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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I have been a @theguardian.com reader for decades; my PhD was on the Guardian; in the @arusbridger.bsky.social years it was the best newspaper in the world. Recently international coverage has been in steady downfall, but the way it misreported what happened in Bologna this week just broke my heart

"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 · last mo.

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

#nostalgia ain's so bad after all www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Madonna was always anti-nostalgia. But looking back on Confessions II has revitalised her music

The veteran pop diva has pressed rewind to move forward on her new record – and beneath the bangers fizz a host of emotionally charged memories

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Tonight's watch: "Arundhati Roy - A rebel writer" www.arte.tv/en/videos/12... and an inspiring, breathtaking, resplendent human

Arundhati Roy - A Rebel Writer - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English

With "The God of Small Things", Arundhati Roy won international acclaim as well as the Booker Prize in 1997. She became India's best-known author and an uncompromising voice against injustice and in s...

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in praise of friction and slowness

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · last mo.

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

Chomsky, Epstein, linguistics, climate: an excellent piece by Annabelle Lukin featuring "Two extremely privileged white males, musing over an abstract notion of power..." open.substack.com/pub/annabell...

Chomsky, Epstein, linguistics, climate

In the Chomsky-versus-language grand challenge, language won

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“Enshittification” author @doctorow.pluralistic.net explains the title of his new book: “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence – Before It's Too Late.” Read more: www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...

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

Today JCaDs published its last book review ever. From next issue we will inaugurate a NEW FORMAT: A YEAR IN REVIEW. Every year we will invite a prominent scholar in our area to "digest" the most relevant/interesting recent contributions

Had a fab time at #CADS2026 presenting my work with the wonderful @niallrcurry.bsky.social about actors' self-narration on Desert Island Discs. Play here with the 12M words (8 decades) corpus - open access and richly annotated (Marchi & Ferraresi 2027): bellatrix.sslmit.unibo.it/noske/public...

On my way home after #cads2026. I have thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of it! the community is going stronger and stronger making it a place where we all blossom. Looking forward to the next one in Vienna!

On a vanishingly small chance you haven’t heard about it from me during CADS (sorry not sorry), we’re @sofiaruediger.bsky.social @domini.bsky.social doing a conf about persuasive language in Tampere this November and the CFP ends on July 1 and you should all come! events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...

And so #CADS2026 comes to an end. We had 4 plenaries, 99 papers, 18 posters and 150 delegates. Thank you from all of us to everyone who came and made it so special ❤️🩶

A Brucie Bonus (Scotty Supplement?) for those travelling home from @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Here's the full live stream of '30 Years of Keyness – in honour of Mike Scott' held at @livunienglish.bsky.social earlier this week ▶️ drive.google.com/file/d/1PivK... Please enjoy & share! #CADS2026

and #CADS2028 is going to 🥁 Vienna July 5-7

Thanks @gavinbrookes.bsky.social for a wonderful #CADS2026; having been to all 8 editions I can authoritatively say that it was simply perfect

Final plenary at #CADS2026: Brian King takes us on a delightful journey through our history of analysing interaction in online corpora, with a look towards the future (also I learnt a new word: "vicennial")

Day 2 at #CADS2026 closes with a blast: @elenasemino.bsky.social amazing as ever on pushing boundaries and corpus methods making a difference

Chaired an excellent panel on migration discourses at #CADS2026 this morning. Really inspiring work by Tony Berber Sardinha, @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social , @xinmeisun.bsky.social , @proftaylor.bsky.social

Brilliant second plenary at #CADS2026: lots of methodological food for thought with @matteofuoli.bsky.social problematising CADS' deterministic assumptions + showing the added value of testing discourse effects empirically

At #CADS2026, Michaela Mahlberg describes corpora as “evidence of human experience”. That’s a wonderful way of looking at corpora.

Entirely engrossing plenary by the wonderful @michamahlberg.bsky.social on trandisciplinarity, wicked problems, narrative and so much more #CADS2026

@gavinbrookes.bsky.social kicking off #CADS2026 in a beautiful room of corpus-basted linguists (Nick Groom's coniage). Brilliant programme for three days of academic treats

Started my journey towards Lancaster, while listening to @tonymcenery.bsky.social talk about Keywords. Perfect mood #cads2026

what she says! 👇

U.S. government claiming Musk has the right to poison Memphis because xAI is "vital" to national security, because the Pentagon signed a contract with them. Elite immunity is a cancer that causes cancer, among countless other ills. www.wired.com/story/doj-la...

DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.

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📚 A linguistic analysis of SHAME and GUILT in English and Japanese – with a focus on emotion co-occurrence, out now in the Journal of Language and Cognition! Available OA here doi.org/10.1017/lang..., and more details below 👇

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This monastic, almost paranoid approach is not only because AI is a risky and unreliable research tool. It is a voice, a tone, a frequency...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik