This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

my unfinished paper draft watching me start a new paper

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Completely unsurprising, but also, what is happening when all the Waymos get stuck in a traffic jam of their own making and endlessly circle each other? Are the behind-the-scenes workers just messing around? (If so, good for them.)

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Me: I really need to log off social media and stop following the news so obsessively, so I can concentrate on my research Also me: My research involves reading the news and social media I probably should have thought this one through…

This is not how “men behave”, it’s how predators behave. Also, if you know a potential boss will enquire about an applicant’s appearance, maybe consider steering your student AWAY from that job, instead of pushing her toward it?!

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I have been writing letters of recommendation for just shy of thirty years— 17 students this year alone— in ratios that more or less track the majority-women population of liberal arts students. Obviously I have never commented on a student's looks... and no recipient has ever called me to ask.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Last call for abstracts for the Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America Conference #CLANAC2 in Kelowna, BC this May 27-29, 2026. Any topics related to Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. Deadline has been extended to Jan. 30 and can be submitted here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The CBC NYE coverage is truly unhinged - the Vancouver feed is a half-empty roller rink in the PNE, a reporter in Regina just attempted an aerial dance move live on air, the NL feed closed with drunken sea shanties, and the co-host in Edmonton keeps putting on more jackets (he’s up to 10 layers)

Just noticed that @lingthusiasm.bsky.social is very close to a satisfyingly round number of followers on here If you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics, maybe head over there? And if you think your followers might like to, give this a RT?

The LSA Awards Committee is excited to announce John Rickford as the winner of the 2026 Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award! John Rickford is Stanford University professor of Linguistics, emeritus & was LSA President in 1985. Join us in celebrating at #LSA2026! web.cvent.com/event/d45318...

I just watched a grown man chase a baby seagull around until it ran into the street (thankfully it was not hurt) And yes I yelled at him to stop but he didn’t hear me over the sound of his own rain boots stomping around Wtf is wrong with people

🇨🇦 What’s the ultimate Canadian word? Earlier this year we told you about UBC scholars who had updated the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Now, you can help crown the Canadianism of the Year! Cast your vote: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Canadian English Dictionary: Word of the Year (CWOTY) 2025

The Society for Canadian English is choosing a 2025 word of the year from the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Have your say here. The poll will close on December 5, 2025, 11:59 p...

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This is of course fucking grim and all I can say is that Satan will be going to work in a snow plow before I turn a student away from my class for wearing niqab or anything else. Fuck that forever. (great column by @nolore.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/noralore...

Quebec's new secularism bill expands the scope of who the government officially hates

Today, the Coalition Avenir Québec is introducing, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec (the name is better in French, surely).

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When I was in high school, the local classical radio station KUAT hosted a show called Desert Voices, broadcast in Tohono O’odham. The show went off the the air when the Nation got their own station - which was great ofc, but a bit sad that it was no longer integrated into the “regular” programming.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So this is cool: my local NPR station, @kuow.org is broadcasting their station identification in different languages. The first one I caught was Lushootseed, and so at first I thought it was an acknowledgment of the people whose land KUOW is located on. It is that, but also more:

Happy World Linguistics Day from Vancouver, BC, Canada!

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 9mo ago

Happy World Linguistics Day from Montreal, Canada! (I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)

My cat is losing her hearing, so we decided we should use some basic gestures when talking to her. It took her one (1) day to understand the sign for “food”. 😹

The verb "table" having opposite meanings in #Canadian and #American #English is just another example why speaking the same #language doesn't mean we speak the same #linguistics #antonyms #dialect #meaning

the layers of chronically online context playing out here are fascinating - now we have a UAlberta prof put on leave for a bluesky post referencing a @dril.bsky.social tweet nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

University of Alberta law professor put on leave amid review of online comments made after Charlie Kirk's death

“You do not ... ever have to hand it to the Nazis. I utterly do not care for any ‘virtues’ that someone may perceive in them,” they wrote.

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My mom sometimes texts me book recommendations, and it’s so sweet of her to think I have time to read for fun 🥲

Anyone else remember this? Turns out it was all of 5 years ago. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lette... (aka “the Harper’s letter”)

The Onion headlines are writing themselves again

Michael “Cool” Powell also posting lots on twitter, remarkably silent on this.

🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁@elisestickles.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I ventured over to twitter to see what Conor Friedersdorf has to say about this. In the last day he’s had time to post about Burger King and a 1907 car race, but has remained mysteriously silent on his favorite topic, suppression of academic freedom of speech.

I ventured over to twitter to see what Conor Friedersdorf has to say about this. In the last day he’s had time to post about Burger King and a 1907 car race, but has remained mysteriously silent on his favorite topic, suppression of academic freedom of speech.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

it has been 4 years and these guys simply cannot stop acting like the LSA letter was the same thing as a McCarthy era black list or a maoist denunciation rally or some shit

New Zealand marked safe

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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I am pleased to report I successfully flew into and back out of the coal mine

🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁@elisestickles.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m an American citizen living/working in Canada, scheduled to present a paper on religion metaphors in climate change communication/denialism at a conference in the US this summer. Kind of feel like I’m the canary willingly flying into the coal mine here

I’m descended from those who were fortunate enough to escape the pogroms and come to America in the early 1900s. My Bubbe (z’’l) would be roiling, roiling, roiling today.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · last yr.

Sweet cheese on a stick every time I read @joellenovey.bsky.social spit devastating truth about how far our community has fallen from who we are supposed to be it breaks me even more: (link seems to be back online:)

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system