Stephen Chrisomalis

@schrisomalis.bsky.social

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Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info

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Bronze medal with a Latin chronogram whose Roman numerals add up to 1689, commemorating the coronation of William III.
Overall diversion 50,000 tonnes is equal to 111,111 Moose (based on an avg. weight of 450 kg) Overall Garbage 111,848 tonnes of residential garbage were collected curbside - equal to 24,636 Zamboni's (sic) (based on the avg. weight of a Zamboni - 4,540 kg)
Essay Enjoyability Table (READ AFTER GRADING) Essay: Difficulty: 1=Ez Peezy 6=GPA Annihilator Enjoyability: 1=Fun 6=Eye Gouger Notes: You have a lot of grading to do and you can certainly pay this no mind, but I thought it might be enjoyable to read and I needed a medium to express myself.
Artificial Intelligence Kohavi, Noya and Anna Weichselbraun. 2025. “ Human Tests For Machine Models: What Lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 00(0): e70035. Demuro, E., & Gurney, L. (2024). Artificial intelligence and the ethnographic encounter: Transhuman language ontologies, or what it means “to write like a human, think like a machine”. Language & Communication, 96, 1-12. Jones, G. M., Satran, S., & Satyanarayan, A. (2025). Toward cultural interpretability: A linguistic anthropological framework for describing and evaluating large language models. Big Data & Society, 12(1), 20539517241303118. Messeri, L., & Crockett, M. J. (2024). Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research. Nature, 627(8002), 49-58.
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An antique umbrella stand, red-brown in colour and standing around 24 inches high, square at the top. It is in the pique-assiette style in which fragments of broken ceramic are embedded in a mosaic style around all four sides.
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A hardback book "Bozzimacoo: Origins and Meanings of Oaths and Swearwords"; the dust jacket is black at top, white at bottom, with the title in a red speech bubble and a cartoon image of a priest holding a "swear box" out to two men in old style clothing.
A red and white Texas state license plate with TEXAS at the top and the vanity plate O C4NADA.
Cognitive anthropology has long been conceptualized as one of the six disciplines of the 'hexagon' encompassing cognitive science, but this integration is hindered by a lack of dialogue by both cognitive scientists and anthropologists. This roundtable aims to take a step towards stronger linkages by having anthropologists discuss recent work from the cognitive sciences broadly (e.g., neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, AI, philosophy) that is relevant to their work, and that would be of interest to an audience of anthropologists. Each presenter will briefly introduce an article from the last 10 years, authored by a non-anthropologist, and explain how it informs, or could inform, your work or research in cognitively oriented anthropology. So, for instance, you might talk about an experimental psychology study, or an empirical paper from cognitive linguistics, or a conceptual advance from the philosophy of mind. We would then be able to have a lively discussion about these studies that can inform and advance anthropological science.
Matilda Gage Woman, Church, and State Charlotte Gilman Women and Economics Peter Kropotkin Mutual Aid Jacques Loeb The Mechanistic Conception of Life Elsie Clews Parsons Social Rule J.B.S. Haldane Possible Worlds and Other Essays Paul Radin Primitive Man as Philosopher Solly Zuckerman Social Life of Monkeys and Apes Gilberto Freyre The Masters and the Slaves Alfred Korzybski Science and Sanity Lev Vygotsky Thought and Language Zora Neale Hurston Mules and Men George Kingsley Zipf The Psycho-Biology of Language Arthur Hocart Kings and Councillors Gregory Bateson Naven Lewis Mumford The Culture of Cities Jomo Kenyatta Facing Mount Kenya Audrey Richards Land, Labour, and Diet in Northern Rhodesia Norbert Elias The Civilizing Process R. G. Collingwood An Autobiography Grahame Clark Archaeology and Society Melville Herskovits The Myth of the Negro Past A.L. Kroeber Configurations of Culture Growth Cora Du Bois The People of Alor Elia Deloria Speaking of Indians Karl Polanyi The Great Transformation Meyer Fortes The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi St. Clair Drake & Horace Cayton Black Metropolis Kenneth Burke A Grammar of Motives Henri Frankfort Kingship and the Gods Norbert Wiener Cybernetics Margaret Mead Male and Female Helen Codère Fighting with Property Hortense Powdermaker Hollywood, the Dream Factory Gladys Reichard Navajo Religion Juan Comas Racial Myths Carl Sauer Agricultural Origins and Dispersals Margaret Hodgen Change and History Melford Spiro Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia Karl Wittfogel Oriental Despotism Sergei Semenov Prehistoric Technology Roger Caillois Man, Play, and Games Dorothy Lee Freedom and Culture Miguel Léon-Portilla The Broken Spears André Leroi-Gourhan Gesture and Speech Louis Dumont Homo Hierarchicus J.P. Sharma Republics in Ancient India
My campus office,desks and flat spaces clear of clutter, hooray!
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'Phone Girl Says "O." No, She's Not Surprised, But is Drawing Nearer to Naught - "Ought" Grates on Sensitive Ears. Deerfield Valley Times (Wilmington, VT), Jan 22, 1904, p. 6.
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Chronogram over the archway on Le Roy d'Espagne in the Grand Place in Brussels. "Hic quando vixit mira in pauperes pietate eluxit"
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A chronogram for 1766 on a stone inscription with gold lettering and ornamentation: SACRUM PAROCHIALE DIVI IOANNIS BAPTISTAE
A transit system map from Cologne, Germany, showing a yellow line leading to Bergisch Gladbach, above which is a live spider.
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Two notched bones with evenly spaced grooves, identified as being used as musical percussion instruments. Musée des instruments de musique, Brussels.
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A small piece of an ornately engraved metal artifact with the word 'AUSPICE' on it. A mystery which I will reveal (unless guessed first).
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Musicians and dancers in the street during Luxembourg's night marathon, 11:48pm local time.
Street sign in Aachen, Germany with Alexianergraben above Bejaadejrav.
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Wayne State commencement ceremony at the WSU Fieldhouse with three new PhD graduates and their advisors and other faculty members.
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A Chiliastic Conundrum Stephen Chrisomalis In sixty-six AD (Actually, it was August ninth, but who's counting?) A clock struck nil And upon its chiming, struck us dumb. I don't think anybody was around Who saw its import. Two thousand circumvolutions (Actually, 1900 and thirty-four, but who's counting?) Of a world circling about a sun A cosmic winding of that said clock Marks an important instant, for now But what is missing? A world awaits in anticipation (Actually, mostly just Anglophonic parts, but who's counting?) A bug? Y2K? Why not, I say? Significant? I should say so! Janus turns about, just to look for A missing symbol! January first, two thousand (Actually, at midnight, in Kiribati, but who's counting?) Anno Domini - and what an anno! Who can say - Horribilis? Mirabilis? What all prior to it had, it lacks - I shouldn't say it! And amidst all this a cynic (Actually, just a dull and stubborn man, but who's counting?) Said, I'm counting, digitally And don't fancy your conclusions So just you wait; I'll still show you in 2001.
Brian the sock monkey (age 50) sitting atop a bookshelf, lying against some bound theses and dissertations, including my 655-page monstrosity. Not shown: the tears involved in the writing of such a thing.
The first page of 'Numerals as Letters: Ludic Language in Chronographic Writing' (The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs: Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks, Stephen Houston and John Bodel, eds, pp. 126-156. New York: Cambridge University Press.)
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All five volumes of G.A. Lean's PhD dissertation, "Counting Systems of Papua New Guinea and Oceania", sitting upright on a desk.
Hyphenation of lifespan as lifes-pan
That is a lot of green and gold balloons all over the desk and floor of my department office. I brought the 24 ounce coffee on the desk myself.
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