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wannabe linguist & tutor [social meaning, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy, film, animals, mental anguish, poetry, pedagogy, Japanese]
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LA in the 1960s in fiction: hippie movement, major transformations in sexual/consumer culture, Watts uprising, Manson murders LA in the 1960s in real life: man named Richard Montague opens semantics shaped like a λ, does gay stuff, drives fast cars, names popular grammar after himself, also murder

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Launching a war that will wreck oil supply and then screaming "drill baby drill" is Trepanationalism

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Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

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Your morning image

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Look I am always here for a religion angle but "I want to thank everybody and in particular God, I want to just say we love you God" is a weird-ass thing to say at a briefing

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they say an institution can't love you back, but it can definitely hate you back.

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Sitting at this seemingly very large lake, my feeble Northern Californian brain can't figure out whether to feel landlocked or not.

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wow this Trump building is crass

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On foot, on the move. Trying to locate one of these allegedly "Great" lakes before the Sun goes down.

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No one told me Chicago's architectural personality was Charismatic Chaos Demon

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I thought the whole 'Windy City' thing was braggadocio, but it's REALLY windy here! Like 30mph gusts in 90 degree weather, what is happening, is this normal for Chicago?

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About to be in Chicago for the first time!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

new epistemic logic just dropped

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Use case for generative AI: it writes all the course content and communications for students who want to use generative AI to write their essays. Students who want non-AI content write non-AI essays. Like smoking and non-smoking sections of the plane. 😅🤣😭

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In national elections, liberals like me ask leftists to be coalition partners — hold their noses and vote for a candidate they don't love to beat someone truly terrible. In New York, the shoe is on the other foot. And we should be clear that we're willing to do what we ask of our partners.

submitted 3 days ago • 129 comments

The pope posted this this morning and I’m thinking a lot about it

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I'm on the train. Its name is Zephyr, California Zephyr.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The question on the tip of everyone's* tongue: Can train fix man?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

TRAIN ERA BEGINS TOMORROW MORNING

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The "Tacos Chotiner" tweet remains undefeated

submitted 62 days ago • 15 comments

This is how you actually do it. Create a schism between the cops and ICE. Who's really in charge? The answer is neither of them. The people and the courts are in charge, so let them figure this out with each other. Secret police are no one's allies.

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