@DianeSwonk @ernietedeschi Thanks for this; all of a sudden, I feel seen. :-)
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Steve Winters
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Steve Winters
@seduloussteve
I work in linguistics, play lots of frisbee, like traveling to new places and am on Twitter these days mostly to stay up-to-date with news from Ukraine.
Calgary, AB Katılım Ağustos 2011
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The drop in home care, including child & elder, also striking on the other side of the equation. Men who work are close to evenly split in the unpaid elder care they do for family members with women. Every occupation of those who are still working has people who do unpaid elder care each week. Most of their employers do not know that.
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On an age-adjusted basis, what's been happening with Men 55+ LFPR is ~2/3 of pandemic decline had recovered by 2025, but progress has stalled since 2025 H2, due not to growing retirements but to increasing disability (which is still a net positive LFPR factor since Feb 2020).
Mike Bird@Birdyword
The very recent leg of the trend of men dropping out of the workforce in the US is not driven by prime working-age men at all, who are participating at the highest rates in 15yrs. It's driven entirely by over-55s, what looks like another leg of the Covid-era retirement wave.
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@phono_logical I feel like Ha Ling Peak ought to be the CLA hike in June. For go getters only.
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Are there other writing systems with circumflex for nasalization?
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@phono_logical The only time I've ever heard [æʊ] in Canada is from a speaker from England. I realized after awhile that it was a Cockney feature.
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btw3 in Canadian English the MOUTH vowel (or CLOUD vowel, to avoid Canadian Raising) tends to be fronted to [æʊ] and or even [ɛʊ] (Hung, Davison & Chambers 1993). Unfortunately I rarely encounter the latter variant. Maybe younger Canadians are showing less extreme MOUTH fronting?
Darin Flynn@phono_logical
@seduloussteve btw2, the MOUTH vowel in Maritime English (e.g., Halifax) is often [ɒʊ ~ ɔʊ], which I imagine confuses some Americans
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@phono_logical I'm happy to do it again, but you seem to be super into it these days, so I don't want to stop the gravy train while it's still rollin'. :-)
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@seduloussteve Ooh that’s a good quotable for a lecture—from a bona fine [ˈsoːʔn] phonetician no less, thanks! Btw, our students would get waay more bang for their buck with you as their instructor again. Next time?
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Saving clips like this for my Fall course on Varieties of English. This one nicely illustrates the THOUGHT vowel in Southern English
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@JayinKyiv I see they've got the stormtroopers working the anti-aircraft guns again.
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At this point, too many things burning in Moscow to count. Air defenses amounting to no real resistance.
Just more..
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Steve Winters retweetledi
@SteveStricklan6 @TheStalwart I think it is more helpful to people who don't know how to program at all.
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@TheStalwart I’m a professional developer and try AI all the time in the *hope* it will help with productivity. But the code is almost always badly structured and littered with syntax and logic errors. By the time I’ve reviewed and fixed it all, it would have been easier to write from scratch
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Here's what's weird about this Amazon tokenmaxxing story to me. How is it that, online, there's so much consensus that the models are objectively useful for coding, and that 80% is a "target" for developer use. Why wouldn't they all be using it it makes their job easier?
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're using AI more ft.com/content/8ee0d3…
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Steve Winters retweetledi
Before Odysseus it was just called taking too many side quests on your way home.
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@Rory_Johnston Was thinking it would be nice to see someone in the know break down what the world would look like if the Strait of Hormuz *never* re-opens, which seems to be an increasingly more possible outcome of the war now.
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Prompt Brent futures are currently $103/bbl, while latest Dated Brent quote is at $105/bbl.
Hardly the stuff of acute dislocation.
World is in a record supply deficit, though at this stage market still choosing to be more patient re: accumulating the consequences than I expected—but it’s not a phys/paper disconnect.
This particular talking point is more of a distraction than a helpful highlight at this stage, imho.
First Squawk@FirstSquawk
OIL MARKET SHOWS DISCONNECT BETWEEN FUTURES, PHYSICAL: ARAMCO
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Steve Winters retweetledi
Probably the craziest chart in markets right now
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I like the methodology behind this map a lot. We see Appalachia based on 13 different definitions in a single visual. Source: reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comm…
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@Fullcarry It's Cinco de Mayo. You can't pass this Taco Tuesday up!
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@thescottbarber Nothing quite like getting out into nature.
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These are people climbing Everest, passing through the deadly Khumbu Ice Fall, and a bunch of British people who just saw the queue.
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@PaulAnleitner We actually walked out of the theatre shortly after this happened. We found "Lady Bird" playing in another theatre and decided to watch that, instead. It was way better.
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This moment in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) was when I knew the postmodern deconstruction of our culture was reaching its apex.
It’s hard to believe now that this was a real scene.
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@fshakir @BernieSanders @peggyflanagan Had to quit after he went 4 for 4 because he doesn't believe in the rich getting richer.
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@scottlincicome Oh my gosh, it's a guy who can laugh at himself. Who ever heard of such a thing?!
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TBQH Rubio comes off pretty well here. Funny bit overall.
Molly Ploofkins@Mollyploofkins
Rubio: 'This dog is a pain in the ass' Triumph: 'Just tell me what country you're attacking next, I'm trying to win some money on Polymarket'
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