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It's already well-known in CS, but for those unfamiliar in humanities/social sciences doing historical/social critique of speech processing, NLP, and AI/ML, Dan and Jim's textbook + site is an incredible (and accessible) resource for gaining a foundational understanding of key techniques.

Hey, so it turns out I'll be in NYC next week. Who's around?

I am increasingly convinced that the problem is not so much that people don't seem to understand how computers work than it is that they seem to have forgotten what *language* does.

Some really interesting [massive media conglomerate] vs. [data-churning tech juggernaut] lawsuits might start hitting court dockets in 3-5 years.

See downthread re: v. cool forthcoming special issue on algorithms+occult, but as a tangent: is there a name for visual genre of merging vaguely late-antiquity/early-modern imagery w/digital/electronic iconography? Like sacred geometry+circuit schematic vibes. If not, can I propose glitch esoterica?

I am so. excited. for this.

So . . . what do we think is going to happen when they eventually incorporate all that text that people have been scraping from *fanfiction archives* into these datasets?

the curse of enjoying the early internet is having to watch all its silly little aspects get churned up and spat out in its final form as a civilization-eating demogorgon

I would say that only 95% of my writing problems are, in fact, thinking problems. The remaining 5% are the result of my doomed attempts to turn my point into a pun.

Damn, they can't even bother putting some effort into their soulless commercialism. I guess no one knows what it means to work anymore.

"to solve DoD use cases"--I've read decades-worth of documentation from NLP-related DoD projects since 1940s & seen proposed use cases from run-of-the-mill mass surveillance to "idk, we try telepathy yet?" I can't think of one for this that isn't just to watch the world burn.

Me, an absolute monster, with curiosity borne from deepest void of late capitalist despair: "what kind of ads were they?"

The History of the Seattle Mariners: Supercut Edition YouTube video by Secret Base

No idea why Mariners are trending since I don't follow baseball and never have, but this 3.5+ hour documentary that @secretbase.bsky.social put out some years ago might be one of my favorite pieces of media of all time. Fully serious. It's this and vol. 3 of Proust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIgK...

"Copy of series of graphs showing the 'guitar' spike alone and with various Dolby SR adjustments."

Okay, while I'm here, something sound studies and media tech history folks may find of interest: the Ray Dolby papers were recently processed and are now available for research at Stanford's Silicon Valley Archives. A bunch of stuff has been digitized too: exhibits.stanford.edu/dolby

Ah, so it's like a list, but "list" didn't project enough multi-level marketing scam energy.

That was written specifically for the target audience of me, the person who is very relieved not to have to haul myself to Luxembourg this year.

What the hell is a starter pack.

I also can't take any credit for that CFP--all that goes to my brilliant co-organizers. I think the only thing my book-frazzled brain managed to contribute when we were putting it together this year was positive vibes. 😅

I've been a complete hermit while finishing up the book. I'm torn between "wow, has it been that long?" and "how has it only been two years, it feels like 86."

Wow, I couldn't even remember to put a link to the actual @sigcisconf.bsky.social account in my repost. It's social media amateur hour over here. (Don't worry, I'm not going to be the one actually running the SIGCIS bsky account.)

Reminder that the extended deadline for SIGCIS proposals is tomorrow 7/14!

We're on our all-virtual rotation this year, which means registration will be Pay-What-You-Can and you don't have to travel to Luxembourg.

Hello! Nice to see a familiar face on my twice-yearly peak onto social media!

I should probably be making my own "go follow the new SIGCIS account" post, but instead I'm just going to repost Laine's:

Anyway, it's our fundraising season, pls donate to ROMchip if you like our rizz donate.romchip.org

OpenAl says it needs 'more capital than we'd imagined' as it lays out for-profit plan

Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...

File under: tech company execs eventually "innovate" themselves into an slightly worse version of the very thing they sought to disrupt. This is just how a lot of long-running procedural shows on network tv worked.

Hi, thank you! I'm occasionally active, meaning I basically check in every few months, attempt to clear out the backlog of notifications, and then disappear again. 😅

2024 is absolutely nailing it: "Air Canada essentially argued that 'the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,' a court order said." Impeccable, no notes. 🙃 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...