Alberto Bruzos
@abruzos.bsky.social
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Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. https://abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu/
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abruzos.bsky.social
Piero Sraffa también tuvo una gran influencia en el giro de Ludwig Wittgenstein de la lógica formal a la filosofía del lenguaje ordinario.
traficantes-ed.bsky.social
David Harvey (@davidharvey.org) recuerda toda una vida de encuentros, intelectuales y reales, con el enigmático Piero Sraffa

Tras las huellas de Sraffa ➡️ newleftreview.es/issues/152/a...
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tevoelker.bsky.social
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
Abstract
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elenalademates.bsky.social
La viñeta de hoy de El País me ha sacado una risa. Lo de conjugar nunca fue lo mío😅
abruzos.bsky.social
"AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer."

Must read.
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leifw.bsky.social
The Digital Theory Lab at NYU will host Karen Hao for a book talk on Empire of AI on Monday, October 13, RSVP required here:
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
Karen Hao on Empire of AI
Lunch will be available for the event. Event begins at 12pm
as.nyu.edu
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
Hadn't seen this "Cartography of Generative AI" before. From Estampa, a collective of programmers, filmmakers and researchers working in the fields of audiovisual media and digital environments: cartography-of-generative-ai.net
“Cartography of Generative AI (2024)” shows a sprawling, diagrammatic ecosystem of how generative AI is produced and maintained. The background is light pink with turquoise and yellow highlights. The left side has a turquoise vertical sidebar with labeled sections such as AI imaginaries, Critical expertise, Data sciences, Silicon Valley, and AI harms.

The main diagram maps the flow of generative AI development from top to bottom:

Top left: A globe icon with arrows represents global energy consumption, linked to servers and calculation power (chips, GPUs, and companies like TSMC).

Top center: Rows of red server racks show data centers, connected to big data platforms and pipelines of training data (shown as orange blocks).

Top right: Yellow stacks and schematic diagrams depict the supply chain of raw materials (e.g., cobalt, lithium) and scenes of mining.

Upper right corner: A vignette labeled digital colonialism shows resource extraction sites and cables crossing oceans.

Middle section:

Blue isometric office-like spaces labeled AI start-ups and Silicon Valley venture capital, with tiny illustrated workers at desks, computers, and whiteboards.

Orange and yellow arrows and blocks represent the movement of datasets, training, and alignment processes.

A section labeled human labour shows rows of workers annotating data.

Lower section:

Gridded platforms in orange and yellow depict data extraction from the internet—social media, images, sound, text—and web scraping from sources like Wikipedia, Reddit, Flickr, YouTube.

Groups of small figures interact with large wireframe cube models labeled generative AI engines.

Other vignettes show AI products (like chatbots), digital gig work, and consumer use.

Far right:

Layers of stacked chips show advanced chip production and global supply chains.

A blue network node diagram illustrates the infrastructure economy behind AI technologies.

Boxes at the bottom describe research and governance structures.
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michaelchesnut.bsky.social
1. There is something going on in the burger #LinguisticLandscape of Korea. Something maximum? Something to do with meat and masculinity? Something to do with style and excess? Something interesting, regardless . . . .
A burger king poster for a maximum one pounder burger with a man gesturing to yiu
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abruzos.bsky.social
It didn’t take long to go from ‘AI as a world-changer’ to just another way of making money by selling ads.
jathansadowski.com
What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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	Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.
abruzos.bsky.social
Looks great! Adding it to my to-read list.
iancushing.bsky.social
new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫

Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
abruzos.bsky.social
"In retrospect, we pretend to understand why history took a particular course. (...) Yet after reading memoirs of the 1930–38 period in Germany, I was struck that no one, from eminent politicians to ordinary housewives, predicted what would eventually happen."
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Adam Przeworski.
www.dissentmagazine.org
abruzos.bsky.social
Coincidencia espacial de la representación y lo representado (para una clase de semiótica).
elderman.bsky.social
This only happens to you once
abruzos.bsky.social
And what if all the political rot is nothing but the metastasis of the same deadly disease caused by the burning of fossil fuels that is destroying the world.
erininthemorning.com
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
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sineadgleeson.bsky.social
​On this day in 1981, Taiwanese-American performance artist Tehching Hsieh began his third one-year performance piece. Also known as ‘Outdoor Piece’, Hsieh lived on the street in New York for an entire year. He was not allowed to go inside at all, including buildings, vehicles, tents or the subway.
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traficantes-ed.bsky.social
¿Qué tienen en común el racismo, el punitivismo, la violencia policial, la violencia de las fronteras y la precariedad laboral?

Mañana tendremos a Saïd Bouamama con nosotros en Madrid.

Aquí os dejamos información sobre los distintos actos en los que participará 🧵
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mclem.org
You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers.

Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*.

tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
abruzos.bsky.social
What a strange time to be a journal editor.
critdiscstuds.bsky.social
This is really starting to get out of hand.
A reminder: if you use GenAI to write, or rewrite, your article, it will be rejected from this journal.
A screenshot showing the last 9 editorial decisions; 8 were rejected for use of GenAI
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langpolicy.bsky.social
Are you working on language policy?

Do you like Spain?

Then apply for the Language Policy Forum 2026 in Spain!

22-23 April, @ucm.es

Venue details, plenary speakers, abstract deadline and submission form on our website: langpol.ac.uk. Go go go! 👇
BAAL Language Policy group
Welcome to the Language Policy special interest group of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. The Language Policy (LP) SIG provides a forum to discuss, critically engage with, and research...
langpol.ac.uk