Dianna Walla
@diannawalla.bsky.social
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Research librarian & linguist interested in multilingualism, crafter and textile enthusiast interested in the history of everyday objects. Always interested in amplifying marginalized voices. She/her. 📍Trondheim, Norway
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diannawalla.bsky.social
Grateful you shared this since she's new to me!
diannawalla.bsky.social
The inclusion of 'hexasyllabically' is my favorite detail here. *chef's kiss*
gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.
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jessothomson.co.uk
It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
diannawalla.bsky.social
I'm definitely interested in the use of language that (misleadingly) personifies these systems!
diannawalla.bsky.social
The deadline to register for this year's DHKO conference is *this Thursday*, October 9!
dhko.bsky.social
Påmeldingen til DHKO 2025 er åpen og programmet ligger ute!

KEYNOTES:

📍Jack Andersen: Organizing Information, Technological Change and Ideological Contestation

📍Jordan Magnuson: Game Poems and Born-Videogame Poetics

#digitalhumaniora #bibliosky #arkivsky
DHKO 2025: Infrastruktur og grensesnitt - Universitetet i Innlandet
Nasjonalt forskningsnettverk for digital humaniora og kulturorganisasjon (DHKO) sin tredje årlige konferanse skal holdes på (og i samarbeid med) INN. Årets konferanse vil inneholde workshops og presen...
www.inn.no
diannawalla.bsky.social
Quality trolling from the dictionary, I support it! 👏👏
merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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unnieikeseth.bsky.social
Fra 🌳 til 🅿️ . Det er til å gråte over korleis vi erstattar natur og matjord med betong: www.nrk.no/dokumentar/x...
NRK avslører europeisk naturtap: Norge topper verstingliste
www.nrk.no
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mcopelov.bsky.social
I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇
atrupar.com
Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.
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rahaeli.bsky.social
Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
diannawalla.bsky.social
Absolutely true! I think the stakes feel higher around generative AI at the moment given what students stand to lose by using it (I work at a university library, for context). There's so much marketing/hype, and a lot of temptation for them to make their lives a little bit "easier."
diannawalla.bsky.social
I'm thinking especially about how word choices that have a humanizing effect (e.g., "'think' more deeply," "correct its mistakes") are both misleading and potentially dangerous. It's clear many people using LLMs have no idea what they actually do because of the way they're marketed.
diannawalla.bsky.social
I've been thinking a lot about how important our language choices are in discussing generative AI and this blog post from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social really gets at why: "When vendors feed you language, it’s in the hopes that you’ll regurgitate it to sell their product for them."
MOOCs and the Myth of "Access" — Sonja Drimmer
The recent piece by Vauhini Vara, “ How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kid’s Classrooms ” is important reading for the week, and there’s much in it to infuriate. It’s good. But there’s one ...
sonjadrimmer.com
diannawalla.bsky.social
I've definitely seen an uptick in both Quisling and Vichy this year.
diannawalla.bsky.social
Nå har jeg lyst til å lese 'Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year' igjen med det spørsmålet i bakhodet!
diannawalla.bsky.social
Scratching my head at that one.
diannawalla.bsky.social
This was genuinely lovely to read on a morning with so much bad news in the world. Thank you for the updates!
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supercamilla.bsky.social
Ikke overraskende.

"a recent report from the MIT Media Lab found that 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies.
[...]
Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
diannawalla.bsky.social
Kjenner meg igjen i det første punktet der! Men jeg klarer ikke å gjøre det veldig ofte.
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maxpichl.bsky.social
"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."
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themerl.bsky.social
yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
A herd of sheep move across a marshy bridge.
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ninamarkl.bsky.social
applied linguists and translators: what's your favourite academic paper on machine translation and its effects on translators? 🐦🐦 #lingsky
diannawalla.bsky.social
Yeah, it ends up feeling both weak and nonsensical. "Carefully removed" and "coincidence" are pretty at odds in that sentence, there.