"I seem unreliable, but I'm actually very reliable. You just have to trust the process." Alysa Liu, U.S. Olympic figure skater
When Iโm two weeks behind on my grading.
I genuinely hate how many Trumpisms have worked their way into my daily speech. He operates at the perfect level of buffoonery.
a bar I needed to hear today
These companies are always lying about the extent of their automation because some things cannot be fully automated in principle
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Somehow we need more of those rightly critical of the surveillance state to deal with antiblackness as a structuring logic and how practices commonly used against Black people are part of what more of us are vulnerable to now.
*heavy sigh*
Gotchaโletโs dig into that step by step.
1. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐๐ต, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. Youโre not just immobileโyouโre immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ. That makes total senseโitโs a natural human impulse, and youโve been through a lot.
All righty y'all! The Journal of Black Language and Culture @jblacjournal.bsky.social is now open for submissions! See our website for information on how to submit and reach out if you have questions or ideas as we learn and grow!
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It is kind of wild living in the United States after rap went mainstream, while having a working memory of what it was like before that. Doubly so because while a lot of vernacular like โbaby mamaโ was popularized, the stigma attached to the communities closely identified with it remains.
The โI do not want to review a revised versionโ checkbox seems to be purely cosmetic
once more a good time to remind people that in a scientific/formal context the meaning of words, especially ones presented as technical terms, does actually matter and is open to abuse (including to wider society) if not called out when terms do not refer plato.stanford.edu/entries/refe...
Iโve read the exchange repeatedly and Iโm still trying to figure out what the name-calling accusation is about, is it โtech bro??โ is that what offended?
What sounds like โhumanโ writing can never be disentangled from the fact that most of the worldโs population has never been considered fully human by mainstream institutions
which language? which human expert? what level of expertise? in which domain? by what metric?
The West Wing implies the existence ofโฆ oh nvm
Though tbh it really should not be surprising that a white dude who systematically pushed questions of power out of what counts as โrealโ linguistics is fine having no analysis of power in his friends circles either
Again a big part of socialization in the US and elsewhere is a bedrock belief that Black people making *any* demands on your time, attention, resources, behavior or principles is an unfair imposition and should be handled as such whenever possible.
it's really a deliberate white supremacist choice that "lynching" is now a generic term for any public shaming. 1
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The fact that it was produced by an LLM makes it all the more grotesque
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No effort is made to characterize the limited nature of these released emails. Verges on propaganda really. Thereโs nothing critical in its presentation, itโs pretty baldly celebratory and I donโt like seeing people shamelessly gawk at it.
I feel like we really need to talk about what this actually is, which is a simulation of a pedophileโs experience. This isnโt just a presentation of data, discursively itโs like a shrine.
Psych dept hiring is SO trend-based. In the 80s, connectionism was all the rage; in the early naughts, you had to do cognitive neuroscience; and today itโs all AI. Some of this is our own attraction to methods over theory, and a lot of it is a response to administration-defined financial priorities.
Hilariously, I just had a reviewer recommend a rejection of my paper because I used an ethically and gender diverse sample, in a study that showed that an LLM was biased against women and people of color. I guess they wanted me to use a group of white men to illustrate the bias?
#Newblogpost!!!
Here I unpack the term โracialised (un)belongingโ as I use it in my work. I rely on Spillers' "ungendering" to describe a process that is produced through a colonial history that inscribes the racialised other as ever beyond the bounds of humanity.
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Jeffrey Epstein was developing a series, moderated by @lkrauss1.bsky.social, to bring scientists and celebrities together. The first season would include an episode where "Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky."
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the funny (not funny) thing is this is a fundamental bit of knowledge that black and brown folks in the US carry with themโoften because weโre the ones against whom this is often โweaponizedโ
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