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’
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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...
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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.
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wow, sounds super, thanks!
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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...
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5nxd redeemed, thanks
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I love this!
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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
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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/
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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...
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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.’”
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"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.
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wow, many thanks!
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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
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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...
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Our Summer School is beginning now with the institutional greetings.
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Happy Graduation to all students and staff!
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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
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xsds redeemed.
now I just need to finish packing and I'm ready for the woods!
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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.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
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
✍️ Skeets by @baer.works
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.
She/Her -- Digitalian -- [ RE:CONNECT ] : The New DV-i Extended Play. Out Now.
https://musicwebsite.ffm.to/dvi-reconnect.OTW
All inquiries: dvideo.music@gmail.com
"I am Majisto, 63rd curator. Welcome to the Dream Castle!"
vaporwave / nostalgiawave account for Dreamcastle™
http://youtube.com/c/DREAMCASTLEtm
https://dreamcastle.neocities.org/
https://patreon.com/DreamcastleTM
Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
“The one who wanders”
Vandus is a dungeon/fantasy synth project following the journeys of the Vandus through Lands Beyond✨
*No AI. No Fascism.*
Listen & watch the adventures⤵️
https://linktr.ee/vandus.ds