caoimhín mac samhain
@kbmcgowan.bsky.social
phonetician, linguist, associate professor, musician, gen x nerd, he/him
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"woke" is an admirable, aspirational quality and using it as a slur is always an own goal
meant to type: "please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions" but managed to type: "please do not hcontact me if you have any questions" and am tempted just to remove the 'h'
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
meant to type: "please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions" but managed to type: "please do not hcontact me if you have any questions" and am tempted just to remove the 'h'
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
Chuck Schumer looks at the Maginot Line and thinks, “perfect strategy, no notes, there’s no getting through that!"
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Chuck Schumer looks at the Maginot Line and thinks, “perfect strategy, no notes, there’s no getting through that!"
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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The Supreme Court might have to think about Kim Davis, but I do not. I can't be making time for d-tier conservative gremlins.
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Supreme Court might have to think about Kim Davis, but I do not. I can't be making time for d-tier conservative gremlins.
No one wants your small, picky correction to their fun little bluesky post. This is particularly true if you don't know them from Adam. Anybody CAN interact, but you should not.
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
No one wants your small, picky correction to their fun little bluesky post. This is particularly true if you don't know them from Adam. Anybody CAN interact, but you should not.
Subway could run the funniest promotion right now
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Subway could run the funniest promotion right now
géar is exhausted from all the winning yesterday
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
géar is exhausted from all the winning yesterday
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"He essentially said, 'I’m not going to hide who I am to make you comfortable.' In doing so Mamdani delivered a raciolinguistic reality check that refuses the idea that politicians of color need to translate themselves into whiteness to be viable."
educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...
educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...
Zohran Mamdani Just Gave American Politics a Raciolinguistic Reality Check
Zohran Mamdani just won the New York City mayoral race, and it’s a big deal for reasons that will no doubt be dissected for years to come. But what really stands out to me is how this moment shifts…
educationallinguist.wordpress.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"He essentially said, 'I’m not going to hide who I am to make you comfortable.' In doing so Mamdani delivered a raciolinguistic reality check that refuses the idea that politicians of color need to translate themselves into whiteness to be viable."
educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...
educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...
Apparently “the Dodgers left Brooklyn and now play in Los Angeles” is such common knowledge that my elder child *snorted* at me for not knowing it. Also, probably you know this, but the baseball Stanley Cup thing just happened recently and Brooklyn *definitely* didn’t win.
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Apparently “the Dodgers left Brooklyn and now play in Los Angeles” is such common knowledge that my elder child *snorted* at me for not knowing it. Also, probably you know this, but the baseball Stanley Cup thing just happened recently and Brooklyn *definitely* didn’t win.
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whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
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no evidence whatsoever that mike johnson knows a single thing youtu.be/YR2WiILR6XE
Does Mike Johnson Know...Anything? Anything At All?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
no evidence whatsoever that mike johnson knows a single thing youtu.be/YR2WiILR6XE
The NYT will gladly pay a dumdum to spout humdingers like the recent little gumdrop that English speakers should have trouble pronouncing Mamdani because articulating an ‘m’ before a ‘d’ like that is not humdrum.
November 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The NYT will gladly pay a dumdum to spout humdingers like the recent little gumdrop that English speakers should have trouble pronouncing Mamdani because articulating an ‘m’ before a ‘d’ like that is not humdrum.
On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On further reflection, handing operation of our Universities over to a professional administrative class with no personal investment in the educational mission of the university or the creation and maintenance of knowledge might have been somewhat in error.
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gonna move next door to JD Vance and only speak Cherokee
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
gonna move next door to JD Vance and only speak Cherokee
My university is forcing all of us faculty to label everything we put on canvas and provide rich, structured descriptions of everything and it’s because of the Trump administration’s high esteem for and normal adherence to the ADA and has nothing at all to do with LLMs needing labeled data.
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
My university is forcing all of us faculty to label everything we put on canvas and provide rich, structured descriptions of everything and it’s because of the Trump administration’s high esteem for and normal adherence to the ADA and has nothing at all to do with LLMs needing labeled data.
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
my kids call my graduate advisor "Aunt Pam" (no relation).
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
my kids call my graduate advisor "Aunt Pam" (no relation).
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New open access article! Collaborative work with the wonderful Dana Serditova examining patterning & potential sources of certain local phrasal constructions in New Orleans English - 'by [residence]', 'for [time]', & 'on [temporal deixis]' authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New open access article! Collaborative work with the wonderful Dana Serditova examining patterning & potential sources of certain local phrasal constructions in New Orleans English - 'by [residence]', 'for [time]', & 'on [temporal deixis]' authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
got flu, covid, and the second shingles shot today, @lecagle.bsky.social !
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
got flu, covid, and the second shingles shot today, @lecagle.bsky.social !
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built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.
fun fact: a pruned, discarded branch from a fruit tree IS a fruit tree waiting to happen
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
fun fact: a pruned, discarded branch from a fruit tree IS a fruit tree waiting to happen