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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 1h
"For those who make the case, they can argue that the lookup table is like looking at a thesaurus"
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 3h
I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...
What Machines Don't Know
Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...
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Natalia Pérez @nperezbarrio.bsky.social · 2h
Hoxe hai lugrisismo metafísico no xornal de dentro do xornal 🌊⚓💙
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 1h
reverse Omelas
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 9h
expedition 33 is about how its fine to destroy a city to ease an aristocrats suffering
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C-3PeOr @c3peor.bsky.social · 2h
El perro policía: I have no idea what I'm doing 💭

El Perro Sanxe: Ojalá yo fuese tú y tú fueses yo aunque solo fuese por unas horas, amigo 💭
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5h
WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Manuel Gago @magago.bsky.social · 5h
A historia deste exiliado da Pobra, loitando nas forzas especiais norteamericanas no Pacífico, en Italia e en Alemaña, lembroume ás vellas historias clásicas de guerreiros expulsados das súas cidades e loitan como mercenarios ao servizo dos grandes reis.
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El pobrense que huyó en trainera de la Guerra Civil y acabó en la élite del ejército americano
El Grupo de Investigación Manuel Otero busca a familiares de Juan Chouza para completar su biografía con la parte humana
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 5h
Leaving aside the antiwoke ragebait, the feeling I got from watching the cutscenes in YouTube is that the game is about avoiding falling prey to the male loneliness epidemic by getting back in touch with your old buddies, who appreciate you and stand by you. Very wholesome.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 5h
rhyming dictionares, precursors of the "computational version of the poetic principle realized by LLMs"?
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Metalanguage carries out a code-clarifying operation by establishing an equivalence between two terms in a sequence. “‘Unicorn’ is a one-horned horse” makes the predicate equal to the subject to explain the semantics of that subject. The poetic function reverses this operation; Jakobson says that the two functions are in “diametrical opposition.”35 Poetry uses an equation to build a sequence; it “projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination. Equivalence is promoted to the constitutive device of the sequence.”36 Rather than explanation, we get equivalence based on rhyme, or placement, or some other principle. The final rhyme pairs coupled with internal rhymes that allow the rhyme to move off their initial scheme creates a pattern that is not explanatory but productive. Metalanguage is about the code; poetry is about the message. Poetry illustrates this generative function in language, demonstrating the peculiar play of making equations of terms that are not semantically equivalent: “In poetry one syllable is equalized with any other syllable of the same sequence; word stress is assumed to equal word stress, as unstress equals unstress; prosodic long is matched with long, and short with short; word boundary equals word boundary, no boundary equals no boundary; syntactic pause equals syntactic pause, no pause equals no pause.”37 Rhythm and sound create nonconceptual equivalence. Jakobson’s mantra for the poetic function’s ability to produce that effect was that words similar in sound are drawn together in meaning. Poetics was the arena in which Jakobson hoped to realize a truly structuralist phonology, one that operates by combination and recombination of sound-level paradigms that are then extended into sequence to generate meaning. Rather than crystallizing a concept, it uses sound to explore the regions around given concepts. But the poetic function has long since left adherence solely to sound behind. There is something like a textual poetic function in which we all participate when we communicate in the secondarily oral systems of social media and short message service communication. And now there is, for the first time, a computational version of the poetic principle realized by LLMs. We could think of it as matrix poetics, although it is almost certainly too early to characterize it aesthetically with any surety. While the poetic function is most easily spotted in art, however, it is, for Jakobson, everywhere. His famous example is Dwight Eisenhower’s campaign slogan “I like Ike.” In its asymmetrical echo, it imparts a “paranomastic image of a feeling which envelops its object.” Sticky is indeed a major effect of the poetic function (my term, not Jakobson’s). It generates by remaining in mind, by holding its place in the high-dimensional matrix of language as such. Little rhythms with word combinations stick to us; we use them as chunks to navigate things; we sing-song our way through the day. A word or phrase can get stuck in your head just as much as a song. This is why the poetic function is good for advertising. Those dactyls are everywhere: “no one outpizzas the Hut” (the final two shorts are implied). Equivalences emerge laterally and vertically and leap across apparent boundaries, failing to obey representational or cognitive common sense but remaining (indeed, defining) “natural” for speakers of the language. I don’t have informational knowledge laid out in referential terms and only then access to the web of rhythm and phrase that makes up language.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 5h
rhyming dictionares, precursors of the "computational version of the poetic principle realized by LLMs"?
bsky.app/profile/thes...
Metalanguage carries out a code-clarifying operation by establishing an equivalence between two terms in a sequence. “‘Unicorn’ is a one-horned horse” makes the predicate equal to the subject to explain the semantics of that subject. The poetic function reverses this operation; Jakobson says that the two functions are in “diametrical opposition.”35 Poetry uses an equation to build a sequence; it “projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination. Equivalence is promoted to the constitutive device of the sequence.”36 Rather than explanation, we get equivalence based on rhyme, or placement, or some other principle. The final rhyme pairs coupled with internal rhymes that allow the rhyme to move off their initial scheme creates a pattern that is not explanatory but productive. Metalanguage is about the code; poetry is about the message. Poetry illustrates this generative function in language, demonstrating the peculiar play of making equations of terms that are not semantically equivalent: “In poetry one syllable is equalized with any other syllable of the same sequence; word stress is assumed to equal word stress, as unstress equals unstress; prosodic long is matched with long, and short with short; word boundary equals word boundary, no boundary equals no boundary; syntactic pause equals syntactic pause, no pause equals no pause.”37 Rhythm and sound create nonconceptual equivalence. Jakobson’s mantra for the poetic function’s ability to produce that effect was that words similar in sound are drawn together in meaning. Poetics was the arena in which Jakobson hoped to realize a truly structuralist phonology, one that operates by combination and recombination of sound-level paradigms that are then extended into sequence to generate meaning. Rather than crystallizing a concept, it uses sound to explore the regions around given concepts. But the poetic function has long since left adherence solely to sound behind. There is something like a textual poetic function in which we all participate when we communicate in the secondarily oral systems of social media and short message service communication. And now there is, for the first time, a computational version of the poetic principle realized by LLMs. We could think of it as matrix poetics, although it is almost certainly too early to characterize it aesthetically with any surety. While the poetic function is most easily spotted in art, however, it is, for Jakobson, everywhere. His famous example is Dwight Eisenhower’s campaign slogan “I like Ike.” In its asymmetrical echo, it imparts a “paranomastic image of a feeling which envelops its object.” Sticky is indeed a major effect of the poetic function (my term, not Jakobson’s). It generates by remaining in mind, by holding its place in the high-dimensional matrix of language as such. Little rhythms with word combinations stick to us; we use them as chunks to navigate things; we sing-song our way through the day. A word or phrase can get stuck in your head just as much as a song. This is why the poetic function is good for advertising. Those dactyls are everywhere: “no one outpizzas the Hut” (the final two shorts are implied). Equivalences emerge laterally and vertically and leap across apparent boundaries, failing to obey representational or cognitive common sense but remaining (indeed, defining) “natural” for speakers of the language. I don’t have informational knowledge laid out in referential terms and only then access to the web of rhythm and phrase that makes up language.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 19h
Jesus Christ wasn't always on the best of terms with the vegetal world (Mark 11:12). Maybe it'll be one of those stories in which two superheroes fight each other because of a misunderstanding, only to team up later?
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 21h
Holy shit.
36 Years Later, DC Will Finally Publish a Controversial Canceled Comic Where Swamp Thing Meets Jesus Christ | NYCC 2025 - IGN
In 1989, DC canceled a Swamp Thing comic that would have seen the noble hero meet Jesus Christ. Now, 36 years later, that controversial story will finally see the light of day.
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Arkaitz González 🍉 @arkaitzart.bsky.social · 2d
Hoy hace 9 años desde que mi padre falleció por un cáncer. Aquí una de las veces que lo dibujé mientras pasábamos los largos días en el hospital.

Se te echa de menos, gordo.
Dibujo a tinta de una habitación de hospital donde se ve a mi padre tumbado en una de las camas.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 1d
small distinctions in insults don't translate well
Capture of the output of Google Translate: « "Fool," said one, a bitter insult to which the other responded with "fool." »
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 1d
Germanic seeresses through Roman eyes revista.classica.org.br/classica/art...
Germanic seeresses through Roman eyes
Embora as mulheres da antiguidade greco-romana tenham inspirado estudos recentes, os estudiosos não deram tanta atenção às mulheres do mundo bárbaro. Este artigo examina um grupo específico destas mul...
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 1d
Charles Eric Maine, “World Without Men” (Ace, 1958), with cover art — uncredited but signed — by Ed Emshwiller (1925-1990).
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 1d
"pazguato" ha dicho uno, agria descalificación a la que el otro ha respondido con "gaznápiro"
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 1d
¿Cuándo empezaron las discrepancias? ¿Qué dijo García Montero? ¿Qué ha contestado la RAE? ¿Y ahora, qué? Claves del choque entre el Instituto Cervantes y la Real Academia Española
Claves del choque entre el Instituto Cervantes y la RAE
Motivos del enfrentamiento entre Luis García Montero y Santiago Muñoz Machado, los responsables de las dos principales instituciones que velan por el idioma español en el mundo
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Sheila @marcapaginasolv.bsky.social · 2d
Como hoy es el día de las personas sin hogar, vengo a contar cosas que me han pasado como trabajadora social a lo largo de todos mis años de profesional con personas sin hogar, ¿por qué? Supongo que porque es importante para mí explicarlas
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 2d
Imposíbel para min sentir nostalxia dos 80, cando non había ningures un skatepark no que aplicarme co monopatín que me agasallara o tío Xesús; daquela non había sitios para andar nin co monopatín nin ca bici nin hostias.
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Edgar Straehle @edgarstraehle.bsky.social · 2d
Desconocía esta maravilla. En el contexto de la Revolución Americana se planteó la figura de Sancho Panza como legislador en este almanaque (en diálogo con la famosa figura de Benjamin Franklin).
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 2d
Biden has won the election!!! Bye bye Trump
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 2d
I guess if you are bent on re-tracing the confinement period, doing it through a relationship advice podcast makes sense.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 2d
I guess if you are bent on re-tracing the confinement period, doing it through a relationship advice podcast makes sense.
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HA! @historia-arte.com · 2d
Stalin ante el ataúd de Kirov
El inicio de La Gran Purga.
https://historia-arte.com/obras/stalin-ante-el-ataud-de-kirov
Stalin ante el ataúd de Kirov - Nikolai Rutkovsky
El ejemplo perfecto de Realismo Socialista.
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 2d
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · Jul 24
"Os espellos e a noite", Millán Picouto
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Aviso sobre o contido: "Os espellos e a noite", Millán Picouto
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Dani Díaz @diazcarrete.bsky.social · 2d
Penso en todos os personaxes disfrazados de árbores en "Os espellos e a noite" de Millán Picouto.
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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 3d
This makes me think of all the Elizabethan/Jacobean masques and plays where people are transformed into trees and vice versa.

(This costume is later than that of course. But similar idea, perhaps)
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d
King Louis XV dressed up as a yew tree for a ball at Versailles once.

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Yago Álvarez Barba @econocabreado.bsky.social · 3d
Recuerdo que cuando Yolanda Díaz dijo que iba a mandar a Inspección de Trabajo a hacer controles al campo porque había "trabajo esclavo" y todo el PP salió en trompa a pedir su dimisión... www.eldiario.es/la-rioja/red...
Hacinados y durmiendo bajo candado: cae una red que explotaba en La Rioja a 45 temporeros, algunos menores
Las víctimas trabajaban jornadas enteras sin contrato laboral y en su mayoría vivían hacinadas en habitaciones sin ventilación e incluso encerradas con candados en ellas. Se les descontaban 150 euros ...
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