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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 2h

The CFP for Narrative 2026 is out! It's in Aarhus 4-6 June 2026, and they need 300 word abstracts by 1st December. I went last year and really enjoyed it - hoping to convince all my colleagues to come next year :) conferences.au.dk/narrative2026

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

It doesn't matter if you don't believe in climate change. Your insurer does.

The more extreme climate events and disasters that occur around the world – the higher Australian insurance premiums will be.

It's why we're calling for compensation levy on gas & coal exports > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 3d

Vi har en annen modell men jeg fant bruksanvisningen på nett og det viste seg at alle delene var veldig lurt skrudd sammen på vår i hvert fall bare man skjønte hva planen var liksom. Har du lett etter bruksanvisning? Kjedelig men kanskje effektivt?

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Helge Torvund @2rvund.bsky.social · 4d

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know, I was at a lecture with Trond Trosterud, who's an expert on indigenous languages and technology, and he said most indigenous languages genuinely have too little written content to train a model. But perhaps there is more "conservative text" than there is South Samí literature.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 7d

Media panics. And yes, in "Phaedrus" by Plato, Socrates says "They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks."

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 7d

Oh no :(

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 8d

Du har et poeng - kanskje prompten som ba om en "hær" hentet fram litt annen verdenskrigsestetikk?

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 8d

Har hørt andre gode forslag og - KI-graut, KI-skvip, KI-slafs, KI-slaps, KI-sørpe...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 8d

Boken Pink-pilled hadde noe interessante analyser om det og de fraværende mennene i tradwife innhold - de selger like mye til menn som til kvinner, og til kvinner som egentlig ønsker seg å ha en «husmor» mer enn de ønsker å være en. Eller kanskje de ønsker å være onlinecoach og rik og selvstendig.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 8d

Blandingen av den myke estetikken fra cottagecore og mammablogging og det KI-genererte bildet av en "husmorhær" av hvite 50-tallskvinner er fascinerende. To alternative strategier for å radikalisere (og tjene penger på) kvinner på nettet i dag. Les mer: www.nrk.no/ytring/provo...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 9d

Jeg har skrevet om Husmorhæren og sammenblandingen av politikk og profitt - som også henger sammen med hvordan sosiale medieplattformer fremmer hustlers som Solheim fordi også plattformene tjener på det. Og det henger sammen med KI-slopp som det Solheim bruker. www.nrk.no/ytring/provo...

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 9d

This is not how copyright works. Literally, the opposite. Also, this is legally stupid because it shows they can remove the work. Ergo, they have no defense for including it in the first place.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 9d

How about hosting one of the wonderful music festivals Chicago is known for - but making it explicitly anti-fascist? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Ag...

Rock Against Racism - Wikipedia

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 9d

Actually, Rock against Racism worked in the 1970s. Joy and community-building are good strategies for fighting fascism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Ag...

Rock Against Racism - Wikipedia

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 13d

Nåja. På 50-tallet måtte ungene leke ute alene inntil middagen var klar. Vi bruker jo mer tid med ungene våre nå enn før.

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Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

$We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.$

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 15d

You sure it wasn’t intentional? Finns speak pretty good English. But they have a very dry sense of humour so not always easy to tell when they’re sarcastic.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15d

From the noted anarchists at the Financial Times. archive.is/2025.09.23-0...

The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the "fear of missing out," few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.
That is the conclusion of a Financial Times analysis of hundreds of corporate filings and executive transcripts at S&P 500 companies last year, providing one of the most comprehensive insights yet into how the Al wave is rippling through American industry.

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Liz Suelzer @esuelzer.bsky.social · Aug 26

My goodness, this article is bleak as hell.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen

In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17d

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17d

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 17d

A recent study of tens of thousands of journal articles challenges the widely held notion that academic publishing favours left-leaning views. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Academic journals do not favour left-leaning views – Study

A study of tens of thousands of journal articles challenges the view that academic publishing is biased towards certain political leanings – a key c...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · Jul 23

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 19d

I think Kurrant’s useful for Anglo students to see because it’s so different - makes you realise how culturally specific handwriting is. Also, lots of us have German ancestors and all the German and Austrian church books with baptisms etc are online and in Kurrant. Accessible but incomprehensible.

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