Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
becoming pope 🤝 gender transition:
Thank you for coming, Juliet!
In the face of these assaults on education & civil rights, students & faculty nationwide are organizing in their communities. Join us. The way to confront those intent on dismantling our democracy is to join together in mass action.
Full statement here:
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
12/12
This is too real 🥲 so much “trans” in applied linguistics except when it refers to actual trans people
our cohort group chat never misses
[winces]
TO THE DAY
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Are you teaching undergraduate students in a language-related course this semester? Or, do you know some undergraduate students interested in language?
If so, I'd appreciate you sharing some info about a study I'm doing on podcasting and critical language awareness!
bit.ly/psuplp
We should compile these nonstarters as a public service
to me, there is something distinctly unfunny about the “HAHA” react in iMessage
can someone with digital/ internet pragmatics knowledge weigh in on this?? 🐦🐦 #linguistics
Are you teaching or taking the course? And if the latter: where!?
we literally had white supremacists chanting "jews will not replace us" on a campus and nothing *close* to this was suggested
#AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcademicChatter
Fellow adhd and neurodivergent academic folk: how does your neurodivergence make you who you are as a scholar? I always hear about the struggles but I want more stories of our creativity and resistance, too
Happy to announce I bought a used DVD player and am joining the resistance
Yes! I Perhaps a variation on bare feet ? (speaking as an upstate New Yorker here)
אדאנק!
Hello, would love to be added!
Helllloooo out there ~ new to Bluesky and looking to connect with fellow language folks, especially those working in race/language, Yiddish, queer linguistics, linguistic landscape, discourse analysis, and beyond :)
