A Discord for gay gamers is in disarray after an exec at Anthropic forced an AI chatbot on the Discord. When confronted, the exec said he would not submit to mob rule and that AIs have emotions. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

#chr2025 code-switching in K-pop lyrics (and major spoilers for kpop demon hunters…) @callmesan.bsky.social

finished my first #CHR2025 presentation. Check out the paper on code switching in Kpop anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out! 97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper. 🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

New paper @ #CHR2025! Our work uncovers how Korean–English code-switching shapes Western success on the Billboard Hot 100 and Global 200. From gender patterns to linguistic trends, know more through the paper. Link: anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... See you at @comphumresearch.bsky.social!

🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

In K-dramas, food often operates as its own kind of language — a conversational channel that runs parallel to dialogue and, at times, speaks louder than it. www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...

Sam Altman texts Shivon Zilis February 9, 2023

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

Computationally, whitespace gets little attention—it’s usually standardized or stripped. But in poetry, whitespace matters! Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs. New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Amazon MTurk, launched on Nov 2, 2005, to pioneer “artificial artificial intelligence”: using 500,000 underpaid workers to annotate, review, imitate AI. What a difference 20 years makes! Today they’re still underpaid but there are tens of millions of them.

PhD in Computational Social Sciences – CNRS, France 🎓 Fully funded (COBCOD Project, 2025–2029) Eligibility: Master’s 📅 Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 🔗 higherjobz.com/phd-computat... #PhDPosition #SocialSciences #EuropeJobs #ResearchOpportunities #AcademicJobs @cnrs.fr

Even though it should feel pointless to care about this as our republic crumbles but somehow this shit does still make my blood boil www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

I would gladly read a followup on this focused entirely on IRBs. I've been surprised by how often researchers say they could never got approval to run tests mimicking the sort of interventions that major platforms undertake on far larger populations as a matter of course on a daily basis.

Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee are responsible for much of the UK’s food inflation, with climate change the key driver of rising grocery bills #climatecrisis @eciu.net HT @carbonbrief.org www.ft.com/content/ced8...

🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le

#TBT #NLProc "Explaining Speech Classification Models" by Pastor et al. (2024) makes speech classification more transparent! 🔍 Their research reveals which words matter most and how tone and background noise impact decisions.

"I really don't care, do you?" is now the new ethos ... "Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World. Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism." gizmodo.com/fake-protest...

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

#survey #germany The English version of the #ALLBUS 2023 is now published. New in '23: attitudes towards #climate change Younger respondents are more likely to attribute climate change to human causes, whereas older ones tend to assume that natural processes and human causes have an equal influence.

Computer Science is no longer just about building systems or proving theorems--it's about observation and experiments. In my latest blog post, I argue it’s time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...

A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.

Tout ou presque est faux dans cet entretien donné à @lemonde.fr, mais il faudrait pour le savoir lire les gens qui étudient la société. Une démonstration en trois exemples.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Looking for PhD opportunites in #NLProc #XAI? We @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk @apepa.bsky.social are hiring for a start in Spring or Autumn 2026. 📆 Application deadline: 31 October 2025 ℹ️ Details: www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fel... 👀 Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Registration for #CHR2025 is now open! Visit our website for details on registration fees and how to register: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/venue/ See you in Luxembourg!

Today's date, 9/25/2025, is probably the last date of our lifetime where the month, day, and year are all square numbers 😱 The next time this will happen is on 1/1/2116.

The @crestumr.bsky.social AI & Social Sciences seminar resumes. Wednesday 17th at 5pm (CET), we will receive Pr. @emilymbender.bsky.social . She will talk about her latest book, *The AI Con*, co-authored with Dr. @alexhanna.bsky.social. Join us for what will certainly be a lively conversation.

"She got ChatGPT to tell me what a rat I was.”

A new Open-Source LLM from ETH Zurich just came out: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

This is a truly terrible outcome of LLMs that we have been warning people about. This will continue to happen with a technology like this. Specially when safeguards are not guarantees. Maybe we should try to build technology that eases life instead of this bullshit.

What they say after the spotlight fades, but never when it is still burning. And, yes of course there's a book. "Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg," a former Meta Executive. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.” -Attorneys General to AI companies 🔗 www.404media.co/44-attorneys...

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

"Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor" www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

This is a good step IMO...but i think we conflate "Wikipedia" with "English Wikipedia" and "AI Generated" with "LLM generated" We should also be having conversations on Machine Translated text in non-English Wikipedia...those are also "AI Generated"😐

Excited to release our latest paper on a new multi-turn RL objective for training LLMs to *learn how to learn* to adapt to the user. This enables it to adapt and personalize to novel users, whereas the multi-turn RLHF baseline fails to generalize effectively to new users.

465 people. 122 languages. 58,185 annotations! FineWeb-C v1 is complete! Communities worldwide have built their own educational quality datasets, proving that we don't need to wait for big tech to support languages. Huge thanks to all who contributed! huggingface.co/blog/davanst...

I would just like to see one item of news per day that doesn't further radicalize me

@dirkhovy.bsky.social offering a few tips for interdisciplinary work at SICSS-Paris (@crestsociology.bsky.social). Fantastic talk.

🚨 Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Alliance Catalyst Seminar on LLMs in social sciences about to start, feat. @emmabonutti.bsky.social, @bartbonikowski.bsky.social, @jphcoi.bsky.social, Thomas Renault. A great way to close SICSS-Paris '25.