Tom Roberts

do they really put "declarative" in the name?!

abstract submission via easychair

Large sign in front of brick buildings advertising Paleis Lofen as "Utrecht's best-kept secret"

well it WAS

i promise to any philosopher that they are by no means obligated to outsource the core work of philosophy to a proprietary synthetic text generator, no matter what accountants tell them

me with the persona 3/4/5 soundtracks with their non-stop bangers full of uninterpretable english lyrics

this title lexically activates a stored spoonerism for me

shaken to my core by learning that in the UK that dance is called the "hokey cokey"

‘Handen af van de eigen koopwoning’ | BBB Henk Vermeer: “Voor heel veel mensen is hun huis het resultaat van jarenlang hard werken”

"Handen af van de eigen koopwoning," stelt BBB. Wat zeggen ze vervolgens?

Een kort draadje

boerburgerbeweging.nl/fractienieuw...

Screencap of headline from linked article, reading: He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse. OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says. Above the headline: Technology Artificial Intelligence Family & Tech: Julie Jargon Below: By Julie Jargon Follow | Photographs by Tim Gruber for WSJ July 20, 2025 7:00 am ET

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

literally me

"vodka" was my horse girl moment

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When asked if he could forgive Musk, Trump said "I guess I could," but that "my sole function now is getting this country back to a level than it's ever been."

if you're already violating any standard of decency and the rule of law, might as well also violate your own presuppositions

by which you mean playing persona 5 on your switch 1?

hey boss

de wachtrij voor gratis Op de Ring tickets is terecht een realistische simulatie van in de file staan tijdens de spits

but in any case the contrast between the original (a) and (b) being eventive/stative-related seems likely to me

a vague intuition that the first one doesn't "feel" posessive got me wondering if it's a special kind of possession or something for events. "We have ice cream and John coming to give a talk" for me forces "ice cream" to be interpreted as an event for some reason

Figure 11.10 from a book, below two simple black and white line drawings of a duck with soulless eyes. In picture (a) on the left, the duck is sitting in an inner tube, with the caption "A duck in a tube." In picture (b) on the right, the duck is sitting entirely surrounded by an inner tube, viewed from above, with the caption "A duck not in a tube."

exploring the fecundity of human cognition (from gärdenfors 2014, The Geometry of Meaning, p. 223)

is there a compelling reason, in the year of our lord 2025 (or ever), for bibliographies to include the city in which a book is published?

Linguists organizing major conferences in the US: please make your venue hybrid! Many non-US colleagues can't/don't want to travel to the US anymore

share the forbidden tin foil knowledge

wow, can't believe how much daylight we're saving now

again, the us is no longer a safe venue: conferences, conventions, personal visits …

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The UAW has thrown support behind Trump's tariffs. Here's a look at why If you're an auto worker, how you feel about tariffs, may depend on which side of the border you're on. In Canada, the union representing auto workers has come out strong against tariffs. But on the A...

TIL that the United Auto Workers, a union who also represents tens of thousands of US grad students and which I used to be a member of, expressed unequivocal support for the disastrous tariffs (www.cbc.ca/player/play/...)

when your unions start backing authoritarians, may I suggest making a new one

hagiography (the study of the hague)

started saying "zed" instead of "zee" in lectures to accommodate the audience but it makes me feel deeply fraudulent

this could indicate people are interpreting through the lens of what they already believe. that's maybe a different question than whether "abolish" has extreme/antiquated connotations, but preconceived beliefs about the topic definitely have an effect on interpretating vague slogans 2/2

(PDF) Moderate versus extreme interpretations of political slogans PDF | This paper surveys 451 Americans about how they view and interpret three semantically indeterminate progressive political slogans: #BelieveWomen,... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

there's a nice recent paper by the linguist Lelia Glass (who's not on bsky, I think) which seems relevant! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

it's about how people who agree with a slogan (like "defund the police") think it means something more moderate than people who disagree with it 1/2