Notices by Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social), page 9

I'm tempted to say "lore-bound", but "lore" isn't quite _icky_ enough to convince my directors of the problem

may go with "ephemeral"...

@eldang i think i was in denial about it for even longer!

Surely these standardized tests that I'm so good at are measuring something meaningful?

And then i spent 18 months teaching the children of the rich to do better on their standardized tests (the SAT etc).

For a few hundred dollars, your child can move from "below average" to "just above average" in six weeks of teaching directly to the test

These tests are a shibboleth for membership in the ruling class

(he then immediately made a "big brain" joke.

I refrained from going into the links between phrenology and eugenics, after a quelling look from my spouse)

Y'all, my ten year old kid today told me "IQ is a measure of culture, not of intelligence"

Reader, I gasped.

"Yeah," he said, "like a kid growing up here in America is gonna score better than a kid in Africa -- it has nothing to do with smart"

#TheKidsAreAllRight #ProudDad

@annaleen @Wolven @charliejane

Yes! It's like someone took a jabberwocky translation of the original Garth Ennis PREACHER

and said "do this like a Monty Python film; like, go for hectically disconnected. Lean in. Really, like, OWN that suspension of disbelief. Comically implausible antirealism, every 45 seconds. Saturate that irony detector"

"Oh, and cast the lead with someone with Frances McDormand kill you with her eyeballs energy"

On @Wolven 's and somebody else's recommendation, starting to watch MRS DAVIS

this show is like three levels of meta relevant to my interests, including (the third level) that it feels like its writers' room bible was assembled by a bricolage memorize and rephrase deep-dreaming AI Markov model tuned to my own specific personal interests

I would LOVE to see the show bible for this weird-ass piece of TV. Hard to imagine how this got through NBC greenlighting

@nando161

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YOU ARE
PERSONALLY
RESPONSIBLE
FOR BECOMING
MORE ETHICAL
THAN THE
SOCIETY YOU
GREW UP IN.

@inthehands YESSS

@inthehands in a Donnie-Darko twist, I will be asked to join the timetraveling proletariat assassin union next year and I will happily agree, creating a closed-loop stub.

that also puts The Matrix (1999) at farthest point from the two fused ends of the closed loop

and I think we know where _this_ is going

@inthehands that explains all the timetraveling proletarian assassins, honestly

@inthehands the real breakaway point is my birthday in Q1 '75 ?

... _I'm_ holding down wages for goods-producing workers? this is a terrible timeline.

@mike805 @tofugolem @pleaseclap @futurebird @sphinx

Are...
Are you aware of who first said "history repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce"?

A… peculiar choice of phrase to use in a rant about the commies

& how do you square criticizing the DNC as an agent of "financial cartel" with "the Dems are too Bolshevik"?

Oh oh oh I get it. When you say "financial cartel" (or "Bolshevik") do you just mean "Jews"?

@futurebird

there's _plenty_ of interest in fascism here in the USA, though :(

@mike805

@jonny what

@jonny it is mostly poking my "you got a PhD in linguistics and still cannot remember how to read a spectrogram" impostor syndrome

But it is basically Duolingo for spectrogram reading which is cool as heck

@jonny as a spectrogram reading tool I'm tempted to think about scoring the feature bundles instead of the IPA, like putting /b/ means [+voiced +stop +labial]

you might flag the features as black/yellow/green instead of the entire phoneme, so if the right answer was /v/ I'd have ?+voiced, ?+labial, ⚫+stop

@jonny yeah -- spectrogram reading and the wacky nonlinearities of speech production and perception are at least partly because speech production isn't a sequence of phonemes but the loosely time-coordinated movement of multiple articulators

Possible to think of each IPA segment as a target in an articulator Hilbert space

We could be writing something like a musical score with clefs for each instrument (lips, tongue root, tongue blade, breath, larynx) instead of IPA

@spacyoddity @jonny haha I'm going to get in trouble with my phonetics teachers

... But i think I'm making the argument that a phoneme stream can be considered target points for some (but often not all) of the articulators. Vowels are usually "turn on laryngeal action" and probably also "tongue position x,y", but consonants are more about "articulator z executes action a"

This is a related idea to treating each phoneme as a feature bundle, but not the same idea

@spacyoddity @jonny one effect of treating these as articulatory gesture targets on different tracks is that "coarticulation" self-explains:

a [ə] schwa sound has no tongue-position targets, but does have a laryngeal activation target, so if it's preceded by a [t] and followed by a [k] it will tend to trace tongue position space from high/front to high/back and sound more like [ɨ].