Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
becoming pope 🤝 gender transition:
Thank you for coming, Juliet!
In the face of these assaults on education & civil rights, students & faculty nationwide are organizing in their communities. Join us. The way to confront those intent on dismantling our democracy is to join together in mass action.
Full statement here:
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
12/12
This is too real 🥲 so much “trans” in applied linguistics except when it refers to actual trans people
Meme with a picture of an infant sleeping and the text “Me in 1994 resting instead of publishing papers”
WhatsApp message replying to the meme: “Curiously, no study to date has approached the acquisition of language from the indispensable infant autoethnographic perspective. This article therefore seeks to fill the glaring gap by..."
our cohort group chat never misses
[winces]
TO THE DAY
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Graphic with information about a research study for undergraduates. Participants are eligible if they are 18 years or older, an undergraduate student, and they are studying in the US. They will be asked to listen to a 25-minute podcast and take two short surveys. It will take one hour or less.
Are you teaching undergraduate students in a language-related course this semester? Or, do you know some undergraduate students interested in language?
If so, I'd appreciate you sharing some info about a study I'm doing on podcasting and critical language awareness!
bit.ly/psuplp
We should compile these nonstarters as a public service
to me, there is something distinctly unfunny about the “HAHA” react in iMessage
can someone with digital/ internet pragmatics knowledge weigh in on this?? 🐦🐦 #linguistics
Are you teaching or taking the course? And if the latter: where!?
we literally had white supremacists chanting "jews will not replace us" on a campus and nothing *close* to this was suggested
Fellow adhd and neurodivergent academic folk: how does your neurodivergence make you who you are as a scholar? I always hear about the struggles but I want more stories of our creativity and resistance, too
A meme showing a car swerving onto a highway exit ramp. The road sign says “actually paying for Netflix” (straight ahead) and “watching library DVDs for the rest of my life” (exit).
Happy to announce I bought a used DVD player and am joining the resistance
Yes! I Perhaps a variation on bare feet ? (speaking as an upstate New Yorker here)
אדאנק!
Hello, would love to be added!
Helllloooo out there ~ new to Bluesky and looking to connect with fellow language folks, especially those working in race/language, Yiddish, queer linguistics, linguistic landscape, discourse analysis, and beyond :)