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Rogerio Marques

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linguistics & cognition & language acquisition at @uspoficial.bsky.social #LangSky #EduSky

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Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026
Bring back the ancient knowledge
Things you read on a blog might make you angry. They might upset you. Stop visiting that blog. Don't waste your time posting comments. Move on and find a new blog. There are so many fun blogs on the Internet. You'll easily find a better one.
There is always another fun new blog to read online.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
An AI agent won't tell you to buy this: www.mulebooks.com/store/gilly-...
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Gilly & Billy Enamel Pin — MULE BOOKS
2″ of mighty soft enamel for your jacket, backpack, whatevs. Show your support for wealth distribution with this delightful pin designed by Adam Koford. Less talkin’, more loppin’!
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation 1/
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The «intelligence» that manifests itself in AI, i.e. large-scale data analysis & computational statistics, has nothing to do with how living beings experience the world. If anything, it can be compared to large socio-technical systems of domination such as bureaucracies & corporations 2/
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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 14/05/2025
Spoken Mandarin Chinese doesn’t have gendered pronouns. The word tā can mean ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘it’. However, *written* Chinese does distinguish gender: 他 ‘he’, 她 ‘she’, 它 ‘it’. 1/7
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
OVERHEARD: “Does Pavlov, when he hears the bell, think about feeding the dogs?”
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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
O El País de domingo perguntou ao Mujica se ele encontrou o sentido da vida. Ele: "Me dediqué a cambiar el mundo y no cambié un carajo, pero estuve entretenido. Y he generado muchos amigos y muchos aliados en esa locura de cambiar el mundo para mejorarlo. Y le di un sentido a mi vida."
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
“The punch card was invented at the end of the 19th century for the US Census Bureau, from which IBM stole the technology. The card was a people tracker from its inception.” 🧵 1/
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.
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Laélia Véron @laeliaveron.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
En français, certaines variations de prononciation peuvent être sévèrement jugées (prononcer "domPter" est jugé plouc selon certains!) Mais ce n'est pas nouveau. Fil sur cinq querelles de prononciation dans l'histoire du français, grâce au livre "Paris-Babel" de Siouffi (actes Sud) ⬇️
Couverture du livre "Paris-Babel"
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Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 12/04/2025
Just discovered the parallel world of punctuations. 👍 @ellecordova.bsky.social
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 22/10/2024
Image of a man hammering nails into the surf at a beach.

Man labeled "humanity," nails labeled "language", the sea labeled: "the inherently indescribable nature of the universe".
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Perspective changes everything. [Ars Mathermatica]
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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ændra. @aendra.com · 23/01/2025
📌 📰 News feeds • PINNED POST (Expand this thread for feed info)
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
yeah i'm into OPSEC. Only Posting Super Excellent Content
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Shore Patrol @shorepatrol.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Raymond Chandler started writing at 51. Laura Ingalls Wilder started at 70. Frank McCourt was 66 when first published. John LeCarre finished his last spy novel at 85. Age is trap, don't fall for it, the spirit is the engine of the arts.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
them: but how can you be sure it's a midlife crisis me:
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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Could someone out there write a definitive guide on convenient alternatives to using Amazon.com for goods and books and whatnot? Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.
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Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
It’s almost like we should use human writers, huh www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants
Conducted over a month, the study saw the BBC test four prominent, publicly available AI assistants
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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly
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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 13/02/2025
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
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Riley Cran @rileycran.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It's tempting to think that simpler letterforms = more legibility. But in my experience, that's not true. Typefaces are design systems too, and they need a certain level of complexity to work well. Here's why: (thread) 🧵
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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is cool. What do you picture when you think of the first brain imaging experiment? An fMRI machine? A PET scanner? How about a wooden seesaw with a person lying on it? ...In 1884. 1/7 #NeuroSkyence #PsychSciSky
Drawing of Mosso’s ‘human circulation balance’, used to measure cerebral activity during resting and cognitive states
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Rogerio Marques @rogeriomarques.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...
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Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
There’s now an interactive online version too sanzo-wada.dmbk.io
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WADA SANZO | DICTIONARY OF COLOR COMBINATIONS
Wada Sanzo's Dictionary of Color Combinations. Published by Seigensha.
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amuro ray com saudade da roça @moara.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Quem postou isso na outra rede? rs
A imagem é uma montagem que ilustra os quatro estágios da simulação de acordo com Jean Baudrillard, aplicados ao conceito de "pão na chapa". No primeiro estágio, há uma foto de um pão francês cortado ao meio, tostado com manteiga, servido em um prato branco. Ao lado, um texto explica que, nesse nível, "o sinal (imagem ou representação) é um reflexo da realidade básica".

No segundo estágio, aparece uma embalagem do pão "Artesano Bisnaga na Chapa – Sabor de Padaria!", com uma foto estilizada do pão e um fundo que sugere um ambiente de padaria. O texto ao lado afirma que "o sinal mascara a realidade básica. A imagem se torna uma distorção da realidade", indicando que há uma idealização e uma mediação da experiência original.

No terceiro estágio, a imagem mostra um pacote do biscoito "Pit Stop Pão na Chapa" da Marilan, com imagens do biscoito e de um pão tostado. O texto correspondente diz que "o sinal marca a ausência da realidade básica. A imagem questiona o que é a realidade e se ela sequer existe", sugerindo que o conceito de pão na chapa foi transformado em algo que já não mantém uma relação direta com a experiência original.

No quarto e último estágio, há um trecho da lista de ingredientes de um produto industrializado, citando elementos como “condimento preparado sabor pão com manteiga (soro de leite em pó, sal, farinha de arroz, açúcar, gordura de leite, gelificante cloreto de potássio, antiumectante, dióxido de silício)”. O texto ao lado afirma que "o sinal não tem relação com nenhuma realidade; ele é um simulacro puro". Aqui, a ideia de "pão na chapa" foi completamente dissociada da experiência original, reduzida a uma fórmula química que apenas remete ao conceito sem qualquer ligação concreta com ele. (Descrição feita pelo ChatGPT)
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Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 04/02/2025
sharing an old exploration that's been top of mind recently the future is... ✨ a shared artifact between humans and AI ✨ content at different levels of abstraction ✨ multimodal inputs and NL controls
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Émilien Ruiz @mxli1.eurosky.social · 22/12/2024
oh oh ! On apprend sur un autre réseau grâce a Florian Louis que l’on pourra lire @medieviz.bsky.social en janvier !
Couverture de Forger le faux. Les usages de l’écrit au Moyen-Âge par Paul Bertrand dans la collection l’univers historique au SeuilSi les concepts de fake news et post-vérité semblent définir notre monde contemporain, le Moyen Âge n'était-il pas déjà l'empire du faux ? De la fausse donation de Constantin aux évangiles apocryphes, des fausses reliques aux faux monnayeurs, des milliers de fausses chartes aux comptabilités trafiquées, pourquoi la tromperie semble-t-elle régner à cette époque ?
À y regarder de plus près, le faux vécu et pratiqué au Moyen Âge, loin d'être homogène, n'épouse pas nos tranchantes certitudes contemporaines. Car ces dernières tirent leurs origines d'un long cheminement qui, du XVIle au XIXe siècle, n'a laissé de place que pour le blanc et le noir, le vrai et le faux. Il faut abandonner la notion figée de « faux médiéval », pour porter l'attention sur les « régimes de faux » et de tromperie, de forges et de forgeries. Ces derniers révèlent un rapport au savoir et à l'écrit, ainsi qu'une conception du pouvoir étonnants. Les médiévaux cherchent davantage à forger leur vie et forcer leur destin qu'à falsifier stricto sensu des documents.
En ce début du troisième millénaire, le savoir connaît une révolution comparable, avec l'explosion du numérique qui s'accompagne elle aussi d'une viralité du faux.
S'interroger sur sa constitution est en creux une manière d'éclairer ce qu'est le vrai. Une réflexion nécessaire, impérieuse.
Professeur en histoire médiévale à l'Université catholique de Louvain, Paul Bertrand s'intéresse aux cultures graphiques et textuelles médiévales. Il a notamment publié Les Ecritures ordinaires. Sociologie d'un temps de révolution documentaire entre royaume de France et empire, 1250-1350 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2015).
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It's @george-lakoff.com's Truth Sandwich. An essential skill for anyone who does any communications. Yet, over and over, people start by privileging their opposition's message or just outright lies. Only way to deal with guys like Elon and Trump.
"Illustration of a sandwich with the title 'George Lakoff's Truth Sandwich.' Below, text explains the concept: 'Always frame the truth first. Indicate the lie and the fact that it's a lie. Return immediately to the truth. The truth must always be repeated more than the lie.'"
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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 01/02/2025
Lachlan Turczan, water & light artist www.lachlanturczan.com
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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 31/01/2025
To celebrate our 100th Episodiversary we put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, including this one about gesture. You can listen to the other 99 here: episodes.fm/1186056137/episode/dGFn…
White text on green background reads  “Gestures that have a conventionalised name and form, such as “thumbs up” or “finger hearts” or “head nod” are known as “emblem gestures.” These are very different to the kind of on-the-spot, spontaneous gestures that we use alongside speech. One really nifty thing about emblems is they operate over areas that are often quite a lot wider than any one language. A thumbs up had a really wide circulation across western Europe and has now become a bit of a global gesture thanks to liking buttons on the internet.”. Below is a blue rectangle with white text that reads "Episode 100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics". Illustrations of hands making a heart shape in the bottom left corner, and Lingthusiasm logo in the bottom right corner.
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Neo Kim @systemdesign.one · 23/01/2025
How @bsky.app Social Proof Works. I spent hours studying about it, so you don't have to. Here's a summary of what I learned:
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
Photograph of a building in Florence. A tall thin stone section rises up, from street level several stories. About the level of the second story, a yellow section sticks out from the outside of it, awkwardly wrapping around the outside of the stone part, supported by elegant sticky-outy triangular struts. The yellow section has several small circular windows, much too small for a human to climb through, barely large enough for a chubby cat.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Bellingcat is currently working with universities to develop open source investigation courses in various fields and creating student-led investigative hubs at those universities, which seems well timed.
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Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
give me coffee for the things i can change and the ability to make people spontaneously combust for the things i can’t.
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education
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Cees Bassa @cbassa.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography
This image shows the hourglass shape of the nights shortening and
lengthening from winter to summer and from summer to winter, passing
clouds, the Moon passing through the night sky every month (diagonal
bands) and the Sun climbing higher in the sky during summer.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Striking images can make scientific ideas accessible to people from all walks of life. But some such pictures do more damage than good, seeding confusion & fueling widespread misconceptions of an essential topic. To illustrate, a thread about two iconic images & (mis)understanding evolution. 1/9
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 04/01/2025
As a PR pro, we used to tell people to get ahead of various online controversies by making statements that refute them. It turns out this is the absolute worst way to respond to criticism or correct errors of any kind. Social media has made this worse. When you respond, it kick-starts issues again.
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Sarah Connor @collapse2050.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
"If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.” - Chris Rock theconversation.com/how-rich-are...
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How rich are the rich? If only you knew
Income inequality, the most common way to measure the gap between the rich and the poor, only tells part of the story. Wealth inequality tells the rest.
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Rogerio Marques @rogeriomarques.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
infowetrust.com/project/hist...
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Interacting With History - Info We Trust
300 years of information graphic milestones.
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