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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 2h

Go see Blikk at Nasjonalmuseet. One of the first literary media installations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blikk_(... And then take the train to Bergen 😉

Blikk (artwork) - Wikipedia

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 2h

Wait, you’re in Norway!!? I’ve been wanting to invite you to Bergen for ages - I assume you don’t have time for a quick visit across the mountain this trip? I’ll email you.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 2h

Å, det er VENNENE, ikke avisen. Supert om du kan spørre! Kanskje det er tilfeldig at Kjærstad brukte neshornet som symbol? Og et veldig sentralt symbol!

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 2h

The answer is probably "it depends..." If you for instance ask politically controversial questions about India in Hindu or English you get different results. See (unfinished, sorry) report from workshop led by @notsaved.bsky.social testing this. syntheticimaginaries.cargo.site/1

1 — Synthetic Imaginaries

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 2h

Haha, det var artig. Klassekampen har kampanje nå med caps som har neshorn på - så det er jo tydeligvis et etablert (om utydelig?) symbol de har valgt?

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 2h

Spør på Bluesky, sa Anne Sigrid! Og vipps har hun gjort det. Altså: Neshornet er et viktig symbol i Jan Kjærstads roman Valgdager, som handler mye om arbeiderpartiet og Norge fra 50-tallet til idag. Klassekampen har også et neshorn som symbol. Er det en sammenheng? Hvorfor!!

Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 22h

Hvorfor er symbolet til Klassekampen et neshorn? Spør for vennen @jilltxt.bsky.social

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 2h

Men problemet er at SNL ikke oppgir noen kilde!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Portland 🔥

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 4d

If you published a book that was distributed in the USA before 2021, search here to find out whether Anthropic owes you $3000 for pirating your book to train its LLMs. There are lots of Norwegian academics on this list. Also books that are weirdly missing. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 4d

And the preprint about humans emulating AI speech patterns. Except what if a lot of
the YouTube videos that use the word "delve" more after ChatGPT was introduced are AI-generated? arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication

From the invention of writing and the printing press, to television and social media, human history is punctuated by major innovations in communication technology, which fundamentally altered how idea...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 4d

Here is the blogpost about handwriting. jovex.substack.com/p/return-of-...

Return of Handwriting

I'm not writing off typing yet though. Just reconsidering the place of handwriting in life.

jovex.substack.com

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 4d

I read a blog post about hand writing and a preprint about how human speech (or presumed human speech on YouTube) is now emulating LLM styles of writing. And I’ve been thinking I might want to write more by hand to prime myself to write in my own voice and not that of an LLM.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 6d

The CFP for Narrative 2026 is out! It's in Aarhus 4-6 June 2026, and they need 300 word abstracts by 1st December. I went last year and really enjoyed it - hoping to convince all my colleagues to come next year :) conferences.au.dk/narrative2026

Narrative2026

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 8d

It doesn't matter if you don't believe in climate change. Your insurer does.

The more extreme climate events and disasters that occur around the world – the higher Australian insurance premiums will be.

It's why we're calling for compensation levy on gas & coal exports > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 9d

Vi har en annen modell men jeg fant bruksanvisningen på nett og det viste seg at alle delene var veldig lurt skrudd sammen på vår i hvert fall bare man skjønte hva planen var liksom. Har du lett etter bruksanvisning? Kjedelig men kanskje effektivt?

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Helge Torvund @2rvund.bsky.social · 10d

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 13d

I don't know, I was at a lecture with Trond Trosterud, who's an expert on indigenous languages and technology, and he said most indigenous languages genuinely have too little written content to train a model. But perhaps there is more "conservative text" than there is South Samí literature.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 13d

Media panics. And yes, in "Phaedrus" by Plato, Socrates says "They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks."

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 13d

Oh no :(

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14d

Du har et poeng - kanskje prompten som ba om en "hær" hentet fram litt annen verdenskrigsestetikk?

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14d

Har hørt andre gode forslag og - KI-graut, KI-skvip, KI-slafs, KI-slaps, KI-sørpe...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14d

Boken Pink-pilled hadde noe interessante analyser om det og de fraværende mennene i tradwife innhold - de selger like mye til menn som til kvinner, og til kvinner som egentlig ønsker seg å ha en «husmor» mer enn de ønsker å være en. Eller kanskje de ønsker å være onlinecoach og rik og selvstendig.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14d

Blandingen av den myke estetikken fra cottagecore og mammablogging og det KI-genererte bildet av en "husmorhær" av hvite 50-tallskvinner er fascinerende. To alternative strategier for å radikalisere (og tjene penger på) kvinner på nettet i dag. Les mer: www.nrk.no/ytring/provo...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 15d

Jeg har skrevet om Husmorhæren og sammenblandingen av politikk og profitt - som også henger sammen med hvordan sosiale medieplattformer fremmer hustlers som Solheim fordi også plattformene tjener på det. Og det henger sammen med KI-slopp som det Solheim bruker. www.nrk.no/ytring/provo...

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