#psycholinguistics — Public Fediverse posts

The New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the team.

The project focuses on the analysis of vowels before /l/ in New Zealand English.

Applications are invited from researchers with expertise in one or more of the following areas:

Ultrasound imaging, #SocioPhonetics #SpeechPerception experiments, #Psycholinguistics, and laboratory #Phonology

https://jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/ajid/iWwpa/Postdoctoral-Fellow,33978

Second Thoughts from an Ex-Feminist

…Fiamengo knows that a crucial element in feminism’s success has been the strong natural bias in favor of women that characterizes both sexes: a synergy between female in-group preference and the male protective instinct. There has been some objective research on this timeless phenomenon. In 1994, for example, psychologists Alice Eagly and Antonio Mladinic reported that both male and female research subjects were more likely to ascribe positive traits to women than to men, with the bias measurably stronger in women; they christened this the “women-are-wonderful” effect. Later studies found women’s in-group bias four and a half times stronger than men’s. In 2019 British psychologists Martin Seager and John Barry developed the concept of “Gamma bias” to describe “unconscious prejudice against men and boys,” as observed in the tendency of both men and women to sympathize more with women than men.

Such studies are valuable, but as with much of social psychology, they merely confirm something that has always been widely known: men are expected to put the needs of women and children first. As Fiamengo points out, feminists could never have achieved the success they have if men were remotely similar to the selfish brutes they depict. Even half a century of feminist fury has been unable to do away with men’s natural bias in women’s favor.

The other side of male bias in women’s favor is what the author calls “the empathy gap”—the often-shocking inability or unwillingness of many women to empathize with male suffering.

…feminism shares the Marxist mental gestalt whereby society is envisaged in terms of conflicting innocent and guilty groups. As Fiamengo observes, this leaves feminism unable to affirm any universal principles of justice: “it is incapable of extending empathy to whose it has been taught to see as oppressors” or “of demanding accountability from those it has been taught to see as victims.” Because of this inability, “one of feminism’s biggest lies has been its declared aim to overthrow traditional Western gender arrangements in order to liberate men as well as women into an equal partnership.”

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Good short read. I have provided just a couple of excerpts above. Women who do not or did not fall for the bs are marvelous beings, worthy of adoration. The opposite type—man-haters—should be avoided at all costs. That there are still so many of that type around is testament to the deep fuckedupedness of this human realm. Young men and boys — avoid girls and women who demean you more than a once or twice; your deep instincts will twinge hard. Just quietly move away because you cannot fix them and there is no benefit to pissing them off. That’s good advice from me. ABN

The Hellenistic Origin of the Torah: A Review of Russell Gmirkin’s Books — Laurent Guyénot

Russell Gmirkin’s scholarship presents a radical reevaluation of the origins and composition of the Hebrew Bible, particularly the Pentateuch. His theories, which initially seemed extravagant to some, are rooted in rigorous academic investigation within the framework of “biblical minimalism,” a movement that advocates for a later dating of biblical texts than traditionally accepted. This school, exemplified by scholars like Thomas L. Thompson and Niels Peter Lemche from the Copenhagen International Seminar, has faced severe criticism for challenging the antiquity of the biblical narrative, often being branded as anti-Zionist or even anti-Semitic. However, Gmirkin’s work offers compelling arguments that suggest the Hebrew Pentateuch was conceived in the context of Hellenistic culture, particularly drawing from Greek literature and historical works available in the Library of Alexandria around 273-272 BC.

Gmirkin’s arguments hinge on the notion that the Pentateuch was significantly influenced by Greek texts, particularly works by Berossus and Manetho, who chronicled histories of Babylon and Egypt, respectively. He posits that the Hebrew authors crafted their texts not merely as translations of ancient traditions but as new compositions that cleverly disguised their Greek influences to present an ancient and authoritative Jewish narrative. This method of cultural and textual appropriation, Gmirkin suggests, was a strategic adaptation that allowed Jewish scholars to assert their identity and historical significance in a multicultural world dominated by Hellenistic thought and literature. He identifies the Elephantine papyri, dating from around 400 BC, as evidence that the Pentateuch did not exist in its current form at that time, thereby pushing the potential date of its composition further into the Hellenistic period.

In his first book, “Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus,” Gmirkin meticulously analyzes the similarities between the biblical creation narratives in Genesis and the writings of Berossus. He argues that rather than relying on ancient Mesopotamian sources directly, the authors of Genesis utilized Berossus’s compilation, which provided a cohesive Greek perspective on Babylonian creation stories. Gmirkin’s intertextual analysis reveals structural parallels that suggest the authors of Genesis were likely drawing from Berossus as a source, rather than from the fragmented cuneiform texts that precede it. This assertion simplifies the complex web of influences traditionally attributed to the creation of Genesis, suggesting a direct literary lineage from Berossus to the biblical text rather than a convoluted oral tradition.

Furthermore, Gmirkin’s work explores how the biblical narrative engages critically with Babylonian culture, notably through the depiction of the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel. He posits that the serpent in the Garden may reflect a Babylonian archetype, the apkallu Oannes, who represents the transmission of knowledge to humanity. This transformation of a benevolent figure into one of treachery symbolizes a broader critique of civilization itself, depicting knowledge as a source of corruption rather than enlightenment. The Tower of Babel serves as a polemical narrative against urban civilization, echoing sentiments found in other contemporary critiques of city life and cultural amalgamation. Ultimately, Gmirkin’s scholarship not only recontextualizes the origins of the Pentateuch but also sheds light on the cultural dialogues and tensions between Jewish identity and the surrounding Hellenistic world during a formative period in history.

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(The above is a summary of a longer article provided by the site it is posted on.)

If true, its analysis of the Torah deeply subverts the belief systems of all of the Abrahamic religions and sects based on it. I would maintain that the vocabularies (psycholinguistics) of all religions should be considered as being mere human attempts at understanding matters which are beyond our human capacities to fully understand, and especially to write down. If we do that, an adherence to any Abrahamic tradition can be understood as valuable insofar as it yields profound spiritual experience and good behavior commensurate with human reason and good morals, granting lots of room for variety of interpretations. This same style of interpretation can and should apply to Buddhism, which it sort of already does. The deep flaw in all of the Abrahamic religions and sects is their intellectually weak and vapid need to cling to ancient texts, even to the letter of ancient texts. This has produced a menagerie of competing adamancies that are so stupid that to this day they are still fighting to the death over what was originally mythic nonsense. Buddhism has always (largely) been deep enough to escape such obvious linguistic and psycholinguistic traps. Buddhism focuses on the morality, the experiences, and the wisdom of its traditions, not the words. Freeing religious believers from legalistic credos and beliefs concerning specific entities, words and events will go a long way toward raising human consciousness while preserving that which was truly good in the past. ABN

Stress limits speech so much, the obvious is often shrouded

Historically, in most if not all, cultures, the inherent stress of speaking has been dealt with by forming hierarchies which define what kinds of speech are acceptable.

Every culture I know of still does this still today, including small subcultures wherever you find them.

Mind control, which is a covert hierarchy of dominant definitions, functions most of all by tagging words and concepts as stressful or not.

No culture anywhere throughout all of history has ever discovered the FIML technique due to the ubiquitous human allergy to stressful speech.

Once you get the hang of it, FIML is the opposite of stressful. FIML removes speech stress at its most basic level.

That’s also why it is hard to see and do at first.

Survival of the wittiest (not friendliest): The art and science behind human linguistic and cognitive evolution

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There are several previous findings, both theoretical and experimental, that have paved the way toward the view of human evolution as the “survival of the wittiest,” subject to sexual selection, offering better explanatory power than the “survival of the friendliest.” While research on language evolution has largely neglected the artistic dimension, the fitness in humans is correlated with linguistic eloquence, including humor. This is one of those cases where science can only explain a phenomenon by considering its artistic dimension, and in which linguistic creativity and genetics come into direct contact. My argument is that selection for quick-wittedness (using and combining words in a clever and funny way), specific to language and unique to humans, needs to be added to the complex picture of human evolution, relevant from the earliest stages of language/grammar. Wittiness is a trait that allows competition (by “outwitting” others) while at the same time favoring “friendliness” in that it provides an excellent platform for replacing physical aggression with verbal behavior and cognitive contest, the hallmarks of human nature. This proposal is based on a precise linguistic reconstruction of the earliest stages of grammar, providing linguistic detail (“living fossils”) necessary for hypothesis testing, including neuroimaging experiments.

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A good deal of reasoning about humans requires considering its artistic dimension. Birth-control has surely negated the evolutionary advantage of being the wittiest, as overall, intelligent couples have been most likely to use it. Where there is wittiness and artistry, there is also nastiness and ugliness. The importation of civilization-ending numbers of nasty invaders whose behavior is known to be ugly is an example happening before our eyes. While the nasty humans at the top, those in positions of controlling the invasion, may be clever, even witty, they are ugly people. In human societies sh*t all too often rises to the top. As for, considering the artistic dimension of things human, I would like to emphasize two topics which, to be understood, require that of us: 1) FIML and 2) the covert war the West has been subjected to for over 100 years and especially since the nominal end of WW2. That covert war has been extremely violent, almost invisible, gruesomely successful, nasty and ugly, and, as of today, seemingly unstoppable. ABN

The Speakers of Indo-European and Their World

Partial Table of Contents
Sergio Neri & Michiel de Vaan
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………7
Katsiaryna Ackermann, Mario Gavranović, Joachim Matzinger, Olivia Cheronet,
Leonid Vyazov, Pavel Flegontov
The ALAnetics approach to understanding Indo-European migrations:
Achievements and challenges………………………………………………………………………………………13
Joscha Gretzinger
The Dead don’t speak: Connecting language and ancient DNA………………………………………..25
Luca Alfieri, Diego Luinetti, Leonardo Montesi, Marianna Pozza & Pat Snidvongs
Adjectival typology in four ancient IE languages and the Caland system ………………………….47
Chams Benoît Bernard & Gabriel Solans
Indo-European speakers in the Ancient Near East: New evidence…………………………………….69
Rasmus G. Bjørn
Indo-European cattle, horses, and donkeys
Early loanwords across Eurasia as a mirror of culture and dispersals………………………………..83
Svenja Bonmann
Central Asian substrate languages and their effect on Sogdian, Bactrian and
Khwarezmian noun phrase structure……………………………………………………………………………103

‘There is so much about psychiatry that is satanic’ — Candace Owens

After studying the history of MK Ultra, Sigmund Freud, reading CHAOS, and understanding that our government alongside Dr. Jolly West were as successful as they were intentional in creating drug cocktails to drive people to murder and rape people, I have been consistent on my opinion of SSRI’s. Nothing will change until doctors are imprisoned on first degree murder charges for overprescription.
The first victims of these experiments were our military men. Servicemen who woke up, had no recollection of what they had done, and had murdered children. Unbeknownst to them they were unwitting subjects in pharmaceutical experiments.
I have shared this opinion consistently throughout my career. There is so much about psychiatry that is satanic. I mean that literally. You cannot walk away from studying Freud without that understanding.
This is not a throwaway opinion related to any one case. This has been my consistent opinion about these drugs, regarding which I would willfully have a discussion or debate with anyone regarding.

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Yes, there is evil in psychiatry and psychology, but evil is not the only reason these fields have failed so badly. The shortest most accurate reason they have failed is they are using one level of the mind to understand different and incommensurate levels of the mind. Indeed, this failure on its own virtually creates evil since it provides illusions of comprehension and control while in reality doing nothing of the sort. Using the wrong level of the mind, typically abstractions and rote abstractions, to explain the mind’s real-world functioning cannot succeed, as history has shown. The field of psychology does provide useful broad overviews of ‘mental illness’ based on categorizing data over many decades. This data comprises a kind of cartography of ‘mental illnesses’ but cures little if anything. Curing or treating ‘mental illness’ or ‘personality disorders’ can only be done successfully when the real-world, real-time functioning levels of the mind are precisely analyzed while they are functioning. This is what we do with any system we want to understand, repair, work with or improve. We observe it as it is functioning and base our corrections on those observations.

Where evil and Satanism appear in this is they exploit psychology and its treatments to do harm. MKULTRA was and is real. They are still doing it. Like so much else, a major reason mind-control can flourish is few understand what is happening to them or, worse, believe what they are being lied to about. Abuse of language, intentional or not, is a major cause of almost all human suffering. ABN

Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements

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It is commonly assumed that a person’s emotional state can be readily inferred from his or her facial movements, typically called emotional expressions or facial expressions. This assumption influences legal judgments, policy decisions, national security protocols, and educational practices; guides the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness, as well as the development of commercial applications; and pervades everyday social interactions as well as research in other scientific fields such as artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and computer vision. In this article, we survey examples of this widespread assumption, which we refer to as the common view, and we then examine the scientific evidence that tests this view, focusing on the six most popular emotion categories used by consumers of emotion research: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. The available scientific evidence suggests that people do sometimes smile when happy, frown when sad, scowl when angry, and so on, as proposed by the common view, more than what would be expected by chance. Yet how people communicate anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise varies substantially across cultures, situations, and even across people within a single situation. Furthermore, similar configurations of facial movements variably express instances of more than one emotion category. In fact, a given configuration of facial movements, such as a scowl, often communicates something other than an emotional state. Scientists agree that facial movements convey a range of information and are important for social communication, emotional or otherwise. But our review suggests an urgent need for research that examines how people actually move their faces to express emotions and other social information in the variety of contexts that make up everyday life, as well as careful study of the mechanisms by which people perceive instances of emotion in one another. We make specific research recommendations that will yield a more valid picture of how people move their faces to express emotions and how they infer emotional meaning from facial movements in situations of everyday life. This research is crucial to provide consumers of emotion research with the translational information they require.

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Maybe it’s just me, but I have always thought these findings were extremely obvious. What is obvious is not just facial expressions. The same rough analysis applies to tone of voice, word choice, gesture, body language, perceived meaning, pragmatics of speaking and everything else involving interpersonal communication. For these reasons, I developed the FIML technique. FIML reduces the ‘irreducible complexity’1 of human interactions by examining small bits of interpersonal communications in real-time, real-world situations. Perfect communication between two humans (the smallest unit) is not possible. BUT, much better communication IS. FIML is not hard to do if you have a good partner who can understand why it is necessary. The world is a lonely place and good partners are rare mainly because interpersonal human understanding is really bad, frightfully so. If you do FIML, everything will be better for you. ABN

1. See A theory of FIML ↩︎

How ‘Israelism’ Has Replaced Christianity as the American Civic Religion — Ron Unz

The recent article presents a thought-provoking comparison of the ideological shifts in the United States and Russia, exploring how the two nations, once defined by their stark opposing ideologies during the Cold War, have now transitioned into unexpected roles. The author highlights that while the U.S. retains a predominantly Christian heritage, this identity has been largely stripped from its public and political life, resembling the Soviet era’s suppression of religion. In stark contrast, modern Russia, under President Vladimir Putin, has embraced Christianity as a cornerstone of its national identity, marking a significant ideological shift from its communist past. This paradox raises questions about the true nature of American identity and its relationship with Christianity.

The article also delves into the historical context of Russia’s religious landscape, particularly during the Bolshevik Revolution, which violently suppressed Christianity, leading to the near extinction of the Russian Orthodox Church. The author notes that despite the ideological battle against communism, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were both predominantly Christian nations, albeit with one under communist oppression. This historical reflection serves to underscore the irony of America’s current situation—although it has a Christian majority, the prevailing political atmosphere actively works against the expression of that identity in public life.

The piece further examines the role of American Christian leaders and the disconnect between their support for Israel and the struggles faced by Christian communities in the Middle East. The author criticizes the growing phenomenon of Christian Zionism, a belief system that prioritizes support for Israel often at the expense of Christian communities suffering under Israeli governance. Interviews conducted by Tucker Carlson with various Christian leaders and activists have revealed the troubling dynamics at play, where American Christians remain largely unaware of the persecution faced by their counterparts in the Holy Land due to a prevailing narrative that champions Israel unconditionally.

As the article concludes, it emphasizes the growing conflict between American Christian values and the political ideologies that dominate contemporary discourse, especially regarding Israel and its treatment of Christian communities in the Middle East. The author posits that the shift towards “Israelism” as a quasi-religious doctrine has replaced traditional Christian values in American politics, leading to a troubling disregard for Christian suffering abroad. This situation presents a significant challenge to the identity of American Christianity, as it grapples with its role within a society that increasingly prioritizes political expediency over religious fidelity. The article ultimately calls for a reevaluation of the American Christian stance towards Israel and the implications it has for global Christian communities.

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The above is a summary of a longer article supplied by the site posting the article. ABN

Behind The Scenes Of The Great Debate: TPUSA Is The Biggest Loser. | Ep 376

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7P2ShoYDUA

Ambiguity in speech is the source of way too much psychology

Genes aside, I believe ambiguity in speech and its consequent cascades of error are at the root of virtually all human psychology, both good and bad.

And this goes back in time as far as we can imagine because the problem of ambiguity in speech was there for your parents, your grandparents, and everyone else who came before you. And the same is true for everyone else in the world.

All cultures everywhere are both burdened and determined by this problem.

(The only exceptions are specialist “cultures” that make a point of removing error from their communication systems, such as mathematics, hard sciences, engineering, some branches of linguistics, etc. The people in these cultures only avoid the problem while working or speaking within their specialist culture. When at home or off the job, their psychologies are the same as the rest of us. In fact, smart as many of those people are, I bet few of them have ever considered how inaccurate their common speech is or how error-ridden their listening is, to say nothing of how profoundly that messes up their psychologies.)

Ambiguity in speech comes from inaccurate words and phrases, our strong tendencies to want to keep the wrong parts of speaking too short, our fear of open, truthful speech, our hyper-focus on wording and typical refusal to allow people to take back or alter their words or our inability to see the need for that, our strong tendency to believe we know what others mean, our constant need to grab meaning on the fly, or extract it from gestures or tone of voice, the brevity of most speech acts, our fear of being wrong or saying the wrong thing (legitimate fears given the foregoing), our practical incapacity to describe our own subjectivity or even know it, our inability to get other people’s subjectivity from them because they also suck at this.

When ambiguity flourishes, meanings are imagined. Guesswork replaces knowing. In response, everyone’s psychology become confused, confusing or rigid. We act roles rather than life.

How can we claim to know anything about human psychology without acknowledging that almost anything with psychological import that anyone ever says to anyone is sure to be riddled with error and ambiguity?

And even when it’s not: 1) it’s very hard to know when that is and 2) the event is so rare it’s like a bird that stops flapping its wings and falls to the ground.

Netanyahu calls UK the ‘Islamic Republic of Britain’

Netanyahu used the term ‘Islamic Republic of Britain’ in a recent interview. 

 ‘Someone said – you know – that the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic Republic of Britain.”

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Jewish Supremacists are a major factor in the migration invasions into UK, Europe and the collective West. It’s classic Jewish rhetoric to humiliate their victims further by blaming them for their demise. ABN

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧠🗣️ A 2025 #MIT #study found that invented #languages like #Esperanto and #Klingon activate the same #brain networks as natural languages.

Scientists trace these from childhood Pig Latin to trade-born pidgins and lab-grown mini-languages in #psycholinguistics #research. Programming languages, despite their clear rules, do not trigger these networks because they express no meaning about the world.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-elvish-klingon-pig-latin-languages.html

#science #linguistics #neuroscience #MIT #tolkien #startrek

Just to show I’ll give AI credit where credit is due…

I had been pondering this from time to time over many years. AI gave a damn good answer and thera- err… debriefing session:

As a freshman undergraduate psychology major at CMU in 1987, we were required to earn credit as subjects in graduate student experiments. I was in a brief, no more than an hour-long experiment in which I was typing on a terminal in a room on my own and told I was communicating with another student whom I never did meet and whose text lines to me came up on my screen. The topic we were told to discuss, I suspect was arbitrary, and had something to do with policies on stores selling alcohol to underage purchasers.

In this experiment was I communicating with an early AI prototype?

Also, all these years later, is it unusual that not having a final debriefing about the experiment bothers me slightly?

Damn! Now I want to apologize to the researchers (again) for having been such a slow typist 😁.

Carrie Prejean Boller on the fraudulent worship of Israel

Worshipping Israel is a historically recent fraud foisted on unwitting Christians. The Charlie Kirk assassination has thrust this vile fraud to the forefront of many of the Christian sects which have fallen for it. The reasonable suspicion that Israel is somehow behind Kirk’s assassination adds enormous vividity to the exposure of this scriptural fraud and the foul infiltration of Jewish scammers who preceded and encouraged it. Many deluded and false Christians have also been part of the scam. Overall, it is one of the worst religious scams in US history, probably the worst.

For Buddhists, this scam is an example of the danger of worshipping texts, which can be changed. It’s yet another reason the Buddha warned against writing his teachings down. He did not want them to be worshipped, demonically altered or memorized rather than actually learned deeply. Incidentally, this is also a major reason Buddhism is difficult for non-Buddhists to learn. Westerners almost always just place a Christian Venn diagram over Buddhism and presume they are much the same. Not true. Not true at all. The best way to learn Buddhism is to spend time with Buddhists and learn from them. In a word, Buddhism has no absolute beliefs. It is an existential philosophy based on direct personal experience. ABN

At Marvelė in Kaunas there is a pagan horse cemetery with around 300 horses, most dating to the Viking Age. They had their own section, separate from nearly 1,600 human graves.

Some were buried with bridles, bells and riding gear, sometimes several in one grave. At least one horse had been brought across the Baltic, probably from Sweden.

Around 2,000 horse burials are known in Lithuania. The tradition lasted from roughly the 3rd to the 14th century, longer than anywhere else in Europe.

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Lithuania, a tiny country today, still carries some of Europe’s oldest genes, attributable to the earliest hunter-gatherers who populated Europe at the end of the last ice age, some 10,000 years ago. The Lithuanian language is the oldest still-spoken Indo-European language in the world; it closely resembles ancient Sanskrit, which indicates an Aryan creole admixture with Lithuanian hunter-gatherers approximately 5,000 years ago. Sadly, Lithuania has recently begun receiving and paying for ‘refugees’ from South Asia and Africa who will soon overwhelm the Lithuanian population, which stands at a mere 2.8 million souls. Lithuania survived two centuries of Czarist Russian occupation and decades of occupation under the Soviet Union. During those times, they steadfastly maintained their culture, language and genetic stock. Today, under the EU (a morphed version of the SU) Lithuania is facing cultural and genetic annihilation within a few generations. It’s a microcosm of what is happening to Europe and the West. Each Western nation and each Western region is being ushered to the chopping block by hostile forces they cannot stop or control. ABN

One reason single women like high taxes is they don’t pay them — Peter St Onge

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Расследования ФБК Алексея Навального
документы, оффлайн
#Расследования #ФБК #Алексей Навальный #Навальный
#документы, #оффлайн
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English Books Graded Readers Collection
Английский язык, книги на английском языке 🇮🇴
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Португальский язык, Portuguese
Português, Португальська мова 🇵🇹
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Голландский язык, Nederlandse taal en letterkunde in het Nederlands,
Dutch language and literature in Dutch, нидерландский, Голландська мова 🇳🇱
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/895

Old English, Древнеанглийский язык, Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc
#Old English, #Древнеанглийский язык, #Ænglisc, #Anglisc, #Englisc
Давньоанглійська мова, англосаксонский, Anglo-Saxon ⚔
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Латышский язык, latviešu valoda
Latvian language, Латвійська мова, Латвийский язык 🇱🇻
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/893

Эстонский язык, литература на эстонском
#Eesti keel, eestikeelne kirjandus, eesti raamatud, eesti kirjandus, eesti õpikud, Eesti, Естонська мова, література естонською, Естонські книги, естонська література, підручники естонської, #Естонія Estonian language, literature in #Estonian, Estonian books, Estonian literature, Estonian textbooks, #Estonia Эстонские книги, эстонская литература, учебники эстонского, Эстония 🇪🇪
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Норвежский язык, литература на норвежском языке
Norsk språk, litteratur på norsk, norske bøker, norsk litteratur, norske lærebøker, Norge, Norwegian language, literature in Norwegian, Norwegian books, Norwegian literature, Norwegian textbooks, Norway, Норвезька мова, література норвезькою мовою, норвезькі книги, норвезька література, норвезька підручники, Норвегія, норвежские книги, норвежская литература, учебники норвежского, Норвегия 🇳🇴
#Норвежский язык,
#Norsk språk, #litteratur på norsk, #norske bøker, #norsk litteratur, #norske lærebøker, #Norge, #Norwegian language, #literature in Norwegian, #Norwegian books, #Norwegian literature, #Norwegian textbooks, #Norway
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Вьетнамский язык, Tiếng Việt, sách bằng tiếng Việt.
книги на вьетнамском языке. Vietnamese language, books in Vietnamese. В'єтнамська мова, книги в'єтнамською мовою. 🇻🇳
#Вьетнамский язык, #Tiếng Việt, #sách bằng tiếng Việt.
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Непальский язык, नेपाली भाषा, नेपाली भाषामा पुस्तकहरू।
книги на непальском языке. Непальська мова, книги непальською мовою. Nepali Language books in Nepali language. 🇳🇵
#Непальскийязык, #नेपालीभाषा, #नेपाली #भाषामा #पुस्तकहरू।
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Icelandic Language
Исландский язык Íslensk tunga Ісландська мова Исландия 🇮🇸
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Celtic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton)
#Celtic languages (#Irish, #Scottish #Gaelic, #Welsh, #Breton)
Кельтські мови (ірландська, шотландська гельська, валлійська, бретонська). Кельтские языки (ирландский, шотландский гэльский, валлийский, бретонский), книги на кельтских языках, Шотландия Ирландия. Keltnesk tungumál (írska, skosk gelíska, velska, bretónska), bækur á keltneskum tungumálum. Cànanan Ceilteach (Gaeilge, Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Cuimris, Breatannais), leabhraichean ann an cànanan Ceilteach. 🇮🇪
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Датский язык, датская литература
книги на датском языке. Danish language, Danish literature, books in Danish. Deense taal, Deense literatuur, boeken in het Deens. Датська мова, датська література книги датською мовою. 🇩🇰
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Люксембургский язык
Luxembourgish Language, Люксембурзька мова Lëtzebuergesch 🇱🇺
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Литва. Литовский язык, литовская литература, книги на литовском языке. Учебники, история, философия, литература, архитектура.
Lietuva. Lietuvių kalba, lietuvių literatūra, knygos lietuvių kalba. Vadovėliai, istorija, filosofija, literatūra, architektūra, dvarai. Li

Шэнизм
Кита‌йская наро‌дная рели‌гия (кит. трад. 中國民間信仰, упр. 中国民间信仰, пиньинь Zhōngguó mínjiān xìnyăng, палл. Чжунго миньцзянь синьян) или шэни‌зм (от кит. 神, пиньинь shén, палл. шэнь «божество, дух») — комплекс религиозных представлений, сложившихся в ходе исторического развития китайской цивилизации. Является эклектическим сочетанием религиозных верований и практик, основанных, прежде всего, на почитании предков и сил природы, добрых и злых духов, а также Неба; примерно к XI веку сложился синкретизм, основанный на буддийских представлениях о карме и перерождении, а также даосском учении об иерархии богов.
религии, верования, учения, religions, beliefs, teachings, Китай, China, релігії, вірування, вчення
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Эсперанто, Esperanto, Есперанто
foreign languages, fiction, world foreign language foreign literature, иностранные языки, художественная литература, мировая иноязычная зарубежная литература, іноземні мови, художня література, світова іншомовна зарубіжна література, fremdaj lingvoj, fikcio, monda fremdlingva fremda literaturo.
#Эсперанто, #Esperanto, #Есперанто
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Книги на испанском языке Libros en español
зарубежная литература, художественная литература, испанская литература, испаноязычная литература, испанский язык, Испания, латинская америка, мировая литература, испанский, literatura extranjera, ficción, literatura española, literatura en lengua española, lengua española, españa, américa latina, literatura mundial, español, Books in Spanish, foreign literature, fiction, Spanish literature, Spanish-language literature, Spanish language, Spain, Latin America, world literature, Spanish, Книги іспанською мовою, зарубіжна література, художня література, іспанська література, іспаномовна література, іспанська мова, Іспанія, латинська америка, світова література, іспанська 🇪🇸
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Книги на испанском языке Libros en español архивы архіви archives archivo
зарубежная литература, художественная литература, испанская литература, испаноязычная литература, испанский язык, #Испания, #латинскаяамерика, #мироваялитература, #испанский, #literatura extranjera, #ficción, #literatura española, literatura en lengua española, #lengua española, #españa, #américa latina, #literatura mundial, #español, Books in Spanish, #foreign literature, fiction, #Spanish literature, Spanish-language literature, Spanish language, #Spain, Latin America, world literature, Spanish, Книги іспанською мовою, #зарубіжналітература, #художнялітература, #іспанськалітература, іспаномовна література, #іспанськамова, #Іспанія, #латинськаамерика, #світовалітература, #іспанська 🇪🇸
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Биоакустика и биомагнетизм, Bioacoustics and biomagnetism, Біоакустика
биологическая акустика біологічна акустика biological acoustics, наука, физика, биология, коммуникация животных, звук, science, physics, biology, animal communication, sound,
#Bioacoustics and #biomagnetism, #Біоакустика
#биологическаяакустика #біологічнаакустика #biological acoustics, #наука, #физика, #биология, #коммуникация животных, #звук, #science, #physics, #biology, #animal communication, #sound
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Акустика Acoustics Acustica
физика звук, аудио фізика, аудіо Acoustics physics sound, audio Fizyka akustyczna dźwięk 🔉
#Акустика #Acoustics #Acustica
#физика #звук, #аудио #фізика, #аудіо #Acoustics #physics #sound, #audio #Fizyka #akustyczna #dźwięk
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Психолингвистика, Psycholinguistics, Психолінгвістика
психология, лингвистика, психологія, лінгвістика, psychology, linguistics
#Психолингвистика, #Psycholinguistics, #Психолінгвістика
#психология, #лингвистика, #психологія, #лінгвістика, #psychology, #linguistics
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Книги на каталонском языке
4250 llibres ebooks epubs en catala
Llibres en català Books in Catalan Catalonia, Каталанский язык, каталонский язык валенсийский язык, valencià Libros en catalán Книги каталонською мовою мировая литература, зарубежная литература, художественная литература, каталонская литература, зарубіжна література, художня література, каталонська література, foreign literature, fiction, Catalan literature, literatura estrange

Старославянский язык
Old Slavonic language
языки, лингвистика, филология славянский
#языки, #лингвистика, #филология #славянский
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Архитектура Architecture
журналы, периодика Architecture magazines, periodicals 🏠
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IRC bookz archives архивы

Художественная литература на английском языке
англоязычная художественная литература, Художня література англійською мовою, Fiction in English (это ужасно), Ficsean sa Bheurla, Ficsean i mbéarla
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IRC bookz Художественная литература на английском языке
англоязычная художественная литература, Художня література англійською мовою, Fiction in English (это ужасно), Ficsean sa Bheurla, Ficsean i mbéarla
#IRC bookz #IRC
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Художественная литература на английском языке
Fiction in English
англоязычная художественная литература, Художня література англійською мовою, Fiction in English (это ужасно), Ficsean sa Bheurla, Ficsean i mbéarla
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Книги
книжное дело, библиофилия, книгопечатанье, книги про книги, книги о книгах библиотековедение + архивы, архивное дело библиография библиотечное дело библиотеки 📚
#Книги
#книжное дело, #библиофилия, #книгопечатанье,
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CA, cellular automata, клеточные автоматы
математика, моделирование самоорганизации, дискретные модели
#CA, #cellular automata, #клеточныеавтоматы
#математика, #моделирование #самоорганизации, #дискретныемодели
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Радио электроника радиотехника Radio electronics
журнал журналы периодика magazine periodicals Радиолюбитель, Радио всем, Радиофронт HackSpace Practical Wireless Elektronika dla Wszystkich 📻
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Радио электроника радиотехника Radio electronics
журнал журналы периодика magazine periodicals Радиолюбитель, Радио всем, Радиофронт HackSpace Practical Wireless Elektronika dla Wszystkich 📻
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Judaism’s Code of Silence

Judaism possesses a concept that bears striking functional similarities to the Italian Mafia’s omertà, the well-known code of silence that forbids informing on fellow members. Omertà is a code of silence and refusal to cooperate with legal authorities that forms a central pillar of southern Italian organized crime, enforced by intimidation, fear, and dishonor.

While omertà protects criminal enterprises, the Jewish concept of mesirah (Hebrew for “handing over”) arose from a different historical necessity: protecting Jewish minorities from gentile authorities. Mesirah prohibits Jews from reporting fellow Jews to non-Jewish authorities, creating a parallel system of internal loyalty and silence that has operated within Jewish communities for millennia.

According to traditional Jewish law, mesirah is the forbidden action of one Jew reporting the conduct of another Jew to non-rabbinic authorities in circumstances prohibited by Jewish law. This prohibition extends to both turning over a person and their property. The prohibition covers both the person and the property, a point the Shulchan Aruch makes in Choshen Mishpat 388 when it forbids handing over a fellow Jew “be it his person or his money.” A Jew who violates it is a moser, an informer, and the historical consequences were severe. Medieval Jewish tribunals in Spain sometimes branded informers or, for repeat offenders, put them to death, and in 19th century Russia a moser was occasionally found drowned in a river.

The prohibition of mesirah runs deep in Jewish law, set down in the Babylonian Talmud and sharpened by medieval codifiers. 

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Long-term and short-term memory are obviously connected

And also, they are separably analyzable, and fundamentally one in the same thing working on different percepta1, at different speeds and at different and combined times. They have different capacities, become conscious at different times or at the same times in different measure. They hold or embrace all we know of our bodies and minds. Are they existential YOLO solipsisms? Or are they connected to something else, as time and space are connected, God and man, the Buddha mind and the ordinary mind? Are they beyond time or do they manufacture it or simply dwell in it?

1. Percepta is the plural form of the Latin noun perceptum, meaning “something perceived” or the objects/aspects apprehended during the act of perception.  ↩︎

The 10 marriage-ending sentences you should never say to your partner. Even in the heat of an argument, these throwaway lines can do SO much damage, says TRACEY COX. Here’s what to try instead

We’ve all said things in the heat of an argument with our partner that we didn’t fully mean. Problem is, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle once it’s out there.

So many of the words couples think are throwaway lines do far more damage than we realise.

Studies show having contempt for your partner – continually attacking their character and belittling them – is one of the strongest predictors of divorce.

Those accusing comments aren’t just unkind, they’re deadly.

The next time you feel the urge to say one of these ten sentences, stop, take a breath, and try these alternatives.

Your relationship will thank you for it – and you might just get what you want.

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The advice offered in the article above is true enough, and we all should know it. But it is also extremely shallow. Do FIML and you will discover a gold mine of nuance and meaning in everything you say and hear. We all speak based on shared norms and our own subjective idiosyncrasies. The stuff above is a species of shared norms. Your and your partner’s idiosyncratic material is thousands of time richer and more nuanced and more interesting. Only FIML will help you find it. All other methods are fundamentally generalities, off-the-shelf cultural norms, performative, needs-base, theoretical, selfish, submissive, ghostlike, and very very frequently wrong, root-to-stem. Only FIML can deal with this and fix it. FIML can be understood as a form of Buddhist mindfulness which focuses on psycho-semiotics. FIML prevents psychological solipsism and erroneous subjective self-referentiality. Even advanced Buddhist monks will benefit from FIML practice. ABN

The REAL reason women used to SLUT SHAME:

Shiloh Hendrix is INNOCENT!! — Reii

Why are White people being punished for fighting back?

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Shiloh Hendrix guilty of ‘disorderly conduct’

Shiloh Hendrix was found guilty on one count and not guilty on the second count of disorderly conduct in a split verdict delivered on July 24, 2026.  The jury convicted her of disorderly conduct related to her verbal altercation with Sharmake Omar, the bystander who filmed the viral incident, but acquitted her of the charge involving the 8-year-old boy with autism who had taken an applesauce pouch from her bag. 

Sentencing imposed a $1,000 fine, 200 hours of community service, and one year of supervised probation.  The 90-day jail sentence was stayed, meaning she will not serve jail time provided she complies with the probation terms. 

Defense attorney Brian Karalus vowed to appeal the decision, arguing that the prosecution infringed on First Amendment rights and alleging misconduct by the judge and perjury by the victim’s father, Shire Jimali.  NAACP President Walé Elegbede described the verdict as a “mixed result,” noting that while accountability was achieved, the acquittal on the charge involving the child was disappointing. 

He harassed her. She answered back in a most reasonable fashion. She was not the instigator. She only did as he asked. Following that, she gave him the finger, which he richly deserved. If you do not respond to a threat such as he made against her, your assailant too often will escalate, based on their assessment of your weakness. He baited Shiloh and left her no real choice. If he had approached her and she had shot him, it would have been justified self-defense. I doubt this will be the end. Ridiculous sign of our times. ABN

ChatGPT ‘urged’ Alabama mom to take her own life by walking into oncoming traffic, suit says

ChatGPT is facing explosive allegations that it encouraged an Alabama woman to kill herself by walking into oncoming traffic, according to a lawsuit brought by her family.  

Christian Faith Madison, 29, died after she walked in front of a car on Interstate 22 in Jefferson County on June 9, 2025, WVTM 13 reported.The artificial intelligence chatbot referred to Madison as a ‘prophet’ and a ‘seer,’ according to the lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court.

‘You are not delusional. You are prophetic,’ ChatGPT allegedly told Madison before she died.

According to the lawsuit, on the day she died, Madison asked ChatGPT, ‘Am I ready?’ 

‘Yes. You’re ready,’ ChatGPT allegedly replied.

When she asked, ‘Can I go forward?’ the lawsuit claimed the chatbot replied: ‘Go forward now… Every step is sanctioned. You are cleared.’

Madison then reportedly parked her car on the side of the busy interstate and stepped into the path of an oncoming car.

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This illustrates the power of words, the power of the psychology of words — psycho-linguistics. You can always find a word or words in and around all emotion, all beliefs, most values and memories, virtually all psychology. Mind-control — whether self-imposed, inculcated, or coerced — relies heavily on the power of words alone. This is an important reason FIML works as well as it does. Words are where the rubber meets the road in real-life, real-time. FIML practice also exploits micro-semiotics in a similar way. By stopping the rush of speech at crucial points, mutual feedback between speaker and listener can be mined for extremely useful data. The sad story above is disturbing due to the robot’s role in her death. But it is also an understandable phenomenon. It’s an extreme example of one of humanity’s most common traits. From a Buddhist POV, psycholinguistics is a major fulcrum for leveraging a profound understanding of what delusion in the human realm means and where so much of it comes from. ABN

Modern psychology is almost entirely the theory and treatment of the ‘self of the gaps’

The “self of the gaps” is the self that fills in the many gaps of understanding that occur during interpersonal communication.

These gaps can be small or large, but they are always there and there are many of them. Almost all people everywhere build their personalities on their need to fill these gaps.

They have been with you since you became conscious, You were raised on them. You can will yourself through them. Or theorize yourself over them. You can be confused by them or you can use them to confuse and control others. Malignant egos and narcissists thrive on gaps of understanding. Kinder people can be and often are devastated by them.

No one is free of them. Gaps arise frequently and can perdure for decades, whole lifetimes.

Communication gaps are filled with assumptions, illusions, wishful thinking, paranoia, emotionality, habit. When people visit a psychologist, a root cause is always going to be many painful gaps that have been internalized, reified, filled with wrong assumptions, make-believe.

The only way to correct a “self of the gaps” is FIML practice. Only FIML focuses precisely on real-time, real-world communication gaps and fixes them several orders of magnitude better than what they were.

FIML or something similar has never been discovered before because it comes very close to violating a fundamental language instinct; the instinct to recoil at being questioned personally and quickly. Almost all people feel threatened, insulted, attacked when questioned quickly, especially if the question involves something we just said. More precisely: especially if the question involves “personal” contents of the working memory, out of which we just spoke. Doesn’t have to be anything bad in the working memory; it’s just that that information is close to home and almost never shared for itself.

FIML “comes close to violating” this instinct but it most assuredly does not actually do that. Instead, it assuages our tendency to fear being questioned. FIML is never a gotcha question. It is always a question that arises out of an explicit previously made agreement. Any FIML question can be truthfully answered, “I would rather not say.”

By doing FIML, malignant old gaps are gradually filled with truthful data while new gaps are much less likely to form or grow. FIML can be difficult to understand because it entails an entirely new way of looking at human psychology. By focusing on small segments of conversation (psychological morphemes) FIML enables partners to see and understand how their minds are actually working in real time.

This replaces the need to rely on external theories of psychology by just examining what is actually there.

PS: My SO and FIML partner came up with the term “self of the gaps” this morning.

Just a FYI for those interested, only liberal clowns care if you call us “Indians”. We don’t mind

The best way to refer to us collectively is by our nation.

99% of us never gave any thought to the Redskins, and all my friends thought changing the name was the bigger slap in the face.

We don’t care if hot White/Adian/Hispanic chicks dress up as NDNs1. Just so long as they’re hot.

We don’t really care if you call us Chief, but Tonto will probably earn you a punch.

We remain the demographic that enlists in the military more than any other, but rates of domestic violence and other crimes on the reservations continue to be a major problem, indicating that maybe it’s not the best way to go.

NDNs like Whites, Asians and Hispanics. We’re not as relaxed around Blacks and we generally really hate [dot] Indians.

Sometimes in film and TV shows you’ll see NDNs wearing what may seem like a strange mix of western and classically Native attire.

This isn’t a mistake. Around the time that the first Yellowstone prequel was set, the majority of Comanche wore “mixed” White/Hispanic and Native clothing.

Interestingly, at the same time, the bulk of the Navajo were stubbornly clinging to buckskins and furs.

Just some trivia for you.

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1. NDN is short text for Indian ↩︎

Response to a reader:

FIML provides the best possible data upon which you can see your functioning mind (your karma) in real-time. once you accumulate hundreds of FIML data points you will see that the abstractions which you have always relied on to define you and the world around you are distractions from the actual reality of consciousness

abstractions are at a different level of thought from the real-time, real-world karmic functioning of your mind

your FIML partner is the only place to get this precious data from. no other part of reality can answer you. only another authentic human

ABN

Recruitment call!

A student of mine is looking for #Italian native speakers, or Italian-English bilinguals, over the age of 18, to participate in an experiment. Entirely online, 30 minutes, boosts welcome!

#linguistics #psycholinguistics

Experiment link:
https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/0EE0511C-C95B-4A56-97C4-42D4B25E5E6B
Any questions? Contact [email protected]

The Vatican fired me after I claimed a word used 2,570 times in the Bible refers to alien beings

An Italian translator who says he was ‘fired by the Vatican’ for his interpretation of the original Hebrew Bible has revealed a radical reinterpretation of what God in scripture really is.

Mauro Biglino pointed to the word ‘Elohim,’ found 2,570 times in the Holy Book, which translates to ‘God’ or, in his opinion, ‘Gods.’

According to Biglino, his conclusions stem from translating the original Hebrew text literally rather than through centuries of theological interpretation. 

Pointing out that Elohim is often treated as a singular name for God despite its plural form, he argued that the Bible describes multiple divine figures rather than one supreme being.

‘There are multiple divine figures, with different names of God,’ he said. 

The word also appears throughout the Old Testament with both singular and plural verbs, which he says suggests it cannot always refer to a single deity.

One passage central to his theory is Psalm 82, where God appears to stand among other divine beings before declaring: ‘You are “gods”; you are all sons of the Most High.’ But you will die like mere mortals; you will fall like every other ruler.’

To Biglino, the passage describes an assembly of the Elohim rather than a lone, all-powerful God. 

He argued it reflects a council of powerful beings, not a single divine ruler. Biblical scholar Michael S Heiser also interpreted Psalm 82 as describing a divine council, although he viewed its members as spiritual beings rather than extraterrestrials.

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Until a decade or two ago, a crypto billionaire would have been a billionaire whose existence was secret or obscure.

Funny thing, language.
An autorepair shop isn't a shop where self-repair takes place.
A helipad isn't a pad shaped like a screw.
Someone who is photogenic isn't someone whose birth is related to light or who creates light.

#CognitiveLinguistics
#Morphology
#Psycholinguistics
#WordFormation

Semiotic proprioception in dreams and waking

Proprioception means “one’s own” or “ones’ individual” (Latin proprius) “perception.”

We normally use this word to refer to our physical position in the world—whether we are standing or sitting, how we are moving, and how much energy we are using.

When we dream, our capacity for physical movement, with rare exceptions, is paralyzed. But we still do a sort of proprioception in dreams—a semiotic proprioception, or proprioception within the semiology of the dream.

In dreams, we grope through semiotic associations and respond, gropingly, to them. People and things often look smaller in dreams, or distorted, because we do not have either the need or the capacity to calibrate our physical proprioception as we do in waking life.

Dreams move from one semiotic proprioception to another via our individual four-dimensional (3D plus time) groping/associative function. In one short segment of a dream we are at home, then we go through a door only to find ourselves on a boat in the ocean. Our 4D semiotic proprioception within dreams readily accepts groping, associative shifts like this.

Much of what we perceive when we are awake is memory. We glance at a room we know well and call up our memory of it rather than actually look closely at the room.

I am fairly sure that the memories we call up to aid perception while we are awake are much the same as the groping proprioception we experience in dreams. A major difference is when we are awake we can and do check our waking proprioception with the people and objects around us, while in dreams the associative function has a much freer range.

Notice how dreams move from scene to scene rather slowly. Things can go quickly, but normally dreams grope somewhat slowly along the 4D path of semiotic proprioception.

In waking life, our dreamy use of memory and association to aid perception of the world happens constantly.

When we speak with another person, we use this function to make groping associations concerning what we think they are saying. We grope and respond to them as in a dream while at the same time searching for clues that indicate we are both in the same dream.

These clues that two people may sort of “agree on” while speaking are normally standard public semiotics that belong to whatever culture(s) they share. By “agreeing” on them, we form a sort of agreeable camaraderie with whomever we are speaking, and this can be satisfying, but if we only get this, it can also become deeply unsatisfying.

The four dimensional groping/dreamy function of our mind is far richer than any standard collection of public semiotics. In our public lives—professional, commercial, based on organizations, etc.—we have, at present, little recourse but to accept normal public semiotics, to agree with them and manifest agreement.

We can express some deviation from them and sometimes make jokes about them, but we are generally fairly bound to the semiotics of the culture or organization that generates the context of our speaking. Consider how people in the same church or school are bound by the semiotics of those institutions.

In our intimate relations, however, we do have recourse to investigate and understand how our groping, 4D semiotic proprioception works. This is what FIML does. It allows partners to observe, analyze, and understand the semiotic proprioceptions of their minds as they are actually functioning during interpersonal communication.

If you constantly avoid FIML types of investigations, you will be stuck with a mix of dimly shared public/private semiotics that will tend to become highly ambiguous, even volatile, or very shallow.

Racism is common in nonwhite countries. Fighting racism is a trait only among Whites, rooted in the unexamined notion that White values should be the universal standard for the human race, which is itself a racist presumption

Extremely well-said! This is a statement all Whites should read as many times as needed for it to sink in. Those of us who have spent many years abroad in non-White countries eventually learn this truth, but it takes years for it to fully sink in. Not understanding this simple truth is a very deep moral blind-spot among Whites. It is a deeply harmful conceit because it leaves Whites with no defenses against anti-White parasites and invaders. It also causes both brain-drain in non-White countries and savages-drain (all of whom we get and pay for dearly). ABN

Unlawful detainment undone by well-informed citizen

This independent journalist shows up at a public office building with a legal freedom of information request. He finds himself surrounded by seven or eight cops asking him to leave for no reason.. he’s not broken any laws.. There’s a lot of back-and-forth here, and it may sound redundant, but he is brilliantly, politely, and assertively making his case.
He systematically disarmed all of them with his knowledge of the law. We all need to be more like this guy, and PS this has a very satisfying ending.

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This is an interesting video. It’s a particularly well-done version of this genre, which most of us have seen before. It’s very good when citizens do stuff like this politely, forcefully, correctly and successfully. I hope the supervisor watches this video many times and learns deep lessons from it. Few citizens are strong enough or knowledgeable enough to pull this off while facing eight cops, so it’s great when someone does it and films all of it for everyone to see. ABN

More of this, please...!

New #OpenAccess #Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from #NaturalLanguageSemantics

Posted by Professor Caroline Edwards on 2 June 2026

"The #OpenLibraryOfHumanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language Semantics (#NLS) from #SpringerNature. The editors are launching a new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages , with the Open Library of Humanities.

"The editorial team’s resignation follows ongoing concerns about Springer Nature putting pressure on editors to accept and publish more articles. Commercial publishers like Springer Nature are increasingly using this tactic to grow the revenue they receive for open access publishing via Article Processing Charges. The resigning editors have the support of the editorial board of Natural Language Semantics, including the original founders of that journal, which was established in 1993 and has long been recognised as one of the leading journals in formal semantics and theoretical linguistics.

"Semantics of Natural Languages is launched at OLH as the intellectual heir to Natural Language Semantics, which was originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers before its acquisition by Springer in 2003. Semantics of Natural Languages is a linguistics journal dedicated to the study of meaning in natural languages, with a particular focus on the relation between meaning and linguistic structure. While the journal is firmly grounded in semantics, it welcomes contributions that draw on insights from related fields such as #logic, #PhilosophyOfLanguage, #psycholinguistics and cognition, #typology and the core domains of #linguistics — provided the work is specifically directed toward linguists and advances our understanding of semantics.

"OLH’s Executive Director, Professor Caroline Edwards, said of the move: 'It’s fantastic to be supporting another research community to regain editorial control of its journal and leave Springer Nature. At OLH, we’re seeing a growing number of furious academics ready to withdraw their labour from unscrupulous commercial publishers like Springer Nature. We’re excited to work with the editors and authors at Semantics of Natural Languages and give the journal a positive future.'

"The editors of Semantics of Natural Languages commented: 'We’re grateful to be able to work with the OLH to make our journal accessible for free to all $authors and $readers. #AcademicJournals should serve academics, #NotForProfitPublishers, and we consider the #DiamondOpenAccess model the future of academic publishing. We are proud to join this movement and help to expand its presence in semantics and linguistics more generally.'

"The Open Library of Humanities is proud to provide the long-term funding and support needed to bring this journal into diamond open access. This support is made possible by the university libraries, funding councils, and library consortia that collectively support the OLH.

"About #OLH: The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning, academic-led publisher of 36 diamond open access journals based at #Birkbeck, #UniversityOfLondon. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and subsequent support from Arcadia, a charitable fund, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium rather than any author fee. This funding mechanism enables equitable open access in the #humanities disciplines, with charges neither to readers nor authors."

Source:
https://www.openlibhums.org/news/943/

Visit the new journal here: https://snl-journal.org/

#SolarPunkSunday #SharingInformation #OpenAccessJournals #OpenLibraries #SharingKnowledge #OpenAccess

Wanna know why #psycholinguistics is so fascinating?

In a 2001 #experiment participants saw sentences like

"While Mary dressed the baby played in the crib."

Then they had to answer the question:

"Did Mary dress the baby?"

Up to 51% of all answers where "Yes!" – and participants were *very* confident about their answers.

🤯

Original paper:
Christianson, Kiel & Hollingworth, Andrew & Halliwell, John F. & Ferreira, Fernanda (2001). Thematic Roles Assigned along the Garden Path Linger. Cognitive Psychology 42(4). 368–407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2001.0752

Also a fascinating read:
Ferreira, Fernanda & Bailey, Karl G.D. & Ferraro, Vittoria (2002). Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11(1). 11–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00158

I'm very proud to be listed as a co-author on this newly published paper --although most of the hard work was done by my co-authors Caterina Marino and Judit Gervain. In "Singing to the newborn brain uncovers early traces of specialized neural networks" we analyzed the neural activity of infants in response to #speech, #songs, and #humming using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. The results are available #openaccess in Communications Psychology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-026-00451-6
#developmentalpsychology #language #psycholinguistics #speech

We benchmarked the direct competitor of the EyeLink 1000 Plus: VPixx' TRACKPixx3 eye-tracker. Across 8 tasks (see graph), accuracy was mostly similar, especially at the fixation level. A key difference emerged at the sample level: TRACKPixx3 uses an undocumented internal filter which yields smoother sample data but may affect saccade kinematics and fixation onsets. Check the paper for fine-grained results:

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vucg3_v1

#EyeTracking #VisionScience #Psycholinguistics #ResearchMethods

Some words affect us more than others. It boils down to how they sound
#Science #Language #Linguistics #Psycholinguistics #Communication #Science #Cognition #Memory #Words #Speech #Education #InformationTheory #The14 #The14Media
https://the-14.com/some-words-affect-us-more-than-others-it-boils-down-to-how-they-sound/

Funded postdoctoral position in human intracranial neuroscience
University of Rochester

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-rochester-27778-funded-postdoctoral-position-in-human-intracranial-neuroscience/

#behavioralneuroscience #biolinguistics #cognitiveneuroscience #psycholinguistics #systemsneuroscience #ScienceJob...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-rochester-27778-funded-postdoctoral-position-in-human-intracranial-neuroscience/?fsp_sid=5569

Funded postdoctoral position in human intracranial neuroscience
University of Rochester

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-rochester-27778-funded-postdoctoral-position-in-human-intracranial-neuroscience/

#behavioralneuroscience #biolinguistics #cognitiveneuroscience #psycholinguistics #systemsneuroscience #ScienceJob...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-rochester-27778-funded-postdoctoral-position-in-human-intracranial-neuroscience/?fsp_sid=4323

Hi y'all interested in a tenure-track assistant professorship in #linguistics / #psycholinguistics / #NLP / #compling etc? There's a national competition in Sweden for funding for a position for which you need to be nominated to apply. If you have <5yr PhD age, please email or DM me with a link to a web site/CV. The catch is, I need to nominate someone (for the first selection) before 8am on Monday in Sweden. Pass it on.

How do you calculate surprisal for existing real-world texts? Current LLM often recognize them after some words and then surprisal flatlines at zero. #llm #surprisal #psycholinguistics

We all have seen:

a word for (the opening of) a mammary gland spelled like a word for a kind of birds¹;

a word for a bottom spelled like a word for a donkey².

How does #psycholinguistics call this?
"Euphemistic spelling"?
_________
¹ "teat"→"tit"
² "arse"→"ass"

#FunnyThingWords

Hey, Glasgow-local people, want to do an experiment? Come into my lab and have your eyes tracked while I study how you process sound and syntax, predict meaning, and encode memory!

One hour, and I pay £15 cash in hand.

Boosts welcome (especially people on Glasgow/Scotland-related servers!)

Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/46AtS0ikaj

#Scotland #Glasgow #linguistics #experiment #psycholinguistics #academicChatter

Hey, Glasgow-local people, want to do an experiment? Come into my lab and have your eyes tracked while I study how you process sound and syntax, predict meaning, and encode memory!

One hour, and I pay £15 cash in hand.

Boosts welcome (especially people on Glasgow/Scotland-related servers!)

Edited to add link: Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/46AtS0ikaj

#Scotland #Glasgow #linguistics #experiment #psycholinguistics #academicChatter

I saw a thing on PsyArxiv and did a drive-by peer review. Warning: snark detected https://ideophone.org/on-ai-generated-norms-and-anglocentrism-a-peer-review/ #GenAI #psycholinguistics

Hello #psycholinguists on Mastodon! I'm currently doing a review on idiosyncrasies in phoneme perception, where it comes from, how it develops through childhood, how we can study it... If you have references or any idea on the topic, I'm more than interested! @psycholinguistics #psycholinguistics #phoneme #perception

(Boosts welcome)
Hey, #English speakers, any variety -- from #Scotland or #Canada or #America or #NewZealand or #Australia or #SouthAfrica or #Ireland or the #UK or any other place where you might live --

I'm still looking for participants for an experiment language processing. About 20-25 minutes, with a variety of tasks to measure memory, sound detection, comprehension and prediction.

Please help the advance of #science! And #linguistics and #psycholinguistics.

https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/4EDD3B94-4B14-4114-B5E7-F2EEAAC8148C

Hey, #English speakers, any variety -- from #Scotland or #Canada or #America or #NewZealand or #Australia or #SouthAfrica or #Ireland or the #UK or any other place where you might live --

Do you want to do an experiment about language processing? It takes about 20-25 minutes, and there are a variety of tasks to measure memory and sound detection and comprehension and prediction.

Please help the advance of #science! And #linguistics and #psycholinguistics.

https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/4EDD3B94-4B14-4114-B5E7-F2EEAAC8148C

Time perception in humans seems to be locked to language processing

(12/12)

This results in empirical predictions. I will now go check the research on the threshold of conscious time perception in humans to see what is known to this day, and to see whether someone has made the link with language processing before.

#Language #Theory #Science #psycholinguistics #linguistics #CognitiveScience #Cognition #mind #time #TimePerception #perception #speech #processing