For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Big congratulations to Francesca Nannetti @francescanannetti.bsky.social for successfully defending her PhD today!
A great piece of work ("Exploring Graduate Recruitment Practices through Job Advertisements and Curricula Vitae: a Corpus Approach to HRM Research") and a well-deserved milestone. 🎓
wow, sounds super interesting, going to get it asap
The cover of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities with the top words in yellow and the bottom in red
Yay! The hard copies of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities arrived today. It was a pleasure to write a chapter in this about pirate infrastructures and shadow libraries.
Network diagram with princess emojis all Over it
the way you collect data determines what kinda data you collect. Who knew? (Many people). So a survey of our archive is a survey of the data we can reach — it’s most often the history of people who were wealthy and connected enough to be remembered, and it’s pretty white and anglophone
New entries to my ZineBakery.com online catalog of free tech+culture+justice zines: DH (free maker software; bodies+datafied city; queering feminist geography; edtech surveillance; digipress); Fritton's Day-Glo Ink "Primer"; @prisonculture.bsky.social's Arrested at the Library; & Virginia Trans Joy+
"crashing is not failure; crashing means we were exploring territories that were unexpected by the program."
I love this perspective.
Thanks @switchangel.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/mLozqDn...
I see so much of this in academic funding calls ‘we are looking for projects that explore how AI can help to solve … hunger, violence against women and children, poverty, etc.’ But there’s no space in there to say: ‘um, what if AI is not the right tool for this’
I have recently found "What are embeddings" by @vickiboykis.com, and I think it should become a #corpuslinguistics and #digitalhumanities must-read starting book. Plus it's free under CC by-nc-sa!
vickiboykis.com/what_are_emb...
Extreme speech thrives in encrypted spaces, but killing encryption won’t stop it, says a group of researchers who have studied the problem from multiple angles. We need context-driven governance, not backdoors, they say.
wow, sounds super, thanks!
“Wikipedia editors have had to deal with an onslaught of AI-generated content filled with false information and phony citations. Already, the community of Wikipedia volunteers has mobilized to fight back against AI slop”
www.theverge.com/report/75681...
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8s25 redeemed,thanks a lot
I love this!
Screenshot of the app showing a page from a book + different views of existing and new ocr.
Many VLM-based OCR models have been released recently. Are they useful for libraries and archives?
I made a quick Space to compare VLM OCR with "traditional" OCR using 11k Scottish exam papers from @natlibscot.bsky.social
huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/ocr-time-capsule
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibwuu57ullc7vacjyno6c5z3gtyakkg2qub6cn3dbbjdpn2kaowmi)
4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved
Replication Crisis
xkcd.com/3117/
I believe it is worth interrogating the fundamental forces re-shaping our information spheres away from liberal democracy towards myth, manipulation and magical thinking empowering autocracy and nihilism.
Here’s how it all falls apart—a 🧵 in 6 figures ⬇️
www.protagonist-science.com/p/how-social...
Stuffing ai into everything “isn’t just a forecast, it’s a libidinal fantasy — a capitalist dream of replacing relationships with code and scalable software, while public institutions are gutted in the name of ‘innovation.’”
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."
MBA-brain is real.
Is 😵💫 one token or two?
To a human, it's one. To a corpus tool, it’s often split (😵 + 💫).
And 𝙊𝙉𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙀 ≠ online.
This preprint shows how emojis & homoglyphs challenge tokenisation and distort linguistic evidence.
🔍 arxiv.org/abs/2507.01764
#Emoji #Homoglyphs #CorpusLinguistics #AcademicSky #LangSky
wow, many thanks!
Fellow academics, can anyone help with obtaining an #endorsement on arXiv?
I have a preprint I'd like to upload to Computer Science > Computation and Language (cs.CL), but need someone to endorse my account.
Here's the endorsement link: arxiv.org/auth/endorse...
#corpuslinguistics #linguistics
3jkl redeemed, thanks
y4ha claimed, thanks!
