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Because it apparently bears repetition:

You do not make fun of people for things like their weight, height, voice, baldness, ancestry, etc.

Even if they are horrible people. That is not a get out of jail free card.

Pick something else. Preferably in the actions or thoughts zone.

There is enough consistency of address to justify speaking of a personal-pronoun style which involves a more or less wide use of the solidary T. Even among students of the same socioeconomic level there are differences of style, and these are potentially expressive of radicalism and conservatism in ideology. A Frenchman could, with some confidence, infer that a male university student who regularly said T to female fellow students would favor the nationalization of industry, free love, trial marriage, the abolition of capital punishment, and the weakening of nationalistic and religious loyalties.

using T pronouns generously in the 1950s was the sociopolitical equvalent of blue hair and pronouns in the 2020s
(Brown and Gilman 1960: 275)

LLMs destroy context. You used to be able to tell a crank website from a good source partly by its style.

But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

I cosign every single word of this

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

a wonderful little essay by Anastasia Berg.

...well, a wonderful little essay with two words that urgently need changed: "hundreds" → "thousands" and "advanced" → "many"

if school were primarily about Learning, it would look so different haha

...for thing one nobody would cheat on a test

#3 has huge explanatory power. why do students use LLM to do work for them? why are policies driven by phantom visions of future employment? why is independent adulthood slipping farther away for many? school as a vast system to justify your "final score" social ranking. & sweep class under the rug

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

Yes, definitely. I’ve often found myself after playing some role-playing videogames thinking in a different, *better* way afterwards as the character would.

In the article, I argue that actually we often resist imaginatively adopting bad perspectives, and it’s easier to take on morally good ones.

seems like this same effect could be used for good? like, do a lot of role-playing as a better person. act out a fantasy/gameplay of honesty, courage, kindness

r/LegalAdviceUK u/Mammoth-Session5617 • 7h I've been told that I need to "tone down my accent" because it comes across as "aggressive and intimidating." Comments Moderated Moved to England for work. The area has quite a posh accent. My natural accent is... pretty rough. l've been warned twice by my employer that my accent is intimidating colleagues. I've clarified that it isn't the content of what I say, it's purely the accent with which I deliver it. Is there any legal protection for accents? I'm getting worried that they're gonna try and let me go because of this.

Oi, mate, yew got a loicense for that accent?!?!

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Attacking people’s accents is a low blow that we don’t need, and it’s often a cover for some really xenophobic arguments. She’s a terrible person but she’s very intelligible in English, and it’s much better to talk about the (lack of) content in her speech than her style.

Let's talk about why "just spell it how it sounds" is actually not straightforward, especially for a large language like English. The big questions are: "How it sounds" when spoken*by whom*? And who gets to choose?

#linguistics

Incidentally, this is why I’m against strict spelling. Words should be spelled the way they sound & we spell words as if we’re speaking Middle English for ridiculous class reasons

In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem

text and logo on a white background - logo is some green and brown blobs. like, maybe people hugging

The good folks at @e-l-p.bsky.social are taking applications for their "Ready to Revitalize" training program until Dec 1. It's a great chance to learn more about language revitalization and meet other revitalizers from all around the world.

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Freedom of speech has never been for everyone Podcast Episode · Code Switch · 11/05/2025 · 40m

speech act theory meets "bring back shame" (paging @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social)
in the last segment of this episode, ft. Anshuman Mondal. the episode is quite nice!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Code Switch What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...

This podcast ep, on freedom of speech, is excellent. And concludes with my dear pal and cricket buddy of 34 years, the Prof - Anshuman Mondal - actually giving some sage advice on how to deal with the weaponisation of free speech by people pushing racist (etc) agendas.

www.npr.org/podcasts/510...

keeping the "named generations" convention but breaking the x-y-z-a scheme: are there alternate names for "z" and "alpha" out there?

like what if we did "6-7 generation" instead of "alpha"

in all seriousness, all spelling is already vibe spelling. because the tyranny of received (imposed!) orthography... has been the vibe! 😅

the vibe has been rancid for so many generations that we barely notice it 😖

I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!

sometimes quotation marks are used for emphasis :)

(we should all know this by now, it's not a recent invention)

Sometimes I will see Arnold Schwarzenegger in an old movie and think about all the foreign actors that had to master American accents. But he never had to, and his roles never explained why his accent was so thick. 😭

I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here.

Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+

absolutely inexcusable

If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.

They will be in a Mexican restaurant talking about everybody needs to speak English in this country.

dog what the fuck is a “biological pronoun”