Rogerio Marques
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linguistics & cognition & language acquisition at @uspoficial.bsky.social
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Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation
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May 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation
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The «intelligence» that manifests itself in AI, i.e. large-scale data analysis & computational statistics, has nothing to do with how living beings experience the world. If anything, it can be compared to large socio-technical systems of domination such as bureaucracies & corporations
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May 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The «intelligence» that manifests itself in AI, i.e. large-scale data analysis & computational statistics, has nothing to do with how living beings experience the world. If anything, it can be compared to large socio-technical systems of domination such as bureaucracies & corporations
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Spoken Mandarin Chinese doesn’t have gendered pronouns. The word tā can mean ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘it’.
However, *written* Chinese does distinguish gender: 他 ‘he’, 她 ‘she’, 它 ‘it’. 1/7
However, *written* Chinese does distinguish gender: 他 ‘he’, 她 ‘she’, 它 ‘it’. 1/7
May 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Spoken Mandarin Chinese doesn’t have gendered pronouns. The word tā can mean ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘it’.
However, *written* Chinese does distinguish gender: 他 ‘he’, 她 ‘she’, 它 ‘it’. 1/7
However, *written* Chinese does distinguish gender: 他 ‘he’, 她 ‘she’, 它 ‘it’. 1/7
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OVERHEARD: “Does Pavlov, when he hears the bell, think about feeding the dogs?”
May 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
OVERHEARD: “Does Pavlov, when he hears the bell, think about feeding the dogs?”
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O El País de domingo perguntou ao Mujica se ele encontrou o sentido da vida. Ele:
"Me dediqué a cambiar el mundo y no cambié un carajo, pero estuve entretenido. Y he generado muchos amigos y muchos aliados en esa locura de cambiar el mundo para mejorarlo. Y le di un sentido a mi vida."
"Me dediqué a cambiar el mundo y no cambié un carajo, pero estuve entretenido. Y he generado muchos amigos y muchos aliados en esa locura de cambiar el mundo para mejorarlo. Y le di un sentido a mi vida."
November 18, 2024 at 11:41 PM
O El País de domingo perguntou ao Mujica se ele encontrou o sentido da vida. Ele:
"Me dediqué a cambiar el mundo y no cambié un carajo, pero estuve entretenido. Y he generado muchos amigos y muchos aliados en esa locura de cambiar el mundo para mejorarlo. Y le di un sentido a mi vida."
"Me dediqué a cambiar el mundo y no cambié un carajo, pero estuve entretenido. Y he generado muchos amigos y muchos aliados en esa locura de cambiar el mundo para mejorarlo. Y le di un sentido a mi vida."
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“The punch card was invented at the end of the 19th century for the US Census Bureau, from which IBM stole the technology. The card was a people tracker from its inception.”
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"See everything with Hollerith punchcards"
Advertisement by the Dehomag Company, a subsidiary of IBM, for Hollerith Punch-Cards, which were used in the 1933 Census under Germany's emerging National Socialist police state.
Advertisement by the Dehomag Company, a subsidiary of IBM, for Hollerith Punch-Cards, which were used in the 1933 Census under Germany's emerging National Socialist police state.
May 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“The punch card was invented at the end of the 19th century for the US Census Bureau, from which IBM stole the technology. The card was a people tracker from its inception.”
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
May 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
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En français, certaines variations de prononciation peuvent être sévèrement jugées (prononcer "domPter" est jugé plouc selon certains!)
Mais ce n'est pas nouveau. Fil sur cinq querelles de prononciation dans l'histoire du français, grâce au livre "Paris-Babel" de Siouffi (actes Sud)
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Mais ce n'est pas nouveau. Fil sur cinq querelles de prononciation dans l'histoire du français, grâce au livre "Paris-Babel" de Siouffi (actes Sud)
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April 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
En français, certaines variations de prononciation peuvent être sévèrement jugées (prononcer "domPter" est jugé plouc selon certains!)
Mais ce n'est pas nouveau. Fil sur cinq querelles de prononciation dans l'histoire du français, grâce au livre "Paris-Babel" de Siouffi (actes Sud)
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Mais ce n'est pas nouveau. Fil sur cinq querelles de prononciation dans l'histoire du français, grâce au livre "Paris-Babel" de Siouffi (actes Sud)
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April 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Perspective changes everything.
[Ars Mathermatica]
[Ars Mathermatica]
April 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Perspective changes everything.
[Ars Mathermatica]
[Ars Mathermatica]
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane
April 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane
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yeah i'm into OPSEC. Only Posting Super Excellent Content
March 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
yeah i'm into OPSEC. Only Posting Super Excellent Content
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Raymond Chandler started writing at 51. Laura Ingalls Wilder started at 70. Frank McCourt was 66 when first published. John LeCarre finished his last spy novel at 85. Age is trap, don't fall for it, the spirit is the engine of the arts.
March 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Raymond Chandler started writing at 51. Laura Ingalls Wilder started at 70. Frank McCourt was 66 when first published. John LeCarre finished his last spy novel at 85. Age is trap, don't fall for it, the spirit is the engine of the arts.
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them: but how can you be sure it's a midlife crisis
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February 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
them: but how can you be sure it's a midlife crisis
me:
me:
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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Could someone out there write a definitive guide on convenient alternatives to using Amazon.com for goods and books and whatnot?
Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.
Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.
February 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Could someone out there write a definitive guide on convenient alternatives to using Amazon.com for goods and books and whatnot?
Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.
Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.
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It’s almost like we should use human writers, huh www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants
Conducted over a month, the study saw the BBC test four prominent, publicly available AI assistants
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February 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s almost like we should use human writers, huh www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...