Dianna Walla

Norwegians, I was able to preorder from Norli (though this seems like a book Tronsmo or Prismatic Pages might carry once it's out as well).

Right?!

there are no use cases good enough to support the use of a technology with this much destructive potential

I keep learning about the coolest upcoming publications from Bluesky and I am so grateful to live in a time with such an abundance of interesting research and literature being published. Peep this one by @chanda.blacksky.app!

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

Yeah, last night I added this one to my presentation for the PhD theory and ethics course. Alongside another story about the school that was bombed (that was a military site 15 years ago).

Assigning human characteristics to the model constantly misrepresents what it is these models actually are and what they do.

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

I know the point here was testing limitations put on the models, but I'm so tired of headlines worded like this. LLMs don't have a will and cannot be "willing" or "unwilling" to do anything. It's the *humans* who use LLMs this way that are willing to commit academic fraud.

Lore in the Machine Stories from Beyond the Screen. A podcast about the hidden histories and surprising origins woven into computing culture, hosted by Daina Bouquin.

Lore in the Machine is live! Four episodes are up. Ep1 asks why programmers say 'foo'. The answer involves a very strange comic strip from the 1930s, a WWII radar operator, and more model trains than you'd expect. New episodes every other week loreinthemachine.com #computing #history #techhistory

Stipendiatstilling i psykolingvistikk, multilektalitet og språkprosessering (297094) | Høgskulen i Volda Stillingstittel: Stipendiatstilling i psykolingvistikk, multilektalitet og språkprosessering (297094), Arbeidsgivar: Høgskulen i Volda, Søknadsfrist: måndag 22. juni 2026

Ledig stipendiatstilling i psykolingvistikk, multilektalitet og språkprosessering, knyttet til prosjektet Multilectal Individual Differences in Reading (MInDReading): Neurocognitive and Behavioral Effects of Dialect Exposure on Literacy Development ved Høgskulen i Volda! Søknadsfrist 22. juni.

a map of openai's influence on other media companies

Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies.

imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!!

nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...

Trans Technologies book cover

Trans Technologies is available now! My book examines how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.

"An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna

Y'all I'm visiting my family in North Carolina and I've learned that my default cat language is now Norwegian. I'm so used to talking to all the neighborhood cats back home in Norwegian that I keep automatically using it with my parents' cats.

Lecturer in Visual and Material Cultures (R&T) at University of Glasgow Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Visual and Material Cultures (R&T) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Come and work with us at Glasgow! Full time permanent post in History of Art: lecturer in material and visual culture with specialism in dress history or textile history. Details below 👇

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR311/l...

AI and Ethics AI and Ethics seeks to promote informed debate and discussion of the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications that arise from the development of AI. It ...

CFP, AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation & Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices! Note "This collection is focused ...on the strategies & actions of individuals, communities, organisations & collectives to actively resist, refuse, reimagine & reclaim 'artificial intelligence."

How a Small Exchange Between Mamdani and AOC Disrupts Raciolinguistic Hierarchies and Makes Another Linguistic World Visible In a recent video, Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are standing together as he works through a Spanish-language announcement about how caregivers can register their children for childcare.

I can’t stop thinking about a short video of Mamdani working through a Spanish-language announcement with AOC's help.

So many US Latinxs grew up having our Spanish policed. This moment treated it as expertise instead.

I wrote about why that matters.
educationallinguist.substack.com/p/how-a-smal...

NRK deler opp utenriks­redaksjonen: 30 ansatte må søke seg til nye avdelinger Fra påske oppløser NRK utenriksredaksjonen og fordeler ansvaret på flere avdelingen. Ingen av de rundt 30 ansatte vet om de får tilhøre nye utenrikssatsinger, eller om de må jobbe med annet enn utenri...

Hæ?!?! www.journalisten.no/nrk-deler-op...

"We want the murder software to murder accurately" isn't the absolution everyone seems to think it is. Anthropic is enacting a huge PR campaign and too many people are helping them

Artister og profilerte skuespillere lager alternativ MGP-kveld og oppfordrer til NRK-boikott på den norske finaledagen.

Les mer 👉 www.tbatba.no/kritiserer-n...

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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Forbrukerrådet went HARD on this video and I'm definitely laughing/crying.

Teachers’ beliefs and experiences regarding collaboration across language subjects In schools worldwide, there are increasing expectations for teacher collaboration across subjects. However, despite the potential benefits for students and teachers of viewing language subjects as ...

Implementing multilingual pedagogies in language classrooms should not be an individual responsibility, but something that language teachers across subjects can collaborate on to make happen. This article has now found a home in an issue of this journal! 🥳 Open access! doi.org/10.1080/0143...

I finally read this whole thread and it is excellent.

#LunchwithDH Lecture Series 📜🐍

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It's the end of my penultimate day at Dragvoll and I am going to miss so many things, but the number 12 bus definitely isn't one of them.

Over and over again they really prove that the cruelty is the point.

Of course isn’t just driving. It’s voting. Working. Travelling. Picking up a package. Applying for credit. Applying for a job. Renting a room. Filling prescriptions. Visiting loved ones in the hospital. Not expired either, but legally invalid.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.