iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s the kind of seasonal change day that might bring Mary Poppins to your door keep an eye out

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am consoled by the thought that only olds remember what freedom fries are

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But this is good news! The White House is drafting its own bonkers “agreements”, not outsourcing to AI!

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This puppy. You could play pong and Pac-Man on it. My dad used it for word processing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy_S...

en.wikipedia.org

Exidy Sorcerer - Wikipedia

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Did you hear him on @hiddenbrain.bsky.social last week? His main example of “when everyone knows what everyone knows” was a date where the participants are acting interested in each other’s hobbies etc bc it would be crass to discuss the “real” question at hand, which is, are we going to have sex?

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“…since they’re never going to be satisfied unless they’re actively dominating everyone else.” Edit: “…since they’re never going to be satisfied.”

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s so fun and intense you’re gonna love it

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry is gone after a long life. I dare you to read or listen to this and not be overwhelmed by something

onbeing.org

The Peace of Wild Things

A poem by Wendell Berry.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I accidentally on purpose made perfectly toasted pine nuts for my salad tonight 🎉

Salad greens with golden brown pine nuts on top. Not one is burned.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Man repeatedly silences alarm clock

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I miss the feeling of being inside a cozy house in Newfoundland when the weather outside is truly shitty. I mean shitty for Newfoundland, which is like seventy times as shitty as the shittiest weather available down here in the lower 48.

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Canaan Breiss @canaan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Come be my colleague! I'm not in the committee, but can try to answer (or at least suggest routing for) questions! linguistlist.org/issues/37/27...

linguistlist.org

LINGUIST List 37.2706 Jobs: Syntax: Assistant Professor in Syntax, The University of Chicago

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My three chicks have grown up into beautiful pullets, though they’re all dumb as a box of rocks compared to my previous generation of bantams. Eggs coming any day now.

Delaware pullet Hunter, aka Fanta. Big red comb and wattle, classic chicken look.

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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026

I think about this a lot.

Tim Henke
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Why the hell is the Secretary of the Treasury blathering about C-17s? Isn’t he supposed to be giving Kevin Warsh noogies on the daily? How does he fit it all in?

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh so THAT’s where it comes from

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Those translations are the best translating that’s ever been done

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

between medical bureaucracy and secondary education bureaucracy and travel bureaucracy I feel like I'm floating through a blizzard of forms and choices, some of which are mandatory, some optional, some not relevant to me at all. I can't tell which is which and am just flailing and hoping.

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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Journal of Sociolinguistics editorial board extends sincere thanks to Yoshiko Matsumoto for a fitting tribute to the life & work of Robin Lakoff, whose contributions to our field & advocacy for marginalised groups in society will be long remembered. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Robin T. Lakoff and Her (Socio)linguistics

Click on the article title to read more.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hopefully he’ll Streisand-effect some people into going into the museums and learning some real history

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Peat @planetjackanapes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Shroud of Turing.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“Caesar salad, hold the feces” “Sir, it’s holding the feces that got us into this mess in the first place.”

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

England. Argentina had a turn last time.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Going through the third grade detritus in preparation for the upcoming school year and found this, made my non compositional heart very happy 🐧🐧

An elementary school assignment on idioms including an illustration of the meaning of “as cool as a cucumber” featuring three cucumbers in sunglasses

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Re terser text — did you see this @404media.co story about the caveman plugin for increasing chatbot functionality and reducing token charges? www.404media.co/companies-ar...

404media.co

Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs

A senior OpenAI employee has contributed code to the project, simply called 'caveman.'

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Embracing the concept of rooting for America. Human rights! Big science! Prosperity! Freedom! Come on team, we can do this!!

A selfie in a rhinestone-covered US flag ball cap in front of a giant public art statue of the word BELIEVE in Reno Nevada.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I swear if the school district parent communication team doesn’t stop sending multiple messages to per day I am going to bury my phone at midnight in an unmarked grave. It’s summer vacation ffs!!

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Explícate? Decipher? Characterize?

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Claude described the one accurately, but decided that the one’s actual protocol belonged to a second, imaginary trial. (I didn’t ask Claude about this, of course, another elderly family member did) (Claude also praised the imaginary second study, saying “The logic is compelling.” 🤮🤮🤮)

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

F’ing Claude hallucinated a clinical trial for an aggressive cancer that a family member has. “This is very interesting — there are actually two distinct next-generation developments coming out of City of Hope that may be what you're hearing about.” Reader, there aren’t. There is only one.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Waltraud/Whitman paper is the one I know too, but I’m sure there’s more out there.. certainly a long history of discussion from the functionalist perspective starting with Li and Thompson, which would be more in line with your intuition I think. Maybe Wiltschko and Ritter might touch on it?

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I am going to watch the sh*t out of the future sports movie about this Cape Verde team. Can you imagine the little subplots of the story, the team’s-eye view of this surreal experience… just IMAGINE if they beat Saudi Arabia and Spain beats Uruguay and they make it out of the group.

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Maybe a coordinate structure constraint violation?

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Heidi Harley @heidiharley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

9yo, finally drifting off to sleep after tumultuous bedtime with yelling on all sides: <yawn> I have a question. Me, ready for anything: Ok! 9yo: What is the opposite of soaking wet? Me: Bone dry. 9yo: Ok. <falls asleep > Me: ….

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