I see so much of this in academic funding calls ‘we are looking for projects that explore how AI can help to solve … hunger, violence against women and children, poverty, etc.’ But there’s no space in there to say: ‘um, what if AI is not the right tool for this’
               
            
            
                16.09.2025 05:55 — 👍 78    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
            
                             
                        
                What are embeddings?
                A deep-dive into machine learning embeddings.
            
        
    
    
            I have recently found "What are embeddings" by @vickiboykis.com, and I think it should become a #corpuslinguistics and #digitalhumanities must-read starting book. Plus it's free under CC by-nc-sa!
vickiboykis.com/what_are_emb...
               
            
            
                02.09.2025 11:45 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
            
                             
                        
                Policy Directions on Encrypted Messaging and Extreme Speech | TechPolicy.Press
                Encryption, disinformation, and democracy: rethinking policy for messaging apps with rights-based safeguards.
            
        
    
    
            Extreme speech thrives in encrypted spaces, but killing encryption won’t stop it, says a group of researchers who have studied the problem from multiple angles. We need context-driven governance, not backdoors, they say.
               
            
            
                22.08.2025 19:00 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            wow, sounds super, thanks!
               
            
            
                14.08.2025 17:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
            
                             
                        
                How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content
                Wikipedians are wading through the muck.
            
        
    
    
            “Wikipedia editors have had to deal with an onslaught of AI-generated content filled with false information and phony citations. Already, the community of Wikipedia volunteers has mobilized to fight back against AI slop”
www.theverge.com/report/75681...
               
            
            
                10.08.2025 16:33 — 👍 153    🔁 58    💬 3    📌 4                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            5nxd redeemed, thanks
               
            
            
                09.08.2025 14:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            8s25 redeemed,thanks a lot
               
            
            
                09.08.2025 14:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            I love this!
               
            
            
                08.08.2025 07:43 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                            Screenshot of the app showing a page from a book + different views of existing and new ocr. 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Many VLM-based OCR models have been released recently. Are they useful for libraries and archives?
I made a quick Space to compare VLM OCR with "traditional" OCR using 11k Scottish exam papers from @natlibscot.bsky.social 
huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/ocr-time-capsule
               
            
            
                01.08.2025 15:09 — 👍 48    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 1                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            rvya redeemed, thanks
               
            
            
                26.07.2025 17:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            b83m redeemed, thanks a lot
               
            
            
                26.07.2025 17:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            fsdc redeemed, thanks!
               
            
            
                26.07.2025 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                ![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibwuu57ullc7vacjyno6c5z3gtyakkg2qub6cn3dbbjdpn2kaowmi@jpeg) 
                                            4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Replication Crisis
xkcd.com/3117/
               
            
            
                21.07.2025 23:54 — 👍 4883    🔁 656    💬 28    📌 30                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
            
                             
                        
                How social media destroys democratic discourse, explained in 6 easy figures
                Where we all went wrong
            
        
    
    
            I believe it is worth interrogating the fundamental forces re-shaping our information spheres away from liberal democracy towards myth, manipulation and magical thinking empowering autocracy and nihilism.
Here’s how it all falls apart—a 🧵 in 6 figures ⬇️
www.protagonist-science.com/p/how-social...
               
            
            
                11.07.2025 14:18 — 👍 26    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 5                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
            
                             
                        
                Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools.
                AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.
            
        
    
    
            Stuffing ai into everything “isn’t just a forecast, it’s a libidinal fantasy — a capitalist dream of replacing relationships with code and scalable software, while public institutions are gutted in the name of ‘innovation.’”
               
            
            
                06.07.2025 14:30 — 👍 177    🔁 51    💬 3    📌 6                      
            
         
            
        
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            "The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
               
            
            
                03.07.2025 06:57 — 👍 7535    🔁 3143    💬 134    📌 182                      
            
         
            
        
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            wow, many thanks!
               
            
            
                02.07.2025 14:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
            
                        
                arXiv user login
                
            
        
    
    
            Fellow academics, can anyone help with obtaining an #endorsement on arXiv?
I have a preprint I'd like to upload to Computer Science > Computation and Language (cs.CL), but need someone to endorse my account.
Here's the endorsement link: arxiv.org/auth/endorse...
#corpuslinguistics #linguistics
               
            
            
                02.07.2025 14:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            3jkl redeemed, thanks
               
            
            
                24.06.2025 07:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            y4ha claimed, thanks!
               
            
            
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                Scientific Programme – Summer school digital humanities
                
            
        
    
    
            📒The scientific program is out! 
Click on the link below to have a look at the speakers and the workshops of our Summer School!
⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/2025-edition...
               
            
            
                23.05.2025 14:11 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Our Summer School is beginning now with the institutional greetings.
               
            
            
                03.06.2025 07:32 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            Happy Graduation to all students and staff!
               
            
            
                29.05.2025 10:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Postdoc position open in Zurich -- Prof. Martin Tomasik and I have a joint SNF project on interpretable neural network approaches for large scale, complex item / temporal structure, online learning / cognitive development data. 
Please retweet.
tinyurl.com/PostdocGNNSNF
               
            
            
                28.05.2025 11:16 — 👍 24    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 1                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            xsds redeemed.
now I just need to finish packing and I'm ready for the woods!
               
            
            
                16.05.2025 16:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
    
         
        
            
        
                            
                    
                    
                                            Researcher + musician based in Sheffield UK https://slab.org/
Co founder of algorave, toplap, algomech, pattern club, strudel, tidalcycles
Part of Then Try This https://thentrythis.org/
Exploring algorithmic patterns https://algorithmicpattern.org/
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            I create high energy music with math and code
https://linktr.ee/switchangel
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            The home of independent thinking
Find us elsewhere http://linktr.ee/politybooks
Polity is an independent publisher in the social science & humanities.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            The Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS) is an interdisciplinary research centre operating at the University of Tartu, Estonia. DigiTS is a 5-year project funded by the European Union.
Wesbite: http://digits.ut.ee / LinkedIn: utartu-digits
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            A resource for developing, discussing, teaching, and learning methods of critical discourse analysis.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Set up in 2003, the BAAL Corpus Lingusitics Special Interest Group provides linguists a space to discuss the use of corpora and corpus methodologies in applied linguistics research.
https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/
(Account managed by @linguistlawyer.com)
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            A podcast about and for the internet
https://neverpo.st and wherever you listen to podcasts
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Doing math with Magic; doing Magic with math.
(Chromatic Lantern; Julie Dillon)
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚  🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 10,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily. 
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                                            Phonetics & Phonology Research Group at Newcastle University. Researchers uniting around language and sound. For enquiries, please contact us at phoneticsphonology.ncl@gmail.com.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing research on language, language use, language acquisition, language teaching, and language assessment. https://tesolal.columbia.edu
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Visual Communication journal is dedicated to exploring the dynamic and interdisciplinary field of visual culture, offering cutting-edge scholarship https://journals.sagepub.com/home/VCJ | managed by @nataliialaba.com on behalf of the VC editorial board 🌿
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Rédac' chef de LeMagIT (fr)
Accro #cybersécurité #infosec
Collectionneur de #ransomware
follow: https://linktr.ee/valerymarchive
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                    
                            
                    
                    
                                            www.daihum.com. Content posted is hand-picked by the maintainer and then synced. Check out the forum for more. Maintained by https://bsky.app/profile/bo-an.bsky.social
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            sociology grad student | #rstats | computation | law | organizations | 🇨🇴 
https://acastroaraujo.github.io/blog/
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Write for yourself, friends, and family — no matter where they live online. Like skeeting, but long-form.
🌎 Write.as
🫂 @write_as@writing.exchange
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                                            Asst. Research Professor @ University of Cambridge | Online Hate Speech, LLMs, CDA & Multimodal Analysis | Former Marie Curie Fellow.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans connect with and directly support the artists they love.