Forbes just announced internally to their contributors that they are lowering their pay rates to $50 dollars an article with a minimum of two articles in a month. I don’t suspect that any news outlets will pick up this news so this may be your only place to hear this.

Hong Kong: “future money” crypto exchange shop and a traditional currency exchange shop sit side by side

What happens when a cold-rolled steel exterior that "machines can't bend" hits another car? electrek.co/2019/11/24/tes…

TAing a class on California geographies this semester 💫

Reject modernity embrace tradition

“African American English is the single most important source for new slang (&, eventually, unmarked everyday colloquial usage) in White American English. Yet White authorities & ordinary people scorn & abuse it in every possible way.”-Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism

Movie: a tailor who slowly destroys politicians and celebrities with increasingly terrible clothes

I have people in my mentions telling me artificial neural networks are “biologically inspired” because they learn via stochastic gradient descent. My brothers and sisters in Christ, SGD is just calculus with a little bit of probability theory thrown in.

NEW Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization - Bonwoo Koo & Joo-Hyoung Ji tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

When I was a little kid I saw a guy cut off two fingers in the shop. I've been scared of the bandsaw and tablesaw since then. Today I'm taking a tablesaw intensive lesson to get through my fear... with ten fingers🤞

#Jobday U6 measure of labor market slack falls to 6.5 percent, new record low

The discourse about this fantasy total social credit system refracts our experience of our actually existing credit score system, which really does affect our lives

the Dow runs on surplus labor

A client informed me that he will no longer pay me to write content for his website because A.I. can write it for free, but he wants to pay me a fraction of my usual rate to "rewrite it" in different words so it can pass Google's A.I. detection screening.

This is the same A.I. that the assholes in charge trained on my writing, since it spits back lightly rewritten versions of my own words.

We should be well beyond attributing language change to “venues like TikTok” as though these venues aren’t full of PEOPLE with actual demographics and sociopolitical histories that are hugely relevant to the formation and spread of linguistic behaviors

This thread suggests that MIT has a marketing department with an interest in pushing fantasies about Roman cement and now I'm curious about the university offices involved in marketing research through social media...

The native speaker may be dead but language testing keeps the category alive as a kind of zombie concept through waivers and exemptions based on citizenship, educational background, and heritage cambridge.org/core/journals/…

This is even funnier when you know Tintin was based off Leon Degrelle, the most prominent Belgian fascist and the man of whom Hitler reputedly said that if he had ever had a son he would have wanted him to look like him