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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 1d

whatre you talking about i thought every swedish cows name was rydberg

Jonas Gladnikoff @jonasgladnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Köttprodukter som EU borde tvinga byta namn pga missvisande:

🚫 Laxfjäril (innehåller faktiskt inte fjäril)
🚫 Fransyska (innehåller inte fransk kvinna)
🚫 Flintastek (innehåller inga stenar som var i ropet på stenåldern)
🚫 Biff Rydberg (är oftast inte kött från kroppen av någon med det namnet)

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 2d

I love movie/TV professor offices.

Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 4d

at least German had the dignity to make it something like "bejahen"

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 4d

encountered "okeja" as a verb in Swedish ("to OK" something)

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jims @jims.bsky.social · 5d

do i fear rice? yes. fear marks a healthy respect; with respect comes understanding. in order to temper and tame the grain, you must subject it to Various Flavours. saffron... coconut... coriander and lemon... these are the songs that soothe the beast. understand this, and you may kiss my rude son

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 6d

Swedish has pitch accent with semantic and morphological effects. It's not tonal like Chinese, but it's not a prosodic difference.

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 12d

yes they feel qualified to opine on the mind in a way they wouldn't (usually) about protein kinases or whatever, this has many reasons

Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 12d

Most people have folk beliefs about cognition, intelligence, AI, language, etc. The "AGI" proponents are going to lean into that, and it only helps them if you chew people out for not reading your paper or asking stupid-sounding questions or whatever.

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 12d

I swear the sealion meme and the attitude it represents is one of the worst things that happened to progressive internet discourse.

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 12d

does פיפי mean what I think it does?

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 12d

Topicalizations, Yoda does.

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 14d

aren't those just topicalizations?

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 15d

disinfectant of sunshine trope again (doesn't work, is mostly dogwhistle now)

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15d

Richard Tice doubles down on questioning the safety of paracetamol, and wants to "shine the spotlight of the disinfectant of sunshine on the issue"

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 17d

Currently attending a conference & our field is quite a bit into fancy modeling, so it’s time to repost this blog post.

Don’t try to squeeze your research question into whatever model is fashionable right now; try to build the right model for your research question.

www.the100.ci/2024/08/27/l...

Let’s do statistics the other way around

Summer in Berlin – the perfect time and place to explore the city, take a walk in the Görli, go skinny dipping in the Spree, attend an overcrowded, overheated conference symposium on cross-lagged pane...

www.the100.ci

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 16d

"It looks like you are trying to do literally anything. Would you like to make it worse using AI?"

a paper clip with a face on it is sitting on top of a piece of paper .

Alt: Clippy wiggling its eyebrows

media.tenor.com

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CJ @virmalised.us · 16d

Team rooves

John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 16d

Realizing I failed to commit to the plural of roof. It turns out "roofs" is the accepted standard form, and "rooves" is archaic.

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 17d

cow? goggles?

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Libération @liberation.fr · 17d

En Cisjordanie, Israël asphyxie l’économie pour saper la légitimité de l’Autorité palestinienne

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En Cisjordanie, Israël asphyxie l’économie pour saper la légitimité de l’Autorité palestinienne

www.liberation.fr

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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 18d

anyway I think GoT has some good parts but it’s frustrating that people take it (and GRRM) so seriously when the work is also extremely flawed and much better fantasy exists (fantasy that understands itself as literature and not as half-formed rebellion against a daddy it doesn’t understand)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

arxiv.org

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 18d

he's called Svarthöfði??

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 18d

goldener-zaunpfahl.de/mannersache-...

”Männersache“ bei Niederegger – Marzipan aus der Werkzeugkiste - Der Goldene Zaunpfahl

“Aus Liebe” zu Klischees: Bei Niederegger ist Genuss einfach “Männersache”. Marzipan und Pralinen werden als “männlich” vermarktet und sind knuspriger und bitterer.

goldener-zaunpfahl.de

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 18d

this hasn't changed, in Germany you can get "Männersache" ("men's matters"/"guy stuff") marzipan bars and gift boxes as part of a long-running campaign to make marzipan less girly, because apparently it was girly

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 18d

The round-up.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...

Reflections on Free Speech; The Lost Art of Debate; Machiavelli on ‘Good’ Cruelty; When Hitchens was Great

Reading, Watching 09.21.25

www.unpopularfront.news

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Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 18d

I suppose there are ways to make them acceptable like hummus

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