Harry Dean Stanton

while talking with siblings about whether we can wink or wiggle our eyebrows, my mother said we just need to practice, cause when she was a kid she sat in front of a mirror practicing winking, learning to isolate the muscles, holding one eye shut and so forth.

it’s been pretty good visiting family for christmas

it works the same way in the US: things i like and am comfortable with are just normal, things i don’t like and make me uncomfortable are political

my first attempt at rendering a certain futurist vs my most recent

my little spiel to early-on graduate students who are anxious how to get a good idea is that first, something has to bother you. and nothing is more bothersome than an absence or a vacancy

i've gotten a lot looser with my digital painting. i started out trying to do a detailed, like, anatomical sketch, then each next component got its own layer. I'm moving toward just one layer and trying to get experimental with my colors

speak for yourself!

just deleted a post about how grifters claiming they got passed over for academic jobs because they're white actually just suck. *they* do suck, and they didn't experience anti-white bias, but the job market is such a nightmare I don't wanna suggest its easy to get one if you don't suck

Some more portraits for the D&D campaign. I missed the likeness a bit on Tom Waites, but I think Tilda Swinton came out good! The last two are Brazilian singers (Magno e Marciel) who I saw on TikTok and hope to god aren't deeply problematic

people are already using LLMs to "grade" essays that include the student's name, aren't they?

A top moment in my Speech Sounds class was while using "Ténnessee Títans" to demonstrate stress clash I asked "Are the Tennessee Titans an actual team?" And the usually active room stared at me in silence till someone said "... we're linguistics majors."

i’m at “remembers no personal computers”

i still look at “2019” and think “last year”

I wanted a little function to throw into a sequence of piped functions to log what's happening, so I write a little package jofrhwld.github.io/notify/ #rstats

a college that promises to fail you for ideological reasons so you can successfully launch your punditry/nutritional supplement career

I haven't been sure how causal inference works with composite variables, so I played around with it jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...

I believe eigen fly. I believe eigen touch the sky.

I haven't been sure how causal inference works with composite variables, so I played around with it jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...

a student handed me a post-it sketch at the end of class today!

interesting developments in the American borrowing of “queue”

i understand how this happened, but it looks chaotic

ok they say “any difference of opinion”, but but i couldn’t find any shares in “the Phonological Component must be Serial and Rule‐Based”.

i thought this was cool when I first saw it, but for some reason i just realized *i* could be Skip Fruehwald

Rstudio wrapped bsky.app/profile/sal....

i go where the data takes me

one thing they both have in common is they seem like they're in permanently bad moods, maybe even angry?

I've been low-key obsessed with pre-voiceless /ay/ for nearly 20 years, and still somehow I have "oh yeah... wierd" moments with my intuitions. Not raised: - bicep - bisexual Raised: - bicycle - dichotomy Unsure: - diverticulitis

me: What words rhyme with “cute”? student: “astute” me: Oh, that’s a good example, but l want to cover some other stuff and come back to it. … me: Actually, I just want to *think* about it and not talk about it

ok, causal inference people: Lets say I have the following DAG. I see the backdoor path through C, so I adjust for C. dagitty says I *also* need to adjust for B, but I'm not sure why since there's a collider along its path?

Higher Education in the US is a dumpster fire, but I'm still grateful to be free of the REF wretchedness, and what I assume will be intense pressure from the higher-ups to run everything through BritGPT or some such

has anyone seen Directed Acyclic Graphs utilized for causal inference in a quantitative linguistics paper? (p.s. I know syntax trees are usually DAGS)

fuck it. i’m catholic again

imo, this is still one of my greatest theoretical breakthroughs

the questions i get about whether or not we’ll have class the monday before thanksgiving presuppose I have a lot of autonomy about when and whether class meets, and am not, say, obliged to show up on regular working day and do the job i’m paid for

I’ve hardened against “I don’t have anything against individuals just have reasonable concerns about procedure” after watching it transform into frothing hateful bile in real time.

its 2025 and we're attacking AIs with poetry

for some reason I just scrolled LinkedIn for a minute... and I just can't care about my worksona enough to post there

{ggarrow} is such a nice quality of life package for plotting vowel trajectories

you really hate to see it

i feel like it’s very easy to be a normal & imperfect person and not wind up in the epstein files

maybe i’m not practiced, but OT feels a *lot* harder to do live at the board

i’m seeing if it lives up the the hype

i'm going to tell them about optimality theory today

considering embedding this in my CompLing syllabus next semester

not only did i tell my class about [spʌiɾəɹ] 🕷️ today, i also told them about [tʌigəɹ] 🐅. my belief is that this is an infohazard for creating linguists

/oy/ is like the alien DNA in our vowel system

vowels are so good

I've gotten some questions along the lines of "When does it make sense to use these DCT parameters instead of just a gam?" So I've written a little blog post: jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...