Verónica Pájaro
@vpajaro.bsky.social
Critical sociolinguist & discourse analyst. Associate Professor @UiA, Norway. Language, migration & power in education and work.
Given debates in the US on who truly represents the working class, I'll point out that in Brazil a movement to give workers a 5-day workweek - arguably the biggest worker gains in the 21st c - is led by a Black trans woman (Rep. Erika Hilton) & a Black gay man (City Council leader Rick Azevedo).
Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · 4mo ago🔥🔥🔥
Frp foreslår med ujevne mellomrom egenbetaling for tolketjenester hvis man har bodd mer enn 3 år I landet. @jessicapbh.bsky.social og jeg skriver om hvorfor dette er et MEGET dårlig forslag som truer pasientsikkerheten. Tolking er livsviktig! trondheim24.no/gjesteskribe...
Frp vil kutte i tolketjenesten for innvandrere: – Dette utspillet hører ingen steder hjemme
God kommunikasjon i helsevesenet er ikke en luksus, det kan være livsnødvendig. Frps utspill om egenbetaling for tolking i helsevesenet er kunnskapsløst og løser ingen problemer, hevdes det i dette de...
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Starting now- @vpajaro.bsky.social Onbcosolay, crypto and the libertarian right… join us!
Cat-Tebaldi@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin us in lux or online tomorrow for: Cosplayers and crypto-grifters: The women of the Argentine libertarian right By the awesome Prof. Verónica Pájaro (Agder) Dm for link / explanations of what is wrong with libertarians!
Oceanographers, simultaneously the most mild-mannered and the most terrifying people you’ll ever meet
Daniel Rourke@therourke.net · 5mo agoMeanwhile...
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
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I started watching yesterday and could not stop before binging all 5 episodes. This is a mesmerizing account of journalism, activism and the rapid rise of fascism in Russia. Relevant for absolutely everyone in our current global landscape. Highly recommended.
Siddhant Adlakha@siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 2y agoEpic and intimate, Julia Loktev's propulsive 5.5 hour documentary "My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow" chronicles the lives of dissenting Moscow journalists in the lead up to Russia invading Ukraine. #Berlinale2025 variety.com/2025/film/re...
✨ Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming 📚 👉 For many more relevant resources for Critical AI literacy, check out this website maintained by @olivia.science with videos, news, opinion pieces, blogs, articles, posters, and more. 👇 olivia.science/ai 6/🧵
Critical AI
On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.
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OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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This book is going to be incredible + open up an entire new field of research/inquiry for the literary & cultural studies discipline (grad students take note!). It models an entire new form of cultural criticism that combines close reading + historicism + theory + platform studies. Read her thread!
Aarthi Vadde@aarthivadde.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe the Platform is available for preorder with the discount code CUP20 if you order directly from the press! cup.columbia.edu/book/we-the-... A thread on the argument below:
Vipps prisen av en kaffe til #525211 for å støtte transpersoners politiske arbeid for verdig helsehjelp❤️ (hater du rikshospitalet så er dette den beste måten å bekjempe de på)
PKI Norge
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Gledelig transynlighetsdag til alle som markerer dagen!🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️
The notion of "correct" and "incorrect" language stems from classism and racism (and is in many cases still fueled by it). 🐦🐦
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
Halfway through @mttpsq.bsky.social ‘s The eye of the master. What a great perspective to the history of AI in light of the knowledge theory of labor and the origins of industrialization. The book is also a good read, thoroughly enjoyable on a lazy Sunday. Highly recommended (so far :)
‘An abuser does not just have a network. An abuser is a network. Kate also said, “they have each other’s backs.” When they have each other’s backs, their backs become doors’. Powerful from Sara Ahmed. Warming; discussion of abuse and s*xual violence open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
An Abuser is a Network
Some thoughts on how our complaint archives can help us in reading the Epstein files
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If you ever wondered where Musk’s distorted understanding of humans as computers and politics as code comes from 👇👇👇
The New Statesman@newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe Weekend Essay: Elon Musk vs the woke mind virus The richest man in the world chose a strange time to be terminally online By Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
NEW FROM 55(1) "Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing" by @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social & Alfonso Del Percio #Far-RightSemiosis #Branding #PlatformCapitalism doi.org/10.1017/S004...
Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing - Volume 55 Issue 1
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📖 @mpmilans.bsky.social & I will be presenting our new edited volume "Reimagining language and communication in collaborative projects" at VII EDiSo Symposium on 2 July 3-5 pm 🗣️ Daniel Silva, @vpajaro.bsky.social & @peterbrowning.bsky.social will present their chapters there 🌐 shorturl.at/5yo58
Re-imagining Language and Communication in Collaborative Projects: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Future
This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, ...
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It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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One of my favorite podcasts, In bed with the Right, has started a new series following the events of 1933 and Hitler’s takeover month by month. An enlightening and sobering account. Highly recommended!
Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · last yr.The next episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social's Project 1933 is up! We decided to release it early, because the resonances are ... considerable. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
So, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social added an AI question and answer to my article in Computer & Education. The answers are wrong! They did not ask permission! The answers are WRONG! How is this science?!
I’m late to this party, but I’m losing my mind with Malala’s cameo at ‘We are lady parts’ 😍
"Granola Nazis: Fascism in the World of Health, Fitness, and Nature" by @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
Granola Nazis: Fascism in the World of Health, Fitness, and Nature - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
Granola Nazis are a part of the contemporary 'dissident right', with a particular interest in health, wellness, and nature. Though a fringe ideology, it is critically placed to exploit the ongoing cli...
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New review of my book "Postcolonial People. The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal" by Sofie De Baere. It comes with some well-deserved criticism and much praise, e.g.: "Kalter possesses the invaluable skill of making complex processes comprehensible." brill.com/view/journal...
New publication out in JSLX: Language isn't just a data set. We explore why and suggest new directions for sociolinguistic research in the AI era #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Check out the full issue.
Hace un par de días encontré este artículo (en noruego). Habla sobre el próximo cierre de una empresa de #traducción que ha dejado de ser viable porque sus clientes han decidido ahorrar mediante el uso de IA. www.kode24.no/artikkel/ai-...
AI tok jobben deres: Legger ned selskap med 10 ansatte
AI ble kroken på døra for oversetterfirmaet Allegro. – Halve omsetningen vår forsvant nærmest over natta.
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In our new chapter “Discourse: A map in constant redrawing” (coming out in Flubacher & Del Percio’s “Critical Sociolinguistics. Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments”), @ellabarakos.bsky.social Juan E Bonnin and myself map the development of discourse studies in Critical Sociolinguistics. DM for copy
