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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Portland 🔥

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 3d

If you published a book that was distributed in the USA before 2021, search here to find out whether Anthropic owes you $3000 for pirating your book to train its LLMs. There are lots of Norwegian academics on this list. Also books that are weirdly missing. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 4d

And the preprint about humans emulating AI speech patterns. Except what if a lot of
the YouTube videos that use the word "delve" more after ChatGPT was introduced are AI-generated? arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication

From the invention of writing and the printing press, to television and social media, human history is punctuated by major innovations in communication technology, which fundamentally altered how idea...

arxiv.org

Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 4d

Here is the blogpost about handwriting. jovex.substack.com/p/return-of-...

Return of Handwriting

I'm not writing off typing yet though. Just reconsidering the place of handwriting in life.

jovex.substack.com

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 4d

I read a blog post about hand writing and a preprint about how human speech (or presumed human speech on YouTube) is now emulating LLM styles of writing. And I’ve been thinking I might want to write more by hand to prime myself to write in my own voice and not that of an LLM.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 5d

The CFP for Narrative 2026 is out! It's in Aarhus 4-6 June 2026, and they need 300 word abstracts by 1st December. I went last year and really enjoyed it - hoping to convince all my colleagues to come next year :) conferences.au.dk/narrative2026

Narrative2026

conferences.au.dk

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 7d

It doesn't matter if you don't believe in climate change. Your insurer does.

The more extreme climate events and disasters that occur around the world – the higher Australian insurance premiums will be.

It's why we're calling for compensation levy on gas & coal exports > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 9d

Vi har en annen modell men jeg fant bruksanvisningen på nett og det viste seg at alle delene var veldig lurt skrudd sammen på vår i hvert fall bare man skjønte hva planen var liksom. Har du lett etter bruksanvisning? Kjedelig men kanskje effektivt?

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Helge Torvund @2rvund.bsky.social · 10d

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 12d

I don't know, I was at a lecture with Trond Trosterud, who's an expert on indigenous languages and technology, and he said most indigenous languages genuinely have too little written content to train a model. But perhaps there is more "conservative text" than there is South Samí literature.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 12d

Media panics. And yes, in "Phaedrus" by Plato, Socrates says "They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks."

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 13d

Oh no :(

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 13d

Du har et poeng - kanskje prompten som ba om en "hær" hentet fram litt annen verdenskrigsestetikk?

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14d

Har hørt andre gode forslag og - KI-graut, KI-skvip, KI-slafs, KI-slaps, KI-sørpe...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14d

Boken Pink-pilled hadde noe interessante analyser om det og de fraværende mennene i tradwife innhold - de selger like mye til menn som til kvinner, og til kvinner som egentlig ønsker seg å ha en «husmor» mer enn de ønsker å være en. Eller kanskje de ønsker å være onlinecoach og rik og selvstendig.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14d

Blandingen av den myke estetikken fra cottagecore og mammablogging og det KI-genererte bildet av en "husmorhær" av hvite 50-tallskvinner er fascinerende. To alternative strategier for å radikalisere (og tjene penger på) kvinner på nettet i dag. Les mer: www.nrk.no/ytring/provo...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14d

Jeg har skrevet om Husmorhæren og sammenblandingen av politikk og profitt - som også henger sammen med hvordan sosiale medieplattformer fremmer hustlers som Solheim fordi også plattformene tjener på det. Og det henger sammen med KI-slopp som det Solheim bruker. www.nrk.no/ytring/provo...

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 15d

This is not how copyright works. Literally, the opposite. Also, this is legally stupid because it shows they can remove the work. Ergo, they have no defense for including it in the first place.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14d

How about hosting one of the wonderful music festivals Chicago is known for - but making it explicitly anti-fascist? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Ag...

Rock Against Racism - Wikipedia

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 14d

Actually, Rock against Racism worked in the 1970s. Joy and community-building are good strategies for fighting fascism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Ag...

Rock Against Racism - Wikipedia

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 18d

Nåja. På 50-tallet måtte ungene leke ute alene inntil middagen var klar. Vi bruker jo mer tid med ungene våre nå enn før.

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Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · Sep 12

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

$We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.$

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 21d

You sure it wasn’t intentional? Finns speak pretty good English. But they have a very dry sense of humour so not always easy to tell when they’re sarcastic.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 21d

From the noted anarchists at the Financial Times. archive.is/2025.09.23-0...

The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the "fear of missing out," few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.
That is the conclusion of a Financial Times analysis of hundreds of corporate filings and executive transcripts at S&P 500 companies last year, providing one of the most comprehensive insights yet into how the Al wave is rippling through American industry.

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