Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

I know I'm not the first one to say this, but it was the first thought when I heard the news that #Navalny has "died": I don't think he died as much as he was killed.

Our paper on the values found in fairy tales from some European countries has been published. We studied how values are explicitly present in tales from Germany, Italy and Portugal using various NLP techniques, but most notably Word2Vec and Word Embedding with a Compass. We visualise synchronic semantic variation to show certain differences based on observations of the corpus, some of them already observed in previous literature. A discussed example in our findings is how motherhood in Germany is strongly related to generosity, whereas in Italy and Portugal it has stronger relationship to wisdom.

Fulltext available at: https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4dh-1.8/

@folklore @linguistics @bookstodon

Trump: "Immigrant vermin poison the blood of our country."

Media: "Here's why an incredible economy won't save Biden."

Trump: "I'll be a dictator."

Media: "Breaking: Biden gets a word wrong, kinda."

Trump: "1/6 was an insurrection."

Media: "Voters worry Biden is very, very old."

Trump: "I did nothing on gun control."

Media: "Biden is losing the religious vote."

Trump: "Also I'll end NATO, start WW3."

Media: "And now, the weather!"

Dear journalists: DO YOUR FUCKING JOB.

#Journalism

Random Telegram comments about Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson ROUGHLY took several AFU female prisoners of war and did such things…
Tucker Carlson tried pancake from a shovel and was left satisfied. Our elephant!
Tucker Carlson’s website started to sell NKVD knives from Kizlyar masters

Each of these is loaded with Russian idioms and tropes which I will just leave as an exercise for the reader…

Nothing to see here, keep moving along. Yes, the pandemic is over. No, no, "flu-like symptoms" is what we said.

Half of my daughter's school is off with what is probably Covid, but no-one's testing because:

1. You don't have to
2. Boxes of the free tests have now expired
3. Getting new tests costs money

The mentioned 'attachment' never appeared. Presumably sending this email was the last act of a member of staff so ill that they collapsed into bed immediately after hitting send.

So many of those opposed to DEI measures appear to believe that women and members of minorities would never have succeeded on merit, which belief succinctly demonstrates why DEI measures are needed in the first place.

I may be wrong, but I think the current political state of the US Border issue is:

GOP: The Border is a catastrophe! We must act!

Administration: How about if we..

GOP: NO!

Administration: Perhaps we could..

GOP: NO!

Administration: Could we just..

GOP: NO!

Administration:

GOP: And now we’re going to impeach you for not doing anything.

Why’d they call it “move fast and break things” when “hit and run” is shorter?

"Trash me all day, but if you want to feel your hands again, it will be $8"

@xahteiwi You can always tell when someone is calling in from the office because there's someone in the background with a really really loud voice who *never ever stops* and Teams can't filter them out because their voice is louder than the one making the call. (That person is one of the reasons were happy to WFH in the first place.)

Why Covid Can Never Be 'Just A Cold' - by Nate Bear https://www.donotpanic.news/p/why-covid-can-never-be-just-a-cold

RT @Stealth40k :
When Nintendo was at an extremely low point, Iwata said something we haven't really seen since.

Everyone I talk to, regardless of the sector, is getting pressure from donors or what to "use AI" somehow. Maybe they think its like sprinkling a little bit of magic. Smh. It is unreal seeing all this unfold.