data sci @kargo | alchatten on 🦋☁️ | Formerly: Phonological typology (+ phonetics/morph.) at @nyuling & @wustl (she/her)

New York, NY
Joined July 2017
My interview with Linguistics Career Cast is live! linguisticscareercast.com/po… I cover a lot about how specialized training in linguistics offers a lot of strengths, especially in *flexibility & communication* in an industry job. (short 🧵): (1/8)
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“Nazi” isn’t a slur. It’s 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 it’s not white supremacist to think that white people are inherently superior to other races. No…that’s the whole definition!! The fact that they believe it earnestly and don’t think it’s an idiotic, hateful belief doesn’t mean it’s not an idiotic, hateful belief. Nazi isn’t a word that means “bad evil boogeyman” it means “someone 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.” Make sure the people you’re cheering for don’t believe these things because otherwise…
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quite possibly the gag of the century
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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?
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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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This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Moo Deng debuts new teeth
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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:
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Speed running Echoes Of Wisdom
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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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Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions y = x
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This was only "the biggest IT outage ever" if you exclude the period from 13.7 billion BC to the mid 20th century
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AHH SO MANY THOUGHT
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I WISH TO SPEND MY BONUS ACTION TELLING MY FRIENDS I LOVE THEM
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