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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 23h

Same!

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 1d

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 1d

Grateful you shared this since she's new to me!

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 1d

The inclusion of 'hexasyllabically' is my favorite detail here. *chef's kiss*

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

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

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 2d

I'm definitely interested in the use of language that (misleadingly) personifies these systems!

Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 5d

The deadline to register for this year's DHKO conference is *this Thursday*, October 9!

DHKO @dhko.bsky.social · 26d

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...

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 9d

Quality trolling from the dictionary, I support it! 👏👏

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 9d

A sticker featuring a red octopus-shaped kraken, with the text "let's get kraken."

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Unni Eikeseth @unnieikeseth.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10d

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 👇

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

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 @rahaeli.bsky.social · 11d

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...

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 11d

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."

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 12d

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 ...

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 12d

I've definitely seen an uptick in both Quisling and Vichy this year.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 12d

Nå har jeg lyst til å lese 'Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year' igjen med det spørsmålet i bakhodet!

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 12d

Scratching my head at that one.

Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 12d

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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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 12d

Kjenner meg igjen i det første punktet der! Men jeg klarer ikke å gjøre det veldig ofte.

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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 14d

"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."

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 15d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 15d

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

A herd of sheep move across a marshy bridge.

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 15d

applied linguists and translators: what's your favourite academic paper on machine translation and its effects on translators? 🐦🐦 #lingsky

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah, it ends up feeling both weak and nonsensical. "Carefully removed" and "coincidence" are pretty at odds in that sentence, there.

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