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
I am so tired of how we have been saying this for more than a decade by this point
Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · last wk.In thisa piece for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social I express the wish for a better level of public discourse around AI that doesn't leave us hanging on every word of the alleged tech gurus. www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
“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
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)@markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 2w 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...
happy publication day! Can't wait for my copy to make its way to Italy. For chums in the area: @astra.bsky.social will be at Internazionale Festival in Ferrara on October 3rd
Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · last wk.7am at the Amtrak station in Baltimore. The glamour! Our new book comes out tomorrow -- get a copy and come see us on the road. naomiklein.org/end-times-fa...
"I think, sometimes, I miss the present more than I miss the past. And perhaps that is a form of time travel" declinations of #nostalgia @proftaylor.bsky.social
Algorithms are opinions embedded in code // Algorithms automate the status quo
Dr. Cara Berg Powers@clbergpowers.bsky.social · last yr.I've been showing this talk from Cathy O'Neil for years in my classes. It's not about AI specifically, but it applies. How secret algorithms are inscrutable black boxes of human bias youtu.be/_2u_eHHzRto?...
"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 · 3w agoAmazon'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/
New article just out on @jcads.bsky.social issue 10
JCaDs@jcads.bsky.social · 3w agoComing back after the summer with a new article, just published: "News values and discursive construction of economy in the Brexit referendum", by Arash Javadinejad & Sergio Maruenda-Bataller jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10.... #openaccess
If you're in Belgium on 17 September, join us for the closing event of our project on discourse on populism. Registration is free but compulsory. Deadline 10 September: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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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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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 · 4w ago🚨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...
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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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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Best film in a long time and high up in the list of my favourites ever youtu.be/U2v3_jHrvBQ?...
Woman At War - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing
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Looking forward to @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social "End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World" coming out on September 15th. While you wait: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HAe...
Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor: Are We Entering “End Times Fascism”?
YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends
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'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 agoWe 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.
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 · 3mo agoThe 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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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...
