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Anna Marchi 🌈

@journolinguist.bsky.social

Associate professor of linguistics at University of Bologna, editor-in-chief JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social, research in #corpuslinguistics, #discourse, #journalism, #nostalgia. Website: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/anna.marchi/en

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Anna Marchi 🌈@journolinguist.bsky.social · 4d ago

The question for the Luddites was never simply whether to accept or reject a new machine, but rather who controlled it, how it was deployed, and whose interests it served. Technological change, in their view, was not some inevitable force of nature but the result of human choices about power...

Ruha Benjamin@ruha9.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“Accepting this story of AI’s inevitability — or that of any technology — is a grave mistake for educators. Not only does it cede tremendous power to tech companies that are unaccountable to teachers, students, or school communities…” 1/2 kappanonline.org/teach-like-a...

jenna newman phd@jennanewman.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The whole ‘Oh no, our [AI] models went rogue’ thing ... When a bridge collapses, you don't analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?” @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

In my book I write, "Can a bridge decide to collapse?" The whole "Oh no, our models went rogue" thing ... When a bridge collapses, you don't analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire. There are supposed to be tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you've lost the thread.
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)@markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 3w ago

'Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.' www.wired.com/story/one-of...

Anna Marchi 🌈@journolinguist.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Amazon has created a system where the most sales go to the companies that pay the highest bribes... The first item on a typical Amazon search results page is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search..." pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c... #enshittocene thread by @doctorow.pluralistic.net

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4w ago

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning. Image: Steve Jurvestson (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Monika Bednarek@corpusling.bsky.social · last mo.

New post by Helen Caple on corpus-based discourse analysis of newspaper data: sydneycorpuslab.com/how-seed-ter...

How seed term visualisation and metadata analysis offer a better understanding of newspaper corpora in large-scale corpus-based discourse analysis

Written by Helen Caple In large-scale corpus-based discourse analysis, newspaper corpora are typically constructed from databases like Factiva or Nexis using ‘seed terms’ related to the topic of in…

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Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last mo.

New Origin Story on Section 28: the law which halted progress on gay rights and drove it into reverse. Nearly every moment in this story - the moral panic, the press hysteria, the bad actors, the political cowardice - resembles what is happening now to trans people.

Origin Story@originstorypodcast.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social tell the story of Section 28, the 1988 legislation that cast a chilling shadow over the lives of gay men and lesbians in the UK for the next 15 years ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.

I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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Anna Marchi 🌈@journolinguist.bsky.social · last mo.

OK summer mood is gone, gloom mood is back 😅 Excellent listen anyway: Empire: World History | 382. Empire of AI: Karen Hao On Today’s Hidden Colonialism (Ep 2) on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/dir-6rbca...

382. Empire of AI: Karen Hao On Today’s Hidden Colonialism (Ep 2)

Are modern AI companies the new empires? What is the hidden human cost behind chatbots like ChatGPT? How does Silicon Valley’s rhetoric echo the East India Company? In this episode, Anita is joined b...

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Anna Marchi 🌈@journolinguist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'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.

Jacobin Italia@jacobinitalia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

L’omicidio di Abderrahim Fakir a Bologna non evidenzia solo il clima repressivo e autoritario del governo Meloni e la razzializzazione dei soggetti colpiti, ma anche il mancato processo di democratizzazione delle forze dell’ordine che riguarda anche la sinistra jacobinitalia.it/la-forza-del...

La Forza della polizia - Jacobin Italia

L’omicidio di Abderrahim Fakir a Bologna non evidenzia solo il clima repressivo e autoritario del governo Meloni e la razzializzazione dei soggetti colpiti, ma anche il mancato processo di democratizz...

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Anna Marchi 🌈@journolinguist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"more outputs less understanding" HELL YEAH! A very insightful read. You may want to have a look at @lmesseri.bsky.social and @mjcrockett.bsky.social previous article as well: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research - Nature

The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools in scientific research risks creating illusions of understanding, where scientists believe they understand more about the world than they actual...

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M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails. Two years ago, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I made some predictions about how AI would impact scientific research. Here we take stock of what we got right and what we missed. 2/4

Anna Marchi 🌈@journolinguist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New publication: My contribution in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics on "Corpus Linguistics and Journalism" has just been published. It is not OA but feel free to DM me if you'd like to read it

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