Valeria Ochoa (she/ella)
@valeria8a.bsky.social
Spanish Linguistics profe, focused mainly on Spanish as a Heritage Language at Oregon State. 🦫 Views my own.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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A Michigan appeals court ruled that the city of Detroit failed to follow *its own laws* about public oversight of surveillance tech. These laws are crucial bc "Automated license plate readers, facial recognition, body-worn cameras, drones, and the Real Time Crime Center are all active in the city."
Court ruled against Detroit in surveillance tech case. It's still dangerous. | Opinion
Detroiters filed suit after the city failed to follow its own ordinance governing surveillance tech like ShotSpotter.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A Michigan appeals court ruled that the city of Detroit failed to follow *its own laws* about public oversight of surveillance tech. These laws are crucial bc "Automated license plate readers, facial recognition, body-worn cameras, drones, and the Real Time Crime Center are all active in the city."
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Hey friends, I’m in a tight spot before the holiday and could use some help with gas and groceries. It’s not much to get me straightened out. I appreciate your consideration, and the boost 🤍
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November 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Hey friends, I’m in a tight spot before the holiday and could use some help with gas and groceries. It’s not much to get me straightened out. I appreciate your consideration, and the boost 🤍
PayPal @typologianista
CashApp $KellyNuttall
Venmo @kellyynuttall
(Please note two y’s)
Thank you 🙏🏽
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CashApp $KellyNuttall
Venmo @kellyynuttall
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Thank you 🙏🏽
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A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
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it's so deeply rude to answer someone's question with the output from a chatbot, or even to reference prompting the chatbot. they asked a person for a reason. if they wanted to see what output the chatbot would barf out, they could get it themselves.
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
it's so deeply rude to answer someone's question with the output from a chatbot, or even to reference prompting the chatbot. they asked a person for a reason. if they wanted to see what output the chatbot would barf out, they could get it themselves.
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I'm attending #LSA2026 online this year, AND they've let me put myself in charge of having virtual social opportunities, so if you want to socialize with me and other linguists at LSA (and I hope you do because I wanna hang out with linguists!) that's going to happen online too!
🧵Register for virtual attendance at the #LSA2026 conference! You can filter the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting Program for the Track "Hybrid" and see the 45 sessions that virtual registrants will be able to attend. www.linguisticsociety.org.
And some real talk below:
And some real talk below:
LSA
www.linguisticsociety.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I'm attending #LSA2026 online this year, AND they've let me put myself in charge of having virtual social opportunities, so if you want to socialize with me and other linguists at LSA (and I hope you do because I wanna hang out with linguists!) that's going to happen online too!
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Language development, linguistic input, and linguistic racism
An indictment of the field that I put my whole heart into
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An indictment of the field that I put my whole heart into
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Language development, linguistic input, and linguistic racism
An indictment of the field that I put my whole heart into
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An indictment of the field that I put my whole heart into
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I turned to my husband and said if this man doesn’t cuss her out this is not written well and when he did I was like yeah dude cus that’s the only real interaction she would get. 😅
Loved watching Carol in #Pluribus call back the man with an individual mind in Paraguay just to counter his "hijueputa" with a Mexican Spanish "chinga tu madre, cabrón."
Chef's kiss.
Chef's kiss.
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I turned to my husband and said if this man doesn’t cuss her out this is not written well and when he did I was like yeah dude cus that’s the only real interaction she would get. 😅
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Reposting this…for reasons.
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposting this…for reasons.
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
Giving this another shot.
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Giving this another shot.
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NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show
Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of thousa...
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July 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
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Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
July 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
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People who think every brown person they meet looks just like that one brown guy from CSI that they cannot name are supposed to be trusted to make meaningful distinctions about physical appearance.
July 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
People who think every brown person they meet looks just like that one brown guy from CSI that they cannot name are supposed to be trusted to make meaningful distinctions about physical appearance.
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Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
July 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
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Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Big win for the close the hospitals, open the camps caucus today.
July 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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A group of Indigenous students at the University of Arizona say the closure of a Native program is a "betrayal" of the school's commitments.
Indigenous students at odds with UA over changes to Native program, loss of director
A group of Indigenous students at the University of Arizona say the closure of a Native program is a "betrayal" of the school's commitments.
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June 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A group of Indigenous students at the University of Arizona say the closure of a Native program is a "betrayal" of the school's commitments.
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May 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Learning that X is poisoning an almost-entirely Black community with natural gas fumes so groypers can tell Grok to undress random women is a perfect metaphor for the tech industry and how it turns human bodies back into extractive industry. Also: we should do public executions, I think.
May 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Learning that X is poisoning an almost-entirely Black community with natural gas fumes so groypers can tell Grok to undress random women is a perfect metaphor for the tech industry and how it turns human bodies back into extractive industry. Also: we should do public executions, I think.
Ya girl is another year older and maybe a tiny bit wiser today. I’m usually shy about sharing that it’s my birthday but this year I finally told my students so I figured I’d shared with all you peeps as well. 😎🥳
April 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Ya girl is another year older and maybe a tiny bit wiser today. I’m usually shy about sharing that it’s my birthday but this year I finally told my students so I figured I’d shared with all you peeps as well. 😎🥳
Well deserved.
The L.A. Times names THICK one of the best non-fiction books of the last 30 years.
I will be honest with you, even I cannot always believe that this is my life.
Thank you. Very much.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I will be honest with you, even I cannot always believe that this is my life.
Thank you. Very much.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
The 30 best nonfiction books of the last 30 years
To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.
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April 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Well deserved.
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Really happy to have contributed a chapter to this epic collection, and excited to see it finally almost out!
The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice.
It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy:
shorturl.at/gDhJA
It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy:
shorturl.at/gDhJA
April 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Really happy to have contributed a chapter to this epic collection, and excited to see it finally almost out!
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The best sign language models are those that align with deaf languaging practices. When AI models are built on sign language as used by hearing interpreters or novice hearing sign language learners, this can lead to linguistic subordination to technology.
gallaudet.edu/linguistics/...
gallaudet.edu/linguistics/...
ASL and AI tools - Position Statements | Gallaudet University
In short: The best language models are those who depend on and use those languages everyday. Don’t train AI models on new signers or hearing interpreters. Signing deaf representation is important.
gallaudet.edu
March 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The best sign language models are those that align with deaf languaging practices. When AI models are built on sign language as used by hearing interpreters or novice hearing sign language learners, this can lead to linguistic subordination to technology.
gallaudet.edu/linguistics/...
gallaudet.edu/linguistics/...