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My interview with Linguistics Career Cast is live!
linguisticscareercast.com/poâŚ
I cover a lot about how specialized training in linguistics offers a lot of strengths, especially in *flexibility & communication* in an industry job.
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Alicia Chatten retweeted
âNaziâ isnât a slur. Itâs a word that describes real people who earnestly believe in their ideas. Their ideas are disgusting and hateful, but of course they often do not realize it.
I keep running into racists who think that itâs not white supremacist to think that white people are inherently superior to other races. NoâŚthatâs the whole definition!! The fact that they believe it earnestly and donât think itâs an idiotic, hateful belief doesnât mean itâs not an idiotic, hateful belief.
Nazi isnât a word that means âbad evil boogeymanâ it means âsomeone who believes in their own racial superiority, extreme protectionist nativism, the purifying of society by eliminating undesirables, expansionism, active suppression of dissent, and total state power held in the hands of a very small group.â
Make sure the people youâre cheering for donât believe these things because otherwiseâŚ
Alicia Chatten retweeted
2024 was a banger year for Native Americans in publishing. It feels like we are in a moment and I felt so lucky to be a small part of it. Here are some of my fav 2024 books by Native authors. What were your favs?

ALT Image of book covers of my favorite books of 2024 by Native authors. Books are: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich, Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa, I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones, Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Becoming Little Shell by Chris La Tray.
Alicia Chatten retweeted
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access.
A thread, with links:
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Alicia Chatten retweeted
If wetlands prevent floods and straight rivers are bad, why do we keep doing it?
Here's why, and how we can do better, along with the most AMAZING visualizations of rivers:
Alicia Chatten retweeted
telling all of my friends with small daughters that if they say "i wanna learn about dinosaurs and jump on a trampoline" this is in fact a perfectly fine career path
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Alicia Chatten retweeted
Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions
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Alicia Chatten retweeted
This was only "the biggest IT outage ever" if you exclude the period from 13.7 billion BC to the mid 20th century































