLM was biased against women and people of color. I guess they wanted me to use a group of white men to illustrate the bias?

#Newblogpost!!! Here I unpack the term “racialised (un)belonging” as I use it in my work. I rely on Spillers' "ungendering" to describe a process that is produced through a colonial history that inscribes the racialised other as ever beyond the bounds of humanity. folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...

Jeffrey Epstein was developing a series, moderated by @lkrauss1.bsky.social, to bring scientists and celebrities together. The first season would include an episode where "Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky." drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...

the funny (not funny) thing is this is a fundamental bit of knowledge that black and brown folks in the US carry with them—often because we’re the ones against whom this is often ‘weaponized’

Author checks out

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

There lots of replies indicating that akshually, the term “second shift” appears at least once in the book, which in no way engages the critique here. Trying to identify the longitudinal impact of second-shift work as a completely distinct phenomenon is weird. “The squeeze” is still a goofy name.

That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group. Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Contrasting the censorious hostility of the contemporary corpo-technofascist internet toward human sex work/porn with its embrace of machine-generated synthetic sex 'content' is so illustrative of the labour-breaking/disenfranchising underpinnings of the 'AI' project.

From the Politico piece “Ortt said. “This behavior is indefensible and has no place in our party or anywhere in public life.” I just can’t help but read the subtext as “private group chat should have stayed private.” 🥴

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Linguists! Write TIme Friday tomorrow with LSA EC member (and AAAS Section Z chair!) Melissa Baese-Bork @m2b2.bsky.social at 10ET. Join Melissa and other linguists in a quiet zoom room and get some work done! @lingsocam.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

the other half of this that I've never really gotten over: this all but explicitly amounts to valorizing being "asleep". people are really out here wielding "I have no idea what's going on, historically speaking" as a credential

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

Let’s say, hypothetically, you appreciated our position paper and @olivia.science and I would be recording answers to questions about it. What questions would you have?

The FBI is providing a lot of grist for my lectures on indexicality

TIL Roseanne characterizes the comments that got her fired as “racially misgender[ing Valerie Jarrett],” which is… interesting

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

this should be a compulsory read to everyone in higher education regardless of your proximity to AI

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Oxtail as a verb is BRAZY. LMAOOOO

In my research I adhere strongly to an ethnomethodological understanding of gender as an accomplishment, as something that takes real interactional work to achieve, and in my personal life I strongly believe that gender is honestly just not worth the effort