The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

Oscar sometimes does a barnacle impression when I read in bed. #Caturday #SiameseCats

The Kílta verb "kimo" ("cut") is used in expressions like "break an agreement, promise, etc." Today I added the expression "tempa si kimo" ("cut care/caution/circumspection") which answers to English "throw caution to the wind." #conlang

Treat counterfeit “humans” like counterfeit money.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

A few years ago I started adding a "Notes on Semantics and the Lexicon" section to my #conlang grammars. I put them after the lexicon, so starting on p.392 of the Kílta grammar — lingweenie.org/conlang/kilt... (as of Nov 23 2025). I got idea from one of Alexandra Aikhenvald's grammars. 1/3

Shadow was really into the head scratches. #Caturday #BlackCats

Nothing says "festive" like the Visitors from the Outer Dark.

Circassian has a native coinage: тхылъ /txıɬ̧/ ‘book’ = тхы- /txı-/ ‘write’ + -лъ /-ɬ̧/ receptacle suffix :)

Shadow trying to convince me it could be time for tuna. #Caturday #BlackCats

New Kílta ideophone: kínai-kínai /ˈkiːnaɪ̯-ˈkiːnaɪ̯/ - of an animal lifting its nose up to squint and sniff the air. #conlang Mauta në rutisët ahëkar si mento — kínai-kínai cat TOP grab-DETR-CVB.PFV air ACC smell.PFV - IDEO "The cat stopped and sniffed the air."

I'm surprised I've not stepped on him at night more often. #BlackCats

Out of all the notebooks I went through in college, I have only kept the one for the Middle Egyptian class I took a UT Austin (1990? 91?). It was taught out of the Art History department by Dr. Elizabeth Meyers, about whom I can find little these days. 1/3 #MiddleEgyptian #Hieroglyphs

Oscar is sulking because we won’t let him eat part of one of the holiday decorations. #caturday #SiameseCats

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

I present, the lenition hypercube

Someone has apparently decided it is National Black Cat Day. So here's Shadow. #BlackCats

See, you don't have to stay in the Senate forever. You can retire and continue to be a horrible person, no Senate required.

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

@quothalinguist.bsky.social It finally arrived! #conlang

The Sword in the Stone #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

I will remember the era of being able to find #recipes on the internet as a Golden Age.

I was shooting straight up while a female Pileated Woodpecker headed to another tree.

The entire economy now rests on a porn pivot by a piracy company.

New Kílta ideophone: hwicchau-hwicchau /ˈxʷit.tʃaʊ̯-ˈxʷit.tʃaʊ̯/, of a predator giving something a kill shake. Maras në mium si huto — hwicchau-hwicchau kitten TOP toy ACC shake — IDEO "The kitten gave the toy a kill-shake." #conlang

we should not be resuscitating dead people (neither our loved ones nor Socrates or Marilyn Monroe or whoever) as AI voice/avatars—even for educational purposes—as it always involves imputing to them things they never said or never would have said

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December. 🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

I guess we should add "sloplang" to our list of conlang types.

Oscar keeps an eye on the interloper (i.e., Shadow). (Even though Shadow's been here more than a year, Oscar remains vexed about this new threat to his control of the house.) #caturday #SiameseCats #BlackCats

Vullës vë nítelama nen në milur rëtu no. vullës vë nítelama nen në mil-ur rët-u n-o farmer ATTR market LOC TOP pepper-PL much-PL be-PFV "There were many peppers at the farmers' market." #conlang

New ideophone for Kílta: ata-atau [ˈʔata ˈʔataʊ̯], depicts an astringent flavor, like over-steeped tea or the skin of walnuts. It is also used to depict speaking disapprovingly, and especially suggests the pinched facial expression the person doing the disapproving speech. #conlang

the very basic, mundane function of "AI actors" is to use as a threat against human actors w/the promise that if they won't do something that excessively violates their dignity or artistic purposes, the studio will get an AI-generated representation of a younger woman who has none of those things.

The ladies are back. The woman walking the stroller, on the other hand, just turned around rather than waiting for them.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with 4 disgusting yet delicious gas station snacks

Can I get paid $36.5 million a year to brainlessly shove stuff into a chatbot?

"Our government is being run by aggrieved elites who were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else in the 2010s, where they could finally read what we all think about them. And it caused them so much psychic damage that they have decided to ...Petty, powerful, and pathologically online

Why not. Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.

ezra klein's impulse is to normalize far right ethnonationalists, not to denature them, and certainly not to put in any effort to prevent them from accessing you. it's important for him to clear his throat and remind you that "they won", as if to say it would be unsporting now to protect you or me.

We went to the official reopening of the Thai Pavilion at Olbrich Botanical Gardens today. #madisonwi

Oscar having an ennui. #caturday #SiameseCats

3100-1820: ye olden days 1820-540: peak cuneiform 540-740: Age of Empires II, Definitive Edition 740-2020: whatever this is

Playing with my #CommonLisp #fractal toolkit a bit this morning. This color scheme is amusing.

New Kílta ideophone: astóm-astát, of being stupefied from screen time. Koluchát si allui numë rinko, ëlli runtúnin chaso — astóm-astát. cellphone ACC long.ADV aimlessly look.at.PFV, so.that befuddled do.PFV — IDEO "He screwed around on his phone so long he became befuddled." #conlang

Well now I’m trapped. #cats #siamesecats

The Great Old Ones - this is something already existed in my mind when illustrating the previous cephalopods piece; and so glad I’ve completed it so now I can display them side by side💙 Never stop missing prehistoric cephalopods! Thinking about making this one a silver foiled print as well!

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I recently added an auxiliary usage to the existing Kílta verb tëtilo "wander, roam." As an auxiliary, taking a converb, it means "take one's time," but only in the bad sense. You'd never use it to tell someone to slow down. #conlang

Making quick pickles out of the beatin' kohlrabi and carrots I got at the farmers' market yesterday. There's some garlic hiding in the bottom of the jar. #cooking #pickles

Interesting. escholarship.org/uc/item/2zw4... - The Category of Engagement in Chhitkul-Rākchham (West-Himalayish): The Post-Verbal Clitic =niŋ #linguistics