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Max Papillon
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Adult Education. Linguistics PhD.

No one is free until everyone is free.
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Ew

why?

and why is it opt-out?
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October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Meme with three frames of Luke and Yoda from Star Wars with superimposed text. In the first frame yoda says "why was 5 afraid of 7". In the second frame he says "because six seven eight". In the final frame Yoda is just staring.
October 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Outdoors. Sign on a pole that reads: thoughfully, decisively, valiantly, earnestly, ardently, persistently Outdoors. Sign on a pole that reads: respectfully, audaciously, zealously, indignantly, stubbornly, sensitively Outdoors. Sign on a pole that reads: passionately, vigorously, energetically, sonorously, purposefully, cogently
August 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Pictured: a transphobe following his own fucking point to its logical conclusion for the first time in his life rather than just working backward from "trans bad".
Screenshots from the end of video quote-posted above showing the Tory transphobe fuck whose name I don't want to learn during the close-up on his face in his moment of realizatio. There are two screenshots respectively taken early and late in that moment, showing the fall of his a smile as the realization sinks in.
April 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Has anyone noticed people dropping the in- from "infuriating"? I only just noticed it, and I find many instances of calling things "furiating" online but I can't find any mention of this variant anywhere.
Result page of a google search for '"furiating" reddit". The first three results are visible and come respectively from r/skyrim, r/camaro, and r/GameTheorist. In the first two examples, "Furiating" is used on its own followed by a period and a complaint in the following sentence. In the third example the context sentence is "I have found the most furiating thing I've seen."
April 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I don't feel good about this at all

www.mediapost.com/publications...

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Screenshot from the beginning of an article from the Marketing Daily section of the website MediaPost. Title: Apple Criticized For Removal Of International Women's Day From Calendar by Danielle Oster. Image with the following caption: Image above: Earlier incarnation of Apple's Calendar still featured Women's History Month. Main text: International Women’s Day is March 8, but you wouldn't’ know it from Apple’s Calendar app in the U.S., or several other countries. Apple appears to have removed the holiday, along with Women’s History Month, from the app in the U.S. as well as some other countries. The move has not gone over well online. On Meta’s Threads, Dr. Jolene Brighten, host of the women’s heath podcast, “The Dr. Brighten Show,” drew attention to the removal, asking Apple “why did you take International Women’s Day off the calendar?” in a post yesterday tagging the brand. The post received around 1,900 likes since yesterday, as well as 169 reshares and 70 comments.
March 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Embarassing, but I somehow went all this time without realizing that John McCarthy the AI/cog-sci guy, and John J. McCarthy the Optimality Theory guy, are not the same person! I suspect the Smolensky's career path had an influence on my error.
Screenshot of John McCarthy's wikipedia page. A picture of him is at the bottom. The text reads as follows: John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence.[1] He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection. Screenshot of John J. McCarthy's wikipedia page. A photo of him is at the bottom. The text reads: John Joseph McCarthy (born 1953) is an American linguist and the Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since July 2017. In July 2018, he assumed office as the Provost.[1]
February 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Called it!
Tweet from the official Duolingo account: "oh so NOW you're learning mandarin" There is a self-reply saying "in case you were stuck..." and a link to a web page titled "Dear Duolinguo: How can I learn Chinese tones?". The image accompanying the link has a cute owl mascot stuffed into a mail box that is already full of envelopes.
January 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM