Arden 🫏
@hanoibikingtours.bsky.social
Linguist at the German National Library. Survivour of the AI hype cycle. 🏳️⚧️
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What radicalized you?
December 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
What radicalized you?
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“Through catalog or syllabus information, students should be able to identify “AI-free” courses: courses where the instructor refrains from using AI to grade work, plan lessons, or produce content.”
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COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity - Future U
By encouraging GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students. Many years ago, I had a student whose written assignments were very hard to decipher. T...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“Through catalog or syllabus information, students should be able to identify “AI-free” courses: courses where the instructor refrains from using AI to grade work, plan lessons, or produce content.”
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futureu.education/higher-ed/co...
German publishers are rediscovering Thomas Mann juuust ahead of him entering public domain in 2026. Can't wait to get marketed Bertold Brecht come next January!
July 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
German publishers are rediscovering Thomas Mann juuust ahead of him entering public domain in 2026. Can't wait to get marketed Bertold Brecht come next January!
a second wels has hit the brombachsee
July 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
a second wels has hit the brombachsee
I am reading a book with a newspaper boy and my internal voice naturally gravitated to Jess McKenna.
July 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I am reading a book with a newspaper boy and my internal voice naturally gravitated to Jess McKenna.
AI slop will always look cheap no matter how much the technology improves because it _is_ cheap. "This looks like it's AI generated." is already a synonym for bad art.
June 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
AI slop will always look cheap no matter how much the technology improves because it _is_ cheap. "This looks like it's AI generated." is already a synonym for bad art.
Started dating a leftist vexillologist. Lots of red flags.
June 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Started dating a leftist vexillologist. Lots of red flags.
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
What other kinds of dying are there even? Is this bill leading to mass ego death?
My “no people will not ‘literally die’ with the One Big Beautiful Bill” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
June 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What other kinds of dying are there even? Is this bill leading to mass ego death?
I always enjoy it when authors treat their prior works hostile.
Look at these idiots and their stupid results (My stinky old paper, 2023)
Look at these idiots and their stupid results (My stinky old paper, 2023)
When previous research contradicts your findings:
A) Acknowledge the prior work and provide a reasoned rebuttal.
B) Omit it
"While the authors are well within their rights to challenge prior work, suppressing contradictory evidence is antithetical to the scientific process and muddies the
A) Acknowledge the prior work and provide a reasoned rebuttal.
B) Omit it
"While the authors are well within their rights to challenge prior work, suppressing contradictory evidence is antithetical to the scientific process and muddies the
April 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I always enjoy it when authors treat their prior works hostile.
Look at these idiots and their stupid results (My stinky old paper, 2023)
Look at these idiots and their stupid results (My stinky old paper, 2023)
microplastics terrify me
April 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
microplastics terrify me
movies don't need plot, I'm 100% a vibes guy
January 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
movies don't need plot, I'm 100% a vibes guy
hate when you set your mind to do something and then it actually working out. please validate my self loathing
January 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
hate when you set your mind to do something and then it actually working out. please validate my self loathing
Bloody nose. That's how the light gets in.
January 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Bloody nose. That's how the light gets in.
I implore Mac Miller to stop releasing music from beyond the grave, let the man rest.
January 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I implore Mac Miller to stop releasing music from beyond the grave, let the man rest.
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✨New year, new job search✨
With no government in Germany/Saxony to allocate research funding, I've been laid off
Thus, I'm looking for a new job
- (Computational) Ling, Speech Proc, NLP
- Alternatively: Data Science, SciComm
- industry or research
- remote or Leipzig🇩🇪
Happy to send CV
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With no government in Germany/Saxony to allocate research funding, I've been laid off
Thus, I'm looking for a new job
- (Computational) Ling, Speech Proc, NLP
- Alternatively: Data Science, SciComm
- industry or research
- remote or Leipzig🇩🇪
Happy to send CV
Repost = ❤️🩹
January 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
✨New year, new job search✨
With no government in Germany/Saxony to allocate research funding, I've been laid off
Thus, I'm looking for a new job
- (Computational) Ling, Speech Proc, NLP
- Alternatively: Data Science, SciComm
- industry or research
- remote or Leipzig🇩🇪
Happy to send CV
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With no government in Germany/Saxony to allocate research funding, I've been laid off
Thus, I'm looking for a new job
- (Computational) Ling, Speech Proc, NLP
- Alternatively: Data Science, SciComm
- industry or research
- remote or Leipzig🇩🇪
Happy to send CV
Repost = ❤️🩹
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all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
January 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
until last year I thought Wicked was about Macbeth
January 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
until last year I thought Wicked was about Macbeth
Maybe public service is not working because we lack public servants, not because we lack in digitization. Requests will not be processed faster if the one guy left at the immigration office uses a Kanban board.
January 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Maybe public service is not working because we lack public servants, not because we lack in digitization. Requests will not be processed faster if the one guy left at the immigration office uses a Kanban board.
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sure @dropouttv.bsky.social is great and the best streaming service out there, but has anyone thought about its radicalising impact on young people towards improv? people just yes anding out here, it's sick
December 27, 2024 at 9:18 PM
sure @dropouttv.bsky.social is great and the best streaming service out there, but has anyone thought about its radicalising impact on young people towards improv? people just yes anding out here, it's sick
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When you cool the data centers with the blood of private equity executives instead of our drinking water, then we can talk.
December 24, 2024 at 6:35 PM
When you cool the data centers with the blood of private equity executives instead of our drinking water, then we can talk.
maybe meaning should not be perceived?? if we were meant to understand things, why would we hide it behind symbols???
December 18, 2024 at 3:29 PM
maybe meaning should not be perceived?? if we were meant to understand things, why would we hide it behind symbols???
The Muppet Christmas Carol remains my favourite Christmas movie. Maybe because of it's uniqueness, but mostly because I get to renew my trust in children to engage with media that is dark, challenging, in many ways adult, as long as Kermit is also there.
December 17, 2024 at 12:17 AM
The Muppet Christmas Carol remains my favourite Christmas movie. Maybe because of it's uniqueness, but mostly because I get to renew my trust in children to engage with media that is dark, challenging, in many ways adult, as long as Kermit is also there.