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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
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Getting aligned LLMs to help with misaligned tasks via context engineering, otherwise known as “Ender’s gaming”
August 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Getting aligned LLMs to help with misaligned tasks via context engineering, otherwise known as “Ender’s gaming”
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Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions
Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...
www.aaup.org
July 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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Just to get back to where we were as of January 2025, we will need Manhattan Projects across multiple agencies. This particular loss will produce exponentially increasing human injury and economic damage to the U.S. as the ability to investigate and to regulate falls apart.
I know so many dedicated and brilliant scientists who work (and I guess now worked) at EPA. The loss of expertise and ability to make science-informed decisions will have lasting damage for our health. Academics and advocates will have to try to fill the gap.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Just to get back to where we were as of January 2025, we will need Manhattan Projects across multiple agencies. This particular loss will produce exponentially increasing human injury and economic damage to the U.S. as the ability to investigate and to regulate falls apart.
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Japan has started rice rationing in stores as another harvest gets decimated by extreme heat. The future is grim for island nations that are directly exposed to sea surface heat spike.
July 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Japan has started rice rationing in stores as another harvest gets decimated by extreme heat. The future is grim for island nations that are directly exposed to sea surface heat spike.
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This is Derrick Van Orden on the restricted Capitol grounds on J6. He denies being there.
July 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is Derrick Van Orden on the restricted Capitol grounds on J6. He denies being there.
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Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Back to Damsky's paper which, again, WON AN AWARD FROM A FEDERAL JUDGE, I did want to highlight the passage in which he wrote that Justice Taney wasn't racist enough in Dred Scott, that immigration should be limited to whites only, and that we could use AI to figure out who the white people are. 3/
![mmigration and Naturalization Law
The principles of national constitutionalism have a relatively straightforward application to immigration and naturalization law. If the government may not destroy or replace the People, or otherwise usurp their sovereignty (or permit their sovereignty to be usurped), and if the People are an identifiable, substantive, and organic legal entity (and not merely the statistical collection of all people within the United States), then government power to permit immigration or naturalization is not plenary. National constitutionalism therefore advocates subjecting to judicial review—with the highest level of scrutiny—all attempts by the federal government to “dissolve the people and elect another’”” through immigration and naturalization policies which have the effect of altering the traditional, racial demographic balance of the United States and thereby degrading the People’s power and privileges. Accordingly, Taney’s dictum in Dred Scott that Congress “may, if they think proper, authorize the naturalization of anyone, of any color, who was born under allegiance to another Government”? is anathema to the implicit limitations, entailed by popular sovereignty, placed upon the constituted power of the nation-state and should be rejected as a matter of law.
The effect of this would simply be a return to the pre-1870 status quo whereby only Whites could typically immigrate and seek naturalization.79 Non-Whites would
76 Id. at 323 (citing ROBERT BARNHART, THE BARNHART CONCISE DICTIONARY OF ETYMOLOGY: THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH WORDS 397 (1995)).
77 Bertolt Brecht, The Solution (1959), reprinted in BERTOLT BRECHT POEMS 1913-1956, 440 (John Willett and Ralph Manheim, eds., Methuen 1976).
7860 U.S. at 419.
79 This is a historically workable standard. See generally IAN HANEY LOPEZ, WHITE By LAW 2-7 (2006) (describing various court cases in American history aimed at determining if the petitioner was White, and explaining how “[t]hough …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wovz3whdkughp6decczypkqq/bafkreigfjpsrzwwpvu7klaw3gljjnrun4aoafznbpryilyn7ymcs6l72uu@jpeg)
June 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Back to Damsky's paper which, again, WON AN AWARD FROM A FEDERAL JUDGE, I did want to highlight the passage in which he wrote that Justice Taney wasn't racist enough in Dred Scott, that immigration should be limited to whites only, and that we could use AI to figure out who the white people are. 3/
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I'm going through UF Law book award winner Preston Damsky's twitter account, and it's worse than what the NYT reported. He thinks that Stephen Miller isn't racist enough. Because he's a Jew, and the "Jew clique ... is bringing America to ruin."
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June 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I'm going through UF Law book award winner Preston Damsky's twitter account, and it's worse than what the NYT reported. He thinks that Stephen Miller isn't racist enough. Because he's a Jew, and the "Jew clique ... is bringing America to ruin."
x.com/preston_terr...
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New benchmark just dropped: SnitchBench by Theo Browne tests if LLMs will snitch on you to the authorities if you feed them incriminating documents and a tool that lets them send email, as seen in the Claude 4 System Card
Turns out they pretty much all will! simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/...
Turns out they pretty much all will! simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/...
How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM
A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card—which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to …
simonwillison.net
May 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
New benchmark just dropped: SnitchBench by Theo Browne tests if LLMs will snitch on you to the authorities if you feed them incriminating documents and a tool that lets them send email, as seen in the Claude 4 System Card
Turns out they pretty much all will! simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/...
Turns out they pretty much all will! simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/...
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You know why I know Missoula, Montana? Because the Fire Sciences Lab is there, operated by the US Department of Agriculture; they study fire and wildfire and have facilities to create fire tornadoes and stuff. This is what is going away too.
research.fs.usda.gov/firelab
research.fs.usda.gov/firelab
June 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
You know why I know Missoula, Montana? Because the Fire Sciences Lab is there, operated by the US Department of Agriculture; they study fire and wildfire and have facilities to create fire tornadoes and stuff. This is what is going away too.
research.fs.usda.gov/firelab
research.fs.usda.gov/firelab
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So Harvard has officially revoked Francesca Gino’s tenure. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... This case was fascinating, especially re: how data fabrication was uncovered. Here was my attempt to summarize when this first came out: youtu.be/m3dDZKeCayk
Fake data and accusations of dishonesty in research about honesty
YouTube video by Casey Fiesler
youtu.be
May 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
So Harvard has officially revoked Francesca Gino’s tenure. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... This case was fascinating, especially re: how data fabrication was uncovered. Here was my attempt to summarize when this first came out: youtu.be/m3dDZKeCayk
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It’s really unfathomable that nearly every progressive elected official, organization and journalist is still on X.
I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it
What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout
www.theatlantic.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It’s really unfathomable that nearly every progressive elected official, organization and journalist is still on X.
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The House has passed the GOP's budget bill with the 10-year ban on state AI laws intact. If the provision survives reconciliation in the Senate, the California, Colorado, or any other state that sought to pass laws governing AI would be legally banned from doing so.
This is what's behind the bill:
This is what's behind the bill:
Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws
Inside the effort to de-democratize AI
www.bloodinthemachine.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The House has passed the GOP's budget bill with the 10-year ban on state AI laws intact. If the provision survives reconciliation in the Senate, the California, Colorado, or any other state that sought to pass laws governing AI would be legally banned from doing so.
This is what's behind the bill:
This is what's behind the bill:
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Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down!
www.404media.co/republicans-...
www.404media.co/republicans-...
Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.
www.404media.co
May 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down!
www.404media.co/republicans-...
www.404media.co/republicans-...
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ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
May 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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This is one of the craziest AI episodes I’ve ever seen and I literally teach a whole class in part about when these things don’t work properly. None of the syllabus spent time on “well sometimes a deranged Afrikaner gets in there”
apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
May 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is one of the craziest AI episodes I’ve ever seen and I literally teach a whole class in part about when these things don’t work properly. None of the syllabus spent time on “well sometimes a deranged Afrikaner gets in there”
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"These companies create extensive profiles on nearly every American, including highly sensitive data such as precise location history, political affiliations, and religious beliefs. This information is frequently resold for purposes ranging from marketing to law enforcement surveillance"
Be alarmed
Be alarmed
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
www.wired.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"These companies create extensive profiles on nearly every American, including highly sensitive data such as precise location history, political affiliations, and religious beliefs. This information is frequently resold for purposes ranging from marketing to law enforcement surveillance"
Be alarmed
Be alarmed
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This should be free:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This should be free:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
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The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
“In the new structure, even if a revised proposal gets the green light from a division director, a new body whose membership has not been determined will take a fresh look to ensure it conforms to the agency’s new standard for making awards.”
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“In the new structure, even if a revised proposal gets the green light from a division director, a new body whose membership has not been determined will take a fresh look to ensure it conforms to the agency’s new standard for making awards.”
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These policies were intended to address CBP’s long-standing failures to provide adequate care for detainees who are most at risk—failures that have, in some cases, proved fatal.
US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
CBP's acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency's custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.
www.wired.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
These policies were intended to address CBP’s long-standing failures to provide adequate care for detainees who are most at risk—failures that have, in some cases, proved fatal.