BrettC, Ph.D.

Cannot me learn before you go-go

No we all must know what happened when the gales of November came early

red flag

since 2014!!!!!!!

Language revitalization and maintenance is the topic of both of my courses next week!!!!

And then a whole course on it next semester!!!!!!

variety, but not *that* linguistic variety!

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very correct meaning of general here

General welfare for me but not for theeeeeeeeeeee

BREAKING: SCOTUS strikes down the Preamble to the US Constitution, striking a huge blow to Schoolhouse Rock! fans across the country.

more like uwu linguistics <3

care is reciprocal!!

Honestly one of my birds of all time. The pink spatula.

A roseate spoonbill (a relatively large bird with red, white, and pink plumage, red eyes, and a spoon-shaped bill) just squatting in some green wetlands in Florida.

Oxford English Dictionary has a bit more on it, giving historical spelling variants of spartle, spartel, spattle, and spatyl(l), getting closer to spatula as you go back in time!
I also found on OED that the roseate spoonbill was once referred to as the rose-coloured spatula.

Fun fact about BrettC: Technology Ethics was one of the first college/university courses I took. I hated it at the time, so much so that I stopped doing the work and got an F, but it's really guided a lot of my thinking ever since.

If one person is harmed, let alone dies, through interacting with your project, SHUT IT DOWN

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

Even if it *improves* some people's mental health, not thinking through the ethics beforehand is reason enough to suspend any project that interacts with humans

OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here

According to Wiktionary: it's not a portmanteau but a borrowing from Scots

I'm going back to reading student bibliographies

But if your robots are actively making worse the mental health of people who are struggling.
Turn off the robots while you rethink your whole protocol.
Like every principle of ethics is at issue here, but it's certainly not impossible to do the work to address them. People do it all the time.

And I'm not complaining that I have to do it. Language background can be a traumatic topic for some. So it is important that I do consider what I would need to do if my questions do happen to touch on someone's trauma.

If I have to write a whole ass series of documents in order to get ethical permission to ask people about what languages they used growing up , surely we can expect a sliver of ethical consideration from companies making robots who can say just about anything to anyone at any time, right?

For all you theologians out there:
Question 1: Can cats get raptured?
Question B: Does spaying a cat cause them to get raptured?

A pink post-surgery cat shirt sitting on a floral green duvet with no cat around.

Mimi, the tabby calico wearing the pink shirt got spayed last week, which is why she has the shirt. It has a nametag on it that says "My name is _______ and I just had surgery!"
But yesterday I went into my bedroom and found it like this:

A black kitten lying relaxed on a black fabric and mesh office chair.

An orange cat standing on a black and orange geometrical rug next to a large orange pumpkin with their head turned backwards looking to the left of frame

A tabby calico cat wearing a pink post-surgery shirt lying on a dark green bed pillow next to a blue blanket. The cat's front paws have escaped from the sleeves of the shirt.

A tabby calico cat lying next to a sleeping black kitten in a cardboard cat scratching furniture. The tabby calico is perched on their front legs looking directly at the camera.

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

*all* of the numbers?

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Así es la vida