i do want to point out that this does challenge the ironclad conventional wisdom that no one gives a shit about democracy

lol @hikikomorphism.bsky.social just described Ea-Nāṡir as "CMOT Dibbler (Assyrian Edition)"

was helping these older Marathi folks figure out how to BART at one point the machine gave them a pile of quarters and they asked me what the coin was. I unthinkingly responded "४ आणे" (4 annas) which is both a very culturally accurate translation but also makes no sense

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @manishearth.bsky.social on unflagging TC39 Stage 3 Temporal in V8 today. Heading for Chrome 144 🎉 By many metrics this new date-time API is the single biggest change to JS ever 🔥 V8 uses Boa's temporal_rs by @jason-williams.co.uk Kevin Ness & Manish 👍

declaring that the singular of pierogi in american english is not pierog as everyone seems to be claiming it is "pierogus" for the same reason as the one that makes "octopi" valid english (love to apply descriptive morphology prescriptively)

me after years of working with french: double negatives are the stupidest thing, thank god the kids these days don't do it anymore me after a month or so of learning ASL: double negatives are the most natural thing why don't we have more of that

#rustlang PSA: you probably don't want #[allow(dead_code)], you probably want #[expect(unused)]

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”. “Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

man, telling me that Open Source Man Known For Throwing Tantrums threw a tantrum about something makes me *less* inclined to fix it i have so little patience for this crap github.com/rust-lang/ru...

i do not think that destroying an object is wrong. i think that treating a thing like a person exclusively for the purpose of dehumanizing it is insane behavior.

i do not think that nonhuman things have feelings to be hurt but i do think the intent to hurt feelings is bad for a person notwithstanding whether the object of their sadism is real

I agree that NYC nightlife is better than SF. NYC being more diverse in industries and housing affordability makes for a better city. But it's easy to avoid tech crowds if you avoid tech scenes. Its a self report when people complain that everyone they know is tech. Tech's only 12% of the workforce.

partner: so what's georgism me: ... huh I feel like I'm supposed to have explained this to you on our second date in some café in sf, that's usually how I see georgism getting explained

having a fun time asking my friends to guess what language family this language is from

I used to use this example when teaching about epistemic vs. deontic uses of modal verbs like “can”. @gretchenmcc.bsky.social has a great post that elaborates on this distinction (as well as the possibility vs necessity dimension) allthingslinguistic.com/post/1380488...

i wish merriam-webster my most enthusiastic contrafibularities

back on my bullshit again (flipping through various Oriya and Bangla dictionaries trying to understand the ground truth behind a subtle encoding issue)

lmao purple-ass comment

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

partner: do you want a cookie now or one with chocolate chips later? me: are you ... running the stanford marshmallow experiment on me ... with cookies? her: ... would it be hot if i did? (she wasn't, she was just making multiple batches)

i refuse to learn how to spell onion in french

honestly it does suck for the people who've put their time into building something only to see it being burned to the ground in slow motion so as flippant as i am about ruby stuff it is pretty bad all around

love too get an email from github saying i am exceeding cache limits without any indicator of which repository i should look at bro I have hundreds of repos across multiple organizations I have absolutely no idea where to start, and you don't have a central panel for this

the fundament nature of cooking:

i was BETRAYED by my bestie Firefox (Disk kept filling up, thought it was Windows Update, turns out it was old Firefox telemetry logs. 30 gigs worth)

INDO-EUROPEAN #1: *h₁ey, *knh₃ck *knh₃ck INDO-EUROPEAN #2: *kʷo's *thh₂re? IE 1: *Larry IE 2: *Larry *kʷo? IE 1: Laryngeal! 😁 IE 2: ... IE 1: *gh₂ddit? 🤣 IE 2: that was so bad I think we need to all get in our chariots and head out in all directions just to get as far away as we can from you

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

so I decided to read this french book on the chinese calendar on my very long flight (amongst other things; also reading the new Cosmere novel) THE FRENCH WORD FOR "SOLAR TERM" is *SOLAR SOUFFLÉ" "there are twenty four soufflés in a year" i can't even

oh my god

忄 is 心 but it's been radicalized by the far left

this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny

ooh, new type of googledorking just dropped

i am going to die in a world that is more antisemitic than the one i was born into and it will be entirely thanks to what the israeli state has done in the name of fighting antisemitism. i think about this constantly.

serendipity: visiting Mumbai whilst working on timezone handling code, and some of my system time zone tests immediately started failing because of normalization discrepancies (the Indian timezone had its canonical name changed from Asia/Calcutta to Asia/Kolkata)

new anh phoong dropped

It's ridiculous that California only provides $5 billion each to the UC and Cal State systems. The state's general fund budget is $230 billion, and there's another $90 billion of non-general-fund stuff on top of that. We could afford to *dramatically* expand both systems if the state gave a shit

i think two things are true regarding college admissions: - elite colleges get way more sufficiently-qualified applicants than they can handle - it's an existential threat to the mythos of the elite college for them to not have an appearance of selectiveness dealing with that

the dangers of attempting to pronounce retroflex consonants around a linguist: eventually they'll try to stick their fingers in your mouth

While we're at it, can we finally stop using the catch-all term "Asian" in polls? We literally have a *mayoral candidate* who isn't East Asian; it's time to finally provide accurate categories

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

It's actually kind of weird how "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" has dynamic scope for the home-team metavariable

at long last, we have created the sorting system of the Library of Babel from the classic Borges story the Library of Babel

like sucks working in a hated industry! but also ai was used to mass fire civil servants, tariffs, and about to unleash a tidal wave of scams, csam, abuse, and overall Pain and its v important to not forget that because of ai water posts and i cannot explain to you how much i hate ai water posts

i just realized that cotton eye joe is actually the perfect rhythm/tempo for irish country dancing

this sounds like one of those made-up kid stories but hand to God it isn't: my ten-year-old son reports that he was gaming with a friend who got mad and left, and said, as he did so: "I'm not rage-quitting, I'm leaving because I'm angry" deeply adoptable for daily use imo

i know he's just finding excuses to be racist but it's still funny to be like this when we live in the country of the chili cheese fry, the walking taco, the fried oreo, the loaded potato skin, etc. there's nothing more american than lighting up a big messy pile of starchy goop with your hands

oooh internet linguistics are happening @lingthusiasm.bsky.social @gretchenmcc.bsky.social