Joshua Raclaw
sociocultural linguist working in trans and queer linguistics and conversation analysis. posts about yiddish, cooking, adhd, cats, professor stuff. (they/זײ) [ˈɹæ.klɔ] מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
- A new Coke ad proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book, only he didn’t write the words and it’s not his book (spoiler: the book & words are by, er, me) www.404media.co/ai-powered-c...
- The Grok thing is a perfect lesson, really, about how ai "tools" will absolutely reflect and echo the ideological priorities and weird obsessions of its owners
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- Disgusting Restaurant Celebrates 30 Years As Small Town’s Only Option theonion.com/disgust...
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- "I'm sorry, but the query about clearing sinuses seems unrelated to the provided analysis on white genocide in South Africa."
- apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
- God, Elon is such a failure of a fascist
- "I don't see what your question about sinus problems has to do with genocide" is a terrific answer.
- elon turned grok into a bluesky poster
- RFK as an aside testifies to House Approps: “Ultraprocessed food is a genocide on the American Indian.” (as he answers a question about the Indian Health Service.)
- Rep. Pocan asks RFK if he'd vaccinate his own kid today for measles: “For measles?" RFK pauses. "Probably for measles." Chicken pox? "I don’t want to give advice, I can tell you in Europe they don’t use the chicken pox vaccine.” Polio? “I don’t want to be giving advice.”
- Kennedy adds: “I don’t think people should be taking advice, medical advice, from me.”
- *crab-walked
- "ai is inevitable" no you are just a weak coward
- being loud and banging pots and pans does not, in fact, make you correct
- NFT's were only a couple years ago some of you have really worrying short-term memory
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- Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...
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- I have died laughing. This is my epitaph. RIP me.
- If you ever find yourself struggling with impostor syndrome, just remember that David Zaslav made $52 million last year to slowly come to the conclusion that, actually, HBO is a good brand
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- 71 year old congresswoman Debbie Dingell caught sleeping in hearing room this morning.
- 𝒩𝒶𝓅… …Like No One Is Recording 𝒢𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓃… …Like You've Never Been Poor 𝒞𝒶𝓂𝓅𝒶𝒾𝑔𝓃 …Like No One Is Voting 𝐿𝒾𝓋𝑒… …Like Hell Is On Earth
- Heckuva juxtaposition here. Trump admin: “Work will make you free!” Fascism scholars: “Um yeah, we’re outa here.”
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- (1/3) We are aware that four major Pride organisers (@prideinlondon.bsky.social, @birminghampride.bsky.social, @brightonpride.bsky.social, and @manchesterpride.bsky.social) have banned political parties from attending their events. We have released the following statement in response:
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View full threadLet us reiterate - we are NOT affiliated with the Labour Party and we are actively working AGAINST this government on its stance on trans rights. That is why we were created. When we say we stand for trans rights, we mean it. We show it.
- A start may be not to use the dog whistle of 'trans activists'. 'We often face pushback from trans activists and allies who associate us with the national Party’s failings'. The push back the Labour party is experiencing is coming from trans people.
- How? Because complaining that Labour's trans-eliminationist actions are having consequences *for labour* isn't exactly an example of the old Blairite media savvy that we all know and loath.
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