#linguistics

I had the exact same thought when the production came out and ran to check the lyrics and was sorely disappointed

If one day we found out that the entrance to every Jersey diner was a portal that transported everyone to one single inter-dimensional diner that exists between space and time I would shrug and say yeah that tracks.

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Extremely grateful for the backdoor front making this happen

ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts

In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers.
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The Royals accidentally went full bisexual flag with their new city connect uniforms, and I'm here for it.

She ended up in Portsmouth, NH, and there's going to be a new mural of her unveiled soon!

blackheritagetrailnh.org/all-events

Israel bombing a synagogue in Tehran is the kind of symbolism that would feel too heavy-handed in a work of fiction.

But yeah. That tracks in this ridiculous timeline.

May God bring comfort and safety to the Tehran Jewish community.

Screenshot: Key lunar flyby times, milestones All times Eastern, subject to change based on real-time operations 1 p.m. NASA+ coverage of lunar flyby begins 1:56 p.m. Crew passes distance from Earth record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 2:45 p.m. Lunar flyby begins 7:02 p.m. Orion closest approach to the Moon (4,070 miles) 7:07 p.m. Orion reaches maximum distance from Earth (252,760 miles) 8:35 p.m. Orion enters solar eclipse

NASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA).

It should be amazing to watch!

This is the NSF program that funds all of linguistics (and which funded my graduate study). Because of course knowing about how language works is woke nonsense that couldn't possible be in anyone's national interest 🫠

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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They are en route and currently have solar panels deployed!

Happy Duke is eliminated day to all who celebrate

Floppleganger for the one in the e.g., Deep Impact/Armeggedon pairs of movie that does worse at the box office

Ok so we've already had "sloppleganger" and now we've got "choppleganger" so I'm tentatively putting out "-ppleganger" as a #woty "most creative" candidate

a threads post from pmccallion Judith Butler every day watching people use the word "performative" to mean "fake in a bad way" a photo of cillian murphy as robert oppenheimer looking distressed

Pride flag in the window

Pride flag in a window

Good morning from Boston University. Pride flags EVERYWHERE

The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

Also we made a really intense website with a LOT of information on it for folks, including a reading list, a huge timeline of events, an some additional explainers.

www.tested-podcast.com/learn/

www.tested-podcast.com/timeline/

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

RECKONING She was a woman worth a certain amount to her family: a pension or lump sum. All I could say was this is human when I saw her on the street, red gathered at what must have been her neck. "Count the holes in my body" — she faced me: I retched — "some of which I made when jumping." What man reckons what the living owe the dead? I didn’t kill you. My every liberal part aches for the laborer, the immigrant, the seamstress whose callused finger bled. "I’m killed and rise up daily. My scalded heart fibrillates, a sack of worker ants. My words in your mouth are beit-din’s lead."

Front page of the Yiddish Forward with a banner headline mourning the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. THE MORGUE IS FULL OF OUR VICTIMS

It is the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. 15 years ago I wrote a poem that The Forward published as part of a contest.

My poem is attached. The image is the front page of the פֿאָרווערטס/Forverts/Yiddish Forward -- "The morgue is full of our victims."

Here is my pride flag everybody! I hung one up yesterday in my office at Boston University, as they seek to enforce and defend a policy of removing them (along with other banners in public view, they say).

This is a small act of love for my corner of the world, in a dark time. This flag goes deep.

We're doing Jocks and Burnouts next week in Sociolinguistics; in all the ways the social context has aged I think the smoking area is probably the one that hits the students the hardest

(I have a feeling the discussion of changing jeans' width will go over well this time, though!)

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

More accurately they’re closing the department of linguistics and merging it with languages and eliminating dozens of programs.

Fern Brady wearing a camera helmet on Taskmaster and opening the task, which has a red wax seal, and reading the contents. She has a purple set of coveralls on as well, which is just fun.

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

See also @thalkowski.bsky.social !

Also, every time I get on a bypass: "It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses!"

My mother nixed me using "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all" from the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul as my yearbook quote senior year

Romney tried, very clumsily, to play up his local cred in New Hampshire in 2012 by talking about his Wolfeboro lake house. Wolfeboro flipped from Trump to Kamala in 2024 and just delivered a Trumpx3 state House seat for us by outvoting its Republican neighbors