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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

Jobs: Anthropological Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Morphology, Semantics, Typology: PostDoc in semantic typology ERC SHAPE (M/F), SeDyL/CNRS Description: The interdisciplinary ERC-Synergy project SHAPE investigates how shape is represented in cognition, language development, and across languages (spoken and signed). The Paris team, led by Frank Seifart, investigates the variability of shape expression across a diverse, worldwide sample of spoken languages. The Postdoctoral Researcher will carry out cross-linguistic research on shape encoding, in collaboration with team members (two other PostDocs and the PI) and independently s

Jobs: Anthropological Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Morphology, Semantics, Typology: PostDoc in semantic typology ERC SHAPE (M/F), SeDyL/CNRS

As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me.

But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

when i keep saying that language technologies enable the expansion of surveillance and monitoring that simply would not have been feasible previously making shitty jobs even shittier — this is what i mean

Weasel words perhaps the annoying linguistic habit you do! Weasel words perhaps the annoying linguistic habit you do, but don’t even know you’re doing it! Because it seems as though we’re hedging our language more than ever.  But what are weasel words? All to discuss with Barry McLoughlin, Head of Client Management at Communications Clinic and Gail Flanagan a Linguist in the University of Limerick.

Check out Dr Gail Flanagan killing it over on Newstalk this morning. #linguistics #publicengagement #discourse

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Education isn’t busy work, just like lifting weights in the gym isn’t about getting weights from point A to point B. Education is about making you a better, more thoughtful human being who appreciates people, beauty, and science.

None of these guys have ever appreciated anything but money.

The problem when ppl in a panoptic surveillance paradigm say they want to "do better than this" is that they mean they want perfect, error-free surveillance tech & not only is that functionally impossible, it's not morally desirable, even if it were. It'd still be a panoptic surveillance paradigm…

Can’t believe his stick somehow found Toews’ shot.

Universität Basel: Professor in English linguistics (open-rank) A position as Professor in English linguistics with a focus on English as a lingua franca in the digital age is to be filled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Basel...

English linguists
#world Englishes
Open rank professorial position at the university of Basel, Switzerland
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Tell me you never read the academic literature on populism without telling me you never read the academic literature on populism (and still write a column on the topic with the self-confidence of someone who is well read in the academic literature on populism).

Part of the reason this is all so tiresome is that what we're calling AI is a political project combining a bunch of preexisting sociotechical processes designed to shift power from the masses to the managerial class. A non-exhaustive list in no particular order:

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

About ten years ago I interviewed Gavin Newsom about his involvement with marriage equality, and here's what he had to say about Democrats who don't support queer people:

The 21st Century’s ‘quick brown fox’.

Seeking an Assistant Librarian - Marsh's Library We are seeking to recruit an Assistant Librarian for Marsh’s Library in central Dublin. Location: St. Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8 Reporting to: Assistant Director, Marsh’s Library Salary: €40,000 – €45,...

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian in Marsh's Library. This will be a great position for an early-career librarian. Further details at: marshlibrary.ie/assistant-li...

Ours had closed-cell cellulose sprayed directly onto joists and slats in the attic. Nightmare to remove, I can tell you that.

What Did Responses to Puerto Rican Sign Language at the Super Bowl Reveal About the Misconceptions People Have About Sign Languages? In my last blog post, I briefly referenced the presence of Puerto Rican Sign Language (Lenguaje de Señas Puertorriqueño, LSPR) interpreters at the Super Bowl. At the time, my focus was on the broad…

In light of online curiosity about the LSPR interpreters at the Super Bowl, I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify misconceptions of sign languages that I have seen circulating and to discuss why the use of LSPR was such a powerful statement
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So many groundbreaking linguists, of all persuasions, spent time at Essex at various points in their career: Michael Halliday, Andrew Radford, Peter Trudgill, Viv Cook, Keith Brown, Henry Widdowson, Harald Clahsen, Bob Borsley, Andrew Spencer, Louisa Sadler, Roger Hawkins.... So sad...

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files Out of 'Safety of Our Attendees' DinoCon issued a statement regarding the scientists and more named in the Epstein Files, noting they were officially banned from the event.

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files

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Jobs: General Linguistics, Phonetics: Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching & Scholarship), Queen Mary University of London Other Specialties: History of English Description: The Department of Linguistics, within the School of the Arts, is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching and Scholarship) to cover a staff member on externally funded research leave. Duties will include convening, teaching and marking on the following modules: (i) LIN5224 Speech, Hearing, and Phonetic Sciences, (ii) LIN212 History of English, (iii) LIN7010 Sociophonetics, and (iv) LIN7078 Analysing Language Datasets. T

Jobs: General Linguistics, Phonetics: Lecturer in Linguistics (Teaching & Scholarship), Queen Mary University of London

Image of post density on Bluesky, as grouped by main subject area of posts.

I’ll take it, I guess?

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Crossword with three common gender pronoun clues: 13 across: him or her, a suggested common gender pronoun; 18 across, he or she, a suggested common gender pronoun. 40 across, that one; he, she, or it, suggested common gender pronoun, third person.

Pronouns in the news, 1930 ed: antedating and author identified. Richard Tingley, prolific crossword setter, put three common-gender pronoun clues in a puzzle that ran in late 1930; this one appeared in the Rockford (IL) Star, Dec. 28, p. 23. The puzzle ran the next day in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Call for membership to the RIA multidisciplinary committees!

The RIA is inviting applications for membership of its multidisciplinary committees (MDCs) for the 2026–2030 term.

Learn more about what the MDCs do and how to apply for membership on the RIA website: www.ria.ie/2025/12/16/c...

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....