i promise to any philosopher that they are by no means obligated to outsource the core work of philosophy to a proprietary synthetic text generator, no matter what accountants tell them

shaken to my core by learning that in the UK that dance is called the "hokey cokey"

"Handen af van de eigen koopwoning," stelt BBB. Wat zeggen ze vervolgens? Een kort draadje boerburgerbeweging.nl/fractienieuw...

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

I'm looking to recruit participants aged 18+ who are based in the United States and speak English at home. You'll need headphones for this study (it's listening to audio clips), it will last ~30 minutes, and you can receive $5 for participating! illinoisstate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

if you're already violating any standard of decency and the rule of law, might as well also violate your own presuppositions

de wachtrij voor gratis Op de Ring tickets is terecht een realistische simulatie van in de file staan tijdens de spits

exploring the fecundity of human cognition (from gärdenfors 2014, The Geometry of Meaning, p. 223)

is there a compelling reason, in the year of our lord 2025 (or ever), for bibliographies to include the city in which a book is published?

Linguists organizing major conferences in the US: please make your venue hybrid! Many non-US colleagues can't/don't want to travel to the US anymore

wow, can't believe how much daylight we're saving now

again, the us is no longer a safe venue: conferences, conventions, personal visits … bsky.app/profile/lexi...

TIL that the United Auto Workers, a union who also represents tens of thousands of US grad students and which I used to be a member of, expressed unequivocal support for the disastrous tariffs (www.cbc.ca/player/play/...) when your unions start backing authoritarians, may I suggest making a new one

hagiography (the study of the hague)

started saying "zed" instead of "zee" in lectures to accommodate the audience but it makes me feel deeply fraudulent

tony hawk's pro nouns

"I'm a drug addict to cope with my drug addiction"

editing government documents and blacklisting agencies/programs to implement censorship of the very idea of trans people is disturbing and authoritarian enough, but the fact that it's obviously being implemented with string find+replace tells you how carefully considered it is

wie zegt dat Jehovah's getuigen geen gevoel voor humor hebben?

Tonight staff of Utrecht University who came together to discuss new actions against the budget cuts to higher education, have decided that there will be a strike on Tuesday 11 March. At this moment, a preparation action-comittee is being formed, coordinated by the Union FNV. >

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

new headline question example just dropped

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ugh, winter! forced indoors wrapped in a blanket with nothing to read. if only the new Proceedings of SuB would drop so I could read an analysis of tag questions in terms of the semantics of prosodic integration. wait a minute, what's this I see in my inbox? ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.ph...

it was only a matter of time before overleaf decided to jam some AI nonsense down our throats

entering my villain arc (being assigned as reviewer #2)

argument structure gone wild: in the construction "x is due" wrt pregnancies, x can either refer to the birth-giver or the birth-experiencer

Utrecht mayor Sharon Dijksma: We in Utrecht are strong supporters of the right to protest Also Sharon Dijksma: You really shouldn't protest tomorrow because...uh...maybe there'll be violence, idk

some non-compositional semantics going on on lichess

Given this government’s xenophobic and destructive stance, it’s uncertain whether any petition—especially one initiated abroad—will sway their decisions. Nevertheless, it could boost morale here and reinforce the will to resist. Please add your name to the petition! www.change.org/p/stop-cuts-...

Terwijl de huidige regering probeert universiteiten leeg te zuigen, hebben UvA en VU blijkbaar voldoende geld om dystopische toegangscontroles uit te voeren in de naam van "veiligheid". Ongelofelijk, maar ik kan het helaas wél geloven. Openbare universiteiten moeten zich niet afsluiten.

ursula just DM me next time

rock the

tfw the horse raced past the barn fell

ziet er bruin uit voor mij

So you're thinking about getting ChatGPT to write something for you.... (adapted from www.linkedin.com/posts/tyulka...)

don't drop this cup on the ground, throw it in the ocean with the turtles instead

in all worlds compatible with pressure on biden accessible from a world compatible with his knowledge in all worlds compatible with appearances in all worlds compatible with what people close to biden say, biden leaves the race

de twee geslachten

feel like they want me to draw some inferences about sarah

the world if latex error messages were useful

as a coloradan in the netherlands, i'm equal parts tickled and baffled to learn that the dutch 1979 eurovision entry was a titular song about colorado: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4K3... featuring such lyrical gems as "De rivieren zitten vol vis / Met een wilde beer op de foto"

begin your dinsdag puzzles

gonna start saying my silent operators out loud

overheard a career counselor with a new zealand accent having a conversation with a client in a cafe. she says, "you'd be a good fit for divinecorps!" and he asked what that was. she responded, "the department store, it means beehive". reader, she was talking about "de bijenkorf"

i'm convinced that academic book reviews primarily exist to stymie anyone trying to find a pdf of said book

new kind of train delay just dropped

don't mean to brag but i'm told on a daily basis that i'm one of the beste reizigers

the lingbuzz "top recent downloads" reliably serves as a mix of cool stuff and a powerful reminder of the allure of hate-reading