Joe Pater
@joe-pater.bsky.social
Linguist and musician https://blogs.umass.edu/pater/ https://soundcloud.com/les-derailleurs
Always liked this album, had never seen this video. Chris Spedding with a Flying V!
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)@bowiesongs.bsky.social · 2d ago50 now. one of Ferry's lesser records (a grab-bag of Roxy remakes & assorted covers) but still fun. Plus the title track got a video co-starring Jerry Hall, not long before she dumped BF, and Ferry looking like a shady nightclub owner in the 40s: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Eb...
This is just wonderful popular science writing, and fascinating for anyone interested in cognition of any type! @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence
The long read: Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place...
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We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
Update: the dialect map quiz thing going around is a cheap knockoff of the good one, which is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
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I don’t know what it is about the lake renaming that’s particularly gotten under my skin, but it’s great to have this Bode piece to articulate that anger at tech complicity. karlbode.com/never-forget...
Never Forget How Eagerly Apple And Google Coddled Fascism
The US slide into autocracy has been enabled at every step by pathetic tech executives that enthusiastically embraced a complete lack of ethics.
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It's an odd choice that the MAGA/MAHA Administration has made: to destroy the US research enterprise & to cede research leadership to other countries, including Canada & China It only makes sense to me when I realize that MAGA & MAHA see knowledge, facts & data as a threat to their conspiracy BS
Fifty Shades of Whey@fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · last wk.Canada has recruited dozens of researchers away from US universities. 48 out of 64 chair recipients in a government program worth $500+ million are coming from US institutions like Harvard and MIT. 🧵
Democrats should be expected to condemn this bigoted shit, not Piker
randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have
The real "administrative bloat" in education is the money that schools are being forced to fork over to tech vendors that can just keep jacking up their prices year after year, because it would cost even more to rebuild the systems and retrain the people that were built/trained on that tech.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2w agoOf course, there's basically 0 chance that the cost of ChatGPT for all stays at $13M/yr. The whole ed tech model is to offer an initial price that's ridiculously low, get schools hooked (ie, by helping them embed the new tech in all their systems), then jack up the price for contracts long-term. 3/
Cofnas was not doing the thing he was hired to do. Academic freedom does not cover ”not doing your job.”
roterote@roterote.bsky.social · 3w agoHere is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.
CNN: “.. 10 Trump-endorsed candidates have now lost this primary season -- including 6 in the last two weeks and 3 on Tuesday alone. .. Those 10 losses are as much as Trump suffered in 2018, 2020 and 2024 combined.” @cnn.com
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Heroic rock legacy band replaces their late heroic rock legacy drummer with a slightly built younger German woman, Anika Niles. These are choices that men can and should make. Bravo to RUSH for not taking the predictable route.
Raises the interesting seeming paradox that AI can be useful in individual users’ hands, but is useless in increasing corporate efficiency or productivity. www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future. The @theguardian.com just published an amazing piece about my book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Coming August 18! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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completely agree, the infinite flexibility of phrasal verbs is the greatest thing about this language
latina belt sprachbund🇲🇽🇵🇸🗡️@languagespeaker.bsky.social · last mo.People kinda dismiss English as kinda being “whatever” on the prettiness scale but for me this is what makes English so beautiful
The LRB site is back up. This is definitely worth reading in full. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Centrists always present these takes as savvy "harsh truths" for the left, but they're the most pathetic kind of ignorant, cowardly self-soothing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Big congratulations to @mattgoldrick.bsky.social on this very well deserved honor!
Cognitive Science Society@cogscisociety.bsky.social · 2mo agoNow underway at #CogSci2026: the Elman Prize Symposium, ‘Multilingualism: Enhancing Cognitive Science in Theory and Practice’, honoring 2026 prize recipient Matthew Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social.
I haven’t gotten deep into this debate, but a lot of what Odgers is saying rings true to me here. And a really well done article conveying the complexities of the issue. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?
Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of...
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The goal of viewpoint diversity is to introduce into the study of culture non-peer reviewed views and indeed discredited views simply for political balance on the most narrowly conceived terms of partisan politics. It is an approach even AEI rejects in science but wants to apply to humanities.
you'd think the planet's first trillionaire hijacking a $42.5 billion taxpayer infrastructure program to grab massive chunks of money for substandard satellite broadband he already planned to deploy would have been a bigger news story for outlets like the Washington Post and New York Times
Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.