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my only thought on the latest altman tweet is that i guess i will have to move the ‘llms and the automation of linguistic sex work’ paper up the to do list

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1h

i professional and personally love language change but this one is a lot

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1h

i need to see some independent evidence that this screenshot is real because ‘usage-maxxing’

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1h

it’s the ‘now that we have been able to’ as if it’s self-evident that took me out

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1h

omg same!! so excited for the phishing emails!!

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2h

i like autumn except for the spiders, i know it doesn’t make sense, i know they are harmless but my god they are terrifying

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2h

no fire because it’s semi-detached

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2h

if it does come in i obviously have no choice but to abandon the house and all my possessions

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2h

there’s a spider next to my porch door (outside thank god) so large that i think i need to register it for council tax

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 4h

(usual disclaimers apply, i’ve had a very privileged background etc but academia is still stranger than many workplaces i would assume)

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 4h

(sidenote: our family backgrounds include quite a few people who went to uni but no phds)

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 4h

my partner was/is, like, 2 years ahead of me in an academic career (different field) and even that felt/feels like an advantage because i can ask him about all sorts of processes he has already encountered

cannot even imagine what it must be like to have parents with decades of experience

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4h

It's always striking seeing other academics talk about their academic parents and be reminded that close to a quarter of all tenure-line academics have at least one PhD parent.

That's not a critique, but I always wonder how different it would be to have a parent who already understood academia.

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 7h

how often can you stream an album on repeat before the band takes out a restraining order? asking for me and wolf alice

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 8h

completely understandable. plus, the labour implications of having everything recorded!

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 8h

glad (and a little surprised) that you have control over whether or not classes are recorded. in many (most? all?) UK universities that is now standard and mandatory practice, I believe

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

we should be allowed to add ‘part 1’ to the title

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

(which would be fine if i didn’t need a paper ticket like it’s 1925)

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

always an auspicious start to a train journey when both the ticket machine and the departure board are offline

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

(solar system (sun sold separately))

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

well i would hope that a solar system includes at least one sun??? (but you tell me)

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

it is fixed, kudos to 🐙