Anna Weichselbraun

Google not only supplies the fake citations via Gemini, their awful products in the form of knowledge infrastructure are so shoddily kept that they can't be fucked to remove fake venues.

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and can't wait to read what you're writing...maybe you want to share something in the Language Machines reading group??

thanks for sharing, Julien!

thank you for reading and sharing, Beth! come join the Language Machines workshop sometime 🫶

Here's the introduction to the special issue: doi.org/10.1111/jola... in which we argue: We need linguistic anthropology to understand Large Language Models!

Clickclickclick if you like reading feisty-programmatic-staking-of-intellectual-ground types of words...

Part of a Special Issue in JLA on "Language Machines: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of LLMs" I co-edited together with Siri Lamoureaux and @mcastelle.bsky.social

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test...

new paper so fresh it doesn't have an issue # yet!
Noya Kohavi and I looked at a crowdsourced AI testing suite and analyzed how contributors’ ideas about language, intelligence & cognition play a surprisingly big role in shaping how LLMs are tested, and what we think AI is. doi.org/10.1111/jola...

There’s no such thing as Social Media.

THE MEME IS REAL

Stellungnahme zum Polizeieinsatz am Peršmanhof am 27. Juli 2025 – Universität Klagenfurt Stellungnahme zum Polizeieinsatz am Peršmanhof am 27. Juli 2025 Angehörige der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt  Vom 24. bis zum 29. Juli 2025 fand das zweite Antifaschistische Jugendcamp am Peršman...

Kolleg*innen in der AAU Klagenfurt/Celovec erklären sich ebenfalls mit dem Antifa-Camp und dem #Peršmanhof Ko-Museum solidarisch (inklusive früherem Rektor und jetziger Rektorin der Universität:
www.aau.at/blog/stellun...

In Österreich ist eine Gedenkstätte von der Polizei regelrecht überfallen worden.

Die Geschichte der Endphasenverbrechen ist leider sehr reich an Ereignissen.
Eines davon ist der Peršmanhof, wo eine SS-Polizeieinheit im April 1945 ein Massaker anrichtet, auch an Kindern.

Heute ist der Peršmanhof…

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

Trump’s tax bill seeks to prevent AI regulations. Experts fear a heavy toll on the planet Unrestricted AI use could add 1bn tons of planet-heating emissions in the US over the next decade, researchers say

The wild thing here is that the bill text that aims to prevent AI regulation defines "AI" incredibly broadly: Essentially, any system that uses computing to provide information or aid decision-making.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Today's Supreme Court decision does not opine on the constitutionality of Trump's assault on birthright citizenship. It is limited to the question of universal injunctions. But its ruling on that front is MASSIVE—a huge blow to plaintiffs and judges trying to block Trump's most lawless policies.

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

"There are a growing # of AI bots crawling repositories[; they're] sufficiently aggressive [to] cause service disruptions + outages... As a result, some repositories have started to block machine access to their collections, which is also inadvertently blocking other desired network services..."

time to get out the pitchforks?

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

"it is worse to lie about your nuclear program than to actually have nuclear weapons." (3/3)

"This investigation into how semiotic indeterminacy perennially foils attempts to achieve transparency of nuclear programs seems to suggest:..."(2/3)

"The moral indignation reserved for Iran in the world of nuclear politics seems exceptional when compared to other states, such as Pakistan, India, North Korea, and Israel, that have illegally or illicitly developed nuclear weapons..."(1/3)

i’d second that

read this as the nuclear nonproliferation regime is being destroyed by Israel 😬🙄😵‍💫

what a wet blanket

Plakat mit einem Uncle Sam, der folgendes anschlägt: Help Your Country. and Yourself. REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS ICE: 866-DHS-2-ICE

Dies ist ein echter tweet einer echten Bundesbehörde.

Jetzt unterzeichnen: Stoppt die Kürzung der Volksgruppenförderung! Ohranimo finančno podporo narodnim skupnostim! Staatliche Förderungen sichern das Überleben von Volksgruppen sowie den Erhalt ihrer Sprache, Kultur und Rechte. Die Regierung muss die Sparmaßnahmen jetzt zurücknehmen!

Staatliche Förderungen sichern das Überleben von Volksgruppen und den Erhalt ihrer Sprache, Kultur und Rechte. Die Kürzungen der Regierung bedrohen ihre Existenz. Fordere jetzt die Rücknahme dieser Sparmaßnahmen:
mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/st...

The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants Days after NOAA released figures showing the highest seasonal concentration of CO2 in recorded history, the EPA moved to roll back emission standards for power plants. "The EPA is trying to get out of...

the epa says it's giving up on regulating emissions from power plants just days after noaa released the highest-ever recorded seasonal co2 concentrations at mauna loa. what a time to be alive!!!!!!!!!

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

I spoke to two former govt workers who helped create IRS's Direct File software, which is set to be killed by DOGE/Trump/Intuit but thankfully just got open sourced. Both of them seem optimistic about what people are going to be able to do with the codebase:

www.404media.co/directfile-o...