kevin barry
@kbmcgowan.bsky.social
š¤ 2011
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phonetician, linguist, associate professor, musician, gen x nerd, he/him
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"woke" is an admirable, aspirational quality and using it as a slur is always an own goal
about 1 year ago
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if i don't open your email or text, you didn't send it. that's just math
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I know parents who are thrilled when their kids grow up and move away. I KNOW these parents, but I will never understand them.
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All of the white republicans who claim not to be racist and live in freshly gerrymandered districts could do the funniest thing right now
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the gardening/seed planting internet has convinced me that plants cannot/do not occur in the wild. huge if true.
7 days ago
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I was accused of running my lab like an echo chamber and I am *livid* that someone imagines I wouldn't put up sound deadening panels and bass traps in my chamber.
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if you're very careful and keep your head down at my university, you can stealthily pursue its core mission to educate people
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Ahmed Baba
15 days ago
There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUSās reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.
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my kid is salutatorian of her graduating class which is wild because I was ranked second too! but in my case it was from the bottom
15 days ago
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Wild that the white racists in the US who chose to fill our swimming pools with concrete rather than share water with Black bodies would choose to convert our Republic to a dictatorship rather than share representation with Black minds.
15 days ago
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he isn't sure why i finally put down the laptop so he could take over my entire abdomen with no competition, but he approves
16 days ago
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the maintenance really was scheduled, just not by canvas
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Le Cagle
16 days ago
I would like the Internet to know that my bf made this joke three solid hours before jerry but I didn't skeet it because it was too obvious, classic jerry
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this morning a licensed, phd-holding, audiologist told my daughter that with her hearing she, "might have difficulty hearing the little pauses between words or the longer spaces between sentencesā and she side-eyed me. š¦š¦
22 days ago
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Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti/Barton Hills
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22 days ago
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Anyone willing to try an online experiment for one of my students? Sheās investigating listenersā ability to discern a real human voice from a deep fake synthetic voice: š§ š¬
uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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https://uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4Vfhr6V9yu7eAfA
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Matt Goldrick
26 days ago
Deadline 31 May: Postdoc, perceptual inference in the auditory system w/ A. Tabas, Basque Center on Cog. Brain + Lang.
www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j...
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I can't imagine the horror my son lives with, being the only person in a 4 person household who can actually see in the shower.
27 days ago
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Jupiter is looking especially lovely tonight, but I can't ignore that he could have hoovered up the entire inner solar system billions of years ago and saved us all a lot of trouble
28 days ago
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A university with free tuition, a very low faculty: student ratio, and no professional administrators
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28 days ago
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snack pack.
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28 days ago
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bluesky progressives are never more than one kentucky news story away from some of the most vile, regressive, classist bullshit you can imagine
29 days ago
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This is why I've taught my son that any sentence that needs to start with "actually" or "well actually" is almost certainly an inside sentence that doesn't need to become an outside sentence.
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about 1 month ago
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
about 1 month ago
listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"
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Andy Craig
about 1 month ago
Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.
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i'm genuinely allergic to beef, but that's just an elaborate, autoimmune cover story for my empathy-based vegetarianism.
about 1 month ago
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i would believe you if you told me this is jd vance negotiating a peace deal
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about 1 month ago
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my family turned down ranch dressing (for our pizza!?!) a little too enthusiastically and were briefly worried the authorities might be called
about 1 month ago
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I wonder if Grice was like, "I hope this section on the maxim of quantity isn't too long."
about 1 month ago
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every urinal in kentucky has zyns in it. the average zyns user might not be an awesome guy
about 1 month ago
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we need to somehow get the name "graven images" to catch on as the trendy name for ai slop
about 1 month ago
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my favorite new poem in a WHILE:
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about 2 months ago
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laurence of arabium
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about 2 months ago
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the āitā in āit will happen somedayā not needing an explicit antecedent in the discourse is going to be pretty fun to talk about in linguistics class on Monday morning.
about 2 months ago
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Seth Cotlar
about 2 months ago
One of my favorite āhistory fun factsā I often share in class is that Notre Dame is called āthe fighting Irishā because in 1924, UND students beat the shit out of a local Klan that tried to harass them for being Catholic.
stories.nd.edu/stories/a-cl...
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A Clash Over Catholicism
It was May 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan wanted to showcase its power and cement its sudden grip on Indiana politics by holding a picnic and parade in South Bend, the most Catholic area in the state. Abo...
https://stories.nd.edu/stories/a-clash-over-catholicism/
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huck mason
about 2 months ago
imagine, if you will, the dumbest 95 Theses possible
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i have a speech perception joke but it exists entirely in your own subjective experience of reality
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2 months ago
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imagine being such an incompetent researcher that you think an llm can write your literature review
3 months ago
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I wish WF Ganongās last name was, like, Thuck
3 months ago
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this state of the union is like an eclipse: you should never look directly at it
3 months ago
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did not anticipate the usa men's hockey team pulling a whole flock of milkshake ducks
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The Wizard of Foz
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3 months ago
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i once had the honor of bringing room service to jesse jackson when he stayed in my mom's hotel in manchester, nh. the man exuded kindness and intellect; an amazing human being (and he tipped well).
3 months ago
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Maggie
3 months ago
www.ms.now/opinion/epst...
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Opinion | Noam Chomsky tainted his legacy with his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
The acclaimed scholar knew better than to work ā and side ā with the shadowy financier and sex offender.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/epstein-files-chomsky-valeria-email-cancel-criticism
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post a banger that isn't in English
youtu.be/gLlUXlE5ULc?...
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3 months ago
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trying to finish up come grading in canvas before class tomorrow and all it will show me is red text saying, āsomething brokeā and Iām like, āget in line, buddy. Iāve been broken for weeks."
3 months ago
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Mar Hicks
4 months ago
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistābecause the person felt she did didnāt deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00254-z
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kinda surreal to see colleagues who've embraced lockdown browsers and made students turn on their webcams during tests complain about the erosion of privacy and encroaching facism.
4 months ago
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the embarrassment of learning you were wrong is directly proportional to what an asshole you were when you believed you were right.
4 months ago
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I have no access at all to rushes today and my own mother was Breda. š¤·š»āāļøš¢
4 months ago
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Anthony Moser
8 months ago
if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it. You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby
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