We know that social media is bad for young people, who need more time—and freedom—offline. But the collective will to fix this problem is hard to find.

If A.I. continues to speed or automate creative work, the total volume of cultural “stuff”—podcasts, videos, books, songs, articles, films, shows, plays, online personae, and so on—will increase. Will human-created content be able to cut through the noise?

Here is an interesting adjective quirk that you probably aren’t even aware you are doing.

In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order:

opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun

'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a

LLMs can generate fluent text — but can they twist your tongue?

TwisterLister generates phoneme-aware tongue twisters, with a 17k-example dataset and phonologically constrained decoding.

📄 Read the paper in Computational Linguistics: direct.mit.edu/coli/article...