Stephanie Evert

@schtepf.bsky.social

Computational Corpus Linguistics @unifau.bsky.social | https://www.stephanie-evert.de/ | trans woman 🏳️‍⚧️ | music: violin, electric guitar, more to come | married to Sean | pronouns: she/her | views: my own 🏳️‍🌈

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.

'That $1 trillion could have been used for anything... Instead, it has been channeled into constructing energy-draining, water-absorbing data centers that power large language models (LLMs) built on the theft of millions of people’s creative work, which consistently produce incorrect responses...'

Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We assume that the AI boom is the result of market demand. In reality, it is the result of investment decisions made by concentrated capital, which is reshaping the economy on its own terms.

Has anyone tried asking ChatGPT about Artemis 2? As I keep saying, the singularity of human civilisation is close if we don't stop buying into all the AI hype. (The real problem is not the lack of up-to-date information but that it's virtually impossible to talk GPT out of its false beliefs.)

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The TERF message is simultaneously that men are naturally predators, AND that women are naturally victims. That's why the TERF message serves the patriarchy. And that's why the silencing of raped men -- which happens BOTH through emasculation and hyper-masculation - serves the patriarchy.

This corroborates my worries: AI coding agents are glorified as fully autonomous programmers, probably with superhuman skills, but in the real world they just mess up good code.

Rémi Verschelde@akien.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

Today, I appointed Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland) to a Professorship in Digital Humanities at FAU, focusing on images and objects. She studies audiovisual heritage, especially historical newsreels (e.g., Soviet Novosti Dnya and Estonian newsreels). Welcome to FAU, Mila.

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Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln) „Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“ 1/2

Aufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbarAufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbarAufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbar

AI are breaking the internet desparately crawling data. Excellent quote on deeper reasons: “People are using these tools to replace knowledge and gaining skills. There's no reason to assume that this attack against our cultural sense of thrift will not continue.“ www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...

Fastly warns AI bots can hit sites 39K times per minute

Updated: One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute

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Wahrscheinlich ist KI deshalb ein Problemverstärker, weil es den länger schon schwelenden, dunklen Fortschrittsmythos zu untermauern scheint, dass individuelle Bildungsarbeit (an sich selbst) endlich obsolet werden könnte: "Ich hab das Wissen der ganzen Welt in der Tasche" 📱

Claas Gefroi@claasgefroi.bsky.social · last yr.

Ein Mann will seinen Kochsalzkonsum reduzieren und fragt die KI nach Alternativen. Die empfiehlt ihm das giftige Bromidsalz, woraufhin er sich prompt übelst vergiftet. Das sind noch Einzelfälle, aber wenn KI-Anwendungen nicht endlich und rasch regelementiert werden, wird es böse enden.

Probably not a good strategy to post this late at night, but I'm very happy that updated slides and complete R notebooks for my ICAME46 and CL2025 talks on Bootstrapping Keywords and Collocations are finally available on OSF. Share and enjoy! osf.io/x82cz/ @cl2025.co.uk #ICAME46

Bootstrapping keywords and collocations

Code, data, and slides from conference presentations on bootstrapping keywords and collocations in R Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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