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The fact that NELS 54 hosted at MIT has a special session on "Experimental Methods in Linguistic Theory" tells you exactly how little elite generative grammar institutions actually think about what they're doing.
Did no one notice a contradiction in their five word session title?
https://linguistlist.org/issues/34/2416/
#linguistics #generativeLinguistics #nels #nels54 #mit #academicmastodon
@troberts@theblower.au Same!
Whenever someone raves about AI, I always respond "yeah, but it's like 90% fraud, y'know."
Remember the other 9/11: When the democratically elected government of Chile was violently overthrown in a neoliberal coup backed by Nixon and Kissinger. The resulting dictatorship was supported by the "Chicago Boys" intellectual progeny of Milton Friedman.
Request for #mutualaid
The Canadian government has decided that I need to pay back $2000 of the COVID relief payment (#cerb) they sent me, and they've decided the best way to do that is to garnish my current EI payments.
I don't believe I rightly owe this money, and I don't know how I'll make rent etc. If this keeps up.
Every little bit helps
The court put its thumb on the scale in favour of the bosses #onlabour #onlab #cdnlab
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/metro-strike-injunction-1.6950540
> Metro has been granted a temporary injunction to restrict pickets by its striking workers at distribution warehouses in Toronto.
It only now occurred to me that Michael J Fox and Crispin Glover are about the same age
@KimCrayton1@dair-community.social In this slim respect, they're being treated like every other indictee.
Ryan Amato has fallen on his sword. #onpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-housing-amato-resigns-1.6944225
> Housing Minister Steve Clark's chief of staff has resigned after he was singled out by the Ontario auditor general for playing a key role in the province's controversial Greenbelt land swap.
@Gigi@kolektiva.social Whoa! For real? They stalked you to a BBQ??
Honestly, this is what they should've done in the first place!
#cdnmedia #cdnpoli #monopoly
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Canadian media groups call for investigation into Meta's 'anticompetitive' decision to block news | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/competition-bureau-online-news-act-meta-1.6930081
> The CBC has joined other news broadcasters and publishers in requesting Canada's Competition Bureau to investigate Meta's decision to block news content on its digital platforms in Canada.
Of course she welcomes it! She did nothing wrong.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-principal-suicide-response-1.6921330?cmp=rss
> An anti-racism trainer accused of denigrating a Toronto principal who later died by suicide says she welcomes the Ontario education minister's review.