Just back from the exhilarating Rhetoricon symposium at Waterloo rhetoricon.uwaterloo.ca/events/1. Organized by the great @randyallenharris.bsky.social Next up: ICCG14. My Berkeley sis carries the construction torch! @adelegoldberg.bsky.social

For no one I’m Looking through you Sexy Sadie And your Bird can Sing Julia Tomorrow never Knows Dear Prudence Blackbird The Long One A Day in the Life

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! Grateful Dead (Winterland) Rolling Stones (Candlestick) Zappa (Berkeley CT) Dylan (Warfield) Devo (BCT) Joan Baez (SM fairgrounds) Dead Kennedys (Fab Mab) Radiohead (Redrocks) Lil Wayne (CU Coors event ctr) Macca (Coors field)

Can’t wait!

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

I think about this all the time.

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire. One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

Today is my gotcha day too! #blackdogs #chiweenies

Big Oil is no longer trying to convince us they want to preserve a safe & stable climate Now, they're focused on convincing us that the world is only safe & stable if they're in charge That's the thesis of a new @cleancreatives.bsky.social report analyzing 2000 oil ads, exclusively in HEATED today

Lawsuit calls NCAR "collateral damage" in the Trump administration's "widespread and coordinated campaign of punishment and coercion" against Colorado and its institutions.

Old-school impeachment

Boulder and climate friends, please write in support of NCAR🎈

Why are Democrats afraid to talk about climate, when so many people already connect the dots between fossil fuel polluting emissions and their family’s financial costs? Home insurance is a HUGE cost for so many families, and getting worse fast!!

Exhort with a novel denominal verb! A highly productive strategy in English is use of names of historic persons! This is the similative pattern. Run with it🏃

Nice zeugma

This orchestrated surrender to burning 19th century fuels gets framed as Very Serious, Adults-in-the-room realism rather than a weird, baffling choice to cause entirely avoidable suffering. I am so sick of it.

our recent #PNAS article "The intensification of the strongest nor'easters" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

You’ve probably heard this claim: Climate’s always changing! It's true, Earth’s climate has changed before. But not this fast, and not for this reason. Introducing Cold Facts, Hot Takes: my new series of evidence-based replies to common troll takes 🔥 Want the whole episode? Links below ⬇️

The Monterey Peninsula is turning out at Del Monte beach! Largest mass mobilization in its history. Y E S on 50

Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies theonion.com/idiom-s...

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics! Asst or Assoc. We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.) faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793 🤘

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act. Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

China remains way ahead in clean energy growth, adding more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Data analysis by @sentientmedia.org, a CCNow partner, finds that less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as a source of carbon emissions despite the fact that “food and agriculture contribute 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to the burning of fossil fuels.”

G’mar Chatima Tovah to all of my global mishpocha who are observing Yom Kippur.

Anyway here's the real article, please share this one and not that one heated.world/p/charlie-ki...

Nice illustration of the Pseudoconditional construction (Kay & Michaelis 2012) in quote from Rob Reiner: "'If I’m Jimmy Kimmel, I’m suing the Trump administration,” Reiner said. “I’m suing them for abandoning my First Amendment rights.'" www.thedailybeast.com/rob-reiner-t...

Yes, but who allowed “4 bridges in the Bay Area”? They’ve got GG, Bay, San Mateo and Dunbarton (pronounced wrong). But what about Richmond-San Rafael? Benicia? Carquinez?

Abstract deadline changed to *December 1, 2025*

there's no room for political violence in america like there's no room for newspapers in a hoarder's house

Quote from NZ Police Commissioner Jill Rogers in CNN story on NZ fugitive dad proving Oceania doesn't use the present perfect like AmE speakers do! "The quad bike has run over the spikes. The two occupants have been on that bike, and it has come to a rest on this rural road. ..." Rogers said.

It’s that time of year again. Back to school for the kids. This ad should run during every NFL kickoff, every college football opener, every “Friday Night Lights.” Because school shootings are as American as football now.

@ejfranci2.bsky.social is this the craziest relative clause extraposition ever?

Shouldn't the EPA protect the environment?

Beautifully stated

Sigh, *taps the sign again*

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Here Comes the Sun: A Win on Climate Is Still Possible, and Every Generation Must Pitch In, McKibben Says www.theenergymix.com/here-comes-t...

Started in Berkeley at dawn of millennium, ICCG14 will be 1st in US since 2008 & only 3rd US site. As US stumbles, the courageous Ivy steps in as host. “In the service of the Nation & Humanity”. Meanwhile 💕 to these world cities for keeping the ICCG dream alive 🌏😘

Can’t wait!

Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇

Similative (intrans) denominal verb from John Oliver (S12E20) “It…says a lot about the chaos of this administration that the president just fully Snoopied on national TV.” Images of Trump on WH roof vs Snoopy on his doghouse. Is that a full Snoopy though? Snoopy lay on his back!

Excellent intonational contrast in that final disjunction. What’s it gonna be?

This isn't deregulation. This is a war on humanity. This is pro-extinction policy in the name of grasping a few dollars from the dinosaur industry made of dinosaur juice. Appalling. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

In syntactic amalgams the front end of a clause needn’t know what the back end is doing.The degree word in the exclamatory complement is HOW; the clause could’ve ended at ‘his base was’. But instead it continued as tho the degree word had been SO, with the result clause ‘that he juiced…’

Cringe and disturbing… A nice exclamatory nominal extraposition example

“I’m going to sue his ass off and that of his third rate newspaper”. Had never considered ‘V x’s ass off’ to be a decomposable idiom before! What other flexibilities are possible? Whose ass did you sue off?

Covering all of California's water canals with solar panels could generate 13 gigawatts of renewable power and save 63 billion gallons of water per year: buff.ly/3Gx1wUq We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables