Don't pronounce a eulogy on paleographers yet. We'll want them around to understand the data we do have, build more open data, work on languages big companies don't care about, and evaluate when systems go wrong. bsky.app/profile/giul...

I have always been me, despite my best efforts to be several other people

r e t v r n !!!

yessss the kolache are incredible. why stop at a morning donut when you can also have a full meal?? (my husband prefers his family’s OG Czech ones but I like both)

watch “donut king”, you won’t regret it. also: we even have these excellent family shops in the Midwest! but soulless Dunkin’ dominates the northeast for some reason

my midwestern heritage cries out for an apple fritter the size of my whole head but every independent donut shop I have visited is clearly a mob front where they can’t tell a cruller from a twist and it is killing me

definitely missing some wizard of oz-style flame throwers, ngl

what they called me before i got married

the way a literal year or more of my dissertation work was processing raw materials and turning them into usable data (which became about 1500 words total) still makes me want to become the joker

20/For those that appreciated this thread, here is a podcast conversation companion. It lays out the core ideas of a neo-royalist world order, how it makes sense of Trump Administration actions, and how one might prevent such an order from consolidating
www.podbean.com/ep/pb-npzcs-...

ready for a new thicc hoodie 😌

they’re getting kids interested in german nationalis— [pulled offstage]

Somebody who reads all my ramblings and tells me "girl don't nobody need to hear about this random aside" is a gift from the writing gods

thanks for these as always, Bit!

anyway i can't just "put them online" for reasons that should be obvious given my profession, but i do love to talk to people who work on similar stuff and then send them neat things that might help or be useful from the archive. it is fun to be helpful.

They analyzed 2k NOT 47k conversations, no idea how they sampled the data or determined topics. This is at least the fifth article I’ve seen like this, where journalists try to do data analysis on chats, badly replicating what has already been published by researchers.