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Flammie @flammie.name · 23/09/2026

I guess we're back to this at travel booking, it was a nice few years of almost acceptable flying around...

flight booking TOS-BUD with a text "! TOS-TRD Cancelled"

Flight booking CPH-TOS with text "! BUD-CPH Cancelled"

Flammie @flammie.name · 13/09/2026

getting old is so great, you get to learn new diseases and ailments. I've been coping with bppv for two weeks now. But I'm still gonna make a funny poster for WMT next month, see yall in sunny budapest.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 09/06/2026

#til #norwegian mating != mating, just feeding (mat/e)

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Flammie @flammie.name · 30/03/2026

I hate how companies these days don't really even care if their stuff works or not, just some vibecoded bs everywhere

An email from Scandic hotels with subject: "Add breakfast to your stay at %%=v(@Hotel_Name)=%% (croissant and coffee emojis)

From: Scandic [redacted]
To: [redacted]

"Message from a mailing list
Tracking protection has prevented loading of some pictures..."

"
Scandic
Book, My pages, Spend points
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Flammie @flammie.name · 23/02/2026

TIL that sandwich rhymes with languages and I have never been so mildly infuriated before.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 02/02/2026

was just at fosdem and actually experienced something that would be a use case for an AI assistant: main tram line got blocked for an hour and none of the maps were able to reroute without using the blocked connection at all. Even if it was doable on maps UI this would defo be better UX with AI, no?

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htfcuddles @htfcuddles.mmfcomic.com · 01/02/2026

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

cbsnews.com

Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users

Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 08/01/2026

TIL Trump has renamed department of defense to department of war and it's historically accurate naming... incidentally I usually refer to our military similar way, especially did so when I was protesting the compulsory conscription in Finland back in the days lol. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executi...

en.wikipedia.org

Executive Order 14347 - Wikipedia

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Flammie @flammie.name · 05/01/2026

Enshittification intensifies... github's promised continued free CI for open source but I am already locked out after using 5 minutes of CI without further explanations (no links to click). (in other news I made a new release of omorfi: github.com/flammie/omor...)

Github error message in CI window:

Annotations
1 error
The job was not started because your account is locked due to a billing issue.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 31/12/2025

I was annoyed enough at latexml being slow and broken that I wrote a python script to transmanglify latex directly into (github flavoured) markdown for archiving a viewable versions of my academic articles at flammie.github.io/purplemonkey... (yeah complex tables are the main remaining issue)

flammie.github.io

Dr. Flammie A Pirinen, publications and other academic work

A public git version of my research projects, i.e. articles and all that

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Flammie @flammie.name · 30/12/2025

ACL anthology has merged my various names correctly, great work: aclanthology.org/people/flamm...

aclanthology.org

Flammie A. Pirinen - ACL Anthology

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Flammie @flammie.name · 24/11/2025

someone just made like a 4 hour video < www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB... > of everything wrong in c++ that's more comprehensive than my rant collection at flammie.github.io/cpp-fails.html

flammie.github.io

Flammie on C++

Flammie A Pirinen on github pages

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Flammie @flammie.name · 20/11/2025

it's 2025 and namecheap does not allow non US ASCII letters for billing address and the error message says "Please enter a valid city" lol

City [Tromsø]
X Please enter a valid city

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Flammie @flammie.name · 05/11/2025

I think it's ok to use "AI" to rewrite article content from foreigner English to "academic" English, it probably improves readability for a lot of academics, but if you do do that, check that formatting, filenames and citations are not mangled, it's kind of bad to have AI failures in review version

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Flammie @flammie.name · 29/10/2025

Browser is antiwokeing language models

Browser tabs: "Books by Carroll, Lewis - Pro... | Kaikki keskustelut GiellaLT... | Do not make language homo..."

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Flammie @flammie.name · 27/10/2025

did you know that olive spelled backwards is evil, O? It is not a coincidence that it is also the only inedible poison that commonly disguises as food stuff.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 06/10/2025

ngl it's kind of hilarious that the CEO of bluesky has chosen to be ceo of twitter at home (from the we have food at home meme: knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-hav... )

knowyourmeme.com

We Have Food at Home | Know Your Meme

We Have Food at Home is a series of jokes and mock conversations about the commonly shared experience of asking one's parents for take out and being told "

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Drastic Actions @drasticactions.dev · 05/10/2025

The actual post is still available in the repo. Normally, when a post is deleted, it's removed outright with no way to get it back. pdsls.dev/at://did:plc... It doesn't appear in the timeline feed or the post thread API. They may be actively blocking it in the most stupid way possible, lol.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 22/09/2025

ngl this thing where "bash scripts are too complicated" so we write rust that outputs typescripts that creates yaml that contains weirldy encoded bash scripts which can only be runned on git push is getting out of hand sometimes

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Flammie @flammie.name · 18/09/2025

I think some of what sabine talks about applies for contemporary computational linguistics too... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5u...

youtube.com

I can't believe this really happened.

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Flammie @flammie.name · 09/09/2025

oh wow I can convert a folder of bsky urls into a collection of in app bookmarky things

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Flammie @flammie.name · 03/09/2025

so i voted today. I had to ask chatgpt to figure out that you vote for parties and not people, and how to perform the actual voting process. This information is mostly missing on official election sites, so I finally found a good use case for it, clarifying after public web sites

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Flammie @flammie.name · 26/08/2025

currently at syntaxfest opening, come see me at the poster session on Friday about South Sámi grammar checker + treebanking <https://aclanthology.org/2025.tlt-1.14/> or just come to talk with me if you catch me :-)

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Flammie @flammie.name · 21/08/2025

Unusually optimistic post about LLMs: the fact that AI assisted academic paper writing does not get gatekept by "academic English" "peer" "reviewers" (i.e. this paper sounds like it's written by a foreigner so I downvote it) is an immensely positive thing for most conferences and workshops.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 16/08/2025

I have always been avoiding politics and being opportunistic when needing to achieve something politically but "feminists" going with hardcore puritan christians to ban games landing me on side with Trump and antiwoke gamers was not something I had in cards for 2025

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Flammie @flammie.name · 09/08/2025

It's so absurd we are blocking people from "adult" content on steam and now hobo max (I got age verification popup today) while Facebook pushes me daily spam of naked females offering paid sex services and trying to report them is "we found nothing against facebook’s community standards here".

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Flammie @flammie.name · 08/08/2025

I think that everyone who actually has a PhD and works with peoples with PhD must've chuckled a little when "open" AI's newest model was advertised as a PhD level human as if that was a really good thing. I mean I appreciate that people still respect our education but also lol.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 07/08/2025

I've been doing computational linguistics for over 20 years now, yet I still get surprised and don't know how to work with people who aren't passionate. Like we are working on something exciting, why wouldn't you spend extra time (at airport etc) on reading annotations and word lists?

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 07/08/2025

🦡 🍄 🐍 archive.org/details/flas...

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Flammie @flammie.name · 31/07/2025

yeah someone should nuke collective shout.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 28/07/2025

kind of bummed not going to acl in wien, but also not really because it's so overwhelmingly an ai conference with 90 % people presenting their outdated chatgpt logs and stuffs :-D

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Flammie @flammie.name · 21/07/2025

Two easy ways to make QR codes for scientific presentations and posters: python package qrcode and latex package qrcode. No need to google after suspicious "sponsored" sites that generate QR codes after registering in and giving your emails and credit card details.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 19/07/2025

IIUC this seems like something that could actually be called open source unlike the compiled binaries with no sources that everyone is sending out and advertising as open. nice if true

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Flammie @flammie.name · 17/07/2025

have you always spoken English wrong, #3 might shock you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbG...

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CAN and CAN'T: the importance of Weak Forms

YouTube video by Dr Geoff Lindsey

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// ꌗ꓄ꋬꉧ // @staxdeadempress.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

this is what you look like as a Harry Potter fan in 2025

guy handing money to JK Rowling

"K*ll every trans person" - JKR

"I'm an ally, I just really like Harry Potter!" - guy

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Flammie @flammie.name · 15/07/2025

I feel like a lot of academic reviewing in NLP last few years has become trying to politely tell that copypasting numbers and graphs from automated systems using downloaded data and LLMs is not enough. Like reviewing high school essays, I have to see adult human thinking process in the content.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 09/07/2025

references: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiMk... www.reddit.com/r/uktravel/c... www.reddit.com/r/Bookingcom/ (whole flipping subreddit) www.reddit.com/search/?q=go... and so much more

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Why Did A Hotel Bill Me After I Left? Watch Me Confront Them!

YouTube video by Karl Rock

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Flammie @flammie.name · 09/07/2025

how did we end up with a world where consumer protections have been thrown away? This is getting annoying fr. In last few weeks I've seen: bars and hotels in UK adding tips to bills without telling, booking.scam selling non-existent "rentals", negative reviews legally banned... no consequences...

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Flammie @flammie.name · 08/07/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=djlL... it seems a German news post about what I said about google maps being a scam nowadays

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Google-Bewertungen: Wird ehrliche Kritik immer wieder gelöscht? 😠⭐ | Markt WDR

YouTube video by ARD Marktcheck

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Pasquale Minervini @neuralnoise.com · 05/07/2025

"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂

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Flammie @flammie.name · 04/07/2025

I tend to lose weight during the only month of the year I'm not exercising but binge drinking and eating irregularly, this is why

Screenshot of fitness tracker app in Norwegian: skritt
Juni 2025
D U [ M ]
272099
Månedlig sammendrag
272099 skritt Steg totalt
146,11 km total Distanse
9096 skritt skritt I snitt
4,87 km gjen. Distance

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Flammie @flammie.name · 13/06/2025

one of my pet peeves is when I get scientific feedback telling that it would be more interesting if I wrote about X where X is an article or thesis I've already wrote and refer to in the article being reviewed, like I know it was more interesting and my best work but I cannot keep rewriting it.

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Flammie @flammie.name · 02/06/2025

happy to see that reddit has been translated to finnish quite competently, I'd be surprised to see if this was AI's work (as compared to Google's products where the AI translations make the products unusable and I hear Microsoft is probably starting to do the same...)

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Flammie @flammie.name · 28/05/2025

yall know how google and microsoft has been forced to ask users if they want to use like google search or internet explorer when starting to use new windows or android? If we had the same for mobile keyboards, autocorrects and spell-checkers we would already have Indigenous language supports in oses

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Flammie @flammie.name · 26/05/2025

I like that I'm writing about problems with modern auto correcting spell check, and overleaf's autocorrect keeps misspelling my correct words as if to just demonstrate my point

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Flammie @flammie.name · 25/05/2025

I just got balatro for free from ps+ and I don't understand the hype, like games like this were common in 5 € 1000-in-1 shareware packs in the 90s. It's a nice twist for poker but why would I keep playing for more then few games?

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