Languages with the most Wikipedia articles 1. English 2. Cebuano 3. German 4. French 5. Swedish 6. Dutch Linguist Sverker Johansson built a Wikipedia bot that creates articles in Cebuano (a language spoken in the southern Philippines) & Swedish. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

I think we should overthrow the US government

I want to reappropriate “fake and gay” for good things only. The hockey show? Fake, because fictional, and gay. Gender? Fake and also separately gay.

Look how good I am at beating the computer at Reversi

Italian grandma known for having a name Nonna Nonymous (she's non anonymous)

god that’s an amazing statistic

Yeah, alas. The critiques of anthropology’s colonial and area studies’ CIA roots are legit, but certainly “Americans just shouldn’t know about the rest of the world” is not the antidote.

[horse meeting] We're getting a lot of good feedbag

I see this getting pooh-poohed, but I think it's correct. Solidarity is impossible in the kind of economic and intellectual hierarchy that tenure creates and enforces. Even if all tenured and TT profs have immaculate personal politics (big if...), and solidarity is what we need.

Everything is actually terrible and yet I'm signing on to say: poop is stored in the butt

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

I’m in the kind of mood that, when I was in my 20s, I would’ve vented by going to a bar and mercilessly mocking some finance bro who didn’t understand why he was attracted to me.

Idk who needs to hear this, but in most American English dialects, R is a vowel.

It’s weird to be 40 bc like I’m still so short

Furry fanfic about the people who would become terminally online, but set in the early 2000s when they were just merely nerds, called Hamster Runner.

Sort of a reversal for me, but I think you should watch the video of ICE goons walking up to a car and shooting the driver in the head in Minneapolis today. Actually see what these fucking fascists think is normal.

Had a real galaxy brain arc just now with ChatGPT. I trained it to write cover letters for me, thinking it’d get a good enough draft that I could edit. But it sounded so wooden, and hallucinated enough, that I was rewriting from scratch anyway. And yet it was taking me like 1/4 of the usual time.

Ok, I'm a child of a journalist, and when I was a kid I always heard the standard writing advice was "kill your darlings," but now for some reason everywhere it's "murder your darlings" and like ffs, take your own advice, "kill" is a perfectly good word.

ghreese

i see flock is having a totally normal day

Trump's obsession with making Greenland part of the United States because it looks big on a map and is colored differently from the states is a classic case of Mercator Projection

should i nuke my online presence and make a tiktok about how blippi is better than ms. rachel

Root said she contacted a hacker who helped to exfiltrate the data. However, no hacks were required – all it took was a simple URL trick of adding “download-all-users/” to the top-level domain. lol the fash are so fucking dumb (story linked below)

Now! With! CSS! (I made my website different) emilylaskin.com

I finally read that compact article about how white men can't get jobs in media or academia, and here's the thing. That article is gesturing at — not actually making arguments with, because it can't — a kind of statistical analysis that doesn't work for these rapidly shrinking fields.

I have a little economy of CS/math internet friends who are non-professionally interested in Central Asia, as I am non-professionally interested in their stuff, and we share information sometimes and I think that's really neat.

Anyway, that's why men are so much easier for me to have empathy for, because mostly their shoe sizes are bigger than mine, so I can fit in them no problem, because I have kinda small feet for a guy of my height, which is why I'm so empathetic.

Could someone with institutional library access get this for me? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It’s actually good to not do anything that “matters” and, apart from the rare discourse-shifting idea, the best and only radical thing about humanities scholarship is that it produces very little of value. (Don’t @ me about a population capable of critical thought, I believe in that too.)

in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains

You can tell I’m an elder millennial because I have my toddler’s phone all the way locked down but nonetheless figured out how to get hours of torrented content onto it lolol

Alignment Chart of merch-slinging kids/educational YouTube creators

I got rotavirus and norovirus in the same year and I feel I am owed a prize for my suffering.

Back in my childhood home, back on my bullshit about how Connections is a bad game. "I know, you've been concerned about this for some time" said my mom, when I tried to rant at her about it again.

Long John Silverware

kitchen island, by robert louis stevenson

Ok what am I looking at here

I’m joining the gender war on the side that’s against gender

For no reason except for fun/your curiosity, here's a little write-up of all the books I read last year (since winter solstice 2024) www.emilylaskin.com/reading-list...

you ever read a book so bad you wanna go back to mesopotamia and uninvent writing

I've got a lot, gonna post a new one every time I see this: For Fergus rules the brazen cars, And rules the shadows of the wood, And the white breast of the dim sea And all dishevelled wandering stars.

techbros: we have created AGI cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

"Comma splice error" is the most mellifluous name for the most fake problem

I know you've all moved on to the gay hockey show but come on

Incredibly relatable.

Confusing messaging

open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/... I’ve been trying to become a court jester at Anthropic for months, in case anyone is wondering.

Well, I left academia, but I have achieved "contributor that editors need to pester incessantly" status without actually becoming a senior scholar, simply by being bad at checking my email.

I don't have an alt here and only some of you know me as variations of halvafactory, and this is only going to make sense to a small fraction of those who do, but: I am really excited to someday make the following joke