Russell Lee-Goldman
@rleegoldman.bsky.social
He/him. Language learning (CJK), linguist, Wheel of Time enthusiast.
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Guy stealing from mankind for his personal benefit fancies himself to be stealing from the gods for mankind's benefit
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Guy stealing from mankind for his personal benefit fancies himself to be stealing from the gods for mankind's benefit
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It's kinda like if you were born intuitively feeling like the A button should be on the right, X should be up, B down, etc. but life hands you an Xbox controller and everyone gets super weird the moment you ask about button remapping.
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It's kinda like if you were born intuitively feeling like the A button should be on the right, X should be up, B down, etc. but life hands you an Xbox controller and everyone gets super weird the moment you ask about button remapping.
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
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Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
October 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.
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Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
October 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
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this is a cool thing that German does that i don't think there is an English equivalent for.
if somebody says "what?" to your question, you restate the question but as *indirect* not direct.
in German this means the sentence is put into subordinate clause syntax (verb at the end)
if somebody says "what?" to your question, you restate the question but as *indirect* not direct.
in German this means the sentence is put into subordinate clause syntax (verb at the end)
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
this is a cool thing that German does that i don't think there is an English equivalent for.
if somebody says "what?" to your question, you restate the question but as *indirect* not direct.
in German this means the sentence is put into subordinate clause syntax (verb at the end)
if somebody says "what?" to your question, you restate the question but as *indirect* not direct.
in German this means the sentence is put into subordinate clause syntax (verb at the end)
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters.
DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters
Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters. In at least one case, the Chicago Police Department was ordered not to assist federal agents swarmed by demonstrators, according to reports. In v...
bit.ly
October 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters.
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Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"
California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’
Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"
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Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
The only LLM I will proudly display in my home.
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The only LLM I will proudly display in my home.
5yo: Bro is just “b-r-o.” Theres a little w inside it but we don’t write it. #linguistics
September 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
5yo: Bro is just “b-r-o.” Theres a little w inside it but we don’t write it. #linguistics
5yo: “A hundred things can mean dude.”
#linguistics
(They don’t always have the expected figure/ground relationship for “mean”)
#linguistics
(They don’t always have the expected figure/ground relationship for “mean”)
September 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
5yo: “A hundred things can mean dude.”
#linguistics
(They don’t always have the expected figure/ground relationship for “mean”)
#linguistics
(They don’t always have the expected figure/ground relationship for “mean”)
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This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on.
They've outlived dozens of ships.
They've outlived dozens of ships.
June 20, 2024 at 4:00 AM
This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on.
They've outlived dozens of ships.
They've outlived dozens of ships.
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It doesn't happen often, but sometimes this miserable country's obsessively singular focus on Creating Value For The Shareholders yields good results
A group of Disney shareholders are exercising their right to demand materials related to the company’s decision last week to suspend Jimmy Kimmel‘s late-night show, a precursor to a potential lawsuit.
Disney Hit With Legal Salvo From Shareholders Over Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
A group of Disney shareholders are exercising their right to demand materials related to the company’s decision last week to suspend Jimmy Kimmel‘s late-night show, a precursor to a potential lawsuit.
bit.ly
September 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It doesn't happen often, but sometimes this miserable country's obsessively singular focus on Creating Value For The Shareholders yields good results
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The WI Dem party flags that GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden has tweeted more than 550 times in the 5 days since the 22-year-old Utah man killed Charlie Kirk.
And in those posts, Van Orden has:
And in those posts, Van Orden has:
September 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The WI Dem party flags that GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden has tweeted more than 550 times in the 5 days since the 22-year-old Utah man killed Charlie Kirk.
And in those posts, Van Orden has:
And in those posts, Van Orden has:
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Ummm @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social I had a very different idea of what this was about.
September 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Ummm @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social I had a very different idea of what this was about.
@james.loadingreadyrun.com this is like, the most minor thing ever, but re: the name of the morning show, I just wanted to say that a viewer named "niccus" (no idea who they are) suggested it first in the live chat, as "Morning, Moonbase," and I read Molly's comment as riffing on that.
September 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
@james.loadingreadyrun.com this is like, the most minor thing ever, but re: the name of the morning show, I just wanted to say that a viewer named "niccus" (no idea who they are) suggested it first in the live chat, as "Morning, Moonbase," and I read Molly's comment as riffing on that.
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It is mind blowing to hear Democratic politicians talking about the president sending the military into American cities as a “distraction.” Actually you are all now one degree away from being violently removed from power. The fact that this may not happen does not erase the fact that it may happen.
August 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It is mind blowing to hear Democratic politicians talking about the president sending the military into American cities as a “distraction.” Actually you are all now one degree away from being violently removed from power. The fact that this may not happen does not erase the fact that it may happen.
August 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Holy shit. And all the more embarrassing from a place with such a stellar linguistics department
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Holy shit. And all the more embarrassing from a place with such a stellar linguistics department
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Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.
August 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.
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'I used ai to reveal what is on the other side of the tunnel the roadrunner painted on the wall'
August 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
'I used ai to reveal what is on the other side of the tunnel the roadrunner painted on the wall'
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Hi friends, we’re in a bit of a jam with bills this month and could use a boost. It’s not usual but a concussion and hospital visits have made it difficult to keep up.
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Thank you 🙏🏽
PayPal @typologianista
CashApp $KellyNuttall
Venmo @kellyynuttall
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Thank you 🙏🏽
August 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Hi friends, we’re in a bit of a jam with bills this month and could use a boost. It’s not usual but a concussion and hospital visits have made it difficult to keep up.
PayPal @typologianista
CashApp $KellyNuttall
Venmo @kellyynuttall
(Please note Venmo tag has two y’s)
Thank you 🙏🏽
PayPal @typologianista
CashApp $KellyNuttall
Venmo @kellyynuttall
(Please note Venmo tag has two y’s)
Thank you 🙏🏽