This is really really funny

He has refused his Assent to Laws… For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world… For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury… For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences… A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Got forcibly "upgraded" to Google Gemini, had to turn off all Google's useful features to get rid of it. Wish Google was on here so I could complain to someone. They don't even have a support center. My emails have been getting lost for months.

Heard this ad twice on the radio during a short Uber ride in New York City. It felt like hearing Hitler speak

Let's add: Dr Brandeis Marshall, Aerica Shimizu Banks, Dr Emily Bender, Dr Sasha Luccioni, Dr Ruha Benjamin, Dr Sasha Costanza-Chock, Adrienne Williams, Tawana Petty

Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

Does every young cleric have his pope name secretly picked out, just in case?

This is nuts and hilarious youtu.be/Zf_125ApDvw?...

"So let's go, shall we? [voice drops to husky whisper] Let's go." I had no idea how much I needed this.

🌿 Can any naturalist help me identify this tree in my yard and whether it is native? Montgomery County, MD

#nativeplants How do I definitively identify a tree in my yard to see if it is native or non-native? The arborist and my naturalist friend couldn't ID it

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The theme of this year's Super Bowl ads was the soft acceptance of a comfortable death.

This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com

a friend of mine whose IES contract was just terminated is asking whether there are efforts to download the education data--specifically the data at sites/ed.gov/idea/... does anyone know?

Organizing shifts with vuvuzelas outside certain people's houses, indefinitely. Is that anything?

2fa is out of control. Maybe part of the reason for increasing screen time is because we literally have to have our phones right next to us at all times for 2fa

Tried to get Novavax today but was turned away because I had an mRNA vaccine 6 months ago. Was told I need a doctor's order to go against the CDC recommendation. #covid

My former colleague Mark Jeffreys passed away recently. Mark was a great man and a poet, and he leaves behind a middle-school age daughter. If you're interested in supporting an orphaned kiddo you can buy some of Mark's poetry here: markjeffreysmemorial.com/index.php/fo...

Any Dem congressperson could round up a few friendly and alarmed FBI agents right now and go arrest Musk’s gang of children. “Just fucking do it and see what happens” is a stronger move for the side that is upholding the law.

I want an apology, restitution and a paid lifetime subscription to a credit monitoring service.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Destruction of science and academia is central to the fascist and neoliberal right's assault on democracy. Just so we are clear as to what is happening. jksteinberger.medium.com/what-we-are-...

The thing about ChatGPT answers is that if you are already enough of an expert to know if they are correct, you don't need it, and if you aren't enough of an expert to know if they are correct, you shouldn't use it.

iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res... Love it.

Every AI article: "While AI is clearly excellent at [discipline I know nothing about], it turns out to be catastrophically bad at [discipline I am an expert in]." I need a database of these statements for every discipline.

Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?

A post I wrote a year ago just popped up again on Mastodon: Who-oa We’re halfway there WHO-OA ZENO DOESN’T CARE

My former department of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at Utah Tech University is hiring! Work with some great people! www.schooljobs.com/careers/utah...

My friend Kieryn Darkwater was educationally neglected while being homeschooled and had to overcome so many obstacles to get their education. They have worked so hard to prevent the same thing from happening to other kids. Please help them finish their degree! www.gofundme.com/f/makekieryn...

This is 100% the correct explanation for the higher ed crisis. Are there any examples of where this trend has been successfully reversed? celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-d...

Interesting article: We need a global language rights movement: confronting the global language crisis with insights from social movement studies Gerald Roche bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou... #linguistics 🐦🐦

Thanks to @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social for explaining what's at stake in higher ed!

bluesky reminds me of the old, good internet. learned about some new plants to put in my garden and read a cool sci-fi short story

I know skibidi "doesn't mean anything," but we know that can't be true, it's got to have some discourse function. Is anyone assembling a corpus to identify its meaning? #linguistics

Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered. This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao! What more could you want? #langsky 🀄️📚 1/

Recent history of tech folks: can you recommend a book about the transition of the tech sector from hacker culture in the 90s to Elon Musk?

@govwesmoore.bsky.social I was here today with 700+ members of the Maryland Just Power Alliance! We are calling on you to lead on Housing Production Targets and the ReNEW Act for a more affordable and greener Maryland #MDJustPowerAlliance

So, I read smart people. There is a playbook for this next chapter. I believe we can do this. It won’t be easy, but the map is there. Featuring resources & wisdom from Dr. Erica Cheoweth, @prisonculture.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @jaclynf.bsky.social & more.

This contains some really helpful advice wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...

Linguists! Save this one for sentence diagrams. That's a real nice relative clause

New primary source just dropped citapress.org/planted-in-a...

This is a really good litany of scenarios that are very worth contemplating ahead of time, no matter what the outcome of the election is, because thinking through what you will do in a situation where your ethics are on the line is a very good thought exercise that helps to break the inaction bias.

My dog, excitedly, inspecting your Halloween decorations: "Are these REAL bones?"

Maybe everyone knows this (I didn't until this piece), but Piranesi should be/could be read as disability literature, written by an author whose ME/CFS changed her own relationship to writing.

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?