Todd Snider

It is the case in all possible worlds, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

This paper with @aaronstevenwhite.io is finally published! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1007/s110...
(Or, if you don't have institutional access, you can download it from lingbuzz: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007...)

YouTube video by "Weird Al" Yankovic - Topic Everything You Know Is Wrong

Weird Al Yankovic - Everything You Know Is Wrong

#LyricsPrompt #LyrocsPrompt2025

(again, the whole chorus!)

youtu.be/W8tRDv9fZ_c?...

YouTube video by Vertical Horizon - Topic Everything You Want

Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want

#LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025

youtu.be/FwTQOPZvY3s?...

(the whole chorus!)

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf

(over(only(some)))s

or

overExh(some)s, if you prefer

first draft best draft

nom nom grateful for nom noms

Yay! (which one?)
(i have been a cooking whirlwind all day, and my mind is in a haze)

and Guten Appetit! :)

I think I was working on analogy with "AI therapist" & the like

(not sure the alternative is great either, though 😬)

everything bubbe would do is better than anything tech bros do

but I don't want them trying to approximate/recreate her!

bsky.app/profile/kate...

strong support for "coded" as #woty2025

It's not brand new, but I do think it's really escaped containment

oh no

What are the mitzves of Thanks Giving, a festive meal, to eat the turkey bird, to hear the story of thepilgrim, to watch the football game. And some say to argue with an uncle.

so we've got at least

ingredient
theme
recipient
location

as roles for the host

and extension beyond the edible, too, with the finished product

cookie-cuterie
chili-cuterie
duck-cuterie
cone-cuterie (snacks in handheld paper cones)
shrimp cuterie
mom-cuterie (for mother's day)
brunch-cuterie
sweet-cuterie
legume-cuterie
mexi-cuterie
chai-cuterie (indian snacks)
share-cuterie (snacks, but also crafting supplies)
kid-cuterie (for kids)

some quick googling reveals

bar-cuterie (accessories for cocktail making)
cat-cuterie (treats)
bark-cuterie (dog treats)
both boo-cuterie and scare-cuterie (halloween snacks)
choc-cuterie
cart-cuterie (as in, golf carts)
shark-cuterie (with a shark eating some cheeses)
cher-cuterie (honoring her)

free the -cuterie!

There is no difference, in terms of mechanism/process/procedure, between the LLM generating a statistically likely sequence of tokens (which happens to match reality) and generating a statistically likely sequence of tokens (which happens not to match reality)

We just gave the 2nd a special name

street art reads, "If graffiti changed anything -- it would be illegal"

Banksy social commentary brought to you by conditional (counterfactual!) strengthening

truly "what could a banana cost, Michael" territory, except if Lucille had only just now heard about the word "banana"

A Timeline of Donald Trump Discovering the Word "Groceries" An old-fashioned word, a very descriptive word, seems to have become Donald Trump's personal "cellar door."

He's been on this particular kick for a few months now! It's truly truly bizarre

(I'm amused thinking about the rabbit hole you now get to go down...)

vincemancini.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

just two of dozens of things to find frustrating in this! 🫠

Thanks for sharing, adds a lot more context

(definitely some things in there that are plenty concerning; not sure that any of them amount to calling all violence against any Israeli justified. Nevertheless, one could certainly reasonably want Mayor Adams to be doing more here!)

Pssh, everyone knows it was two *of each kind*, so it was way more than two animals total that Moses brought on the ark! 🤪

Come study how illusions like this bear on psychological/linguistic/social concepts like Common Ground with us in Tübingen!

where is the calling every Israeli a legitimate target for violence? Didn't see that in this article; can you share the source?

no disbarment if you do it by stratum

YouTube video by BBC Music KT Tunstall - Black Horse & The Cherry Tree (Later Archive 2004)

This one was my first thought!

Commenting to share my favorite performance of this song, from her appearance on Later... with Jools Holland

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGT0...

a photograph of 4 otters all cuddled up together on a large flat rock

English speaker? Ten minutes to spare?
Help a BA student collect some data!
Specifically, data on reactions to mental health messaging in social media posts

www.soscisurvey.de/presupp-study/

thank you bonus: otter cuddle pile!