Since the FCC doesn't want you to see this - youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Rubio said "we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline". Yeah. You're clearly being as disrespectful and destructive as possible. And you sure ain't "caretaking" shit... you're pushing everything positive about our alliances off a cliff.

Sad to hear that Deborah Cameron has passed (at a rather young age at that). She was highly influential in the field of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, and was one of the first people I read early on who helped draw attention to criticality in discourse. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A cover of Bob Dylan's "She Belongs to Me". I did all vocals and instruments (though cheated on the drums by using finger drums - no option for a real kit in my tiny apartment). youtu.be/RQtanW4dk9c

Reaching out to #EMCA folks. I'm trying to work my head around an issue: the accountability of attentiveness. I've yet to find a source specifically about this, but some bits and pieces are starting to come together.

If you have a few minutes, please watch Carney's speech at Davos. He is speaking the truth about international cooperation or the lack thereof, and is taking a risk in doing so. youtu.be/-9EFPdcSot0?...

Getting tired of winning yet?

I pledge allegiance to the world Nothing more and nothing less than my humanity

this from DHS. it is anti-Somali bigotry. i'd like to ask them what they're doing about the terrorists they employ.

good time to remember these words

Something I've never noticed before but *seems* to be a positive(?) move: Native American reservations are now listed on Google Maps. I'm curious what people (particularly people who actually have a stake in this representation) feel about it.

I introduced my 4th year student who is using MCA to analyze discourse surrounding DEI to Jack Bilmes' occasioned semantics and taxonomy work, and she immediately started applying his way of visualizing the ideas to her thesis. I gotta say, it brings a happy tear to my eye to see it.

私は日本の会社知らないけど、大学の事務はよく大きいExcelのテーブルから小さいPDFに作成して字がすごく小さくて見づらい。大きいモニターにも拡大しても目がすごい疲れる。皆その小さい字どうやって読むの？年取ったらどうする？本当に見える？

A nice look back at Labov's "Department Store" study (one of the foundational sociolinguistic studies) by one of his last students. If you're a linguist or have learned about the study in a linguistics class, this is worth a watch. youtu.be/cK6g53lLgnw?...

When research is largely written by AI, only to be read by AI, what "new knowledge" will actually mean anything? And will the effect that has on the publish or perish paradigm be a positive or negative thing?

This looks like it will be good, and something I'll need to share with my students.

#EMCA One of my 2nd year students mentioned in her homework about how she tried out a breaching experiment (in this case speaking in honorifics with her sister) and the reaction, and started diving deeper into the ideas. I'm such a bad influence sometimes, but I love it.

This is not only a wonderful eulogy of one of the most important pioneers of science and conservation, but also a great explanation of the complexities of knowing and coming to know in science. @hankgreen.bsky.social - you rock! youtu.be/d_FzzLeA6pk?...

Been listening to Fugazi's discography the last couple days, 1st time in a decade. Somehow it hits different than before. Amazing how things that either went over my head or didn't connect emotionally in a certain way back then is now. And of course discovering new things throughout. 1/2

there was a lynching on a college campus in Mississippi, but as of yet no major news outlet has picked up on the story because they are so far up a celebrity's ass that they can't recognize America's worst type of political violence that has been happening throughout the nation's history.

Another original - "Lambchop's Got Lead Poisoning". Been working on it for a few weeks, but unfortunately, it keeps being timely. Probably the heaviest thing I've ever recorded (full on with death metal growls) youtu.be/uks8EKmnisk

A new original song I'm calling "Silly Cliches About Silly Cliches". It came to me over the last couple of days, not as a reaction to what happened, but as a reaction to the cliches that inevitably get trotted out in the wakes of tragedies. youtu.be/ffjFTmawDxg

Something #EMCA folks should appreciate ...

This dude's constantly hittin' 'em outta the park. Modern day protest folk at its finest. youtu.be/PL0oB1gbZE4

I wasn't aware that Robin Lakoff had passed away. She opened up the field of linguistics to looking at gender, and thus has had a huge impact on everyone who looks at language through a critical lens in any way. ls.berkeley.edu/news/memoria...

Eye-opening (in a not-so-pleasant "well, shit, what I thought my reasonably well educated self actually 'knew' isn't true" sort of way). youtu.be/regpMUdl_QA

Original instrumental song I've been working on for a few weeks. The drums were played with my Yamaha FGDP-50 finger drums, and I like how they help create a better groove than programmed drums. youtu.be/Q6bUSdN9pZo

- it's a national holiday. - i'm still recovering and rest would be a good thing. ... so why do i still feel like i have to justify taking a day off to myself? the mental gymnastics that i feel compelled to go through when it's completely ok to take a national holiday off.

What the internet and social media has become:

Using this rainy holiday Monday to catch up on some needed sleep. Just woke up from a dream in which I seemed to be an active participant in a M*A*S*H episode (Trapper and Col. Blake era). Weird.

80 years.

One of the weirdest things I've had to teach myself while dealing with whooping cough is to be patient through those 10 - 30 seconds I can't breath, to remember that if I relax, I'll eventually get air back in. Not an easy thing to learn how to believe.

On NPR pages right now. I'm proud that they are saying specifically what the problem is, and are not capitulating.

Y'all, consider this a PSA. If you haven't had a TDAP (tetanus, diptheria, whooping cough) vaccine booster in a while, it's a great idea to get it. I didn't even know the boosters existed, but if I had it would have saved me from this "fun" that I'm experiencing now.

Sharing this not just because it has an important message, but because it's the kind of message that the GOP is actively trying to silence by cutting the funding that goes into PBS and NPR. youtu.be/HgVlYMOGXCI?...

watching Colbert's interview with Harris... just made me sad.

津波警報: www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.ht... 各地の満潮時刻・津波到達予想時刻も載っています.

This doesn't solve the "root causes", and indeed, is further removing constitutional protections and due process rights from yet another class of people who generally are not able to advocate for themselves. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A cute experience with my #EMCA seminar students over the last couple of weeks. One of the students had pointed out that I had a particular 口癖 (verbal tick) when speaking English - a really quick "yo".

In the US, foreigners were supposedly eating pets. In Japan, foreigners are supposedly eating cicadas. Seriously, no need for Trump to slap tariffs on Japan, because ahead of the election, all of the conservatives have imported MAGA talking points. I see rough seas ahead.

ICE has gone full on "show me the person, I'll show you the crime." Know who else did that? Every damned authoritarian regime in history.

One of my ゼミ students is working on DEI discourse using #EMCA, and is working towards putting together her literature review. Here she draws on Kitzinger, Whitehead, and Talmy and brings up an interesting question. Here it is, and my response...