Education isn’t busy work, just like lifting weights in the gym isn’t about getting weights from point A to point B. Education is about making you a better, more thoughtful human being who appreciates people, beauty, and science. None of these guys have ever appreciated anything but money.

I think a lot about Minnie Riperton, because of her beautiful voice and art, but also because she died too young (31) from breast cancer, which is so treatable now, but which still kills black women at higher rates.

I struggle to articulate why the dehumanizing speech AI systems I study are a dangerous threat, because it is SO clear to me that they are made by people who hate human beings. I can’t understand why I have to keep explaining that when this dude is out here saying these things every single day.

Goes hard!

It is bad for humans to never interact with people (or entities) that check our egos or force us to consider our own perspectives and desires. The widespread use of these technologies is an existential psychological and sociological threat.

I spoke with Across Acoustics podcast about my recent paper and work on Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies! Check it out if you want to learn more about how Speech AI is being weaponized against workers. www.buzzsprout.com/1537384/epis...

I believe it’s an impersonator, and it’s insane that we have to consider that it might be the president. But I KNOW for sure that a dude with those vowels is not from no Virginia (even if he is IN Virginia) 😆

And a reminder that in addition to Iran, the US is simultaneously using its military and other power to (1) strangle Cuba; (2) continue to repress daily life in Minneapolis; (3) illegally detain thousands across the country; and (4) implicitly aid Russia by using up/not giving Ukraine more hardware.

As a person who takes 4 flights a week, I can tell you that this will do nothing but create chaos for unpaid TSA agents and the entire airport system. Taking away a service individuals paid for is a publicity stunt designed to punish the public www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

Can’t believe I almost missed the Olympic figure skating exhibition gala…the Georgian pair did a Mortal Kombat routine, an Italian couple danced to Cotton Eyed Joe, the Kazakh men’s winner did a Kung Fu panda routine (in costume, with Jackie Chan!) and Alysa was a delight as always ❤️

Gimme my money back, you bitch. I want my money back. And don’t forget, don’t forget, to give me back my black t-shirt.

Alyssa Liu looks like she’d be fun as hell to hang out with, and that alone makes her a perfect representation of The Town. On top of that, she’s an incredibly talented skater.

This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.

Call your senators and fight like hell, but also, if you don’t have already have a passport, try to get one ASAP.

In the SkyClub, 2 people next to me asked the Salvadoran bartender about how much better his country is since Bukele “cleaned everything up”. I had a quick interaction with them about the concept of “safer for whom”, & one said “oh like MN”. Heartened that some normies are making the connection!

Y’all really shocked that a Bay Area girl whose dad fled political persecution in China, a queer girl from Texas, and a Philly Italian-American girl aren’t here for this bs? They represent the best of us!

The Daily has a guy falling over himself to say that ICE is right & people need to stay out of their way. But his underlying issue is he’s a mason whose wages have been lowered by exploitative practices. If we could get guys like to blame corporate greed instead of individuals, we’d be halfway there

In Santa Clara. Outside of San Francisco. In the state of California. Who the hell do they think gave these names to these places?

Now dare NBC caption Jay-Z at the Super Bowl and not Beyoncé!?!? She was right there! Even worse because Hailey Bieber got her own caption next to Justin immediately after!

There’s a conversation to be had about how if we truly respect people’s rights to do what they want with their bodies, that also means they can knowingly engage in sports that carry risk without everyone being paternalistic about it, but I don’t think y’all are ready for that.

This and the results of the fact that we barely even started Reconstruction.

Team USA looks like Ralph Lauren went to Norway for inspiration and then created a Christmas collection, but it's not that bad! I'm here for Erin Jackson and Chloe Kim and all the kids who grew up here being told by people like Trump that they didn't belong. They're what makes America great!

Imagine telling someone in 1993 that the film Cool Runnings would cause us to witness Snoop Dogg interviewing the Jamaican bobsled team in Italy in 2026! What is this timeline!?!?

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

It's bad enough to have to see Vance on the Opening Ceremony...just fervently praying that no one has to look at Trump's mug in my beloved Los Angeles in 2028.

I put this Opening Ceremony in my calendar as an event weeks ago because it’s my favorite event if the Olympics, and if these outfits aren’t fire I’m gonna be so mad.

Didn’t we have that whole thing where we threw a bunch of tea in a harbor because we were sick of paying taxes to a king who only cared about enriching himself?

If you’ve ever been to a Dodger game, you’ve seen that this is an absolute fuck you to their hometown and fanbase. The Dodgers are happy to shake the hand of a man who delights in terrorizing all of LA. Just disgusting.

THIS is how I found out that our campus has a celebrity flag football game!?!?

3 words. Fugitive slave patrols. How are we not supposed to terrified of ICE when they’re indistinguishable from these guys?

Anglophones all learned 4 more Spanish words today, “Debí tirar más fotos”. Everyone still has a week to learn the whole album for the national sing along, and it’s more than worth it ❤️

I never ever want to hear one more word about how linguists who don’t worship this man are somehow inferior scholars. I always knew he was anti-black because of the way he talked about sociolinguistics; he’s consistently argued that considering what actual human beings do is a waste of time.

This is who runs this account

It was always going to be Benito, the beating heart and conscience of the industry at this point.

Watching the Grammys is just half waiting to see who is most likely to say the most explicitly political thing. So far it’s been everyone vaguely alluding to the horrors, or just proudly proclaiming that their families are immigrants.

I LOVE watching the Winter Olympics, but obviously I can’t support the U.S. regime now. So I’m looking for the least problematic (currently) nation to cheer for. Norway is in the running but crotchgate has given me some pause 😆

It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black. And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act. Sit with that.

They have been waiting for a chance to attack SF and terrorize our citizens. I have students who will be working there, and ICE puts every single human in that place in significantly more danger. Shame on them. www.ktvu.com/news/bay-are...

The University of Kentucky has banned funding (including conference or journal fees) to ~1200 orgs it has accused of racism because of “DEI policies”, including things like the American Bar Association & the American Heart Association. This is how you dismantle science pres.uky.edu/sites/defaul...

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

Guy in a restaurant next to us was talking about looking something up on Grok, so when I got up, I pleaded with them to at least use any other AI that doesn’t promote deepfake porn and CSAM. He dgaf but his wife seemed receptive. Please talk to your old people, some of them genuinely don’t know.

This morning, I was taking a pistol 101/firearms safety course in a place with no cell service. When I heard about Alex Pretti, I realized that I probably had more training today in safety & de-escalation than what most ICE agents get. ICE is an agency made of heartless, irresponsible murders.

Hoping against hope that this is a good sign, like when the NBA started to get freaked out about Covid.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Ok hear me out…there’s an Amy Grant song that goes “It takes a little time sometimes, to get the Titanic turned back around”. So I think we just found out that Vance is an Amy Grant Stan?

Even North Korea is in the WHO. Possible that no country has ever destroyed itself from within so hard and so quickly.

Thanks to the delightful @helenzaltzman.bsky.social for letting me have the last work on fucking infixation!

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Not what you’d imagine, but the man actually did speak truth to power, at Davos of all places. Good for him.