Antonio Ascanio
@antonioascanio.bsky.social
English teacher studying how language shapes our thoughts.
MA student → PhD candidate | Cognitive linguistics, CDA, meaning & metaphor addict. University of Córdoba (Spain).
Scriptwriter when I have time.
MA student → PhD candidate | Cognitive linguistics, CDA, meaning & metaphor addict. University of Córdoba (Spain).
Scriptwriter when I have time.
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If you have anything kind or generous to say to an early career scholar, please say it. We need it in more ways than you know. We absolutely need the encouragement. This work is not easy, especially when you really care. This is often thankless work. Some days you are worn down. But it’s all love.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
If you have anything kind or generous to say to an early career scholar, please say it. We need it in more ways than you know. We absolutely need the encouragement. This work is not easy, especially when you really care. This is often thankless work. Some days you are worn down. But it’s all love.
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If you have anything kind or generous to say to an early career scholar, please say it. We need it in more ways than you know. We absolutely need the encouragement. This work is not easy, especially when you really care. This is often thankless work. Some days you are worn down. But it’s all love.
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
THIS
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No todo hecho cultural (y el toreo lo es) merece ser conservado para la eternidad. Si acaso a efectos documentales. Las luchas de gladiadores por ejemplo no se han conservado y no pasa nada. Los historiadores y arqueólogos estudian el hecho y el recinto en que se celebraba. Y ya.
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
No todo hecho cultural (y el toreo lo es) merece ser conservado para la eternidad. Si acaso a efectos documentales. Las luchas de gladiadores por ejemplo no se han conservado y no pasa nada. Los historiadores y arqueólogos estudian el hecho y el recinto en que se celebraba. Y ya.
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Patriarchal white supremacy has never been about “protecting women and girls.” Rather it’s a social system that empowers privileged white men to do what they want to women’s bodies while simultaneously claiming migrants are sexual abusers of “their” women. This racist misogyny is painfully ordinary.
We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA.
These people are evil.
These people are evil.
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Patriarchal white supremacy has never been about “protecting women and girls.” Rather it’s a social system that empowers privileged white men to do what they want to women’s bodies while simultaneously claiming migrants are sexual abusers of “their” women. This racist misogyny is painfully ordinary.
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To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
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The unspoken assumption behind “raping 15 year olds is different than raping 8 year olds” is that teenage girls are legitimate targets of desire on account of (sometimes) being adult shaped. But if the adult shape was the source of attraction, and not the vulnerability, these men would date women.
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The unspoken assumption behind “raping 15 year olds is different than raping 8 year olds” is that teenage girls are legitimate targets of desire on account of (sometimes) being adult shaped. But if the adult shape was the source of attraction, and not the vulnerability, these men would date women.
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Did you ever notice that branded + AI = braindead
November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Did you ever notice that branded + AI = braindead
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If you are also a scientist, sure. If you aren't, like these guys, you should probably shut the fuck up and let the people whose opinions matter talk.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If you are also a scientist, sure. If you aren't, like these guys, you should probably shut the fuck up and let the people whose opinions matter talk.
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
every company in 2025
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"Es que las mujeres de ahora no quieren tener hijos".
Bueno, las de antes no sabemos si querían. Nadie les preguntaba, empezando por el marido.
Bueno, las de antes no sabemos si querían. Nadie les preguntaba, empezando por el marido.
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Es que las mujeres de ahora no quieren tener hijos".
Bueno, las de antes no sabemos si querían. Nadie les preguntaba, empezando por el marido.
Bueno, las de antes no sabemos si querían. Nadie les preguntaba, empezando por el marido.
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New paper: delighted that this paper should be published while I happen to be at the multimodality conference in Groningen: doi.org/10.1177/0957...
Using generative AI to investigate the multimodal representation of refugees and migrants - Christopher Hart, 2025
This article uses AI-generated images to consider patterns in the way refugees and migrants are visually represented on the internet. AI text-to-image generatio...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New paper: delighted that this paper should be published while I happen to be at the multimodality conference in Groningen: doi.org/10.1177/0957...
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This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast.
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast.
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:
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'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Want a younger brain? Learn another language
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
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📣Para empezar la mañana con un poco de música, algo de #ciencia lingüística y mucho de #diversidadlingüística...
Este artículo de Elena Fz. de Molina en @es.theconversation.com es lo que necesitas.
#BricolageLingüístico
theconversation.com/chica-que-di...
Este artículo de Elena Fz. de Molina en @es.theconversation.com es lo que necesitas.
#BricolageLingüístico
theconversation.com/chica-que-di...
‘¡Chica, qué dise!’: el bricolaje lingüístico detrás de la voz de Rosalía
Cuando Rosalía canta, suena diferente. No solo porque mezcle flamenco con reguetón o música clásica, sino porque cambia también su manera de hablar.
theconversation.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📣Para empezar la mañana con un poco de música, algo de #ciencia lingüística y mucho de #diversidadlingüística...
Este artículo de Elena Fz. de Molina en @es.theconversation.com es lo que necesitas.
#BricolageLingüístico
theconversation.com/chica-que-di...
Este artículo de Elena Fz. de Molina en @es.theconversation.com es lo que necesitas.
#BricolageLingüístico
theconversation.com/chica-que-di...
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Se las conoce como las 12 costureras de Víznar, aunque no todas tenían esa profesión. Quedaron unidas en sus horas finales por el fusilamiento a manos de franquistas y el enterramiento en una fosa común. Fueron homenajeadas por el Gobierno el 31 de octubre
La historia repudia a sus asesinos. A ellas, las homenajea. La lucha por la democracia de las 12 costureras de Víznar
Estas granadinas, ejecutadas al inicio de la Guerra Civil, son las primeras exhumadas del barranco donde fueron sepultadas. Hace poco han sido homenajeadas por el Gobierno por su contribución a la democracia
social.elpais.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Se las conoce como las 12 costureras de Víznar, aunque no todas tenían esa profesión. Quedaron unidas en sus horas finales por el fusilamiento a manos de franquistas y el enterramiento en una fosa común. Fueron homenajeadas por el Gobierno el 31 de octubre
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early career scholar and their first publication
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
early career scholar and their first publication
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd.
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Apparently, the business plan was designed by ChatGPT.
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Apparently, the business plan was designed by ChatGPT.
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And yet I can see why a journalist could use them to organise their thoughts and notes, find a new angle, break writers’ block, in ways that are broadly fine.
But if I started, would I really stop? And how would it feel to fear that LLMs were … better at my job than me?
And that’s why I haven’t.
But if I started, would I really stop? And how would it feel to fear that LLMs were … better at my job than me?
And that’s why I haven’t.
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
And yet I can see why a journalist could use them to organise their thoughts and notes, find a new angle, break writers’ block, in ways that are broadly fine.
But if I started, would I really stop? And how would it feel to fear that LLMs were … better at my job than me?
And that’s why I haven’t.
But if I started, would I really stop? And how would it feel to fear that LLMs were … better at my job than me?
And that’s why I haven’t.
This is the big deal.
And yet I can see why a journalist could use them to organise their thoughts and notes, find a new angle, break writers’ block, in ways that are broadly fine.
But if I started, would I really stop? And how would it feel to fear that LLMs were … better at my job than me?
And that’s why I haven’t.
But if I started, would I really stop? And how would it feel to fear that LLMs were … better at my job than me?
And that’s why I haven’t.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is the big deal.
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I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
"Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given"
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given"
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Maybe we didn't need this much technology.
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Maybe we didn't need this much technology.