Mark Dingemanse
@dingemansemark.bsky.social
Language, interaction, tech • Here with doubts about the next monetizable monopoly... • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
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Welcome new followers! You may find me posting about linguistics, language technology, "AI", open research, epistemic injustice, home computing, and whatever captures my fancy. I blog at ideophone.org (since 2007) and my academic site —with PDFs of papers etc.— is markdingemanse.net
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Two recent blogs on The Ideophone, prompted by a fun #ReproducibiliTea session in Cologne:
1. On generative AI and reproducibility ideophone.org/on-generativ...
On why the praxis of slow and reproducible science provides useful lessons for navigating the lures of “AI”
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1. On generative AI and reproducibility ideophone.org/on-generativ...
On why the praxis of slow and reproducible science provides useful lessons for navigating the lures of “AI”
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December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Two recent blogs on The Ideophone, prompted by a fun #ReproducibiliTea session in Cologne:
1. On generative AI and reproducibility ideophone.org/on-generativ...
On why the praxis of slow and reproducible science provides useful lessons for navigating the lures of “AI”
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1. On generative AI and reproducibility ideophone.org/on-generativ...
On why the praxis of slow and reproducible science provides useful lessons for navigating the lures of “AI”
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Two recent blogs on The Ideophone, prompted by a fun #ReproducibiliTea session in Cologne:
1. On generative AI and reproducibility ideophone.org/on-generativ...
On why the praxis of slow and reproducible science provides useful lessons for navigating the lures of “AI”
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1. On generative AI and reproducibility ideophone.org/on-generativ...
On why the praxis of slow and reproducible science provides useful lessons for navigating the lures of “AI”
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December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Two recent blogs on The Ideophone, prompted by a fun #ReproducibiliTea session in Cologne:
1. On generative AI and reproducibility ideophone.org/on-generativ...
On why the praxis of slow and reproducible science provides useful lessons for navigating the lures of “AI”
1/n
1. On generative AI and reproducibility ideophone.org/on-generativ...
On why the praxis of slow and reproducible science provides useful lessons for navigating the lures of “AI”
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Cristina Zaga bracht wetenschappers, experts en belanghebbenden tezamen om een monter en helder alternatief te formuleren voor winstgedreven "AI"-plannen: Zorgvuldig & Zorgzaam Digitaal. Verkies je ook gezond verstand boven geautomatiseerde gedachteloosheid? 📄___🖋️ openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...
Zorgvuldig & Zorgzaam Digitaal
openletter.earth
December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Cristina Zaga bracht wetenschappers, experts en belanghebbenden tezamen om een monter en helder alternatief te formuleren voor winstgedreven "AI"-plannen: Zorgvuldig & Zorgzaam Digitaal. Verkies je ook gezond verstand boven geautomatiseerde gedachteloosheid? 📄___🖋️ openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...
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📝 OPEN BRIEF 📝
Wil jij dat onze regering zorgvuldig en zorgzaam vorm geeft aan onze digitale toekomst, met oog voor mens en natuur?
Teken dan 🖊️ deze open brief, gericht aan de formerende partijen in de Eerste en Tweede Kamer en aan de demissionaire regering.
📝 openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...
Wil jij dat onze regering zorgvuldig en zorgzaam vorm geeft aan onze digitale toekomst, met oog voor mens en natuur?
Teken dan 🖊️ deze open brief, gericht aan de formerende partijen in de Eerste en Tweede Kamer en aan de demissionaire regering.
📝 openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
📝 OPEN BRIEF 📝
Wil jij dat onze regering zorgvuldig en zorgzaam vorm geeft aan onze digitale toekomst, met oog voor mens en natuur?
Teken dan 🖊️ deze open brief, gericht aan de formerende partijen in de Eerste en Tweede Kamer en aan de demissionaire regering.
📝 openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...
Wil jij dat onze regering zorgvuldig en zorgzaam vorm geeft aan onze digitale toekomst, met oog voor mens en natuur?
Teken dan 🖊️ deze open brief, gericht aan de formerende partijen in de Eerste en Tweede Kamer en aan de demissionaire regering.
📝 openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...
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If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co:
"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...
Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...
Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co:
"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...
Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...
Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
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Het gaat helemaal los dit jaar op 4 januari - straatorkest Kladderadatsch luidt traditiegetrouw het nieuwe jaar in met dit jaar als gastact onvervalste Bossche dub door Dub-a-Riddim.
Kladderadatsch Nieuwjaarsfeest, 4 januari, 14:00-18:00, Plan A (vlietstraat 22), Nijmegen. Entree gratis!
Kladderadatsch Nieuwjaarsfeest, 4 januari, 14:00-18:00, Plan A (vlietstraat 22), Nijmegen. Entree gratis!
December 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Het gaat helemaal los dit jaar op 4 januari - straatorkest Kladderadatsch luidt traditiegetrouw het nieuwe jaar in met dit jaar als gastact onvervalste Bossche dub door Dub-a-Riddim.
Kladderadatsch Nieuwjaarsfeest, 4 januari, 14:00-18:00, Plan A (vlietstraat 22), Nijmegen. Entree gratis!
Kladderadatsch Nieuwjaarsfeest, 4 januari, 14:00-18:00, Plan A (vlietstraat 22), Nijmegen. Entree gratis!
Excellent initiative from our French colleagues
Face à l’IA générative, l’objection de conscience : l'Atécopol lance un manifeste pour l’enseignement supérieur et l’éducation nationale
Plus d'infos (texte, lien pour signature, etc. ) ici :
atecopol.hypotheses.org/13082
Plus d'infos (texte, lien pour signature, etc. ) ici :
atecopol.hypotheses.org/13082
Face à l’IA générative, l’objection de conscience
Manifeste pour l’enseignement supérieur et l’éducation nationale [Vous pouvez signer ce manifeste (version pdf ici) dans ce formulaire. Un document de mise en perspective critique des discours de défe...
atecopol.hypotheses.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Excellent initiative from our French colleagues
see English spelling is very simple: in recur, 'c' occurs once, and in occur, 'c' recurs
HTH!
HTH!
December 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
see English spelling is very simple: in recur, 'c' occurs once, and in occur, 'c' recurs
HTH!
HTH!
As I wrote in 2020... "The web makes up a large chunk of the data feeding GPT3 and kin. Posting the output of large language models online builds a feedback loop that cannot improve quality.
All ingredients for an information heat death are on hand."
All ingredients for an information heat death are on hand."
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
As I wrote in 2020... "The web makes up a large chunk of the data feeding GPT3 and kin. Posting the output of large language models online builds a feedback loop that cannot improve quality.
All ingredients for an information heat death are on hand."
All ingredients for an information heat death are on hand."
Ik werd geinterviewd in een stuk over het Rijmwoordenboek en leverde een lofzang op het handgemaakte Sinterklaasgedicht www.bd.nl/heusden/daar...
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Ik werd geinterviewd in een stuk over het Rijmwoordenboek en leverde een lofzang op het handgemaakte Sinterklaasgedicht www.bd.nl/heusden/daar...
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The European Review of Books is at a critical juncture. Its reputation booming, it still needs to cover costs. So if you can subscribe or give a subscription as a gift, please do! europeanreviewofbooks.com/ten-issues-in/
Ten Issues in — and Europe keeps thinking - The European Review of Books
With Issue 10, our golden Jubilee, we celebrate ten editions of independent, multilingual writing that have crossed languages, borders, and expectations. In a time when culture is flattened into opini...
europeanreviewofbooks.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The European Review of Books is at a critical juncture. Its reputation booming, it still needs to cover costs. So if you can subscribe or give a subscription as a gift, please do! europeanreviewofbooks.com/ten-issues-in/
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I feel so lucky to be joining such a cool team and contributing to such an important project 🙌 💫
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I feel so lucky to be joining such a cool team and contributing to such an important project 🙌 💫
Morgen: 'Terug naar het ambacht!', Letterenhuis Antwerpen. Ik doe mee aan een panelgesprek over organische taal temidden van een opkomend tij van synthetische tekst auteursvereniging.be/vav-werkcong...
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Morgen: 'Terug naar het ambacht!', Letterenhuis Antwerpen. Ik doe mee aan een panelgesprek over organische taal temidden van een opkomend tij van synthetische tekst auteursvereniging.be/vav-werkcong...
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
Incredibly happy to welcome @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social and Átila Vital to the Futures of Language team! markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
This concludes the hiring process we conducted over Jul-Sept, with >450 applications. Samira just started, Átila arrives in January — good times!
This concludes the hiring process we conducted over Jul-Sept, with >450 applications. Samira just started, Átila arrives in January — good times!
Welcoming Samira Ibnelkaïd and Átila Vital – Futures of Language
markdingemanse.net
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Incredibly happy to welcome @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social and Átila Vital to the Futures of Language team! markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
This concludes the hiring process we conducted over Jul-Sept, with >450 applications. Samira just started, Átila arrives in January — good times!
This concludes the hiring process we conducted over Jul-Sept, with >450 applications. Samira just started, Átila arrives in January — good times!
the whack-a-mole problem: every few months we see a new creative bypass of this kind (that will be half-patched by ad hoc metaprompts & later by finetuning)
when will it dawn that LLMs are fundamentally vulnerable to endless new attacks like this, and therefore fundamentally unsafe?
when will it dawn that LLMs are fundamentally vulnerable to endless new attacks like this, and therefore fundamentally unsafe?
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
the whack-a-mole problem: every few months we see a new creative bypass of this kind (that will be half-patched by ad hoc metaprompts & later by finetuning)
when will it dawn that LLMs are fundamentally vulnerable to endless new attacks like this, and therefore fundamentally unsafe?
when will it dawn that LLMs are fundamentally vulnerable to endless new attacks like this, and therefore fundamentally unsafe?
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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.
I'm seeing quite some citations of our 2021 paper doi.org/10.1177/0023830920914339 that seem to have somehow missed
not just the evidence and arguments from the body of the paper
not just the abstract
but the subtitle 🫠
not just the evidence and arguments from the body of the paper
not just the abstract
but the subtitle 🫠
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I'm seeing quite some citations of our 2021 paper doi.org/10.1177/0023830920914339 that seem to have somehow missed
not just the evidence and arguments from the body of the paper
not just the abstract
but the subtitle 🫠
not just the evidence and arguments from the body of the paper
not just the abstract
but the subtitle 🫠
Taking notes as I'm reading a draft policy piece that ominously lauds AI's possibilities to make processes more efficient 👀
Due to mass hype and operational ambiguity, executives can use "AI" as a justification for job cuts, increased worker surveillance, speed-up, reducing hiring—with little accountability or repercussion. The *logic* of AI has often been as damaging to labor as the tech itself (see: DOGE.)
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Taking notes as I'm reading a draft policy piece that ominously lauds AI's possibilities to make processes more efficient 👀
Language as Particle, Wave and Field, Pike 1959
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Language as Particle, Wave and Field, Pike 1959
Pleidooi voor nutteloze beschaving doi.org/10.1075/nb.0...
Met voorzitters van Stutterheim tot Leufkens, sprekers van Jakobson tot Nissim, en onderwerpen van fonologie tot AI: de AVT heeft een roerige geschiedenis en een mooie toekomst — als we "nutteloze beschaving" op waarde blijven schatten
Met voorzitters van Stutterheim tot Leufkens, sprekers van Jakobson tot Nissim, en onderwerpen van fonologie tot AI: de AVT heeft een roerige geschiedenis en een mooie toekomst — als we "nutteloze beschaving" op waarde blijven schatten
Pleidooi voor nutteloze beschaving | John Benjamins
Abstract
In het vijfenzeventigste jaar van het bestaan van de Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap (AVT) waait er een
fascistische wind in Nederland. Universiteiten gehoorzamen bij voorbaat door ge...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Pleidooi voor nutteloze beschaving doi.org/10.1075/nb.0...
Met voorzitters van Stutterheim tot Leufkens, sprekers van Jakobson tot Nissim, en onderwerpen van fonologie tot AI: de AVT heeft een roerige geschiedenis en een mooie toekomst — als we "nutteloze beschaving" op waarde blijven schatten
Met voorzitters van Stutterheim tot Leufkens, sprekers van Jakobson tot Nissim, en onderwerpen van fonologie tot AI: de AVT heeft een roerige geschiedenis en een mooie toekomst — als we "nutteloze beschaving" op waarde blijven schatten
One year ago, with Stella Punselie and Bonnie McLean: The Anatomy of Iconicity, in Open Mind doi.org/10.1162/opmi...
In which we combine iconicity ratings, experimental evidence, and structure mapping to identify & explain crosslinguistic patterns of iconic words
#iconicity #cognitivescience
In which we combine iconicity ratings, experimental evidence, and structure mapping to identify & explain crosslinguistic patterns of iconic words
#iconicity #cognitivescience
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
One year ago, with Stella Punselie and Bonnie McLean: The Anatomy of Iconicity, in Open Mind doi.org/10.1162/opmi...
In which we combine iconicity ratings, experimental evidence, and structure mapping to identify & explain crosslinguistic patterns of iconic words
#iconicity #cognitivescience
In which we combine iconicity ratings, experimental evidence, and structure mapping to identify & explain crosslinguistic patterns of iconic words
#iconicity #cognitivescience
As I was saying, if you give up thinking for yourself, the singularity is already here ideophone.org/bringing-abo...
(re FT story with "AI pioneers" claiming "human-level intelligence is already here" www.ft.com/content/5f2f... )
(re FT story with "AI pioneers" claiming "human-level intelligence is already here" www.ft.com/content/5f2f... )
AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here
Tech leaders say systems now rival human intelligence in key tasks, further fuelling the superintelligence debate
www.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
As I was saying, if you give up thinking for yourself, the singularity is already here ideophone.org/bringing-abo...
(re FT story with "AI pioneers" claiming "human-level intelligence is already here" www.ft.com/content/5f2f... )
(re FT story with "AI pioneers" claiming "human-level intelligence is already here" www.ft.com/content/5f2f... )
Climbing the scaffolds and replastering this earthen building together is a beautiful sight, and a powerful metaphor for
language, as I wrote in @annualreviews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu... (h/t @maartenkossmann.bsky.social)
language, as I wrote in @annualreviews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu... (h/t @maartenkossmann.bsky.social)
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Climbing the scaffolds and replastering this earthen building together is a beautiful sight, and a powerful metaphor for
language, as I wrote in @annualreviews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu... (h/t @maartenkossmann.bsky.social)
language, as I wrote in @annualreviews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu... (h/t @maartenkossmann.bsky.social)
Two bits of music as the weekend nears:
1. Jacob Collier's solo (but not quite solo) show at North Sea Jazz, with special guest Julian Lage around the 40m mark www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjCS...
2. New Netherlands Bach Society recording just dropped, w/ Maude Gratton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmTz...
1. Jacob Collier's solo (but not quite solo) show at North Sea Jazz, with special guest Julian Lage around the 40m mark www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjCS...
2. New Netherlands Bach Society recording just dropped, w/ Maude Gratton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmTz...
Bach - Toccata in G minor BWV 915 - Maude Gratton | Netherlands Bach Society
YouTube video by Netherlands Bach Society
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Two bits of music as the weekend nears:
1. Jacob Collier's solo (but not quite solo) show at North Sea Jazz, with special guest Julian Lage around the 40m mark www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjCS...
2. New Netherlands Bach Society recording just dropped, w/ Maude Gratton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmTz...
1. Jacob Collier's solo (but not quite solo) show at North Sea Jazz, with special guest Julian Lage around the 40m mark www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjCS...
2. New Netherlands Bach Society recording just dropped, w/ Maude Gratton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmTz...