The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @texttheater ever

April 21st, 2020

ryanestrada My favorite thing to do in Zoom classes is take a screenshot of a students' window while they write, and while they're distracted set it as my virtual background

Then I position myself in the frame like I'm in the room helping with their work and when they look up they FREAK OUT

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 11:47 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

ryanestrada I couldn't figure out why my Zoom classes felt so intense, and finishing them felt like walking out of a war zone.

Did FIFTY FIVE classes before realizing that my teaching headset had an auto-on vibration mode intended to simulate explosions for gamers. pic.twitter.com/cpiBnZN1CU

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 11:46 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

lambdaviking A Formal Hierarchy of RNN Architectures -- in which we address questions like "what can an LSTM do that a QRNN can't?"

Joint work with @gail_w, @yoavgo, @royschwartz02, @nlpnoah, and @yahave

Blog: lambdaviking.com/post/rr-hierar…
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2004.08500

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 11:44 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

Whitey_chan I keep hearing that Europe cannot learn strategies from Asia bc Asians are “obedient” & not as “critical”

South Koreans ousted their last president with mass protests, Taiwanese students occupied parliament to protest a trade deal & HK has been protesting for months.

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 10:01 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

jenshealthde Dänemark schließt Firmen, die ihren Sitz in Steueroasen haben, von -Staatshilfen aus.

Dänische Firmen, die über 8 Mio. € Hilfen erhalten und nicht zurückzahlen, dürfen 2020 & 2021 weder Dividende zahlen noch Aktien zurückkaufen.

Das ist kein Sozialismus, das ist fair.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:49 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

kalikabali The pre-print version of our paper "The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World" accepted at @aclmeeting is now up on arxiv.
tnks to all the co-authors
@SebastinSanty @Roprajo Amar Budhiraja @monojitchou

arxiv.org/abs/2004.09095

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:46 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

gchrupala What is typically expected in a recommendation letter for a postdoc position at a top US school? How long, and how over the top should it be not to harm the candidate's chances? Here people usually write around 3-4 paragraphs but I suppose this wouldn't be acceptable over there?

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:43 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

kathrinpassig Ich lese alles von Marcel, weil meines Wissens kaum jemand im deutschsprachigen Raum so unbeeinträchtigt durch "aber das war doch bisher nicht so"-Vorurteile über Digitalisierung und Wirtschaft schreibt. Wenn ihn ein Medium dafür bezahlen würde, stiege es in meiner Achtung. twitter.com/marcelweiss/st…

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 7:43 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

alastair_iskndr "Warum liegt hier Stroh rum?"
"Klimaerwärmung, alles vertrocknet.
Warum hast du eine Maske auf?"
"Pandemie"

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:42 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

LanguageCrawler The Hopi nation does not want non-Hopi learning the language. They gained copyright to this outstanding 920-page dictionary & all unsold copies from UofArizona Press. As a result, you can’t purchase a copy outside the tribe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_Dict…
Book: amzn.to/2yA1Oeg pic.twitter.com/xy3bBo5Oo3

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:17 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

berndulrich Erst keine Zinsen mehr fürs Geld, jetzt kein Geld mehr fürs Öl - langsam mache ich mir sorgen um den Kapitalismus

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 7:17 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

EnglishGibson E-Mails, die mit “Viele Grüße aus dem sonnigen… [Stadtname]” enden, heißen ja auch nur: “And let’s not forget, we exist in the physical world”.

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 7:15 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

derwahremawa Inhalt:
– 2 Signifikanzeisen (rund u. spitz)
– 2 Pragmata (absolut u. relativ)
– 6er-Satz Substanzprüfer (2, 4,5, 8, 10 mm)
– 4 Bezugsrahmen (Nachbestellung über Händler)
– 1 Kritiklineal (Dreikant)
– 1 Buchholz
– 1 Flachdilemma (Edelstahl)
– 1 Objekt
– 1 Tube Stoff (50 ml)

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:15 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

GretaThunberg Applaud health care staff!
But also give them higher wages, better working conditions and permanent sufficient resources.
Bail out workers!
And maybe save the “clapping-instead-of-funding” for the polluting companies?
A real sarcastic slow clap for the ones destroying our world.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 4:09 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

derwahremawa Warum heißt es Freude am Teilen und nicht Joy Division

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 3:09 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

I just got result 'Doch.' on quiz 'What untranslatable German word are you?'. What will you get? uquiz.com/wS8FxK?p=308462

via Twitter Web App

lenakmeth I only got, like, 2/3 of the references and I still cried: What untranslatable German word are you?uquiz.com/wS8FxK?p=308370 pic.twitter.com/keNpswUZcb

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 3:05 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

sezmohammed I actually cannot believe this origin story for "Stockholm Syndrome" which is basically just a "myth invented to discredit women victims of violence by a psychiatrist with an obvious conflict of interest, whose first instinct was to silence the woman questioning his authority" pic.twitter.com/DN62JezT95

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 3:05 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

texttheater We have a controversial opinion about Kim and Jimmy on uproxx.it/9cgq6h6

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 3:04 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 10 Review: Something Unforgivable denofgeek.com/tv/better-call…

via Twitter for Android

GretaThunberg ”Milan is to introduce one of Europe’s most ambitious schemes reallocating street space from cars to cycling and walking, in response to the coronavirus crisis.” theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 1:44 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

henriksen So, in Norway the gov made a Covid tracker app. Wouldn't open the source code, saying open source was a security risk, especially given the short dev time. In less than a week, ppl have decompiled it, published how it works, found sec faults and made GH repos. That went well...

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 1:36 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)

peterunfried Die mediengesellschaftliche Aufregung über das Wort ist im Kern der übliche Versuch, ein komplexes Problem durch die Darf-man-das-so-sagen-Frage zu ignorieren (die einen mit strategischem Ziel, andere aus Gewohnheit).
Widerspruch von Habermasianern?

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 1:34 PM, Apr 21st, 2020 via Twitter for Android)