Hadas Kotek 🦄

The elder millennial existence consists entirely of alternating geopolitical and financial crises

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union.

This could have tremendous implications for voting:

Word is trying to correct my grammar by changing women, doctors to women doctor.

There can only be one, I guess.

A chicken walking on the beach the caption is: If you are seeing this the curse is lifted have a good day

Congratulations everyone

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

very important video please watch

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act.

The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.

You still code?!

I haven't finished reading this (pretty long, baby naps are limiting) but even though I've read a good deal of stuff about antisemitism and the history of racism in America, reading a Black perspective of modern antisemitism is *really* educational. This piece is excellent. Please check it out!

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

digital art. a terrified looking dog wearing a yellow vest that has the word nervous on it

dog

#linguistics
Early WOTY nom

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

Hello Professor Sell, I hope this email finds you well. I just wanted to say thank yo ufor calling a learning 'disability' a learning 'challenge.' It may not seem like a big deal to you but as someone who has struggled with a learning disability for more than half their life and was diagnosed in 5th grade, I always felt ashamed or dumb as it ibeing viewed as a disability. Although there is nothing wrong with being disabled, I just had felt like that wasn't the correct terminology to use. Thank you again for just making it seem like school is more viewed as challenging for me rather than viewing it as a disability. That one-word change really switched my perspective, and I will continue to use it through the rest of my education. Thank you again!

An email from a student about how important a single word can be. 🥲

crazy etymology

I think about this a lot: the fact that it's "inconceivable" is a HUGE part of the problem. Hey folks: conceive of it. That's the necessary first step. This fascism is in fact happening, and the whole "I can't imagine" part is stopping a lot of progress in overcoming it.

YouTube video by Justin Ashurst Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King Jr.

"You deplore the demonstrations that are presently taking place in Birmingham. But I am sorry that your statement did not express
a similar concern for the conditions that brought the demonstrations into being."

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

Y’all should have just voted for her (for pretty much any value of “her”)

tweet from Joyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates since Lilith can't go outside at all out of a fear (?) of the snow and/or getting her tender pads wet, she remains in doors all day; she is always underfoot, or nearby; she mews for attention & constant love (ie., treats, though she is not really hungry); she is sleeping even more than usual (how is this possible?); she is gaining weight, & becoming ever more zaftig & ever more neurotic. help! and there’s a picture of her cat lilith, iirc a smoke calico

i’m so lilith-coded

A very cute but forlorn looking brown and white puppy with big eyes and floppy ears, sitting on a forest themed blanket. Facebook post message: “Central PA Humane Society: Susan from Accounting is a 4 month old female. We were told she is a Beagle/Australian shepherd mix”

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

thomascaniglia Other than members of his own family, I haven't seen one Jewish person on social media denounce Stephen Miller.

I don’t think this guy knows many Jews because the way I find my fellow Jews in a crowded place is by yelling out “Stephen Miller” and seeing who boo’s the loudest

Great!

Hey Laura, I can try and help. I’ll DM you

Attention #linguists!

#syntax #whIsland #languageAcquisition #linguistics

Dear Author, I am Honglin Bao (www.hbao.info), a data science PhD student in Knowledge Lab (https://knowledgelab.org/) at the University of Chicago, working on a study about “The Capabilities and Potential of AI for Automating Scientific Idealization: A Large-Scale Human-in-the-Loop Study” (under UChicago IRB25-1372). As AI plays an increasingly significant role in scientific discovery, this project aims to evaluate how far AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions – or if it is not useful in this regard. This is a research project – it has no commercial purpose. I will share the final draft, technical details, and aggregate results from scientists once the study is complete. We came across your preprint "Principles of music perception" and applied custom AI models on it in accordance with the terms of the preprint license, which generated five new extensions (i.e., ideas proposed by AI based on the same context as your paper). Our pilot study of 400 scientists (excluding you) indicates that around 60% found at least one of the proposed extensions thought-provoking and actionable. However, the remaining reported that AI only generates seemingly plausible but vague sentences. We solicit your help in evaluating whether you think AI is useful or not, since we believe you are the best judge of new ideas proposed from your own paper. No matter where you stand regarding AI and science: From principally believing that AI is prone to producing fake and morally problematic science to finding it useful, or something in between, we hope to receive evaluations that reflect a spectrum of views. The AI-proposed extensions are included in the survey link below. If you consent to review them and participate in the survey, we would appreciate it if you could do so within the next 14 days (it will take you < 10mins). If you do not consent, we will not use your research in this study. If you find these ideas valuable, you are welcome to purs…

Please remove my data from your study. I want nothing to do with this — and I would also point out that if you had done appropriate background work in the selection of articles you fed to the plagiarism machine, you would have found that the preprint of mine you used is way out of date and has been updated substantially since it was first posted. ——— Samuel Mehr School of Psychology, University of Auckland and Child Study Center, Yale University Be a citizen scientist at themusiclab.org!

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study

they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.

lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply