“1 - the manuscript should be edited to be much shorter 2 - the authors should state their research questions in a way that can be tested with their methods 3 - they should employ modern statistics in their analysis of their data 4 - their conclusions should be supported by their results” Ok, thanks

This is not what I thought the ai bubble’s end would look like

Google AI telling me I should just use Safari instead #aioverview

Inkhorn - acorn - eggcorn Is a strong candidate for most irritating triplet ever

What’s your favorite leafy green? Rocket. Rock what? No, like arugula. Yeah but WHICH rugula?

#aspirational #disABILITY

#aspirational #disABILITY

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Just saw video of ICE posted in a forum completely unrelated to their mission. I’m not sure where on the creeping fasch barometer that it, but it feels like the kinda thing that demarcates a new phase or degree of normalness

Pre-plan your best salacious remarks in the comments #bondi

The media on climate change and global warming did not prepare me for so many headlines about ice

Why does this have to exist?

Impala

@edzitron.com please can you look into adoption of AI in “rest of world”? I feel like one of the main LLM use cases that is actually holding up is people pretending to know languages they don’t know

As a clade, fish include all of the largest animals and none of the most poisonous ones #science #taxonomy #🐟🐠🐡🍤

Which level of prosodic domain boundary does semicolon indicate? Because if it’s the colon I’m gonna be mad as hell. #lingsky

Rouet pre-match "I'm not worried about New Zealand" to Pelletier post-match "It's just fun to play rugby". Canada don't give a shit about anything but balling and it's incredible.

What a show from Canada!

So the US is now involved in supporting BOTH sides of the war in Ukraine? Hmm www.reuters.com/world/europe...

As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.

Watching the #RWC2025 and the match commentator just said something was “like Belgian karate” and I’m so confused. What could that possibly mean?

Who pooped in the Kleenex? Fess up!

I found a dead bat today

I filmed a giraffe dick today

“I’m so anti-rape that even ‘ratepayers’ is uncomfortable to say” #awkwardphonologyjokes #placeassimilation #coda

Oh look, a book! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Holy shit. ICE is offering agents cash bonuses for arresting immigrants? No wonder they aren’t following procedures - they are incentivized not to.

It’s actually short for HUMANsplaining, just so you know

I need the right one to win and it’s not

Guys Alex makes amazing things for us to enjoy

Someday for my next (next?) book imma hire a research assistant to comb through vids of my toddler looking for examples of his speech, and I fully intend to use this as an opportunity to challenge the record of cute to time on clock to pay #clickacquisition #linguistics #phonology #clicks

Humphrey’s Executor? I hardly even know’or!

Just saw a young black dude in a MAGA hat. Not a common thing here in South Africa. I’m a little perplexed.

Current mood: sitting in the dark by the fireplace and the solar inverter batteries

I for one did not know about this horrific place before today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_1391

OMG, I have just realized: Aardvarks are the desert/scrub opposite of beavers. Instead of damming streams, they create holes under the ground. Other critters live in the econiche they create either way.

This was a fascinating read: nymag.com/intelligence...

*clove, crimson thereand er

Just saw an ad for a mobile game called, I shit you not, “White Defender”

The word of today is “unfuck”

I STILL cannot believe this song was legal in apartheid South Africa youtu.be/BUjcgbS2mWs?...

Just for the record, here’s a PSA from a linguistics prof in South Africa: Elon Musk is not a boer. My consultants tell me that the correct terminology is ‘soutpiel’, which translates as “saltdick”

The real problem in South Africa is the way people pick flavors

The new AI zondiAIc: a work in progress Canva: 2% June to 2! July Lizzo: 2! July to 1& August nVirgo: 1@ August to 2¿ September

Q: Can you fix my website? A: No, because you used canva

Star Wars is Dune crossed with a war movie using a caper story device

This was a great -- and galling -- overview of our local municipality's most recent governmental failings www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Iq... #SouthAfrica #Makana #Makhanda #Wakanda

Me, logging on to work after the long weekend

Paris is pretty. Pretty gay.