Lingthusiasm Episode 116: Cross-cultural communication (in space!)

lingthusiasm:

Sometimes, you’re talking with someone and you just seem to click. Other times, you just can’t seem to get comfortable: they’re standing too close or too far away for comfort, making too much or too little eye contact, touching or not touching you in a way that just doesn’t quite feel right. But where do our senses of what feels comfortable in a conversation come from, and how…

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Lingthusiasm Episode 115: The long shadow of Daisy Bates with This Guy Sucked

lingthusiasm:

What do you do when the only records that remain of a language were made by someone who had absolutely horrendous views of the people who spoke it?

In this episode, your host Lauren Gawne gets enthusiastic about a crossover episode with Claire Aubin of This Guy Sucked! Lauren’s Guy who Sucked is Daisy Bates, who did a lot of early 20th century work documenting over 100…

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AI Ops Manager (New York)

New York, NY, USA Automattic

Location: NYC NoHo Office (5 days a week)

About This Opportunity

We're building something unusual at Automattic: an AI-native culture at a 1,500-person company that powers 40% of the web. Not just adopting AI tools, but fundamentally transforming how we work and ship products at scale.

You’ll own the operational infrastructure that makes this possible. The…

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Forward Deployed Engineer

Remote Automattic

At WordPress VIP (part of Automattic), we power the most influential properties on the web, from the White House to Meta and Salesforce. We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our mission in redefining how the world’s largest enterprises scale.

This isn't your typical engineering role; it’s an advanced, consultative position where you operate…

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Applied AI Engineer

Remote Automattic

Location: Global (Remote or in-person in NYC)

About This Opportunity

We’re looking for exceptional AI engineers who’ve shipped breakthrough products that millions actually use. The kind of people who don’t just integrate APIs, they build features users love.

You’ll work with Automattic’s ecosystem, spanning WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Beeper, Mesh (formerly…

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Applied AI Engineer (New York)

New York, NY, USA Automattic

Location: New York City (In-person)

About This Opportunity

We’re assembling an exceptional team of AI engineers in NYC. The kind of people who’ve shipped breakthrough AI products that millions actually use. This isn’t about office amenities or typical startup perks (although we have those too!). It’s about working alongside some of the most talented engineers…

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Experienced Software Engineer

Remote Automattic

WordPress doesn’t try to keep its users inside walled gardens, a rare thing in a world that is dangerously moving away from the open web. Instead, WordPress gives them the freedom to build a business website, an online store, or a personal blog – the way they like it. Big sites or small, using the community-run open source project or Automattic’s WordPress.com, vanilla or…

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Applied AI Engineer, Internal Tooling - New York

Remote Automattic

Location: NYC NoHo Office (5 days a week)

About This Opportunity

Build the AI tools that Automattic uses internally. Maintain and extend LibreChat, our self-hosted AI interface. Create lightweight integrations and automations that make teams more productive. Help 1,500 people work better with AI.

This isn’t about building consumer products or shipping to millions of…

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Has “Liminal” Become a More Common Word?

Nancy from New Haven, Connecticut, has noticed the word liminal turning up everywhere lately and wonders if she’s imagining it. She’s not. The word’s use has risen sharply since around 2021, particularly in long-form journalism and public radio. Rooted in the Latin limen, meaning “threshold,” liminal describes a kind of “in-between state.” The related phrase […]

Performance Engineer, Backend

Remote Automattic

Automattic’s products—WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Jetpack, and more—serve tens of billions of page views every month from data centers around the world. The PerfOps team exists to make those page views as quickly as possible. As a Backend Performance Engineer, you’ll dive deep into query plans, cache hit ratios, and PHP profiling data to find the milliseconds…

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Forward Deployed Engineer

Remote Automattic

Forward Deployed Engineer (WordPress VIP Customer Engineering & Architecture)

At WordPress VIP (part of Automattic), we power the most influential properties on the web, from the White House to Meta and Salesforce. We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our mission in redefining how the world’s largest enterprises scale.

This isn't…

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Senior Systems Engineer

Remote Automattic

Automattic, the tech powerhouse behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, and WooCommerce, is looking for the world’s best systems engineers. On our Systems team, you’ll deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month—from 30 private data centers in 30 locations on 6 continents. Help us develop,…

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Experienced Software Engineer

Remote Automattic

WordPress doesn’t try to keep its users inside walled gardens, a rare thing in a world that is dangerously moving away from the open web. Instead, WordPress gives them the freedom to build a business website, an online store, or a personal blog – the way they like it. Big sites or small, using the community-run open source project or Automattic’s WordPress.com, vanilla or…

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Applied AI Engineer (New York)

New York, NY, USA Automattic

Location: New York City (In-person)

About This Opportunity

We’re assembling an exceptional team of AI engineers in NYC. The kind of people who’ve shipped breakthrough AI products that millions actually use. This isn’t about office amenities or typical startup perks (although we have those too!). It’s about working alongside some of the most talented engineers…

Read more →
Applied AI Engineer

Remote Automattic

Location: Global (Remote or in-person in NYC)

About This Opportunity

We’re looking for exceptional AI engineers who’ve shipped breakthrough products that millions actually use. The kind of people who don’t just integrate APIs, they build features users love.

You’ll work with Automattic’s ecosystem, spanning WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Beeper, Mesh (formerly…

Read more →
AI Ops Manager - New York

New York, NY, USA Automattic

Location: NYC NoHo Office (5 days a week)

About This Opportunity

We're building something unusual at Automattic: an AI-native culture at a 1,500-person company that powers 40% of the web. Not just adopting AI tools, but fundamentally transforming how we work and ship products at scale.

You’ll own the operational infrastructure that makes this possible. The…

Read more →
Applied AI Engineer, Internal Tooling - New York

Remote Automattic

Location: NYC NoHo Office (5 days a week)

About This Opportunity

Build the AI tools that Automattic uses internally. Maintain and extend LibreChat, our self-hosted AI interface. Create lightweight integrations and automations that make teams more productive. Help 1,500 people work better with AI.

This isn’t about building consumer products or shipping to millions of…

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2016: Take Two

Ten years ago, we had facetune and the Snapchat dog filter flooding our Instagram feeds. Tumblr gave us our fashion inspiration, and our chokers were so tight our airways were probably compromised. Our skinny jeans were ripped to shreds, and our shirts promoted bands we most likely have only heard of once (when we bought […]

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PHOTOS -- Report: NYC Mayor's Wife Celebrated Female Terrorist Hijacker on Social Media

The wife of New York City's Democrat socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani reportedly glorified terrorists on X and Tumblr several years ago when she was living in the Middle East, according to screenshots from the Washington Free Beacon.

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