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Me to my server ordering a bourbon cocktail: “I am a brown liquor drinker…you decide what the adjective is modifying, there.” #linguistics

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i read the Labov bunny paper and now i know why people were so eager to track it down. what an absolute banger.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Regardless of how much coverage it gets, Trump aiming to install a military command that places loyalty to him above loyalty to the constitution needs to be a much bigger story.

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Important stuff from my friend and colleague at UT Knoxville. M #palestine #oscars #nootherland 🍉 theconversation.com/a-palestinia...

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Finding Out About Children's Language by Bill, age 44 The bunny It escaped the coat Yes YES The bunny paper is out www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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#tdih 1865 Black town of Princeville founded on site where soldiers announced Union victory (many Juneteenths). Soldiers advised freedpeople: return to work (for pay) on plantations. Many decided instead to found their own town, first named Freedom Hill. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...

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This is SO important. We have to make arguments clear and concise for the public. Save the caveats and asterisks for the colloquium. And yes, your colleagues might call you unserious and be mean to you about it; remember no one is listening to them.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is such a MINOR thing in the realm of everything :gestures: that is going on right now but... WHY are men's NCAA and women's NCAA basketball referee shirts different? The women's ones hurt my eyes, even in person. My brain keeps trying to resolve those tiny stripes into something.

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National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers this morning in Zoom call. This included workers who had completed a 1-yr requisite probation and shouldn't have been included in termination but were suddenly told recently that the 1-yr should have been 2-yrs, revoking their permanent status.

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OMG I want this data… #linguistics Also this might be an actual justice-oriented application of AI??? LLM can do a lot better than keyword and would recognize the lemma GunsNRoses as distinct from gun.

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No Kings Day in LA. #50501 #NoKingsDay #FuckTrump

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President's Day rallies

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yeah I think Charlottesville is pissed

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

Anti Trump/Musk President’s Day protest in Grand Rapids. Crowd wasn’t huge, but the main protest is in Lansing. Also it was bitterly cold, -4 wind chill.

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Apropos of very little, an email I sent this week, in which I sent 3 syllabi of various types of ungrading to our Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. A Ph.D. student of mine @meganvonbergen.bsky.social converted basically her entire committee to upgrading techniques BUT.... 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

At my computer in R, wishing I was doing lies or damn lies instead.

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"nobody even knows where the [national debt] money went and you’re not allowed to ask." Huh? Its all public record at OMB, CBO, & Treasury websites, which I've also used to publish 600 reports, articles, & chart books specifying where all the money went. You can log off Twitter and go look it up!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

among the things wrong with this: -"since this event is organized as part of Black History Month" it was honoring his birthday, excuse the man for being born in February? - "colorblindness" means "if you're a person of color I don't wanna see shit by, about, or with you" - these are segregationists

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Kirkus calls THE AI CON "a refreshingly contrarian take on AI and the clouds of hyperbole surrounding it." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... @emilymbender.bsky.social

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While I'm glad to see this audit, I am dismayed that my Republican colleagues ❌BLOCKED❌ my amendment in committee this week that would have required the Treasury Inspector General to monitor all of DOGE’s activities and report findings to Congress. (1/3) apnews.com/article/trea...

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“Don’t buy swasticars” Tesla showroom Manhattan #kickmuskoutofthewhitehouse

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“The purpose of these orders are to see which parts of our society are weakest, which parts will cave to threats. … The only response is to stand up, explain the public value of the research and the teaching that happens … all across the university.”

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I would just like to announce that after several years of writing about it, I just spelled (linguistic) "camouflage" correctly on the first try. 🎉

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I posted about the CDC Vaccine Assessment tool being taken down. It's unclear how long it's been down for, but I don't believe it was within the hour since RFK Jr. was confirmed. Trying to get more clarity. In the meantime, this page has the suggested adult immunization schedule:

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

No better summation of the present moment.

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Had the best fail ever today trying to demonstrate indirect speech acts. (Have permission to share) Me to a male student: “If i looked at you sitting next to the window and said ‘Do you think it’s hot in here’ what might you think that’a?” Him: “I just bring that much hotness to the classroom?” 😆