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I mean, if gen Z has decided to just get rid of the s in the possessive and just use the apostrophe, I’m kinda here for it

Green street sign that reads Elon Musk apostrophe rent a car special.

What’s the apostrophe for?

Black and white Pic of director Stanley Kubrick, staring intensely ahead, eyes bulging, next to a film camera, with this quote: “The gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero worshipped. But there is always present an underlying wish to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.” -- Stanley Kubrick, The Killing, 1956

Taking bets on who will lead the inevitable US remake of the BBC’s Ludwig.

A. Patton Oswald
B. Kumail Nanjiani
C. Donald Glover
D. Rachel Dratch
E. Marc Maron

I vote for Dratch. It would only last one season, but it would be insane and become a cult classic.

Introducing Pears, a New Word Game From Slate Wordplay that’s smart, satisfying … and a little juicy.

Fun new word game from @slate.com: PEARS. Read about why it was almost called DIGRAPHS: slate.com/briefing/202...

I mean, LLMs are cool and all, but we still don’t have smell-o-vision, so count me unimpressed with AI.

I thought the same thing about non-linguistics trained singing teachers. They use some strange metaphors and analogies. One articulatory phonetics course would do them wonders.

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The world is going to hell, but at least there’s a new season of Poker Face. Trade offs.

59 mins in and all I can say in “what?”

Pretty sure the entire dialogue is ADR

Screenshot of Netflix movie Havoc. Two Asian men, one bloody.

I’m 30 mins into Tom Hardy’s Netflix thriller Havoc and I have no clue what’s going on, but I’m enjoying the incoherent ride. This is the state of modern American cinema.

Brilliant idea #5694: reboot the American Taskmaster with Nick Offerman as the assistant and Megan Mullally as the Taskmaster. You’re welcome.

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Six deer lying down on bright green grass of a golf course.

Deer don’t check the Dow, do they?

Can one person "flock"?

Cauliflower steak is a stupid meat eaters idea of what a vegetarian wants to eat.

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

Weird linguistic observation: Authoritarian leaders are always long winded, aren’t they. Castro, Chavez, Putin.

Trump to sign order Friday designating English as the official language of the US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday designating English as the official language of the United States.

The consequences of English as an official language will hurt citizens and immigrants alike. It will hurt users of Sign Languages. Bilingual people.

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I’m old enough to remember when HPSG was the future of computational linguistics.

Someone said it’s easier dealing with other people’s problems than your own and I think that’s true unless they’re into some really bad shit then I don’t wanna know

First time playing Langle (Wordle but for guessing languages). This brought me back to Matthew Dryer’s Linguistic Typology class c2001. I can’t believe I did this well first time. Typology was not my focus.

Langle #589 level 3: X/6, 97.7%

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A Gentle Introduction to Excel and Spreadsheets for Humanities People I understand that a lot of Humanities researchers do not use spreadsheets or Excel very often in their lives. It’s not something we’re really trained in, nor is it really that much of a…

Gearing up to teach my Very Introductory Excel workshop again in March. It's changed names now, to "A Gentle Introduction to Excel for Absolute Beginners" instead of "Humanities People" but content stays the same: hfroehli.ch/2021/06/17/a...

As with all their shows, it’s best to wait and cherry pick SNL50 clips on YouTube rather trying to slog through the gawdawful show at runtime.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

I have discovered Dots pretzels. This will not end well.

Someone please copy this data now because it likely will be shut down soon.

CNN has now confirmed this.

www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/h...

What the Hell Is Going on at NIH? Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.

Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH.

I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader posits ChatGPT will be able to write “original” and “fleshed out” movie scripts. Really, Paul? Original? Wait till they use it to write Taxi Driver 2 as an eight episode series for Netflix starring Timothy Chalamet.