Donate to Care for Santana During This Difficult Time, organized by Hanna Garth Santana Guerra recently learned of the passing of their mother in California. … Hanna Garth needs your support for Care for Santana During This Difficult Time

a grad student in my department has lost their mother. on top of the sudden, devastating, and unexpected grief they are also beset with a series of unexpected financial expenses. please consider donating what you can and/or circulating this fundraiser www.gofundme.com/f/care-for-s...

thanks! and thanks for reading/sharing!

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal...

thanks!! realizing you might also be interested in another contribution to the special issue my article is a part of, by Courtney Handman rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

just say NO to marinara microphone

ty <3

abolish all wiretapping spaghetti pucks immediately

a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

always indebted to your work nick!!

one vote of confidence is all i need

and to _that_ end, would anyone be interested in a critical analysis of large audio models (as opposed to LLMs) like Whisper? they're being taken up in what i feel are noteworthy ways in the very niche subfield/industry i study (vocal biomarker AI) but can't tell if anyone but me cares about this

yes! more evidence that people should be listening to linguistic anthropologists when talking about how AI works

to that end, another thing i'm interested in pushing in this article + my work in general is an examination of "language oriented-AI" thru genealogies of communication engineering + speech signal processing, where we find more complex accounts of speech than the usual vulgar Saussurean-Chomskyan one

feel free to email me if you can't access the article and would like a PDF. it's been interesting to reflect on fieldwork that wrapped up on the cusp of the LLM paradigm shift in NLP, and to write about machine listening research that's invested in sound/voice rather than text

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long-stan...

early view of my article is out! it explores the twinned ideologies of referentialism that often subtend language and "AI" and how those ideologies break apart in the R&D pipeline, where the social-pragmatic dimension of both speech + data come to the fore rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

see you in a minute!

Donate to Care for Santana During This Difficult Time, organized by Hanna Garth Santana Guerra recently learned of the passing of their mother in California. … Hanna Garth needs your support for Care for Santana During This Difficult Time

a grad student in my department has lost their mother. on top of the sudden, devastating, and unexpected grief they are also beset with a series of unexpected financial expenses. please consider donating what you can and/or circulating this fundraiser www.gofundme.com/f/care-for-s...

When you read about applications of "AI" in medicine, a good Q to ask is "what is the billing code for that 'service'?"

In the case of "screening" for IPV, no indication is required (unlike "assessments").

To document physical abuse, you can use ICD-10 code T74.1. Relevant source:

ok im either being scammed or Duol*ingo is legit recruiting me to appear in one of their youtube videos to talk about slang. either way, screaming crying throwing up and so on and so forth

so excited!!

This Friday, come celebrate the online launch of our special issue on Language Machines in @journaloflinganth.bsky.social with @soclinganth.bsky.social

We are looking forward to a lively conversation with @bethmsemel.bsky.social, prosecco in hand :)

speaking of ling anth AI and special issues: the introduction to a special issue edited by Webb Keane & Costas Nakassis that i contributed to is now up online too. great day for our niche little corner of anthropology / spoiler alert for my article within rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

if you know me, you know i've been gassing up this special issue ever since it came out. i'm delighted to do so yet again at the online launch this Friday at noon EST. thanks @annaw.bsky.social, @mcastelle.bsky.social & Siri for the invitation and for the issue itself! tinyurl.com/languagemach...

UCSD professors face discipline in connection with 2024 pro-Palestinian protest encampment One professor is looking at a possible suspension for two years without pay.

UCSD drags professors into discipline, suspension without pay threats accusing them of participating in encampment two years later. Professor and students see political prosecution and campus that punishment for learning and talking about Palestine

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/04/12/u...

at this juncture, a gift to humanity

death cult nation

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon.

Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

nice!! going to be sharing this with some linguistic anthro-meets-multispecies people

A flyer for a session. At the top it says "April 10, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm | Aaron Burr Hall 219. The title says "the future of (data) work". The title block reads "The rapid expansion and commercialization of artificial intelligence systems has been enabled by the upscaling of data work, defined by Miceli and Posada as 'the labor involved in the collection, curation, classification, labeling, and verification of data.' Amidst debates about how 'intelligent machines' will impact the global workforce, this conference brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars and organizers to examine the histories, politics, topographies, and lived realities of data work around the world, centering the people behind the platforms that dominate our present to imagine alternative futures." The people involved follow: Beth Seme, Organizer. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthroplogy, Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptor; Hunter Akridge, Research Assistant, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology; Alex Hanna, Distributed AI Research Institute; Seyi Oloji, University of California, Berkeley; Cindy Kaiying Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julian Posada, Yale University; Shivani Kapania, Carnegie Mellon University; Samantha Dalal, Princeton Center for Information and Technology Policy; Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego; Sarah Fox, Carnegie Mellon University"

Excited to head over to Princeton this week and be in conversation with these fantastic scholars on data work.

I'll be speaking about my second manuscript in preparation on ImageNet and cultural labor. Thank you to @bethmsemel.bsky.social for organizing!

The thread linked here is a close reading of the leaked code base and friends it is *brutal*

Event poster April 10, 9:30-4:30 Aaron Burr Hall, room 219. Additional information available at the link.

Join us Friday, April 10th to explore the histories, politics, topographies, and lived realities of data work around the world, centering the people behind the AI systems that dominate our present to imagine alternative futures. @bethmsemel.bsky.social
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