Bethany Gardner

I’m not complaining about no one protesting pride (or not getting heatstroke!), but it does feel pretty weird to have more security here than in the city where a senator was at a rally with the Proud Boys and someone blew up a van outside the AT&T building on Christmas.

SF pride entrance: put your empty water bottle in the graveyard of confiscated bottles because people could use them as weapons

Nashville: we’ll glance in your bag, but actually we’re in a sound war with the preacher yelling into a bullhorn, and we’re winning with Taylor Swift

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s not that the AI is humanlike; it’s that they don’t think women are fully people

so if the iPhone keyboard could stop predicting “sm*t” when I type “about” that would be great because I am DODGING BULLETS in Slack

Please come find me if you want to talk pronoun research, Siri, getting started doing freelance/contract work, recent experiences on the industry job market, or Philly food recs :)

I'll be at @lingsocam.bsky.social in Philadelphia next week! Although I won't be presenting the last of my dissertation research (the submission timelines didn't work out), I'm going to be in a discussion with LEXING about linguistics careers in AI. 1/2

political alignment chart with an “annoying to me personally” z-axis

realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube

any chance you’re going to LSA then? I definitely recommend Philly

if you need me in the next few days, we will be binge reading 1300 pages about her namesake

listening to “dancing through life” on repeat because it’s a bop despite the fact that I max out the Need For Cognition scale at every waking moment

saw a wicked-themed google ad before the movie, calling AI a magical gift from the wizard

...the movie where it's revealed that the wizard is a flashy fraud, doesn't actually have the special knowledge he claims, and is siding with populism/fascism to maintain power

ok updates/hot takes:

I kinda like the formula input in Numbers but like, nothing else

I can get Excel/Word and it’s PowerPoint that’s a no, but I can live with Keynote more than Numbers

how am I at what must be the only company in the world not using excel or sheets

excel come back I’m sorry I badmouthed you, numbers is so much worse

oh hoping we can get something like lingtwitter going here! can you add me to the list?

in actuality I haven’t had any awkwardness coming into Apple as a windows/android user. the mild awkwardness has actually been from men who expect me to know shit about Teslas.

my beloved pixel just died & while this isn’t the worst timing — I can add my # to my work iPhone instead of having to spend money on a new phone — ugh

I’m choosing to believe this happened because I brought an android into Apple Park too many times & they nuked it from orbit

Science has never been, and never will be, apolitical. It is a human activity, the federal government is the biggest financial backer of it, and one political party is doing everything it can to reduce our capacity to answer scientific questions.

Starter pack of people doing LGBTQ+/queer linguistics (writ large)!

Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added :)

go.bsky.app/2mjmgqt

why I was glad I only took one class in the CS department 😬😬

oh man were you aware of the "I'll buy you a bus ticket to Canada" debacle?

current favorite is the person who went "OH NO I'VE SUMMONED THE BEAST" in a talk

this week I've been learning about the many workarounds people use to talk about Siri without actually triggering Siri, and while this makes sense it also feels like I'm spelling w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t around a dog who gets overly excited 😂

so your house is running a long-term speech production and comprehension experiment 👍

I am sticking to my backpack with fun little pins though, because I don't have back/shoulder pain yet and I need to try to keep it that way

could I wear jeans to work? absolutely. but I'm now in love with the giant functional pockets that come with the wide legged slacks that are fashionable, and who wants to be casual when POCKETS

incredible trio of cat names thank you

I think when you're moving you should get a magical dispensation where your apartment doesn't start getting dirty until you've finished unpacking

Thanks! I hope you're ok -- one of my only consolations right now is that I got out of Tennessee

I hate that the only thing anyone can tell me (marginalized in ways that are next on the chopping block, but not in immediate danger) is "oh don't worry, YOU'LL be ok"

after 8+ years in 60s brutalist brick psych buildings, all I wanted was some actual windows and Apple Park sure is delivering on that