Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 15h agowe should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something
Michael Israel
@subcontrarian.bsky.social
Linguist trying to understand logic, emotion, identity and human cognition. Semantics, pragmatics, syntax; Cognitive Grammar; English history and sociolinguistics. Berkeley -> San Diego -> Leipzig -> Silver Spring, Maryland
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 15h ago
I recommend this article about AI reasoning, where the author lets us in on his struggles w/ AI cognitive dissonance. Plus some priceless quotes from @rao2z.bsky.social. (My recommendation has *nothing* to do with the fact that I'm quoted in it too 😇) www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.
quantamagazine.org
Berkeley really does have some of the most beautifully unself-aware people imaginable.
Theo Gordon@theogordon.bsky.social · last wk.Move over zucchini lady, this guy calling 'bike lanes white lanes' and calling the Terner Center the 'Gentrification Center' is my new favorite Berkeley Council moment. #berkmtg
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
It was a failure of imagination not to include “I’m Russ Douthat.” Apologies
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm Mike Lindell. I'm Herschel Walker. I'm Mel Gibson. I'm Sidney Powell. I'm Riley Gaines. Those stories and more. Tonight. On 60 Minutes.
New article!: The Origins and Evolution of Writing www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... 🧵1/
The Origins and Evolution of Writing
For centuries, scholars have debated the etiology and evolution of writing. The most persistent concerns relate to the relationship between writing and social organization, linguistic structure, and c...
annualreviews.org
Friends! Do you know a lot of PhD-holding nerds?? I'm surveying people who came from abroad to complete a PhD in the US, after the Trump admin announced student visas will only cover 4 years and folks must then seek uncertain renewal from USCIS. Please share! www.porchpartynews.com/p/trump-rule...
Were you an international student who got an American PhD? Take our survey!
A new Trump rule forces foreign doctoral candidates to apply mid-degree for an uncertain visa extension. What will that mean for academia and society—and people’s lives?
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I hope every day you all are trying to cultivate joy. A kindness to a neighbor. A long walk. Poetry. Birdwatching. Meditation. Being silly and playing peekaboo in a checkout line with a cute baby. These are dark times, and joy is something the bastards cannot take from us. Fight for it.
This is the most pure John Oliver bait I've seen in a minute.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w agoFacing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
The national front against the lawless authoritarianism needs to be as big & inclusive as possible & neither DSA members nor former pro-GWB neocons can be excluded, nor can either group be permitted to impose litmus tests on who gets to be part of the national front.
Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 2w agoI think a party that can welcome anti-Trump Republicans can also embrace members of the DSA. I think it should, actually
I have a new paper out in Science today with colleagues Damian Blasi, Marcus Hamilton, and Russell Gray. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
science.org
Very cool result. Will be fun to see how people argue about its interpretation
Benjamin Pitt@benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 2w agoNew paper finally out in @NatureComms with E. Leib, D. O’Shaughnessy, C. Gallardo, @sferrigno.bsky.social, and @spiantado.bsky.social. 📝Children across cultures discover the latent algorithms that structure what they see, even without instruction, feedback, or formal schooling.🧵 tinyurl.com/4a238m2d
New paper finally out in @NatureComms with E. Leib, D. O’Shaughnessy, C. Gallardo, @sferrigno.bsky.social, and @spiantado.bsky.social. 📝Children across cultures discover the latent algorithms that structure what they see, even without instruction, feedback, or formal schooling.🧵 tinyurl.com/4a238m2d
Ketamine freak has completely lost what’s left of his mind because there’s a Black lady in a fictional movie.
Antifascism looks like Pedro Pascal. It looks like Alex Pretti and AOC. It looks like 600 priests, imams, and rabbis in the cold streets of winter Minneapolis. Antifascism is gorgeous.
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
Recasting higher education as vocational training is some bullshit. The fact there aren't more jobs specifically calling for people who have studied humanities, social science, critical theory, etc, doesn't mean that there isn't work that benefits from those studies, esp. the work of being human.
It appears you're unclear on the order of US political operations: Dems have to spontaneously forgive everybody when they act like Republicans.
I think it's good to be the party for men who aren't okay with rape.
The field of constitutional law should be taken over by woo. Let's decide matters of grave national importance based on tarot card readers, astrology, crystals and others who have "clocked the vibes."
工an Monroe 🚰@eean.dev · last mo.I agree, the field of constitutional law should be abolished and taken over by poli sci profs
anyways in conclusion read elrod bsky.app/profile/did:...
Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · last mo.I wrote about the continued appeal of dirtbag politics, from the left to liberals, and how only a politics of grace and edification can save our liberal democracy Dirtbagism delenda est www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...
This is, loosely speaking, the correct take.
Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · last mo.The leftist equivalent to MAGA wouldn't be a Democratic Socialist. It would be an anarchist. There are no anarchist candidates. America only elects extremists from the right due to the historical legacy of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The country spent centuries normalizing fascism for one race.