Deshan Sumanathilaka, Nicholas Micallef, Julian Hough, Saman Jayasinghe
SwanNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 5: An LLM-based Framework for Plausibility Scoring in Narrative Word Sense Disambiguation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16262
Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series
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Paris
1932
It doesn't say so explicitly, but this WSJ piece is basically a detailed accounting of just how catastrophically bad Trump is at his job, specifically the "waging a war" part. Every detail is just incredibly damning. What an embarrassment.
Idk who did this comic but it's hilarious
More of this, less of bombing other countries
(From @acyn.bsky.social )
Treasury is holding thousands of Epstein‑related financial records — including overseas payments from Epstein routed through Russian banks
Treasury refuses to release them to Congress
Panel with Bluesky and Mastodon at the International Journalism Festival
Felix, CEO of Mastodon, and I hope to collaborate more. Mastodon has wide adoption in Europe and 8k communities (servers) running independently. The customization they give communities is inspiring to me. Public squares should be a gathering place for you to discover cozier corners/communities.
The paperback version of Overshoot will be out on 7 July, and can be pre-ordered from @versobooks.bsky.social now:
www.versobooks.com/products/313...
One of the most important climate books ever written.
If you care about the world, you’ve gotta know what it says.
Report from the Field. 🍃I’ve been studying quantum field theory, and gently training my nervous system toward coherence. The forest helps. Today I begin a kind of soul retrieval. I was raised with horses but lost touch. Their field is said to extend far beyond ours. Here I go. 🙏🏼
#coherence
Some thoughts on how we got to war with Iran, because even if the cause was mainly Trump getting high on his own Venezuela supply, and then getting played by Netanyahu, my sense is that this was also overdetermined from an institutional perspective in the DoD and State.
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Next up: The Santa Clausewitz
Next edition of On War is gonna look like this
"Aww. Don't put your feet on the table."
One good use of the supposed two-week ceasefire is to get back to talking about the Epstein files
"AI Slop (n.) The endless tide of mediocre, derivative content produced by models trained on other models’ mediocre, derivative content. The cultural equivalent of feeding a landfill into a blender and calling the result “progress.”"
"The Devil's Dictionary of Vibe Coding" goes hard
proudly presenting PRINT GALLERY OF AN ARTIST, a short platformer exploring recursive spaces, inspired by a video on M. C. Escher's Print Gallery
managore.itch.io/print-galler... (web)
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
How did that work out for Afghanistan in the long run? My memory is a bit fuzzy.
Also, there's an American Dad song on what happened with Nicaragua that can explain it. Forget who were the actors in the Iran-Contra affair though. Damn fuzzy brain.
The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching.
Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher.
That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).
Sometimes I'll go get coffee and tell them my name is Frodo, that way when it's ready they go "large iced coffee...for Frodo" and then I yell FOR FRODO! and then nobody laughs and then I go drink my coffee alone in my car
Still Not Forgetting Or Forgiving.
As it happens, I wrote a book to counter a certain Cold War triumphalism, in which I read the collapse of the Soviet Union as prefiguring the collapse of the United States....
One of the most useful ideas in service design: every service has a frontstage and a backstage.
The frontstage is what users experience. The backstage is what makes it possible.
They're not separate problems. They're two sides of the same thing. 🧵
It's free.
For practitioners in policy, product, and design who want to understand the full picture, not just one part of it.
Sign up here: www.humanedesign.co/courses/ser...
Today I'm launching Design the service: a free 14-day email course on service design.
A thread on what makes it different, and why I built it. 🧵
“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”
✨ A Little Perspective is out now! ✨
I put my all into this strange, experimental game, and I'm so excited to finally let you all experience it for yourselves.
Head over to the Steam store to buy it now (10% off for the first week).
store.steampowered.com/app/3485300/... #indiegame #puzzle
