Mark Dingemanse

What Is Truth For? What Is Truth For?; This optimist’s guide to truth contends that truth is the best device we have for coordinating collective decisions and actions, and the concept of truth is a target ideal to striv...

Andy Clark
Hanna DeJaegher
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N.J. Enfield

Enfield's latest book is What Is Truth For bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-i...

Excellent. More 'unworkable requirements' for Big Tech please EU, they work as intended

Ranking of >10 audio generative AI models by degree of openness

Fellow EU OSAI Index researcher Nityaa Kalra has added ten new music models to our index along with a blog post about the MusGO project osai-index.eu/news/musgo-f...

All audio models here: osai-index.eu/the-index?ty...
Full index with >150 models: osai-index.eu/the-index #GenAI #OpenSource

Is it possible to use AI well and ethically in academia? I don't know but these amazing resources - via @dingemansemark.bsky.social - may help you make an informed decision 1/

International Resistance To AI In Education Marked In Open Letter Some educators are pushing back against the “inevitable” technology, and open letters are becoming one tool of the resistance.

International Resistance To AI In Education Marked In Open Letter’ — by Peter Greene.

www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

We've already fielded a bunch of questions about these positions, and added an FAQ page to ensure everyone has access to the same information: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

Screenshot of cursed Editorial Manager dialog window "Edit Personal Keywords". The three keywords are "DON'T" "FORCE" "ME"

Hey EditorialManager. I just want to file my review. You want me to fill out my profile in excruciating detail before I even get there.

#EditorialManager continues to excel in the mud run approach to user interface design. Finding reviewers is hard these days. Why not make it harder?

Very well put, thank you!

Ursula Le Guin in The Left Hand of Darkness (1969): Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

Speaking of Le Guin and serendipity, I picked up The Left Hand of Darkness the other day just as I was thinking about 'AI', oracles and divination and my eye fell on this gem

Also @abeba.bsky.social and McGann, large models of what? doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

The Limitations of Large Language Models for Understanding Human Language and Cognition Abstract. Researchers have recently argued that the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) can provide new insights into longstanding debates about the role of learning and/or innateness in the ...

This by @nerdpro.bsky.social and colleagues is good direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...

- Clark & Brennan, Grounding in communication (1991) web.stanford.edu/~clark/1990s...
- Dingemanse & Enfield, Interactive repair and the foundations of language (2024) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
(with apologies for the self-cite, but it's a recent review with many further pointers)

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Multiple disciplines: linguistics, cognitive science, semiotics, conversation analysis. Some entrypoints:

- Hutchins & Hazlehurst, How to invent a shared lexicon (1995)
- Micklos & Woensdregt, Cognitive and Interactive Mechanisms for Mutual Understanding in Conversation (2023)
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Hear hear! We wrote about this a while back, celebrating artisanal interaction and friction as key elements of the creative process: ideophone.org/human-creati...

De aanstekelijke muziek die Kladderadatsch maakt is afkomstig uit vele culturen en volken: de Balkan met zijn melancholische Slavische klanken, de opzwepende muziek uit Zuid- en Midden-Amerika, de weemoedige Jiddische Klezmer, vrolijke Afrikaanse soul.

Nimma! Morgen na het vuurwerk 🎇 speelt @kladderadatsch.bsky.social de sterren van de hemel bij podium Kaaij Hoog. Kom langs en waag een dansje!

zo 13 jul 23:00 - 00:30

Onderdeel van de #vierdaagsefeesten  #Nijmegen  #4daagse #4df www.vierdaagsefeesten.nl/programma/kl...

Why unequal sizes? Looks like talking down or mansplaining... maybe nice to reverse order or make the parties less gender-coded?

Language is a wonder. As in: We wonder what makes it all work. So we're talking to linguistic lion Stephen Levinson of ‪@mpi-nl.bsky.social about his new book The Interaction Engine. (The book is open source, by the way!)

Episode coming soon.

I see at least one way in which both things can be true, and it hinges on the word 'legitimately'

Sho presents his work validating dynamic time warping to a rapt #ISGS2025 audience. Lots of engagement afterwards #ProudSupervisor

Are you at #ISGS2025 today? Come see my talk in the kinematics session! I'll present my PhD work validating dynamic time warping (DTW) as a measure of gesture form similarity with manual ratings. We show that DTW can be an efficient, useful proxy for gesture form similarity!

Nick Enfield, author of 'What Is Truth For?', is speaking at #HowTheLightGetsIn this September.

Find Nick's book: buff.ly/znpugeD

Find out more about the event: buff.ly/QO8oDjm

🚨 Almost 800 signatures! Help us get to the 1000!

personal telling about Kɔdzo (line 19), occasioned by two turns by C. Indeed, one of the striking things about D’s sung utterances is the fact that they are so well integrated into the sequence as a whole. D slips into the style as easily as she gets out again; there are no clear boundaries or changes of body position that might indicate a shift in genre, and C treats D’s singing not as an interruption of the sequence but as doing agreement and affiliation (and inviting the same in return). Extract 12.4 D’s lament (lines 8-15 from Extract 12.3 above) iɔ̀loo, iɔ̀lo kananaa iɔ̀loo, iɔ̀loo, kàgbàmìkù ɔɔ̀loo, iɔ̀loo kàgbàmìkù ɔɔ̀loo, ka-ɔ̀-loo, kàgbàmìkù ɔɔ̀loo, kàgbàmì-... It’s become still, still kananaa Still, still, the neighbourhood is still, still The neighbourhood is still, it is still, the neighbourhood is still, the neighb-... What can we learn from this lapse into sìnɔ (dirge) style midway in an affiliative sequence? The case itself would warrant a separate study as it raises fundamental issues like the boundaries of speech and song, composition in performance and intertextuality (e.g. Feld 1999:241ff. and references therein), but this is not the place for that. On purely local considerations, the lapse into dirge style is treated by C as an appropriate move towards the co-constructed goal of holding the neighbourhood responsible.

Partial transcript showing two lines of speech and one more songlike

This reminds me of an amazing case in my Siwu corpus which I described & analysed in my 2011 thesis — a participant breaking into song in the local funeral dirge style. Ch12 in the thesis, audio sample at ideophone.org/thesis/part-...

PDF of (hefty) thesis: pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/...

2.2.1 Conversation Based Prompt Creation We attempt to anchor each 2-10 min long dyadic interaction in the IPC via the use of prompts. Prompts are presented separately to each participant in an interaction prior to the start of the interaction. The majority of meta time in the dataset (which is not included in this release) is the short intervals between active interactions, during which participants are studying their prompts and asking clarifying questions of the moderators (refer to Section 2.1 for more detail on active and meta time).

Interesting!

Puzzling choice that limits scientific uses: This is prompted, and they've broken up all 1h dyadic recordings into chunks of 2-10 min and left out what they call 'meta' moments where participants study instructions, ask clarification, etc

not sure why they call it Seamless

Covers of 4 books: Bridle, James. 2022. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Franklin, Ursula M. 1999. The Real World of Technology. Revised edition. CBC Massey Lectures. Toronto: Anansi. Illich, Ivan. 1973. Tools for Conviviality. Open Forum. London: Calder and Boyars. Le Guin, Ursula K. 2019. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. London: Ignota.

Whether you are pondering applying for one of the above positions or just looking for some good reads, I think you will enjoy these summer reads markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#SummerReads #linguistics #emca #sts #hci #FuturesOfLanguage

/add: annoyed with myself that I haven't kept track of the sources for these images. Many comparisons like this can be found for Utrecht. I think today you could do the same with Paris

Slide comparing two pictures of the same street in Utrecht: in 1976 there were cars parked along the sides and two car lanes in the centre, not a human, bike or tree in sight; in 2022, there are trees, benches, parking spots for bikes, terraces, and plenty of people moving about. Not a car in sight. Atop the slide is a quote from Ivan Illich: “The present world is divided into those who do not have enough and those who have more than enough, those who are pushed off the road by cars and those who drive them.” — from Tools for Conviviality

I often use this slide comparing Utrecht, NL, in 1976 vs 2022. People made a deliberate choice against a car-centred city and for more convivial modes of living and moving about.

Industries & profiteers love inevitabilism about technology; it is up to us to organise and resist, and it can be done

Aerial photograph of Radboud University campus with the Erasmus tower in the foreground: tallest building in Nijmegen & home to the Futures of Language project. Source: RU

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL

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Kladderadatsch Vierdaagsefeesten Nijmegen 2025: van 12 t/m 18 juli. Ruim 1000 artiesten op ruim 45 podia. In de stad, in het park, aan de kade en op het strand. Gratis…

Op zondag 13 juli spelen we met @kladderadatsch.bsky.social op de Nijmeegse zomerfeesten bij De Kaaij (23:00-00:30, direct na het vuurwerk dus). Kom een dansje wagen!

www.vierdaagsefeesten.nl/programma/kl...