Shawn Kilburn

Full title of paper: “Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: problems with using long words needlessly” by Daniel M. Oppenheimer

A good reminder that simple language makes it easier to share meaning and understanding with others

“mizzled with rain” is so good. From The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien

from In the Dust of This Planet

from In the Dust of This Planet

I didn’t realize there was such a variety of things on Voyager. (Thanks to In Ascension by Martin MacInnes)

In an alternate reality, I am one too

Very cool interactive visualization of an LLM transformer model

I’m intrigued by this Floorp browser (ok, 90% because of the name, tbh)

Clearly inspired by Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum. 1980s philosophers and semioticians vie for a “function” of language that allows complete manipulation of others. Also, most amusingly, a character realizes he’s in a novel.