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imagine being such an incompetent researcher that you think an llm can write your literature review

what was the linked paper, Lauren? It’s either been taken down or I have OP blocked, but this sounds interesting

I wish WF Ganong’s last name was, like, Thuck

this state of the union is like an eclipse: you should never look directly at it

did not anticipate the usa men's hockey team pulling a whole flock of milkshake ducks

The Wizard of Foz

i once had the honor of bringing room service to jesse jackson when he stayed in my mom's hotel in manchester, nh. the man exuded kindness and intellect; an amazing human being (and he tipped well).

Opinion | Noam Chomsky tainted his legacy with his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein The acclaimed scholar knew better than to work — and side — with the shadowy financier and sex offender.

www.ms.now/opinion/epst...

post a banger that isn't in English

youtu.be/gLlUXlE5ULc?...

trying to finish up come grading in canvas before class tomorrow and all it will show me is red text saying, “something broke” and I’m like, ‘get in line, buddy. I’ve been broken for weeks."

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

kinda surreal to see colleagues who've embraced lockdown browsers and made students turn on their webcams during tests complain about the erosion of privacy and encroaching facism.

the embarrassment of learning you were wrong is directly proportional to what an asshole you were when you believed you were right.

I have no access at all to rushes today and my own mother was Breda. 🤷🏻‍♂️😢

if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame

Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it.

You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby

any pundit or politician who ever unironically said “the woke mind virus” is a) real and b) a problem, should be yeeted. we do not need your opinion anymore. you had a chance, you showed us youre a moron and now its time for you to slink away

My trip to New Orleans for LSA was so expensive that having it on my credit card has lowered my FICO score.

this seems interesting?

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yeah, it's twisted. they're also perverting the ADA to make us generate quality annotations for LLMs on any digital course materials we use. They have no shame, honestly

imagine jennifer, the editor of american speech, getting this news

the ABA and the AHA are actually both on the “good” list as is the Linguistic Society and APA. Aramark, the for-profit prison company, is also fine. The American Anthropological Association is banned, though, as are such threats as Creative Commons, The Duke University Press, and Kahoot!

but it's often like, "oh, you seem like you'd know things"

that was the other possibility!

if I tell someone from here in Lexington, Kentucky that I work for "the university" they typically ask which one. UK can't even clear its own orbit.

I sometimes get mistaken for a birder and I think it might be a sick burn.

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

Come on, heart disease, get your shit together.

i do after, yes, but also before (a fine during)

new orleans is not a terrific place to be an eardrum

blue and green cover of the book "Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory", edited by Jennifer Nycz and Lauren Hall-Lew, published with Oxford as part of the Oxford Surveys in Phonology and Phonetics

📚 Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory (co-edited by me and @lhlew.bsky.social) is now available online at Oxford Academic! (print copies coming end of January) academic.oup.com/book/61815