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sidneygjwong.bsky.social
黃吉贊 ~ Queer Cantonese advocate from Aotearoa & PhD researcher @ Canterbury, NZ. he/any Computational Sociolinguist. Place ~ Identity ~ Language. Fulbright 24/25 @ Champaign-Urbana, IL. Views my own. https://linktr.ee/sidneygjwong
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I hope everyone's alright back home in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Stay safe everyone 💖

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I think the Wānaka tree has found its match in New Orleans.

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Beignet ✅ Chargrilled Oysters ✅ BBQ Shrimp Po Boy ✅ Gumbo Ya Ya ✅ Sazerac ✅ I reckon we made a pretty good effort on Day 0.5 in the Big Easy.

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Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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We've made it to Memphis. Home of the Memphis Meltdown.

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We're finally on the City of New Orleans 🚅 heading to the city of New Orleans! It's our first over night AMTRAK trip and first time on a sleeper train.

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What on earth is a 'self hoster'?

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I think this might be a good time for BlueSky to introduce protected 'skeets'.

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Just tried a Twizzler for the first time. Underwhelmed.

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I'm going to file this under more examples of why LLMs shouldn't replace humans any time soon 🤓

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I'm back from the silly fun thing! It was nice to take a wee break. All I'm going to say is what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

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I'm looking forward to doing the silly fun thing this week. A much needed break in the middle of PhD'ing.

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Co-presented a project management and organisation workshop for the linguistics graduate student's seminar yesterday where I got to share some of the tools I use for my research. Here are the codebooks for getting started in Overleaf in Google Colab! github.com/sidneygjwong...

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The worst part with having most of your life in a time zone 17 hours ahead of you, by the time we start our weekend it's already Monday on the other side of the world.

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Folks, I do not recommend checking your Kiwisaver balances at this point in time.

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What a week it's been! With all the wild weather, every day has felt like it's brought something new ⛈️

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I can't wait to present my on-going research on social media language-use and how we can apply this to linguistic application (i.e., hate speech detection) with the League of Linguists at UIUC this afternoon. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

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Still no internet this morning, woke up to pea sized hail in the middle of the night. Should I treat today as another reading day?

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Thunderstorm rolling through Champaign, IL right now and a one lucky lightning has taken out our Internet. I guess it's off to bed we go then.

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I'm not going to make it back for the season, but if you're in Chch and keen to dust off your boots we're always looking for more players on the Choppers 🪓

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Someone back home has created a (meat) pie review app back home called "Mean Pies". I can't wait to get my hands on a steak and cheese or a hāngi pie again 😭

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Watching episode one of Severance and it's giving me flashbacks to my old corporate job where I was manually processing thousands of $0.01-$1 payments. I could deal with repetitiveness, but I couldn't stand the corporate cringe.

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It's April Fools, and I'm responding to a reviewer comment asking if 'social media posts' counts as natural language. If it's produced by humans, then I guess it must be a form of natural language ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Here we go again 🙈

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More thunderstorms anticipated for this afternoon in Champaign-Urbana. It might be a stay at home pyjama party kinda day. This is what the better half captured the other week.

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It's been a while since I've written a post for Substack (especially with all the changes around me), so here's a summary - or tldr - of what I've been up to since coming to the US!

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For people who are not yet members, there'll be a second fight at the AGM in July, where the FSU will try to roll back and changes and replace the board with their own people. In order to vote in the AGM, you need to becoming a member *now*. internetnz.nz/membership/

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I can't believe it's been over a week since I got back from VirginiaTech to visit the folks at VTLx 🥰 Did you know they filmed Dirty Dancing just outside of Blacksburg? Here's my homage (?) to Baby before I actually saw the film 😄

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Massive shout-out to my office buddy, Gia Hurring, for publishing an article investigating sound change within the Gloriavale Christian Community. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

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Volume 26 of the Wellington Working Papers (WWP) in Linguistics are now online showcasing the research conducted by Honours and Master's student at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington: www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resourc...

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