Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@ninamarkl.bsky.social
perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power and bikes & cats | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
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Defining language and managing its use: Language technology as language management
Language technologies such as voice user interfaces, large language models and machine translation tools are embedded in an ever-growing range of digi…
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🔔new paper alert🔔
I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy
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I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"it is an ambitious goal to do X. it's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research" is the new default feedback/review for any AI generated piece of writing
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"it is an ambitious goal to do X. it's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research" is the new default feedback/review for any AI generated piece of writing
good morning, i am a pheasant, just strolling along on this beautiful lane. now woah there no need to approach me, stop following me, i will outrun you, you can’t catch me - no i won’t fly that’s undignified.
Hi I’m a squirrel. I was crossing the street but then it was time for me to chill for a sec. Gonna finish crossing in a minute here. Hold your horses you don’t got anyplace you need to get to that fast. Ok well nice chatting gotta bolt
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
good morning, i am a pheasant, just strolling along on this beautiful lane. now woah there no need to approach me, stop following me, i will outrun you, you can’t catch me - no i won’t fly that’s undignified.
reader i made some chocolate brownies and i almost feel okay
pals, what’s the most decadent chocolate cake or cookie recipe you know that i could bake tonight?
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
reader i made some chocolate brownies and i almost feel okay
anyway, great day to become a paying subscriber to @404media.co, it’s only 10 USD a month
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
anyway, great day to become a paying subscriber to @404media.co, it’s only 10 USD a month
say it with me: image 👏🏻 generation 👏🏻 tools 👏🏻 enable 👏🏻 abuse 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 women 👏🏻 every 👏🏻 time 👏🏻
AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
say it with me: image 👏🏻 generation 👏🏻 tools 👏🏻 enable 👏🏻 abuse 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 women 👏🏻 every 👏🏻 time 👏🏻
pals, what’s the most decadent chocolate cake or cookie recipe you know that i could bake tonight?
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
pals, what’s the most decadent chocolate cake or cookie recipe you know that i could bake tonight?
on my sunset bike ride the other say, i was convinced something had changed with my eyesight because i found the headlights so blinding — maybe it’s the headlights that are getting worse???
I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study
The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
on my sunset bike ride the other say, i was convinced something had changed with my eyesight because i found the headlights so blinding — maybe it’s the headlights that are getting worse???
perhaps my biggest internal tension is that i would love to live in the arctic circle but i doubt there are enough SAD lamps in the world to keep me sane
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
perhaps my biggest internal tension is that i would love to live in the arctic circle but i doubt there are enough SAD lamps in the world to keep me sane
Reposted by Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
i have been in this field for long enough to remember the day these tweets were posted
Well, that only took five years to come around again.
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
i have been in this field for long enough to remember the day these tweets were posted
what’s the neurodivergence where you reschedule a meeting so you can catch the one train per day with your preferred carriage? asking for a friend
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
what’s the neurodivergence where you reschedule a meeting so you can catch the one train per day with your preferred carriage? asking for a friend
terrible news: going outside and doing exercise is good for your mental wellbeing
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
terrible news: going outside and doing exercise is good for your mental wellbeing
Reposted by Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
nothing like a power cut to highlight the importance of infrastructure in the… infrastructure
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
nothing like a power cut to highlight the importance of infrastructure in the… infrastructure
may i recommend checking in on your local sheep
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
may i recommend checking in on your local sheep
another winter afternoon, another bike issue that could be resolved with WD40
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
another winter afternoon, another bike issue that could be resolved with WD40
just gonna scream for a wee while in sociolinguistics over here: www.accentharmonizer.ai
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
just gonna scream for a wee while in sociolinguistics over here: www.accentharmonizer.ai
Reposted by Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
i can't believe it's 2025 and we still have to make this point. why would anyone who wants fascism go for the facism-lite if the full-fat, all sugar, full violence version is right there??
turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish
"To the contrary, voters are on average more likely to defect to the radical right when mainstream parties adopt anti-immigration positions, a pattern that has been particularly pronounced for established RRPs."
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
i can't believe it's 2025 and we still have to make this point. why would anyone who wants fascism go for the facism-lite if the full-fat, all sugar, full violence version is right there??
the horrors don't just persist but new ones are added every day, huh
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
the horrors don't just persist but new ones are added every day, huh
there are so many things about this that are despicable but please, for one moment, imagine a piece of jewellery is the last thing you have to remember a loved one, your home or your life before the worst things you have ever experienced -- and these monsters want to take it to score some points
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
there are so many things about this that are despicable but please, for one moment, imagine a piece of jewellery is the last thing you have to remember a loved one, your home or your life before the worst things you have ever experienced -- and these monsters want to take it to score some points
Reposted by Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
The UK outright engaged in stationary banditry, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, all in order to appease the most petty xenophobe bigots on earth. And I feel sure it won't even work on the Home Secretary's terms, ultimately all this will strengthen not weaken Reform.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The UK outright engaged in stationary banditry, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, all in order to appease the most petty xenophobe bigots on earth. And I feel sure it won't even work on the Home Secretary's terms, ultimately all this will strengthen not weaken Reform.
i was about 2 seconds away from a subtweet about someone and they did the thing they said they would just now
the power of almost posting
the power of almost posting
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
i was about 2 seconds away from a subtweet about someone and they did the thing they said they would just now
the power of almost posting
the power of almost posting
big solidarity and love to everyone on strike this week at edinburgh 💕💕
Calling all staff and students at UoE, and all those who care about its future: join us on the picket lines!
Teach outs, picket locations, bake sale... see our FAQ
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#WearetheUniversity
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
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Teach outs, picket locations, bake sale... see our FAQ
#UCU
#WearetheUniversity
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
Industrial Action FAQ — UCU Edinburgh
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November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
big solidarity and love to everyone on strike this week at edinburgh 💕💕
i’m sure i’m not the only one who regularly is asked ‘oh, what do you teach?’ as a response to ‘i work at [local university]’ (if said local university isn’t an extremely famous institution)
'Fewer than half are even fully aware that universities conduct research.'
Real indictment of universities' strategies and comms this. An own goal that could and should be rectified. Engaging broad publics with research is not rocket science. And if it were, universities have rocket scientists. 3/3
Real indictment of universities' strategies and comms this. An own goal that could and should be rectified. Engaging broad publics with research is not rocket science. And if it were, universities have rocket scientists. 3/3
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
i’m sure i’m not the only one who regularly is asked ‘oh, what do you teach?’ as a response to ‘i work at [local university]’ (if said local university isn’t an extremely famous institution)