Aniello De Santo
@anids.bsky.social
The mystery of the Universe is its comprehensibility. Computational psycholinguist, I guess, but not a professional account. he\him (pfp cc. Dustin Nguyen)
Just did a tour of the Green-wood cemetery with a guide with the most beautiful, to the book Brooklyn accent. It was glorious
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Just did a tour of the Green-wood cemetery with a guide with the most beautiful, to the book Brooklyn accent. It was glorious
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
Love that airline companies can delay your flight by 4 hours and still demand that you are at the airport by the original boarding time or potentially forfeit your seat 🙃
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Love that airline companies can delay your flight by 4 hours and still demand that you are at the airport by the original boarding time or potentially forfeit your seat 🙃
My university is promoting Qualtrics new “synthetic data” initiative that “simulates human behavior so enable quicker experiments” and it is HORRIFYING that a UNIVERSITY promotes this “as transformative for how we collect data” and I don’t know who to scream at 😭😭😭😭
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My university is promoting Qualtrics new “synthetic data” initiative that “simulates human behavior so enable quicker experiments” and it is HORRIFYING that a UNIVERSITY promotes this “as transformative for how we collect data” and I don’t know who to scream at 😭😭😭😭
Every day a new reason to hate Outlook
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Every day a new reason to hate Outlook
I could not make it to #NWAV53 BUT a student of mine was there and just emailed me "That was one of the most amazing experiences of my life." This is how you know you did a conference right, @jessgrieser.com !!! All the claps!
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I could not make it to #NWAV53 BUT a student of mine was there and just emailed me "That was one of the most amazing experiences of my life." This is how you know you did a conference right, @jessgrieser.com !!! All the claps!
Virtual reading group, US syntax friends?
Look what just arrived early! It’s chunkier than I thought. Open access version on publication day which I think is the 18th on the @mitpress.bsky.social website. I must admit, I’m very fond of the colour!!! 🐦🐦 #syntax #newbook
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Virtual reading group, US syntax friends?
Going to piano class after failing to practice the whole week really makes me understand my students 😅😭😂
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Going to piano class after failing to practice the whole week really makes me understand my students 😅😭😂
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Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing
How could all these benchmarks be fake, it’s a mystery
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZ... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251106-oxf... - podcast
time: 6 min 16 sec
How could all these benchmarks be fake, it’s a mystery
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZ... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251106-oxf... - podcast
time: 6 min 16 sec
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing
How could all these benchmarks be fake, it’s a mystery
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZ... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251106-oxf... - podcast
time: 6 min 16 sec
How could all these benchmarks be fake, it’s a mystery
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZ... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251106-oxf... - podcast
time: 6 min 16 sec
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Recruiters will scan your face before reading mandatory cover letters
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I beg Utahns to learn how to use public transport
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I beg Utahns to learn how to use public transport
Conference FOMO but also if I had gone I would be dying cuz this time of the semester is 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Conference FOMO but also if I had gone I would be dying cuz this time of the semester is 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
I am sadly not at #NWAV53 BUT UofU stellar MA Student Lex Putnam will present a Project Launch at tomorrow’s poster session. We’d love feedback! Go say hi if you can, Lex is great!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I am sadly not at #NWAV53 BUT UofU stellar MA Student Lex Putnam will present a Project Launch at tomorrow’s poster session. We’d love feedback! Go say hi if you can, Lex is great!!
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I'd love to move back to NYC so could all the billionaires get to fleeing already
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I'd love to move back to NYC so could all the billionaires get to fleeing already
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“ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien”
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
November 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
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As a linguist, this is bullshit. McWhorter’s deal is to bend over backwards to excuse racism.
In Opinion
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Opinion | I Now Mispronounce You the Likely Next Mayor of New York City
A lot of people seem to trip over Zohran Mamdani’s name. The reason may not be as simple as it seems.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
As a linguist, this is bullshit. McWhorter’s deal is to bend over backwards to excuse racism.
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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How is it still/already the end of October? 😭
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
How is it still/already the end of October? 😭
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SynTeach is a project looking at how syntax is taught in higher ed. Our next stage is FOCUS GROUPS—whether you loved or hated syntax, we'd love to talk to you! Sign up to be contacted as we're recruiting now: forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2... #linguistics
SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form
SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...
forms.gle
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
SynTeach is a project looking at how syntax is taught in higher ed. Our next stage is FOCUS GROUPS—whether you loved or hated syntax, we'd love to talk to you! Sign up to be contacted as we're recruiting now: forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2... #linguistics
Ah yes, such good “theories” of language 🙃🙃🙃
October 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ah yes, such good “theories” of language 🙃🙃🙃
My fav donut place in town is closing 😭😭😭😭😭😭
October 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
My fav donut place in town is closing 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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> “Universities are not tech companies,” Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij, two computational cognitive scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands[.] “Our role is to foster critical thinking,” the researchers said, “not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
I was pleased to see @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social mentioned in this NYT article (gift link below). But I wish there was more analysis. Boasts and critiques re: #GenAI were strewn throughout, requiring readers to sort the concerns from the hyperbole. For example… (1/2)
Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
> “Universities are not tech companies,” Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij, two computational cognitive scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands[.] “Our role is to foster critical thinking,” the researchers said, “not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
If I had to read one more paper that has a beautifully designed human experiment and then “ah we also tested chatGPT” 🙃
Seriously though it's insanely depressing for current PhD students, and is driving everyone to think they need to dump LLMs into their papers just to get a job. That's not what we want here.
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If I had to read one more paper that has a beautifully designed human experiment and then “ah we also tested chatGPT” 🙃