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my little fauxneme

@fauxnemic.com
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industry and occasionally academic linguist (pencils & computers, generative & usage, mostly p-side), doing neural shit for literal decades, leftish, oldish, grumpy, don't do cop shit, will occasionally post stuff that makes you rethink following me

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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 28/09/2026
with frozen fries, a packet of st-hubert poutine sauce powder, and frozen curds imported in June, i am having a better poutine than literally anything available in northern california
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 28/09/2026
more like anaesthetic preferences amirite
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 28/09/2026
nevergreen
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C.M. Downey @cmdowney.com · 20/08/2026
I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students! Come work with me on all things multilingual and low-resource NLP! NLP background welcome, but commitment to scientific study of language is essential. My recent work has included ASR for field linguistics and compact LLMs for heritage languages
sas.rochester.edu
Graduate Program
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 26/09/2026
cents-making
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
[to myself in the mirror] do a breakthrough. make no mistakes.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 26/09/2026
fuck me emil kirkegaard is a linguist *too*?! jfc we're not looking good here y'all
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
finance.yahoo.com
OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 23/09/2026
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 23/09/2026
NLG --> Natural Language Golem
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 23/09/2026
i too was a 16yo taking bong rips and wondering if my computer had a soul but i didn't give it a line on my resume
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 23/09/2026
👀
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 22/09/2026
imagine not knowing or remembering that jagged little pill is stacked with bangers
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 21/09/2026
when i listen to wings for marie pt II
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 20/09/2026
The Beast With Two Backaches
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 20/09/2026
this is a good thread
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 20/09/2026
why is he so mad at me
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 18/09/2026
a hill i will die on is that people realy really don't understand just how much stuff is in the training data
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 18/09/2026
what the hell how did i forget that buckaroo banzai was peter weller
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 18/09/2026
i might catch hell for this but has anyone tried telling the computer that if it makes a mistake it's going to get fired
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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Evo psych: "Men get to be dominant because evolution made women smaller" EA: "Men get to be dominant because this ensures the production of more future geniuses"
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 18/09/2026
from ca. 2023
a snippet from Cosma Shalizi's notebook about attention, transformers, and LLMs, reading:

"O You Who Believe in the Resurrection and the Last Day

Because life imitates the kind of schlocky fiction I adoringly consume, the public discussion of these models is polluted by maniacal cultists with obscure ties to decadent plutocrats. I find it hard to take the cult seriously enough intellectually to bother refuting it. These are, after all, people who think they can go from the definition of conditional probability, via Harry Potter fanfic, to prophesying that an AI god will judge the quick and the dead, and condemn those who hindered the coming of the Last Day to the everlasting simulated-but-still-painful fire. ("Impressive act! What do you call yourselves?" "The Rationalists!") Whether such myths would be as appealing in a civilization which hadn't spent 2000+ years marinating in millenarian hopes and apocalyptic fears, or whether on the contrary such hopes and fears have persisted and spread over the globe through twenty-plus centuries of transformation because they speak to something enduring in humanity, is a delicate question. But I submit it's obvious we are just seeing yet another millenarian movement. (Sydney/Bing is no more the Beast, or even the Whore of Babylon, than was Eliza.)"
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 18/09/2026
ok so i just had *actual, real, homemade* turkish delight and narnia makes sense again
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 17/09/2026
I feel like a lot of everybody adding an AI chatbot to their fucking SaaS product comes down to the software being basically done. Like, it's a SaaS product for managing a trucking business, it's been functionally feature-complete since 2019, you fuss about churn but you don't need a fucking LLM
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 17/09/2026
"i smell burnt toast dr. penfield" "yeah i'm making toast"
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 17/09/2026
seeing a lot of talk about a certain community as a "millenarian cult" lately and not to be all schmidhuber-by-proxy but cosma got there way ahead of y'all
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 17/09/2026
"tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the release of Aenima"
static.klipy.com
Matt Damon Aging Old Man Old Man
Alt: Matt Damon Aging meme gid
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 16/09/2026
more like stanke- you know what nevermind
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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 16/09/2026
Rationalism rocks. Love any philosophy that tells me: 1) My actions are moral if I help a greater quantity of future people than the real ones I harm 2) There is an infinite quantity of future people 3) Thus, it's essential that I make as much money as possible by doing things I already want to do
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 16/09/2026
imagine doing bombadil dirty (unbathed) like this
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026
I feel like devs who find LLMs transformative in a good way would have a better time and get further with people if they took seriously the possibility that software engineering (which always involves a lil bit of Larping As Computer) is not all that much like most other meaningful human pursuits. 🤷🏻
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 14/09/2026
genXers seeing that liz holmes pic and just seeing lucy little
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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
By now, just about any term that once indicated some very specific thing(s) are now used to refer to whatever happens to be the case. Basically taking the field's lore and desperately trying to make its prophecies come true. bsky.app/profile/vcar...
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 14/09/2026
not novel but "thought-terminating cliche" is a thought-terminating cliche
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 14/09/2026
i laughed
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 12/09/2026
if you read down this is like a bog-standard classifier (of hand-chosen features!) of the type that has been used in ML for decades now. calling it "AI" is just incredibly counter-productive hype. Using ML to detect behavioral correlates of early schizophrenia is reasonably promising and not new
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 12/09/2026
messing w my chatbot by repeatedly telling it to touch grass
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Ed @ed3d.net · 12/09/2026
there are four tech companies in canada and they are all run by people who give money to a danish guy who complains racistly about romani people in italy
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 12/09/2026
need to know that at least one of the agents wrote "i'm in" somewhere
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𓆩♡𓆪MONSTERFUCKER 9000𓆩♡𓆪 @catgirltrucking.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You should go listen to the album that your favorite song is on, front to back. Read the lyrics of the songs that stand out. Develop thoughts on it. Music might be the oldest art we have, but you gotta still treat it right sometimes.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
On 9/11, the people of Gander stepped up. They showed the very best of Canada.
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victor @notnaughtknot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I saw a post on reddit about someone "studying AI at princeton" asking why the trust the expert people now suddenly don't care what experts want to say (about AI rather than COVID)...
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"
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my little fauxneme @fauxnemic.com · 11/09/2026
i'm at a performance of Come From Away and just heard Newfoundland described "an island up by Greenland"
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/09/2026
everyone stop what they’re doing and watch the classic Log Driver’s Waltz animation right now
youtu.be
The Log Driver’s Waltz. A Canadian favourite from 1979.
YouTube video by Life in Canada
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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 10/09/2026
code people code people
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
for a banal example, the fact that anthropic will simultaneously publish long diatribes about the risks of AI surveillance and then contract out Claude for Palantir to resell to CBP is psychotic, and there is no reason why i should take any of their moral protests seriously while they do that.
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Ladislas Nalborczyk @lnalborczyk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📢 We're looking for a Master's student to join our team in sunny Aix-en-Provence 🇫🇷 for a *paid* 5-6 month research internship, anytime between now and June 2027, to help replicate an influential behavioural study on inner speech! Details: tinyurl.com/bdcthbp8 #psychjobs #neurojobs #innerspeech
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