Greetings from the United Revolutionary Free People's Democratic Socialist Worker's Republic of Alaska (Context: It's the day Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend checks land in residents' bank accounts)

I can't be the only one who keeps hearing this in their head, can i?

People will go crazy viral saying “here’s a truth that THEY never taught us” and it’s like an extremely mundane thing that you were absolutely taught in school but just didn’t pay attention to

fox p2 gene haver There's like a million white guys arguing on Twitter and they all end up in my feed

Okay, i have to admit that TwitterBros deciding that indiscriminate bomber and murderer Ted Kaczynski was actually a really great dude was not on my 2024 bingo card

The number of Serious Football Fans™ who are busily posting here and elsewhere today about the horror that a woman they know the name of will probably be a guest in a Super Bowl skybox is just nothing but weird. Like, can y'all even hear what you sound like?

I hadn't really cared who won this year's Super Bowl, but dang, i just realized how sweet it's gonna be to get to watch all the Taylor Swift haters and antivaxxers cry publicly on social media, and i discovered that maybe i had a cheering interest after all.

Being a linguistics student is so silly I’m like I got 50 verbs due by Monday

If fandoms you're not part of annoy you when they discuss minutiae that you don't get, just take a breath and remember the line i've seen attributed to Edgar Degas: "What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."

Let's just take a moment to appreciate the way the newspaper for The Villages (the huge intensely conservative retirement community in Florida) tried to downplay the biggest news story in the US right now, Trump's felony conviction It's so pathetic that it's almost—almost!—cute

If LLMs appear to have an internal world model, it's because that the humans the model trained on have one. Honest question: do you think that linear regression has an internal world model?

Today’s Challenge: Share this flyer with an aspiring first-gen linguist! We can’t wait to see them at Linguistic Society of America!!

Hurry! You have a week left to apply for the First-Gen travel grant to attend LSA.

madeline odent I want to be a test writer for APUSH in 20 years so badly

Hero Minimalism is a scam by Big Small to sell more less

If only there was some sort of technology that would allow knowledge to be put into a form that could then appear on a screen or a piece of paper, so that someone who wasn't the one who placed it there could, at a later date, look up what that knowledge was

The Menswear Guy, playing the long game🤣🤣🤣

in retrospect, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords really might've been a better basis for a system of government.

Y'all with the conspiracy theories about vote counts and turnout, you *do* realize we don't have the full popular vote count yet, yes? You're buying into misinformation sowing doubt in elections—it worked beautifully on the right the past few years, now the left is the target

The time has come: In a few days i'll be closing down this account and shifting entirely over to BlueSky, still findable under my real name or the same Dr David Bowie handle i've been using here