New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

“human sentence processing” as opposed to what?

oh, is it “just semantics,” is it? how about “it’s just love, “it’s just beautiful” or “it’s just fair”

people act like having more code is like having more food or more clothing but it’s simply not

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

I want somebody who looks at me the way linguists look at acronyms

it's bullshit when connections has ad-hoc barsalou-ass categories

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

only 90s kids remember a priori concepts

I guess ordinary language philosophy is fine if you aren't extraordinary

let matt johnson of nirvanna the band direct the next mission impossible

polysemy is an insider’s game

I’m going to HSP whether they want me to or not

dear faculty, no one wants to hear about the phd programs that rejected you

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

You gotta love Philly

Welp.

someone said I move like an NPC at work today

sort of performative when academics pretend to like sports

the same people that say academia has to be a space for disagreement on social issues hate when people disagree with them in their own field

New! For robust research, center values, not technology, w/ @nerdpro.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1894... Our commentary on Futrell/Mahowald "How linguistics stopped worrying and learned to love the LMs”, forthcoming in BBS

please I am begging you stop using ai for everything, please learn to value your own labor!!

The AI Skeptics Reading Group is reading Why We Fear AI now! If you've been looking for an online reading group on AI, I highly recommend this one!

Nice to see colleagues in college writing recognizing that gen AI in the classroom is neither inevitable nor necessarily beneficial--as the research increasingly shows, quite the reverse! www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

I could eyetrack with my eyes closed

If you're a researcher in Norway who is concerned with the uncritical implementation of LLMs in universities, please consider signing the petition Maria Danielsen, Knut Ørke and Holger Pötzsch at UiT have written. I wrote more about the background on my blog. nettskjema.no/a/602234#/pa...

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

today doesn’t feel as idesy as it used to

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

my usual “teeth falling out dream” started in media res last night

“billboards are advertising warts” is probably the most heinous stimulus ever made

arguments from authority don’t work because I said so

in preacher, the protagonist can compel people to do whatever he says but at no point uses it to learn more about psycholinguistics

to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest, the Neoluddite book club is discussing Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman on April 9th!

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

🚨Save Languages at the University of Essex 🚨 #langsky #linguistics UoE plans to cut German, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese + all evening classes and merge Language and Linguistics with a larger unit. Only 2 languages will remain next October. Please sign our letter: tinyurl.com/SaveLingLang...

you’re right that is embarrassing

a little offended I wasn’t nonconsensually added to grammarly’s expert review

buying into AI

I bet court jesters got really offended if you called them fools (and vice versa)

my mom still asks why I didn’t just study a language instead of studying language

once you know how to say who did what to whom you’re basically set

You should also just read the article on disability dongles. The framework it lays out could be valuable for pushing back against a wide array of proposed "AI" use cases.

I think it was a dream but was there a programming language that was an offshoot of a hypothetical “perfect” language?

“The existence of technology can lead us down many paths. That does not mean all should be taken.” the ft slowly embracing the luddite cause

mewgenics has awakened a part of me that’s been dormant since high school

as a rule of thumb, never touch a public statue

isn’t the main appeal of technology that it’s not conscious?