emily l

wordcel at large: all of my opinions belong to you

[emily l @laskin]

this website sucks now, but no one who might get this joke follows me on the other one

[emily l @laskin]

If some random guy fact checks you wrt something in a field you have deep knowledge of and he’s right, you should thank him and update.

[emily l @laskin]

Why does it mean admitting that your life is a lie? Is some random guy tweeting info that undoes every single aspect of your understanding of the field? Weird hypothetical that seems, like, not how language and knowledge work.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Imagine spending your whole life becoming an academic expert. Then a random guy online tells you that you are wrong about your own field. And he's right. But you can never admit that. Because it would mean admitting that your life was a lie. That is the dilemma of many academics.

[emily l @laskin]

For legal reasons everything I have ever written is a joke

[emily l @laskin]

If you @ me to man-, mathboy-, or any-gender-shape-rotator-splain how words aCtUaLlY wOrK to me I will come to where you live and [redacted]

[emily l @laskin]

Don’t even get me started about the “difference” between the subject and the object of research

[emily l @laskin]

You ever think about how “research extensively” and “research intensively” kinda mean the same thing

[emily l @laskin]

@JohnRihawf Class grad school experience lolsob

[emily l @laskin]

I was in a war with my dissertation chair about which vs. that (he preferred which), and in my weakest chapter I gave in and changed everything to which in hopes of getting him to stop nitpicking my argumentation (lol grad school).

[emily l @laskin]

Anyway now I'm publishing a version of that chapter and I just got the page proofs back and its new editors changed everything back to that. 💀

[emily l @laskin]

What should I write a blog post about? On what topic(s) would you like to hear an Opinion By Me?

[emily l @laskin]

Idk that I think about it all that much but sometimes when I’ve exhausted absolutely ever other avenue for scrolling my fingers still automatically type hotmail

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010.

What’s the one website/app you still think about?

[emily l @laskin]

What all of the world's billionaires should buy with all of their money is socialism. They should buy it from all of the rest of us, with all of their money.

[Sultee @sult]

Американцы пойдут на что угодно, чтобы не отцеплять душ от стены

[emily l @laskin]

@mkhanpasha I like LibreOffice, thanks! Also torrenting office software was a fun throwback to, like, 2005 😂 Maybe I'm entering a personal OSS revival era (I'm so sick of subscription everything).

[emily l @laskin]

Ugh I got a fancy new computer and it fully broke my deprecated but formerly functional version of ms word. I'm not gonna pay for subscription AI intrusions and cloud storage so... Open Office or Libre Office?

[emily l @laskin]

@mkhanpasha Wait the European Union is forking office software? Like…as a state?

[emily l @laskin]

@007Cat24 @mykola Ugh yeah, well, fwiw I also don't think the US is the way of the future anymore and I do think things will swing back around to sanity/some sense of the value of collective welfare, but I have no idea where or when or how.

[emily l @laskin]

@007Cat24 @mykola I do not necessarily believe that anyone working at a frontier AI enterprise is -- and I'm not being exactly derogatory here -- sane in any standard sense of the term.

[@ratlimit @ratlimit]

You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation to New York. But there’s a catch: you have to visit each number of your SSN, in order (repeats allowed!). What 9 digits you picking?