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@aamoakuh.bsky.social

Linguistics • Sci/Fi • Berlin • she/her

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Joshua Raclaw@joshuaraclaw.com · 5d ago

yiddish has a verb (shmits, שמיצן) which means “to hit” but when it’s reflexive means “to be angry,” and so to ask why someone is mad in yiddish you can literally just ask “why are you hitting yourself”

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au

Andrea Nini@andreanini.com · 3w ago

Our latest research (led by Sadie Barlow, with Dr Edoardo Manino) found LambdaG doesn’t need a calibration dataset for well-calibrated likelihood ratios, just a simple correction! This simplifies analysis and makes it the only authorship verification method without calibration. Paper on arXiv now.

LambdaG: A simplified approach to Authorship Verification

In our latest research, led by Sadie Barlow and with Dr Edoardo Manino, we discovered a very important property of LambdaG: it does not require a calibration dataset to produce well calibrated likelihood ratios. A simple correction is sufficient. This means that the analysis is significantly simpler to implement and explain. LambdaG is therefore also the only existing authorship verification method that does not require a calibration analysis to produce likelihood ratios. The paper, currently under review, is available on arXiv here:

andreanini.com

Philipp Krämer@phkraemer.bsky.social · last mo.

Einschränkungen der Rechte bei Krankheit, Armut oder Arbeitslosigkeit zeigen, dass der Staat den Bürger*innen misstraut. Einschränkungen der Informationsfreiheit sorgen dafür, dass Bürger*innen dem Staat misstrauen. So erodiert aus zwei Richtungen die Bindung zwischen Institutionen und Bevölkerung.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last mo.

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 2mo ago

This year is the 50th anniversary of the standalone edition of The Word for World is Forest. This Berkley Medallion edition is from December 1976. Cover art by Richard Powers.

The cover for the 1976 edition of The Word for World is Forest is all shades of green: The author's name is across the top in white, under which smaller text says "author of The Left Hand of Darkness." The book title is a vivid yellow, and under that text says "the mind-stunning science fiction masterpiece." The illustration shows a female fiture with long hair, nude, behind a lot of waving green growths that emanate from a round planet-like shape at the lower right. There are bits of red and yellow mixed in, giving the whole thing a cellular vibe. In the foreground, at the bottom, are green figures, not quite human-like.
Naomi Alderman@naomialderman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2mo ago

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.