Rikker Dockum
@rikker.bsky.social
Linguist ‘n’ stuff. I was @thai101 on the other place. I’ll probably still talk about Thai too much.
You can read stuff I wrote here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FeZWg9QAAAAJ&hl=en
You can read stuff I wrote here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FeZWg9QAAAAJ&hl=en
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I am filled with viceral rage at the fact that if you're a rich & powerful white guy, an abundance of email evidence that you're an actual pedophile won't cost you a damn thing. But if you're anyone else, sharing a damn risotto recipe without two factor authentication will ruin your career.
Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I am filled with viceral rage at the fact that if you're a rich & powerful white guy, an abundance of email evidence that you're an actual pedophile won't cost you a damn thing. But if you're anyone else, sharing a damn risotto recipe without two factor authentication will ruin your career.
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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I didn't think I had a pin/pen merger but I guess I do. I caught myself saying, instead of centimeters, I said cinnameters, which I guess are cinnamon-flavored meters.
October 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I didn't think I had a pin/pen merger but I guess I do. I caught myself saying, instead of centimeters, I said cinnameters, which I guess are cinnamon-flavored meters.
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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
March 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
Very Serious Linguistics going on today in phonetics/phonology. Congratulations to the tass for winning wug test creature of the semester, spring 2025. #linguistics
March 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Very Serious Linguistics going on today in phonetics/phonology. Congratulations to the tass for winning wug test creature of the semester, spring 2025. #linguistics
Oh hey, I get to do one of those posts! Stoked, thrilled, hyped, psyched, jazzed, amped, and chuffed to bits to share that I've accepted a tenure-track position in historical linguistics at Binghamton University (SUNY system). I'll also establish and direct the first linguistics lab there. Yay!
March 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Oh hey, I get to do one of those posts! Stoked, thrilled, hyped, psyched, jazzed, amped, and chuffed to bits to share that I've accepted a tenure-track position in historical linguistics at Binghamton University (SUNY system). I'll also establish and direct the first linguistics lab there. Yay!
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An important post from a friend of mine currently on a Fulbright in Estonia. Consider: the human impact on the individual grantees, the impact on the people they serve, and the hit that the image of the US takes when these folks leave.
Fulbright has always been bipartisan. This is a disgrace.
Fulbright has always been bipartisan. This is a disgrace.
March 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
An important post from a friend of mine currently on a Fulbright in Estonia. Consider: the human impact on the individual grantees, the impact on the people they serve, and the hit that the image of the US takes when these folks leave.
Fulbright has always been bipartisan. This is a disgrace.
Fulbright has always been bipartisan. This is a disgrace.
Gonna start calling it trumpscrolling to try to trick myself into not doomscrolling
February 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Gonna start calling it trumpscrolling to try to trick myself into not doomscrolling
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It is Black History Month. I am Black. Ain't enough euphemisms in the world to hide them facts!
Here's some reading for y'all as we celebrate & remember!
Solidarity & Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective in Decolonizing Linguistics
doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
Here's some reading for y'all as we celebrate & remember!
Solidarity & Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective in Decolonizing Linguistics
doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
Solidarity and Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective
Abstract. This chapter takes a Black Diasporic perspective on the decolonization of linguistics. The authors interrogate longstanding false institutional a
doi.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It is Black History Month. I am Black. Ain't enough euphemisms in the world to hide them facts!
Here's some reading for y'all as we celebrate & remember!
Solidarity & Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective in Decolonizing Linguistics
doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
Here's some reading for y'all as we celebrate & remember!
Solidarity & Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective in Decolonizing Linguistics
doi.org/10.1093/oso/...
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I'm not sure if people realize how quickly the Trumpzis can do enormous damage to US science, from basic research to translation. Really fast. REALLY fast. Labs with decades of irreplaceable domain and technique knowledge can break apart with a surprisingly short funding gap. When they're gone...1/
January 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I'm not sure if people realize how quickly the Trumpzis can do enormous damage to US science, from basic research to translation. Really fast. REALLY fast. Labs with decades of irreplaceable domain and technique knowledge can break apart with a surprisingly short funding gap. When they're gone...1/
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I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks
January 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks
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How do Philadelphians pronounce 'Passyunk'? It's complicated.
Really appreciate how their first reference is to the original Lenape version(s)
h/t @kendraserra.bsky.social
🧪 🐦🐦
Really appreciate how their first reference is to the original Lenape version(s)
h/t @kendraserra.bsky.social
🧪 🐦🐦
Are we all saying ‘Passyunk’ wrong?
The word Passyunk today is something of a defining Philadelphia word. We found five different pronunciations.
www.inquirer.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
How do Philadelphians pronounce 'Passyunk'? It's complicated.
Really appreciate how their first reference is to the original Lenape version(s)
h/t @kendraserra.bsky.social
🧪 🐦🐦
Really appreciate how their first reference is to the original Lenape version(s)
h/t @kendraserra.bsky.social
🧪 🐦🐦
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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"To invoke #language when talking about #LLMs is to misunderstand the nature of language and miss its fundamentally lived and embodied character ... Where #AI promises magic, the most pressing need is for basic research driven by communities"
A must-read: www.thedial.world/articles/new... #langsky
A must-read: www.thedial.world/articles/new... #langsky
AI Won’t Protect Endangered Languages — The Dial
Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.
www.thedial.world
January 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"To invoke #language when talking about #LLMs is to misunderstand the nature of language and miss its fundamentally lived and embodied character ... Where #AI promises magic, the most pressing need is for basic research driven by communities"
A must-read: www.thedial.world/articles/new... #langsky
A must-read: www.thedial.world/articles/new... #langsky
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LLMs love racist stereotypes, which is why Meta’s Liv talks in mock AAE…all they’ve got is “yaaasss” and “tea” because they mimic what the internet thinks black people are www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FYxhdy/
AI bots (and LLMs in general) reproduce racist stereotypes, especially about AAE, because of how they work. Meta’s “Liv” makes a mockery of us and our language, and reduces us to “yaaasss” characature...
TikTok video by Nicole Holliday
www.tiktok.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
LLMs love racist stereotypes, which is why Meta’s Liv talks in mock AAE…all they’ve got is “yaaasss” and “tea” because they mimic what the internet thinks black people are www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FYxhdy/
I can tell I’m an elder millennial who thinks about the 90s too much because my phone just autocorrected “aim” to “AIM”
January 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I can tell I’m an elder millennial who thinks about the 90s too much because my phone just autocorrected “aim” to “AIM”
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On the infinitude of language 🐦🐦
(h/t @rikker.bsky.social and @roryturnbull.bsky.social)
Roses are red,
Trump is a cretin...
(h/t @rikker.bsky.social and @roryturnbull.bsky.social)
Roses are red,
Trump is a cretin...
December 12, 2024 at 6:37 PM
On the infinitude of language 🐦🐦
(h/t @rikker.bsky.social and @roryturnbull.bsky.social)
Roses are red,
Trump is a cretin...
(h/t @rikker.bsky.social and @roryturnbull.bsky.social)
Roses are red,
Trump is a cretin...
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Important analysis showing that people share outrage producing misinformation, even if they know it to be untrue.
IMO, this is why one campaign relied so heavily on anger about things that did not happen, and why they were electorally successful.
IMO, this is why one campaign relied so heavily on anger about things that did not happen, and why they were electorally successful.
Bigger Finding # 2:
Outrage-evoking misinfo seems to have little concern for truth
It is shared more w/out reading, but people still could tell you it wasn't true, they just don't care
In other words, we basically prove the adage "YOU CAN'T BRING FACTS TO A FEELINGS FIGHT"
7/
Outrage-evoking misinfo seems to have little concern for truth
It is shared more w/out reading, but people still could tell you it wasn't true, they just don't care
In other words, we basically prove the adage "YOU CAN'T BRING FACTS TO A FEELINGS FIGHT"
7/
November 29, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Important analysis showing that people share outrage producing misinformation, even if they know it to be untrue.
IMO, this is why one campaign relied so heavily on anger about things that did not happen, and why they were electorally successful.
IMO, this is why one campaign relied so heavily on anger about things that did not happen, and why they were electorally successful.
“Top cover, your best years are behind you and your dreams will probably stay dreams”
November 29, 2024 at 4:55 PM
“Top cover, your best years are behind you and your dreams will probably stay dreams”
The barcode lookup feature on my dead media cataloging app is so helpful lol. But I think we can all agree that Trolli Sour Brite Octopus Gummy Candy 4 was where the franchise really went off the rails, it just couldn’t recapture the magic of the first three films
November 29, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The barcode lookup feature on my dead media cataloging app is so helpful lol. But I think we can all agree that Trolli Sour Brite Octopus Gummy Candy 4 was where the franchise really went off the rails, it just couldn’t recapture the magic of the first three films
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I just saw my work out in the wild!
November 26, 2024 at 10:05 PM
I just saw my work out in the wild!
Noah Webster's failed spelling reforms never fail to amuse me, even if we probably should have gone with more of them lol
Why shouldn't I enjoy this nice SOOP on my TUNG, when it can GIV some CUMFORT for the AKE of my GREEF?
Why shouldn't I enjoy this nice SOOP on my TUNG, when it can GIV some CUMFORT for the AKE of my GREEF?
November 27, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Noah Webster's failed spelling reforms never fail to amuse me, even if we probably should have gone with more of them lol
Why shouldn't I enjoy this nice SOOP on my TUNG, when it can GIV some CUMFORT for the AKE of my GREEF?
Why shouldn't I enjoy this nice SOOP on my TUNG, when it can GIV some CUMFORT for the AKE of my GREEF?
I need an app notification setting "You're on real thin ice here, buster" for when I still might want an occasional ping, but when they also need to know that they're like one Jake Paul news headline away from a total ban
November 21, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I need an app notification setting "You're on real thin ice here, buster" for when I still might want an occasional ping, but when they also need to know that they're like one Jake Paul news headline away from a total ban
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those findings helped inform @rikker.bsky.social and my argument that the myth of the lone genius is a significant barrier to an academic landscape that promotes full participation and a healthy environment for all members
academic.oup.com/book/56194/c...
academic.oup.com/book/56194/c...
Toward a Big Tent Linguistics: Inclusion and the Myth of the Lone Genius
AbstractLinguistics has a documented history of divisiveness and remains poorly understood by the general public. Nevertheless, linguistics also has great
academic.oup.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:36 PM
those findings helped inform @rikker.bsky.social and my argument that the myth of the lone genius is a significant barrier to an academic landscape that promotes full participation and a healthy environment for all members
academic.oup.com/book/56194/c...
academic.oup.com/book/56194/c...
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couple years ago i did a study of the strategies people used to defend professors who had been accused of sexual impropriety in their labs/departments. overwhelmingly the most common one was that he’s a special genius and mediocre minds want to deprive us of his brilliance. this thinking is RAMPANT
“trump is no ordinary man” fuck you yes he is
November 19, 2024 at 7:33 PM
couple years ago i did a study of the strategies people used to defend professors who had been accused of sexual impropriety in their labs/departments. overwhelmingly the most common one was that he’s a special genius and mediocre minds want to deprive us of his brilliance. this thinking is RAMPANT