Ok, I’m calling it now. Barring any major scandal, he’s going to go into the Democratic primaries as the front runner.

THEY’RE NOT SENDING THEIR BEST 😡

If the comments (and history) are any indication, we'll never change because no one can seem to agree on the direction. It seems that Trump thinks that changing the clocks literally creates more daylight, which is obviously on brand for him. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

We have a bottle of champagne for the main guy, but what does this guy get? A cheap rosé?

I’m watching on Telemundo and I’ve never seen “confusión de identidad” before, but once I learned that it really was mistaken identity, I wasn’t less confused. Either way, too harsh a penalty for flopping, despite the technicalities.

Every time I think I can’t be more disgusted by the darkness in the hearts of some citizens and how deeply embedded racism is in U.S. culture, I learn something new. I had never heard of Bernie Goetz, or Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey, and James Ramseur. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9...

And I’m sure they’ll say this is what happens when they only consider “merit”. That is probably even less true now than it was in 1951.

Automated emotion detection based on speech is wildly unreliable, and also, this is just evil. ““The AI assistant may listen to a user(s) at predefined times to hear various types of communication, such as sighs, laughter, and/or the tone(s) of a voice(s)”. www.404media.co/meta-patents...

"If we think about and feel what we experience by moving about in the world, if we mull and compare what resonates to our own knowledge and memories, if we analyze it using the perspectives and sensibilities gained from education and life experience, then what we have to say will be unique." 3/

ICE agents shot and killed an unarmed civilian in Houston, Texas. The victim was a construction worker, a father of three US citizens, had lived in the US for 35 years and was applying for a work permit. He panicked and tried to flee when he mistook masked, armed ICE agents for thieves.

Eagerly reading "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" by @doctorow.pluralistic.net, and on pg 6, I see a shoutout to @hagenblix.bsky.social after a mention of @jasonkoebler.bsky.social ! Follow these folks for some of the most important literary, academic, and journalistic work on "AI"!

You know you’re doing something right when the AARP readership takes the time to insult you via hate mail 😆 Adults do ruin slang, and it’s not cute to desperately cling to your youth because you can’t face your mortality. Stay mad, Flo 😎

Hilariously, Bluesky is arguing that FIFA is corrupt, Mexico fans arguing the same, England fans arguing the same, all for different reasons. Corruption allegations bring us together, as long as no one discusses specifics.

That red card

“I do not despair of this country. There are forces in operation, which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery…I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope”. www.democracynow.org/2026/7/3/wha...

Apparently no FIFA ref is ever allowed to call out Messi for anything, and it makes Argentina extra infuriating to watch.

This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It feels really bad to not know things. But that feeling motivates us to learn and do better. And unfortunately, we're in a moment where so many people refuse to experience even a nanosecond of any kind of discomfort.

Anything that reminds people LLMs are not human, don’t have interiority, and cannot think is an unfettered good. Interestingly, companies being cheap might prove to be the solution to some of the psychological harms of these systems. And @404media.co hmu if you want to talk about ethical design!

USA really just said “fuck it, we’ll do it a cappella” ❤️

On Telemundo the dudes are basically like “Free Balogun”. I watched that from every angle and it seems really hard to prove intentionality there!

"Machines that speak fluidly, that whisper in our ears and tell us about their “feelings,” defy something very basic about how we understand the world. It’s no surprise that they scramble our brains and leave us thinking they’re our new overlords". www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

My doctor sent a poorly formatted LLM summary in response to a question I emailed her, and it felt both reckless and disrespectful. But the worst part is that so many are going this way now, and the only thing to do is ask them to please never do that again, at least not to me. I hate it here.

Imagine having a whole life, job, and family here, and then being told in an airport that you’re no longer allowed in the country because some gestapo dude invented a charge against you. These people are invested in pure cruelty.

The death penalty is inexcusable, and unconstitutional. But until it is abolished (hopefully soon), I’m convinced that executions should be public, and should be done by firing squad. They’re only done behind closed doors now because of earlier public opposition. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Weston McKennie has green, red, and yellow highlights in his hair for Juneteenth and it’s adorable 🤩

You love to see experts experting all over the worst people in the world.

Check out this thread about some recent research by brilliant Berkeley students on how listeners attribute social identities to synthesized voices! Full paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Related: this is also why there are rules against buying unregulated substances to inject yourself with. People did that all the time 100 years ago and it didn’t usually end well, but we always have to relearn the hard way.

"Although the right to an interpreter is constitutionally protected, that right means little when courts and officers are unaware of linguistic needs". Excellent piece by linguist and Ch'ol interpreter Carol Rose Little. theconversation.com/the-constitu...

My whole TikTok timeline is just Europeans being confused /horrified/impressed in Walmart, CVS, and Sheetz or melting in what are objectively cool summer temperatures for the south. I love the World Cup ❤️

Out now in International Journal of Applied Linguistics, my new paper, "Unrealistic Feedback in Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies". tl;dr LLMs are terrible at evaluating speech, and you should not use them unless you'd like a class-action lawsuit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

At a coffee shop in Memphis: Customer: “What’s shakin’ bacon?” Barista: “well you know, I’m feeling like a small ball in tall grass”. Humans remain undefeated at language 🤩

Taxpayers spent over $17,000 imprisoning and eventually killing this man.

I spent 23 years in Ohio, but that is no longer my home. I love LA more than any place on earth. People are allowed to have complex identities & allegiances. If someone loves Columbus and has been there for 10 years, they’re as much a part of the city as I am. And LA has welcomed me like that too.

I would really like updates from the World Cup players about how things are going in Winston-Salem, Chattanooga, and Spokane. They’re having a real American experience! www.fifa.com/en/tournamen...

All this and…my aunt was saying she’s so mad at Trump because it would be awesome to actually celebrate the sesquicentennial. I told her I’m mad because I LOVE Los Angeles, and I wish we could warmly welcome the world to my favorite city. But the government and FIFA have made everything so awful 😡

The bar is in hell when we can’t even get public officials who have the composure of an average 10-year old in the face of questions.

This is good, and I hope Pratt is thoroughly embarrassed. But CA’s jungle primary system makes me worry about how wasteful Dem on Dem campaigns are, and how much public infighting is counterproductive to our long term shared goals. E.g. Steyer vs. Becerra would be unbelievably expensive.

“We’ve been told: We gotta support candidates, like Platner, who have a lot of guns, and pickup trucks…a history of racist and sexist remarks and gay slurs on social media, a history of shady behavior toward women, because it’s the only way to reach white working-class men”. So offensive to men!

It’s not about the output, it’s about the process. My dissertation mostly sucks, but in the process of doing it, I learned skills that helped me publish more important work, and to help my students do their work better. If I had never struggled with the thinking and writing, I’d be useless now.

I've spent 15 years becoming a researcher & tenured professor. I will absolutely quit and do literally anything else the moment someone tells me my job is to sell the racist, environment-destroying machine to students (esp. 1st gen, low-income ones). Shame on CSU. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

When female politicians are a little “rude” or “loud” or “unladylike”, it spells the end of their career (see for example, Katie Porter). No one is out here saying they like a messy candidate unless they’re making excuses for overprivileged white guys. Every time.

“You can only derive, never create”. Considering this as a new tattoo, tbh. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I forgot to get a lemon at the store for a recipe, and my husband was like, “why would you buy a lemon, they’re literally growing on a tree in the yard?”. And my Ohio-born ass needs to remember that every time I complain about the rent 🤣

Respectfully, this dude has no business teaching. Imagine doing a Ph.D., publishing dozens of articles, and teaching for years, to come out believing that a chatbot has more value than you. Parents at graduation thanked me for caring about and inspiring their kids. Claude could never.

Looking for a progressive voter guide in LA? You could do worse than The Knock’s, though I recommend cross checking with @calmatters.org very informative guide. My main complaint is that I’m just not gonna vote for an unqualified billionaire with no relevant experience knock-la.com/knock-la-pro...

I heard this episode in the @99pi.org feed, and now can't stop listening to the season. Turns out there were people arguing for the right to have hookworms 100 years ago, under the guise of "medical freedom". Grift as old as time, disasterous for public health always www.drugstory.co/p/on-ivermec...

Personally, if people kept trying to assassinate me, I might consider the impact of my choices. But that’s just me 🤷🏽‍♀️