Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])

google search's latest nonsense on mobile is to make it annoying to get behind the AI answer lightbox to the actual search results

One of the years will be about a singular devastating realization based on that book.

If those people aren't constantly angry, they might start to look for who to *really* blame for the reason the world is so shit. That's why the rich push so hard to keep them focused on marginalized groups that are both so powerful to bend the world to their whim, but so weak to be beaten by a RT.

"mensa" is a German office/school cafeteria and I found it so confusing when I was first told to go to a university mensa in Germany

I was in Sweden this week! 🇸🇪❄️ Many thanks to Nikolai Ilinykh for inviting me to give a talk at the University of Gothenburg. I enjoyed having inspiring chats and delicious food with Sharid Loáiciga, @asayeed.bsky.social, Simon Dobnik, Hyewon Jang and Chris Howes at CLASP. Much appreciated! 😊🎄

forget AI, what will destroy the internet is 100billion factor (or however many it is now) authentication

if you notice this symptom, it could be this omg nooooooo!😱

oh no not This .

Yes, Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible person. But he did more to undermine Americans' faith in capitalism than anyone from DSA ever did.

"we must agree on a very specific sort of grounded embodied cognition in order to disagree with AGI hype" has always been the wrong message

I've been saying this for a while.

By that point, though, the heavy lifting of the Radch was already done. And to date, I have only read CP and the Hydrogen Sonata.

By the same token, people who were immersed in Banks' work almost never read CJ Cherryh, because her work wasn't widely available in the UK.

shaka, before the walls fell

cookies can only be used to scoop

I just cut a cake with a cookie @datatherapist.bsky.social

AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."

We need our policymakers everywhere to be attuned to the needs of the people, not the whims of CEOs -- and especially not CEOs in the grip of TESCREAList fantasies.

Thank you @abeba.bsky.social and @krisshrishak.bsky.social for speaking up

www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...

LETTERS, &c., COMMONLY INTERCHANGEABLE. (Wright, p. viii) a, o, and sometimes e. ar, er, or, ur. be, bi, by, as prefixes. c, s, ch, sh, sch. e, ee, i. ʒ, g, gh, y. ʒ, th. h. often omitted where it ought to be inserted, or used superfluously. i, y. k, c, ch. o, oo, ou, u. qu, wh, w. s, c.

For anyone who's struggled with variable spelling practices before modern printing, there's a summary of what's "interchangeable" in Thomas Wright's Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English. 2 vols. London, 1857.
#orthography #English #language #dialect #manuscripts #medieval

While the media often focuses on identity, any election with a socialist / progressive candidate will come down to class and capital accumulation.

Anyone interested in spending a semester to a year as a guest prof in Gothenburg? Let me know...

UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.

Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SACing for EACL this year and pleasantly surprised by how many papers on my docket have the proper 3 reviews by this point. Just to cut through the doominess and grousing (which are perfectly legit).

someone signed me up as a reviewer for a conference in OpenReview, I actually emailed them to remove me, but instead what they're doing is a fishing net sort of thing where they keep everyone signed up and just hope that some people actually do a review. So they never deleted me.

I looked her up, it seems likely she was brutally murdered by the criminal network she was involved with.

More broadly, when all these clowns said Tyrannical Wokeness Has Gone Too Far, they specifically meant e.g. effective mass campaigns against elite impunity for sexual offending; the police murdering citizens in broad daylight, and allied governments being overthrown in the Arab Spring.

other chili varieties work better

I've tried many times and have gotten like three.

Habañeros and that whole species of capsicum are the worst. So rude. So lazy. So intransigent.

My university is promoting Qualtrics new “synthetic data” initiative that “simulates human behavior so enable quicker experiments” and it is HORRIFYING that a UNIVERSITY promotes this “as transformative for how we collect data” and I don’t know who to scream at 😭😭😭😭

It was custom for dinosaurs to fossilize their dead

There's a lot of this going on in political science too. I went to a couple of sessions at #APSA2024 in Philly led by graduate students very excited at being cool and new by using LLMs to substitute for opinion research. My boring actual-AI-researcher objections were kind of glossed over...