Aaron Rupar’s work is a tremendous public service, and Elon’s suspension of this account is a direct attack on the free speech he claims to care about. I just subscribed to Aaron’s newsletter, Public Notice https://t.co/qW5QWki6He
@ShappLing @tallinzen Source: am a computational linguist working in info extraction and named-entity recognition, so ACL was the first example to come to mind 😂 To answer the original question, yes! My software engineer colleagues have instilled in me the habit of calling computers “machines”
@ShappLing @tallinzen “Association for <topic>” seems pretty common in org name syntax—like, “ACL” = “Association for Computational Linguistics”, where it’s understood that the members are people interested in <topic>, and an explicit person-type noun isn’t required in the org name
Me, pitching HBO execs on a Westworld spinoff: “It’s the story of a warrior princess set in your feudal Japan world”
EXECS: “Go on...”
ME: “Featuring the music of Barry Manilow”
EXECS:
ME: “Tagline: ‘Her name was Lola. She was a shogun.’”
EXECS: [calling security]