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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · Mar 3

i've written a blog post about why I think we should reject generative AI in the university: languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 4h

we open the season with strade bianche, we close it with il lombardia, we should acknowledge that the giro is the most important grand tour

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 4h

the vibes, the landscape, the fans, the weather, the little towns they ride through

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 4h

catching up on il lombardia, and my god, italian bike racing really is the best bike racing there is, huh

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 5d

Cambridge University Press and the @lingsocam.bsky.social are proud to announce the new Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC), launching in 2027. JBLAC fosters a transdisciplinary conversation through a global, diasporic lens.

📢 Learn more: cup.org/3KA2i9a

#linguistics #LangSky

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 11h

if i had a car, driving around with a wee ladder and a cable cutter to get them all off would be my new hobby

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 11h

i also might buy some reflective paint to de-vandalise the zebra crossings

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 11h

aside from looking, you know, fascist, it also looks very pathetic if you can’t even put your flag on a real flagpole

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 11h

first long bike ride through the english countryside in a while today. i think i need to get some kind of retractable tree cutting tool to pull all the flags off the lamposts

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 1d

Please share!

We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI.

www.responsiblenlp.org

Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.

www.responsiblenlp.org

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

why not both 🤷‍♀️

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

but yes, I agree. I think this is where what is possible with automation in theory (lots of leisure time, cheaper products etc) clashes with the reality (lower pay, more precarity)

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

yes, I think that's true. I guess what I'm thinking about is a) what does happen to the workers who can't easily move from the "automatable" finite work, to the "infinite" work? and b) what if some of this creative work is also automatable (to the standard the employer wants it to be)?

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

true. but: is there an infinite amount of labour that someone is willing to pay for?

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

you don't have to think that LLMs and other machine learning systems are bad or useless or inadequate in any and all circumstances to have some sense of self-presevation if they could drastically devalue your own labour, you know

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

hate to keep posting about this, but it is absolutely WILD to me how many adult humans beings with professional careers fail to see how the "productivity hacks" of doing their very complex work "faster" through automation will eventually bite them

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

not a specific subtweet

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

i'm sorry, concretely, if you do the work that currently takes you, say 35 hours, in say 15 hours -- what do you think will change? don't you think the remaining 20 hours will be filled with new work? do you think there's unlimited work to be done so that no employee has to go?

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

there's probably a fascinating sociological and psychological phenomenon behind this where people genuinely think that they are "safe" as long as they are "in charge" of technological change

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

incredible puns, thank you very much.

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2d

really sells the radicalisation (solidarity)

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2d

i love the escalating tone of the thread

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2d

the question of what futures, possibilities, politics, relations etc language technologies foreclose is one i’ve found really useful to consider

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2d

“What happens to political questions and speech when language is subsumed back into the form of the prompt? Will it be possible to produce effects with language that are not already foreclosed by the rationalities of the AI model?”

excellent (terrifying) paper by @amoorelouise.bsky.social et al!

Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is a super interesting topic too! Sort of related - I worked on this paper w some colleagues and we were also thinking about some of the issues you raise! would be interested to dive more into how people engage with prompting/narratives of prompting
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

www.tandfonline.com

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2d

absolutely fascinating work, lots of thoughts! if you’re interested in thinking more about prompts we could have a (virtual ☹️) coffee sometime to chat?

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2d

cc: @tisjune.bsky.social