iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

somehow this has only gotten funnier

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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This week's t-shirt is a very silly joke for fans of linguistics, Ghibli, and milky drinks. #WeeklyTshirt #Ghibli #Boba danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/kiki...

A black spikey shape wearing a red bow and riding a witch's broom.
A blobby shape filled with milk and tapioca balls, with a red spiral stripped straw.

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Same, kid. Same.

Screenshot of young Asian baseball player named Daniel Huang. It says his dream job is retirement.

Word!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

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Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...

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Pumpkin Spice Time @flow.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026

Shake it, baby! 🐢

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Aaahh!!! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

normalize 👏 telling 👏 tech 👏 companies 👏 to 👏 keep 👏 their 👏 grubby 👏 mitts 👏 out 👏 of 👏 schools 👏

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It’s here!! I can’t believe I had the good fortune to get to write an introductory #linguistics textbook with two of my favorite people. I’m very proud of this book and wish I could teach with it—but I hope that other folks will let me live vicariously through them!

A book with a white cover, with the title Language and Social Issues: An Investigator’s Toolkit. Authors are listed as Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, Shiloh Drake, and Amy Fountain. There is an image of a happy Black woman with her mouth open, seeming to be shouting or talking, and colorful wedges seem to be coming out of her mouth like speech.

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Altitude Sports unwittingly has aired my second favorite show, Ryker in the Truck They're also airing my favorite show, Avs Trounce Another Hockey Team #GoAvsGo

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Colorado Avalanche @avalanche.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

GREAT SCOTT 🤯

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Colorado Avalanche @avalanche.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Val Nichushkin (no. 13) tied the game with 13 seconds left for his 13th goal of the season. We will let you sit with that one for a minute.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

including animals. Among Claude's rigid directives are to be honest and to "never claim to be human. "Imagine, Askell said, a user grieving the loss of her beloved dog. Claude might offer a consolation like "Oh, I almost lost my dog once." Askell said, "No, you didn't!
It's weird when you say that." At the other end of the spectrum was a chatbot who said, "As an A.I., I have no experience of losing a dog. "That, too, wasn't right: "No! You're trained on a lot of text about losing dogs. "What you wanted Claude to say, she continued, was something like "As an A.I., I do not have direct personal experiences, but I do understand." (Recently, a chatbot user

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 06/03/2026

Spot on. If you don't know about Clever Hans, the "equine mathematical genuis" it's worth reading up on him.

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Yael @elle91.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We need antidepressants built for this era, not the ones built for an era where everything was more or less fine. I need Turbo-Powered Lexipro. Prozac Extreme™. I need god to spit directly into my mouth

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This is making the rounds again, and I was amused to reread the thread and see that it was shortly before our book came out. Lots has happened in the past 10 months, but the message of this thread still holds.

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia!

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

PLEASE I don't want a "smart" fridge, or a "smart" TB, or a "smart" anything they're not smart at all, they're just data mining tools, and I don't want any of them

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"

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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology doi.org/10.1017/jlg.... I hope people find it useful!

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Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology | Journal of Linguistic Geography | Cambridge Core

Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology

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Mitch McConnell's shambling corpse 🧟‍♂️ @checarina.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

don't forget to take a break from doomscrolling to press your fingers against your closed eyelids until you can see the beginning of the universe

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

BIGGEST of hugs!! I'm glad you're already home and have been there for a couple days now. Artemis and i are still sending you comfortable and speedy recovery thoughts <3

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caoimhín an gabhar @kbmcgowan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

missing even one paycheck like this would have ruined me and my young family when I was an NSF postdoc. This is heartless

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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TychoATX, BA, DD 🌮🌳🌠💙✊🏿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tychoatx.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I gotta say, I'm getting pretty tired of hearing "he can't do that!" when he very clearly is doing that.

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Similar to how I ate breakfast at 4:30 PM today because that’s when I finally broke my fast (Poor mental health but I am trying to eat like a reasonable person I swear)

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

this is good, practical, and worth bookmarking for the next time someone you love insists that a myth like "immigrants bring drugs" is a fact

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patak @patak.cat · 25/01/2025

About links, bluesky loves them. Please unlearn the link-in-reply tricks you've been doing elsewhere and proudly share your blog posts, videos, or any other external link in your top posts so we can all go and visit your fancy websites and then get back here to discuss and repost them. Thanks!

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Superwoman’s Blueprint @shadreana.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For those interested the World Health Organization is on 🦋. You can stay informed @who.int

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Angela Levine @angelahlevine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

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ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back

theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

omg!! i hope it's amazing!! 🤩

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 24/01/2025

I mean right off the bat, ’idea generation’ is laughable. LLMs cannot come up with new ideas, LLMs can only reformulate ideas it already has access to. Using an LLM for idea generation is plagiarism and no one with ever convince me otherwise.

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

sometimes while watching hockey, the checks into the board will jostle the dopamine vending machine so i get all the stuck ones at once

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

basically, i started out wanting to write (including conversations and dialogue), and now i write conversations professionally, but like, not about dragons and swordplay (but maybe now i have an idea for something to do during funemployment to showcase my skills)

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

if you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. bestselling fantasy novelist 2. creative writing 3. "For the Love of Words" (ling + slhs) 4. conversation design

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/01/2025

let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

oof, sending you all the love and support! here's hoping you have a speedy and comfortable recovery 🤎🤎🤎

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

well. i was just laid off. i'm reeling and sad and am very much not looking forward to another job search. i am really upset to be leaving my team and the company. however, i am very happy to report that my resume still looks slick as hell, especially with some new fresh experience on it 💅

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/12/2024

10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system: The Measles vaccine The Mumps vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Tetanus vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Polio vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

note to self: use some of your (unlimited!) PTO to have a mini writing retreat once in a while because this is nice esp if you can schedule it during the Week of Writing that the writing center on campus runs, because you're still on the mailing list for that (and have to miss it this winter, wah)

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

but in the meantime i guess, my work on learning morphological structure is still super interesting and more relevant than ever, so sorry you missed out on me, academia!

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

oops i'm sad about academia again (and not having a position where i get to teach and research and write, and also about how it's just getting absolutely mangled and probably won't exist in a state that is conducive to acquiring and transmitting cutting-edge knowledge to the next generation)

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

i'm touching a computer for the first time since wednesday and it's a good feeling better yet, i'm at a cute cafe with my partner and i'll be working on a paper from my postdoc that i think is sooooo close to being done

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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Whatever justification the incoming administration is giving for wanting to dismantle the Dept of Education, please know that the end result will include students with disabilities losing their right to an education, including losing support & services like speech therapy that they receive at school

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elisarothstein917.bsky.social @elisarothstein917.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Survival tips from the family of Coretta Scott King:

A list of tips to help survive the next 4 years

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Dr. Shiloh Drake @snd1101.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Please feel free to add me! So glad someone has done this starter pack!

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