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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw

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sociocultural linguist working in trans and queer linguistics and conversation analysis. posts about yiddish, cooking, adhd, cats, professor stuff. (they/זײ) [ˈɹæ.klɔ] מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 8h

“Students [who thought they’d be graduating] from a highly ranked 100 year old institution, and are now told that they’re going to be getting a degree from a department in an ill-conceived ‘School of AI’ are feeling, rightfully, betrayed… to get this now-tarnished and politically co-opted degree.”

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 15h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 14h

Our first book review of the year is now LIVE!

Daniel Soyer reviews "East End Jews," a new anthology in translation from editors Vivi Lachs and Barry Smerin and Wayne State University Press.

ingeveb.org/articles/eas...

the cover of EAST END JEWS: SKETCHES FROM THE LONDON YIDDISH PRESS translated by Vivi Lachs and Barry Smerin

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 15h

this is major tom to ground ctrl

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 15h

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 16h

there are amazing song titles, THE FLUTE DANCES ONCE MORE goes hard

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 16h

Astonishingly disgusting.

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A few days before the taping, Colbert's producers held a prep call with the candidates and their aides. The sample questions covered basic political topics, such as the meaning of democratic socialism. Right before the candidates went onstage, the producers appeared in the greenroom and said that they wanted to go over a few more questions. Earlier that day, a group of prominent Jewish figures, including Elisha Wiesel, the son of Elie Wiesel, had sent a letter to Colbert demanding that he grill Mamdani on his views of Israel. According to people who were in the room, one of the producers suggested a "thumbs-up or thumbs-down" segment: "Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: Hamas. Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state."

Mamdani's face dropped. "I just couldn't believe what was happening," he told me. "That a genocide could be distilled into a late-night game." His aides were incensed. "You have the first Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York," Zara Rahim, a senior adviser to Mamdani, told one of the producers. "You don't want to ask him a question about that?" (CBS did not respond to a request for comment.) In the end, the game didn't happen, but Colbert did ask Mamdani whether he believed that Israel had the right to exist. "Yes, like all nations, I believe it has a right to exist," he said. "And a responsibility also to uphold international law."

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 19h

breaking news

reddit post titled "people always tells me she looks like emma stone" showing a cat with a tiny face and big cat forehead that okay yeah kind of does look like emma stone

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 19h

The hobbit is just a story about finagling a פֿינגערל

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

still remain devastated that "finagle" is not in fact a yiddish word

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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 1d

not gonna lie, reading this made me laugh and also have maybe a little brain seizure *laughs*

a review of the Reeves/Winters production of Waiting for Godot:

A review of Keanu Reeves & Alex Winters production of WAITING FOR GODOT, clearly written by someone who has never read or seen it before (their name has been redacted bc god forbid they get piled on somewhere:)

Review of WAITING FOR GODOT on Broadway: One star

I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything I have ever experienced--and not in a good way.

What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonesensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried--truly tried--to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.

Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.

To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had--an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 23h

New Study Finds Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 1d

Felt compelled

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

possibly the Britons!!

finagle(v.)
"get dishonestly or deviously," 1926, American English, possibly a variant of English dialectal fainaigue "to cheat or renege" (at cards), which is of unknown origin. Liberman says finagle is from figgle, phonetic variant of fiddle "fidget about," frequentative of fig.

Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

still going to refer to a darling finagler as a finagele

Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

still remain devastated that "finagle" is not in fact a yiddish word

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

my most nonbinary trait is being ambivalent to syntax

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

that would be my first guess but i'm also probably biased as a multi-generational nyc jew (who similarly grew up hearing פֿאַרקאַקטע in English as "fakakte" and, also via SNL, פֿאַררקלעמפּט in English as "vaklempt")

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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