Edward Reynolds
@edward-reynolds.bsky.social
Communication, University of New Hampshire.
Buddhist. ex-Powerlifter. I tweet conversation analysis, social justice & magic the gathering. Former AUS DoD.
He/him.
Buddhist. ex-Powerlifter. I tweet conversation analysis, social justice & magic the gathering. Former AUS DoD.
He/him.
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Tis the season.
Always Room for Christmas Pud
YouTube video by Aunty Donna
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December 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Tis the season.
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In 1936 Forverts published a reader's letter about a trans man from his Ukrainian shtetl
Beyle was a gender nonconforming woman who left home, transitioned, and returned years later, now a "handsome, healthy, redheaded man" named Berel who soon "learned to daven and was in synagogue every day"
Beyle was a gender nonconforming woman who left home, transitioned, and returned years later, now a "handsome, healthy, redheaded man" named Berel who soon "learned to daven and was in synagogue every day"
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
In 1936 Forverts published a reader's letter about a trans man from his Ukrainian shtetl
Beyle was a gender nonconforming woman who left home, transitioned, and returned years later, now a "handsome, healthy, redheaded man" named Berel who soon "learned to daven and was in synagogue every day"
Beyle was a gender nonconforming woman who left home, transitioned, and returned years later, now a "handsome, healthy, redheaded man" named Berel who soon "learned to daven and was in synagogue every day"
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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a real tell in all of this is that the trans instructor wasn't alone in trashing this essay! a whole other person also said they agreed completely that it sucked. but as far as i can tell only the trans person is getting punished. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
a real tell in all of this is that the trans instructor wasn't alone in trashing this essay! a whole other person also said they agreed completely that it sucked. but as far as i can tell only the trans person is getting punished. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...
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P.S. There is a huge difference between having to work with students or teachers who hold different views than you do (reasonable, fine, part of existing in a community) and having to work with students or teachers who believe you don't and shouldn't exist.
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
P.S. There is a huge difference between having to work with students or teachers who hold different views than you do (reasonable, fine, part of existing in a community) and having to work with students or teachers who believe you don't and shouldn't exist.
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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“Berg's point is that AI doesn't merely automate tasks — it automates the very processes through which people develop their skills.”
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“Berg's point is that AI doesn't merely automate tasks — it automates the very processes through which people develop their skills.”
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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this thread does not go where you think, but in the best way. thoughtful, worth reading all the way through.
It will not surprise any of you to learn, I think a lot about taxonomy.
The current system we use (Linnean classification) groups animals by common descent, and uses similarity of structures and the fossil record to try and do so accurately. "How closely related are these, in evolutionary terms?"
The current system we use (Linnean classification) groups animals by common descent, and uses similarity of structures and the fossil record to try and do so accurately. "How closely related are these, in evolutionary terms?"
It is wild to think that these two animals are as distant from each other in evolution as, say, Bears and Hyenas.
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
this thread does not go where you think, but in the best way. thoughtful, worth reading all the way through.
A positive result on a detection site is simply the basis for asking. It's not hard.
"It's impossible to tell definitively if someone is using AI!"
—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.
—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.
November 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A positive result on a detection site is simply the basis for asking. It's not hard.
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Cut my life into pieces
This is my last resort
Suffocation, no breathing
Don′t give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding
This is my last resort
Suffocation, no breathing
Don′t give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Cut my life into pieces
This is my last resort
Suffocation, no breathing
Don′t give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding
This is my last resort
Suffocation, no breathing
Don′t give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding
Has anyone seen/done any papers on "parent voice" and the use of names in first position? Of course I'm aware of clayman and rendle-short but I'm interested in casual conversation uses (especially the use of full names!)
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Has anyone seen/done any papers on "parent voice" and the use of names in first position? Of course I'm aware of clayman and rendle-short but I'm interested in casual conversation uses (especially the use of full names!)
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Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Reskeeting with alt text
Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can
Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
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📌 New paper: “Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research,” published in Qualitative Inquiry.
#EMCA (EMCA-adjacent) #LSI #QualitativeInquiry
doi.org/10.1177/1077...
#EMCA (EMCA-adjacent) #LSI #QualitativeInquiry
doi.org/10.1177/1077...
Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research - Francesca A. Williamson, Danielle Layton, Jessica Nina Lester, 2025
This article explores the notion of research trustworthiness for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) studies. Informed by radical reflexivity, we ...
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📌 New paper: “Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research,” published in Qualitative Inquiry.
#EMCA (EMCA-adjacent) #LSI #QualitativeInquiry
doi.org/10.1177/1077...
#EMCA (EMCA-adjacent) #LSI #QualitativeInquiry
doi.org/10.1177/1077...
Fuck, now I need to delete my data
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Fuck, now I need to delete my data
Freedom of religion. But only that one religion. If you're white.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.
Abbott Says Muslims Are “Threat to Our Freedom” as He Targets Civil Rights Group With Terrorist Designation
Governors do not have the authority to designate groups as a foreign terrorist organization.
truthout.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Freedom of religion. But only that one religion. If you're white.
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This meme never gets old
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This meme never gets old
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Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman's Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore"
Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman’s Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. Abstr...
doingmodernity.blogspot.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
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Don't do any of this.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Don't do any of this.
taste the goatse
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
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The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
taste the goatse