my little fauxneme

Related: I’m still looking for leads and help on jobs, fellowships, and freelance contracts on drones, GIS, aid, disaster, OSINT, tech ethics, and journalism. I simply will not work for evil people and/or weapons manufacturers, which is also why I haven’t had paying work since Trump 2.0 began.

good thread (@vcarchidi.bsky.social you might like this)

omg

one of the most eye-opening things that came up in discussions with my USian wife is how Ikea-deprived y'all are/have; Canada is RIFE with them and has been for decades (A+ childhood memories of the ball pit)

this is not a thing I talk enough about, but funny jokes aside this is one of the very best confections that exists and I cannot be left unsupervised with a box of these

if you're at nwav come see my students' and my project launch poster this afternoon! we want to pick your brain about methodology

here’s the link to my slides on causal inference and sound change! #nwav55 jofrhwld.github.io/nwav54/

the breathless dorsey voice model posting is stupid; have ppl not been keeping up with TTS and speech2speech developments?

Info on repairing shit. The ability to type in your make and model of car into YouTube and see an uncle make a video about how to fix any part of it? AMAZING.

ugh the most queb shit ever sorry y'all my ppl are irksome about this

Optimality theory and Minimalism are older now than SPE and Aspects were when they came out. This is the linguists' equivalent to "Nevermind and Low End Theory are older now than the White Album and Stop in the Name of Love were when they came out".

Question for NON-linguists, especially people with STEM backgrounds: In a textbook, how surprised would you be if there were several pages considering one possible analysis of some data, ending with the conclusion that we therefore have to adopt an entirely different analysis?

wholesome af

shocked to discover that googling "darcy be like" returns austen memes, not the iconic alexandra d'arcy papers on quotative "be like"

the rise of "moreso" makes my eye twitch a bit #BadLinguist

😂😭

a+ cancon

also for homeless ppl to sit and lie on

it's from 1985 someone check if she was hanging around ucsd then

cbt but it's just a dick cilice for when i think someone's hot

heille là

yeah this

something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time

well, fuck

sorideez nu- nevermind

panicking when my laptop needs to reboot for an OS upgrade because I believe my claude conscious

huh apparently i'm not down with shit-talking monster trucks (that's verb+complement, not a cool new kind of monster truck)

the Gettiest Problem (assuming this is done to death but I'm not a philosopher so suck it)

skeet ulrich

1/2 🎇 Good news! 🎇 The kind people at Behavioral and Brain Science have made the new collection on "Conscious AI and biological naturalism" #OpenAccess for a limited time: target article, all 50 commentaries, & my response. Go to the link and click 'save pdf': doi.org/10.1017/S014.... Do share!

TIL that Griffith (of observatory financing fame, inter alia) was actually named Griffith J. Griffith. Incredible shit. (disclaimer: he was not a good dude)

ok this made me chuckle

On Oct 27 at 4P ET, linguists at different career stages will have a conversation about applying for jobs amid anti-trans & anti-queer legislation, being visibly out in research & classrooms, finding community, & putting queer & trans issues at the center of our work. www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

saw codefendents open for frank turner a few years ago and then again just now at aftershock still hella underrated

unclear how many of y'all are talking about phenomenal consciousness vs access consciousness vs ... &c &c

imagine doing richie valens and big bopper dirty like this

as an enpath i've never heard of phonological assimilation

s/text/language s/far association/long-distance dependency linguistics stays winning

hot take: software people are going to regret not unionizing when we could

p sure i'm gonna regret that

saw somebody refer to themselves unironically as a pastafarian and had to check that i hadn't somehow warped to slashdot circa 20yrs ago

with frozen fries, a packet of st-hubert poutine sauce powder, and frozen curds imported in June, i am having a better poutine than literally anything available in northern california

more like anaesthetic preferences amirite

nevergreen

I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students! Come work with me on all things multilingual and low-resource NLP! NLP background welcome, but commitment to scientific study of language is essential. My recent work has included ASR for field linguistics and compact LLMs for heritage languages