I hate how companies these days don't really even care if their stuff works or not, just some vibecoded bs everywhere

TIL that sandwich rhymes with languages and I have never been so mildly infuriated before.

was just at fosdem and actually experienced something that would be a use case for an AI assistant: main tram line got blocked for an hour and none of the maps were able to reroute without using the blocked connection at all. Even if it was doable on maps UI this would defo be better UX with AI, no?

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

TIL Trump has renamed department of defense to department of war and it's historically accurate naming... incidentally I usually refer to our military similar way, especially did so when I was protesting the compulsory conscription in Finland back in the days lol. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executi...

Enshittification intensifies... github's promised continued free CI for open source but I am already locked out after using 5 minutes of CI without further explanations (no links to click). (in other news I made a new release of omorfi: github.com/flammie/omor...)

I was annoyed enough at latexml being slow and broken that I wrote a python script to transmanglify latex directly into (github flavoured) markdown for archiving a viewable versions of my academic articles at flammie.github.io/purplemonkey... (yeah complex tables are the main remaining issue)

ACL anthology has merged my various names correctly, great work: aclanthology.org/people/flamm...

someone just made like a 4 hour video < www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB... > of everything wrong in c++ that's more comprehensive than my rant collection at flammie.github.io/cpp-fails.html

it's 2025 and namecheap does not allow non US ASCII letters for billing address and the error message says "Please enter a valid city" lol

I think it's ok to use "AI" to rewrite article content from foreigner English to "academic" English, it probably improves readability for a lot of academics, but if you do do that, check that formatting, filenames and citations are not mangled, it's kind of bad to have AI failures in review version

Browser is antiwokeing language models

did you know that olive spelled backwards is evil, O? It is not a coincidence that it is also the only inedible poison that commonly disguises as food stuff.

ngl it's kind of hilarious that the CEO of bluesky has chosen to be ceo of twitter at home (from the we have food at home meme: knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-hav... )

The actual post is still available in the repo. Normally, when a post is deleted, it's removed outright with no way to get it back. pdsls.dev/at://did:plc... It doesn't appear in the timeline feed or the post thread API. They may be actively blocking it in the most stupid way possible, lol.

ngl this thing where "bash scripts are too complicated" so we write rust that outputs typescripts that creates yaml that contains weirldy encoded bash scripts which can only be runned on git push is getting out of hand sometimes

I think some of what sabine talks about applies for contemporary computational linguistics too... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5u...

oh wow I can convert a folder of bsky urls into a collection of in app bookmarky things

so i voted today. I had to ask chatgpt to figure out that you vote for parties and not people, and how to perform the actual voting process. This information is mostly missing on official election sites, so I finally found a good use case for it, clarifying after public web sites

currently at syntaxfest opening, come see me at the poster session on Friday about South Sámi grammar checker + treebanking <https://aclanthology.org/2025.tlt-1.14/> or just come to talk with me if you catch me :-)

Unusually optimistic post about LLMs: the fact that AI assisted academic paper writing does not get gatekept by "academic English" "peer" "reviewers" (i.e. this paper sounds like it's written by a foreigner so I downvote it) is an immensely positive thing for most conferences and workshops.

I have always been avoiding politics and being opportunistic when needing to achieve something politically but "feminists" going with hardcore puritan christians to ban games landing me on side with Trump and antiwoke gamers was not something I had in cards for 2025

It's so absurd we are blocking people from "adult" content on steam and now hobo max (I got age verification popup today) while Facebook pushes me daily spam of naked females offering paid sex services and trying to report them is "we found nothing against facebook’s community standards here".

I think that everyone who actually has a PhD and works with peoples with PhD must've chuckled a little when "open" AI's newest model was advertised as a PhD level human as if that was a really good thing. I mean I appreciate that people still respect our education but also lol.

I've been doing computational linguistics for over 20 years now, yet I still get surprised and don't know how to work with people who aren't passionate. Like we are working on something exciting, why wouldn't you spend extra time (at airport etc) on reading annotations and word lists?

🦡 🍄 🐍 archive.org/details/flas...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... I was sure that was gonna be the onion and not the guardian while scrolling past -_-

yeah someone should nuke collective shout.

kind of bummed not going to acl in wien, but also not really because it's so overwhelmingly an ai conference with 90 % people presenting their outdated chatgpt logs and stuffs :-D

Two easy ways to make QR codes for scientific presentations and posters: python package qrcode and latex package qrcode. No need to google after suspicious "sponsored" sites that generate QR codes after registering in and giving your emails and credit card details.

IIUC this seems like something that could actually be called open source unlike the compiled binaries with no sources that everyone is sending out and advertising as open. nice if true

have you always spoken English wrong, #3 might shock you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbG...

www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news... like I predicted on the other social media site 5–10 years ago, AI is going to kill us (or me specifically) not with terminators' uprising but by replacing my skin cancer doctor with a guessing bot...

this is what you look like as a Harry Potter fan in 2025

I feel like a lot of academic reviewing in NLP last few years has become trying to politely tell that copypasting numbers and graphs from automated systems using downloaded data and LLMs is not enough. Like reviewing high school essays, I have to see adult human thinking process in the content.

how did we end up with a world where consumer protections have been thrown away? This is getting annoying fr. In last few weeks I've seen: bars and hotels in UK adding tips to bills without telling, booking.scam selling non-existent "rentals", negative reviews legally banned... no consequences...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=djlL... it seems a German news post about what I said about google maps being a scam nowadays

"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂

I tend to lose weight during the only month of the year I'm not exercising but binge drinking and eating irregularly, this is why

one of my pet peeves is when I get scientific feedback telling that it would be more interesting if I wrote about X where X is an article or thesis I've already wrote and refer to in the article being reviewed, like I know it was more interesting and my best work but I cannot keep rewriting it.

happy to see that reddit has been translated to finnish quite competently, I'd be surprised to see if this was AI's work (as compared to Google's products where the AI translations make the products unusable and I hear Microsoft is probably starting to do the same...)

yall know how google and microsoft has been forced to ask users if they want to use like google search or internet explorer when starting to use new windows or android? If we had the same for mobile keyboards, autocorrects and spell-checkers we would already have Indigenous language supports in oses

I like that I'm writing about problems with modern auto correcting spell check, and overleaf's autocorrect keeps misspelling my correct words as if to just demonstrate my point

I just got balatro for free from ps+ and I don't understand the hype, like games like this were common in 5 € 1000-in-1 shareware packs in the 90s. It's a nice twist for poker but why would I keep playing for more then few games?

I often wonder, if we banned infinite scroll and toxic recommender algorithms that select content to maximise screen time, would we have any problems with "internet" (c.f. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...). How many would be addicted to doomscrolling if you click next page every 100 posts?

In today's lunch hour experiment I tested the claim that AI is improved google search, I was prepping the lunch and wondering what veg is really bad for you raw (and not just old wives' tale bad), chatgpt and google's AI summary gave same ~50 % wrong list of many things, ddg->reddit are still best

in 2025 I'd love to be able to book my hotels and flights direct instead of via trivago's or skyscammer's links to online "travel agencies", but none of the hotels and airlines can maintain stable booking websites anymore. atm Neither ALL nor LH lets me login and order without crashing totally

Overheard at mexican food truck in a food truck fest here in North Norway. Customer: "What is this chipotle is it spicy?" Server: "No, it's just mayo". And it was. I shouldn't be negative, at least they are trying.

tfw in language learning from such B2~C1 onwards is when you have subtitles on and subtitles don't match what is said. One of the more annoying reasons In Norway and Germany for reality tv they just rewrite modern or dialectal spoken, language to "standard", it's just so distracting and feil.