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Joshua McNeill
@joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy
sociolinguiste, musicien, fan des comics, de la boxe et des jeux vidéo (MMO et indie surtout), intéressé par la Louisiane et la science ouverte

🌉 bridged from https://h4.io/@joshisanonymous on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
I feel like the #NFL doesn't understand how these sort of #diagrams are supposed to work.

#sports #football #playoffs #dataviz
January 17, 2026 at 10:21 PM
I wish #tenure and #tenuretrack #academic #faculty in R1s who constantly complain about their job would all quit. As someone who has spent significant time in private industry and would love to spend the rest of their #career #teaching and doing #Research, it's one of the most frustrating things […]
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h4.io
January 17, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Another very different part of the #fediverse that you can follow from #mastodon is #flipboard. However, you can't follow topics/hashtags, only accounts, so if you really want to see EVERYTHING that the #AssociatedPress / #ap puts out, for example, you can follow #associatedpress, but that might […]
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h4.io
January 17, 2026 at 6:41 PM
J'essaie de m'abonner à des communautés de #Lemmy à partir de #mastodon. J'ai peur que tous les commentaires apparaissent individuellement dans mon fil, mais jusqu'ici, ina pas assez d'activité pour que je voie de posts quand même.

#fédivers #fediverse #activitypub
January 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
One of my least favorite things to do when reading a study is trying to guess *of what* a percentage is. Is it the column? The row? The whole table? Something else?

#math #science #Research #writing #statistics
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Feagin's (1986) work comes with the title Competing Norms in the #white #speech of #anniston, #alabama, but when he described his #participants, he never mentioned that they were White. This is a good example of how a dominant #race is treated as invisible.

In contrast, a study like Edwards' […]
Original post on h4.io
h4.io
January 9, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Reposted by Joshua McNeill
Short-term fellowships available for international PhD candidates at the University of Potsdam around "Limits of Variability in Language"! If you're a linguist interested in this opportunity, please contact me or one of the other PIs for more information! #linguistics #fellowship #funding #phd […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
January 7, 2026 at 11:37 AM
One of the (very many) jarring things about the #maduro situation is that the #DOJ decided that it's just too disruptive to the functioning of the #us to put the #potus on #trial, yet they're not at all worried about disruptions caused by kidnapping the head of a different sovereign state and […]
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h4.io
January 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Break my unscientifically constructed #theory!

#axioms:
1. People performing service jobs for which they volunteered can't have their performance criticized by service recipients b/c they aren't being paid.
2. People performing service jobs who are being paid also can't be criticized b/c […]
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h4.io
January 4, 2026 at 1:15 AM
On dirait qu'il existe une balance à trouver pour l'accès au statut de #modérateur dans les #réseauxsociaux. Sur le #Fédivers, tu payes le serveur si tu veux être modérateur, mais cette barrière existe pas sur les sites comme #reddit et même sur #irc. Le résultat? Plus d'activité sur ces […]
Original post on h4.io
h4.io
January 3, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Reposted by Joshua McNeill
A Warm Bear Hug <3

Funny Snow Sculptures (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/01/02/funny-snow-sculptures-10-photos
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
It has always seemed odd to me that Milroy (1980) is treated as the beginning of the second wave of #sociolinguistics when everything Milroy did was also done by Gal (1979) only better and with much more #ethnographic work. It seems like it's just because Milroy was more centered on […]
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h4.io
December 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Whatever you do, do not download this torrent of the pulled #60minutes episode about #cecot in #elsalvador and the way they #torture non-violent #migrants whom the #us sent there. Especially, do not seed it forever.

#immigration #uspol #politics #venezuala #journalism #cbs #cbsnews […]
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h4.io
December 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Quoi c'est l'origine du nom #solange pour la femme au père #Noël dans le #show l'Apprenti père Noël? En anglais, elle reçoit jamais un nom sauf Mrs #claus. #patriarcal, certes, mais c'est comme ça.

#christmas #linguistique #étymologie #français
December 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
J'aimerais proposer le #film El día de la bestia pour l'esprit des #fêtes.

#Noël #films #horreur
December 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Tired of these job ads:

"X is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution […]
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h4.io
December 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I feel like the character #rizzo in the opening of The #muppets #christmas Carol has a name that takes on a different meaning these days.

#rizz #film #films #linguistics #languagechange #semantics

https://youtu.be/Y3n_T3SiMyM?si=rPewWpKFxzocK4gQ
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Travis Fimmel seems to have almost the same speech patterns in #dune Prophecy as he did in #Vikings. I loved the uniqueness and consistency of speech across characters in Vikings, but without that context in Dune, it just sounds like its the only other voice he can do.

#linguistics […]
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h4.io
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I'd like to suggest at least using #tidal instead of #Spotify. I don't think we can really get back to buying albums, and Tidal compensates artists better.

#spotifywrapped
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
An insurance person was asking for my son's name, which is Otto. When she spelled it back to me, she said A-U-T-O.
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Reposted by Joshua McNeill
Special offer for AI companies: for a modest donation to #OpenStreetMap we'll give you a direct download link to our data in a machine-friendly format. Much quicker than juggling 100,000 IPs to scrape our website. Start here: https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate/ #odbl #licensed #planet 😏🤖🌍💸
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December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Dans #blakeetmortimer c1949, l'usage du mot "job". C'est typique au #Québec et en #Louisiane, mais le voici au masculin comme ce dernier plutôt qu'au féminin comme ce premier. De plus, sa présence dans la littérature comparée à d'autres termes m'étonne ( […]

[Original post on h4.io]
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Interesting use of a profanity-laden (homophobic) phrase that's often used on the internet. Usually "being on someone's dick" means you like and defend that person. In this case, it's being used to say that you're criticizing that person, the complete opposite sense […]

[Original post on h4.io]
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
A quaint remnant of old large buildings in #Chicago.

#mail
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Reposted by Joshua McNeill
detecting suno audio is actually much easier and more reliable than these heuristic rules - the spectrogram looks nothing like normal human vocals, and the differences are easy to spot. i did a thing at blackhat about this a few years ago […]

[Original post on neuromatch.social]
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM