somehow this has only gotten funnier

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This week's t-shirt is a very silly joke for fans of linguistics, Ghibli, and milky drinks. #WeeklyTshirt #Ghibli #Boba danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/kiki...

Same, kid. Same.

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...

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Shake it, baby! 🐢

Vlad, Thee Merrymaker ⚓@vjlonir.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's so cute that tortoises and turtles like their shells brushed lol

normalize 👏 telling 👏 tech 👏 companies 👏 to 👏 keep 👏 their 👏 grubby 👏 mitts 👏 out 👏 of 👏 schools 👏

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

It’s here!! I can’t believe I had the good fortune to get to write an introductory #linguistics textbook with two of my favorite people. I’m very proud of this book and wish I could teach with it—but I hope that other folks will let me live vicariously through them!

Altitude Sports unwittingly has aired my second favorite show, Ryker in the Truck They're also airing my favorite show, Avs Trounce Another Hockey Team #GoAvsGo

GREAT SCOTT 🤯

Val Nichushkin (no. 13) tied the game with 13 seconds left for his 13th goal of the season. We will let you sit with that one for a minute.

Colorado Avalanche@avalanche.bsky.social · 7mo ago

CAN WE GET A CHOO CHOOO 🚂

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 8mo ago

Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg

Spot on. If you don't know about Clever Hans, the "equine mathematical genuis" it's worth reading up on him.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!

We need antidepressants built for this era, not the ones built for an era where everything was more or less fine. I need Turbo-Powered Lexipro. Prozac Extreme™. I need god to spit directly into my mouth

This is making the rounds again, and I was amused to reread the thread and see that it was shortly before our book came out. Lots has happened in the past 10 months, but the message of this thread still holds.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last yr.

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

PLEASE I don't want a "smart" fridge, or a "smart" TB, or a "smart" anything they're not smart at all, they're just data mining tools, and I don't want any of them

Peter Labuza@labuzamovies.com · 2y ago

Feel like there's a market opportunity in opening a luddite appliance store: non-smart refridgerators, watches that tell you the time, a themostat that you set by htting buttons, a regular lock for your door, a toaster that just pops the toast after a minute. Maybe you expand into cars with buttons.

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology doi.org/10.1017/jlg.... I hope people find it useful!

don't forget to take a break from doomscrolling to press your fingers against your closed eyelids until you can see the beginning of the universe

missing even one paycheck like this would have ruined me and my young family when I was an NSF postdoc. This is heartless

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2y ago

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

I gotta say, I'm getting pretty tired of hearing "he can't do that!" when he very clearly is doing that.

Jorts (and Jean)@jortsthecat.bsky.social · 2y ago

Me, smirking at the bear devouring my flesh: So you actually can’t do that it’s illegal. Focus on economics

this is good, practical, and worth bookmarking for the next time someone you love insists that a myth like "immigrants bring drugs" is a fact

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 2y ago

NYT reporting mass immigrant ICE raids have begun in Chicago. I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate. No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...

About links, bluesky loves them. Please unlearn the link-in-reply tricks you've been doing elsewhere and proudly share your blog posts, videos, or any other external link in your top posts so we can all go and visit your fancy websites and then get back here to discuss and repost them. Thanks!

patak@patak.cat · 2y ago

Not only is X throttling external links, but it is also messing with its public pages. Without an account, you don't see the conversation if you go to a post. Instead, you get ads to sign up. If you visit profiles, the latest posts are not there. Useless for microblogging. Harmful to the open web.

For those interested the World Health Organization is on 🦋. You can stay informed @who.int

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back

theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.

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I mean right off the bat, ’idea generation’ is laughable. LLMs cannot come up with new ideas, LLMs can only reformulate ideas it already has access to. Using an LLM for idea generation is plagiarism and no one with ever convince me otherwise.

sometimes while watching hockey, the checks into the board will jostle the dopamine vending machine so i get all the stuck ones at once

Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 2y ago

putting a dollar into the dopamine vending machine and watching as the dopamine gets stuck on the way down