ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If folks can’t [afford to] eat, they shouldn’t be able to trade. 000
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Don’t know if anyone who sees my posts aren’t already listeners, but I freaking love @lingthusiasm.com 🤓 0116
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And what’s coming is the total collapse of our company under the weight of our debt and utility as a shell for NVIDIA’s circular finance scheme🫡 130
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026(1) I love this, and (2) it makes me think about this awesome piece by @abeba.blacksky.app that I come back to often :)direct.mit.eduThe Impossibility of Automating AmbiguityAbstract. On the one hand, complexity science and enactive and embodied cognitive science approaches emphasize that people, as complex adaptive systems, are ambiguous, indeterminable, and inherently u... 1298
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If folks are looking for a policy suggestion that would actually change shit… 120
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Listen, these things can’t go “rogue”. It’s just a basic LLM stuck in a while loop. But this kind of attack is possible by doing something as simple as that, and that means that more people can set up programs to do terrible things like this moving forward on a whim. 2115
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Modern language modeling has devolved into big companies competing for who can do the campiest spin-off of 1980s sci-fi movies. I genuinely miss the old days where folks were more interested in building models for their specific tasks. 010
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Folks need a listing of which airports are putting this in so they can fly into the closest one where the admin still care about whether or not passengers land safely in unpredictable conditions. Especially since we're accelerating towards global warming... 000
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026To the guy who said he’d burn all his equity in AI companies for a “1% extra chance of survival.” Okay my dude. Sell your stocks at a dollar. $1. That’ll tank the entire industry right there. Put your literal money where your mouth is. 020
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So, bought new limbs for my recurve. Am now at 60lbs and whooo boy. I can sling an arrow fast with em, but man are my shoulders beat from it… 000
Reposted by ZP RosenOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/09/2026Should we respect that they want to be away from sexual harassment and other nonsense? Absolutely. But maybe we can go further and deradicalise men. 1162
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Because the only thing AI supercharges for universities is ROI in university boards’ stock portfolios…static.klipy.comEverything SucksALT: Everything Sucks 010
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Some rando complemented me yesterday at the archery range on my form (I shoot traditional/barebow at ~60lbs, so form is my everything) including the cant of my bow when I'm aiming. Not gonna lie, I'm gonna ride that compliment all week. 010
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"The train has left the station" in AI "discourse" is a thought terminating cliche. 000
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I’d support building this if the angel at the top is replaced with Trump in a mumu holding a plunger. 020
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Admin: “minimal ai REQUIRED” All of us: Okay. **proceeds to make assignments only possible to complete via offline interactions** 000
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is a fantastic point. I've talked to some folks about this recently and I described it as "just manipulating the posterior distribution on tokens to be more constrained... regardless of whether it generates a useful response or not." This is a much better way to explain this, though. 010
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I have a plan that would work. Every time someone makes a sweeping prediction with the term AI in it, if that prediction doesn’t pan out you can sue them. Cut it off at the hype. 041
Reposted by ZP RosenAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 14/08/2026We released our new Executive Paywatch report, and surprise surprise, corporate greed is out of control. Last year, S&P 500 CEOs gave themselves a 21% raise and now make 312x what median workers do. Meanwhile, workers are struggling to make ends meet. 44225
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The point of conversation isn’t to end up on the same page as your partner but to be just uncoupled/different enough to work together to come up with new sh*t to talk about while feeling good about it. In other words: go be you, fam.papers.ssrn.comThe way conversation partners work together to generate new semantic information explains how conversation facilitates distributed cognitionHumans are (often) better when we work together. To do this, people rely on conversation as a way of proposing new semantic content/ideas and modifying old sema 181
Reposted by ZP RosenZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026New preprint live while the paper is in review! The way speakers and their partners (1) generate new info relative to prior convo states and (2) appear to coordinate how much new information each person/partner generates is functionally capable of "universal" computation (i.e. EXTENDED cognition)doi.orgThe way conversation partners work together to generate new semantic information explains how conversation facilitates distributed cognitionHumans are (often) better when we work together. To do this, people rely on conversation as a way of proposing new semantic content/ideas and modifying old sema 121
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026New preprint live while the paper is in review! The way speakers and their partners (1) generate new info relative to prior convo states and (2) appear to coordinate how much new information each person/partner generates is functionally capable of "universal" computation (i.e. EXTENDED cognition)doi.orgThe way conversation partners work together to generate new semantic information explains how conversation facilitates distributed cognitionHumans are (often) better when we work together. To do this, people rely on conversation as a way of proposing new semantic content/ideas and modifying old sema 121
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026One of my favorite things about the speech/transcript this came from, too, is that Shannon gave this as the keynote speaker at the very first conference that would become IEEE. 262
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Got two more revise and resubmits that I'm excited about. Both are on different ways to look at how we adapt what words mean to fit our current context/our moment-to-moment needs, when interacting with one another. Feeling pretty lucky. #science #sociolinguistics #computationallinguistics 000
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I'm not going to lie. If given my druthers, I would be setting up every company I can with an open-weight model, giving them the tools to fit the model to their own data using LoRA, and doing everything I can to forge the scrappy, punk rock, solar-punk vision of computation I was promised as a kid. 100
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Dear #REI: Wtf are you even thinking? You HAVE to know that the environmental impacts of corporate AI are horrendous. & that using it on a whim like this means supporting environmental degradation. How is this consistent with the brand's values??? Sincerely, A livid co-op member. 110
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026From @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter today. So should we expect that the new ballroom goes from white to green pretty much as soon as they open it? 010
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Just wanted to repost this project in part because I’m proud of it and was happy to write in a non-academic register. We know ppl can engage in distributed cognitive processes when they talk together but we don’t have a good understanding of how that works in conversation. This is a look at the 🧵 100
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Just wanted to share this popsci, digital poster for a project I've been working on. I'm working on sending the actual paper out to publication still. There's some back story on that, but it's taking me some work to figure out where to send it to. But I've been so excited to talk to ppl about (3/3)zaqari.github.ioI'm not going to say that complex systems science (CSS) holds the answer, but goddamnit it's got a really good framework that we can use to look for a mechanism of distributed cognition. There are a few things from CSS that I want us to grab and hold onto here. 150
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I'm trying to find a home for a paper that I'm pretty proud of (it's a large-scale analysis of how people work together to generate new information during conversation). But one thing that absolutely sucks is while looking , nearly every journal I think would be a good fit has an exorbitant APC fee. 100
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I agree. But one of those attacks on education and on teachers is the barrage of tools trying to get us to implement AI in the classroom deskilling our work. And the AFL-CIO boosted folks who support that at their last labor conf. 110
Reposted by ZP Rosendapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 12/06/2026something that brings me profound sadness is watching technology's promise of making knowledge accessible and affordable be bastardized into a promise of class exploitation and 24/7 surveillance. we have a chance to change this. it starts, not with an app, but by meeting people where they're at. 110826
Reposted by ZP RosenAttacks on Civilians with Small Drones: A Global Picture @littleflyingrobots.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Targeted attacks on civilians with small drones are growing rapidly around the world, with devastating consequences. I am mapping a selection of these attacks here, and will be regularly adding new entries. Have a look: map.faineg.com/public/index...map.faineg.comTargeted Small Drone Attacks on Civilians: A Global OSINT PictureA global OSINT map of targeted small drone attacks on civilians since 2022. 23314
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026That kinda settles the question of whether or not to move my family out of the states. Otherwise, my children will have fewer opportunities than I did. As the son of an immigrant/refugee mom, this is fucking heartbreaking. 021
Reposted by ZP RosenIsaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act. 289292248269
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This has literally been a part of deep reinforcement learning algorithms since at least 2016/2018ish, and maybe earlier. These folks (OpenAI/Anthropic) are BAD researchers in part because they have no idea what’s actually going on in their own field outside of LLMs. 160
Reposted by ZP RosenNick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education 251553356
Reposted by ZP RosenMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP. 242050766
Reposted by ZP RosenAaahh!!! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 04/05/2026normalize 👏 telling 👏 tech 👏 companies 👏 to 👏 keep 👏 their 👏 grubby 👏 mitts 👏 out 👏 of 👏 schools 👏 35417
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Honestly, macOS is built on Unix. And Unix is basically just Linux. As someone who uses both, I actually like my Linux computer more. And the same logic I use to navigate my macOS files and interface apply to my Ubuntu kernel. TLDR; they’re basically the same. 9294
Reposted by ZP RosenColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/05/2026NOW WAIT JUST A DAMN MINUTE... The @nationalacademies.org gave ILYA SUTSKEVER an award last week?? Co-founder of OpenAI and founder of Safe Superintellecence Inc. (funded by Andreessen, among others)...that is now valued at $34b yet does not have a product? Are you kidding me???? 3166
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I unironically told a student today while talking about an upcoming midterm “don’t believe in yourself, believe in me! Believe in the me that believes in you!” And while they laughed at the excessive amount of cringe in that anime quote, I hope they also understood how much faith I have in them. 120
Reposted by ZP RosenK.J. Elphinstone @neurofabulous.bsky.social · 17/04/2026~Autism and epistemic injustice~ Most autistic people, despite everything, actually like being autistic. A thread 🧵 1/12 (refs at the end) #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent 1144
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (from my partner actually but I love this picture) 030
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 10/04/2026@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, Chuck Shumer, @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov and @congressmin.bsky.social. Not a single person cares about your re-election. Do your job or get tf out of the way for someone who will. 021
ZP Rosen @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social · 05/04/2026What kills me about this too is that under no circumstances would I call this “AI education”. Teach them the math and objective function AIs are trained on. If they can do algebra 1, they can understand it. All this is is “training” new consumers for companies like OAI and anthropic. 031