Computational approaches to media narrative analysis either miss nuanced storytelling patterns through coarse-grained analysis, or require domain-specific taxonomies that limit scalability. We show joint event and character modeling can address this gap. Details in our #ACL2026 (Main) paper. 🧵1/10

This story is quite far down the running orders tonight for some reason. Starmer might want to mention what an affront to British decency this is too www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Those resorting to prosecuting over seashells on a beach may soon find the tide is turning.

stochastic carrot

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountain green? Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light! Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: Britons never will be slaves! And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Reform on 13% of the registered vote seems about right and this is with all the major media and parties painting them as THE alternative As always, far-right support is limited and its mainstreaming comes from the mainstream elite who try to use it as a distraction from their failures

Cause. Effect.

If there are still people to reflect on what is happening now in a 100 years, they will have a damning view of the easy ride the far right was given by the mainstream elite Incredible how the institutions we were told would protect us from fascism did not simply crumble but opened the gates

Anyone in a position of power and able to shape the agenda, even a little, should seriously want to think about whether their contribution to society will be seen as the equivalent of the Weimar Republic History doesn't repeat itself but that doesn't mean lessons shouldn't be learnt

I've been saying this for a year, and the point is to use the word before it's too late because it conveys the moral urgency.

If you don’t see the connection between our support for the murders of civilians in Gaza and for the pogroms in the occupied territories and Minneapolis, you are blind.

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Every poll these days is like: - Mad Nazi Pedophile King: 39% - The Democrats: 42%

We deserve a politics of care.

Creating sexualized images of children is very bad. Creating nonconsensual sexualized images of adults is also very bad. Eliminating just the use on children will not fix the problem.

The Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals aligning with ICE are “prying Christianity further and further away from the ethic and teachings of Jesus,” Peter Wehner argues.

This is key if we want to think of the "working class" and "the people" in a more political way Having a "lower level of education" and being in "manual or routine occupation" in your 60s could well mean you own a house, have a good pension etc Young people on the other hand...

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Greenlandic politician and former MP Tillie Martinussen: “We do not want to be rich like [USians]. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends. We would not sell ourselves.”

Loved every minute of the Yorkshire tour - thanks to everyone who showed up this weekend! And love this picture that Anna, age 7, gave me as I was leaving 💚

When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided. When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid. The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe. It's time for a rethink.

Again it is something that people in previous eras have commented on but I still find it just astonishing to witness in my own: fascism is somehow the natural ideology of loser men, just all of our most pathetic and contemptible instincts rendered into a worldview.

Nurses. Doctors. Caregivers.

spot how many of these risks are due to/powered by the tech industry source: www.weforum.org/publications...

1926: the BBC decided women should not be radio announcers: "The...physical strain...is greater than could be borne by the average woman", & "there is something incongruous in a woman announcing weighty news bulletins or...football results". The decision was rapidly reversed after public derision.

It wasn’t the racism. It wasn’t the rule breaking. It wasn’t the corruption. No Jenrick gets removed for plotting. Politics for too many leaders is just a game, and not a moral one. It’s why people are crying out for hope.

People just getting through the day — walking the dog, eating sandwiches, combing their hair, things of that nature — in a world where the United States is making real plans to INVADE GREENLAND

Just saw this on substack 😂

Apparently Indonesia can ban. X over abuse where we can't -- moral authority? techcrunch.com/2026/01/11/i...

I remember the early days of the internet, and I never anticipated seeing this many videos of people being murdered.

Ball. His court.

This is basically correct it seems.

Leave. Think how much good it will do you.

the hack to being productive with claude code is to start the project with great e2e tests that are declarative enough that they let you precisely specify behavior without saying too much it's really magic

The no-angeling is already in full swing.

i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop

"we live in a world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world". (Stephen Miller, White House deputy Chief of Staff). This is what that world looks like. The history of freedom is the struggle to constrain power by law

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”

This is horrible, but it shows the active knowledge that people captured by this ideology have about exactly what they are doing. Desecrating a memorial is a new low, and abuse of power. Is this what MAGA stands for?

Fascism a debilitating disease of human civilization, which can be fatal. Societies that survive severe infections acquire a temporary immunity to it, but this wears off with time. Vaccination can be achieved through education about past infections, and it is strongly advised.

What do fascists need to do to convince their rank and file that they’re the smartest in the room? www.conspirituality.net/episodes/290-trump-derangement-science

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Mohammed Ziauddin Yusuf says that we need to "Remoralise the young not to hate our country". Jesus Christ says "if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit." Maybe the young wouldn't hate our country if Reform, Farage and Aleksandr Dugin weren't constantly telling them to hate it?

Part of an email from my friend in Minnesota. "Our neighbors... reported experiencing symptoms related to the tear gas... that had been used hours earlier to disperse the crowd that quickly met the...federal agents...so threatened by a single woman seeking to evade them in her mid-size SUV."

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

The Trump regime’s internal security enforcers murdered an American citizen in broad daylight. The regime is illegally blocking the release of evidence of Trump’s extensive collaboration with Epstein. They’re agitating for war with France and Germany. It’s completely insane anyone supports them.