#Language

Ada Nguyen

adanguyenx

Reading Ted Chiang’s “Understand” last night made me realize what was missing in Neuralink's demo: aesthetics There’s nothing more beautiful than achieving a higher form of intelligence -- one can

Preeta Samarasan

PSamarasan

This conversation about US cultural chauvinism: it's one I've had with friends from all over the world for many years now. Sometimes it's about politics, sometimes it's about literature or

bethany

Iikepersephone

tw ╱ mentions of autism , ableism , nazismhi, besties! let’s talk about autism and how you can be actively anti-ableist towards autistic people. let’s start with functioning labels. “high-functioning”

Portland Street Response

PDXStResponse

Since we're so new, you may wonder what a PSR call is like. While no two calls are alike, what they have in common is that they take longer than

million dollar meat

GIGAPENIS69

One of the biggest problems with mainstream/modern trans activism is how drastically the language and goal has shifted from “these people deserve to live a good normal life like everybody

Laurie Voss

seldo

There is a cognitive bias called the Focusing Illusion made famous by Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman, it can be summarized as: "Nothing in life is as important as it seems

Don Williamson

Donzanoid

A common pattern I see in game code that leads to a large % of branches is the: get object by ID or type, if it's not null, execute code.Has

brittany packnett cunningham ain’t here for real.

MsPackyetti

I'm not a fan of using social justice language as a litmus test or a poker than thou competition.BUT, as I grow, I try to learn in public. Words matter.

seraph is falling apart

fieldofgrief

"c!techno taught pogtopia that the only universal language is violence."no. that line was about c!techno recognizing something pogtopia was already aware of, something they already utilized. talking hadn't worked, his

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bangtandidit1st

thread on how to learn and self-study korean :) firstly before u begin, please choose to learn korean for the right reasons and do not be a Koreaboo. educate yourself

Kat Howard

SaysMiss

A little thread about acronyms, which I know may encourage a bit of a debate. I’ll start by saying that I’m respectful of the methods of others, but might well

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MflTransform

Hey #mfltwitterati!There are lots of debates about next year & what schools' priorities should be. In the longer term, if MFL is ever to grow again we need to know

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purgatorydreams

That is not what death of the author means. It doesn't "invalidate" anything. When you read something, you simply cannot know what the author was intending to do, you can

Michelle Guido

heyyguido

Since consent seems to be a hard topic for some let's talk about it. What are ways you have gone about it?When hooking up with someone for the first time

Cabeleira

OnlyDebz

I love this . I must say it is really interesting how the British accent (most, if it all types) approximate mate “tu” sounds into “chu” sound. I never understood

David Beazley

dabeaz

I feel that I’ve lost the Python path. Not sure when it happened or how it happened, but I no longer “get” what the language or the community is even