Christ has risen. Happy Easter, all.

meaning arguments in court #law #language #linguistics §

Chat GPT, asked about what the Bible says about protecting children and those that cause harm. (if you want to read the cut off part in your language: biblehub.com/matthew/18-6...) #censorship #children

In a videp, German news magazin Der Spiegel @spiegel.de wrongly named Sarah Mullany as the new head of the Anglican church ["erstes weibliches Oberhaupt der anglikanischen Kirche".]

Israeli military detains CNN journalist crew edition.cnn.com/2026/03/27/w... #journalism #warcrime

R.I.P. Chuck Norris AKA "Walker" www.instagram.com/p/DWG8c5BAKP...

R.I.P. Professor emeritus Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026), one of Germany's philosophers, who called out, inter alia, "eine unsäglich merkelfromme Medienlandschaft" and "Merkels clever-böses Spiel der Dethematisierung" (2013).

fs.blog/the-antilibr... #books

The Online Library of Short Stories www.libraryofshortstories.com #literature #shortstories

Did you know... ...that from next Monday, you can read EACL'26 abstracts & plan your conference attenance! ...EACL Rabat was co-organized smoothly and peacefully across dozens of national, religious and linguistic groups! #peace (1 of 2) #EACL2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

On #death (Source: LA Mag. at lamag.com/news/the-end/) #mortality

Republic of Ireland versus TikTok (GDPR violation) www.tiktok.com/legal/page/g...

The 2025 Bloomberg/BCS Karen Spärck Jones Award will be presented in three weeks at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. (The award alternates between EACL and ECIR.) #awards #NLP #IR #research @nlproc @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

Remember August 1989? That's when the German radio station SDR3 ("Radio for the Wild South") ran the Top-1000X (music chart world record); the last bits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvut... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx1c... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Z0... (1 of 2) #music

“Every branch of science needs a hero,” Ferreirós said. “Chemistry has Lavoisier, mechanics has Newton, relativity has Einstein. There’s always this one, only one. But that’s always a lie.” www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...

In the eternal fight between good against evil, evil will outperform good often in the short run. Truly being good means to accept those recurrent defeats and not succumb to evil (as exemplified by the Book of Job).

Writers and their day jobs lithub.com/the-work-beh... #literature #writing

About three weeks to the first #EACL in Africa, things seem to go smoothly... @eaclmeeting.bsky.social - 1161 registrations to date for Rabat. Will you be you coming? #conferences #CL #NLP #NLProc #AI

Reutrs reports: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives #privacy #independence #europe www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Timo Boll – Abschied einer Tischtennis-Legende [Timo Boll – Good-Bye of a Table-Tennis Legend, a documentary in German] www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDpQ... #tabletennis

Erlangen's Emmy Noether: connecting #mathematics and #physics via Lie groups (1918)

Voted for the General Council Election, University of Edinburgh.

Our article: Leidner, J.L. & T. Menzner (2026) "Media Manipulation, Bias & #Propaganda: An Experience Report on Research-Teaching Integration" has been accepted by the journal _Datenbankspektrum_ for its forthcoming Special Issue on Trends in Narrative Analysis, Fake News, Misinform. & #Bias.

lost in #translation...

Are you now part of AI training, too? "Google has just changed Gmail after twenty years. In among countless AI upgrades — including 'personalized AI' that gives Gemini access to all your data in Gmail, Photos and more, comes a surprising decision." [Source: Forbes www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof... ]

Q: Why can mathematicians sleep so well at night? A: Because they are happy about a rule they discovered, as long as there are only finitely many exceptions. #humor #mathematics

@eaclmeeting.bsky.social R.I.P. Scott Adams - his Dilbert comics was a reflection on life in US corporattions #obituaries #peoplle #humor eu.usatoday.com/story/entert...

📝 Dear #EACL2026 authors preparing their camera-ready submissions, please make sure your paper fully matches the official ACL template. 🧵👇

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Here's wishing everyone a Happy New Year 2026 - PAX!

Free e-book "Commodities" (2012) if you are interested in gold, coffee, crude oil, mining/minerals, taxation, Switzerland, tax evasion/optimization by large corporations, environmental pollution www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/do...

Our demo paper Markos Dimitsas and Jochen L. Leidner (2026) "LectureChat: Hybrid RAG over Wikipedia and Multilingual Lectures" was accepted for presentation at ECIR 2026 in Delft. See you all there in March/April! #informationretrieval #IR #RAG #AI #CSEDU #education #multimodal #VoLLKI

Böck et al. (2025) "Learner models: design, components, structure, and modelling" User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 35: 15, Cham, CH: Springer-Nature, DOI: 10.1007/s11257-025-09434-4. link.springer.com/article/10.1... [open access]

The wonderful writer and humanist #KurtVonnegut was born #OnThisDay, 1922. His enduring advice on living well remains as relevant as ever. Featured in the #littlebookofhumanism @thealiceroberts.bsky.social

Christmas unites. The soldiers understood what their leaders didn't: it makes no sense for a body's left arm to wage war against its right leg.

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v

Reuters: China's censor GAPP asks Cambridge University Press to withdraw academic articles about China from the Chinese Web. www.reuters.com/article/worl... #news #press #censorship #freedomofexpression #scholarship #research

Transparently funding a collective (including collectives of collectives): opencollective.com - great for fundig open source development

Transparently funding a collective (including collectives of collectives): opencollective.com - create for fundig open source development

Menzner T. and J. L. Leidner (2026) "Bias explained: Generation of high-quality natural language explanations for classification decisions", Exp Sys Appl 299(D): 130115, doi.org/10.1016/j.es... [open access]. #XAI #NLproc #NLP #LLM

Spatial Intelligence: The Next AI Frontier drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words... #spatial #AI #location #geo #geography #GIS

Tim Menzner and I won best poster hon. mention at KDIR'25 in Marbella last week for our BiasRank paper. www.hs-coburg.de/news/best-po... (in German) #informationretrieval #bias #newssearch

Menzner, T. and J. L. Leidner (forthcoming) "Bias-Mitigating News Search with BiasRank" www.insticc.org/node/Technic... Proc. KDIR 2025, Madeira, Spain, Friday, October 24th, 10:15-11:15 #newsbias #bias #propaganda #counterpropaganda #search

The German states with the most right-wing crimes are: Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 7,1 crimes [per 100.000 inhabitants]), followed by Thuringia (Thüringen, 6,3), Hamburg (6,2), Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt, 5). #nationalsocialism #neveragain #crime

Reiche, M. & J. L. Leidner (2025) "MANDALA.ML: A Life Cycle-Centric and Role-Aware Methodology for Agile Machine Learning Projects" Proc. 24th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques (SOMET 2025), Kitakyushu, Japan, September 23-26, 2025

The winner of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is again St. Petersburg State University! ZH: Beijing Jiaotong(3)/Tsinghua(4)/Peking(5) US: Harvard(6)/MIT(8)/.../UMD(14)/ASU(17)/CMU(19) EU: Zagreb(4)/.../ #programming #competitions

Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍 #janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky

R.I.P. Elizabeth "Liz" D. Liddy www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c... #people #research #obituaries

"Bound for glory": Yourshire's largest bookshop in a former youth hostel contains Richard Axe's life work in book collecting www.worldofinteriors.com/story/richar... #bookshops #books #UK