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If y’all are in the Bay Area, turn out!

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I’ll be at SF Civic Center Plaza at 1pm for an excellent line-up of speakers, including a Nobel prize winner and folks whose lives have been changed by cancer research funded by the NIH. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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Calling it now: this is gonna be my top most listened to song this year.

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Wait wait, what??? Crap! Now I have to go rewrite a huge chunk of dissertation writing. Super excited to read this book! #linguistics

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Thanks @wolvendamien.bsky.social for reposting this first :). We need some anarcho/crust-punk energy I think for what’s ahead of all of us.

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Spread the word.

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If this was their actual plan, then I’m sorry—these dipshts don’t know what the word generative in generative AI means (newsflash: it doesn’t entail “deliberative” or “categorical” as entailed by this use case). These assholes have no idea about basic fcking statistics concepts. Idiots abound.

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Isn’t this illegal on top of unethical?

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Destruction of critical thinking and the ability to express their ideas in a way that is more accurate to their own thought processes… LLM text replicates the same ideas even with a variety of prompting variants. People though? They veer towards uniqueness of thoughts. bit.ly/llms-v-stude...

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1000% agreed :). Gonna reference again this in class experiment I did with my students and the web page we built showing that student #writing is way more unique than LLM text (lesson being not to sacrifice their voice for boring LLM text) as evidence for why that’s important too!

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I've been working with my students a lot on #writing praxis and finding their authorial voice. Yesterday we did an in-class experiment to show that students write in ways that are more creative than #LLMs or #chatGPT. We also published our experiment results to a website so folks can see them! (1/7)

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F*ck yeah. This is how it’s done.

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Trump is attacking universities from multiple angles. They are targeting their values by pushing to re-segregate them. They are attacking their work by removing research funding. Solidarity is necessary, but this time it's self-preservation as well.

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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

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I’m an idiot and forgot to post the first part and I wanna hear folks’ answers! Repost with your apocalypse skill: Mine is I’m a decent archer/can fletch arrows :)

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You mean running a keyword search through records without knowing the technical or contextual use of those terms (the tech worker version of dunning kruger) is a bad idea? Who would have thought! Ellen’s team is a bunch of [dangerous] f*ckwits. #dumb

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I'm actually a decent archer and can fletch my own arrows.

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One person’s fraud, waste, and abuse is another person’s cancer research, financial scam mitigation, and civil rights protection

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Hell yes. And piggy backing off of this, we desperately need to understand the dynamics of how digital cultures self-organize: how do they come to a consensus, and under what conditions do ideas spread? What are their dynamics??? You can’t stop what you don’t understand.

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Hey all my linguists, both socio and computational! Awesome news! Rick Dale and I just got our article on how some groups used antisemitic and islamophobic hate speech as a rhetorical black hole accepted for publication in Nature: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications!!!

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Hey whoever’s seeing my ish on here… please please please do this! For every person who does I’ll respond with an unflattering picture of my face for you to use as personal blackmail in perpetuity. It’s like an NFT if NFTs were actually tied to anything of value (in this case value=helping people)

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Flood their inboxes.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

One of my secret skills is finding digital resources like books. I’m gonna start on 2 today.

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Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action. If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.

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Fuck yeah redditors.

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I think the folks I connect with on here already know these points. But I really, REALLY like the explicit connection to eugenics here. Bc that shit runs deep in SV. As in Bill Shockley deep. And we should absolutely remember that that’s baked into SV’s social core.

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Other good subversive #linguistics reads: Elman’s “On words and dinosaur bones” (there is no lexicon) and Strawson’s “On referring” (there is no “meaning”, just loose ways we agree to refer to things) :)

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Image of an "apple intelligence" (get it? "AI"? Yeah) alert making wrong claims about all of today's confirmation hearings, & about how proposed tariffs might affect inflation. LLM-based "AI" is not good at summarizing complex/nuanced information well, and it gets important things importantly wrong

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I was gonna say Jakobsen thinking that was the theme, but Nick is 100% right. Always go Labov.

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I got an amber alert yesterday and had trouble accessing it because the link there took me to X and I no longer have an account. Agencies sticking to using X are ensuring that phenomenon is repeated for others, too.

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