@Alon Meanwhile, in Finland, Anna-Maja Henriksson says she won't work with the far right at the EU level while her (Renew member) party is in coalition with the Perussuomalaiset.
I suppose there's a reason why RKP is polling below the Christian Democrats nowadays.
Machine learning is prime for a "what people think I do" vs. "what I actually do" meme, where the public discourse about it is that it's some kind of AI revolution that will change the nature of work, and what it actually does is provide better modeling for predicting public transit ridership.
"So this bill will protect the Ku Klux Klan to wear masks in public, but someone who's immunocompromised like myself cannot wear a mask?"
— North Carolina Senator Sydney Batch, who is a cancer survivor
Is there a #linguistic term for an interlocutor saying the last word of the previous speaker’s sentence in unison with them? Not just occasionally or when the previous speaker is having trouble recalling a word, but nearly every sentence, possibly even when that sentence is not the end of a turn? I’m looking for articles or research about this out of personal curiosity.
@cidney At the moment, what I'm doing is taking time off to deal with burnout, so technically yes?
In the bigger picture, I like the company a lot, but the projects usually require a tradeoff on one of those things, and I have a growing suspicion that statistical code generation will make software development intolerable for me.
:: The story of a child housekeeper who works for ‘Mnimal’ a cleaning tech company that claims their robots systems can bring your home to a state of “elevated minimalist cleanliness” via “smart targeted cleantech interventions” neither robots nor software can deliver any of this effectively, so an army of young workers must either laboriously attempt to clean via remote control or simply sneak in to the house on guise of ‘a routine service call’ and do it by hand. 1/
@futurebird Somehow this is reminding me of that Archie McPhee life-sized (and more or less realistically shaped) plastic ants that my mother would sometimes put around the house in various locations. I think I have a few in a bag somewhere.
Fedi: cis men call me a mansplainer when my pronouns are right there and then refuse to back down
Bluesky: anti-Zionists who are (or say they are?) Jewish ask me what my grandparents did in WW2 when my username is my obviously Jewish real name and then don't engage when I bring up the Kaunas ghetto
(A five-minute video fragment of my grandfather's testimony, with English subtitles, can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK2aBS_aYJY; one of the turds on Bluesky went eerily silent when I posted the link)
@Alon When I created a Bluesky account, one of the first things I saw on the (completely fresh and un-personalized, and following nobody) feed was a very thinly veiled antisemitic thread. This unfortunately tracks.
(I'm not meaningfully active on Bluesky, I just wanted to make sure I got the username.)
@Alon@ww3real If you're looking for concrete arguments: the biggest downside of the WW3Real format is that it's hard to maintain context for the overarching narrative when it arrives in tiny pieces spread throughout the day. That doesn't make it a bad idea, but it is a bit more challenging to read than a regular book.
(This is reminding me of the hypothetical I sometimes revisit where Europeans in the New World saw themselves as immigrants rather than conquerers; in that world I might be a native speaker of Anishinaabemowin.)
@atomicpoet That worked up until this year. The problem is that now, more and more, Google returns junk. (And so do other search enginges — it's not just a problem with Google.)
More and more, I find myself wanting to ask my questions of an actual human, because I can't trust the internet at all.
@atomicpoet I agree that you shouldn't demand people's time and energy for nothing, but there are lots of ways to "pay" — the most obvious being the "karma" or "favor" system that has always existed informally for many people, and has been formalized on some internet platforms. You can also get a surprising amount of mileage out of just having a social norm of trying to answer at least as many questions as you ask (regardless of whether those answers are to the same people).
@gombang I've a native English speaker who still uses English, but I'm pretty confident (as much as I can be when it hasn't happened) that if the world's technical infrastructure had been built for and documented using Finnish, I would be using that instead.
(I'm not sure I'm a useful case, though; I have a fairly atypical relationship to both computers and languages.)
My mom was the head of a math department at a community college and I have fond childhood memories of the crazy mail she got. I think all math departments get this kind of mail. Basically people who think they've proven the Riemann hypothesis and such. She'd have me look for math errors in them because they always had SO MANY errors.
So, the idea of writing about biology scares me because I don't want to be "one of those guys" for some poor biology department head.
@eribosot@futurebird Linguistics, Uralic linguistics, and conlang Twitter were very much a thing (and may still be; I don't log in there anymore), and it makes me a bit sad that you never found (enough of) them. But it sounds like you found as much of those communities as you wanted to on here?