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Want to know what town this is (I have some suspicions)

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How long til "chat" becomes a pronoun?

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all the racists who spent the last eighty years inventing cute little “you can’t prove I meant it” workarounds to do nazi signs probably feel pretty silly now that it turns out you can just sieg heil in public

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

On a happier note, new paper alert! Recently revised a piece with collaborators @chirila.bsky.social, Sunny Ananthanarayan, and Sophie Pierson on the digital infrastructure for language documentation. Accepted pending revisions at Language. MS: blogs.ed.ac.uk/amaliaskilto...

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Calling all linguists - what do you use to manage your data? Specifically interested in those doing work with speakers and elicitation. There was never a good solution when I was active What are people using now? What does your dream piece of software look like in this space? #linguistics

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I’m so sick of people saying this shit, especially elected officials. He’s the president. Declaring himself a king after issuing an order just the day before that says he’s the final authority on all laws isn’t a goddamn distraction.

submitted 7 days ago • 169 comments

This is unprecedented. The Rising Tides agreement was just with the province, but adding federal recognition in is a big deal. This is the first time Aboriginal Title land has been negotiated, rather than litigated in Canada.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Is this a grammatical sentence? What does it mean?

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We need a new senate minority leader. Chuck Schumer simply is not the right person for the job

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this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

submitted 15 days ago • 2083 comments

Relatable

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

once again, kathy hochul could literally oust him tonight. she has that legal right

submitted 16 days ago • 47 comments

i'm so fucking grateful to have been raised by a teacher who read to me every single night growing up and also let me read WHATEVER the fuck i wanted

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

I'm super excited to announce the first new survey of 2025! Take the first ever State of Web Dev AI survey and help us figure out how web developers are using AI today: survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

perfect storm of jackassery right here

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

Letitia James of New York and 11 other state attorneys general said that they would sue over a cost-cutting initiative that had given young aides to Elon Musk broad access to the federal government’s most fundamental computer systems.

submitted 20 days ago • 116 comments

Why are these people so fucking cruel

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this is all so, so stupid

submitted 25 days ago • 29 comments

We haven’t known peace in 12 days.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

submitted 27 days ago • 2180 comments

great countries - to the extent there even is such a thing - don’t have departments whose whole purpose is to tear families apart. ICE should not exist.

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Image projected onto Tesla's factory in Berlin

submitted 34 days ago • 910 comments

Fuck this country.

submitted 37 days ago • 52 comments

Does anyone know of a shell formatter that handle zag specific syntax? I've been using github.com/mvdan/sh but it has trouble with some certain things that I want to use

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@simonwillison.net is it possible to pipe the output of a `man <cmd>` to your llm too ask questions about that man page?

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

utterly enraging www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 48 days ago • 49 comments

It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.

submitted 49 days ago • 1075 comments

"The goal of targeting trans women’s participation in sports is to create a federal law that declares trans women are men. Once that precedent is established, then the laws can become more restrictive until it’s no longer legally viable to exist as a trans person under federal law." 👇

submitted 51 days ago • 35 comments

The January 6th attacks weren’t just a dark day—they were a violent, harrowing warning that our freedoms and democracy are under siege. We can never forget, downplay, or excuse the gravity of what happened. Our democracy demands action, and we must stand firm to protect it!

submitted 51 days ago • 259 comments

Rest in Peace Bill Labov, age 97 I didn't know him personally but I've heard so many stories about him as a mentor for so many linguists over so many years and my thoughts are with the people who did languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

is there a really simple CI tool out there? Like @val.town but for configuring a build pipeline

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

This guy sucks so much.

submitted 77 days ago • 50 comments

Share your best resources for getting started with JavaScript. 👇 This isn't a bait. A friend asked for my help, but I learned JavaScript on the side while working with PHP and Java/JSF, so I don't have any recommendations. Please share some links below. Thanks 🙏

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Zero reward for the white supremacist killer who murdered a teen in Manhattan the same day. Yeremi Colino does not matter to these people.

submitted 81 days ago • 167 comments

It's ridiculous that we live in an era where you download updates for a fridge

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You deserve senators that take their article two section two responsibility seriously

submitted 83 days ago • 1153 comments

Is there an equivalent of @simonwillison.net's brilliant github.com/simonw/sqlit... for the JS/TS ecosystem? Specifically thinking about libraries

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Me neither! That's exactly what I'm trying to fix in smallweb.run. Self-hosting an app should be as easy as creating a file in your Dropbox!

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments