Aniello De Santo

@anids.bsky.social

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The mystery of the Universe is its comprehensibility. Computational psycholinguist, I guess, but not a professional account. Opinions etc etc my own. he\him (pfp cc. Dustin Nguyen)

Album cover from Fiona Apple’s When the pawn
A picture of a Piano sheet for Shiita no Ketsui, a song from the Movie Laputa Castle in the sky
Screenshot of a skeet by Ethan Mollick. Pretty awesome result from the new version of Gemini 2.5. I changed one line of War and Peace, inserting a sentence into Book 14, Chapter 10 (halfway through), where Princess Mary "spoke to Crab Man the superhero." Gemini 2.5 consistently found this reference among 860,00 tokens.
A slide with two stick figures: one is labeled a linguist, and it is excitedly saying to the other one (a non-linguist) “don’t judge people’s speech!!”
A sticker of C-3PO and and R2D2, the droids from Star award, hugging and staring lovingly into each other’s eyes. Little Hearts are coming from them
Picture of an office wall, town a poster advertising the “what makes a good theory!” Workshop
A plate with kale, mozzarella, some cold cuts, olives, and flour tortilla
To panels from Sailor Moon. In the first one Usagi, a blond girl dressed in a japanese school uniform, is throwing a dumpling at Tuxedo Mask, a black haired man dressed in a tuxedo. She is saying "You can't eat a dumpling wearing a tuxedo!". In the second panel, the man bites into the dumpling and, chewing, replies "This dumpling is not wearing a tuxedo".
An open laptop on a white table, the sea in the background
A red ceramic bowl filled with melted yellowish cheese and covered in shaved truffle. Next to it, a toasted slice of bread.
A plate with a braided mozzarella surrounded by tomato slices and basil leaves
Water in a sunny day and across it, some buildings with a Canadian flag
Slide centering in big text “there is a LOT of linguistic variation” in a cloud of words like “sexuality, salience, age, structure, authority, formality, noise, style, and many others”
A big squirrel
A picture of the book “Inference and Representation” By Mauricio Suárez
A screenshot of an instagram DM that says “oh god, you are always a glutton for punishment”
Wellness Check In any moment, on any given day, I can measure my wellness by this question: Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?
Picture of the sun partially covered by the moon, it kinda looks like a very Red Crescent moon
A vignette from a Scrooge McDuck comic. Scrooge is talking to Gyro, who is looking closely at some kind of mechanical device. Gyro says, over four panels “ there must be a simpler way to foil those burglars than by moving all your hoard of money. I have written the problem on this piece of paper, which I drop into water in which I boiled an encyclopedia. Now I pour in some alphabet soup mix. And—presto!out comes the answer onto a blotter”. The last panel shows gyro pouring water over a table, with sentences surfacing from the water.
A picture of Diane Nguyen, an animated character from the show Bojack Horseman.
Still from a tv show. A white body with curly hair is smiling goofingly into camera, talking with someone not in the picture. The subtitles say: -Can you stop taking selfies of me? - [Nick] Absolutely not.
Screenshot of a tweet. The content: A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. For example: 1. Jane ate her friend’s sandwich 2. Jane ate her friend’s colon
A picture of an hard copy of the Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax
Screenshot of an email by Spotify, with a picture of Margo Robbie as Barbie. The text says “Thanks for being a fan To celebrate Barbie The Album, out July 21st, you have access to a white vinyl of the Barbie soundtrack and limited-edition poster bundled exclusively for Spotify listeners.“
A screenshot from the anime “spirited away” showing three green heads, looking kind of grumpy, stacked on top of each other!