Jesse Sheidlower

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Lexicographer, sfdictionary.com, The F-Word, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. Based at jessesword.com.

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Meanwhile everything is awful but the NYT did manage to produce this lovely piece about Blobfest, the annual celebration of The Blob in the town were most of it was shot: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/m...

Celebrating Film Nostalgia With Ooze and Ahhs at Blobfestwww.nytimes.com A festival that celebrates the 1958 film “The Blob” held its 25th annual gathering in Phoenixville, Pa., where much of the movie was shot.

Old English fans: @mikepope.bsky.social has produced a digitized version, with some neat features, of Henry Sweet's _Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon_, from 1896. Have at it! mikepope.com/sweet/sweet-...

Sweet Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Aboutmikepope.com

New HDSF entries! "Darth", as a title for a Sith Lord in Star Wars, and in extended use creating a moniker for an evil person. sfdictionary.com/view/2896/da... sfdictionary.com/view/2897/da...

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: Darthsfdictionary.com Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

Of interest to my archivally minded friends: The tape is sitting there in the archives, but "NSA is not required to find or obtain new technology…in order to process a request"

“Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it: Intelligence agency claims it “no longer has the ability to view” 1982 recording” The FOIA response shenanigans described in the article are top tier🙄 www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release itwww.muckrock.com In a vault at the National Security Agency lies a historical treasure: two AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes containing a landmark lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper, a giant in the field of computer science....

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

That's what she said™.

I'm very excited for this book!

The BRIGHT SWORD tour starts tonight! Greenlight Bookstore hosts at St. Joseph's in Brooklyn at 7:30, with the brilliant Ed Park! It's the very first event I'm doing for this book so I will be _raw_and_confessional_. greenlightbookstore.com/event…

greenlightbookstore.com

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

Shh!

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Joshua J. Friedman

Would that all my life choices were so easy

Hmm, hang out here and see reposts of fascist shit from The Other Place with people saying "fascists are bad!", or go to a bar and watch the Copa? I just can't decide.

A surprisingly small amount of my feed is watching the Euro Cup final.

Today in language revitalization: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘I felt my tongue coming alive’: learning a critically endangered Indigenous language is a small triumphwww.theguardian.com I know I don’t have it right yet. I know my grammar is rudimentary. But I am speaking, writing and thinking in Kooma nearly every day

While you suckers are shitposting politics, I'm seeing Richard Thompson for the second night in a row, so nyah nyah!

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Anna Merlan

Oh. Well, yes. I'm glad they got out.

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Anna Merlan

Not really, in fact! She grew up in shtetl, that's all she needed. My grandfather was cosmopolian, he was from Warsaw, he was exposed to everything.

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Anna Merlan

My parental grandfather grew up speaking Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and German. My parental grandmother spoke only Yiddish. Left Poland when she was 14 and didn't speak a single word of Polish.

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Jesse Sheidlower

"temporal loop" is a curious one; it pops up mid-70s but there are a lot of examples right away, and it feels like it's well-known from the start, but we really failed to find anything earlier. If we've missed something big, help us out!

New HDSF entries! Big, fun, important ones! "time loop" and its synonym "temporal loop", for all you time-travel fans (and as you know, we're a big one). sfdictionary.com/view/2868/ti... sfdictionary.com/view/2892/te...

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: time loopsfdictionary.com Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

The latest example of "time loop" is from RENOWNED CARTOONIST @tomtomorrow.bsky.social!

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🐦🐦 For the small handful of language folks on here: the Endangered Languages Project is hiring interns! These are fully remote, paid internships to support language revitalization around the world - Indigenous applicants especially encouraged: bit.ly/ELPinterns2024

"Being a brilliant writer does not elevate one above the common smallness of being a person." This is the line that got me. I wish more people understood this.

“It’s almost as if people are embarrassed or saddened or disgusted or enraged by the idea that someone so loved + so cherished + brilliant could also be common + small… What I find remarkable is that what so many of us love in Munro’s fiction is the way she reveals how common and small we all are…”

what i'm doing about alice munroblgtylr.substack.com why i hate art monster discourse

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Adam Rogers

As a racing cyclist in the '90s, I had genuine concerns that bike-lane proposals were usu. accompanied by the requirement that cyclists be _restricted_ to them, that we couldn't ride in the streets. I didn't advocate against lanes, but that was my worry at the time.

God knows, there were asshole racers who did believe that no one else should ride, and would buzz peds at high speed for kicks, and probably did hold some asshole holier-than-thou position about bike lanes for the rabble. I'm very much not defending these folks.

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Chris Harris

I use "on Instagram" in two places in the same book. I never cite Facebook or Threads, but I'd use "on" there too. For Twitter, I use "_Tweet_" as the work title, with the date; i.e. I think "Tweet" implies Twitter so I don't need to say "_Post_ on _Twitter_" or the like.

And it just occurred to me—I quote from Reddit a few times, and in that case I say "in [subreddit]", e.g. '2022 "Pseudonym" in _r/Subreddit_ (Reddit) (May 23):'.

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Stevonnie (שולמית)

Ooh thank you! I tried a few variants of the signature but didn't find that.

Forwarded to me from The Other Place, with no ID, and I can't quickly find the source, but OMG I love this so much.

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Dr Chiara Bullen

Nothing at all. I can't multitask, even doing mundane work, if my brain is involved. If it's a non-brain task, I _might_ be able to have some lyrics-free "background" music on quietly.

RIP Jan Svartvik. Last month, but I hadn't known this. linguistlist.org/issues/35.19...

LINGUIST List 35.1995 All: In Memoriam: Jan Svartvik linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

@clivethompson.bsky.social this seems like something you'd find interesting

I wrote about the wild process of creating color bichromes, with black and white film, from a single shutter release; it posted today on 35mmc. Check it out! 🔴🟢📸 #BelieveInFilm #TrichromeParty #TrichromeEverything #largeformat www.35mmc.com/09/07/2024/b...

Bi-Pack Bi-Chromes: or How I learned to love making color pictures on black and white film in a single exposurewww.35mmc.com So the way it works is amazing: You load two films at the same time in the same holder, and get two color channels.

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Mister Slang

I use "on Bluesky" in two places in a forthcoming book, FWIW.