Interesting framing from Clarin with “se equivo.” I was expecting even less from them

There is a very interesting dimension to this case that is not so easy to read from abroad, and it is that this woman and her family are from Santiago del Estero. A very impoverished, racialized province in the center-North periphery of the country. These people understand themselves as very White.

Oceanographers, simultaneously the most mild-mannered and the most terrifying people you’ll ever meet

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I started watching yesterday and could not stop before binging all 5 episodes.
This is a mesmerizing account of journalism, activism and the rapid rise of fascism in Russia. Relevant for absolutely everyone in our current global landscape.
Highly recommended.

Critical AI On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

✨ Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming 📚

👉 For many more relevant resources for Critical AI literacy, check out this website maintained by @olivia.science with videos, news, opinion pieces, blogs, articles, posters, and more. 👇

olivia.science/ai

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thinking about the time I referred to myself as a Latinist and some random guy came in with 'actually the term is latina' and anyway that's when I deleted my mastodon account

Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org

It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This book is going to be incredible + open up an entire new field of research/inquiry for the literary & cultural studies discipline (grad students take note!). It models an entire new form of cultural criticism that combines close reading + historicism + theory + platform studies. Read her thread!

PKI Norge

Vipps prisen av en kaffe til #525211 for å støtte transpersoners politiske arbeid for verdig helsehjelp❤️ (hater du rikshospitalet så er dette den beste måten å bekjempe de på)

Gledelig transynlighetsdag til alle som markerer dagen!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️

The notion of "correct" and "incorrect" language stems from classism and racism (and is in many cases still fueled by it). 🐦🐦

We do not know when language evolved

Halfway through @mttpsq.bsky.social ‘s The eye of the master. What a great perspective to the history of AI in light of the knowledge theory of labor and the origins of industrialization.
The book is also a good read, thoroughly enjoyable on a lazy Sunday. Highly recommended (so far :)

An Abuser is a Network Some thoughts on how our complaint archives can help us in reading the Epstein files

‘An abuser does not just have a network. An abuser is a network.
Kate also said, “they have each other’s backs.”
When they have each other’s backs, their backs become doors’.

Powerful from Sara Ahmed.

Warming; discussion of abuse and s*xual violence open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

If you ever wondered where Musk’s distorted understanding of humans as computers and politics as code comes from

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No. Too high risk.

NEW FROM 55(1)

"Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing" by @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social & Alfonso Del Percio

#Far-RightSemiosis #Branding #PlatformCapitalism
doi.org/10.1017/S004...

Re-imagining Language and Communication in Collaborative Projects: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Future This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, ...

📖
@mpmilans.bsky.social
& I will be presenting our new edited volume "Reimagining language and communication in collaborative projects" at VII EDiSo Symposium on 2 July 3-5 pm
🗣️ Daniel Silva, @vpajaro.bsky.social &
@peterbrowning.bsky.social
will present their chapters there
🌐 shorturl.at/5yo58

WIRED article screenshot: Is generative Al introducing new stereotypes to different languages and cultures? That is part of what we're finding. The idea of blondes being stupid is not something that's found all over the world, but is found in a lot of the languages that we looked at. When you have all of the data in one shared latent space, then semantic concepts can get transferred across languages. You're risking propagating harmful stereotypes that other people hadn't even thought of.

It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

One of my favorite podcasts, In bed with the Right, has started a new series following the events of 1933 and Hitler’s takeover month by month. An enlightening and sobering account. Highly recommended!

So, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social added an AI question and answer to my article in Computer & Education.

The answers are wrong!
They did not ask permission!
The answers are WRONG!

How is this science?!

I don’t have an emotional support dead famous White guy, but choose a dead famous queer black feminist as a spiritual ally.

Gratulerer!! 🥳

I’m late to this party, but I’m losing my mind with Malala’s cameo at ‘We are lady parts’ 😍

Granola Nazis: Fascism in the World of Health, Fitness, and Nature - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism Granola Nazis are a part of the contemporary 'dissident right', with a particular interest in health, wellness, and nature. Though a fringe ideology, it is critically placed to exploit the ongoing cli...

"Granola Nazis: Fascism in the World of Health, Fitness, and Nature" by @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

New review of my book "Postcolonial People. The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal" by Sofie De Baere. It comes with some well-deserved criticism and much praise, e.g.: "Kalter possesses the invaluable skill of making complex processes comprehensible." brill.com/view/journal...

New publication out in JSLX: Language isn't just a data set. We explore why and suggest new directions for sociolinguistic research in the AI era #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Check out the full issue.