other parents: "That's it! If you can't stop fighting over that toy, I will take it away so no one can play with it!" my kids' parents: "Do you need another lecture on game theory and group utility? Is that what I'm hearing?!"

A NULL OPERATOR IS NOT AN ANALYSIS IT IS A PLACEHOLDER FOR AN ANALYSIS

my dear friend the philosopher Robert Gressis self-publishes hilarious auto-biographical books, and I couldn't recommend them more. here's a quote from his latest, available here: www.amazon.com/Most-Awkward...

Steven Pinker lol

maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 2mo ago

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

deep vowel shifts in the boy child population over here in LA: [bro] --> [brɑ] --> [bɹ̩]

frustrated with the ambiguity rifle in English response particles? the colloquial "I'm good" unambiguously tracks the speaker highlight ([AGREE] in the Farkas/Roelofsen typology) 🐦🐦🐦

rhetorically peaking with the sentence "It is important not to throw the conditional out with the biconditional bath water"

people whose email signature patronizingly assures me I can respond in my own time

Hiring in syntax/semantics. 1 year position at @ox.ac.uk. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

All the philosophy students who pursued their passion made a wise decision. Learning how to think is a always a good investment. Psychology grads are not doing too badly on the job market either.

Happy Mother's Day

I am someone who can find an associate in context for any anaphor or ellipsis site and I am absolutely stumped by this headline, I feel like congrats are in order 🐦🐦🐦

Prism@prismreports.org · 3mo ago

"Solitary confinement does not rehabilitate. It does not protect. What it does, with quiet efficiency, is remove every person who loves an incarcerated human being from their reach, & then, when that person dies, it turns to the mother & asks what she could have done differently." —Kwaneta Harris

a horrific failure of administration that has traumatized a whole generation of students at UCLA

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 3mo ago

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

famous UK headline "My Dodgy Kebab Was a Baby"... evidence that de dicto / de re has nothing to do with (modal) quantifiers? 🐦🐦🐦

a non-trivial amount of my students report being able to get a consistent reading of the sentence "2 players are male and non-binary", i.e. they can interpret it as a claim about 4 individual players how widespread is this?! seems like endtimes to me

it may interest you to know that a sick burn amongst the local 5th graders is to accuse you of doing a Trump Dump in your Vance Pants

I don't usually repost memes, but this one keeps being relevant.

can we please all stop deliberately consuming propaganda from any government

an alternative perspective on the Artemis 2 stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2...

Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Ace Records

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I have consistently made $200-400 each year on average in class action settlements for at least the last 8 years or so. is this a common experience? it just takes a few minutes of filling out forms online per settlement... it's wild

death by a thousand small apocalypses

pretty hard to feel good about your LA public school kid having Cesar Chavez Day off on a NORMAL new cycle...

what's more neuroatypical: * watching ASMR videos, or * watching ASMR videos with the sound off because it's too much

Every time

Jesus Christ, this is terrifying

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 5mo ago

Female defectors say the MAGA movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and now demands submission while ‘advertising it will be cruel and fickle.’

finally got so exhausted I accidentally said "meat flaps" instead of "vocal chords" in office hours today. gonna just fire myself I guess

losing an hour on International Women’s Day feels right

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

women FTW "Instead of Googling Epstein, Aaronson, then 29, turned to what he considered an even more reliable source: his mother. She did some checking. “Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here,” she wrote back"

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.