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Chris

@cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social
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(Unionized) semi-postdoc in somewhat contradictory area of computational semantics. From Michigianno, living in Psycho Tropical Stuttgart

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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"And those colleagues who are actually doing research on LLMs as generators… yes, unfortunately you’re part of the problem. Do something else."
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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Lula's weakness: - META/TWITTER/US State Goverment /Major News corporations actively working against him to sane wash a man known with strong ties with organized crime, Multibillions dollar finance fraud scheme and son of the a man who vowed to kill Lula among others. yeah, weak you say
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Zero surprises to learn of our local ai doom academic getting hit with the bay-area "alignment philanthropy" money stick
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Zé Gotinha please help my people!
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ALT: Sus Zégotinha
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Makes some kind of sense b/c Moby Dick is in Project Gutenberg, easily available to be remixed for spammy purposes, or just to be in the training data of every english language model
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
{longtable}-ification (The hell of transferring things from a4 to a5 paper)
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Sustaining constant psychic damage from Wahlplakate walking around berlin. Particularly the one about banning bollards that made me the most 🤬
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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 05/08/2026
this is going to be the prevailing framing. the problem is that it isn’t true. the dynamics of a party primary, even an open one like michigan has, are completely different from that of a general election, and el-sayed will be running against a man who supports the least popular president ever
While most Michigan political observers expected in the campaign's final days that Dr.
El-Sayed would prevail, and pol' showed him leading by a significant amount, the close margin between him and Ms. Stevens pointed to the tough general-election battle to come for Democrats.
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Kicking around the idea for an ACL 'golden tortoise' award. For a paper to be eligible, the main author's most recent publication must be >= 12 months old
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Writing papers for money, to write more papers (de lux cover)
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2607.11667 Is there a general tendency for noun compounds to become less compositional (less transparent combinations) over time? How would we know? (German and English compounds are looked at)
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Losing My Composure: Predicting Compositionality Over Time
We explore the phenomenon of semantic change of German and English noun compounds, with the objective of investigating and modeling gradual changes of meanings and degrees of compositionality in the p...
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I worry a lot about the "academic" identity as a political problem--special boys and girls don't need to act collectively--but it's also just a problem intellectually. If you're not reading new fiction, seeing new art, listening to new music, just staying in seminar mindset -- then you stagnate.
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Terminally von der Leyen @ciaran.operationglad.io · 07/07/2026
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it.” ...
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/07/2026
OH SHIT
Abdul El Sayed saying "we forget that we also have mouths that work."
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Can relate. I've been getting paid to count co-occurrences in historical texts, definitely not to even think about reading them 🥲
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.
aaup.org
What Does AI Do?
The economic and political problems of “cost disease” in education have created a powerful incentive for the adoption of AI.
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Repost is endorsement!
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I know it's the website for talking past each other (decontextualization by design) but... The humanities people are annoyed by the critical tech people still centering Technology w/ capital T, just as the devil not as god. Forgetting about how we got here.
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trinkwasserbrunnen jetzt!!! 🥵💦🚰
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Elena Álvarez Mellado @lirondos.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Anotados, paralelos, multilingües o multimodales: All Corpus Are Beautiful. Feliz día del corpus a todos los compis lingüistas que lo celebran.
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Mentally I am here (made a ton of food)
Bad quality photo zoomed in on 'shrek lanches' food stand sign, featuring shrek and burro looking at a giant burger
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
173: 🔥 "Nothing in the world of AI is immaterial or magical. Every seemingly immediate and flawless response is the result of a long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure and, above all, people."
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 10/05/2026
literally just the structural fact that the output is a function of the input *and the training data* and that there is no closed form formal relationship with either makes the entire thing categorically a total waste of time. I'm so tired of waiting for everyone to get this
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Spot on. As our uni got on the AI bandwagon officially last year, I was saying in our staff meeting "hey, it's not a stretch to imagine the DFG saying a phd should only take 2 years now, or the university to increase everyone's teaching load... now that 'AI picks up the slack'"
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Favorite slide from my PhD -- here we have the guy that Michael Kolhaas was based on, who was some kind of 'horsecourser' (a dealer of horses), a compound noun that Samuel Johnson used as an example of a semantically opaque combination, warranting an entry in his dictionary.
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 19/03/2026
also: a lot of tech people have always had a very narrow and reductive idea of what other jobs involve, a phenomenon that genAI has now extended to their own jobs
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/02/2026
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
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Steven Bird 🍉 @steven-bird.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do? Read my four-page article, presented in multiple NLP conference keynotes in 2024, rejected by multiple ACL venues in 2025. Newly updated with 7 proposals for what we can do differently. What do you think? Let's discuss! arxiv.org/abs/2512.24863
arxiv.org
Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?
The world is in the grip of ecological, meaning, and language crises which are converging into a metacrisis. Big AI is accelerating them all. Language engineers are playing a central role, persisting ...
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Not sure which I like better: "BIG LANCHE" ou "lanches poderosos"
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We got 48 hours of educational videos and a a million articles you can read to learn how to 'prompt responsibly'. That way if anything goes wrong we can say it's your fault.
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Getting into Aufbackbrötchen
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
its so funny that we said this real data implies made up data if you interpolate it and this is the whole economy now
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Systemic ice ice babies
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Stop printing lies in the newspaper. There need to be consequences for printing lies in the newspaper. He literally says and believes exactly this, several times per day and on camera.
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Is AI the general advance that electrification or whatever was? No. Will it move the needle in some places (even if it's identical to a speedup bc what's really getting automated is management)? Yes. Are we spending an enormous amount of social wealth on this that could go to, say, batteries? Yes.
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Grimly hilarious how many people in germany will be like: great, we got a chatbot hosted in europe with a vague promise of privacy compliance, I have no further questions, and believe exactly nothing more could ever be hoped for.
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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21/11/2025
For profit companies, most of whom helped buy the sitting fascist government, have concentrated most of the gains in the stock market to effect, in part, this outcome which happens to align itself beautifully with the republican objective to destroy public education as we know it. Wild stuff.
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Wittgenstein is the dude lurking everywhere in the background of my thesis, but i haven't actually read him so there he shall remain
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Cat
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
That's right, the book I nabbed from the zu verschenken pile was actually needed (exactly a citation I was missing).
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Chris @cwjnewsradio950.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Thesis is turning into science and technology studies
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
i dont know that i would short ontology as a whole, but i would short that guy's ontology
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