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@mjpost

Machine translation research for big tech and big academia and director of the @aclanthology. Tweets here are mostly personal.

Baltimore, MD Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Bookmarks on spicy but buried tweets read like someone compiling receipts for my upcoming cancellation trial
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Wesley Yang
Wesley Yang@wesyang·
I regularly engage with Critical Social Justice materials -- they are their own parody to a degree that is impossible to convey except through the materials themselves. You would not otherwise be able to believe that the liberal mind has degraded to this degree.
BossLog@SerfyMcDoomscrl

@drocto @lourob2 @ChineseDruid @wesyang I still listen to NPR. IDK if it's to steel man my beliefs or just a feeling I should bear witness to the decline of liberal intellect. Maybe both.

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@ChrisO_wiki The point of this thread is to highlight the absurd levels of failed analysis on the part of the Danish government, right?
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ChrisO_wiki
ChrisO_wiki@ChrisO_wiki·
1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️
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@jonkay What's to complain about? Leftists did for diversity what capitalism did for water, food, and consumer goods—took something that used to be scarce and expensive and available only to a few, and made it cheap and universally accessible!
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@uncledoomer I have this printer and few technical goods have enraged me more than trying to enter the wifi password into a device with an LCD controlled by four buttons
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This was significant because there are many, many issues like this, that match the general pattern of making law-abiders feel guilty for the crimes of other people, because law-abiders have consciences and are easier targets.
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Some time ago—well after first learning about the "Pacific garbage patch"—I stumbled across the fact that basically all ocean plastic comes from garbage practices in southeast Asia, and my reaction was anger, because I had always been made to feel responsible for it.
Robert Anderson@ProfRobAnderson

Any news article about pollution from plastic bags or other plastic products that does not point out that the US produces essentially zero per capita plastic pollution is ridiculously misleading. You can't even see the US here because it's basically on the x-axis. In a lot of countries, people literally just throw all their trash in the river. That's the plastic problem.

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"The rain poured down over the crowd as the melody from Rzeznik's singing cascaded out from the stage's sound system, but history's almanac would record the beginnings of a drought, as the wonder of shared attention and engagement desiccated into the simulacrum of experience held in an individual's hand."
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I love the legs this clip seems to have. It is the end of an epoch that in many ways was a cultural high-point, primarily because it preceded the plague that is smartphones. Watching it gives me similar feelings to reading the opening paragraph of Tuchman's _Guns of August_: "...but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again."
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Sopan Deb@SopanDeb

Wrote about one of the great pieces of art of the last 500 years. nytimes.com/2026/03/18/art…

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Technically this is about what the law should be, not whether to follow it, but there's an analogy here to establishing safe collective behavior in ways that balance individual freedom with public interests, and the evidence all points to 15–20 mph, not 30.
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Matt Post@mjpost·
It's interesting how conservatives, who are all about the rule of law, change their position when it comes to speeding, an action which more than many is completely under the driver's control, and which causes untold amounts of damage to property and person across the US.
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino@VickieforNYC

16mph isn't speeding. It's a general tax on drivers, intended specifically to extract as much money as possible while frustrating ordinary people out of their cars entirely. It's no coincidence that this impossibly low speed limit materialized during a budget crisis. This is the action of a government that hates its constituents.

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@christopherrufo If only bridges could be constructed from a sense of self-satisfaction...
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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo·
California is spending $114 million on a cougar and butterfly bridge, funneling cash to indigenous activists who perform "offerings" of native tobacco and human hair to their sacred "plant relatives." Gavin Newsom has turned construction into sorcery. A boondoggle.
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@asayeed Yes. I'm not _here_ making moral judgments about which baseline is correct so much as noting that a very particular one is implicit in and necessary for all this hyperventilation. Libs might consider that all their trouble breathing might stem from having climbed a bit too high.
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Asad Sayeed @asayeed@zirk.us
Asad Sayeed @[email protected]@asayeed·
@mjpost There is of course no morally neutral way to define the baseline if you're attempting to assess the variables of democracy. And certainly, it doesn't surprise me that you think that many terrible things we might have thought were behind us are "ground regained".
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Asad Sayeed @asayeed@zirk.us
Asad Sayeed @[email protected]@asayeed·
the home team delivering unhappy news
Gandalv@Microinteracti1

🚨🚨🇺🇸 USA Falls Off the Democracy Map. For the first time in 50 years, the United States no longer appears on the list of liberal democracies. In a single year, the country has fallen from 20th to 51st place. The V-Dem Institute calls it one of the most dramatic declines ever recorded. The fall does not happen in a vacuum. Brendan Carr is not among the most recognizable names in Trump’s orbit, but the head of the federal media regulator FCC made waves this weekend with a direct threat to the country’s broadcasters. Networks spreading what he called fake news were told they have an opportunity to correct course before their license renewals come up. The message was plain enough: fall in line, or face the consequences. Staffan Lindberg, founding director of the V-Dem Institute, is blunt about what this means. Across so many dimensions, the retreat has been so severe that the United States can no longer be counted as a democracy. The term he uses is “electoral autocracy” – a system without genuine democracy that still goes through the motions of holding elections. Like Putin’s Russia. What concerns him most: the assault on free speech, illustrated by the FCC chief’s latest threat. An extreme concentration of power in the president’s hands. A Congress that, in Lindberg’s words, has abdicated. And Trump’s use of paramilitary forces in American cities – ICE soldiers who killed two civilian protesters this past winter. “The United States used to talk about being a global beacon for democracy and freedom,” Lindberg says. “That idea has now been erased.” Read the full V-Dem Democracy Report 2026: v-dem.net/documents/75/V… Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor·
We're implementing the largest expansion of Sammy’s Law in city history: lowering speed limits to 15 MPH at every eligible school by the end of our first term. And we’re not waiting to get started. This year, we’re lowering speed limits at 800 additional locations to 15 MPH, bringing the citywide total for School Slow Zones to nearly 1,300 by the close of 2026. New York City’s streets should be the safest in the world - especially for kids - and City Hall is using every tool at our disposal to make that a reality as quickly as possible.
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@PeterMoskos I sometimes wonder if this is one of the most underestimated problems in the social media age, driving many of our problems
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"Cutting funding for public broadcasting" sounds bad, unless you provide the context that NPR employs only Democrats, and former enthusiastic supporters (ahem) widely agree how tedious and one-sided it has become in recent years on gender and race issues. "Elimination of DEI initiatives" sounds bad, unless you steelman the serious underlying policy debate about the effects of race-based preferences in a multicultural society whose major issues are decades and decades behind us and whose white majority is aging and diminishing. I could go on and on and on like this with example after example from the article.
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@asayeed I spent five minutes looking over the document. Most of their talking points are question-begging, requiring an assumption of progressive excesses as normative to exaggerate an alarm. Deny the premise and much of it looks like ground regained.
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@asayeed I'll think about it when I manage to stop chuckling about "belittering"
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Asad Sayeed @asayeed@zirk.us
Asad Sayeed @[email protected]@asayeed·
@mjpost You're talking about a potentially weird provincial ruling from an anti-discrimination parajudicial body vs the Orbanization of the American media? I invite you to get a sense of proportion.
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