wmgbennett.bsky.social
Linguist, professor, Africanist, aspiring mad scientist/inventor/youtuber/occasional shitposter. Interested in meaning, sounds, the navigation therebetween, and how that all plays out for humans across history and geography.
👤 Joined on 14 November 2023
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@wmgbennett.bsky.socialYou know what doesn’t use PHP? That’s right the 1992 Jeep Cherokee XJ hell yeah brother gobbless
Show PostOh. Apparently the 1800s also had tech bros, as clocked by none other than Ada Lovelace
Show PostThis is a quietly metastasizing moral panic
Show PostEvery article has the same premise: Young people are characterizing their normal, happy childhoods as abusive and going "no contact" with their parents over minor disagreements. Every article also, late in the text, blithely acknowledges that this premise is false. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/h...
Show PostI'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence. Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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