And of course that’s what is already happening. The poor, innocent, smol girl Editor in Chief was just trying to make sure Stephen Miller’s voice was included. The fact that he will never agree to appear in the story is not relevant; he simply must, or the story would be unfairly unbalanced.

People comparing smoking in public to LLMs existing, I’m sorry but you’re fucking insane

Had an intensely weird dream that there was a new Superman movie out and that the plot of it revolved around “Raingirl”, a little girl who could control the rain It was an excellent movie and the people chasing Superman were all heavily inconvenienced by it being so rainy. Raingirl saves the day.

trying to imagine picking two people whose opinions about religion I value less than steven pinkerton and ross douchehat

I read through Mein Kampf as an edgy teenager and thought “this guy fuckin sucks”

You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering

Anyway, liberalism and socialism are not enemies, and to the extent that you insist that they are, you are clinging to Ego. You have failed to apprehend the true meaning of "Form is Emptiness. Emptiness is Form." I will now give you a firm thwack with the keisaku.

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

Trusty old “Trans people are the elite”

The Bundy occupation at Malheur in early 2016 (and the lack of consequences they faced for it) was a sign of what was to come. Right wing white anti-government vigilantes cast as “patriots.”

i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

Wikipedia says this is one of the contributions of the 1968 book Sound Pattern of English: “context-sensitive rules transform the underlying form of a sequence of words into the final phonetic form that is uttered by the speaker.” That’s ALL AREADY IN PLACE BY 1939 WHEN CHOMSKY WAS 11 YEARS OLD

He has been erroneously credited with contributing transformational rules to linguistic theory by people who have not read enough Bloomfieldian structuralism to see that THEY HAD BEEN DOING THAT FOR THIRTY YEARS

This is a plot point in my homebrew fantasy setting

The power went out for a few moments partway through the Sex and the City movie and i thought the women around me were going to burn the building down

All you had to do to find out Chomsky was an asshole would be to ask a non-generativist linguist tbqh

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

@typst.app really is as good as the hype.

Another thing is that way too many people don’t understand that even during the worst periods of the most appalling despotisms that they’ve read about a significant number of people could still live relatively “normal” lives

If the republican justices end birthright citizenship and declare that the presidents official actions are de facto constitutional, democratic presidential candidates should commit to making their first official action REDACTED John Roberts with a tire iron

Keep your stick on the ice

I hate to say this but I do think they will find an imaginary original public meaning and rule that the constitution is wrong

i was working with an organization once and propublica laundered far-right accusations against them without fact checking the fascists or contacting us

There’s something endlessly fascinating about the idea that the ability to speak a human language is crucially a function of context, and that the meaning of a word is a function of every time you’ve ever encountered it

Increase my out of pocket costs and make tax season even more frustrating? It’s the perfect Republican plan

thanks for the advice, supreme ayatollah of iran

Since he’s not the Sharpest Tool in the shed, I hope Trump administration Please Please Please keep attacking Sabrina Carpenter, a move which will only help them with the average Manchild that’s already their base — not a Coincdence they chose Sab but it is a Dumb and Poetic move Nonsense

pajamas on an airplane is the morally correct outfit choice

oh but when i fall asleep in meetings it's a problem

A hill I will always die on: Asking a linguist how many languages they speak is extremely reasonable If you’re an anglophone linguist and you only speak English, you should understand that as an emergent fact of empire

Give them a C-

lmao what

every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually

This is why I use @typst.app because I never have to explain to someone “oh it’s pronounced toopsed” #typst

This, unfortunately, is the way. Their spirits are broken.

Okay this is probably bluesky brain making movies about more than they are but Is Zootopia 2 giving off some strong naqba/right of return vibes?

Relative who gleefully bragged during the first impeachment that Trump was now eligible for a third term suddenly just wants everyone to get along

Also she didn’t get the golden ticket reference. At all.

my dissertation was about the history of Catholic converts in the US and every day something makes me remember how often I was told it was too niche

I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.

It is kind of ironic that schools have spent so many years trying to convince students that academic writing should be completely devoid of any personal voice and are now in a state of crisis trying to deal with students using generative AI to write assignments that completely take away their voice.

precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened

trump sent those national guardsmen to their deaths.

You cannot rationally govern an electorate guided by hallucinations

she doesn't, of course; it's just the most convenient way to launder your preferred opinion into the mainstream

All my homies hate Ken Burns and his terrible documentaries www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrFQDoGD/

I fucking hate Ken Burns documentaries and I thought more of us were on the same page with me

another paper that's just "turns out Platonism is empirically true about truth, beauty, and goodness"

Hey bud this post was about you

Can we get directions to the ones that are still in need of defacement