the kid seemed pretty unflapped! pun intended
12.03.2026 02:18
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the kid seemed pretty unflapped! pun intended
finally got so exhausted I accidentally said "meat flaps" instead of "vocal chords" in office hours today. gonna just fire myself I guess
losing an hour on International Womenβs Day feels right
I read this as "I know this from munch, Squad" like it was a vocative, loved it a little more then
When someone says βScientists do not want you to knowβ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They canβt shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
women FTW
"Instead of Googling Epstein, Aaronson, then 29, turned to what he considered an even more reliable source: his mother. She did some checking. βBe careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here,β she wrote back"
OCD 6yo organizing the liquor cabinet at 7am, referring to the Bacardi as "bat juice"
my kids say "yeet" instead of "throw" almost exclusively now and it brings such unexpected joy into my life
How to delete your cΙ¦Ιtgpt account. If you try via settings on the website (and you have a free account), it wonβt let you (keeps it locked).
privacy.openai.com/policies/en/
gonna be a reckoning soon between semanticists who care most about language and those who care most about logic
I am sick of trying to convince people in my own profession that a semantic theory is responsible for empirical predictions about adjacent phenomena or languages
just teetered over the apex in my career where more meetings are organized for me than not; as privileged as that position is, my calendar is now full of meetings named "Meeting with Prof Fars" and I have lost all bearings
Wow: AI as faculty union bargaining issue
couldn't be more impressed with UC faculty for implementing this project to help employees move their retirement investments out from not just weapons manufacturers but inequity-promoting tech companies like Palantir. if you're a UC employee, take advantage ASAP!
ucmoveyourmoney.org
dedicating this paper to all the students who stayed away from office hours this quarter
Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, a leader in organizing college presidents, has proposed Democracy Summer 2026, evoking the heroic Freedom Summer of 1964 that aimed to advance voting rights in Mississippi, now employed to safeguard the midterm elections. From Bob Kuttner:
search all of Epstein's emails here:
jmail.world
Chomsky and his wife exchanged 4,431 emails with Epstein, one of the highest rates of his celebrity acquaintances (more than Bannon!)
suck it haters (this includes UCLA admin and regents)
it seems impossible to defend the claim that, if you're a bastard in your personal life, you're necessarily a bastard in your professional life, and vice versa. but surely we can agree there's a correlation, and that learning about one should prompt us to critically evaluate the other
he's a linguist, he knows about word choice
βThatβs particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder."
-- Noam Chomsky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"
linguists it's true, I hate fucking wugs, can this be our mascot instead?
lol I've never understood pronouncing "mic" the way it's supposed to be pronounced, I see I have run into other problems
sexual harassment lawsuits from accidentally licking a live mike
just woke up from a stress dream where I was lecturing with a microphone and then a student gave me a popsicle so I had to try to do both
but there are several ways it's not equivalent to "and," e.g. it can't have a sequential meaning like "I brushed my teeth slash went to bed"...
anyone know of any work on the semantics of "slash"?
my students and I are trying to figure out the meaning of "slash," as in "I'm an actor slash writer", contrast "and" "or" and "and-or"
we've worked that, in a context in which A & B are holding their office hours together:
I'm going to A { and / *or / slash / *and-or } B's office hours
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oh gosh the last thing I'd wanted to do is send people to my 2011 paper! it is superceded by my 2024 paper π
speech acts are paralinguistic, by definition! I am now assigning semantics papers within this broken genre (including one of my own) by asking students, "If you were to receive an electric shock every time you said the phrase 'speech act,' how would you describe this phenomenon instead?"
I had a colleague whose grant was cancelled because it had the phrase "linguistic diversity" in the title, so Palantir is dumb as a rock in addition to being evil