Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran.
Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich.
Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.
the special issue will continue to accept submissions on a rolling basis. additional articles are in the pipeline and we welcome new contributions. best to reach out to me or Siri Lamoureaux first :)
the link to our special issue on Language Machines is online! find our introduction (why we need linguistic anthropology to understand LLMs) & the first batch of articles here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
if you have something to contribute, please contact us!
thank you for reading and commenting! yes, the competence=intelligence conflation is really hard to dispel
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 π«Ά
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
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 contributorsβ 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...
Thereβs no such thing as Social Media.
THE MEME IS REAL
Kolleg*innen in der AAU Klagenfurt/Celovec erklΓ€ren sich ebenfalls mit dem Antifa-Camp und dem #PerΕ‘manhof Ko-Museum solidarisch (inklusive frΓΌherem Rektor und jetziger Rektorin der UniversitΓ€t:
www.aau.at/blog/stellun...
In Γsterreich ist eine GedenkstΓ€tte von der Polizei regelrecht ΓΌberfallen worden.
Die Geschichte der Endphasenverbrechen ist leider sehr reich an Ereignissen.
Eines davon ist der PerΕ‘manhof, wo eine SS-Polizeieinheit im April 1945 ein Massaker anrichtet, auch an Kindern.
Heute ist der PerΕ‘manhofβ¦
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.
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 MASSIVEβa 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 β and even damaging β 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?
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)
iβd second that
read this as the nuclear nonproliferation regime is being destroyed by Israel π¬ππ΅βπ«
what a wet blanket
