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Bronwyn@bron.bsky.social |
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Linguist, reader, knitter, video gamer, Canadian (in no particular order). Thinks a lot about auxiliaries and pronouns. Hoping this works out as a new dopamine slot machine website. (she/her)
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Bronwyn
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I am now all packed, except for actually loading stuff into the car, and I appear to be planning to bring three (3) folding camp/beach chairs despite having only one (1) me to sit in them with, so that's how it's going this time.
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Bronwyn
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Sometimes I obsessively plan a single bag even though I'm driving! But yes, it is nice to have the option of "eh, throw it in, why not?" even if I don't use it.
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Bronwyn
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Huh. Just when I think I've reached the end of being surprised by Latin rhotacism…
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Bronwyn
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Somehow both of these seem to take the same time/energy.
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Bronwyn
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I have only two modes when packing for trips: 1. Obsessive planning to optimize what I can fit in a single carry-on bag 2. "Whee! I'm driving and can take ~everything~!"
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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Bronwyn
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(No idea how widely known the MacDonald Hall books are outside Canada, so for anyone unfamiliar: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdona...)
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Bronwyn
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Though honestly, with predicted weather of like 30C + intermittent rain, with lows all over 20C, a lot of my packing is oriented towards "try not to expire of heat exhaustion in the woods"
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Bronwyn
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Next week I am going to a thing I refer to colloquially as "dancing in the woods" (Pinewoods! pinewoods.org )—but thanks to reading Gordon Korman at an impressionable age, my brain keeps auto-correcting to "Die in the Woods", which is Very Different.
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Typewriter Monke
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this rocks
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Typewriter Monke
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Ok let's go. Pills that make you green.
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Bronwyn
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I am making a note about the UK usage here, but fwiw we do use the "Prime Minister Lastname" format in Canada at least.
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Rebecca Mosher
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This is so important. I stress to new grad students that they are no longer learning facts. They are now learning *how* we know facts to be true (controls, etc) and generating new facts. ‼️Critical thinking and discovery are exactly what AI cannot do. ‼️
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Randall Munroe
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Bracket Symbols xkcd.com/2954
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Bronwyn
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Amazing on all points!
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Bronwyn
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Just heard "(to) shout out X" as a further grammaticalization of "(to) give a shout out to X", gotta love new particle verbs.
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Bronwyn
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Ah, makes sense, the context I am missing is not being physically located in the Twin Cities!
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Bronwyn
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This is only the second official dub of Star Wars into a North American Indigenous language—the first one was in Navajo.
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Bronwyn
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Cool Thing for today: an official Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) dub of Star Wars: A New Hope debuts in Winnipeg next month, August 8, and will stream at some point on Disney+! www.youtube.com/shorts/OPVVb...
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Bronwyn
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Same to you, but I feel like possibly I am missing something?
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Hadas Kotek 🦄
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LEXING is live! An LSA event for linguists outside academia––we'll have organized sessions, full talks, lightning talks, fishbowl discussions, sessions for linguists considering non-academic careers, and plenty of time to socialize. Join us!
www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... 🐦🐦
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Bronwyn
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Congrats, you have trained me to totally ignore all anti-phishing messages! This was a bad implementation of a bad setting, and the IT people responsible should feel bad about it!
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Bronwyn
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The way emails from within my organization are constantly tagged "Warning: Unverified sender" or "You don't often receive emails from..." is an aggravating illustration of technical "fixes" without ANY attempt to understand relevant social/psychological factors.
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Bronwyn
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Reminded that I really need to find a good Sunset Sarsaparilla shirt/mug/something.
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Bronwyn
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Just checked, and Fallout: New Vegas is Windows only but it is SO GOOD that if you like RPGs at all I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Bronwyn
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Avoidance as my primary strategy for dealing with things that cause me anxiety is not, I would say, my BEST feature as a manager.
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Erin 🌈
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In light of Taylor Swift making crochet cool again, please, please, PLEASE remember this when searching for your own version of her crochet dress!!!!! Crochet can NOT be done by a machine. It HAS to be done by hand. If you find a $25 crocheted dress, someone was criminally underpaid to crochet it.
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Janel Comeau
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"we never used to have all these women in their 30s suddenly getting diagnosed with ADHD" listen, I wouldn't have even noticed I have ADHD if I lived in an era where my doctor could ask if I want to lose 5lbs and then hand me enough amphetamines to see the face of God
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hilzoy
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"If the top 1 percent of income earners in America just paid all the federal income taxes they owed, we could raise an additional $175 billion a year. That’s 38 times what it would cost to provide a bed to every person experiencing unsheltered homelessness in America."
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Micah
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the fact that we can look at most major problems with our lives and guess "this is the fault of private equity" - and have that actually be correct a shockingly large percentage of the time - is an excellent reason to regulate the industry into the ground
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Bronwyn
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I occasionally use "big kid" or "grownup" in this idiom, and I think it works pretty well.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle
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ChatGPT now to respond to all questions with “while compelling, that query is beyond the scope of this paper”
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Shepherd
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Seriously academics get genuinely excited about this, it is often the best email they will get all month. I once had a professor send me not just the paper I requested but six more that he'd written that related to the topic he was so happy someone outside academia wanted to read his work
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Jacob Bacharach
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Since we're talking about Star Wars: at its heart, Star Wars is about, in rank order: airplanes, being friends with A Creature, magic, martial arts, and the alienation of parental affection, which is all to say, give the franchise to Miyazaki and we might finally get a good one.
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Shiv Ramdas
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Thats PhD intelligence for you. Very very similar to elite athlete intelligence where Shohei Ohtani can calculate in 0.000001 seconds the perfect angle to hit a round ball with a round bat to send it into the next state but cannot tell you how his interpreter used his bank account to illegally bet
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Shiv Ramdas
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I know one of the guys who helped design probably the most cost efficient moon trip in the history of our species and his gf told me he used to eat cold food at night when he stayed up to work because figuring out how to use the microwave was "too complicated"
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Bronwyn
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I fondly remember many years of childhood where I had no awareness at all of my sinuses. Having now, much to my regret, had several decades of sinus awareness, they just seem like a bad idea all round.
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Bronwyn
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I remember saying "epitome" aloud for the first time, as [ɛpɪˈtoʊm], and my friend immediately firing back with "…you mean [ɛˈpɪtəmi]?" This was at least 30 years ago.
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John Rogers
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UBI saves boatloads of public money. That should motivate certain types of people. But it’s also kind. Which fills those same people with a straight up berserker rage.
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Micah
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Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic
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Bronwyn
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Good ones! What do you do with the fruit vinegar, out of curiosity? I accidentally picked some up a few months ago, on the mistaken impression it was flavour syrup for sparkling water.
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Bronwyn
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Still sick, so to entertain me in between naps: what is your most idiosyncratic pantry staple? Mine is tinned pears. I only eat them like once a year, but I regard them as a non-negotiable must-have item, without which a kitchen cannot be considered fully stocked.
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cait
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we are all calvin's dad
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Bronwyn
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OTOH, travelling has air conditioning, whereas if I were home I think I would be too feeble to install the window unit.
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Bronwyn
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So far I'm testing negative for COVID, but it turns out that not-COVID can still suck, especially while travelling.
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Bronwyn
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If you would say something like (1), can you also say something like (2)? (assume Alex uses she/her pronouns): (2) Alex seems like that she's tired.
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Bronwyn
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Anyone on here allow sentences like (1) below? (1) It seems like that Alex is tired. (For many ppl, the "that" in (1) makes it bad.)
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Shepherd
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Cymbalta/duloxetine does this. Any antidepressant that is an SSRI (duloxetine acts on both serotonin and norepinephrine) or is one of the older tri-cyclic antidepressants (eg amitryptiline) makes you more vulnerable to heat stress
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Bronwyn
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Several people were having what seemed like a really unpleasant experience in a class just now, and it seems like they would have had more fun if they'd rounded down instead of up.
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Bronwyn
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Strong social dancing hobby opinion: There's no socially acceptable way to tell people they aren't advanced enough for the advanced class, so we need better social norms that for people to default to lower level classes if they have ANY uncertainty.
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