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Arthur Lapraye @alapraye.bsky.social · Nov 14
Je suis un peu fatigué du bashing de l'académie française par les linguistes.
Non qu'ils aient tort sur le fond, ils ont 100% raison mais parce que c'est une cible qui est en-dessous de nous.

L'AF est une figure de proue.

Le vrai bastion du prescriptivisme français c'est l'éducation nationale.
alapraye.bsky.social
0️⃣0️⃣ days since I've been reminded of I much I hate the "unaccusative" / "unergative" terminology. I couldn't come up with worse names if I tried.
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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theguardian.com
The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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tobbinatorscw.bsky.social
A bit watered down language in the editorial process, but here I am in today's Taipei Times discussing place names and Indigenous name rectification. I could probably write at least three or four times the length and still just scratch the surface on this

www.taipeitimes.com/News/editori...
Names can tell us more of Taiwan’s whole story - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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tuta.com
🚨 Google wants to kill Android freedom: Starting 2027, unverified apps can’t be DOWNLOADED.

➡️ No installation of independent apps

➡️ Destroys alternative playstores like F-Droid

➡️ Google decides what runs on YOUR phone

Help us fight this plan! ✊

tuta.com/blog/google-...
A man pointing a knife at another man who has his hands up trying to protect himself. On the man with knife are the Google app icons and the text "DOWNLOAD US!" on the man protecting himself it says "But I want to use secure, open source apps instead."
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
alapraye.bsky.social
Overall knowledge of Finnish does not help much with Hungarian but this is one of the few cases where both grammars share a feature, including having weird exceptions for places in or around the country itself.
rekablazsek.bsky.social Reka Blazsek @rekablazsek.bsky.social · 4d
Happy World Linguistics Day from Budapest, capital of a peculiar linguistic phenomenon--the Hungarian language!
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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hagenblix.bsky.social
"Actually, you harmed us by using our chatbot in a way that made us look bad" is straight out of the abuser's handbook
ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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howiehua.bsky.social
Instead of cooking your turkey at 350°F for 4 hours, save some time by cooking it at 11,663,540°F for 1 second.
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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aselrod.bsky.social
As @gregsargent.bsky.social points out, Trump *has* given illegal orders.

But he’s also so allergic to democratic ideals that the very idea of a military (or any other institution) that serves the people rather than the ruler is totally illegible and incomprehensible to him.
Indeed, as I've argued, there are strong grounds for believing that Trump actually has delivered illegal orders, most obviously with his bombings in the Caribbean Sea. It is that reality that Trump does not want to hear discussed. This week, Trump bizarrely tweeted out a picture of the plaque at West Point, thinking it supports his argument that those Democrats committed sedition. In fact, it describes it as a civilizational achievement that the U.S. military places loyalty to the Constitution and the law over loyalty to a "leader," i.e., one man. Is there any feature of Trump's presidency that's more central than his demand for fealty to one man-himself-over the Constitution and the rule of law?
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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hbcompass.bsky.social
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
alapraye.bsky.social
Git based syntax where we rebase instead of merging
 The Data Therapist in the Blue Sky @datatherapist.bsky.social · 7d
Replace Merge?

Can’t wait to start reading this!

#linguistics #minimalist #syntax
davidadger.bsky.social David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 7d
At last! Open Access version of the book on MIT's site. One for the syntax nerds. I argue we need to replace Merge, that there are no Phases, and that we need to rethink the basic theoretical typology of Islands. Feel free to download with abandon! 🐦🐦 #syntax direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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mitildide.bsky.social
My personal philosophy is to always shoot for the moon. It may be hard, but if we get it right, we might finally blow up the fucking moon (I hate the moon).
October 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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ubiquity75.xyz
As my friend just said, “Getting the university to understand the threats not from russian cyberterrorists but rather federal investigations using subpoenas has been my main frustration.”

Because they’re putting spyware on all our computers at the moment. Which seems like fucking great timing.
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10d
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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lameensouag.bsky.social
My preferred approach is simply to ignore Ethnologue and use Glottolog instead. It's not ideal for the field to be treating an American missionary organisation as a load-bearing part of the basic infrastructure, and I don't think it's necessary.
November 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
alapraye.bsky.social
Je souhaite à tous les Pétainistes d'hier, d'aujourd'hui, et de demain, de finir comme Philippe Henriot.
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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maddiebiscuits.bsky.social
Reminder: for The Prodigy’s 15th anniversary for their album Fat of the Land, the anniversary cover art simply added More Crabs
The Prodigy’s album cover for Fat of the Land, featuring a crab on a beach with its pincers raised with a zoom blur The Prodigy’s album cover for Fat of the Land, featuring a massive gathering of crabs on a beach with their pincers raised with a zoom blur - its the same crab copied and pasted as many times as can fit on the beach
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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brettc.bsky.social
Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!
A black kitten lying on their back in a beige fabric basket hanging from a green cat tree. Their yellow eyes are wide open staring at the camera, and their tail and one of their back paws is sticking up exposing the black paw pad and toes. An orange cat loafing on a green checkered blanket with paws tucked underneath and rail wrapped around their side. A tabby calico cat and a black cat cuddling on a yellow chair. The calico is on the left with front paws curled in front of them, while the black cat is on the right curled around the rear end of the calico. Both cats are looking expectantly at the camera. A black kitten lying on their back on a yellow chair, with head toward the front of the chair, closest to the camera. Their front legs are relaxed on their chest, while their back legs are splayed apart exposing many grey and white hairs.
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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mariazielenbach.bsky.social
This 👇🏻 sometimes I talk to PhDs whose whole project needed as much data processing as I did for just one subsection
adamcschembri.bsky.social Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 17d
PhD students - please don't compare yourselves to other PhD students. Some topics really are more challenging than others! If, for example, you're working on an under-described and under-documented language, never compare your work with people working on English. It's almost not the same discipline!
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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lameensouag.bsky.social
To properly reconstruct a new language family, you have to accept taking on masses of absolute drudgery, and spend years focusing on particulars before you get to make elegant generalizations. Hence the temptation to find shortcuts even if they don't actually work.
mariazielenbach.bsky.social Uwe Edelheid feat. mariazielenbach @mariazielenbach.bsky.social · 16d
I basically did nothing but digitize lexical data for 1.5 years 😮‍💨
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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alapraye.bsky.social
Je suis un peu fatigué du bashing de l'académie française par les linguistes.
Non qu'ils aient tort sur le fond, ils ont 100% raison mais parce que c'est une cible qui est en-dessous de nous.

L'AF est une figure de proue.

Le vrai bastion du prescriptivisme français c'est l'éducation nationale.
November 14, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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alapraye.bsky.social
She's talking about machine translation.
October 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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alapraye.bsky.social
Ça fait dix ans que j'ai constaté que le domaine de la traduction automatique était vérolé de la base au sommet et en dix ans l'essentiel du "progrès" de ce domaine a été l'extension de son pouvoir de nuisance.
October 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM