Strandsofpearl
@strandsofpearl.bsky.social
linguist. social science researcher. sf/f nerd. intersectional feminist. experience designer. skeets on education, language endangerment, disability, native plants, religious left. she/her
If you're ABD, NU just created this program for PhD degree completion. As far as I know, the first of its kind. So cool!
www.nu.edu/dissertation...
www.nu.edu/dissertation...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
If you're ABD, NU just created this program for PhD degree completion. As far as I know, the first of its kind. So cool!
www.nu.edu/dissertation...
www.nu.edu/dissertation...
This is really really funny
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
August 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is really really funny
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He has refused his Assent to Laws…
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…
A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…
A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
July 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
He has refused his Assent to Laws…
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…
A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…
A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Got forcibly "upgraded" to Google Gemini, had to turn off all Google's useful features to get rid of it. Wish Google was on here so I could complain to someone. They don't even have a support center. My emails have been getting lost for months.
May 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Got forcibly "upgraded" to Google Gemini, had to turn off all Google's useful features to get rid of it. Wish Google was on here so I could complain to someone. They don't even have a support center. My emails have been getting lost for months.
Heard this ad twice on the radio during a short Uber ride in New York City. It felt like hearing Hitler speak
I just saw on TV with my own eyeballs that North Korea like propaganda commercial from Homeland Security with that Nazi talking about “we will find you and deport you” and I just…had a out of body experience.
May 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Heard this ad twice on the radio during a short Uber ride in New York City. It felt like hearing Hitler speak
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Let's add: Dr Brandeis Marshall, Aerica Shimizu Banks, Dr Emily Bender, Dr Sasha Luccioni, Dr Ruha Benjamin, Dr Sasha Costanza-Chock, Adrienne Williams, Tawana Petty
It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about dangers of AI.
Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini
And many many more in/outside academia.
Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
👑
Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini
And many many more in/outside academia.
Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
👑
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
www.rollingstone.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Let's add: Dr Brandeis Marshall, Aerica Shimizu Banks, Dr Emily Bender, Dr Sasha Luccioni, Dr Ruha Benjamin, Dr Sasha Costanza-Chock, Adrienne Williams, Tawana Petty
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Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!
Tufts student detained by ICE in viral video is released, thanks supporters
Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk was released from ICE detention on Friday, offering brief words of thanks to supporters gathered outside the Louisiana facility.
www.nbcboston.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!
Does every young cleric have his pope name secretly picked out, just in case?
May 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Does every young cleric have his pope name secretly picked out, just in case?
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This is nuts and hilarious
youtu.be/Zf_125ApDvw?...
youtu.be/Zf_125ApDvw?...
May 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is nuts and hilarious
youtu.be/Zf_125ApDvw?...
youtu.be/Zf_125ApDvw?...
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"So let's go, shall we? [voice drops to husky whisper] Let's go."
I had no idea how much I needed this.
I had no idea how much I needed this.
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"So let's go, shall we? [voice drops to husky whisper] Let's go."
I had no idea how much I needed this.
I had no idea how much I needed this.
🌿 Can any naturalist help me identify this tree in my yard and whether it is native? Montgomery County, MD
May 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🌿 Can any naturalist help me identify this tree in my yard and whether it is native? Montgomery County, MD
#nativeplants
How do I definitively identify a tree in my yard to see if it is native or non-native? The arborist and my naturalist friend couldn't ID it
How do I definitively identify a tree in my yard to see if it is native or non-native? The arborist and my naturalist friend couldn't ID it
May 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
#nativeplants
How do I definitively identify a tree in my yard to see if it is native or non-native? The arborist and my naturalist friend couldn't ID it
How do I definitively identify a tree in my yard to see if it is native or non-native? The arborist and my naturalist friend couldn't ID it
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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
March 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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The theme of this year's Super Bowl ads was the soft acceptance of a comfortable death.
For Sale: The End, And The Means To Wait For It | Defector
In one Super Bowl commercial, an octogenarian actor waxes lacrimal about freedom, a privilege bought for you with the blood of troops 80 years ago, a privilege whose outer bound and cleanest…
defector.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The theme of this year's Super Bowl ads was the soft acceptance of a comfortable death.
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a friend of mine whose IES contract was just terminated is asking whether there are efforts to download the education data--specifically the data at sites/ed.gov/idea/...
does anyone know?
does anyone know?
February 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
a friend of mine whose IES contract was just terminated is asking whether there are efforts to download the education data--specifically the data at sites/ed.gov/idea/...
does anyone know?
does anyone know?
Organizing shifts with vuvuzelas outside certain people's houses, indefinitely. Is that anything?
February 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Organizing shifts with vuvuzelas outside certain people's houses, indefinitely. Is that anything?
2fa is out of control. Maybe part of the reason for increasing screen time is because we literally have to have our phones right next to us at all times for 2fa
February 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
2fa is out of control. Maybe part of the reason for increasing screen time is because we literally have to have our phones right next to us at all times for 2fa
Tried to get Novavax today but was turned away because I had an mRNA vaccine 6 months ago. Was told I need a doctor's order to go against the CDC recommendation. #covid
February 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Tried to get Novavax today but was turned away because I had an mRNA vaccine 6 months ago. Was told I need a doctor's order to go against the CDC recommendation. #covid
My former colleague Mark Jeffreys passed away recently. Mark was a great man and a poet, and he leaves behind a middle-school age daughter. If you're interested in supporting an orphaned kiddo you can buy some of Mark's poetry here: markjeffreysmemorial.com/index.php/fo...
For Sequoia – Mark Jeffreys
markjeffreysmemorial.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My former colleague Mark Jeffreys passed away recently. Mark was a great man and a poet, and he leaves behind a middle-school age daughter. If you're interested in supporting an orphaned kiddo you can buy some of Mark's poetry here: markjeffreysmemorial.com/index.php/fo...
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Any Dem congressperson could round up a few friendly and alarmed FBI agents right now and go arrest Musk’s gang of children. “Just fucking do it and see what happens” is a stronger move for the side that is upholding the law.
February 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Any Dem congressperson could round up a few friendly and alarmed FBI agents right now and go arrest Musk’s gang of children. “Just fucking do it and see what happens” is a stronger move for the side that is upholding the law.
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I want an apology, restitution and a paid lifetime subscription to a credit monitoring service.
February 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I want an apology, restitution and a paid lifetime subscription to a credit monitoring service.