Rachel Burdin

@rsburdin.bsky.social

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Ling prof in NH; intonation, lg. variation, lg. and identity, Jewish languages. Occasional runner, knitter, garment maker. she/her.

Panel of Calvin and Hobbes with the real text removed. Calvin is talking to his dad.

In a child's handwriting in a speech balloon: Dad I cot a tiger what do I do with it.

Horseshoe crabs mating in pollen covered water. One large female with three males hanging on.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Your taste lives in the largest American Lutheran body: mainline, generally affirming, sacramental, with a Garrison Keillor center of gravity in the Upper Midwest and a serious theological tradition (Bonhoeffer, Forde, Lindbeck) under the casseroles. The cultural neighborhood is Scandinavian and German‐heritage America at its most thoughtful: Christmas Eve candlelight, choirs that are actually good, a quiet politics that leans progressive without performing it.

The Onion: Headline: Frank Gehry no longer allowed to make sandwiches for grandkids.

The image: In the center, on a white plate, from bottom: a piece of bread, slices of meat and cheeses carefully folded, two pieces of bread, and a tomato carefully perched on top of a bed of lettuce. A piece of meat somehow rises from the back, helping to support a piece of bread on top. The center "sandwich" is flanked by two pieces of bread on the side, also with lettuce balanced on top, and a piece of bread in the back. Two pieces of bread lean on the plate in front. A perfectly normal glass of milk on the side.

A cuneiform "alphabet". The worksheet designers were nice enough to include scare quotes

A grey and white cat and an orange and white cat lounging on a white quilt with green and red flowers

Libresco Sargeant: What’s the protective element there? Or what can be learned from veterinary medicine to take into white-collar work?

It just seems odd that you’re describing this general dynamic that women, you say, would undermine completely the rule of law, that we’ll lose the rule of law in our lifetimes when women become a majority of lawyers. If it’s that stark in law, I’d expect — if your claim is true — some erosion in veterinary medicine, or pharmacy, which is also dominated by women, and where you can track the failures because people die.

Andrews: I would not expect to see a catastrophic effect from feminization in veterinary medicine. I don’t know, like, why is that hard to see?

Douthat: But is that because ——

Andrews: Well, no. Let me maybe reframe it in a way that will make a point that seems very obvious to me, clear to the people at this table.

If there are more female historians than male historians, that will have some effects on what gets studied in history. You will have more social history and feminist history, and a lot less military history and economic history

Polish actress Kamilla Baar playing Magda, an art forger in the film "Vinci", which is about an elaborate heist to steal DaVinci's "Lady with Ermine" from the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow.

An american flag mounted on the back of a mailbox. It looks out of proportion and backwards and ridiculous

"Now, don't be that way," said Mrs. Jewls. "The computer will help us learn. It's a lot quicker than a pencil and paper."

"But the quicker we learn, the more work we have to do, complained Todd.

"You may set it over there on the counter, Louis," said Mrs. Jewls.

Louis set the computer on the counter next to Sharie's desk. Then he collapsed on the floor.

"Now watch closely," said Mrs. Jewls.

Everyone gathered around the new computer. It had a full-color monitor and two disk drives.

Mrs. Jewls pushed it out the window.

They all watched it fall and smash against the sidewalk.

"See?" said Mrs. Jewls. "That's gravity."

"Oh, now I get it!" said Joe.

"Thank you, Louis," said Mrs. Jewls. "I've been trying to teach them about gravity all morning. We had been using pencils and pieces of paper, but the computer was a lot quicker."

For example, the partnership is testing one “test-less assessment” task in which a student coordinates with two artificial intelligence-run avatars to tell a story, according to Laura Slover, who leads the Skills for the Future project.

“They each build on each other’s ideas,” she said. “They have to listen so that they’re picking up the ideas and creating linkages to build the next part of the story ... [and] giving each other feedback in real time.”

Students would be evaluated based on things like how well they accepted and used the AI characters’ ideas and feedback. It’s not clear, though, how well simulation tasks of this sort can measure students’ ability to work with other people, particularly in problem-solving and healthy disagreements.

A child's handwring on a small piece of paper. "front covr, picture of a heart, Love Book"

"For this work he was selected for Foreign Policy's top 100 Global Thinkers issue for 2014"

5 egg cartons

Richard Scarry illustration of a piglet gazing longingly at a butcher counter.

Sign at car dealer. "over 400 vehicles in stock. No tariffs"

A small button down. A beige fabric with bluey and bingo, and alternating orange and blue buttons.

A bowl of soup

A variety of muffins and coffee cake

A munchkin box!

XKCD comparing the Fashion Police with Grammar Police. key bullet point: "Vindictive about things that are often uncomfortably transparent proxies for race or social class"

"Stop forcing AI into fucking everything. Nobody asked for it, everyone hates it"

Three chanukiahs, fully lit

TikTok comment: THE FAWTH FLAAW

A RadWagon odometer showing 3.4 miles

Fog. Trees. A road.

Campaign flyers in Indonesian, Spanish, and English

A red night sky

Wikipedia extract: racial superiority or white supremacy.[122] Fisher had a close personal relationship with Indian statistician P.C. Mahalanobis, and significantly contributed to the development of the Indian Statistical Institute; and Fisher's graduate

Bluesky number 196,082

Chicken checkers! Say the word for each picture. Circle the picture that begins with the ch sound.

The picture of the tree is circled

Chat GPT is asked who ghostwrote the animorphs series
. The "Animorphs" series was primarily written by K.A. Applegate, which is a pen name for the writing team of Katherine Applegate and her husband, Michael Grant. They were the main authors behind the series, though various ghostwriters contributed to later books in the series.

A view of a river and an iced latte and a computer

The Cross Bronx Expressway cutting through East Tremont. Google maps shows heavy traffic, of course

An orange cat curled up asleep on a changing table

An eclipse

An orange and white cat curled up in a high chair

A fake manhole cover reading "28 Union St, Dover New Hampshire. Origin site of Mirage Studios. 1984 Birthplace of Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". There is a stylized outline of the turtles engaged in battle.

Word cloud: happy, pride, valid

Word cloud with #horny #gay #cum #cock etc.

Tweet from Nicole Holliday: "It's alright to say if they're white!"

A cute dog on a slide

A slide showing probability distributions for H* and L+H*

A slide with a cat and a dog

Chart showing results as described in skeet

Chart showing frequencies of particular forms and grammatical context.

A chart showing percent of merger in Hong Kong (38%), Gen1 Toronto (0%) and Gen2. (48%)

A shot of two dictionaries showing two entries in Cantonese

Map task of Kentucky. Circles regions include hicks, rednecks, hillbillies, and Ohio

South Station, under construction

A fancy looking t-shirt reading "DOVAH"

A screenshot from the Secret Island of Dr. Quandary. A little doll like figure is standing under some music notes next to a ... Saxophone man? Or something? Text overlay says "Bravo! Bravo!"

Sign reading "PRA/HA/GUE/GA/G"

Exhibit placque on on Prague' s Jews, post the Holocaust, reading in part "it was also necessary to explain to the Civil Servants that Jews were not German, even if they occasionally spoke German amongst themselves"