Bridget Copley PhD

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Parisienne Buffalonian semanticist spoonie mom. http://bcopley.com "The line separating good and evil passes...right through every human heart." -Solzhenitsyn

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Merci les Français

Good morning France, I’m hopeful that on this day of voting that we can avoid both-sidesing demonization of the left with the far-right and come together in… oh

We interrupt your doomscroll for some important lexical semantics

Francie is here with a BLEP vs. MLEM tutorial. A blep is when the tongue is just hanging out at rest, stationary. Mlem is an action word for when the tongue is performing a licking motion - hence the name which is an onomatopoetic interpretation of the sound it makes.

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Ever notice how continental breakfast is so much better than analytic breakfast? Continental breakfast is coffee and croissant. Analytic breakfast is hexagons of white bread with the crust cut off.

Actionable ways to resist from a guy who's been thinking and writing about this stuff for a long time.

Timothy Snyder: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

How to Stop Fascismopen.substack.com Five Lessons of the Nazi Takeover

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Science folks, one thing about bluesky is there's way less 2 way interaction between people, especially on science posts, than there was on old Twitter. I'm not sure why that is, but it's something I'm keen to encourage. I'd love to hear your thoughts 🧪

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"the debacle over Biden's debate performance illustrates the major flaws in Dem communications strategy. Here are 3 ways in which they are playing into GOP hands:" Democrats have accepted the frame, allowed panic to lead them into a spectacle of public disunity, & repeated the destructive frame.

Criminal Trump is clearly unfit for officewww.theframelab.org The 2024 presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump reaches a pivotal point

Check out these data visualizations of how people voted in France by department or Parisian arrondissement going back in history, along with economic indicators. Thomas Piketty, the economist, is involved (it's associated with a book he co-wrote). www.unehistoireduconflitpolitique.fr

Une histoire du conflit politiquewww.unehistoireduconflitpolitique.fr Qui vote pour qui et pour quoi ? Comment se répartissent les votes et les richesses en France depuis deux siècles ? Rendez-vous sur unehistoireduconflitpolitique.fr !

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"None of the key concepts contained in the proposed principles are truly present in te Tiriti. Instead, the proposed principles are built on additions, omissions and distortions of the original text". www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Treaty Principles Bill: Māori translators pen letter over 'deeply flawed translations'www.rnz.co.nz A group of licensed Māori translators have hit out at the upcoming Treaty Principles Bill, calling it factually incorrect and misleading.

bouba tea, is that a thing

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Someone asked: "What if democracy falls ? What if extremism takes over? How can we stay grounded, how can we prepare ourselves to get through?" “Oh god, I have no idea” But then I had a few: www.whatashrinkthinks.com/essays/survi...

Surviving the Fall — What A Shrink Thinkswww.whatashrinkthinks.com

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Hilariously, they tried to fix the algorithm and got improvements for some disabilities, but no improvements for others. That is, for some disabilities, the biases are so deeply ingrained in our culture that these applications can't weed them out, even when trained on DEI. As stated in the article:

“UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the ‘Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award’ — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials.”

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improvewww.washington.edu UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same...

Backs. Can't live with 'em, can't go upright without 'em. But definitely, can't live with 'em.

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Louisiana Republicans obviously don’t know about Bender’s Rule #linguistics

Toronto will be like Atlanta pudding.cool/2024/06/clim...

Climate Zonespudding.cool Explore how will your city feel in the future.

psst the magic words are "late checkout"

Going from invisible to visible disability is a trip

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"The child wasn't following the man's orders, the story reported." Cops, bombs, billionaires, gun maniacs, and other luxurious cruelties we've been sold. Things we never could afford that we should stop paying for. www.the-reframe.com/cruel-luxuries

Cruel Luxurieswww.the-reframe.com Those who insist that we all as a society pay the cost of a serious problem they are creating, just so that they can imagine themselves to be the solution. Things we could never afford and should stop...

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Preprint: a cross-cultural review of knots. Using archaeo & anthro data, our study reveals the cultural evolution of knots across 10k years and 83 societies. With mathy methods, we show which knots are most common & how they shaped human innovation. A knotted thread. 🧵🏺 osf.io/preprints/os...

Edouard Philippe said that "dans ce moments-là il ne faut pas tricoter" and I have some questions. Are we allowed to pick up dropped stitches on an otherwise-finished project? How about crochet? Is needle felting ok?

Despite the far right's success yesterday across France, it didn't crack Paris. The 16th, along with the suburb of Neuilly, is the last bastion of the Républicains (center-right, blue). Then it gets farther left the more east you go... www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

Buffalo in the news boingboing.net/2024/06/09/b...

Buffalo walks into living room and is surprised by friend on wallboingboing.net When this giant buffalo walks into these folks' home to pee, everyone in the situation was equally surpised. The couple who lived inside the house did their best to stay…

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It's clear that Cookie Monster is not a native English speaker and I for one would love to hear him speaking fluently in his first language sometimes.

Brain keeps trying to sing “occipital neuralgia” to the tune of “Perpetual Anticipation” and it ain’t working. Send in the clowns

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@bcdreyer.bsky.social This has been bugging me for 5 minutes so I would really love to rope you in. “Is the plural of Bluetooth Bluetooths or Blueteeth”

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I’m loving this variation on a cycle plot published by the Financial Times today: www.ft.com/content/8e83... By Jana Tauschinski

I'm doing a verb-initial language and a verb-final language on Duolingo at the same time, what could go wrong