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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any)

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psycholinguist by training, now working in public health. L1: American English (~Philly). any pronouns, they/she if that's too hard. i do not post as my worksona. posts are mine and not my employer's. linktr.ee/colorlessgrey

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 20h
Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11h
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h
Indeed. Useful idiots abound. Vibe coders and the but muh spreadsheets lazy asses are the useful idiots on the Death Star.
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 29/09/2026
but how will these men continue to portray themselves as one of the good ones if the other men become decent human beings? men as a whole benefit from keeping bar for men's behavior in hell
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reflecting on how folks used to organizing and volunteer heavy nonprofits/collectives are uniquely positioned to understand Trump. I feel like at least every couple years I find myself in an org managing an "if I don't get what I want, I'll burn it down" situation
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Squidward window meme. he looks out the window sadly at a happy spongebob and patrick
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
does flavortown have an established faith tradition
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 20/09/2026
i had a dream that i used all my knowledge of linguistics and authority as a psycholinguist to defend the common American pronunciation of Notre Dame and immediately got booed by the entire population of France
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 20/09/2026
i'm not disappointed, i'm just mad
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/09/2026
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There's too much talent trapped in poverty and too much mediocrity funded. Just sayin.
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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More adults have made youth sports their entire personality in the last 10 years than any child in history. Why don't you go break up a game of hide and seek while you're at it, you fuckin' losers.
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Jed Kolko @jedkolko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 2025 American Community Survey should have come out today. But it has been delayed because of unusual political encroachment at Census. ACS drives business and policy decisions, especially in local communities, and is the primary input to Census’s immigration estimates.
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Sylvia @sylvswarren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Nerd Reich (Gil Duràn) is absolutely grim and fascinating, but it is telling how these ghouls grew up as clever, lonely, autistic, isolated nerds and decided feudal monarchy was the answer. Bitches, I grew up as a lonely, autistic, isolated nerd and decided that everyone deserves a good life
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don’t think many nondisabled people realize that laws mandating accommodations are purposefully weak. Your employer gets to decide what an “undue burden” is. They hardly ever get called to account anyway, but if they do, they can cry about money or work hours or pretty much anything they like.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the tech bros telling you LLMs are conscious don’t think women are people.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Moved files onto the open internet without permission" is also literally just hallucination. We've known since 2022 that these things do shit you ask them not to do, and that this is a fundamental flaw of the architecture that can never be fixed So they're correcting it with marketing instead
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026
Happy Baby Safety Month.
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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 16/09/2026
This week's guest, linguist @emilymbender.bsky.social, talks with @adambecker.bsky.social about the origin of her famous paper on LLM’s, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots” #ai #datmpodcast #future #science #llm #linguist #stochastic #parrots
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Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Universities LOVE spending 4 million dollars for consulting firms whose advice is always “fire people”
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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Attention philosophers of language who also work in theoretical linguistics: the Philosophy department and the Linguistics department at UC Davis are jointly hiring a TT Assistant Professor. Apply! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07874
recruit.ucdavis.edu
Department of Philosophy/Linguistics - Philosophy of Language/Computational Linguistics
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Brent Baldwin @brentbaldwin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Wesley Bows
Alt: Wesley, disguised as the Dread Pirate Roberts, bows
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Humans are reading your ChatGPT chats. Just like humans are behind your food delivery robots and various other applications of automated technology. Usually underpaid humans in other countries.
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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New work out today! The result of a 15 year project to offer genuine linking hypotheses between linguistics and neuroscience: a revised research program, and its first result - a novel neural binding operation ('Meld') capturing core properties of natural language syntax 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2609.14384
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Formal Properties of Language as Constraints on Neural Dynamics
What must a neural system be capable of to implement language? Current research annotates stimuli with linguistic variables and tests which electrodes, voxels, or language-model layers predict neural ...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 12/09/2026
it is a massive societal failing that we didn't find a way to rehabilitate men who like to start arguments as a hobby before the social media era
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
one thing other dems could learn from mamdani is how he mostly ignores the attention seeking evil pieces of shit and doesn’t take their bait and it not only robs the absolute cretins of their only real power but it is also making them even more insane with rage
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20/05/2026
the "trans sports just went too far" thing makes me completely crazy because the people whose whole thing is getting mad that trans children partipate in recreational activities are obsessed with kid genitals and have "give every soccer team a larry nassar" as an explicit policy goal
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Again, always: 1. Question what motives they might have to say such a thing 2. Question why, if they truly believe that, they continue to work on the damn thing
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
so long as governments, policy makers, and regulatory bodies continue to treat tech companies/products and their underlying anti-democratic and fascist ideologies as something separable, things will continue to get worse for fundamental rights and democracy
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When I first heard of Lee Jussim 15+ years ago, I knew instantly he would go fash from his posting style. Since then, his affiliations with the 'HBD' movement and his low-quality racist scholarship proved I was right. He's deep into racism, so why not anti-trans pseudo-scholarship?)
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
It’s actually ok to be a person who does not enjoy doing research but then you should not be doing research for pay
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 06/09/2026
we already know enough to act
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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Saw this attack in the wild for the first time, in a purported ebooks site claiming to be using Cloudflare. I expect many (most?) of you use Linux or Macs, but just in case: This is trying to get you to run a Windows program that will infect your computer. If you ever see this, run away fast.
C Verification Stesp
[cloudflare logo]

To better prove you are not a robot, please:

1. Press and hold the Windows Key + R
2. In the verification window, press Ctrl + V
3. Press Enter on your keyboard to finish.

Perform the steps above to finish verification.
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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Now out online! Why do kids sometimes bomb possibility reasoning tasks and other times totally nail it? We review the lit and show how differences in a set of common ancillary cognitive demands in these tasks "push around" the age at which children succeed - psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
psycnet.apa.org
APA PsycNet
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yes. Platner reminded me DEEPLY of Fetterman with the way his staff had to run an entire campaign basically directed by his inability to be like "wow I fucked up, I didn't realize my error at the time. I accept responsibility, and have taken steps to correct it"
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
BTW this was something I wrote to a press outlet in April during the Mythos hype. I'm realizing more & more the trap of constantly having to spend the time debunking this stuff. We spend time on that instead of implementing our visions, while they implement their dystopian tech futures.🧵
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Babe, wake up, they just added a new sin
americamagazine.org
Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t get the “I’m so flooded with peer reviews I simply must use AI” take. Just uhh turn them down? Click decline.
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a full-on monet @janenx01.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
"If you change a file name extension the file might become unusable."
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I Know What GIF
Alt: a gif of ron swanson saying "I know what I'm about son"
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