Hm, seems you can add #RSS feeds to your #Mastodon feed using @birb@rss-parrot.net. Gonna try it out for a couple of the big #linguistics #journals in my field.
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Joshua McNeill
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mastodon 4.7.3sociolinguiste, musicien, fan des comics, de la boxe et des jeux vidéo (MMO et indie surtout), intéressé par la Louisiane et la science ouverte
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@petersuber@fediscience.org Pretty insane that a company with that much capital just decided that they'd pirate books instead of buying them.
I'm shocked to see something in the news that legitimately makes me happy.
#AndreTheGiant #wrestling #NorthCarolina #NC
https://apnews.com/article/andre-giant-marker-north-carolina-50f72416176238154f5b652a833e814b
Just a reminder (again) that #Obama already did what #Trump wants to do now with #Iran, and he did it without killing anyone, without threatening genocide, without upending the world economy, without alienating our allies, without strengthening #Russia, and without emboldening Iran. But Trump couldn't let a Black man's success stand, so here we are in a complete cluster fuck just so a #racist can try to take credit for something that was already done.
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@Axomamma@mastodon.online @amyfou@lingo.lol @linguistics@fedigroups.social Perhaps, but I don't think AI would do that at this point. Maybe back in the days of n-gram models, but I think we're well past that now.
For #citations in lit reviews, #APA and #ASA styles both suggest past #tense whereas #Chicagostyle suggests present. Despite this, I can't recall ever seeing past tense used in any #academic #articles or #books, not even in the ASA's flagship #journal, #American #Sociological Review. Even when a standard is explicitly codified, it appears that those doing the codifying don't strictly adhere to it but are not criticized for these oversights.
Pretty amazing cover from back in 1968.
I have the hardest time reading W.E.B. Du Bois's name as [dubɔɪs] rather than [dybwa].
@amyfou@lingo.lol @linguistics@fedigroups.social Interesting! Is this student (more or less) a native English speaker, too?
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@baldur@toot.cafe Not that this isn't valuable work on the part of Amnesty International, but there's a 0.0001% chance that their call will be heeded. Governments are rather worried that their countries aren't developing AI fast enough
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@mhoye @mpjgregoire Speed was why I used it for a while. I stopped when they decided to undermine adblockers.
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@pythonbynight@hachyderm.io @Iris@scholar.social
Aren't we just talking about tech leaders being capitalists who are sympathetic to fascist uses of technology if it increases their capital? I'm not sure what part of that is about AI itself being inherently fascist. It's mostly being developed by fascists or fascist friendly people, but that's not the same as the technology being fascist.
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@Iris@scholar.social That's not my area, but what is inherently fascist about AI? I understand there are ethical issues with the data that systems are trained on and that AI can be put to use for fascist causes, but I don't understand what about it is inherently fascist.
Why is #ColeAllen's #manifesto being described as anti-#Christian in the #media? He literally describes himself as a Christian in it and thanks his #church. Are we really just gonna parrot whatever characterization #Trump gives of this guy?
#whitehousecorrespondentsdinner
https://www.newsweek.com/cole-allen-manifesto-shooting-suspect-anti-trump-message-detailed-11880026
US Sanctions Zigzag:
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For a sec, I was wondering what this company Zigzag had done. A lack of #titlecase would probably help some #headlines.
#linguistics #syntax #orthography #NYT #US #sanctions #USpol
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@tom_geraghty Hm, this seems to be debunking the classic story associated with the effect while reaffirming that the effect is "robustly" supported by research.
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@grvsmth@lingo.lol Yeesh. Yeah I've been backtracking a lot of citations lately and it's starting to make me paranoid that there might be a "citation crisis" in social sciences akin to the reproduction crisis in psychology, haha
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@Pkbwood@mastodon.online Just today, I tried convincing a relative that Trump is a fascist by pointing to the existence of a "Trump and fascism" Wikipedia page, and he (not an academic) told me it's not a reliable source, so I had to explain that it works because everything is verifiable.
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@tom_geraghty Oh? I didn't know that. Do you happen to have a source off the top of your head that contributed to this debunking?
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@MadameMollette Je croyais que Tom Waits a fini avec la musique. C'est magnifique quand même si c'est regrettable qu'il faut faire quelque chose à ce sujet.
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@nullagent@partyon.xyz You can see this happen with a lot of issues when power changes hands. You're also pretty unlikely to see people getting up in arms over gun violence or climate change right now because it's just so far outside the realm of possibility that it will be addressed, and there's currently a White nationalist sitting in the White House
A good example of where Young's idea *was* put into practice is Alim's (2016) chapter on transracialization. His divergences from an academic writing style come mostly in the form of apical -ing, lexical choices, and some minor syntactic choices.
Alim, H. S. (2016). Who’s Afraid of the Transracial Subject? Raciolinguistics and the Political Project of Transracialization. In H. S. Alim, J. R. Rickford, & A. F. Ball (Eds.), Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race (pp. 33–50).
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@josephcox@infosec.exchange Interesting. I suspect that many fake AI papers would pass under the radar given their criteria being a very high bar, but that's certainly better than ignoring the issue.
#ClarenceThomas seems to really hate #Black folks.
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@amydiehl Interesting that they aggregated those who faced accusations in different mediums. I'd be interested in what difference it makes, if any, when their stories are widely publicized in the media vs only appearing in court documents and such.
It's bad enough that #boxing promoters have embraced #SaudiArabia's #sportswashing, and I understand why fighters who risk their lives would want more money for taking those risks, but even #Netflix is involved with facilitating their sportswashing.
It's worth remembering just how far #US #politicians will go to protect the #profits of #capitalists and insulate those capitalists from repercussions even when that means letting them murder #workers for going on #strike as in the #Ludlowmassacre.
#USpol #unions #striking #Colorado #CO #Ludlow #music #folkmusic #WoodyGuthrie
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@troed@swecyb.com @TechCrunch@mstdn.social My thought exactly. Yet another advantage of a truly decentralized system.