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To the lady swearing her face off in Russian as she's finally getting off this (German) train: don't let the door hit you on your way out 🫠

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

An LLM "creates textual claims, and then predicts the citations that might be associated with similar text. Obviously, this practice violates all norms of scholarly citation. At best, LLMs gesticulate toward the shoulders of giants." Bender, West, and I contributed to this pro/con piece in PNAS.

submitted 94 days ago • 13 comments

Hey. Don't use the R-word. Even when you're using it to attack a shitty person. Just fucking stop. Act like you've been somewhere.

submitted 98 days ago • 27 comments

🦎 Animal #544 🦌 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟧🟨🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 4 metazooa.com #metazooa

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

If you're stressing out about tomorrow, there are now over 400 local immigration groups listed on this spreadsheet across all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico - take a minute, find one near you, and commit to spending an hour volunteering with them.

submitted 102 days ago • 38 comments

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN LOS ANGELES: If you’re looking to get involved with volunteer efforts in LA, please check out this list provided by Mutual Aid LA:

submitted 111 days ago • 11 comments

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

submitted 113 days ago • 181 comments

@inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, here’s my humble submission to the gender-targeted marketing gallery. Spotted at an grocery store in Germany.

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment

LinkedIn is cool because I was always wondering what it would be like if people I sort of knew wrote mediocre press releases about themselves.

submitted 122 days ago • 59 comments

Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” lists 119 historical events and people. The song says problems in the world didn’t begin with his generation. It’s about how history keeps repeating. Each reference shows moments or figures from the past. www.britannica.com/list/all-119...

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

submitted 136 days ago • 786 comments

I'm looking for recommendations for EU-based artists who make cute merch (cushions, t-shirts, posters, etc.). Witty/funny preferred. Tired of paying customs fees on orders from the US/UK.

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

And the new era begins. My Substack is alive again, and here's my first post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...

submitted 142 days ago • 169 comments

Semi-regular reminder that shifting ANY of your spending away from Amazon/Walmart to a locally owned store is significant. Don't be discouraged if you had to go there for something. Do what you can & know that it counts.

submitted 142 days ago • 17 comments

Even Drs dont know how much healthcare costs—and it angers them too: “I should be able to tell my patient in the E.R. if his hospital stay will definitely be paid for. I know exactly how much of my dog’s care will be covered;why can’t I know the same for my patients?” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...

submitted 145 days ago • 2 comments

Just to be helpful to people who don't know Jail is different than prison Jails are (mostly) county detention facilities and hold people pretrial, people incarcerated at trial, and people with sentences of one-year or less Prisons are (mostly) state/federal facilities for sentences over one year

submitted 146 days ago • 3 comments

“Engineers who designed virtual nurses or AI therapists often told me their technology was ‘better than nothing,’ particularly useful for low-income people who can’t catch the attention of busy nurses in community clinics, for example, or who can’t afford therapy.”

submitted 146 days ago • 28 comments

The Spanish words "tejer" ("to knit, to weave") and "taza" ("cup") are very distant cousins. Other Romance languages share this journey, such as French "tisser" ("to weave") and "tasse" ("cup"), but I'll focus on the Spanish for this discussion. 1/4

submitted 147 days ago • 3 comments

It’s in times like these that I miss my American ex-husband the most. Who else can I forward others’ hot takes about the state of health insurance in the US? 😂🍿

submitted 147 days ago • 2 comments

Gibt es hier wirklich mehr österreichische als deutsche Accounts, oder scheint es nur so? Sowieso kein Problem.

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

submitted 156 days ago • 62 comments

Скажите, а в "Дюне" имена как-то локализовали или так и оставили Валю, Тулу и Кашу? 🤭

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

Not all conversations worth having are happening in English. —Mónica de la Torre, on the value of translation

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

What I genuinely enjoy (and might good-heartedly chuckle at) in Germany is how outside seating pops up at the slightest rise in temperature. It's 16° C out, and the outside tables are hopping!

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

Another way language teachers and enthusiasts can help Ukrainians, both in Ukraine and displaced to other countries, is by offering language lessons through Samantha Smith's Group. English, German, French, Spanish, and others are needed. samanthasgroup.com/en

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

Your daily reminder: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not "know" anything: it smashes words together in plausible sounding way, but it does not have (and never will have) any ability to check whether something is true or false Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure

submitted 164 days ago • 58 comments

I will try to focus on the ways we can help those suffering injustice. Respond Crisis Translation needs volunteer translators and interpreters for various langs. I've translated docs and interpreted lawyer consults for refugees fleeing authoritarian, queerphobic regimes. respondcrisistranslation.org

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

Hey #polyglot friends, I get the flag thing makes it easier to list the languages you know but which language does e.g., 🇿🇦 refer to, and how do I show that I speak 🇦🇺 English as my L1, but also am conversational in 🇦🇺 Auslan and 🇬🇧 BSL and have some skills in 🇺🇸 ASL, without also naming these languages?

submitted 166 days ago • 6 comments

Feels like a good morning to tell Bluesky the story about when I overdosed on my underwear, so let’s do this! 🧵

submitted 170 days ago • 50 comments