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if your accessibility tool cannot parse anything but the "generic American accent" (whatever that is) you haven't made an accessibility tool at all I fear

the labor of academics is weird and unseen but the joy and value I get from it??? no llm could ever replicate that or take that from me sorry!!!

I think if you think an llm can do your job better that's a reflection on the value you place on your own work and labor and maybe you don't value or like your work / labor very much

I actually love thinking and creating and dreaming and doing, and I value the labor in these things. I'm not gonna outsource those things to an llm! I like my job!!! this is the labor I've dreamed of!!

yup, as someone who works in this area I get all worked up about this

it is not unprofessional to use filler words. it is not a sign of lack of knowledge.

You do not need to train yourself out of them!! You are fine to use them!! They are important for conversation!

well I'm not gonna quote tweet it or anything but FILLER WORDS ARE JUST FINE ACTUALLY

I am so thankful my office has blinds 😬

it won't stop me but like peeling off rain layers and then warm layers like sorry let me shed like a lizard

the thing is!!! it is actually very embarrassing to have to remove all of my cycling stuff inside a restaurant

me when zoom crashes and won't let me rejoin a meeting for some reason: cool cool cool cool cool cool

there are no “theory neutral” models and if your modeling paper paper starts with that as an “advantage” of your approach you have immediately lost me

just throwing it out there that I love to be invited to give talks

just throwing it out there that I love to be invited to give talks

every time I encourage a grad student to present at a conference one of the first questions I ask is if they can afford to spend $1k without getting reimbursed immediately, and then I have to explain that this is part of the job and it's awful :/

I have to say advising a student organization that is completely unrelated to my field (they're a dance team) is literally the best service I've ever done in terms of fun

February 19, 2026 INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY As survivors and descendants of the mass removals, detention, deportation, and family separation targeting our community during WWII, we refuse to stand by idly while our friends and neighbors are violently disappeared, forcibly removed, mass incarcerated, and separated from family members. We decry the murders of community members and at least 37 people in ICE custody and enforcement in 2025. We reject false narratives that state violence is "unavoidable," a "justifiable military action," necessary for "national security"—the same arguments used as they forced our parents, grandparents, aunties, and uncles into U.S. concentration camps in 1942. On this Day of Remembrance, we call on Japanese Americans and all people who believe in "Never Again" to demand justice for those we have lost—on the streets and hidden away in ICE detention centers. To break this cycle of state violence. To rise up and resist, together. We bravely commit to being the allies our familes needed during WWII. STOP REPEATING HISTORY. #TsuruForSolidarity #FreeFamilies #FreeThemAll

84 years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. The Day of Remembrance this year comes as we see DHS buying land and warehouses for more camps now.

my first time using an oiled chain on my winter bike (compared to a waxed chain) and ewww it's so gross

this topic is banned on the star trek reddit but you should watch lower decks if you haven't!

oh we're doing the "perpetual foreigner" asian american thing today?

this is my first Tết by myself ever and I wasn't homesick until I saw people post pictures of the piles of shoes outside the front door 😭 (iykyk)

Chúc mừng năm mới 🧧 prosperity and luck this year for all of us 🧧

I'm tired 😩

every year I wonder why we ("the land of Lincoln") don't get his day off

I don't like my neighbors' smoke drifting into my apartment but they probably don't like me listening to the same three vinahouse songs over and over so I guess it's fair

ooh I really liked this book

sksksks that would be interesting discourse at least

Experiencing deep envy rn