taking the third derivative of the descent into awfulness and fascism and excitedly pointing to a negative number and wondering why nobody cares.

in the future every pc will come with a special chair that zaps you when you don't use AI enough

Some #NLP ( #NLProc ) researchers feel that #LLMs largely “solved” linguistics.* We beg to differ. *) I suspect they have syntactic parsing & language generation in mind, in #English & a few other lang’s. This was my impression from a 🧵 with @yoavgo.bsky.social , representing a popular(?) view.

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

a Doctor of Divinity is someone who writes prescriptions for angels

home artificial mouth speakers when

cc @lukelukeluke.bsky.social

Entertaining every stupid idea is impossible. Strange that there's rarely any variety in *which* stupid ideas are given airtime.

So why do recursive number system look the way they do? Just accepted for #EACL, preprint below. Great collaboration and very interesting results with Ponrawee, Kenny and Jennifer from Edinburgh Uni, and Andrea and Devdatt at Chalmers.

my personal view is that LLMs will never be able to provide sufficient guarantees against illegal or harmful output and the social response will be to tolerate this

european authorities aren't going to do anything about Grok as they are too afraid of seeming anti-AI now

I occasionally see links from The Tablet cross my feeds and I didn't realize how unhinged it was www.tabletmag.com/sections/isr...

The forces of the Light cannot simply magick away the power of the Grey King of the mountain. Unlocking the magic forces that will break the power of the demonic entity specifically requires disentangling the rage and pain of the ordinary people of the valley.

I sometimes have mentally compared the whole (inferior) Harry Potter series to the (classic, far superior, more subtle and emotionally intelligent) Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper. In "The Grey King", the titular antagonist spiritually manipulates the conflicts of a Welsh shepherding village.

people who didn't follow or take seriously the fringier parts of the internet don't know the depths to which things can plunge or are only finding out now

pov the year is 2215 and you are running diagnostics on your cybernetic robofriend and you get sucked into a deep dive into the code and find mysterious and antique sections written in some sort of snake-themed language referring to GLUE and BLIMP

im simply up to my hips in trousers

Cartoon. #Cartoon

We wrote a thing -- showing you don't need LLMs to model language production dynamics like the tendency for speakers to reduce predictable words. All you have to do is better model how speech rate varies depending on where a word is and how long the utterance is. arxiv.org/abs/2512.23659

The rabbit will spread its wings and tentacles and fly to the ice planet Yuggoth, where the Lovecraftian cordyceps fungus controlling its nervous system will send fruiting bodies out through its eye sockets and anus then release its fuliginous spores beneath the gaze of the dying stars. Beautiful.

If your pet rabbit molts, do not worry. It is merely preparing to transition from its current instar into its final form. Once this process is complete … /1

Get in loser, we're going west to diminish

A happy and peaceful Christmas to all our followers.

With this piece of bread on the ground in Ottawa, Canada and the one below in Perth, Australia, @drstip.bsky.social and I have successfully created an Earth sandwich. The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded. If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich. HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!

Ged and the Nameless One

google search's latest nonsense on mobile is to make it annoying to get behind the AI answer lightbox to the actual search results

If those people aren't constantly angry, they might start to look for who to *really* blame for the reason the world is so shit. That's why the rich push so hard to keep them focused on marginalized groups that are both so powerful to bend the world to their whim, but so weak to be beaten by a RT.

I was in Sweden this week! 🇸🇪❄️ Many thanks to Nikolai Ilinykh for inviting me to give a talk at the University of Gothenburg. I enjoyed having inspiring chats and delicious food with Sharid Loáiciga, @asayeed.bsky.social, Simon Dobnik, Hyewon Jang and Chris Howes at CLASP. Much appreciated! 😊🎄

forget AI, what will destroy the internet is 100billion factor (or however many it is now) authentication

oh no not This .

Yes, Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible person. But he did more to undermine Americans' faith in capitalism than anyone from DSA ever did.

I've been saying this for a while.

By that point, though, the heavy lifting of the Radch was already done. And to date, I have only read CP and the Hydrogen Sonata. By the same token, people who were immersed in Banks' work almost never read CJ Cherryh, because her work wasn't widely available in the UK.

shaka, before the walls fell

I just cut a cake with a cookie @datatherapist.bsky.social

We need our policymakers everywhere to be attuned to the needs of the people, not the whims of CEOs -- and especially not CEOs in the grip of TESCREAList fantasies. Thank you @abeba.bsky.social and @krisshrishak.bsky.social for speaking up www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...

For anyone who's struggled with variable spelling practices before modern printing, there's a summary of what's "interchangeable" in Thomas Wright's Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English. 2 vols. London, 1857. #orthography #English #language #dialect #manuscripts #medieval

While the media often focuses on identity, any election with a socialist / progressive candidate will come down to class and capital accumulation.

Anyone interested in spending a semester to a year as a guest prof in Gothenburg? Let me know...

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SACing for EACL this year and pleasantly surprised by how many papers on my docket have the proper 3 reviews by this point. Just to cut through the doominess and grousing (which are perfectly legit).

someone signed me up as a reviewer for a conference in OpenReview, I actually emailed them to remove me, but instead what they're doing is a fishing net sort of thing where they keep everyone signed up and just hope that some people actually do a review. So they never deleted me.

I looked her up, it seems likely she was brutally murdered by the criminal network she was involved with.

More broadly, when all these clowns said Tyrannical Wokeness Has Gone Too Far, they specifically meant e.g. effective mass campaigns against elite impunity for sexual offending; the police murdering citizens in broad daylight, and allied governments being overthrown in the Arab Spring.

My university is promoting Qualtrics new “synthetic data” initiative that “simulates human behavior so enable quicker experiments” and it is HORRIFYING that a UNIVERSITY promotes this “as transformative for how we collect data” and I don’t know who to scream at 😭😭😭😭