sure, you say “y’all” but are you brave enough to say “y’all’re”

no they do not, thanks for coming to my tedtalk.

I don’t believe “when prophecy fails” was bunk and if anything I’m going to recommend it even more now

course feedback forms should ask about how quirky the professor was

the hardest part about studying how kids learn language is that they know but won’t tell us

Close enough

new year greeting to all, including my gut microbiome

until they build a lower, more dishonest decade

dark academia or light academia..? choices, choices…

Language, a very short introduction: you already know

I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

italo calvino gave a wild talk on whether he sees his role as author replaceable by machine, what that means for “the reader,” and the primacy of fable over myth

I wrote a piece on LLMs, citation metrics, and the institution of science. It's been up for a couple of days, but it is officially "out" now.

it’s hard being such a nuanced thinker that no generalization about a position applies to you

was trying to tell my mom (in portuguese) that my new project is on function words (“a” and “o” and “e” and “ou”) and she was like “oh cool so you’re studying vowels now”

pictures of people before and after hearing the argument for mad-dog nativism

Philosophy journals should have a concept of the year

it's finally happened, I've been force-italo-feminized

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

Please, don't automate science! Julian Togelius Monday, December 08, 2025 togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

feels viscerally painful to encounter the word “learnings”

kind of over nouns

NAND

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

"Fascism ... is committed to a play of power and aesthetics that regards a desire for truthfulness as an admission of weakness. It loves a bullshit generator, because it cannot conceive of a debate as anything but a fight for power..." Great piece from @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer.

chatGPT is conscious inasmuch as anything that fools me is

LPT: you can say “thanks again” without ever having said thanks to begin with

pulling myself down by my bootstraps, making myself dumber and poorer than you can possibly imagine

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.

I’ve been thinking a lot about media ecology recently and trying to conceive of “chatbot” as a medium in that sense and what engagement they encourage. any suggestions?

I feel like the most gibsonian thing about me these days is I don’t believe in world models

glad to see that harvard is taking viewpoint diversity seriously

theory is way harder to make things work in than people make it sound

it’s only a concept if it’s from the cambridge region of massachusetts, otherwise it’s just a foggy idea

nice, will check it out! here's the link to save others the search ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/7...

lots of invigorating discussion this year at #BUCLD2025. Unsurprisingly, LLMs as models & as tools made many appearances w/a wide range of views/claims/caveats ab what they can(not) tell us ab language development I'm still chewing on a few things that seemed to get short shrift 1/4 🐦🐦

this is a big part of my critique of LLMs in word learning that applies more broadly to psycholing!!! (second half of this paper)

the “innateness is not a dirty word” symposium felt like an empiricist psyop

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Is this something YOU ever ask yourself? "Man, Brett Karlan (aka Old Jerry Fodor) claims to love Fodor, but has never published anything defending anything remotely Fodorian. What's up with that?" This was a puzzle that long perplexed the scholars... until now! philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4

crazy that the next AI winter might trigger a recession

Also this Friday in 111 NBS ILST: 1:30 PM w/cookies Does Not Compute? The Development of Real-time Negation Processing Victor Gomes, PhD, Psych, Harvard victorgom.es @notnaughtknot.bsky.social @pennlinguistics.bsky.social @sas.upenn.edu

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

join the neoluddites at Iffy Books for our next discussion (June 11th) on The Mechanic and the Luddite by @jathansadowski.com really enjoying this one so far!

If you're in Philly this weekend, come by and join me and @notnaughtknot.bsky.social (from the amazing neo-luddite reading group) in a discussion of AI, political power, class, and capitalism! Saturday, April 5, 5pm at Iffy Books!

I hate that everyone’s response to kids not being interested in school is to make it more like what distracts them

I wrote a book about AI, AI Fears, and Capitalism with my friend Ingeborg! "Why We Fear AI" just went to the printers and comes out in March! You can pre-order it directly at the publisher @commonnotions.bsky.social or wherever you get your books Quick🧵

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm gonna lose it. Like genuinely what in the actual fucking fuck. What the FUCK. Elsevier? I wasn't surprised. Wiley and T&F? That was pretty shocking. Fucking NATURE is advocating for LLM "AI" in their peer review pipeline? Oh this one fucking rattles me.