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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 22h

(On my way to #DHKO2025 in Hamar! Looking forward to two days of presentations, workshops, and seeing colleagues/friends. I'm reading both the 'Guide to Terminology' (in Norwegian; we're establishing a term group for #DigitalHumanities) and R.F. Kuang's Babel, coincidentally a complementary pair.)

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 23h

På vei til #DHKO2025 i Hamar! Gleder med til to dager med presentasjoner, verksteder, og gode kolleger. Leser litt i Termlosen (vi skal etablere en termgruppe for digital humaniora på norsk) og litt i Babel av R.F. Kuang. En tilfeldig kombo, men de passer ganske bra sammen. @dhko.bsky.social

Utsikt fra en togsete. Utenfor vinduet, noen furutrær viser at toget er i farta. På bordet foran meg er PC-en med Termlosen på skjermen.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 2d

Not only is this a phenomenally stupid and destructive idea, but I really wish techbros would stop naming things after Tolkien's work.

"It plans to start with an 18-meter test satellite named Earendil-1 which the company has applied to launch in 2026."

Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 3d

A US startup proposes using thousands of orbiting mirrors to beam sunlight to Earth after dark, raising significant concerns about light pollution and impacts on astronomy and wildlife.

A US startup plans to deliver 'sunlight on demand' after dark. Can it work? Would we want it to?

A proposed constellation of satellites has astronomers very worried. Unlike satellites that reflect sunlight and produce light pollution as an unfortunate byproduct, the ones by US startup Reflect Orbital would produce light pollution by design.

techxplore.com

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 4d

Same!

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 5d

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 4d

Grateful you shared this since she's new to me!

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 5d

The inclusion of 'hexasyllabically' is my favorite detail here. *chef's kiss*

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 5d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 5d

I'm definitely interested in the use of language that (misleadingly) personifies these systems!

Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 8d

The deadline to register for this year's DHKO conference is *this Thursday*, October 9!

DHKO @dhko.bsky.social · 29d

Påmeldingen til DHKO 2025 er åpen og programmet ligger ute!

KEYNOTES:

📍Jack Andersen: Organizing Information, Technological Change and Ideological Contestation

📍Jordan Magnuson: Game Poems and Born-Videogame Poetics

#digitalhumaniora #bibliosky #arkivsky

DHKO 2025: Infrastruktur og grensesnitt - Universitetet i Innlandet

Nasjonalt forskningsnettverk for digital humaniora og kulturorganisasjon (DHKO) sin tredje årlige konferanse skal holdes på (og i samarbeid med) INN. Årets konferanse vil inneholde workshops og presen...

www.inn.no

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 13d

Quality trolling from the dictionary, I support it! 👏👏

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 13d

A sticker featuring a red octopus-shaped kraken, with the text "let's get kraken."

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Unni Eikeseth @unnieikeseth.bsky.social · 14d

Fra 🌳 til 🅿️ . Det er til å gråte over korleis vi erstattar natur og matjord med betong: www.nrk.no/dokumentar/x...

NRK avslører europeisk naturtap: Norge topper verstingliste

www.nrk.no

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14d

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14d

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 15d

Absolutely true! I think the stakes feel higher around generative AI at the moment given what students stand to lose by using it (I work at a university library, for context). There's so much marketing/hype, and a lot of temptation for them to make their lives a little bit "easier."

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 15d

I'm thinking especially about how word choices that have a humanizing effect (e.g., "'think' more deeply," "correct its mistakes") are both misleading and potentially dangerous. It's clear many people using LLMs have no idea what they actually do because of the way they're marketed.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 15d

I've been thinking a lot about how important our language choices are in discussing generative AI and this blog post from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social really gets at why: "When vendors feed you language, it’s in the hopes that you’ll regurgitate it to sell their product for them."

MOOCs and the Myth of "Access" — Sonja Drimmer

The recent piece by Vauhini Vara, “ How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kid’s Classrooms ” is important reading for the week, and there’s much in it to infuriate. It’s good. But there’s one ...

sonjadrimmer.com

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 15d

I've definitely seen an uptick in both Quisling and Vichy this year.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 15d

Nå har jeg lyst til å lese 'Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year' igjen med det spørsmålet i bakhodet!

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 15d

Scratching my head at that one.

Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 16d

This was genuinely lovely to read on a morning with so much bad news in the world. Thank you for the updates!

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 16d

Ikke overraskende.

"a recent report from the MIT Media Lab found that 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies.
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Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

hbr.org

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 16d

Kjenner meg igjen i det første punktet der! Men jeg klarer ikke å gjøre det veldig ofte.

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