Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the US government effectively no longer funds research into languages, or language documentation or revitalization 081
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026stay tuned for the next installment of How to Make Sure Your Tween Doesn't Become a Philosopher 060
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026bullied 11yo into turning off a shitty reality TV competition because they had contestants pick a thing and gave them the option of switching their choice and I absolutely refused to stop talking about the Monty Hall Problem 270
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Probably read more of OP's comments" as a bouletic imperative, so natural! 🐦🐦🐦 020
Reposted by Schnitza FarsProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.propublica.orgHow ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 HoursThe reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required. 7954172371
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this comes from my neverending search to find non-ableist words to express my outrage at bullshit 0862
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026did you know that we get the word "cockamamie" from a bastardization of a term ("decalcomania") for a period in the 1930s after temporary tattoos were invented by the French and kids were running around putting them on fucking everything?! 🐦🐦🐦 418236
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the phenomenon of conference and journal spam never cease to be a source of glee in an otherwise dark world: "It would be an honor for us if you could shower your presence as speaker at our conference." 060
Reposted by Schnitza FarsfranciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Mambo No. ℵ₀ 1468
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026_boy playdates_ * surly greeting * nonsensical physical activity * injury * video games * poop break * snacks * bewildering physical activity * injury * very brief chit-chat * poop break * wrestling * farewells 181
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026reading syntax papers these days talking about "strong D" can we get an ounce of self-awareness people it's mortifying 061
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 26/09/2026here's my $.02 on the Nikole Hannah-Jones issue: every 👏 kid 👏 is a fucking 👏 experiment 020
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026wait are you accusing me of being the retired colleague? 000
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 24/09/2026it's a wonder Chomsky has any teeth left, what with all the bullet-biting 040
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 24/09/2026retired colleague: "He's in the Communications Dept so he's good at communicating." me: "But you could say the same thing about me in Linguistics!" them: "Well of course language isn't about communicating." I'd forgotten that this was an old generative trope! It's an absolutely unhinged take 340
Reposted by Schnitza FarsAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542421631
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the UC Office of Faculty Affairs and Academic Programs (FAAP) 020
Reposted by Schnitza Farsthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here 111112181906
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I once had a squib decimating an entire theory and it was rejected for failing to offer a positive proposal. page limit was two 110
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 16/09/2026yes any place that publishes squibs count, but there aren't enough of them, and as a result they're much too competitive 110
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 16/09/2026* yes, I was using it as a shorthand--PUN INTENDED--for a small note or question instead of a new topic or contribution 010
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 16/09/2026well there's another interpretation, which is that 90% of publications in medicine are fingers instead of hands, while there is really no venue for publishing fingers in semantics/philosophy. your point certainly hits for major medical contributions but I expect those are pretty hard to publish, too 110
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I was just told that the UC Global Climate Committee are explicitly not worried about the negative environmental effects of AI because they're confident AI will solve that problem on its own 011
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026100%, my citations are going to double overnight thanks to the Journal of Urology 150
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026same with earning a co-authorship: after we wrote the article one of my guys said "Why don't we send it to (famous old dude), see what he thinks?" and he responded positively with a long, incoherent personal anecdote and so my collaborators were like "Great! Let's add him as a co-author." 1110
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026been collaborating with doctors and the difference between how easy it is to publish in medicine and formal semantics could not be more stark. 190
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026well it's finally happened, I had an amusing mixup with a friend who was expressing delight at the nap he took in his car. I was distracted enough to think he was talking about Rudolph 020
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026is there a form of Turret's that only kicks in when you have to quickly come up with words to disambiguate letters in your booking code 040
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026perusing fall fashion releases; yet again surprised by how few people seem to be traumatized by corduroy 001
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 05/09/2026raising kids in LA means showing Kindergarten Cop at a playdate and having a random girl say "oh! that's my Uncle Arnold!" 090
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Australia is the same way, and they insist the person be one of a specified list of professions 230
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026new expressive content just dropped: Charlie Kirk's name as an infixed intensifier with a bemused, sarcastic vibe and yes it's productive! what a world... youtube.com/shorts/sbvjW... 🐦🐦🐦youtube.comlowkirkenuinelyYouTube video by Etymology Nerd 030
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026feedback from a student's partner forced to overhear our zoom meeting: "I love Schnitza, she probably came out of the womb criticizing the uterine wall. 'I could do this better'" 050
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026LAUSD (the second largest school district in the county) just banned student access to AI on district-owned devices. the feedback on social media and in the school group chats is 100% glee. you couldn't have manufactured a more popular decision. LETS FUCKING GO 192
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 02/09/2026my extremely religious mother has been dealt an awful hand in life and I would like to publicly call out the mantra "God never gives you more than you can handle" as the ultimate victim shame 060
Reposted by Schnitza FarsPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 31/08/2026Donald Trump if he isn’t interior decorating 212782264
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I have a student who was at these protests in April 2024 who is still on probation. she has been harassed not just by admin for this whole time, but weirdly by their weaponizing of AI to draft hundreds of pages of nonsensical complaints against her 141
Reposted by Schnitza FarsThomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I've represented Dylan for nearly 2 years in a series of increasingly ridiculous hearings aimed at suppressing pro-Palestine speech. Excited to file this case against UCLA and hope to create more space for people speaking out against genocide. Lawsuit here. adc.org/wp-content/u... 0153
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 27/08/2026there's literally already so many insane administrative decisions--like arming UCPD with military-grade weapons that even the LAPD aren't allowed to use--that this one will likely go through. we're just too exhausted 030
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 27/08/2026just heard that UCLA--which forces departments to offer classes outside of business hours because they don't have enough classroom space to teach all of the students they admit--is now going to start charging departments for keeping the air-conditioning on in classrooms outside business hours 160
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I'm an outgoing introvert: I am in All of the Group Chats, but they're muted 030
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 25/08/2026and don't get me started on the bat-shit things I found ESL learners are apparently being told about the difference... 120
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I ran into a "doubt if" in the wild and it threw me off! I think I have all 3 in my dialect, but I don't have string intuitions about them. I think it's possible they have subtly different distributions... 110
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I do think "doubt" behaves differently when negated, there's lots of evidence for that for all such verbs, so I had hoped to focus on the non-negated versions! 010
Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 25/08/2026yeah sigh I guess you're right, it's not a rogative verb like "wonder", it seems to somehow require a proposition. I'll hafta dive back into that lit (or get @i-rohl.bsky.social involved again lol) but mainly curious if there's any perceptible difference between "doubt whether" and "doubt if"! 110
