This might be a good day to announce that I’m joining the ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures faculty at California State University Long Beach. Currently packing. Will be flying out end of this month.
That Deaf Immigrant
@annalim.bsky.social
Postcolonial FilChi deaf queer femme immigrant linguist. Proponent of deaf liminality. Writing a memoir titled “liminal; liminal; liminal". Investigates cognitive linguistics in heritage Tagalog learning. Likes books, vlogs, oracle cards, animism, & music.
Just had a journal article published! Deaf liminality: a reckoning of DEAF-SAME academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl...
Most of us can't conceive of how much money $1 billion is. One person having that kind of money is obscene.
Should we support our own people with American tax dollars, or should we foment illegal wars of choice?
Smart countries moving towards smart energy strategies, while the US moves backwards.
Climate Tracker@climate.skyfleet.blue · 2mo agoA first among major nations, India is industrializing with solar #Climate
“The journey of this idea from classrooms in the Pacific to The Hague and the United Nations gives us continued hope that when people organize, the world can be moved to act.”
In a rare show of global unity, countries adopt landmark climate ruling
About six years ago, law students at the University of the South Pacific convinced the government of the small island nation of Vanuatu to take the harms wrought by climate change all the way to the I...
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Inexplicably obsessed with Michael Jackson these days.
We are the world We are the children We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving There's a choice we're making We're saving our own lives It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me
“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”
The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 2mo agoA PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.
Phasing out all my Gmails. Relieved that I don't really get a lot of personal emails. If you need to reach me, please let me know if you need my new email address.
Not sure if people realize that saying "You have a PhD? If you can do it, so can I!" is offensive as fuck.
Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...
AI generated identical resumes for a man and a woman: Hers was more likely to be labeled 'weak,' while his got a 97% approval rating | Fortune
“If people believe they will be judged more harshly for using AI, they are less likely to adopt it—regardless of their capability."
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The ASLPI was required at a former job and many of us had the impression if you were Black, you were probably scoring lower than the criteria indicated. It's certainly looking for a particular type of sign(er).
Do I belong?: implications of the ASLPI
Abstract. The American Sign Language Proficiency Interview (ASLPI) is a widely used assessment tool for academic and professional qualifications in ASL-rel
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Will give away my unused tarot decks as a bundle instead of selling because energy.
As a mixed Asian, I wanna weight in a bit on the "Wasian" discourse happening right now-- if you're Wasian and taking advantage of your proximity to whiteness claiming that that's the only way to have Asian representation in predominantly white spaces, then you're perpetuating white supremacy.
The Profa Republican Party is an international crime syndicate terrorizing their own children
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoRep. Andy Ogles: "My little one still has nightmares, afraid that his dad is going to be taken away by big bad Biden"
I really have entirely had enough of this shit. www.mediaite.com/media/news/h...
Epstein Associate Accused of Rape Flies to China With Trump
Brett Ratner, the Jeffrey Epstein associate who was accused of rape and sexual assault by multiple women, accompanied President Trump aboard Air Force One.
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Hardest but most valuable lesson I've learned to date: No matter how good I think I've become at teaching and no matter how much I've tried to improve my approach, there will always be students who don't, won't or just can't jibe with you. And that's okay.
Finally mustered up enough courage to read course evaluations. They're mostly sweet. The few "negatives" relate to how I structured the classes in a way that don't jive with these students' learning styles even though I revised my teaching in accordance with last semester's evaluations.
Random memory: Best part of our 2011/2012 trips to Korea was Ssamzigil (craft shopping mall) in Insadong.
Lawyer for U.S. citizen who was detained by ICE 3 times: ICE is just rounding up people based on how they look without any reason to suspect that they've done anything wrong. Even when a citizen shows ID, they're put into handcuffs.
...I like tinned fish. Always have (even when I was a toddler). Always will.
Posting stories in my Instagram of Jewish scholars condemning the actions of a rogue genocidal nation got them taken down by Meta bec. these stories "sexualize" children. This has happened twice. The warning notifications do not include the allegedly "offending" stories bec. evidence? What's that?
I cannot believe that some American universities have been inviting ICE to career fairs Strike that, of course I can believe it, I just don’t want to believe it Anyway, you can watch our panel on the health & policy crisis of kids & families in ICE detention centers at warpwire.duke.edu/w/MUoJAA/
The future in 2 stories: 1) AI will create a permanent underclass that no amount of college and career readiness can address and 2) school-as-workplace prep will hasten this along
