@exolinguist.bsky.social
Linguist by trade, flâneur by choice, sarcasm appreciator, amateur cookie baker, aspiring traveller, occasional haver of a good idea, friend of desoto slightly embarrassed to know entirely too much about trek 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🖖(he/him)
There’s some poetry here to the fact that the phonetic transcription is just wrong, trading relatability for quality and accuracy
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
There’s some poetry here to the fact that the phonetic transcription is just wrong, trading relatability for quality and accuracy
Movie that takes place where you’re from
(Ok, cheating, this is just filmed there)
(Ok, cheating, this is just filmed there)
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Movie that takes place where you’re from
(Ok, cheating, this is just filmed there)
(Ok, cheating, this is just filmed there)
I came here to make sure someone pulled this up
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I came here to make sure someone pulled this up
Damn, reverse for me
November 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Damn, reverse for me
A reason to keep the Humanities around
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A reason to keep the Humanities around
Not sure whether to be proud or alarmed at the fact that in a talk just now, where a slide showed only the inventory of screws, dowels, etc… from an IKEA manual, within a few seconds of counting, I clocked it as BILLY
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Not sure whether to be proud or alarmed at the fact that in a talk just now, where a slide showed only the inventory of screws, dowels, etc… from an IKEA manual, within a few seconds of counting, I clocked it as BILLY
Like physical contact against a cushion while sitting still for a while pressure? I was having that too, even went to an allergist because it seemed to coincide with, of all things, a vitamin pill, but the diagnosis was “🤷♂️”
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Like physical contact against a cushion while sitting still for a while pressure? I was having that too, even went to an allergist because it seemed to coincide with, of all things, a vitamin pill, but the diagnosis was “🤷♂️”
*canon not 🤯
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
*canon not 🤯
My head cannon is that after the dinosaurs were wiped out, the preservers didn’t know anything about the Voth, so they transplanted humans around because the genetics of Earth are needed for something down the line
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My head cannon is that after the dinosaurs were wiped out, the preservers didn’t know anything about the Voth, so they transplanted humans around because the genetics of Earth are needed for something down the line
Find a way to do an anthology series covering the deeper past. Iconians. Preservers. Arretans. Progenitors. Voth. T’Kon Empire. Hur’q…
November 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Find a way to do an anthology series covering the deeper past. Iconians. Preservers. Arretans. Progenitors. Voth. T’Kon Empire. Hur’q…
It would be like seeing Brett Somers acting, yeah
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It would be like seeing Brett Somers acting, yeah
You know what, I’m just gonna take the Rockford and Quincy double header, just for two of the all-time title sequences
November 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
You know what, I’m just gonna take the Rockford and Quincy double header, just for two of the all-time title sequences
In keeping with the link to the holiday season though, can we please call this whole situation
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
In keeping with the link to the holiday season though, can we please call this whole situation
Only knowing him from X-Files (and that two minutes he played Isaac Newton on the holodeck), this feels like something from a parallel universe
November 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Only knowing him from X-Files (and that two minutes he played Isaac Newton on the holodeck), this feels like something from a parallel universe
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Yes, Microsoft Word, when I type “open text”, I would love you to change it to “opentex t”. Every time. #enshittification
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Yes, Microsoft Word, when I type “open text”, I would love you to change it to “opentex t”. Every time. #enshittification
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Remember November 12th!!
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Remember November 12th!!
The Hill Valley storm anniversary and Exploding Whale Day are the same 🤯
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The Hill Valley storm anniversary and Exploding Whale Day are the same 🤯
Reposted
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Well now I have to listen to the pants order recording again
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Well now I have to listen to the pants order recording again
All I can think of is the very explicit discussion of the pronoun choices in Measure of a Man
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
All I can think of is the very explicit discussion of the pronoun choices in Measure of a Man
This never clicked for me until I was in a crowded elevator in NYC, stopping at every floor, and someone said “I didn’t know this one was a local”
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This never clicked for me until I was in a crowded elevator in NYC, stopping at every floor, and someone said “I didn’t know this one was a local”
But, the rarely used Shuttlebay 1 opens. That’s… something
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
But, the rarely used Shuttlebay 1 opens. That’s… something
Forever Deep Throat
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Forever Deep Throat