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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · Jun 11

Bagels vs Not Bagels.

Pictures of a NY “bagel style substitute” and a Montreal bagel.

Text:

New York Dough Thing

Not a bagel.
Seriously, it's not a bagel.
It's... fine.

Montreal Bagel

Fantastic bagel.
Seriously, it's delicious.
Don't accept pretenders.

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14h

Breaking: MIT rejected President Trump’s "compact," which offers colleges funding advantages in exchange for far-reaching reforms. It is the first school to do so.

MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages

The school became the first university to reject the terms, saying they would undermine independence.

on.wsj.com

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the detailed response! And good point about the aggressively anti-federal setup of elections playing a role.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 1d

We do have the optical tabulators in Ontario, and they're weird but otherwise only slightly slower than plain ballots. And in provincial elections we do vote for a few things at the same time, at least sometimes.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 1d

*noticeably better

Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 1d

US voter turnout isn't noticeably than comparator countries, though? Or, well, it's not better than Canada's, not sure about others.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 1d

You may vote on more stuff, but you definitely are more weirdly committed to doing all the voting on the same day.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 1d

I realize the US votes for everything from president to dog catcher on the same day. Also a bad system! But not intrinsically more suited to worse balloting systems.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 1d

If someone could point me to an explanation of why the US is so keen on voting machines, when other countries to my knowledge get by fine with, you know, paper and pencils, I would be genuinely interested.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 1d

…je refuse.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 2d

I also really like If Books Could Kill and Maintenance Phase, though a couple of the more recent episodes of both are definitely in conversation with current events.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 2d

I enjoy All My Best Friends Are Digital, which is about video games, though full disclosure the hosts are my spouse and a friend of ours so I am definitely biased.

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 7d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

moneyontheleft.org

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 5d

"What if cabs, but also overloading public road infrastructure while violating labour laws? Also totally unregulated and with more danger of assault!"

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 5d

I literally don't understand why people take Ubers instead of cabs. I mean, I hate cabs—I will always take public transportation instead, if that's an option—but Ubers seem mostly like cabs but worse.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

That is wild. I have not experienced it, and don't think it would be entirely fair to try it out with theoretical syntax.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

My workflow is that I play the audio via the app on my phone, while reading an original PDF on a larger screen. That way I can annotate the PDF, and also very quickly rewind if I need to reread, or skip forward when it hits an example.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

It's specifically better with figures and parenthetical citations, and at ignoring page headers/footers. Linguistic examples and field specific terminology remain... mixed.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

For anyone interested in text-to-speech as an aid for academic reading, so far I'm finding Paper2Audio (www.paper2audio.com) better than the other tools I've tried—and so far it's free!

Paper2Audio

www.paper2audio.com

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 8d

But also boy is finally learning a bit of ASL fingerspelling also teaching me that I apparently carry a lot of tension in my dominant hand.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 8d

Whenever I learn a bit more about signed languages, I'm blown away by how neat they are. Just so cool!

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Canadian Linguistic { Association } canadienne de linguistique @cla-acl.bsky.social · 8d

L’ACL encourage le gouvernement du Québec à reconsidérer son décret visant à interdire l’usage de certaines formes d’ #écritureinclusive. // The CLA calls on the Govt. of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of #inclusivewriting.

#linguistique #linguistics

cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 9d

Merci à @cla-acl.bsky.social pour le bon travail avec ce communiqué de presse

Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 9d

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 9d

Bravo @cla-acl.bsky.social pour ce communiqué de presse!

Merci aux universitaires pour leur expertise, soutien, et clarté sur ce sujet. 👏

Lisez-le!!

Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 9d

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

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boba fett's codpiece @seascribble.bsky.social · 9d

Tu devras arracher l’interpoint et iel de mes mains froides et mortes. vas t’en faire foutre, Québec

Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 9d

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

cla-acl.ca

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