Took it because it was a requirement for another major I briefly considered (English) & never left.
During intro, learning the IPA felt like being able to write in secret code & morphology felt like doing puzzles. It was fun!
“we conceptualise venture capital as effectively a form of ‘male-lens investing’, illustrating the limitations of the male-dominated and profit-driven VC investment model”
This paper is giving me LIFE.
Dutch translation of original skeet: Al adviseert: Boost je immuunsysteem door knoflook in je anus te stoppen.
Also, Dutch totally not beating the allegations of being a fake language.
Academics, if your work isn't being cited or read, maybe it's because you're publishing with places that don't make it possible for anybody without access to big money or a wealthy library to read it.
Boots, though!
You can say WOW! 🤩
On a beach at sunset, wind blowing the surf back. A lighthouse in the distance.
What can I say 💁♀️
Making handwriting videos for early literacy support & am currently tormenting my sister with them.
“I KNOW THE ALPHABET ALREADY!”, she yells as she is forced to hear the intro music for the hundred billionth time. 😌
Vocal production learning is a key ability enabling spoken language, but is not itself unique to humans, having been documented in (e.g.) some bird, bat, & seal species. A new study of pinnipeds in @science.org 👇 finds they have neural adaptations supporting voluntary control of vocalizations.
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Something I think about is that often my children's teachers will say things like "AI is the future", but rarely describe how such a future will be an improvement. It's not "AI will make us healthier, more connected, or more informed", just that it is "the future" whether we like it or not.
Happy birthday to the writer Jack Kerouac who said - one day I will find the right words and they will be simple.
The Royal Bank of Scotland ten pound note that features two swimming otters playing with each other.
The current Royal Bank of Scotland ten pound note. Imagine the audacity of having animals on banknotes, it's unprecedented. www.natwestgroup.com/heritage/sub...
“An endeavour achieved without delay, wrong turnings, occasional blank walls & a vein of self-doubt running through all, leading eventually to some degree of heartbreak, …will be scanned for a moment & put aside.” —David Whyte
Written about procrastination, but relevant for #writing as well.
“Most of the Time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That’s what it means.”
-- June Jordan
it’s like tumblr-speak got an mba
It sounds like you’ve spotted the major difference between people who approach it cynically (sometimes subconsciously, in fairness) & those who are committed to the larger principle. What are they doing for others? Similar track record? Good faith efforts at consistency?
The 12yo has declared it Picasso Bug Awareness Day!
The colours on this gorgeous bug are a warning to predators who are apparently scared of sophisticated patterns in teal, cream, vermillion and black. Also they emit noxious odours when disturbed to say “Stay away! I’m pretty and stink!”
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Mike Tyson
Lights of a suburban landscape among low hills in the darkness, with a channel of illuminated highway leading to the distant bridge between the hills. Moon above.
That’s actually the distant Golden Gate Bridge glowing under the hollowed-out moon this morning.
Much later in history, someone tried to reproduce the banana on the cover using brush & ink …
My background is special education & I’m fairly certain the kids I served have far fewer opportunities now than they had before. So glad the folks who opted for private school the whole time now get tax credits at their expense.
Public subsidies for families who could already pay for private school on their own.
“The body is inhabited in a different way when we are alone than when we are with others. Alone, we live in our bodies as a question rather than a statement.” —David Whyte
Correct view imo. They’re seeking dispensation —they want the doubt to go away, when maybe they should be listening to their own little voice that still has questions.
Alternately, they’ve already done it & they don’t want people to think badly of them for outsourcing their work, & you’re an out.
The book came out over 10 years ago, but I just read this essay (written the same year) today.
Writing allows you to speak to others at a distance & after a delay. Books allow authors to communicate with others —after death even. It’s an interpersonal exchange, reading a book that someone wrote.
I got this book on the strength of this essay about it.
Two things:
1) Word of mouth still works
2) I like the idea of reading a chapter a day —each chapter seems to cover a single abstract concept, the first being the word “alone”
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Wordle in 4.
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The medium sudoku took twice as long as the hard one (16 minutes v. 8 minutes) & I’m left wondering if words even mean anything anymore.
Matthew Yglesias is doing incredible public service work producing “identify the flaw in this argument” exercises for education policy students. And for professors, he offers free exam questions with no cognitive offloading, prompting, or energy use. Bless his heart.
