Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking.

arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

“For trans people and inclusive organisations, the last year has been horrific – now we have to find out whether this government has taken its responsibilities seriously and fixed this mess or not.” (Alex Parmar-Yee, director of the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance group)

I know it's jokes, but papal infallibility is a new-ish doctrine from the 1800s iirc, and it refers to certain kinds of edicts, not literally everything they say and do

Why is pro-AI still posturing as anti-AI, and why is the general public still willing to believe the charade?

Now y'all see why most of my videos and streams didn't include music until I could with certainty get music that I didn't have to screw around with paying royalties for.

It's not that I don't want to pay artists, it's that I cannot do the extra bookkeeping to feasibly comply with paying royalties.

And apparently in the music guidelines of Meta it reads:
"Use of music for commercial or non-personal purposes in particular is prohibited unless you have obtained appropriate licences."

But the UI doesn't tell you this, it's buried in a document no one would've ever reasonably read.

This isn't going to be popular, but I think everyone should think hard about the last sentence here and what implications it has for electoral politics in the U.S.

I've been seeing a bunch of leftish posters saying that if the 2028 race is Vance vs. Newsom they're going to sit it out, and uh buddy

Collaborative Text Editing with Eg-walker: Better, Faster, Smaller Collaborative text editing algorithms allow several users to concurrently modify a text file, and automatically merge concurrent edits into a consistent state. Existing algorithms fall in two categori...

An IEEE conference has published a plagiarised version of a paper I wrote with @seph.bsky.social. I already reported it to the conference chairs and the IEEE Ethics Reporting Line 3 months ago, and nothing happened.

Original: arxiv.org/abs/2409.14252
Plagiarised: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

Different industry here, and a much slower progression, and Cat's industry has quickly overtaken mine in terms of widespread, irreversible collapse, but like

Mood, solidarity, and, 😞

we need more linguists because i don't want to have to explain to otherwise educated people that there's no such thing as a "biological pronoun"

I haven't read it, but this description makes me think of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy

tfw you confuse a liminal space for a third space

yeah that's pretty much it

Eg

Universities ‘threatened by spurious Home Office visa rejections’ New rules will punish institutions if study visas are rejected — but they say the official reasons given for refusals are often inaccurate

This Times report suggests the Home Office is unable to reverse egregious mistakes, if it realises it has rejected university applicants on spurious grounds due to its own incompetence
www.thetimes.com/article/1644...

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

in the original yiddish you have the protagonist consistently referred to as 'he' and 'him' and as a 'bokher' (young man) while the english uses 'she' and 'her' or just avoids gendered language altogether and Yentl is SUCH a different read in the yiddish, with how queer a world it invites you into

I was under the impression they were also being used for cooling, but good point!

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

Do we have a good sense yet what the impact of widespread heatpumps will be on the ground? Obvs in places with permafrost consequences are obvious, but the heat is still going somewhere, yeah? (Genuinely always wondered this)

I will be at #CHI2026, happy to talk all things NLP and queer identity, and presenting my work on use of LLMs for support during break-ups. Say hello 😁

'In 2019, the government introduced the “foundation model”, transferring many public universities out of direct state ownership into privately governed foundations, each overseen by a board of trustees controlling its budget, strategy and senior appointments.' 1/2

Just what is needed for a service dedicated to preserving and enhancing human health.

One reason among many, yes. If you interrogate who they should or shouldn't think should be having kids, it gets very bad very fast.

I’m looking for #reviewers for any of the following journal submissions. Submission length is often similar to #ACL’s (4 or 8 pages for short/long submission type).

Please contact me if you can #review, and BOOST this in any case. Thanks!

#LowResource #NLP #NLProc #review

In March 2026, an Anthropic employee released the source code of Claude Code, a wrapper around their large language model that is widely used to generate code in programming tasks. Its thousands of lines of Typescript code contained many hopeful prompts and incantations to shape Claude’s behaviour. Here are some examples: “Report outcomes faithfully”; “Never characterize incomplete or broken work as done”; “Be careful not to introduce security vulnerabilities” (prompts.ts in Anthropic 2026). There is more than a passing resemblance here to the Azande witch-doctor apprentice who, while stirring the medicine, utters: “You medicine which I am cooking, mind you always speak the truth to me. Do not let anyone injure me with his witchcraft, but let me recognize all witches. … Let me be expert at the witch-doctor’s craft so that people will give me many spears on account of my magic.” (Evans-Pritchard 1937: 93). In the case of Claude, the incantations appeared insufficient: analysis of the codebase, which according to a company executive was “pretty much 100% written by Claude Code”, revealed severe security vulnerabilities (Townsend 2026).

I was supposed to finish this March 31 and then the #Claude Code leak happened, handing me the perfect opening example

Some of it has been in the works for longer: it's also a version of (part of) my #DHd2025 keynote titled "What makes LLMs so irresistible?"

Read it here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages

"In the late 1950s, the library at CERN began soliciting preprints from physicists, asking them to send their papers to the library, instead of to their private mailing networks."

A recent paper, co-authored by several ELLIS-affiliated researchers, shows that perfectly aligned, policy-compliant AI can undermine democratic institutions. Not by malice, but through sheer scale.

What if the most dangerous AI isn’t rogue - but works as intended?

A new ELLIS-affiliated paper shows aligned, policy-compliant AI can still undermine democracy at scale.

Bottom line: alignment ≠ safety. Democratic resilience must keep pace.

📄 Paper: https://bit.ly/4snKdLN

I love being unionized and I love unions