Jeff Tharsen 康森傑
@tharsen.bsky.social
doting father, friend & ally; hyperpolyglot computational philologist & sinologist;
currently teaching AI, deep learning + multilingual NLP/NLU + HPC + humanities data science @UChicago, creating new methods for multilingual intertextuality、古聲韻學、文字學等等
currently teaching AI, deep learning + multilingual NLP/NLU + HPC + humanities data science @UChicago, creating new methods for multilingual intertextuality、古聲韻學、文字學等等
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Trump reposted on Truth Social multiple accounts from X this weekend who have been identified as foreigners posing as American MAGA supporters. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
Trump Amplified Foreign-Based Accounts This Weekend
One account boosted by Trump promoted banning Ilhan Omar from office. The account is based in Africa.
meidasnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Trump reposted on Truth Social multiple accounts from X this weekend who have been identified as foreigners posing as American MAGA supporters. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
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Come chat with us at the poster! We will bring some unicorn ducks too!
Will be at #NeurIPS2025 presenting “Concept Incongruence”!
🦄🦆 Curious about a unicorn duck? Stop by, get one, and chat with us!
We made a new demo for detecting hidden conflicts in system prompts to spot “concept incongruence” for safer prompts.
🔗: github.com/ChicagoHAI/d...
🗓️ Dec 3 11AM - 2PM
🦄🦆 Curious about a unicorn duck? Stop by, get one, and chat with us!
We made a new demo for detecting hidden conflicts in system prompts to spot “concept incongruence” for safer prompts.
🔗: github.com/ChicagoHAI/d...
🗓️ Dec 3 11AM - 2PM
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Come chat with us at the poster! We will bring some unicorn ducks too!
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My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
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The reason why so many foreigners pose as MAGA influencers is because the formula is pretty basic. Post:
1. Immigrants cause 90% of our problems.
2. The other 10% are trans people.
3. Trump is the greatest.
4. All Dems are Marxists who hate America.
5. All news is fake.
1. Immigrants cause 90% of our problems.
2. The other 10% are trans people.
3. Trump is the greatest.
4. All Dems are Marxists who hate America.
5. All news is fake.
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The reason why so many foreigners pose as MAGA influencers is because the formula is pretty basic. Post:
1. Immigrants cause 90% of our problems.
2. The other 10% are trans people.
3. Trump is the greatest.
4. All Dems are Marxists who hate America.
5. All news is fake.
1. Immigrants cause 90% of our problems.
2. The other 10% are trans people.
3. Trump is the greatest.
4. All Dems are Marxists who hate America.
5. All news is fake.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Our Olmo 3 models are now available via API on
@openrouter.bsky.social. Try Olmo 3-Instruct (7B) for chat & tool use, and our reasoning models Olmo-3 Think (7B & 32B) for more complex problems.
@openrouter.bsky.social. Try Olmo 3-Instruct (7B) for chat & tool use, and our reasoning models Olmo-3 Think (7B & 32B) for more complex problems.
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Our Olmo 3 models are now available via API on
@openrouter.bsky.social. Try Olmo 3-Instruct (7B) for chat & tool use, and our reasoning models Olmo-3 Think (7B & 32B) for more complex problems.
@openrouter.bsky.social. Try Olmo 3-Instruct (7B) for chat & tool use, and our reasoning models Olmo-3 Think (7B & 32B) for more complex problems.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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Santa Fe is now the first city to tie the minimum wage to the cost of rent.
The Santa Fe City Council voted to raise its minimum wage from $15/hr to $17.50 by 2027 — but they also added another provision.
Future increases will factor in inflation, and the price of housing.
The Santa Fe City Council voted to raise its minimum wage from $15/hr to $17.50 by 2027 — but they also added another provision.
Future increases will factor in inflation, and the price of housing.
With new ordinance, Santa Fe becomes first city to tie minimum wage to rental costs
SANTA FE — The Santa Fe City Council voted on Wednesday to raise its minimum wage from $15 an hour to $17.50 in 2027, eliciting praise from workers’ rights advocates
www.abqjournal.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Santa Fe is now the first city to tie the minimum wage to the cost of rent.
The Santa Fe City Council voted to raise its minimum wage from $15/hr to $17.50 by 2027 — but they also added another provision.
Future increases will factor in inflation, and the price of housing.
The Santa Fe City Council voted to raise its minimum wage from $15/hr to $17.50 by 2027 — but they also added another provision.
Future increases will factor in inflation, and the price of housing.
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MajinBook is a badly-needed catalog for shadow libraries. It provides metadata (e.g., date of first publication, popularity on Goodreads) for over half a million English-language books. arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412 +
MajinBook: An open catalogue of digital world literature with likes
This data paper introduces MajinBook, an open catalogue designed to facilitate the use of shadow libraries--such as Library Genesis and Z-Library--for computational social science and cultural analyti...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
MajinBook is a badly-needed catalog for shadow libraries. It provides metadata (e.g., date of first publication, popularity on Goodreads) for over half a million English-language books. arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412 +
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If you're in Chicago tomorrow, go check out "321 Plays for Trans Futures". There'll be a video recording at some point, too!
321 Plays for Trans Futures | Notion
You can read the Script Lead note here:
morrism.notion.site
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If you're in Chicago tomorrow, go check out "321 Plays for Trans Futures". There'll be a video recording at some point, too!
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I may have read this paper a few times and I may have been very happy to see it come out in print
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I may have read this paper a few times and I may have been very happy to see it come out in print
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New initiative at UW to be led by @nlpnoah.bsky.social. This comes on top of the NSF-NVIDIA $150mil investment in a national fully open AI ecosystem, led by @ai2.bsky.social and Noah. Good news for UW; imo probably good for academia more broadly.
UW joins 'first wave' of colleges focused on AI
The initiative, AI@UW, was made possible in part by a donation from Charles and Lisa Simonyi, a husband-wife pair of philanthropists linked to Microsoft.
www.seattletimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
New initiative at UW to be led by @nlpnoah.bsky.social. This comes on top of the NSF-NVIDIA $150mil investment in a national fully open AI ecosystem, led by @ai2.bsky.social and Noah. Good news for UW; imo probably good for academia more broadly.
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The election of Donald Trump and his continued presidency is a catastrophic failure of the U.S. Constitution and our political institutions on the scale of the Civil War. We should spend the next decade reforming our laws and rules to ensure that nothing like it ever happens again.
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The election of Donald Trump and his continued presidency is a catastrophic failure of the U.S. Constitution and our political institutions on the scale of the Civil War. We should spend the next decade reforming our laws and rules to ensure that nothing like it ever happens again.
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Just received the great news that the video recordings from #dh2025 have been published on the conference website https://dh2025.adho.org/. But it would be great if these were published with an explicit license and a unique URL (or DOI) for each recording to allow for re-use and distribution […]
Original post on digitalcourage.social
digitalcourage.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just received the great news that the video recordings from #dh2025 have been published on the conference website https://dh2025.adho.org/. But it would be great if these were published with an explicit license and a unique URL (or DOI) for each recording to allow for re-use and distribution […]
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If you invented a robot that sometimes cleaned my house really well & quickly & saved me lots of work—but *often* just moved things around without really cleaning—& *sometimes* added germs *to* the surfaces—such that just to be safe, I always had to clean after it
I don’t think I’d buy that robot
I don’t think I’d buy that robot
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If you invented a robot that sometimes cleaned my house really well & quickly & saved me lots of work—but *often* just moved things around without really cleaning—& *sometimes* added germs *to* the surfaces—such that just to be safe, I always had to clean after it
I don’t think I’d buy that robot
I don’t think I’d buy that robot
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By far one of the most impactful readings of the semester in "Writing with Robots" has been @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's piece on LLM’s propensity to substitute lists for argumentation—students are suddenly *noticing* the lists everywhere & engaging them critically
The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines
Ending with a solution for teaching writing
meresophistry.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
By far one of the most impactful readings of the semester in "Writing with Robots" has been @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's piece on LLM’s propensity to substitute lists for argumentation—students are suddenly *noticing* the lists everywhere & engaging them critically
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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And we have similar problems for pretraining datasets in general. Whatever issues we might have with that data, they're very hard to study unless the data is open. Companies aren't going to do this, but non-profits and academic groups have started constructing open datasets for research.
5/n
5/n
Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research
Luca Soldaini, Rodney Kinney, Akshita Bhagia, Dustin Schwenk, David Atkinson, Russell Authur, Ben Bogin, Khyathi Chandu, Jennifer Dumas, Yanai Elazar, Valentin Hofmann, Ananya Jha, Sachin Kumar, Li Lu...
aclanthology.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
And we have similar problems for pretraining datasets in general. Whatever issues we might have with that data, they're very hard to study unless the data is open. Companies aren't going to do this, but non-profits and academic groups have started constructing open datasets for research.
5/n
5/n
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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For folks interested in DH and #CriticalAI, I'd recommend a new independent film from India called "Humans in the Loop."
It's the story of an indigenous (Adivasi) woman who gets hired to do data annotation. Raises questions of embodied labor, gender, and cultural bias in AI. Available on Netflix.
It's the story of an indigenous (Adivasi) woman who gets hired to do data annotation. Raises questions of embodied labor, gender, and cultural bias in AI. Available on Netflix.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
For folks interested in DH and #CriticalAI, I'd recommend a new independent film from India called "Humans in the Loop."
It's the story of an indigenous (Adivasi) woman who gets hired to do data annotation. Raises questions of embodied labor, gender, and cultural bias in AI. Available on Netflix.
It's the story of an indigenous (Adivasi) woman who gets hired to do data annotation. Raises questions of embodied labor, gender, and cultural bias in AI. Available on Netflix.
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Here's how it works:
→ Submit your research idea or upvote existing ones (tag: "Weekly Competition")
→ Each Monday we select top 3 from previous week
→ We run experiments using research agents
→ Share repos + findings back on IdeaHub
Vote here: hypogenic.ai/ideahub
→ Submit your research idea or upvote existing ones (tag: "Weekly Competition")
→ Each Monday we select top 3 from previous week
→ We run experiments using research agents
→ Share repos + findings back on IdeaHub
Vote here: hypogenic.ai/ideahub
Hypogenic AI - Shaping the Future of Science
Reimagining science by augmenting scientist-AI collaboration.
hypogenic.ai
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Here's how it works:
→ Submit your research idea or upvote existing ones (tag: "Weekly Competition")
→ Each Monday we select top 3 from previous week
→ We run experiments using research agents
→ Share repos + findings back on IdeaHub
Vote here: hypogenic.ai/ideahub
→ Submit your research idea or upvote existing ones (tag: "Weekly Competition")
→ Each Monday we select top 3 from previous week
→ We run experiments using research agents
→ Share repos + findings back on IdeaHub
Vote here: hypogenic.ai/ideahub
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We're launching a weekly competition where the community decides which research ideas get implemented. Every week, we'll take the top 3 ideas from IdeaHub, run experiments with AI agents, and share everything: code, successes, and failures.
It's completely free and we'll try out ideas for you!
It's completely free and we'll try out ideas for you!
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
We're launching a weekly competition where the community decides which research ideas get implemented. Every week, we'll take the top 3 ideas from IdeaHub, run experiments with AI agents, and share everything: code, successes, and failures.
It's completely free and we'll try out ideas for you!
It's completely free and we'll try out ideas for you!
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Primary them all.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Primary them all.